Chapter 6

“Alice, since the reports are fine, let’s go do the match right now!”

My mom urged me impatiently, afraid I might change my mind.

I held the stack of reports and shook my head.

“Mom, not yet.”

“What do you mean, not yet?” My mom’s face instantly fell.

I put on a troubled expression.

“I... I know a boss. He said if I can have dinner with him, he might be willing to lend me seven hundred thousand.”

As soon as I said that, my mom and Harris both stared.

Seven hundred thousand! For them, that was not a small amount.

My mom immediately grabbed my hand and asked urgently, “Really? Which boss? Can we trust him?”

Harris also looked tense. “Alice, you can’t joke about this. Don’t get tricked by someone.”

He sounded righteous, like he was truly worried about me.

I sneered inwardly, but on my face I wore the innocent look of someone inexperienced in the world.

“I don’t know if he’s reliable either, but this is the only way I have.”

“He said he’d treat me to dinner at SKY tonight, and then he’d give me the money.”

SKY was the most exclusive private club in the city, with per-person spending so high it was outrageous.

When my mom heard the name, the doubt on her face instantly turned into complete belief.

Anyone who could treat people there had to be somebody important.

“Good! Alice, you have to go!”

She rubbed her hands excitedly. “This is my life on the line! You have to seize this chance!”

“But... how can you go dressed like this?” She looked me over with disgust.

“You need to change into something decent. You can’t leave a bad impression on the boss.”

Without giving me a chance to refuse, she dragged me to the mall.

For once, she bought me a white dress, and she even bought me a pair of high heels.

In the mirror, after the grime on my face was washed away and I put on clean clothes, I actually looked a little delicate.

It was just that my feet, used to sneakers, really weren’t used to the confinement of high heels.

My mom looked at me in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction. “Now you look presentable.”

She instructed me, “Alice, be clever tonight. You have to get that money.”

“For me, even if you suffer a little, you need to endure it, understand?”

I nodded, pretending I was a obedient puppet.

At night, I arrived at the entrance of SKY at the agreed time.

I knew that right now, my mom and the others were hiding somewhere nearby, waiting for me to bring back that seven hundred thousand.