The Author's POV

Chapter 199

Late night.

After returning from her short shopping trip, Emma laid down on her mattress exhausted. With her short brown hair scattered on the bed, Emma scrolled through her phone.

Thinking of something, Emma opened her bank account and checked her balance.

[Account balance : 7,472,060 U]

Seeing the number, Emma ground her teeth and muttered.

"...what a pig"

During her small trip, she had planned on only spending at most 100,000 U. She had not expected herself to fork out 750,000U. This was way beyond the budget she had set herself. In fact, spending 100,000 was already too much for her at the moment.

Normally, she wouldn't have minded.

...but her current circumstances weren't normal.

Looking at how much money she had in her bank account Emma felt bitter.

"How long will this last me..."

She truly regretted betting with Ren. Had she not bet, none of this would've happened.

-Ring!

At that moment, Emma's phone rang.

Checking who the sender was, Emma's face darkened. It was her uncle.

[Hello Emma, how was your day?]

Clenching her teeth, Emma picked up the phone and replied.

[Everything is fine, thank you, uncle]

[That's great, but Emma...]

[Yes]

[Did you go out today?]

Seeing the message, Emma's face contorted to a frown.

'How is that any of your business'

Forcefully trying to calm herself down, she replied.

[Yes, with two of my friends]

Ren was definitely not her friend.

[That's good, but do you still have enough money? I hope you're still not mad at me for blocking your card. With your dad leaving all responsibilities to me, we have to take precautions]

"Bastard..."

At her father's mention, Emma felt truly enraged. Ever since her father caught wind of a secret plot that the Monolith was brewing in preparations to attack Ashton city, as its city mayor, her father had no other choice but to leave and prevent their plans.

This was four months ago.

Right now, with her father gone, her uncle was the one in charge of the family affairs.

He did not like Emma.

With Emma being the direct inheritor of her Roshfield family, her uncle was jealous. He too had a son. However, he was only ten years old.

Given how young he was, he did not stand a chance at inheriting the family's leading position. He was just like him, stuck in his brother's shadow.

How could he tolerate that?

itself. Emma's uncle tried to do his best to

was block her card. With the excuse of Emma spending too much money on useless stuff, her uncle managed to convince the others to freeze her

Emma knew this, however, with her father gone she could only swallow

her rage, Emma cut the

about it. I have to go to sleep now as classes start early

threw her phone towards

of her blankets,

"...this fucker"

...

time, the room

to her room, Amanda carefully walked towards one of her drawers. Taking out a stuffed teddy, Amanda carefully placed the teddy on

her head in satisfaction. She

"..Haa"

the drawer, tired, Amanda

What seemed to be a regular day like any other turned out into an

normally disliked such outings as she hated crowds. However, with everything that

It was fun.

Suddenly her phone rang.

-Ring! -Ring!

ID was Maxwell Benson, her personal

up the

"Yes?"

to what he wanted to say, a look of understanding appeared on her face. A trace of surprise

you next week. They have agreed to your proposal

"I understand"

that Amanda did not like to talk for long

else that you would

this is good for

I wish you

"mhm"

head, Amanda

-Tack!

phone, Amanda opened her chat log with Melissa and

the screen was a card held by two pincers as mana was slowly injected into

the greenlight from Melissa, Amanda contacted her

busy most elders and her father were, they would've never have agreed. However, since it was Amanda who proposed the deal, they agreed without asking

the phone call was about. Her father and the elders of the guild had agreed to listen

was quite surprised by the fact

were, she had expected to even wait as far as a couple of months. This came as a

realizing who the

being the genius that she was, there was no doubt

a few things about him. Especially with regards to what had happened a few nights

the elders and her father wanted

rank at age

Without a doubt, his talent rivaled that of Jin's

Huuu—

-Plack!

deep breath, Amanda carefully put away her phone in her drawer and

Amanda suddenly thought

know him better,

with him had left a

her. At that time she thought that he was an undercover bodyguard that

her interest in

Amanda realized that he was completely different from how she thought

he was faking it, but from what Amanda figured, he was not the merciless killer that she thought

was just like everyone else. Just

times,

his fashion sense. Recalling how proud he was about the clothes he was wearing, Amanda

It was frankly terrible.

was so bad that

look of despair on Emma's face once he got six teddies in fifteen tries whilst she didn't even get one despite so

Amanda saw Emma so depressed. The more she thought about it, the more the corner

"ku..."

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