Substitute Bride For Young Master
Chapter 118: Allies

At a cafe located in a corner of the city, Amanda Shu stirred the drink in her glass nervously. He was wearing a plain white V-neck shirt and a blue dongker jeans. There was no more elegant and luxurious impression left from his appearance. After Jericho languished in prison, all shares of The Mag’s Company slumped sharply, arguably not even have enough value anymore. All of his father's hard work was destroyed in just one day.

Then Alex shows up and clears it all away, leaving nothing left. Now, even just to buy a glass of hot capuccino he had to think about it repeatedly. If it wasn't for Jessica herself contacting him, he wouldn't want to appear in a public place like this, let alone have to spend the rest of his savings to buy a drink and wait for the woman here.

Amanda looked at her phone restlessly. It was already half an hour from the agreed upon time by the two of them, but Jessica had yet to come.

“Why was he so long?” amanda grumbled as she turned to her right and left, hoping to find Jessica's silhouette among the passersby. But in fact, the figure he was waiting for was still not visible.

Don't ask how he knew that woman. He had seen a photo of Jessica once while visiting the Smith family residence. At that time Lady Beatrice showed Alex's old photo album, where she saw a photo of Alex with Jessica from childhood until they grew up. Therefore Amanda immediately recognized the woman when passing by in Alex's office a few days ago. Fortunately, he decided to wait until Jessica and Alex separated at the teahouse, then approached the woman and introduced himself. Luckily, Jessica welcomed him with open arms, despite a scornful and slightly condescending look. No problem, he had already started to get used to such gazes ever since real life was shattered.

In the past, when he was still trying to get close to Alex, the man always brought up about Jessica, that she was very incomparable to her former graceful and charming lover. But look now, who did that man marry? Just a lowly servant! He was wrong to have left Alex when he was paralyzed, but wasn't that natural? Everyone deserves to find their happiness, right? The man should have felt quite grateful that he was willing to go back to her, instead of having the bodyguard drag her out of the office like a thief.

“Sorry to keep you waiting,” Jessica said as she sat in front of Amanda, “There are things I need to finish before coming here.”

Amanda almost jumped when she heard a melodious voice before her. He looked up and realized who had just spoken to him.

Automatically, Amanda gave her best smile and said, “It's okay, I'm having some free time.”

Yep. His time is so free that he does not know what to do. All his acquaintances and social friends suddenly disappeared when they found out that he and his family were bankrupt. No one was willing to help, they were too afraid of Alex. When Amanda mentioned the name of her former fiance only, the people around her immediately stepped aside and did not want to interfere.

Jessica smiled back at Amanda. The woman in front of him actually looked very pitiful. His white face began to look dull and unkempt. All clothes and branded objects seemed to evaporate in the air, replaced by clothes and bags that seemed to be second-hand items. Oh, of course he knows all those changes because he always watches over whoever manages to get close to Alex as long as he "disappears".

If it wasn't for Billy threatening to take it all apart, I would be the one now by Alex's side, Jessica grumbled inwardly. Now, since he can't have the man, then don't expect other women to have him!

“How's your life?” ask Jessica after ordering a glass of strawberry smoothie.

“As you can see,” Amanda replied with a wry smile. From his attitude and gestures, he can guess that Jessica is not as perfect as told by Alex. If not for wanting revenge, he would not have been in a room with this girl in front of him.

“Alex destroyed everything?” Jessica deliberately slipped a little irony in her question, looking as if she was sympathetic, but in fact just wanted to mock very subtly.

Amanda held all her frustration in her heart and replied, “More or less like that. So, what do you want to talk about?”

“Ah, regarding it .. I have a very good offer for you. I will prepare everything, you just need to arrange for everything to go according to plan,” Jessica said as she sipped her drink that had just arrived.

“Dan, what's the advantage for me?” ask Amanda to the point. He is not an employee of the Social Service who does things for free and gets nothing in return. Especially at this time, even a dollar means a lot to him.

One of Jessica's eyebrows shot high as a sly smile appeared on her face. He opened his latest Channel bag and took a check from inside. He put the empty paper down and pushed it very slowly towards Amanda.

“Fill with whatever number you like,” Jessica said then rested like a noble princess.

Amanda's eyes widened until almost melomat out of the sockets that have begun to sunken due to lack of sleep and rest. He looked at Jessica and the check sheet in front of him alternately. After believing the woman in front of him wasn't joking, Amanda took the treasure and kept it in her little bag.

“What should I do?” tanyakanya.

“Good,” says Amanda. His eyes shone brightly when he imagined the nominal he would write on the paper in his bag.

“Wait. How do I know you won't betray me or aren't setting me up?” he asked when he suddenly realized that the woman before him was as cunning as he was.

“Oh, Honey .. We both want the destruction of that arrogant guy, don't we? Is that not strong enough to be the reason that I am not lying to you?” reply Jessica. He opened his bag and picked up a thick brown envelope. “It. Use to buy your needs temporarily.”

Amanda stupefiedly stared at the envelope she was shoved in. He could guess the contents, definitely not less than a thousand dollars. The woman gulped and looked at Jessica with an incredulous look.

Didn't they love each other? How did it end like this?

“Don't think too much, Honey. Just take the money and buy whatever you need right now. Remember, you will get more when you successfully run the task I give you later.”

“Good,” Amanda said as she clasped the brown envelope in her hand tightly.

“I'll call you later. Make sure your phone stays active,” Jessica's message before getting up and walking away, leaving her half a glass of the remaining drink.

Amanda opened the end of the envelope and peered at the contents curiously. His eyes sparkled at the many sheets of money in there. If all these plans go well. Could he have gotten his old life back? Glamour and moderation.

Whatever Jessica's motivation is to do all this, she doesn't care. As long as he got the appropriate reward, he would do anything, without exception. Especially if what he did later managed to destroy Alex, isn't that a fortune? He was paid to do something that could avenge him. Really very good.

Very good ....

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“How is it?” ask Ana's doctor to James, who is monitoring the screen with a serious face.

“Everything is normal. It seems like the man didn't realize that we just stuck something on the chip in his head,” replied Doctor James as he typed some strings of numbers and letters on the keypad.

A string of numbers immediately appeared on the screen, continuing to move until finally the right number combination stopped in the middle of the screen. Doctor James pressed the numbers on a small monitor that activated his virus.

“Mari hopes that this experiment will be successful,” said Ana's doctor while rubbing her tired-looking face. After an operation to attach the virtual virus to a chip attached to Billy's head, he immediately asked Alex's bodyguards to drive the man back to his home before he woke up.

“Yes. Let's hope for the best, ” said doctor James after seeing the virus start active and attack the firewall in the chip. It will take a while, but hopefully the end result will be what they expect.

If it works like it should, then the memory scanned from Billy's head can be controlled from here. What information should not come out, will not be able to be intercepted from his memory.

Hopefully the other party does not rush to realize it, hope doctor Ana in heart.

He can't imagine Billy getting caught and the criminals know they're trying to outsmart the system. Billy's life is really at stake in this, so he asks Doctor James to design the virus as naturally as possible, eating away at the system in chips so slowly that when the criminals realize it, they will, it was too late for them to move.

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