Jacob rubbed his forehead with one hand and quickly took back his phone to change the subject: “Lara, you haven’t finished work yet, right?”
“Yeah, I’m still on my way to an interview. I probably won’t be back until very late today,” Lara replied.
“If it’s too late and you can’t return to the dorm, just come stay at my place. If you need me to pick you up, just call,” Jacob kindly reminded her.
“Okay, I got it.”
“Auntie, I’m waiting for you at home!”
At this moment, Macy chimed in.
“Macy, be a good girl and listen to your dad. Remember to review the English your auntie taught you; she will be testing you.”
“Oh, goodbye, Auntie.”
Macy quickly tapped the red button on the phone screen.
After the voice call ended, Macy let out a sigh of relief.
Jacob rolled his eyes. They say daughters resemble their fathers more, and while that might be debatable, Macy has certainly inherited his strong genes when it comes to studying.
Jacob was quick-witted as a child, but he would get sleepy as soon as he opened a book. During his school years, he hardly focused on studying and was always in the middle to lower tier of his class. It wasn’t until his senior year of high school that his mother forced him to study, and his grades finally improved, allowing him to get into a second-tier university.
Jacob felt that his precious daughter would likely have little affinity for studying as well. However, unlike him, this little girl was lucky; in her fifth year, her father activated a system, and her life was destined to be filled with endless wealth and luxury.
At the same time.
In a rental apartment in Kingston Community.
Josie was excitedly taking photos wearing the LV bracelet that Jacob had given her, capturing it from different angles.
“Layla, let’s take a selfie together, like best friends do!”
At this moment, Layla was also wearing the bracelet. She had taken a few pictures herself, contemplating whether to post something on her Status.
This was her first time owning such an expensive piece of jewelry, especially from a luxury brand like LV. What she didn’t realize was that her vanity was rapidly growing.
In the past, Layla had been indifferent to luxury goods; she wasn’t interested, and she always felt that such things were far removed from her life.
But now, things were different. She had a Prada handbag and an LV bracelet. When you haven’t owned such things, you don’t think much about what it means to have them. But once you truly possess them, an inexplicable sense of superiority begins to grow within you, altering your consumer perspective and worldview.
Thus, one of the ways to ruin a person is to expose them to a world they never dared to imagine and, after a while, bring them back to their original state.
A typical example is the children from the mountains in “Metamorphosis.” While it is a good thing for them to leave the mountains and see the world, if they become accustomed to the affluent life in the city and then are sent back to the mountains, the disparity and shock are unimaginable. Many children’s worldviews collapse completely, and their personalities change drastically, turning from obedient and sensible kids into willful and reckless ones.
Currently, Layla was still unaware that her mindset had already changed.
At Josie’s suggestion, the two took a few more selfies, of course, with the focus not on them but on the bracelets on their wrists.
After taking the photos, Josie edited them with beautification effects and then directly posted a nine-grid collage on her Snapchat, accompanied by a line of text: “Best friend style, thank you, Mr. Jacob!”
The text was followed by a favorite emoji and a very direct mention of the bracelet’s source: Mr. Jacob.
Only girls understand what it means to mention a man’s name in their Status.
It’s worth noting that Josie had fish in her pond, and those fish occasionally sent her gifts. She would also post on her page but never mentioned the other person’s name.
This time, however, she publicly revealed the identity of the gift-giver and didn’t even block anyone from the pond, indicating that she was determined that even if the pond exploded, it didn’t matter.
After this post, her friends from the counter were naturally envious, liking the post, while several sent her WhatsApp messages.
“Josie, congratulations on landing a big one!”
“Wow, you caught a big fish this time!”
“Josie, that bracelet must be worth several tens of thousands, right?”
“Josie, remember the rich and forget not the poor!”
Seeing the WhatsApp messages from her friends, Josie couldn’t help but smile, her face filled with pride.
Layla first liked her best friend’s post and then posted one herself, but she only shared three photos, refusing to make a nine-grid collage as her final act of stubbornness.
