His answer instantly put out all of the men’s enthusiasm like a pot of cold water.Apparently, it had been so many years, so everyone knew that Emma should be married. But, did this not mean stealing the goddess from everyone else?Even if they could not steal her, having an affair with her would be quite good.Everyone had the same target.However, who would have expected Emma to actually bring her husband. That made all the men feel unhappy.A man whose name was Clayton Padley directly scolded, “Hey, you’re not our classmate, right? Since you’re not, please leave for the time being. I don’t wish to see a stranger in the classmate gathering, which will make us unable to say whatever we want.”Clayton was the monitor during high school. When he was a student, he loved to show off. After he worked, he held a small executive position in a listed company, and he became more arrogant.So, he never beat around the bush. When he faced people who were not as good as him, his tone would
Thomas was unperturbed by it and continued to eat with his head lowered. Clayton despised him even more after that.He pulled out a name card and handed it to Emma. “This is my name card. You can keep it.”Emma reached out and took it, placing it on the table.Clayton said, “Emma, I genuinely feel sorry for you. You’re such a stunning and smart young lady, yet you married a... Sigh! You must be living an uncomfortable life right now, huh?”“But don’t worry, you still have me.“Even though I’m not in a high-ranking position right now, I can still earn a few hundred thousand dollars per month. If you encounter any problems while living, you can always come to me, and I’d do everything I can to help you.” He sounded even more ridiculous now. On the surface, it seemed like a nice thing to say, but the person's husband was still present, and he was babbling this nonsense in front of him. What was his motive, exactly?The other ladies were even pouting and sulking.They had asked
Everyone finished their portions except for Emma. She looked at the pudding in front of her, then took a glance at Thomas. She felt uneasy.If even she ate it, then it would be the biggest insult to Thomas.But that was what Clayton wanted to see.He hoped Emma would eat the pudding he had prepared. He hoped to witness someone else's wife eat his food!“Why aren’t you eating Emma?” Clayton purposely asked. Emma lowered her head, unsure of how to answer.She knew she could not eat it, but it was difficult to say no with so many people present, and it was much harder to refuse someone’s offer.Did she really want to embarrass her own husband in front of others?No!Emma bit her lower lip, knowing that even if she would end up not getting along with everyone here, she would definitely still stand together with Thomas and refuse to eat Clayton's pudding.When it started to get awkward, Thomas smiled. He pointed at the plate of pudding and said, “Look, the pudding is already si
Thomas fished out his phone and dialed Ryan Hudson’s number.“Hey, Ryan, help me out with something. I’d like to have Grand Metro Garden's sticky toffee pudding, so please help me invite their chef to Everlast Restaurant, booth number six, and have them personally prepare the pudding for us.” “Roger that. It’ll be done in 15 minutes.”After getting off the phone, Thomas looked at everyone and calmly said, “15 minutes, and the chef would be here to personally prepare the pudding for us. Please wait for a moment.”Everyone in the room erupted into laughter, this time mockingly.15 minutes? Hahaha, that was hilarious!Even if you wanted to make a reservation for the chef, you would have to wait ten days to six weeks. Not to mention that Thomas was just a small employee, who had no qualifications to reserve.“Hey, you’re quite the actor huh?” Clayton mocked.Thomas just smiled and said nothing.15 minutes passed by quickly and as everyone sat in their seats and scrolled through t
“Why aren’t you eating Clayton?”“Right, this pudding is really good. I’d like another plate.”“You’re quite impressive, Thomas. You actually invited Grand Metro Garden’s master chef, which is so cool!”These fence-sitter classmates were still licking Clayton's stinking boots just before this, but now they were all praising Thomas instead.They had absolutely no thoughts of their own and only listened to those who were more influential.They were unsure how Thomas was able to invite the chef with his eight thousand dollars income, but they were confident that if you can invite a master chef like that, you must be impressive.Staring at the pudding in front of him, Clayton found it difficult to swallow, and he did not even want to lift his spoon.“Hmph!”He slammed his palm down on the table heavily, furious.Thomas grinned as he shook his head. He picked up his spoon and started eating the pudding. Needless to say, the number one sticky toffee pudding in the country tasted ama
The joyous atmosphere of the class reunion party suddenly became very tense.Maple Ephys felt like a criminal as she was interrogated by the other party.She lowered her head, and she was unable to hide her unease.Emma discovered that there were calluses on her hands! Maple was brought up in clover, and she always cherished her beauty and never did heavy work. How could she start having calluses on her hands?’This could only explain one thing—After Cain had his legs broken, Maple had to bear the burden of supporting her family.Clayton still did not let off. He continued mocking her, “Maple, I heard that you have been married for three years, but you don’t even have a child with your husband?”Maple nodded. “Cain has been very busy all the while.”“Busy? Hah, don’t you mean he has a certain problem over there?” said Clayton with a smirk. “Now that Cain has suffered a broken leg, even if he wants a child, he won’t have the kind of energy to do it. Maple, do you want me to do yo
Everyone gazed at Thomas at the same time, and they were all showing impatient expressions.Clayton said viciously, “What’s wrong with you, Thomas? I’m calling the great doctor. What are you doing?”Thomas smiled without speaking, reached out his hand to pick up the phone, and hung up.What a coincidence.Just after Thomas hung up the call, Clayton’s call was also hung up.A prompt responded, “Sorry, the user you are calling is currently on a call.”Clayton felt like he was losing face.He had kept saying that he and the great doctor were good friends. But the great doctor had hung up his phone, which made him lose face.Emma said, “Clayton, you still haven’t changed your bragging habit? The great doctor doesn’t seem to want to answer your call.”“Who likes bragging here?” Clayton tried defending himself. “Perhaps the great doctor is currently occupied with other matters. Wait a minute. I’ll try calling again.”Clayton tried dialing the number again.As soon as the call was
He gazed at Thomas, and a premonition arose from his heart.After making three consecutive calls, Thomas’ mobile phone had rung. For the last attempt, Thomas had turned off his mobile phone, and the great doctor’s mobile phone was also turned off. If this was a coincidence, that would be too coincidental.There was a high probability that Clayton had dialed Thomas’ mobile phone.But Clayton said that he was calling the great doctor.‘That means... Thomas is the great doctor?’Such information had a huge impact on the audience. ‘Who would have thought that an ordinary employee with a monthly salary of eight thousand dollars would be a great doctor?’Clayton could not believe it.He was even afraid to believe it. ‘Once this matter was confirmed, where would he put his face?’One classmate could not hide his curiosity but asked, “Clayton, can you tell me the phone number you had dialed.”“Um, the phone number is 152...”After he finished reading, Emma was the first to react and
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