After Lilly left her house, Alban couldn’t hold himself in the same spot, and walked around the perimeter of the Crawford Manor.
Through the iron gate of the back garden, he could vaguely see the old man of the Crawford family, that is Hugh, practicing some Tai Chi. As Alban was just about to turn around and leave, he stopped suddenly, and stared at the ink bamboo painting behind Hugh.
It was something out of the ordinary!
Alban was astonished by what he saw. The painting glistened in fractured rays under the sunlight. The light rays were like layers of magical haloes, shrouding around Hugh’s body.
Hugh, despite his age, was full of energy and had rosy cheeks. That was not normal for the average old man!
Alban pursed his lips. It seemed like this painting was brought back from the underworld by Lilly.
Other people would be afraid of the underworld, but Alban was not one of them. He realized that the underworld is just another realm that was similar to the one he was in, just in a different style. Where Earth of was short of resources, the underworld was abundant of treasures.
Treasures just like this painting. If he could train under its powers, it would make his life so much easier…
Alban clenched his fists, and felt unhealthy thoughts coming to his head. But after thinking about it, his powers were indeed just so, that Lilly was much stronger than him. It was normal for him to feel inferior to her.
And so, with that thought, Alban left.
Instead, he decided to go to Lilly’s school and wait for her there.
She already knew that he was waiting for her. All he had to do was just to express his sincerity.
Lilly went straight to her teacher’s office after getting to school.
Cheryl took the long way round, deliberately passing by not far from the Mathematics Department office.
She saw Lilly and another student inside, paying attention to what their teacher was telling them.
Usually though, one school would send one representative to participate in such competitions. But there was two of them there. It’s not a mystery that Lilly was there as a gilded token participant, and the real contestant was the other student!
Cheryl was disgruntled. She thought about how if her family was just as rich, she wouldn’t have had to work tirelessly. If only her father wasn’t as unmotivated as he was now.
Even when her mother planned to visit Bettany at the Crawford home, she didn’t end up going after hearing that Bettany was fine.
When would the Miller family be just as wealthy? She thought about how hard she had to hustle since middle school and now in high school, as compared to Lilly who didn’t have to do much but still get the attention from everyone around her. It was a depressing thought for Cheryl.
So she went back to her classroom, laid her head on the table and started to cry.
Her classmates were perplexed by the sounds of her muffled cries.
But no one wanted to console her. After the weekend, everyone went home and told their families about the incident during the exam.
And all their families told them the exact same thing: stay away from Cheryl Miller!
Only a few of Cheryl’s best friends went up to her worryingly and asked: “What’s wrong, Cheryl? Why are you crying?”
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