ANDREAS : THE HIDDEN MILLIONAIRE’S SON-IN-LAW

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“Where am I?” Andreas muttered weakly.

His whole body seemed to be crushed, Adreas spread his gaze perfectly. Faintly, he saw that his wife was crying uncontrollably while holding his hand tightly.

“Are you awake, Andreas? Oh my God, thank God! Yesterday you had an accident, you were hit by a car while crossing the highway last night, Andreas.”

Andreas took in as much air as possible, slowly his blurry vision began to clear. He exhaled, remembering the time when he was emotional about the insults from the Bowie family which really annoyed Andreas.

“Can we go home now?” Andreas asked.

Hearing this, Cindy held her breath perfectly. How could it not be, Andreas had just woken up, and his husband already wanted to go home.

“You must be examined by a doctor first before going home, Andreas.”

“I feel fine, I’m fine, Cindy. Come on, call a doctor so I can go home immediately. Staying in the hospital for too long will cost a lot. Do you have money to pay for this hospital fee?”

“Everything has been paid for by the person who hit you, you don’t need to worry, Andreas.”

Hearing this, Andreas felt relieved. He didn’t have any money, so how was he supposed to pay for the hospital fees which must have been huge.

Not long after, the doctor came to examine him, and with his stubborn attitude, Andreas really wanted to go home. Because the doctor couldn’t stop Andreas and couldn’t restrain him, the doctor allowed Andreas to go home today.

“Wait, Mr. Lewis. Before you went home, it seemed like you left something.”

Andreas, who was about to step out of his inpatient room together with Cindy, stopped in his tracks. He saw a female nurse walking over with a friendly smile, handing him a golden card with black wrapping that looked very expensive.

“Whose card is this?” Andreas asked with a stupid look on his face. Of course he asked like that, because Andreas didn’t feel that he had the card.

“Of course this is your card, sir. Who else has the name Andreas Lewis?”

Andreas could only remain silent, especially when he held the card. Until finally he remembered an incident that he thought was a dream.

It was clearly embossed with a name written in gold there, was it true that he can use that card? And more than that, was it true that there was money in the card?

“Andreas, where did you get that card?”

“Ah.” Andreas answered stupidly.

“You know, I saw this card when I was a teenager, and not just anyone has this card, Andreas. In fact, it is said that there are only five or ten pieces in the world, these are cards belonging to rich people who have unlimited money, Andreas.”

“Ah, I think you saw wrong. This card is just an ordinary card like in general.”

“Do you get anything from scavenging trash?” Cindy asked.

“If I pick it up will my name be on this card?”

Cindy immediately fell silent.

“Come on, let’s go home, why are we arguing about this card? I guess any card is meaningless if there’s no money in it, right? I have this card as a mere formality, so that at least I can be called rich. This card is fake.” Andreas lied.

Cindy believed it, yes… of course Cindy would believe more if the card was fake than if Cindy had to believe the fact that her husband’s card was genuine with a nominal amount of money that couldn’t be trusted at all, a really huge amount of money.

While Andreas swallowed his saliva with difficulty, along the way he continued to guess. Was it true that there was a large amount of money in the card? Until finally Andreas had a crazy idea to try the card. As something that could be called… trying your luck.

“Are you hungry, Cindy?”

“Yes, of course I’m hungry. I haven’t even had time to eat breakfast yet. You’ve been asking to go home.” Cindy answered.

“Okay, how about we have lunch first?”

“I don’t think there’s a suitable place for us here, Andreas.”

Cindy knew this was in the city center where most of the places to eat were star restaurants with exorbitant prices. Even if they were in a café, they definitely wouldn’t be able to pay. Where will the money come from? Being able to buy two slices of bread a day to eat until the evening was a very lucky thing for them.

“Do you want to eat at that restaurant?” Andreas pointed to a very luxurious restaurant, the most famous seven-star restaurant in his country.

When Cindy heard the question, she immediately glared. She glanced at Andreas, who seemed to be having trouble in his head.

“Is your head okay, Andreas? I think the doctor should examine your head thoroughly.”

“What do you mean? I offered you a meal at that restaurant, why are you discussing my head?”

“Since you’re starting to lose your mind, of course. Do you think we have enough money to eat there? We wouldn’t even be able to afford a toilet there.”

Andreas held his breath, it was very natural that Cindy would say that. Even Andreas felt the same way, Andreas just wanted to try to test his cards, even if the reality wasn’t what he expected, he and his wife would definitely feel embarrassed.

“We will eat there.” Andreas decided, told the bus driver to stop, and grabbed Cindy’s hand to get off.

After the two of them crossed the road, Cindy was actually still very lazy about doing that. Andreas and Cindy were right in front of the restaurant door, only they couldn’t go straight in, because two security guards were standing right in front of them with probing gazes.

“What are you here to do?” asked the security guard. His eyes continued to assess Andreas and Cindy from top to bottom. In their eyes, Andreas and Cindy were nothing more than a pair of beggars who were now standing in front of the red restaurant door. Just like beggars in general who came just to imagine being able to eat luxuriously at this restaurant.

“If you want to beg, then leave immediately. This is a luxurious restaurant, it is not appropriate for a pair of beggars to come to dirty this restaurant!” snapped another security guard.

Cindy, who heard this, tried to pull Andreas’ hand. Cindy wanted to take Andreas home and stop embarrassing himself in the stupidest way like this.

“Andreas, come on, let’s go home. We don’t have enough money to be in this restaurant. Please don’t embarrass us, I’m really very embarrassed, Andreas.”

Andreas only glanced at Cindy, but he didn’t answer anything Cindy said. Until finally, two security guards started to be rude by pushing Andreas’ body until he fell perfectly on the floor, Andreas’ hand slipped from Cindy’s, otherwise Cindy would have fallen with him.

“Are you deaf? Hasn’t your wife asked you to go? Go away you damn beggar! Don’t pollute this restaurant! Don’t ever dream of setting foot in this restaurant, let alone buying food at this restaurant! You will never be able to, even if you sell your pride, you will never be able to do it!”

Andreas’ jaw tightened, he then stood up while slashing his dirty buttocks. Then he glanced at the two security guards, and handed them his card.

“How much does this restaurant cost? Ask your boss, I will buy it.” Andreas said firmly with a cold grin that pierced the two security guards.