Previous Chapter
Related Chapters
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 356
After Tom left, Lola and Marc entered the house.Lola was giving a cold gaze at her second daughter. “What is wrong with you, Shiney? Why did you show such disrespect to an important guest?”“He may be important to you but not to me,” Shiney indifferently replied.Lola’s gaze sharpened. “Cut with his crappy attitude. Do you have any ideas of ever moving forward in your life? Or are you going to stay as a loser for your whole life?”“Loser? How am I a loser?” Shiney asked back. “Oh, right. I’m not earning money by using my brain to cheat and manipulate others like you do, right?”“Nonsense. I don’t cheat others,” Lola quickly said.“Yeah? But you do lie a lot, don’t you?” Shiney retorted. “When you lend money to others, you give them for high interests, but when you take money from others, you take at low interest rates, saying that you are suffering a lot of losses and that you can’t pay them for higher interest rates.”“That’s a business tactic,” Lola patiently explained. “There are
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 357
Many years ago.There was a time when Lola, Marcus, and their families lived under the same roof.Jim was about eight years old back then, with Rena being seven and Shiney being six. They would go to the same school, and every morning, Shiney caused a scene because she would always not find her socks.Lola would yell at her and sometimes even discipline her with a slap or two, but Shiney would rarely succeed in finding both the socks every morning. Because of her, the school bus had to wait for a long time at their house, which caused Lola to get all the angrier.However, one morning, Shiney asked her mother for the missing sock again. Lola started scolding again, but then Jim looked for the missing sock, found it, and brought it to her.Lola loved what Jim did, and to thank him, she kissed him on the cheek and said, “Her name may be Shiney, but you’re the one who shines the most in this house, Jim.”Shiney wanted to do more than her mother, so she gave Jim two kisses and said, “Who s
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 358
Jim came home to find out in which hospital Rena was admitted in, but he wasn’t expecting her to be in the house, looking completely fine.But what shocked him even more was the conversation that Shiney and others had in the hall.Jim would be lying if he said he didn’t see this day coming.He definitely was better friends with Shiney than Rena, but Shiney never explicitly expressed her love to him, even when she knew that his dad was setting up dates for him. He had so much respect for her to not take her feelings for granted, so he never assumed that she might be deeply in love with him. Maybe, his subconscious mind might have felt that way, but he didn’t have any sort of a romantic conversation or incident with Shiney after their teenage years.Distance grew between them because Shiney got busy with her studies, and he was also focusing more on the restaurant.And when Lola talked about setting his marriage up with Rena, he did not hear anything from Shiney. Not a word. So, he was
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 359
Neither Lola nor Rena could answer Jim’s question.Marc didn’t like what he was seeing at all.“Why the hell are you two not asking him where the hell he was all this time?!” Marc came forward and caught Jim’s shirt. “Where did you go for two weeks? Where’s the car? Did you sell it somewhere?”Jim kept staring at Marc. “Did you know it as well? About Shiney…”“Why is that important?” Marc pulled Jim closer. “Do you know how much we’ve suffered because of you? Rena has been hospitalized for over a week, and we’ve looked everywhere for you like fools.”Jim’s expression changed. “I was kept in a prison. I somehow managed to escape.”His words shocked Rena. “P-Prison?”“Prison? What bullshit are you talking about?” Marc yelled. In his eyes, Jim did not look like he suffered in prison for two weeks.“Dad!” Rena tried to pull Marc’s hand away. “Didn’t I tell you that Jim and I were attacked? Why are you talking as if he’s the criminal?”Marc reluctantly let go of Jim’s shirt. “Why did you c
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 360
“Don’t you get it, Rena? Everything he said is a lie,” Marc shouted. “He sold the lamborghini somewhere, spent all the money in two weeks, and then returned empty-handed to fool us with some cock-and-bull story.”“Even though he’s left, I think he might return,” Lola stated. “We should tell the police so they can help us get him to the mental hospital.” She looked at Rena. “I mean, we’ll get him treated there.”“Mom, he’s not crazy!” Rena growled back. “The words he said and those eyes were not of a crazy man! Just what are you keeping hidden from me? What is this about the black magician?”“I really don’t know what he was talking about, Rena,” Lola said. “Please trust me. Besides, do you really believe in magicians? You are highly educated unlike Jim! Don’t be fooled by his trickery!”Rena frowned. She still clearly remembered Stanley getting shot by bullets, and those bullets couldn’t hurt him at all. Then again, he must be wearing some kind of vest? She didn’t know if vests could c
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 361
The big difference between Marcus and Lola’s way of earning was that Marcus had to pay taxes, whereas Lola didn’t need to.She did offline transactions most of the time, and she would even lend money to some income tax officers, so nobody would ever question her if she was paying the taxes or not.Growing up, Jim had seen Lola and Marcus argue about it.“You pay taxes, but if you don’t, then the government will threaten to ruin your life,” Lola told him. “Why should I pay them 20 to 40 percent of my earnings under duress and threat to the biggest criminals out there?”“But aren’t you trying to increase your wealth so you can become just like those people?” Marcus asked her. “Aren’t you contradicting yourself?”“Well, we don’t live in the land of the free. We are only told and made to think that way,” Lola said. “That’s why I’ll get to the top so that I can use this system for my own benefit. Don’t worry, Brother. Even if I get stupidly rich, I’ll still be your sister, and I’ll give on
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 362
At the destroyed Beast Dungeon.The top layer was sealed up by an illusive barrier that would confuse the common people into thinking that this was a normal place.There was not a single worker in sight, and the place looked pretty much desolate.Tenzin was checking the battleground and was trying to understand what might have happened. And it wasn’t proving easy because there was too much destruction to piece things together properly.She could hear the whispers of the demons that were hovering about, and she asked them to give her explanation, but they weren’t talking with her. When she raised her voice, they went into the ground or hid under the rubble.Tenzin then looked around. “It’s a mess in here. I can tell that some of the Masters fought here from the footprints and marks their attacks left on the floor and the walls…” Tenzin uttered, “but what the hell is this strange pattern that’s filling the whole dungeon?” She could see a vague pattern on the walls of the dungeon on all
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 363
The next day.Shiney was having brunch outside at an open restaurant. She saw the magazines on the small shelf outside, and one of the business magazines had the picture of her mother on the front page.“The prodigious financier?” Shiney raised her eyebrows. “Yeah, she’s talented when it comes to profiting off the money that others earn with her sweat and blood. All in the name of interest. And she wants me to learn her business craft. I would never do it because I’m not like her. I don’t want to live by leaching other people through interest.”Just then, someone came out of nowhere and sat on the other side of the table.Shiney’s expression briefly froze because it was Jim.“Red beans and rice?” Jim looked at her plate. “You like beef, don’t you? Want me to order that?”Shiney frowned. “What are you doing here? Did they send you to bring me back home?”“No, they can’t do that.”“Mm?”“Because I left their home, too,” Jim said, startling her.“W-What?” Shiney was pleasantly surprised.