As soon as Griffin spoke, Beacon’s expression changed. It was totally different from what he had expected!Why? Beacon felt unsatisfied. “How can my dish be worse than a cook without a good background? No, she is not even a cook! I’m not convinced!”Griffin had expected Beacon’s response.He did not feel worked up and indifferently said, “That’s true. When it comes to the level of cooking skills, Azzie is not as good as you.”“But why…” “Because I’m hiring an assistant, not a cook. My focus is not on cooking skills.”“What is it then?”Griffin pointed at the kitchen. “You’ll know if you go and take a look.”Beacon looked puzzled as he walked to the kitchen. He pulled open the door and looked at it. Then, he was completely stunned.The kitchen looked very clean. Although there had been cooking in there earlier, it retained considerable cleanliness. Even the floor seemed to have been mopped.The kitchenware was neatly arranged, and the sight was very soothing.He thought ab
When Cyrus, the headmaster saw Thomas, he immediately grinned and walked forward. “Hey, Mr. Mayo, what brings you here today?”“I came to register a kid.”“Okay, no problem.”After the lesson last time, there was no obstacle in this registration. Cyrus immediately went through the procedure for Nephele, and he also brought her to her class.Cyrus introduced Nephele to all the kids in the class before he arranged a seat for her.At this time, Thomas waved at Robert, who was Bones’ son, and asked Robert to come to him.“Uncle?”“Hi.” Thomas squatted down and said to Robert, “This pretty little girl is my brother’s daughter. I’m sending her to study here, so you must take good care of her. If she doesn’t understand anything, you have to guide her, and don’t let her be bullied. Do you understand?”Robert nodded. “I got it, Uncle. I won’t let anyone bully her.”“Yeah, be good.”Thomas caressed Robert’s head and let him go back to his seat before Thomas left the preschool with Grif
Everyone looked at Robert.Hugo instantly knew who did it. He walked forward, pointed at Robert’s nose, and asked, “Little jerk, did you do it?”He did not expect Robert to be unafraid. Instead, Robert raised his head.“I beat him up!”“Wow, you didn’t apologize after you beat another person. You’re quite arrogant.”Hugo raised his hand and gave Robert a strong slap in the face. Nobody expected that he, as an adult, would slap a kid.Even Bones was terrified. He quickly helped his son up.Seeing his son being slapped, Bones also felt angry. But, it was his son who had done wrong, so what else could he say?Hugo had not gotten over it after giving the slap. He pointed at Bones and said, “You’re the gangster whom the parents’ group was talking about, right? People always say, like father, like son. If the father has a bad attitude, the son will also learn from him.“When everyone disagreed to let your son study here last time, I was not around because of a work trip. I heard tha
Hugo was furious. He could not be bothered with anything else. He raised his hand and wanted to slap Nephele’s face.However, in the blink of an eye, a figure was standing in front of him.Thomas had swiftly stood before Hugo. He stared at Hugo coldly while he spoke in an indifferent manner. “Your son made a mistake, but you’re venting your anger on other kids?”Hugo used to be in a high position in the company, so he did not care about a “normal person” like Thomas.“Who the heck are you? How could you be so arrogant in front of me?“Get lost!”He reached out to pull Thomas away. However, when he extended his arm, Thomas put his arm on Hugo’s and twirled it in the other direction. A clicking sound was heard, and Hugo’s arm was broken.“Urgh!”A miserable scream, like one that belonged to slaughtered pigs, was heard.Hugo kept moving a few steps backward, and he growled. “You dare to injure me? Do you know who I am?”Without saying anything else, Thomas directly gave Hugo a k
That female teacher scoffed. “Why? Do you also want to donate buildings? If you really have the money, you should buy a few clothes. Don’t keep wearing those cheap clothes.”Thomas sneered. He took out his phone and sent a message to someone.About four minutes later, Cyrus, the principal received a call.Someone had bought Bright Future Pre-school, and the pre-school’s owner was Thomas Mayo!Cyrus put down his phone in disbelief and looked at Thomas fearfully. Did a message have so much power? Who was this man?The female teacher asked, “Mr. Brooks, what’s wrong?”Cyrus wiped his sweat and said with a bitter smile, “The owner of the school has changed. Now, this school belongs to Mr. Thomas Mayo.”“Huh?”The female teacher who had been mocking Thomas earlier felt so surprised that her mouth fell wide open. She did not know what to say.This poor guy who wore cheap clothes was actually that rich.Thomas pointed at the female teacher. “From now on, you’re fired. Pack your thin
Robert was a little shy as he said, “Because she looks pretty, and she’s really smart. She’s smarter than me. I… I like her. I want to marry her when I grow up.”Pfft… Thomas nearly laughed out loud. Even though he did not express his emotions, he also could not help but smile when he heard a child say such a thing.Bones frowned and felt extremely awkward. He had never taught his son these things. Where did his son learn them?Thomas coughed and answered with a smile, “I’m afraid that I can’t help you with this.”“Huh? Why?”“Only you can help yourself. If you don’t study well, Nephele will become more and more excellent. Then she will study in a good high school and top university. If you drop out of school early, another boy will take Nephele away.”Robert clenched his fists.“I want to study well. I want to study in the same school as Nephele.”Although his aim was not entirely pure, his thought process was quite good.At the very least, he was willing to study hard. It
Harvey was not surprised. He knew that Gemma would respond that way.He chuckled and said, “Someone nowadays is arrogant after becoming rich and famous. She even abandons her beloved man. Gah! How disloyal!”Gemma angrily said, “Aren’t you shameful when you say that? Do you know how much I sacrificed for you previously? What about you? You were with a few women behind me. It’s so hilarious that I kept treating you so sincerely. I was so stupid!“Now you want to come back and get back to me?“Haha! Go daydreaming!”Gemma walked to the door and pushed open the door. “This is my house. I don’t welcome you. Please put down the key and leave here now!”Harvey sighed.“Alright, such a heartless woman. I finally know you.”He walked to the door before he suddenly turned back and said, “Oh yeah, Gemma, I heard you’ve been quite famous recently, right? Your movie is so famous, and now you’re waiting to act in a new drama. You look like you’re being promoted to be the top female celebrit
Harvey did not believe that a famous celebrity was unable to take out two million dollars? Haha! It must be a lie.He indifferently said, “I will wait for you at The Old Goat Bar tomorrow at noon. If you can’t bring money, don’t blame me for sharing the photos with the netizens.”“Harvey Baker! You’re such a jerk!”Harvey laughed out loud while he left the house. Only Gemma was left standing at the door to cry in grief.She had been deceived back then, and now she had been blackmailed.Was she unable to escape from being controlled by Harvey for her life?….. The next day, Thomas arrived in Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment early. He casually walked around as usual to observe the company’s operations.When he walked to the performance classroom, he heard Iris, the performance teacher scolding someone loudly.“Ms. Cruz is so strict in teaching.“Who’s the unlucky one who is getting scolded by Ms. Cruz?”He curiously walked over and took a look. After he saw the
No one knew how far down the title Emperor of Luck was inherited.They had finally caught Luck.Following that, Eric leaped into action and reeled in his haul as fast as he could. With that, all the remaining accomplices of Luck were caught in one fell swoop!The two million innocent citizens were saved, as all of them took the antidote.Once again, Thomas saved the day.In order to express their gratitude, the citizens decided to erect statues of Thomas in Celandine City and many other cities as well.In the House of Vistaria.Phoebe ran towards her father hurriedly. She then smiled at him and said, “What did I tell you, dad? Thomas will definitely turn things around, right? I won!”Declan was so agitated, that he started tearing up.Thomas was really too amazing. He was capable of turning things around, even in such a predicament.At the same time, the curse that had plagued the Mars family for over a thousand years was finally broken. From then onwards, Declan was finally
Luck was dumbfounded. Why was Thomas still alive and kicking?“No need to doubt your own eyes. I am indeed still alive.”The crowd parted, making way for a very familiar figure. It was Thomas, the very Thomas whom the public watched him die.As he walked, he said, “Our previous research has already reached ninety-nine percent completion. But no matter how hard we tried, the final one percent remained out of our grasp. At that time, I thought that perhaps the only way was to drink the Ancestral Water and experience the poison itself, which would allow me to have a breakthrough for the final one percent.“And that was what happened. I managed to do it.“After drinking the Ancestral Water, I finally understood what the one percent was and successfully created the antidote for Ancestral Water. Now that the antidote has been created, it will sever your connection with the Ancestral Water.“You will not be able to kill anyone anymore.“You have lost, Luck.”Lost?Luck's eyes were wi
It was obvious that Eric could not afford to take a gamble this time. But he had no choice. His only choice was to listen to whatever the other party said and prepare a helicopter in twelve hours’ time.That was not all. He was also supposed to request for his superiors to help Luck get out of the country.The thought of it made Eric furious.“Damn it!”He left in anger to deal with the rest of the matter.The sky of Celandine City was covered with clouds.The patriarch, Declan, was in his garden in the House of Vistaria. He stared at the withered flowers as he grieved.His entire life was spent supporting Mr. Cole in hopes that he would be able to create an antidote to Ancestral Water. But at the end of the day, Mr. Cole accomplished nothing.His two disciples — Capricious Holy Hand Elliot, and Thomas — were both dead.There was no one in the world who was capable of creating the antidote for Ancestral Water anymore.“Alas...” Declan sighed. It seemed that it was impossible
At that moment, the general public was suddenly dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning. Everyone was down in the dumps.Many of those with poor psychological strength directly collapsed on the ground.They believed Thomas' death could be exchanged for their own safety, but who knew, in the end, they got nothing, and Luck, as usual, used their lives as a bargaining chip to force the authorities to listen to His Majesty's words.No antidote to Ancestral Water would ever be created by chance.The lives of people were still in His Majesty's hands.Whenever luck wanted them to die, they would die without any ability to resist.However, this was not the most frightening part. What was even more frightening than this was that the only person who could create the antidote to Ancestral Water had been forced to die alive by them.It would be impossible to create the antidote to Ancestral Water without Thomas.Mr. Cole and Elliot had all died, Thomas was the last person who mastered the
Eric sighed deeply, "Thomas, even though things have reached this point, you still remain so kind.""I have nothing to say except to choose death because the research failed." Thomas let out a long breath. "Before I die, I want to talk to my family on the phone."Originally, Emma and the others came to Celandine City because they wanted to be reunited with Thomas.Who knew it had turned into a life and death situation?The world was like a chess game; everything was unpredictable.When Thomas was video calling with his family, Emma was already bathed in tears at the other end. She was crying and shouting at Thomas to not be impulsive, and saying perhaps there was still room for things to turn around.That was what she thought, but it was not the case.Every minute Thomas dragged on, more people perished as the result of Ancestral Water, and the crowd’s fear and rage grew.Thomas’ life no longer belonged to him."Honey, take care of the baby."I love you."Those were Thomas’
For such demanding research, half a day was really too short.Thomas had recruited the best doctors and researchers he could find to work on a detailed study of Ancestral Water.In the past, it was difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the research on Ancestral Water. That was because figuring out how to create an antidote for the Ancestral Water was challenging. On the other hand, it was also because obtaining the Ancestral Water was incredibly difficult. Because they only had a few samples, the results were underwhelming.However, it was different now. Because the entire city's water supply had been turned into Ancestral Water, they were able to collect the samples at their convenience. This made it much easier for Thomas and the others to get the materials.With Thomas in charge, hundreds of researchers were conducting a massive study in just half a day. Unfortunately, things did not go according to plan.Thomas still failed. “We almost got it.“We were so close to makin
How sinister. “All we want is nothing but—safety.“As long as we’re safe, we definitely won’t make it difficult for everyone. If we’re safe, no one will die.“Now then, I have a small request to make to ensure everyone’s safety.“I demand that Thomas drink Ancestral Water immediately! This person is a real hassle for His Majesty, and we must keep him under our control for our own protection. Please forgive us for the inconvenience.“We'll only give everyone half a day to consider this. The emperor will begin killing people if Thomas does not step forward and drink Ancestral Water by this afternoon.“Okay. I've said everything I wanted to say. Goodbye.” The TV screen went dark, and so did Eric's face.He kicked the trash can over and said fiercely, “What is this? You're the only person in the world who can create an antidote for Ancestral Water’s poison, Thomas!“Once you drink Ancestral Water, you’ll be controlled by them!“Won't you have to obey Luck's every command by the
After listening to Thomas’ description, Eric also displayed a look of shock and said two words, “As expected.”What did he mean by, as expected?Was it possible that Eric knew that Luck was behind it from the start?“Thomas, follow me.”Eric took Thomas into an empty ward and locked the door. The two sat in the corner of the ward.He whispered, “There is a piece of news that I haven’t announced to the public, that is, besides Celandine City, there are more than ten cities that have problems. Do you know which cities they are?”Thomas’ eyes lit up. He already knew what Eric wanted to say.At the previous meeting, Eric had clearly stated that more than ten cities across the country had been controlled by Luck. Now, there happened to have more than ten cities where residents had been poisoned.Was there such a coincidence?Thomas said, “The residents are poisoned by Ancestral Water. Over ten cities are all under the control of Luck’s forces, so it is almost a certainty that Luck
“I didn’t. I saw the news early in the morning and was shocked. I haven’t dared to drink a sip of water until now.” Pisces took a deep breath and said, “Is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster? It’s really terrible.”No matter whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it was no small matter.Soon, Thomas drove to the hospital.Eric had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as he saw Thomas coming, he quickly let him enter the ward.He saw a patient lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, and his body was trembling. Although it was very hot, he was as cold as if he had just been lifted out of the freezer.A doctor walked over and said, “Mr. Mayo, let me tell you the general overview of the current situation.”The virus was spread through water sources.After drinking water with the virus, the virus would lurk in the human body.However, lurking did not mean that it would cause an outbreak.At present, over one hundred thousand people had b