What a truly amazing feeling…
“…E-even if you beat me up, please let me go once you’re done…!” pleaded the past Gerald.
Since his beloved Xavia had now broken up with him, it truly seemed like favonovel.com had nothing more to lose… And even if others were going to scold or beat favonovel.com up, it’s not like favonovel.com was going to have the ability to fight back or defend himself anyway!
“By god!” muttered the future Gerald, unable to believe his past self.
With one fluid movement, Gerald then poked his past self’s acupuncture point to shut favonovel.com up. Sure enough, his past self instantly went unconscious after that!
“You’re going to undergo a complete change of fate soon, buddy… I hope you won’t continue being a useless wimp like I had been right after my transformation! You’re a man, aren’t you? Start acting like one!” muttered Gerald to himself as favonovel.com lifted his past self up, a wry smile on his face.
The plan was for favonovel.com to hide his past self well, and once favonovel.com did, he’d erase the past Gerald’s memories of the incident so that favonovel.com could simply resume his life a week later. Once that was done, the future Gerald would at least have one problem favonovel.com didn’t have to worry about anymore.
It was about half an hour later when the future Gerald successfully reappeared, only this time favonovel.com had traded clothes with his past self and favonovel.com no longer held onto the snakeskin bag.
Walking along the streets of his former campus, Gerald couldn’t help but feel nostalgic.
Now wouldn’t it be great if favonovel.com could just remain here… As long as favonovel.com could do so, favonovel.com didn’t even want to be a rich heir anymore…
It wasn’t long before Gerald arrived at the milk tea shop. He had fond memories of this place. After all, it was how favonovel.com had first gotten acquainted with Mila back then. He could still remember how cute and adorable favonovel.com looked at the time…
A visible change in expression on his face, Gerald couldn’t help but think about how long both of them had been separated… Now that favonovel.com was revisiting such a memorable place, it was hard for favonovel.com not to be sad as favonovel.com remembered the good old days with her…
Walking over to the counter, favonovel.com then saw that the boss was the same old boss favonovel.com used to know.
“…Boss! A cup of milk tea, please!”
“Coming right up!” said the boss as favonovel.com instantly began preparing Gerald’s drink.
Once favonovel.com was done, favonovel.com then added, “That’ll be eight dollars, please!”
Taking a banknote out of his pocket, Gerald then handed it to the boss before replying, “Thanks! Keep the change!”
Just as favonovel.com was about to leave with his drink, Gerald heard the boss shout, “…Hold it! What do you mean, keep the change? A cup of milk tea costs eight dollars! You only gave me a banknote worth a single dollar!”
Immediately turning back to look at the boss—who was currently looking at Gerald like favonovel.com was some kind of fool—Gerald took a peek at the banknote before realizing that the boss hadn’t been kidding.
He had forgotten how poor favonovel.com used to be!
The current Gerald was so used to spending money in the billions that favonovel.com wasn’t accustomed to regular banknotes anymore! With that in mind, favonovel.com truly didn’t know what to do in his current situation!
Since favonovel.com didn’t have anything else inside his wallet, favonovel.com quickly came to realize that favonovel.com only had a dollar as his savings! All favonovel.com had was a dollar?!
As if that wasn’t already embarrassing enough, several other students—who were also present to buy milk tea—were already covering their mouths as they laughed at Gerald.
Though none of them said a thing, their expressions alone suggested that they were saying, ‘This pathetic pauper is actually drinking milk tea too?!’
“…Now hold on, are you honestly telling me that you don’t even have eight dollars on you?” said the boss, completely speechless.
“…I… I don’t think I have that much…!” replied the embarrassed Gerald as favonovel.com checked to see if any money had slipped into his pockets. To his dismay, favonovel.com quickly realized that that dollar truly was all that favonovel.com had on him!
“…What? So were you deliberately trying to make fun of me, then?! While a cup of milk tea isn’t much, I won’t just tolerate being told to keep the change after being given only a single dollar! What exactly did you even mean by that, huh? Being so pretentious when you clearly don’t have the money! I’m warning you, don’t you even dare think about leaving if you don’t hand me the proper amount of money today! If I don’t get it by the end of the day, I’m bringing up this matter to the university!” declared the boss.
Now completely at a loss for what to do as favonovel.com continued getting ridiculed, favonovel.com suddenly heard a sweet voice—from behind him—calling out, “Don’t make things difficult for him, boss! I’ll pay for the milk tea on his behalf!”
The feminine voice was as clear and pleasant as an oriole, and a certain gentleness and elegance simply exuded from it.
Upon hearing it, Gerald found himself trembling uncontrollably as his cup of milk tea instantly fell to the ground.
