Three years later...
In a wide, clean yet empty room within a tall apartment building at Western Alina City, two girls, both pretty, young, and full of vitality, were unpacking boxes after boxes of items, pieces of furniture, and clothes.
One of them, the girl with long slightly curly blonde hair and baby blue eyes, stood up and with her hands on her waist, stretched her body, bending her back a bit while letting out some groans of frustrations. After pouting her luscious pinkish lips, she glared at the other pretty woman in the place who was busy pushing a cabinet in the nearby bedroom.
A feminine voice filled with misgivings and tiredness sharply resounded all over the place.
"Ivy, tell me the truth, why am I the one you have called here instead of your parents or brother? It's so tiring having to carry your stuff here back and forth! But then, I still have to help you unpack and arrange them? Tell me, do you have any rec
A couple of hours later, as a token of gratitude for her friend's help, Ivy promised to buy her a meal. She changed her comfortable get up into a long forest green dress paired with black strappy stiletto heels and then led Deborah out of her half-tidied house.It was already late afternoon but the two of them didn't remove their shades and long coat until they secured a table at the second floor of Blue Feathers, a luxurious restaurant within Central Alina half an hour drive away from her new place."I want all their dishes priced more than 10,000 credits each! And red wine too! The most expensive one! No, I don't want a single bottle. I want ten! You're not allowed to say no!"However, before the demanding blonde could even finish speaking, Ivy had already said their orders to the waiter. And although all the said courses were indeed above Deborah's quoted price, she only ordered three dishes and a fairly known brand of red wine."Hey, I said all!"
The sky was already dark when the two women finally walked out of the blue sea motif restaurant.After dropping Deborah off to the condo building where she was currently renting a unit, the black-haired actress drove her car to another condo located in Northern Alina. While getting off, she glanced at the phone in her hand, her lips curling into a smirk as she read the message she received a couple of hours ago, before Deborah's arrival in her apartment.'Meet me, or else, I'll tell the world your secret, that you, the new phenomenal star had an affair with a married man before.'With her long black coat draped over her exposed shoulders and her dark shades put on, she went into the elevator, joining the small crowd inside.She got off at the fifteenth floor, marching towards the left in her black strappy high heels, her steps making faint click-clack sounds against the floor.Ivy stopped in front of a door to her right side. After punching a few n
When Ivy arrived at Starlight's company building, it was still very early, only a minute or two past 9 am. This meant she came right after the main entrance was opened and the office hours started.To her surprise though, there were already a lot of people in the halls and lobby. In fact, when she dropped by the restroom to check her makeup, she even saw one of her acquaintances, surrounded by her group of friends. For some reason, they ignored her today instead of acknowledging her presence through their glaring eyes.She was able to inspect herself on the huge mirror before the sink peacefully and had even managed to eavesdrop on whatever had occupied the famous actress Lina Haze. Her eyes narrowed a bit when she heard an interesting piece of information.She called out to her system AI.'Hey, Mr. Damnable Devil. Why didn't you tell me that this pretentious b*tch who's always trying to act high and mighty in my presence is actually living in that condo
Ivy, thanks for the hard work."After pulling the car door closed, the actress asked, "Where do we go next? Omega Studio?"Stepping on the gas to drive the car back to the lane, Miss Cora answered, "Ivy, the case is, the CEO's assistant phoned me while you are at the set, informing me that there will be a delay in the shooting of the advertisement. Our CEO has called a sudden meeting with all the subsidiaries of the Silvers. The Jewelry branch which contracted Omega studio is one of them. Actually, you are also asked to return.""The CEO?"Ivy's face showed great disbelief as though what she heard was very shocking. The next second though, a very wide smile appeared on it, reminding the older woman of a child promised by her parents to go to an amusement park. "I-I am asked to attend it? O-or to see her? Y-you sure it's really me?"The extreme happiness emanating from the expression and voice of the beautiful black-haired woman stunne
"Why are you here?"Mild irritation crept up in Ivy's face as she glared at the young man who appeared beside a black-haired hazel-eyed beautiful woman.It was in the hallway leading to Starlight's CEO's office which was currently owned by Agatha Silver, well-known princess of the Silver Corp and also the CEO and the largest shareholder of Starlight Entertainment.The young man had dressed quite smartly in a sky blue button up dress shirt underneath his creamy coffee colored knitted blazer. He paired it with a dark blue denim and white sports shoes though, unfortunately killing the sophisticated impression of his upper garment. His looks which had matured incredibly in the past three years, of course, salvaged the get-up, but unfortunately, in Ivy's eyes, he was still no different from a buffoon.Without stopping his strides, he boredly replied, "You're asking why I have to be here? Beats me, I dunno. Why don't you redirect your question to whoever called
The past three years had been more than enough for innumerable changes to happen. It had been a long period of time. And Eithan honestly sometimes didn't know how to describe how he survived this span of time.He was already past the point of thinking that he had become a villainous man. Agatha Moore, now Agatha Silver, was correct. It seemed as long as one was related to the immoral system, one way or another, he would surely fall into darkness.Ivy Adalio, his colleague and co-host, was also correct. While falling into the abyss, he indeed used the industry as his landing point, doing things unimaginably daring for the former him who probably would not even consider hurting a rat.'No used thinking about it now.'An amused chuckle escaped out of his lips as he beheld Ivy's disappointed expression after they came out of the office. The energetically murderous woman turned very listless due to her expectations being betrayed.
The young man indifferently opened his interface, reading his own stats as he replied, 'I didn't ask for any reward for that. In the first place, why did she even get angry?'He rolled his eyes and started driving to where he would meet up with an acquaintance. After shaking off the unnecessary thoughts in his head, he asked the system,'I didn't know that Baron's already back to Alina. What did he want help with this time? Another murder case?'With his brows furrowed, he told himself, 'Let's hope it's not something done by that woman's witchy clone. Otherwise, I can only say my sorry and condolences to them.'"..."'It's really that witch's work, damn it.'The young man now suspiciously wrapped up in an all-black get-up cursed as he took a glimpse at the pictures shown to him by his older acquaintance, Baron Gomez.The two met up in a fairly unpopulated cafe near the Western Alina Police Station, Friendlies, a humble business now ne
Just as expected, to ensure his participation, a call from Sir Dylan, the current chief secretary of Agatha Silver, came before nightfall, not taking 'no' from him as an answer.Frowning badly, he stared at the call button which had already turned red. The call timer which stopped at 1:03 was so much of an eyesore.'The sorrow of being a contracted moneybag.' He mused, shaking his head as he closed the door to the driver's seat of the company-lent car.He pocketed the phone in his jacket and strode towards the elevator of the underground parking lot. It was in the condominium at Eastern Alina, the opposite side of where he used to live in the city three years ago.'...' Eithan was speechless.If he could only slap it, he would have done so for a thousand times. The useless thing... warning him right after he opened the door and saw a pair of deep maroon high heels neatly staying at the bottom of the shoe rack there.Why didn't it do so at le
When the troops of the God’s Domain stepped onto the Imperial Capital’s soil, the common folks on both sides of the road sprinkled fragrant petals from within their hands. As for the guardsmen that were standing above the city walls, they set off festive fireworks, and the melodious sound of a trombone resonated throughout the entire horizon.The sky was ravaged with fireworks as they blossomed above in broad daylight. Even if it was still daytime, after undergoing the modification of magicians, the fireworks still blossomed with radiance that was dazzling to the eye.The monarch of the Long Xuan Empire personally brought a troop to welcome the sage, and when everyone prostrated down in worship, the monarch welcomed the sage into the Imperial Palace.The liveliness that was accompanied by the clamor was
When Taka made her move on the Suzaku Clan, due to the theory that ‘one shouldn’t do anything to harm one’s neighbors’, she had only had a little test of her skill and had not been too heartless by exploiting them too much. As for the other three big clans, however, it was an entirely different story. She saw no reason for reservation so she basically went full force on themThe reason for her doing what she’d done was to truly seize an opportunity that had presented itself! Her ferocity had exponentially increased until it was capable of making one’s hair stand up in anger.For example, on a certain young master’s bedside that was from the Azure Dragon Clan, where the 7-star sword was hung, the lavish scabbard of the sword had been entirely cleaned of its dazzling precious stones and its gilded golden ornaments was not
Ryu, on the other hand, figured that he would not be able to afford to have another mishap inside his own household, especially not before they were able to secure the invitation of the sage. Thus, he immediately sent his most trustred people to have the Snow Spiritual Fox delivered to the God’s Domain. Not long afterward, he then received information that the other party had arrived from the God’s Domain.In ten days, the sage of the God’s Domain would personally proceed towards the Long Xuan Empire, to the Suzaku Clan, in order to rouse the Phoenix. This one piece of information had everyone from the Suzaku Clan crying tears of joy. Their hundred years of misery would finally be seen through to an end.Within the next ten days, everyone put out an extreme amount of effort, and it was a rarely seen sight where the elders and the youngst
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Since she had already set the Qilin Auction House as the target, Taka then couldn’t help but make the next step of planning. Although there were very less people who had seen the shame of the Suzaku clan, it was hard to say that she would not be recognized by the people of the Qilin clan at other locations sometime later. Therefore, Taka had decided on the spot to go to another auction house in advance and used the money that she had and bought a few bottles of face altering potion.The face-altering potion was a rather common kind of medicine and it can be divided into three grades which were the ‘low’, ‘middle’ and ‘high’. Different subdivisions of the face altering potion, of course, would all have a varying duration depending on its grade. Likewise, the duration of its ability to hold a disguise as well their price would have even more disparity. On that night,
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‘Didn’t I say that it would have inhibitions on your strength. Undoing the first layer of seal is only but the beginning. If you want to become stronger, then you have to continue to undo the later seals. In this way, not only you can continue advancing but also, those strength that was previously inhibited would subsequently gush out.’ Linux’s voice was still the same as before where it was tranquil without any ripple and a hint of chilliness was carried together.“Then, what is needed to undo the second layer of seal?” Taka asked.Linux went silent for a moment and then only said one statement, ‘Demonic Beast’Demonic beasts were vicious organisms that were scattered everywhere across the Radiance Continent and resided
“Taka. You have fairly done well!”Agnar distressingly looked at the daughter of his which was still at the bosom. If it was not for the fact that Ryu was here at this moment, it was very likely that he would have already long ago pounced Taka and ripped her apart into fragments.As Abiri had Taka protected behind his back, he looked at Agnar and said,“Second uncle, why do say such a thing? Just what had this matter got to do with Taka?”“How could it be that she is unrelated to this matter? Jesse was injured in her room and it is very clear that it is this vile spawn that has harbour this evil intention wanting to injure Jesse!”No matter how Ryu was to think about it, Agnar had always fr
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