2025-10-21 17:50:35Harry scrambled backward, falling hard onto the gravel as the train thundered past, the gust of wind nearly knocking him over. His heart pounded against his side.
He looked at the cyan screen, where it still glowed in the darkness. Five thousand dollars, ten times what he'd spent to buy Alicia's handbag. [You have received 1 lottery ticket!] [Do you want to draw?] [YES][NO] Harry was a guy that had never experienced any luck in life and he was just on the verge of ending it all just a couple minutes ago. He was contemplating whether this was a dream or his mind had finally broken as there was no explanation for the Cyan Screen that popped up as he clicked the [YES] button. [Congratulations! You have drawn Charisma Boost!] [Charisma Boost: With this skill there's nothing the user can't charm his way out of or into! The universe has blessed you with charisma!] "Hahaha! I must have lost my marbles…!" Harry muttered to himself as he went back to stand on the tracks, just then his phone soon rang out to show that he had a notification. And to his surprise, he looked at the cracked screen of his phone and saw $5,000 sitting in his account and his jaw dropped. "THIS IS FUCKING REAL!!!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs and this pushed him away from the tracks, Harry immediately started moving away from the train tracks. "Jesus fucking Christ! I want to live!" Harry shouted as he stared at his phone, which was hanging for dear life, for a minute. He still couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing, this was a lot more than what was in his account previously. Which was basically nothing "Damn it, I'm going to be rich!" Harry shouted at the top of his lungs and quickly recalled that people could hear him and he immediately composed himself. There was one thing he took note of, the requirement for such a thing to come to pass in the first place was spending money on beautiful women. That was way too easy but Harry noticed that it was already very late tonight and crime was high in the train tracks. Harry didn't waste time and headed back to his apartment, his room was a mess but this was the least of his problems. He jumped on his bed and instantly scrolled through his phone to see which other girls he had saved there but the reality of this alone dawned on him. "Damn… I really don't have any other girl but that bitch Alicia…" Harry muttered to himself but there was no use feeling sorry for himself. He had to take care of business first and that was paying his rent like he should have done instead of buying an expensive handbag for a slut. After that, what he needed to do next was to find the next beautiful girl to spend money on the next day. Harry went from almost ending his life to having renewed hope for a potential future. The night came to an end and Harry was unemployed, and had no scholarship but who needed a job or a scholarship when life had given him a new lease? Harry didn't hesitate, he transferred $2,000 to Brandon because he had backed up rent so why not clear everything at once to start on a clean slate? It wasn't even up to a minute he sent the money but someone was already knocking on his door. "Harry! Harry!" The voice called out, this was no doubt the voice of his friend/landlord. Harry hurried to the door to see what prompted such a reaction and the moment the door opened, Brandon was out of breath. It was clear he hurriedly came up here the moment he received the money. "Did you sell your ass to a lot of men last night!?" Brandon questioned, shaking Harry to see if he was still in there because there was no way he could cough up that amount from thin air. "Hahaha! Yes, I sold it to just one man who paid me handsomely for it…"Harry said, pausing dramatically. "But there's a catch, anyone that touches the money must give him some ass or he will start to appear in your …" Harry said, expecting Brandon to panic. Brandon just stared at Harry before letting out a loud laugh and turned around. "I will touch this money, spend it however the hell I want and nothing will happen. Take care, buddy. Protect yourself in the streets, whore" Brandon said before leaving the house. He knew this was an obvious joke but this only showed the relationship between both men. Harry and Brandon have been super close ever since he helped him do an accurate tax filling a year. Brandon had a convenient store that was barely making money and a wife and daughter to feed. Harry didn't know what to do for the rest of the day as he was now unemployed and there were no classes today but he couldn't stop thinking about Alicia's betrayal. The fact that he was so blind to the truth only broke his heart further. "Alicia, I am going to get you back for this. You are going to regret what you did to me…" He muttered under his breath, realizing he might have the power to get his revenge on her. Harry smiled to himself, I have to make more money to get to her. Money was the main ingredient he needed to truly fuck her over. He put on the nicest clothes he had but there was nothing fancy about his clothes seeing as he got them from the thrift store with his sense of fashion being anything but impressive. Looking at his clothes, he wondered how he didn't figure out that Alicia wasn't into him. Come on, how can a guy who wears these rags actually think they had a shot with Alicia Morgan? Harry noticed there was no money coming back to him upon paying for his rent so this thing only registered when he spent money on women or at least that was the information he managed to get from it. Harry stepped out but there was a spring in his steps as he had something to look forward to, this was Crestview city, the university was crawling with some of the most beautiful women in the world. Maybe, just maybe he would bag himself a top model but there was one thing he was sure about. He could only go up from here. Harry knew he had to be careful with the remaining $3000 in his possession because the condition for multiplying was spending it on pretty ladies. He looked around, desperately trying to find a pretty woman but the busy campus only gave him seconds to approach them with everyone always in a hurry to get to class or something. Harry knew his best bet would be to visit a store and offer to pay for any pretty lady's goods. But the store couldn't be expensive, how embarrassing would it be if he offered to pay for something only to find out he couldn't afford it? Harry looked over his shoulder and luckily, there was an Apple store located in the university and what better place to blow money than Apple devices? And come to think of it, he needed a new phone. His current one has a cracked screen and it is very old. The moment Harry took a step into the store, he was hit with the fresh air that reminded him the earth wasn't made up of just heat. But a lady slowly approached him with a wild smile on her face, Harry could recognize that smile anywhere, it was the smile sales people wore right before trying to get you to buy a product. "Welcome sir, how may I help you?" A lady with blue eyes said. Harry found her mildly attractive as she was a bespectacled lady with somewhat of a slender build. "I would like to buy a phone and I want to pay for it in full…" Harry pointed out and this was surprising as most people in this university area paid in installments. There were mostly students and professors around, and this made her suspicious. "What is up with this guy?" She thought to herself, this lady was in her early twenties, she was exactly 20 years old but Harry didn't give fuck about this information. All that mattered to him at that moment was getting his money to increase 10× as his eyes glanced around the store to see if there was anyone worthy of spending his money on. However, his eyes met an almost empty store with employees all wearing an artificial smile. Harry sighed as he looked at the girl's name-tag before him. "You're Melissa… So Melissa, how would you like an IPhone?" Harry asked right away, prompting Melissa to raise a suspicious brow. "Um… Sir, are you sure about that?" Melissa was taken back by this, she had an old Apple device that was in need of replacing but it was still in optimal condition so she never got around to getting a new one. It wasn't like a phone was her top priority. "I am absolutely certain! Let's get you the IPhone 17 Pro Max with a little phone insurance to sweeten the deal." Harry said in an upbeat tone. "Are you one of those social media influencers?" Melissa questioned, looking around frantically for a camera but her eyes saw nothing. The moment her eyes settled on Harry, he was already paying for the phones. Both his and hers. Melissa was lost for words but she wasn't going to turn down this act of kindness. [Ding!] [Spent $1,200. 10X Critical Hit. Earned $12,000! The money has been transferred to your account!] Harry smiled, realising he could get more he looked at her. “Would you like the MacBook Pro, and AirPods as well?” Melissa giggled still thinking this is some weird trick. Harry immediately paid for the new items that totalled $1750. [Spent $1,750. 10X Critical Hit. Earned $17,500! The money has been transferred to your account!] [You have spent more than $2,000 on a beautiful lady!] [Congratulations! System upgrade requirement met!] [New system function unlocked!] [Congratulations! You have unlocked the Harem function!] [You have received 3 lottery tickets!] [You have received 1 extreme lottery ticket!] [Do you want to draw?] [YES][NO]
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Chapter 549. The FINALE
The backyard was full again by seven, but this time nobody had to pretend it was a casual afternoon. Anna had hung paper lanterns from the fence the night before, badly, and half of them sagged in the middle. Nobody fixed them. They looked better crooked.Melissa kept holding her left hand out in front of her when she thought no one was looking, tilting it to catch the light. Harry caught her doing it twice and pretended he hadn't.Rhiannon came through the side gate at seven thirty with a duffel bag over her shoulder and no warning at all. She had told everyone she couldn't make it, that the schedule wouldn't allow it, and she had lied to every single one of them. Anna screamed. Melissa dropped a tray of glasses onto the grass, and nothing broke, which Rhiannon called a sign."Seven hours of flying," she said, hugging Melissa so hard her feet left the ground. "I'm wearing the same shirt as yesterday. I regret nothing."Harry watched them from across the yard and had to look at the gr
Chapter 548. Inevitable
Harry carried the ring around for eleven days before he did anything with it.It sat in the inside pocket of his jacket, a small box he'd picked out alone on a weekday afternoon, standing at a jewelry counter feeling like a kid pretending to be an adult. The woman behind the counter had shown him three rings worth more than his first car and he'd politely pointed at a fourth one, thin and simple, with a small stone that caught the light without trying too hard. It was the one Melissa would have picked herself. He'd known it the second he saw it.He didn't tell anyone. Not Wren, not Anna, not even Dr. Gail, though she'd probably guessed. He just carried it, and every morning he woke up thinking today might be the day, and every night he went to bed having decided it wasn't quite yet. The platform had changed something. Saying all of it out loud, the worst night of his life and every ugly choice that came after, had cleared a space in him he hadn't known was blocked. Once it was clear
Chapter 547. His Mother, His Father, Himself
The cemetery sat on a quiet hillside outside the city, the kind of place Harry visited maybe twice a year now, not out of obligation exactly, more out of a settled habit that had replaced the raw, unbearable grief he used to feel standing in front of this particular stone. His mother's name was carved plainly into it, no elaborate epitaph, nothing that tried to explain away what had happened to her. Just her name, and two dates, and the quiet dignity of being remembered honestly instead of prettied up for anyone else's comfort. He sat on the grass beside the stone for a while, not saying anything out loud, just letting himself exist near her the way he did on these visits. A year of distance had changed something in how he carried this particular grief. It didn't ambush him anymore, didn't flatten him the way it used to in unguarded moments. It had settled into something he could hold steadily, sad and permanent, without it derailing the rest of his day. He thought about her ins
Chapter 546. Everyone He Hurt, Everyone He Helped
Dr. Gail's office looked the same as it always had, the same window overlooking the same unremarkable parking lot, though Harry came less often now, maybe once every couple months instead of the weekly sessions that had gotten him through the worst of the aftermath. This particular visit hadn't been scheduled around any crisis. He'd just called and asked if she had time, feeling some quiet need to sit somewhere honest and take stock of things properly before whatever came next in his life actually arrived."You seem different today," Dr. Gail said, settling into her chair. "Not upset. Just thoughtful in a specific way.""I've been thinking about everyone," Harry said. "Not in a spiraling way. Just accounting, I guess. Everyone this story touched.""Tell me," she said, the same two words she always used to open the door wide enough for him to walk through it himself.He started with his mother, because it felt right to start there, at the root of everything else. Her instability, the
Chapter 545. The Platform
The train station looked smaller than Harry remembered it, which surprised him more than it probably should have. He'd built it up in his mind over the years into something vast and looming, a place heavy enough to hold the worst night of his life, but standing on the platform now with Melissa's hand in his, it was just an ordinary station, worn benches and flickering overhead signs and the distant rumble of a train somewhere down the line that hadn't arrived yet.Melissa hadn't asked where they were going that morning. She'd simply gotten in the car when he asked her to, quiet and patient beside him the whole drive, some instinct in her clearly understanding this wasn't a place that needed small talk on the way."This is it," Harry said, once they were standing on the platform itself, the words feeling strange in his mouth after keeping the sentence unsaid for so long. "This is where it happened."Melissa looked around slowly, taking in the ordinary details of the place, the peeling
Chapter 544. The Found Family, Fully Formed
The backyard filled up gradually that Saturday afternoon, nobody quite sure who'd actually organized it, just a loose collection of texts that had somehow turned into everyone showing up at once with food and folding chairs and no real agenda beyond wanting to be in the same place together. Rhiannon had landed the night before, a rare gap between tour legs, and had immediately declared she wasn't spending a single free evening anywhere but here."You're all stuck with me for exactly thirty six hours," she announced, dropping a cooler of drinks onto the picnic table with more enthusiasm than the task strictly required. "Make the most of it."Anna, who'd apparently been counting down the days on a calendar in her room, threw herself at Rhiannon before the cooler had even settled properly."You smell like an airport," Anna informed her, not letting go."That's the sound of true love," Rhiannon said, hugging her back just as hard. "Airports and love, same smell, everyone knows that."Ann
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