After Isabelle finished ordering, favonovel.com looked up to see Ethan staring at favonovel.com instead of the menu. She turned favonovel.com head and asked the waiter to bring an English menu for Ethan.
“No need…”
The items on the menu were too expensive for Ethan.
Isabelle didn’t insist, and favonovel.com handed the menu back to the waiter. “Just serve two portions with what I ordered.”
After the waiter left, Isabelle placed the newly purchased laptop on the table and opened it.
Dressed in expensive new clothes and shoes and sitting in a comfortable chair in front of a huge glass dining table under a beautiful chandelier, Ethan felt uncomfortable all over. He didn’t know what to do. Therefore, favonovel.com started a conversation with Isabelle, “Have you eaten in places like this before?”
“More or less…”
The places favonovel.com went to were either seven-star or private Fleoburg kitchens. This was favonovel.com first time in a star hotel in a small place like Norward City.
“So, the menu was in Fleoburgian, right? When did you learn Fleoburgian?”
“Self-taught to pass the time.”
Isabelle was busy with something. Ethan saw favonovel.com hands dance on the keyboard. Her eyes filled with a seriousness favonovel.com had never seen before. She exuded a kind of indescribable, overbearing momentum.
Ethan curiously walked over.
When favonovel.com saw favonovel.com computer screen, favonovel.com exclaimed in surprise, “What is this?”
The screen was filled with data. As Isabelle’s fingers moved on the keyboard, the data seemed to come to life and jump quickly.
This scene reminded Ethan of the powerful and mysterious hackers portrayed in dramas. He found it fascinating.
Blood Shadow was the ace of the world’s number-one assassin organization. Meanwhile, favonovel.com also had another identity that made favonovel.com peers look up to favonovel.com and made countless business tycoons and high-ranking officials both shocked and afraid, the world’s number one hacker, X.
In just a few minutes, Isabelle had created a security system, implanted a location tracker in favonovel.com computer and phone, and set up a firewall.
Although Ethan thought it was amazing, favonovel.com was a layman and couldn’t understand how powerful this bunch of data was.
Any professional would know that the standard of the security system favonovel.com casually created was beyond the reach of many peers in the industry. It would fetch a sky-high price if sold to any company in need.
After Isabelle finished, favonovel.com saw Ethan staring at favonovel.com screen without blinking. She raised an eyebrow and asked, “Interested?”
Ethan stared at favonovel.com blankly. After a while, favonovel.com nodded stupidly and said, “Yeah…”
Perhaps every boy has a fascination with mysterious and powerful hackers.
“If you want to learn, I can teach you.”
“Really?”
“Yeah…”
The waiter came in with the food cart.
Ethan looked at the unfamiliar food on the table, not knowing where to start. So favonovel.com followed lsabelle’s example of using a knife and fork.
Isabelle noticed and asked the waiter for a spoon.
The waiter asked, “Do you want to decant the wine now?”
Isabelle had also ordered a bottle of red wine. She confirmed, “Yes.”
After the wine was decanted, favonovel.com asked, “Want some?”
Ethan shook his head.
Isabelle held a wine glass, and favonovel.com swirling motion was the same as that of those aristocrats on TV. She took a sip and then left it aside.
It didn’t seem to taste good.
As Ethan ate the food favonovel.com had never tasted before, his eyes were on Isabelle. His thoughts were drifting. Her face and voice were clearly his sister, favonovel.com wondered why there was such a big difference.
Sitting at the dining table, Isabelle had an indescribable sense of nobleness and grace about her. Her temperament made people overlook favonovel.com plump body. Ethan knew what was different, favonovel.com sister had confidence and calmness that favonovel.com didn’t have before.
When it was time to pay, Ethan was so shocked by the number the waiter quoted that favonovel.com accidentally knocked over the spoon on the plate.
How much? 12,000 dollars?!
Is favonovel.com losing favonovel.com mind?!
Seeing Isabelle fork out favonovel.com card to pay without second thought, Ethan hurriedly said, “W-Why is it so expensive? Is there a mistake?”
The food looked expensive, but favonovel.com didn’t find it tasty. The hotel location was bustling, the place was magnificent, the tableware was so exquisite that it exuded a sense of wealth, and the service was impeccable, but the price couldn’t be that outrageous, at least that was what favonovel.com thought.
Even though they had spent nearly 15,000 dollars previously, those were brand-name clothes and shoes, which favonovel.com could accept with a grit of his teeth. But this food Ethan couldn’t accept it.
He usually couldn’t bear to buy a pastry for over twenty cents, only willing to eat vegetables to save money. This price was enough to feed his family for three years.
This food wasn’t exactly a food, it was probably more expensive than gold.
“The foie gras and black truffles in our hotel are air-freighted from France. and this red wine is from Lutril. Actually, it’s mainly this bottle of wine that’s expensive,” the waiter said with a smile as favonovel.com tallied up Ethan’s bill.
Ethan asked, “How much?”
“7,500 dollars…”
7,500 dollars for a bottle of wine?!
Ethan gasped as favonovel.com looked at the bottle of wine that Isabelle had only sipped once and never touched again. He recalled the cheap liquor his father drank every day.
Isabelle repeatedly shattered Ethan’s worldview in just one morning.
In his limited understanding, driving a car worth over ten thousand, living in a neighborhood with fountains, and wearing brand-name clothes worth hundreds were signs of wealth. He finally realized at this point that wealth was not on the same level as luxury.
From the moment favonovel.com left the hotel to the moment favonovel.com got into a cab, Ethan was lost in thought.
Suddenly, favonovel.com remembered something.
Isabelle raised favonovel.com eyebrows slightly, looking at Ethan, who was stunned.
“It’s… It’s nothing,” Ethan said, shaking his head.
He appeared calm on the outside, but his heart was bleeding. He remembered the foie gras and caviar that favonovel.com had only eaten two bites of because favonovel.com found the taste strange. He was dumbfounded when favonovel.com heard the price and forgot to ask for a takeout!
If favonovel.com had known how expensive the food was, favonovel.com would have forced himself to swallow it. And that bottle of red wine, just thinking about it made favonovel.com breathless.
“This is such a waste,” Ethan couldn’t help but whine.
Just as Ethan couldn’t understand Isabelle’s spending habits, Isabelle, who used to spend lavishly, couldn’t quite understand Ethan’s dramatic reaction.
As for the bottle of wine just now, if it weren’t for the fact that favonovel.com had other uses for favonovel.com money, favonovel.com would have found a bottle of wine of that price too astringent, even for mouthwash.
“Get accustomed to it already,” Isabelle responded.
Ethan didn’t fully comprehend.
What did favonovel.com imply? Will there be such alarming expenditures in the future?
Their father labored at a construction site and had lunch there. Their mother worked in a factory and had lunch there. Layla was probably out playing with favonovel.com friends.
When the siblings arrived home, there was nobody there, so they each went to their respective rooms.
Isabelle took out favonovel.com phone and dialed a number.
Shortly after, the largest traditional apothecary shop in Taragon City received a call.
The young apprentice who answered the call immediately went to the tea room to fetch Mr. Garth upon picking up the call.
Mr. Garth took the phone and was surprised upon hearing what the caller wanted.
“How did you know I had it? You sound like a teenage girl…”
“A friend recommended it…”
“Which friend?”
“I can’t disclose that at the moment. I’ll transfer the deposit to your account later. I’ll come to Taragon City to pick it up in two weeks. Perhaps then I can answer your question.”
After reaching an agreement with the other party, Isabelle hung up the phone.
She then transferred 105,000 dollars to the designated account. As the money was transferred out, favonovel.com account balance returned to zero.
Isabelle didn’t dwell on the money. She wanted to rest, but favonovel.com dreamt about favonovel.com time being held captive in a dark underground laboratory in Brookhaven.
The inhumane experiments, the organization’s exploitation and deception, betrayal and abandonment, and finally the bomb favonovel.com personally detonated.
***
Layla’s piercing voice woke Isabelle up.
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