Resurrecting the Genius Within

Chapter 10 Luxury Spending

Ethan hesitated to touch such an expensive item. He carefully examined it to confirm that it was a genuine phone, not a dummy. He asked, “Where did you get it?”

“I bought it.”

“Where did you get so much money?”

“I have more.” Isabelle raised her hand and showed another phone.

Ethan’s eyes widened.

Each of these phones costs nearly 1,500 dollars. It’s not something affordable for ordinary wage carners. His sister was a poor student, yet she had bought two phones at once.

3.000 dollars was a sum their family couldn’t save, even by scrimping and saving for a year.

“Where did you get the money?”

He wondered did she steal or rob it from others like a gangster?

But those gangsters only rob students. A few hundred a day was considered good income. How could she make so much money from robbing others?

Isabelle explained, “I didn’t steal or rob. It’s all legitimate. Use it without worry. If it breaks, I’ll buy you

another one.”

Ethan gazed at Isabelle. Her face was both familiar and strangely different to him. A sense of trust welled up inside him, possibly sparked by the clamour etched on Isabelle’s face or her drastic changes. Or perhaps he was fully convinced that Isabelle’s previous naivety and incompetence had been an act.

“Okay.”

Ethan’s reaction over the phone was too dramatic, right?

If Isabelle’s brother knew about her assets, wouldn’t he faint from shock? Not to mention her assets, just showing him the remaining 147,000 dollars in her account would probably make his jaw drop.

“I’ll take you shopping tomorrow.” After saying this, Isabelle grabbed her new phone and went back to

her room.

Ethan carefully took the phone out of the box and held it in his hand for a while. He was so excited that his hands were somewhat stiff. He then remembered to take the SIM card out of his old phone and carefully put it into the new one.

The moment he turned on the phone, Ethan’s heartbeat accelerated, and his breathing became heavier. He felt like he was dreamin

him by his relatives. But now he was holding it in his hand.

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decade.

next day was the

her morning run, Isabelle changed her clothes and called Ethan to

last night?” Noticing Ethan’s

responded somewhat

didn’t want Isabelle to know that he was

was a

take me shopping yesterday. What are we buying? Do you

are you guys doing? Did mom give you money?” Layla, with her sharp cars, heard Ethan’s words from her room

fell and came back from the hospital, she had changed into a different person. Inexplicably, Isabelle’s relationship with Ethan had

bear

her and headed to

tattle to their parents, Ethan thought

rolled her eyes and couldn’t be bothered by them, thinking that they couldn’t have

money.

Ethan to have a casual breakfast, then

entrance of the mall. Seeing

was the first time Ethan had ever been

Isabelle with his head bowed. He tried not to look around to make himself seem less

him into the men’s department store and told the well-dressed shop assistant, “Find

shocked that his sister was buying

bad.” Isabelle reached out, picked up a casual outfit nearby, and shoved it

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a card he

her direction in

total is 2,800 dollars, please enter your password. The shop assistant handed

Payment Successful.

eyes widened

and looked at Ethan. “Just put this outfit on and go.” She then told the shop assistant.

a daze. His old clothes were discarded by the sales

said, “Pick whichever

had already led him to the shoe section. Upon hearing

shoes, changing them every now and then. He didn’t recognize the brands and wasn’t interested in them, but his classmates would often talk about them in his

Only he wore shoc that cost less than ten dollars. It was cheap, but he

Ethan carrying bags and wearing designer clothes, the sales assistant sharply brought two pairs of shoes to him and

I can do it myself,”

and sat down on

beautiful, expensive new shoes in the sales assistant’s hands, he felt

Ethan subtly turned his body, not wanting anyone