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?

uncle tried to

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

this, however, with her father gone

her rage, Emma cut the conversation

not worry about it. I have to go to sleep

reply, Emma threw her phone towards the

of her

"...this fucker"

...

the

her room, Amanda carefully walked towards one of her drawers. Taking out a stuffed

head in satisfaction.

"..Haa"

carefully putting the teddy on the drawer, tired, Amanda buried

of things happened today. What seemed to be a regular day like any

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

It was fun.

Suddenly her phone rang.

-Ring! -Ring!

was Maxwell

picked up

"Yes?"

listened to what he wanted to say, a look of

next week. They have agreed to your proposal and are

"I understand"

talk for long periods of time, Maxwell kept the conversation short

anything else that

this is good for

wish you good

"mhm"

Amanda

-Tack!

her phone, Amanda opened her chat log with Melissa and

screen was a card held by two pincers as mana was slowly injected into it. Not long

getting the greenlight from Melissa, Amanda contacted her dad and

would've never have agreed. However, since it was Amanda who proposed the deal, they agreed

the phone call was about. Her father and the elders of the guild

did not doubt that they would've agreed, she was quite surprised by the fact that they had agreed to

how busy they usually were, she had expected to even wait as far as a

who the two people in question

she was, there was no

doubt that they knew a few things about him. Especially with regards to what had happened a few nights ago when he supposedly aided in the killing of

how popular he was nowadays, without a doubt the elders and her father wanted to meet

rank at

she was still shocked. Without a doubt, his talent rivaled that of Jin's

Huuu—

-Plack!

carefully put away her

eyes, Amanda

to know him better, her impression of him

him had

thought that he was an undercover bodyguard that her family had sent to protect her. But after confirming

in

few more times, Amanda realized that he was completely different from how she

but from what Amanda figured, he was not the

else. Just a

times, serious in

point out something odd about him, it was his fashion sense. Recalling how proud he

It was frankly terrible.

bad that Amanda was

once he got six teddies in fifteen tries whilst she didn't even get one despite

Amanda saw Emma so depressed. The more she thought about it, the more the corner of her lips curved upwards. Suddenly a strange

"ku..."

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