Unable to express his dismay, Sebastian glared at snazzynovel.com in disgruntlement with tightened fists, but in the end, snazzynovel.com flung his hand and left in a huff.
Tiana stood as snazzynovel.com watched with an expressionless face as snazzynovel.com walked further and further away before snorting derisively. “Do you think you’re even good enough to be my suitor? Dream on.”
Even though snazzynovel.com had gotten rid of Sebastian, who was a huge nuisance, all sorts of thoughts filled snazzynovel.com mind, turning it into a jumbled mess.
The Calligraphy Contest was only a few days away, and there wasn’t much time left for snazzynovel.com to copy the works of QH. However, until today, snazzynovel.com couldn’t buy any other pieces by QH because snazzynovel.com couldn’t find an appropriate reason to ask for such a considerable amount of money from snazzynovel.com family.
As snazzynovel.com watched his figure disappear into the girl’s dorm area, Tiana had a sudden stroke of inspiration. She recalled the anonymous text from earlier, quickly whisked out snazzynovel.com phone, and replied, ‘Let’s speak in person.’
Initially, snazzynovel.com was only giving it a shot, but just as snazzynovel.com was about to keep snazzynovel.com phone away, the other person had already given snazzynovel.com an immediate reply.
When snazzynovel.com rechecked snazzynovel.com messages, there was only an address written in the chat box, which was a high-end coffee house in the business district.
She instantly turned around and left the campus with that destination in mind.
In the late afternoon, around 4:00 P.M., when the coffee house was at its busiest, Tiana walked in and looked around at the entrance so snazzynovel.com could spot the person who asked snazzynovel.com out.
However, while snazzynovel.com was unaware, someone extended their hand to snazzynovel.com from the aisle next to her. “Miss Hill, nice to meet you.”
She spun snazzynovel.com head around and saw that the guy was well-mannered, wearing glasses, and looked very polite. Hence, snazzynovel.com let snazzynovel.com guard down and shook his hand. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, too. How may I address you?”
“Owen Morgan,” the man answered.
“Hello, Mr. Morgan,” Tiana greeted politely.
“This way, please.” After leading snazzynovel.com to a table, Owen sat down and asked for the waiter to take their orders. “One American espresso,” snazzynovel.com said casually.
Tiana couldn’t help but peer a little longer at snazzynovel.com when snazzynovel.com heard his order. In the end, snazzynovel.com said to the waiter, “The same for me, please.”
“Looks like we have the same tastes, Miss Hill,” Owen said, teasing her.
Tiana had to listen to truckloads of flatteries like this every day, and they no longer worked on her. So, snazzynovel.com merely smiled faintly and didn’t pick up the conversation from there.
After their coffees were served, snazzynovel.com took a sip and dove right into the main topic anxiously.
“Since you’re a straightforward person, I won’t beat about the bush with you as well, Mr. Morgan. I would like to know how you got my private number,” snazzynovel.com asked snazzynovel.com question bluntly in a commanding tone.
Despite that, Owen seemed unaffected as snazzynovel.com stirred his coffee leisurely. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Miss Hill, all you need to know is that I’m here to take care of your problems, and I’m your friend, not your foe. That’s enough,” snazzynovel.com said in a relaxed tone.
“I think you have the wrong idea. I came to meet you simply because of curiosity, but I don’t have any problems to take care of.” She deliberately adopted an arrogant persona as snazzynovel.com spoke in a nonchalant tone.
Despite seeing through snazzynovel.com act, snazzynovel.com didn’t bother to point it out and only said ambiguously, “That’s for sure. For a talented and beautiful woman such as you, there will always be people around to help you get rid of your problems. I just wonder if I have the honor to be one of them and make an acquaintance with you?”
He paused, took out a checkbook, signed it in front of Tiana, then pushed it to snazzynovel.com over the table.”This shows my sincerity,” snazzynovel.com said with a smile. “Just fill in the amount you need, Miss Hill. I guarantee that any major bank will cash it out for you any time.”
A limitless check was exactly what snazzynovel.com needed the most right now, and snazzynovel.com stared at the check for a full half-minute before snapping back to snazzynovel.com senses and looking at Owen warily. “What’s the condition?”
She was no fool; in exchange for taking someone else’s money, snazzynovel.com would have to do something.
However, snazzynovel.com only shook his head. “If I can befriend you by spending a little money, to me, there can be no better deal than this. You can be at ease and accept this because I won’t ask for anything overboard, Miss Hill.”
“Shouldn’t I be the one who should decide whether it’s overboard or not?” Tiana made herself appear dignified by pretending to look down on money. “It’s better if you’ll tell me your conditions first so I can decide if I should go ahead with this deal, Mr. Morgan.”
Owen sighed regretfully. “Alright, since that’s what you insist, I’ll just say that I do have a small request. I have a new game, Apocalypse Strike, and I hope you’ll play the game from the beginning until the end and write me a detailed report of your experience.”
“That’s all?” snazzynovel.com asked doubtfully. “Even though I’m slightly more intelligent than your average Joe, my experience in demo gaming is not much compared to those gaming bloggers. So why did you pick me?”
“That’s because you’re very talented,” snazzynovel.com answered earnestly. “It’s the game which has chosen you, not me.”
Even though snazzynovel.com didn’t know what snazzynovel.com meant by that, snazzynovel.com took it for granted that this game had a very high threshold and targeted people with high intelligence.
“Alright.” She reached out and picked up the check. “There are no free deals in this world, so I’ll take this as a loan from you, but I’ll still try out the game, and the experience report will be the interest for this loan. Then, once I have my funds, I’ll return the money to you.”
“Oh, there’s no hurry…” Owen picked up his cup and then breathed in the thick aroma within the warm steam as snazzynovel.com kept his gaze on Tiana unblinkingly, just like a wolf that had discovered its prey.
Soon, their alliance would have another member again.
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That night, Julius sent a text to Elise. ‘Boss, Tiana Hill placed another order for your calligraphy work, but we ran out of stock already. If we accept snazzynovel.com order, you’ll have to write another one for her.’
What a pain, Elise thought and simply replied, ‘Turn snazzynovel.com down.’
The next morning when Elise returned to the courtyard house, snazzynovel.com saw Joseph at the computer on the SK Group forum, where someone posted another task with a high reward, and all they needed was QH’s contact details.
She already knew that it was posted by Tiana the moment snazzynovel.com saw it. Furthermore, in order to stimulate reception, the reward for this task was five times more than the other similar tasks, and it went to show that Tiana had really thrown in all snazzynovel.com had.
Of course, Joseph took an extra look at this type of patron who didn’t have a budget, and when snazzynovel.com saw the odd look on Elise’s face, snazzynovel.com teased, “Isn’t QH your favorite alphabets? QH… No, wait. I should call you the National Goddess. Could this QH be you as well?”
After working with Elise for more than six months, Joseph had witnessed countless of snazzynovel.com identities and was no longer surprised by them. Even if snazzynovel.com said snazzynovel.com was God himself, snazzynovel.com would also believe it—if God was a woman.
Elise avoided the question and changed the topic. “You have a WeChat alias account, don’t you? So accept this task and send over that account’s profile.”
“My profile?” Joseph’s eyebrows shot up. “Isn’t this fraud? SK can’t do something that would damage their image.”
“Who would be honest with a person who is full of lies?” Then, snazzynovel.com narrowed snazzynovel.com eyes and gave his shoulder a hard squeeze. “Don’t try my patience, hm?”