Spoiled by Eight Uncles

“I remember my palms sweating as the agent went through the contract with me,” Roxanne said.

She no longer had any reason to delay the inevitable when the agent was done explaining the contract.She made up an excuse about having to make a call and borrowed twenty thousand from loan sharks.

“It was an easy transaction but they didn’t hold back if you weren’t able to pay up…”

“But I couldn’t care less. I managed to get the money transferred.”

The agent smiled at her the same way the GUOLHJ store manager smiled at her friend!

The uneasiness and fear of having just borrowed from a loan shark were instantly replaced by a sense of dignity.

“It was a time you were admired if you could afford to live in a 5000 dollar apartment…”

She secretly ate instant noodles inside her upscale apartment that night.

Lilly asked curiously, “If your bestie is so rich, why didn’t you ask her to lend you money?”

Roxanne immediately shot it down. “No! The reason why she was friends with me was because she believed me to be pure and simple…”

She lied to her friend and claimed that her parents were seriously ill which was why she worked overtime. She would say things like “It doesn’t matter how hard I work as long as my parents are well”.

She couldn’t possibly go to her friend for money.

She would definitely be disappointed in her once she learned that she wanted to live in a luxury apartment. Their friendship would be over.

How else was she going to get designer clothing and bags?

Pablo thought about what Cheryl was like and finally understood why the vanity spirit insisted on clinging to the girl.

“So you’re vain and hypocritical.”

Roxanne continued, “I can’t return to working at the printing factory after getting that apartment. It isn’t in line with my status.”

It had to be a high-collar, decent job to be worthy of her and yet she had no education, skills, or experience. She couldn’t even apply for a decent white-collar job.

“There was a public institution recruiting temporary workers… They noticed how I was kind, pitiful, and sincere, so they recruited me.”

held back

sincere?

a great position. Everyone would envy me for

great was how her pay was only

hired was entirely

a decent job, and a decent home, and carried designer clothing

A packet of instant noodles now had to be split between two meals but she now lived a

it to no longer be enough to satisfy her vanity. She inadvertently claimed herself to be a daughter of a president of a big corporation and was

photo of her

right. She pretended

rich. My identity was forged but no one ever bothered to

it felt to

Everyone flattered her!

generously invited others

away the clothing she no

was living life as a

in. “So, you’re saying you bragged

“…” What?

that

always thought my friend gave me those things because she

of giving away those

motive for being so nice

“And how

Roxanne’s eyes. “When I give away unwanted branded clothes, all I feel is contempt when I see how

gifted me all her old clothes. She’s such a rich person. If she really

master and disciple were

but even she knew that sort

asked, “So, you killed

people buried under the playground but

her if I kill her. I can replace her if

the world so unfair? Why does she get a silver spoon the moment she’s born while

loan sharks come after me… I’m tired of having to come up with lie after lie to cover up an

were more deranged than she could’ve ever imagined. They had come to her door and put a machete

she

was backed into

had started with twenty thousand but ended up