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Chapter 047 – Velvet Dine Restaurant
Author: Rex Magnus
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Velvet Dine.

Back then, before Glenn was sent to prison, this restaurant had been a legend, a dream place for everyone to enter, whether man or woman, young or old.

It was a temple of taste, and only the upper crust of Jay City could afford to enter and dine here.

While it was technically open to anyone, so long as one could foot the jaw-dropping bill, the restaurant caters almost exclusively to the rich and elite because even the cheapest appetizer here costs more than what an average family earns in a year.

For most, walking past the place was like staring into the gates of paradise from behind iron bars.

Glenn could still remember how people would flaunt dining here the same way nobles flaunted their family crests.

To eat at Velvet Dine wasn’t just an indulgence… it was status, power, wealth, prestige, and above all… flex.

Back then, even Glenn, like the countless other citizens, had nursed the fantasy of setting foot into this temple of cuisine.

It wasn’t that he h
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