Chapter 387: All Trash Right?!
Confidence was her only hope now. If she gave it like it was worthless, it would look like an insult. But if she presented it like it mattered, maybe, just maybe, it would gain weight in the eyes of others.
She stopped before Somto, lifted the pillow gently with both hands, and looked him in the eyes.
“It’s all I have on me,” she said quietly. “But it’s mine. Always with me. Maybe it’ll bring you luck.”
Somto’s gaze didn’t move. It stayed fixed on her.
And in that long pause, the audience erupted.
The whispering started from the VIP guests.
“Is that a—handkerchief?”
“You must be joking…”
“That’s what she’s giving the king?”
“From gems to a piece of cloth?”
Livestream comments flooded in.
“Girl be serious.”
“No because what is that?!”
“She EMBROIDERED it tho?”
“Honestly I think it’s kinda brave??”
“Somto better not sneeze on that.”
“Imagine gifting a scented square in front of the world.”
she didn’t
cringed. A few respected her courage, but most were too
hand. Ebere looked
was obviously unprepared. Abuchi blinked like he was still
frozen. He couldn’t even
Somto, he looked down at the handkerchief
up at her
teeth and opinions hardened, Nnenna was just about to turn around and
at Somto. She didn’t want to see his
Then
is the best
voice cut through the
Everyone froze.
Queen Chioma: “…”
Abuchi: “!!!”
Obinna: “..?”
Ebere: “.??”
Chidera: “???”
The online crowd: “…”
The offline crowd: “…”
gasps echoed around the hall. Somewhere, a wine glass shattered. The
was the best gift you’ve ever received?!” King Seungho
gold inlaid scepter handle I personally commissioned with the
the kings of
took three royal artists and a
his mouth slightly open. “Our spices. Our kingdom’s entire spice vault, selected from the rarest batch aged over four
Vladimir of Haran’s eye twitched. “Elite guards? Servants? We sent hand trained, multilingual warriors and etiquette tutors. Did… did he just call them
started muttering to himself. “Estate
was printed with titanium lace filament! It
by other CEOs? Oh, just elaborately shaped cookies, apparently. One CEO was seen quietly googling, “How
and rumored to make statues cry, was now just random scribbles, right? Nonsense words, fit
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