Granny Lyndon looked utterly embarrassed.“Mother, stop...” Lily pleaded softly.Lily continued, “Grandma, how would you want me to help you?”Granny Lyndon and William looked at each other. “Lily, if you give us some money to help the family business overcome this rough patch, we will be grateful,” she smiled.William added, “Of course, we will give you some of the shares.”Lily stayed silent in deep thought.Samantha continued her insults. “What shameless people! Did you forget that some of those shares were hers? You snatched it away from her. Now that you’ve run out of money, you come running to us.”“Mother, stop it!” Lily snapped, breaking her silence. She glanced at Granny Lyndon and agreed, “Fine, I agree to your terms.”She still has tens of millions with her. If she kept it any longer, it would be gone due to Samantha’s gambling addiction. She would rather spend it in exchange for some shares. However, she was determined not to be cheated by them this time.Granny Ly
Of course, Darryl knew that Atlantic Street would be packed to the brim with people. How was it possible that Paul booked the entire street? Then, his phone rang. It was from Lily.Lily asked, “Darryl, have you come out of the library?”Lily was walking on Atlantic Street when she thought of calling Darryl. She did not expect that he would pick up! Darryl laughed, hearing the hustle and bustle of the crowd on Lily’s end. “Yes, where are you?” he responded.“I’m at Atlantic Street with Jade and Phoebe. It’s crowded here! Come find us!” Lily exclaimed hopefully.How could Darryl say no? “Okay! Wait for me!” he answered.Lily hung up the call with her face filled with joy. The fact that she could see Darryl in a short while made her swoon!The taxi that Darryl hailed had barely reached Atlantic Street when it got stuck in traffic. Darryl got down and walked into the crowd. There were many stalls; the sellers were shouting to attract customers. Rows of lanterns decorated the entire
The fortune-teller thought of a solution. “To break your streak of bad luck is simple,” he explained. “Just pick a good day to get married.”Marriage?Megan was stunned, then she came to a realization. She blushed.The fortune-teller continued, “I just realized that this man next to you has the water element in him. You two are a match! You both are a couple, I assume?”Megan blushed as she nodded.The fortune-teller laughed, slapping his thigh. He pretended to calculate with his fingers and exclaimed, “That’s perfect! In the next six months, there will be two good days to have a wedding ceremony. Congratulations to the newlywed couple in advance!”At that, the fortune-teller let out a sigh of relief under his breath. He completed his mission.Kent smiled widely. He took the opportunity to fish out a box from his pocket and knelt on one knee. “Megan, marry me.” He opened the box to reveal a diamond ring. It sparkled under the lanterns.The crowd exclaimed in admiration. How rom
Darryl laughed and glanced at the fortune-teller. “I’m not interested.”“No, sir!” The fortune-teller shouted in panic. Kent secretly instructed him to stall Darryl. He grasped onto Darryl’s arm and pretended to analyze his palm, “You have a terrible fate awaiting you, buddy.”“Yes, you’re right! His life has indeed been difficult!” Kent burst into laughter and yelled, “Everybody! This fortune-teller is really accurate!”“I am not interested in psychic readings. Let me go.” Darryl was exasperated.The fortune-teller was relentless. “No, buddy. It was fate that we met, so I must take your reading. I can see that you can only live under other’s protection as a live-in son-in-law for your whole life.”Hahaha!‘He has to live as a live-in son-in-law for the rest of his life!”The surrounding crowd burst into laughter when they heard those words.Kent patted Darryl’s shoulder and sighed, feigning a pained expression. “Did you hear that? The fortune-teller said that you could only ev
Smack!Darryl smacked the fortune-teller’s face hard.“F*ck!”The fortune-teller cried out as he spun around from the impact. He fell onto the ground in a daze as blood poured from his nose.“You…”He pointed his finger at Darryl in anger and fear after recovering from the shock.“Darryl, what are you doing?” Kent shouted, “Why did you hit him? Don’t you have manners?”Megan was also panicking. “Darryl, why did you do that? His words weren’t good to hear, but he is a well-respected man. You are not treating him with respect by hitting him like that.”“Exactly!”The crowd agreed and started criticizing Darryl.“Lad, you shouldn’t have beaten a man of Taoism even if you are young and strong.”“Exactly…”Darryl ignored everyone and walked to the fortune-teller with a sinister smile. He grabbed onto his mustache and lifted him.Rip!Darryl forcefully pulled on the mustache, tearing it off the wailing fortune-teller.“See, his mustache was just stuck on.”Darryl tossed the m
Darryl smiled at Megan. “Be more alert next time. Most fortune-tellers out there are fake.”Megan nodded and continued softly, “By the way, do you have any Godly pills with you now?”She could never forget that!Darryl shook his head. “I don’t have any. Maybe next time.”He had just returned from the library. He had no time to go home, which was where he kept the pills.Disappointment flashed across Megan’s face as she nodded. “Alright then, I’ll contact you again. Can you bring some Godly pills with you next time?”Darryl nodded and bid farewell to her. He had to look for Lily.Megan grabbed her bag and walked in the opposite direction.“Meg, wait for me!” Kent shouted in panic, chasing after her.Megan was furious. She remembered that the fake fortune-teller shouted Kent’s name in his panic when she was about to arrest him. She knew that all of it was Kent’s doing.She was disappointed.He had once asked someone to act like a shark, and now he found someone to act as a for
Lily honestly thought that Darryl surprised her with the lanterns that had her name on them. Her guess was rebutted almost immediately. It was a huge project. Darryl would never put in the effort to do this.“Look, the lanterns have words on them!” Somebody called out.The crowd clamored. How romantic! They wondered who was the lucky girl!“It’d be great if someone wrote my name on those…” Some girls were envious.Phoebe walked to Lily and held her hand, “Lily, you’re really lucky!”Lily smiled and nodded to Justin. Although she did not have an interest in him, she was touched. She could sense that Justin was willing to put in the effort for her.Beaming with happiness, Justin smiled. “I’m willing to do anything to see you smile.”He could see that Lily was touched. That was a good sign to ask her out!Lily smiled and took out her phone to take a photo when she noticed a familiar figure walking toward her.She was elated and surprised! “Darryl!” Lily ran toward him with a cry
Justin became more agitated as he talked. He took out his phone as he snickered, “Darryl, you’re here just in time. I’ll show you what I can really do. Wait, the lanterns will show Miss Lily’s full name very soon.”He was even more pleased when he said, “They will not only show Miss Lily’s name, it will show mine too.”The nosy crowd exclaimed in surprise.‘Isn’t that a little too much? How is he able to show their names on all these lanterns? That guy’s indeed powerful!’Even Jade could not help but mutter, “Lily, Mister Quinn is such a romantic. He’s so much better than Darryl.”Jade was still baffled why Lily cared about that piece of trash so much. Justin Quinn was so much better! He was rich, and he was a romantic.Ignoring her, Lily held Darryl’s hand and said softly, “Darryl, let’s just go.”Since Justin could make the whole street light up with her name, he could make both their names appear.Lily wanted to leave as soon as she could to avoid the scene instead of stayin