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?

opportunity presented itself. Emma's uncle tried to do his

With the excuse of Emma spending too much money on useless stuff, her uncle managed to convince the others to

father gone she could only swallow this

her rage, Emma cut

I have to go to sleep now as classes

her Uncle's reply, Emma threw her phone towards the other

herself inside of her blankets, she

"...this fucker"

...

time, the room next

Taking out a stuffed teddy, Amanda carefully placed the

head in satisfaction.

"..Haa"

on the drawer, tired, Amanda buried herself on

regular day like any

she hated crowds. However, with

It was fun.

Suddenly her phone rang.

-Ring! -Ring!

ID was Maxwell Benson, her

up the

"Yes?"

the ears. Neither hurried nor slow. As Amanda listened to what he wanted to say, a look of understanding appeared on her face. A trace of surprise was mixed in

you next week. They have agreed to your proposal and are

"I understand"

that Amanda did not like to talk for long periods

that

this is good

understand, I wish you good luck for

"mhm"

her head, Amanda hung up

-Tack!

opened her chat log with

mana was slowly injected into it. Not long after, a massive flame

getting the greenlight from Melissa, Amanda contacted her dad and guild elders regarding

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

elders of the guild had agreed to listen to Ren's and

they would've agreed, she was quite surprised by the fact that

even wait as far as a couple of months. This came as a

who the two people in question were, Amanda

being the genius that she was, there was no

knew a few things about him. Especially with regards to what had happened a few nights ago when he

doubt the elders and her father wanted to

at

was still shocked. Without a doubt, his talent rivaled that of

Huuu—

-Plack!

put away her phone in her drawer and closed

eyes, Amanda suddenly

know him better, her impression of him slightly

him had left

At that time she thought that he was an undercover bodyguard that her family had sent to protect her. But after confirming with her father and guild, she knew that this was not the

interest in him piqued

that he was completely different from how she

figured, he was not the merciless killer that she thought he was in her

Just a regular youth in his

at times, serious in

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

It was frankly terrible.

was so bad that Amanda was left

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

The more she thought about it, the more the corner of her lips curved upwards. Suddenly a strange noise came out

"ku..."

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