Chapter 80:Do You Like Uncle Shane? “Lily, Lucian called softly from the living room.
Lily approached.“Do you like Uncle Shane?” he asked, having overheard her conversation with Willow.
“Yes!” she readily admitted. “He’s so nice! When Mommy had classes at the Shen residence, I’d sleep over, and I’d always hear a voice whispering that Uncle Shane is a super nice person!”
A voice?Lucian saw through Shane’s ploy.Hah, so a fox was trying to steal his rose.
He said to Lily, “Pretend to sleep sometime and see if the voice speaks again.When you hear it, open your eyes. That’s how you’ll meet the voice.”
It was a good plan. Lily nodded eagerly. She wanted to see what this mysterious voice looked like!
Willow emerged from the room again, fanning her face.She’d chosen two gowns, both to be altered to her current size. She also bought Lily a dress as a reward for her bravery at school.
The following week:
Willow, in her gown, saw a link from Shane in her car.It led to a lively thread on the Jing University forum. Their street dance club president, Vivian Fang, had performed an upside–down spinning bowel movement in the dorm.Although the door was closed, the stench had escaped.Students, unaware of the cause, initially thought someone had brought chemicals from the lab into the dorm. They informed the dorm manager about the smell and the sounds of vomiting. The manager burst in to find several math students covered in feces and Vivian Fang, stark naked from the waist down. The dorm manager promptly threw up her lunch.
“I won’t show you the video,” Shane texted Willow.“Just reading about it makes me want to disinfect my phone.”
Willow wasn’t interested in Vivian Fang’s… performance.
Then Shane sent several photos. Willow’s heart pounded. Was he sending nudes again?! She braced herself and looked closer.
Not nudes!Relief washed over her, deflating the slight anticipation.
The photos showed Vivian Fang at school wearing a baseball jersey with large lettering back:
*My ranking in the ALI Math Competition was 112 places lower than Willow James.* Other students with her wore identical jerseys with similar messages, differing only in ranking. Willow remembered the bet she’d made with these Jing University students.
“Did they willingly fulfill the bet?”
“Of course not,” Shane replied.“If they hadn’t fulfilled the bet, I would’ve made them pay the price.”
Streetlights illuminated Willow’s face, a gentle smile playing on her lips. “I’m almost at the InterContinental.”
“See you soon,” Shane replied, adding a crescent moon emoji.
Willow’s eyelashes fluttered. She took a deep breath, suppressing her wandering thoughts and focused on the neon–lit cityscape.The InterContinental was hosting the Tech Summit welcome
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