Riches in Disguise

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Joshua spotted the gift box on my lap and reached for it without hesitation. Before I could stop him, he tore it open but froze in shock.

Inside the box was a Cartier skeleton watch, its crown embedded with a striking blue gemstone, worth around 30 thousand dollars. It was impossible to pass this off as a fake. It had to be the real deal.

Lina's eyes sparkled as she gasped, "That's gorgeous!"

Most of our classmates came from modest backgrounds and were equally stunned.

For them, a monthly allowance of over five hundred dollars was already considered generous, with some surviving on just a few hundred. Seeing something this expensive was understandably a rare occurrence.

I snatched the watch back and slipped it onto my wrist. Since they were so eager to look, I'll let them see it more clearly.

Sure enough, as soon as I put the watch on, Joshua and his friends looked at me like they wanted to eat me alive.

Joshua's eyes, especially, turned red with jealousy-he was on the verge of losing it.

"William, you've got some nerve, flaunting gifts from your sugar mommy. Have you no shame at all?" Joshua sneered.

"Sugar mommy?" I blinked, caught off guard. What kind of rumor was Joshua cooking up now?

Joshua let out a laugh. "Don't even try to deny it. We all saw you cozying up to that rich lady. If that's not you being kept, then what is it? And don't try to tell me she's your sister since I know you're an only child!"

The students around us immediately began shooting me disapproving glances.

had the capital to start your business. You've been living off some rich woman. I can't believe I even saw you differently." Zack even gestured crudely at me. "Bet you put on a

raucous laughter

my classes and returned to the dorm on time every night. Yet, he had no problem

pathetic how you followed Joshua around. Now I see you deserve it, being his lapdog. With your

I had unknowingly struck his nerve. He rushed up to me

at all. I grabbed his arm, twisted it behind him, swept his

offering to help Zack,

at me again. But he was no match, and I easily tripped

William is out

suggestion. He gave me a cold stare and said, "Tell you what, William. Hand over those gifts, and we won't spread any rumors about you

eyes lit up at the suggestion they could already see the money they'd split from selling the watch and the unopened

looked at him with pity. "Joshua, there was a time you could've

you threw that chance away. It's too

giving it to me or

replied. I didn't

you owe me a kneel and an exit

prepared for this moment and immediately put on a smug expression. "A bet? What bet? What are you talking about? It's ridiculous that I will

you planning to just

I had a bet with you, please show me some proof, William. Do you have any recordings or witnesses? If you can prove it, I'll honor

that moment, I'd thought Joshua, despite his rotten character, was at least a man of his word. After all, he had paid me back for the shoes we'd fought over. But today, he shattered whatever respect I had

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