The couple heard her and imdiately turned around. When lody Sumrs saw their faces, she let out a soft, cold sneer. It was, just as she’d suspected, her ex-boyfriend, Austin Hale.
Austin Hale was lody Sumrs’s classmate in college. He’d been captivated by her beauty, falling for her at first sight and actively pursuing her.
At the ti, lody Sumrs had just started college and still held romantic illusions about love. After Austin Hale pursued her for a while, the two began dating.
When they first started dating, Austin Hale was incredibly thoughtful and attentive to lody Sumrs. He would bring milk for her when she didn’t have ti for breakfast and deliver an umbrella when she was stuck in a lecture hall on a rainy day.
lody Sumrs was good to Austin Hale in return. She worked part-ti jobs to save up money to buy him gifts and would help him revise his course projects.
That all changed after the sumr break of their sophomore year, when Austin Hale went with lody Sumrs to Mount Anworth.
Austin Hale saw lody Sumrs’s family ho in the countryside—a dilapidated old house. He didn’t say anything at the ti, but after they returned to school, his attitude toward her grew cold and distant.
Less than a week later, lody Sumrs witnessed Austin Hale hugging and kissing Joanne White, a student a year below them.
Unlike lody Sumrs, Joanne White was an only child from the city.
lody Sumrs had no intention of getting entangled with them and decisively broke up with Austin Hale.
Despite being the one who cheated, Austin Hale never apologized to lody Sumrs. Instead, he accused her of not being as gentle or considerate as Joanne White, blaming his infidelity on her.
As for Joanne White, who knows what was going through her head, but she actually wrote a tear-filled post for the school’s confession page, accusing lody Sumrs of being the third party. She even paid off several marketing accounts to hype up the story and lead netizens to cyberbully lody.
Although classmates who knew lody Sumrs well trusted her, and those who knew the truth condemned Austin Hale, many students and netizens who were unaware of the facts chose to believe Joanne White. During that ti, lody often saw people pointing and whispering about her.
...
Austin Hale and Joanne White were both stunned to see lody Sumrs.
"Sum-Sumrs? You live here?" Joanne White asked in astonishnt.
"lody, you said you have an apartnt here? How is that possible? Isn’t your family from the countryside?" Austin Hale also seed dazed.
lody Sumrs gave a slight smile. "I am, but I also own a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartnt here, paid in full. If you want to buy it, it’s four million, full paynt. The offer won’t last."
"Sumrs, four million is too expensive." Joanne White bit her lower lip. "Are you still angry with and Austin? I was just too young and naive back then. Please don’t hold it against ."
"Cut the act. I don’t have ti to exchange pleasantries," lody Sumrs cut Joanne off, saying, "You’ve seen the apartnts around here before, so you know the prices. Mine is fully renovated, with over 140 square ters of usable floor space. This price is absolutely reasonable."
"I’m only giving you one day to consider it. Decide for yourselves if you’re buying or not. If you can’t make up your minds by tomorrow, I’m selling it to soone else."
With that, lody Sumrs turned and walked away.
lody Sumrs wasn’t pinning all her hopes on Austin Hale and Joanne White. She planned to give them one day. It would be great if she could trick them into buying, but if not, she would have to wrong soone else.
Even if she really didn’t want to screw over anyone else, she had no choice. The shelter she had her eye on was a villa.
It wasn’t that she was greedy. Initially, she planned to save money and buy a unit in an apartnt building, but the space was limited, and the load-bearing capacity was even more so. There was no way to stockpile enough supplies for her whole family.
If she kept all the supplies in the Arcadian Space, her family would inevitably beco suspicious. lody Sumrs wasn’t ready to tell them about the space yet. It was too unbelievable, and she was afraid of causing them trouble. The fewer people who knew, the safer it would be.
Besides, after the gale-force winds would co a prolonged, intense heatwave. Electricity consumption would skyrocket, making power a scarce commodity in residential areas. If lody Sumrs’s family installed a generator to run an air conditioner in an apartnt building, with all the neighbors watching, it would be far too conspicuous and create unnecessary risks.
The six million plus she had on hand definitely wasn’t enough. After a mont’s thought, she blocked all her other classmates except for Austin Hale and Joanne White and posted a social dia update: "Fully renovated apartnt for sale in a pri school district, XX Community. 4 million, full paynt only. Contact if interested."
Hopefully, this would spur Austin Hale and Joanne White to make a decision quickly.
After posting the update, lody Sumrs took the seeds and entered the space.
She had brought all her family’s farming tools with her when she moved. She tilled a few plots of land in the Arcadian Fields, tore open several seed packets, and sowed them: sugarcane, cabbage, green beans, cucumbers, chili peppers...
[First sowing successful. The Arcadian Space has unlocked "The Arcadian Workshop," "The Arcadian Ranch," and "The Arcadian Woods" for you.]
So of the white mist before her dissipated, revealing a massive factory next to the original storage warehouse. Inside were all sorts of brand-new machinery.
Next to the factory was a huge ranch, divided into large, clean, and tidy enclosures. Each one was equipped with neat water and feeding troughs, as well as a cleaning system specifically for waste disposal.
On the other side of the stream, a forest had appeared. The grass and trees were lush, wildflowers blood beneath them, and the faint, crisp chirping of birds could be heard.
["The Arcadian Workshop" can process crops into animal feed. It can also process wheat and rice into flour, sugarcane into sugar, wood into cardboard boxes, cotton into clothing, and so on.]
["The Arcadian Ranch" can be used to raise all kinds of animals.]
["The Arcadian Woods" can produce lumber. You can also transplant trees from the outside world into the space.]
’A forest? A ranch?’ lody Sumrs was taken aback. ’Looks like I’ll have to go out and buy animals and fruit trees tomorrow.’
lody Sumrs observed the newly unlocked areas for a while before leaving the space. She returned to find several new ssages on her phone.
lody Sumrs opened them and saw that the sender was, surprisingly, her forr adoptive father, Adam Lawson.
lody Sumrs frowned. ’What is it with today? Why are all these disgusting people showing up in a group?’
*
The year lody Sumrs was found on the roadside and brought ho by Winnie Sumrs was the first year of Winnie’s marriage to Adam Lawson.
Winnie Sumrs insisted on adopting lody, but Adam Lawson’s parents were strongly against it. However, at the ti, the Lawson family relied entirely on Winnie’s inco to support them. The one who earns the money has the most say, so lody was allowed to stay.
For as long as lody Sumrs could rember, Adam Lawson’s parents—her grandparents in na only—frequently berated her, calling her a jinx. They claid it was because Winnie Sumrs had brought her ho that Winnie was unable to conceive a child.
When lody Sumrs was seven, her adoptive father, Adam Lawson, had an affair with a young woman from the sa village, Noelle Quillan. A few years later, after Noelle gave birth to a son, Adam brought her, along with their older daughter and younger son, to Winnie Sumrs’s doorstep for a showdown.
After the initial grief, Winnie Sumrs decisively filed for divorce, took lody back to her own family’s ho, and began to focus on her career.
*
lody Sumrs frowned and tapped open Adam Lawson’s ssage.
"lody, it’s Dad. Why are you selling that apartnt?"
"Your younger brother, Joel, is planning to get married in a few years. Could you sell the apartnt to him for his wedding?"
"Dad will give you 600,000, and you can consider the remaining 3.4 million as a contribution from you, his older sister, to help him out."
"lody, think about it. Your mother hasn’t remarried or had any other children all these years. Joel is the only brother you have, which ans he’s your only family to fall back on. With a brother to support you, you won’t be bullied by your in-laws when you get married."
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