*****“I still can’t believe that this dress is merely an imitation of the original. It’s so beautiful and its material… gosh… I’m so in love already.”Looking at his excited sister who wouldn’t stop expressing her incredible joy and satisfaction at her dress while walking beside him with a big smile plastered all over her face, Mark couldn’t help but feel like sobbing.‘What a poor life,’ he moaned bitterly to himself.Not even a single praise was given to him at all, and the slightest one given to him was more of a mockery to him.The reason why Mark thought this was that; he was the one who had forked out the massive amount of money that was used to purchase the dresses, but the jade beauty was the one, instead, receiving the praises for having good eyes to discern great clothes that appeared like ‘original’. Meanwhile, what should have been praise for Mark which ended up being a smack on his face was that he had obviously bought the original dresses, but his sister wouldn’t
***** As it was late evening when most of the people who had come to visit patients in the hospital were departing and those who had come with the intention to stay overnight with their ailing loved ones were arriving, the outside of the massive hospital building was filled with a crowd of people at this moment, however, the initial bursting of noise and murmurs there could no longer be found again right now, instead, the outside was now suffused in profound silence. The mouths of almost everybody were opened with disbelief for a brief period and nobody could speak. This was however until suddenly, Mark’s mother returned to her senses and then she hurriedly dragged both her son and daughter away from the front of the man who was currently kneeling in their front to the side. “Don’t let us block that person’s perspective master from seeing him,” she told her children seriously with an honest tone and voice. Mark couldn’t help but immediately smile wryly upon hearing his mother's ea
*****Although Mark’s mother had made up her before entering the taxi to tell her children the truth of their current predicament after they entered, she just had no idea about how and where to begin.Even if she knew how to begin, she didn’t know what to expect from her children.Although her expression was blank right now, her fists were tightly clenched on her lap. ‘Why?! Why was I a big failure like this?! Why have I always been a big disappointment?! Common shelter. Just a common shelter and I fail to provide it for my kids.’She felt greatly bitter and aggrieved about herself. The eyes of Mark’s mother stung and she almost teared up, but she hurriedly raised her head slightly to stop any tears from falling.Though she appeared like nothing was wrong, she was busily sobbing greatly in her mind right now, but none of her two children knew.They were each lost in their thoughts, with Dami presently thinking about how she would wear her two dresses to school and go face-smac
*****“Wow!!! This… this is so beautiful!!!”The eyes of Dami were glowing with nothing but shock and disbelief at this moment.Her face was also painted completely with excitement as she looked around the enormous and high hall that appeared like an emperor’s lounge.She wasn’t the only one amazed at this moment.Mark was the most astounded.His eyes likewise were glowing at this moment and his heart was pounding hysterically in his chest with disbelief.‘This… this hotel is really my own? I… I really own this extremely beautiful building?! Oh god!!!’Mark’s blood was pumping crazily at this moment and he almost couldn’t hide his massive excitement within himself.Mark was both shocked and excited beyond words, looking at the busy massive waiting area, whose beauty was several times beyond the entire estates he used to watch in movies and the ones that used to be described in the novels he read.“Bro… brother, are… are we really sleeping here?”Mark who was lost in his tho
*****Dami became frustrated upon hearing what her brother had responded to her with.She needs to know the truth, whether she is going to sleep in this beautiful hotel or not, so that she can continue daydreaming about the experience, or she needs to hurriedly control her excitement and only resume appreciating her beautiful dress.Dami hurriedly opens her mouth again. Before she could urge her brother for an answer, however, her mother had interrupted her.“Your brother knows what he was doing, so let’s just follow him.”“This…”Dami hesitated greatly for a moment before she eventually nodded her head with a helpless look on her face.With this, the beautiful, gentle-looking, and elegant duo of the mother and daughter, who appeared like a pair of celebrities trotted gently after Mark, their walking steps somehow matching their temperament. Before long, nonetheless, the two had been noticed by the people around them, and instantly, everybody began to point at them while mumb
*****This, everybody was silent and didn’t know what to think for a brief moment, then they gazed at Mark, refusing to believe what they had just heard from Lara.Some people immediately even began to mumble behind their breath, gossiping about whether the accusation was true or not. Hearing all of this, Mark was finally deeply infuriated. He understood that Lara was only trying to embarrass not just him, but his mother and sister as well, as she and every other friend of Rebecca had always done in the past, which Rebecca had never done even a single thing to stop.“What nonsense are you spouting from your mouth?” He finally snapped at Lara, glaring coldly and ferociously at her.Lara and everybody were startled by Mark’s sudden bark.“Did you just say that I’m spouting nonsense?” Lara questioned slowly, acting stunned.It was as though nobody had ever spoken to her in such a manner before.As for the onlookers, an excited look immediately appeared in their eyes after a fe
*****“This…” The men in the crowd became greatly embarrassed and shy upon seeing Dami’s furious look and hearing her words. They dared not look her in the eyes again and most of them became slightly nervous. Although it was already confirmed that Dami wasn’t from any wealthy background as they’d all originally assumed, her extraordinary beauty and shape were still evident to see, and this made the men not have any courage to do what she wouldn’t like. “Hehehe…” The ladies in the crowd were further infuriated. Many of them snickered and began to mock her, her mother, and her brother, claiming that her brother would have been successful with his scamming attempt if not for Lara who had foiled his plan. “Miss…” the so-called nephew of the manager abruptly smiled gently at Dami. “Nobody accused your brother of being a scammer. It is already evident that he is a scammer, trying to dupe the hotel which my uncle has been managing for years and whose rein he has promised to pa
*****‘Sir president?’ Still, in the massive reception area of the grand hotel, all mouths were wide open at present, as everybody gaped at the scene before them. They watched with deep stupefaction as the middle-aged man continued to bow to the ‘scammer’ in apology while calling him Sir Mark and Sir President over and over again, which made some of them realize that the middle-aged man had probably not mistaken Mark for someone else. Mark was dumbstruck as well, but the most thunderstruck of everybody were his mother, sister, Lara, her man, the receptionist, and all the hotel workers at the place who had also joined hands to insult Mark and his family and had supported them getting backlisted just now. “This…” Lara abruptly broke the deafening silence that had filled the place after a moment, then she hurriedly glanced at her man before looking back at the manager who remained bowed. She gazed at her man again and mumbled beneath her voice. “Is your uncle suffering from eyesight