ANDREAS : THE HIDDEN MILLIONAIRE’S SON-IN-LAW

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Tonight in the city of Las Vegas, the cold begins to creep into the bone marrow. Winter was starting to arrive and now the snow was falling all over the city.

A husband and wife stood stupidly in a magnificent house, in their hands holding a box clutched tightly.

“You know, Cindy. I really don’t think your parents will let us in. Do you remember the last time we visited this house? They even threw away our sandals like trash.” The dark-eyed man spoke to his wife, Cindy Bowie, whose name had now changed to Cindy Lewis after the man’s last name.

“Come on, Andreas, I beg you. Dad is sick now, if we don’t come to visit, I’m sure my family will hate us even more, I don’t want my parents to hate us, that’s not a good thing.”

Andreas chuckled, not knowing since when or even how long. The fact that both of them have always been hated by the Bowie family was a very real thing.

Cindy stepped in, a car was parked there. It was a sign that all of the Bowie family and a doctor were coming to check on Cindy’s father.

Cindy and Andreas entered, they went straight to the main room, and there everyone gathered with worried expressions on their faces. However, their facial expressions changed when they saw the ‘uninvited guest’.

“Why are you here, Cindy? Moreover, why did you bring that trash human?” said the young man named Mondy, Cindy’s brother.

“I heard that Dad was sick, so I invited Andreas to come to visit. We are very worried about Dad.”

“In fact, your worries only increase my illness.” Cindy’s father, Toni, answered very curtly. “Didn’t I tell you, Cindy. You are not my child, you are just my useless foster child. I’ve tried to raise your status by matching you with rich people, but what did you do? You chose a useless scavenger. So now get out of my house, because I don’t want the smell of garbage to fill my house, especially my room!”

Andreas held his breath perfectly, being insulted like this was a very common thing. Like a daily meal that he will always taste every day.

“Are you both deaf? Didn’t you hear what Dad said? Get out of this house right now, because you are not considered family in this house!” Mondy snapped.

“Cindy, I will take you back if you accept the proposal of the man I have arranged for you, and divorce that trash collector.”

“No, Dad. I will never divorce from Andreas. I love Andreas very much.”

“If that’s what you want then go. I will never consider myself a member of this family, you are just an adopted child that I adopted in an orphanage because I never had children before. Do you understand now?”

Cindy was about to answer, but Andreas immediately grabbed his wife’s arm gently. Continuing to argue and say unnecessary things was not Andreas’ habit.

“Let’s just go home, it’s useless for us to be here. Didn’t I warn you earlier? Your sincere good intentions are never considered by those who only judge people based on the amount of wealth.”

“If you already know, then why did you still dare to marry the daughter of the Bowie family? You’re just a scavenger, who dares to marry the daughter of the most successful businessman in the country. You really have no self-conscious!” Mondy screamed.

Toni raised his hand, gesturing that Mondy should no longer scream in front of him. Toni’s head hurt even more because of this.

“Okay, that’s it. If Cindy and her useless scavenger husband really want to be welcomed into this family’s house, then I will give permission on one condition.”

“What’s the condition, Dad?” Cindy asked with truly extraordinary hope.

“Come with a rare painting from China, you certainly know the painting I mean, right? Real paintings, not fake ones and make sure you bring them to the dinner your mother is throwing sometime this weekend.”

Cindy was silent, Andreas was silent. It was the most unreasonable request in the world. Even buying two slices of bread for breakfast was difficult, let alone buying a rare painting that costs around ten million dollars. Of course that was impossible.

“Dad, what do you want from this poor, ignorant couple? They can’t afford a piece of bread for them to eat, let alone buying a painting that costs tens of millions of dollars. It seems only a miracle of the world would allow them to afford it, or if one of them would sell themselves.”

Suddenly those words made everyone there laugh out loud, thinking that Cindy and Andreas were really fun jokes.

Andreas’ jaw tightened, his hands clenched into tight fists. He really couldn’t stand the words of everyone who insulted him now.

“Okay,” said Andreas, who succeeded in making everyone there silent. “Okay, I will bring the painting that Mr. Bowie wants at the family dinner later.”

After saying that, Andreas immediately forced Cindy to rush out of the Bowie family’s house. The feeling of annoyance still enveloped Andreas’ heart so clearly.

“Andreas, let me go! What are you doing, Andreas? Why did you tell my family that we can afford to get that expensive painting as a gift? Don’t you know how much that painting is worth?”

“And don’t you think what our pride is worth?” said Andreas.

Cindy was silent, she rubbed her face roughly. “Andreas, we don’t have anything, we can’t even eat.”

“However, being insulted all the time isn’t a good thing, Cindy. Is it because we are poor that we will continue to be insulted?”

“So, what can we do to protect our self-esteem? There aren’t any, right?”

“I’m sure there must be a way!”

Andreas grabbed Cindy’s hand again. Andreas’ steps were so fast that Cindy was overwhelmed, Cindy’s hand slipped from Andreas’ grasp, right on the edge of the road Andreas continued to walk quickly and didn’t pay attention to the traffic, until finally a car passed quickly, Andreas turned his head and … his body bounced perfectly on the paved road. Before Andreas fainted, he saw a white light covering his body.

[Andreas Lewis : Congratulations on getting a balance of one thousand billion dollars. Balance can be used starting at 00.00, with 0% skill percentage rate, you should immediately increase your ability in business!]