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

was something he could never hope for. He wouldn’t dare accept it, even if it was given to him by his relatives. But now he was holding it in his hand. This phone belonged to him. It was given

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decade.

day was the

clothes and

late last night?” Noticing Ethan’s dark circles, Isabelle casually

somewhat evasively,

didn’t want Isabelle to know that he was so excited that he couldn’t sleep all

new phone into his pocket as if it was a treasure, pretending not

out and asked, “You said you were going to take me shopping yesterday. What are we buying? Do you still have

with her sharp

the hospital, she had

cannot bear to see

headed to the yard without

Layla would tattle to their parents, Ethan thought for a moment and

eyes and couldn’t be bothered by them, thinking that

money.

then brought

at the entrance of the mall. Seeing Isabelle striding in,

the first time Ethan had ever been to

six months, and with his limping left foot, he felt out of place here. Ethan followed behind Isabelle with his head bowed. He tried not to look around to make himself seem less nervous. He wanted to call out to Isabelle several times

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

his senses and was shocked that his sister

not bad.” Isabelle reached out, picked up a casual outfit nearby, and shoved it into Ethan’s hand.

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saw Isabelle standing at the cash register, flashing a card he was not unfamiliar

in her

please enter your password. The shop assistant handed over the

Payment Successful.

widened

her card and looked at Ethan. “Just put this outfit on and go.” She then told the shop assistant. “Help him cut off the

followed Isabelle in a daze. His old clothes were discarded by the sales assistant at Isabelle’s request. Initially, he had planned to wear them until next

said, “Pick whichever

dollars, Isabelle had already led him to the shoe section. Upon hearing this, Ethan looked up

shoes, changing them every now and then. He didn’t recognize the brands and wasn’t

students in his class wore shoes that cost dozens of dollars. Only he wore shoc that cost less than ten dollars. It was cheap, but he couldn’t afford to replace them, even if his

sharply brought two pairs of shoes to him and enthusiastically

I can do it myself,”

the assistant and sat down on the

own worn-out shoes, then at the beautiful, expensive new shoes in the sales assistant’s hands, he felt his face heat

his body, not wanting anyone