In the next second, the upper portion of the glass was crushed...

The sharp debris from the glass jabbed into Betty Starmount's flesh, making her bleed profusely.

However, Betty didn't react at all. Instead, she recklessly allowed the bleeding to continue...

She was like a cold, walking zombie.

"Xyla Quest..." Betty seemingly spoke through gritted teeth. The cold, murderous look in her eyes immediately caused the temperature on the balcony to drop by several degrees...

***

At the same time, Rachel Wood was checking out lipsticks at a Chanel store in Goldfield Plaza.

Beep, beep, beep-

Right then, Rachel's phone started to ring.

Rachel, who was about to reach for a piece of lipstick, immediately pulled her hand away. After that, she glanced at her phone screen.

Her mother was calling...

the call up. "Hello,

hoarse. It sounded like she was

her mother's voice, she was a

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Thieves broke into our house. The watches and cash you gave your father and me last time were all stolen... Oh, the family heirlooms passed down for generations

it adds up to several hundred thousand dollars... Sob-sob..." Rachel's mother

sadder she felt.

as if her heart was being cut open. "Mom, don't panic. Have

care at all," Rachel's mother

you mean?"

There's also no evidence that we've been robbed. They asked us to look for

felt dubious when she heard those

kind of logic

all so

like telling her mother that they didn't

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