Chapter 3  

The next morning, Mrs. Thompson woke Eden up. As Eden didn’t get a good night’s sleep, her irritation was apparent.

She followed Mrs. Thompson downstairs and realized that there was someone else there.

It was Jasmine Hunt; her half-sister who shared the same mother but had a different father.

She was practicing piano at school last night and didn’t come home until very late at night. They hadn’t seen each other yet.

When Jasmine saw her, there was astonishment in her eyes. It was her first time seeing her older half-sister. But since she had heard everything about Eden from Melinda, she thought that her sister was someone very awful.

She didn’t expect her to be so beautiful!

Eden’s skin was very fair, and her face seemed like it had been carefully molded. Her beauty was otherworldly. Her eyes were half-closed, and there was barely any expression on her face. She looked so cool even as she stood there.

Jasmine had mixed feelings then. In the Hunt family, she had always been the prettiest and most beloved. Why was there someone even more beautiful than her?

“Are you my half-sister?” Jasmine concealed the envy in her eyes and walked toward Eden with a sweet smile. “Hello. I’m Jasmine Hunt.”

Eden glanced at her and said in a casual tone, “Eden Griffith.”

Jasmine didn’t expect Eden to be so cold toward her and didn’t react in time.

The maid had already set up the table. Eden didn’t care about Jasmine’s reaction and walked to the dinner table. She put her leg up as she stepped on a chair and grabbed a plate before eating with a fork in hand.

Mrs. Thompson was shocked by what she saw. She didn’t think that Eden would act so inappropriately.

This was the Hunt family. Edmund was the head of the household. She didn’t wait for him before eating.

Jasmine was stunned, but she turned it into a smile. The worse her sister was, the better she would be in comparison, right?

“Ms. Eden, Master Edmund isn’t here yet,” Mrs. Thompson couldn’t hold back and prompted her. “You should only eat when he’s here.”

Eden stopped before she turned and glanced at Mrs. Thompson with a sneer. “Does this only apply to me? Or has this always been the case in this household?”

Mrs. Thompson was taken aback. It had never been the case here.

Edmund was quite relaxed most of the time. Unlike other families from the upper-class, they didn’t have to wait for the head of the household before starting their meals.

Mrs. Thompson only prompted her because she couldn’t stand how Eden was acting.

“It’s fine. Treat this as your own home and do as you like,” Edmund heard what Eden said when he was walking over. He threw a quick glance at Mrs. Thompson as a warning, but his tone was much gentler at Eden.

Melinda wanted to unleash her wrath the moment she saw how Eden was acting, but since Edmund was around, she kept it under control.

At the dining table, Edmund looked at Eden and said, “I’ve been thinking about it. I’ll do what I can to send you to Riverside Senior High. It’s the best school in Estburg, and you can learn something by observing when you’re there too.”

Edmund knew what Eden’s school results were like. Entering Riverside Senior High was normally impossible.

But he felt that he owed the girl and wanted to do his best to get her into the school as compensation.

Not to mention that it would make things easier with the Ward family if she graduated from Riverside Senior High.

“Riverside Senior High?” Jasmine raised her head and asked in a confused tone. “Didn’t she already finish her senior year?”

She didn’t know that Eden had been expelled.

That was why she was surprised when she heard that Eden was going to attend senior high school.

Melinda went numb. “Something happened to your sister earlier, so she has to complete her senior year.”

When Jasmine heard that, she smiled. “Then you have to work hard. Everyone in Riverside Senior High is a top student. It’ll be difficult if you want to be the cream of the crop.”

Eden raised her head and looked at her with a dry smile. “Are you a top student, too?”

“Of course, Jas is a top student. She’s ranked tenth in the school, and fiftieth in the entire city. It’s not a problem for her to enter our country’s top university, Rielton University, with her results,” Melinda responded before Jasmine could even answer.

It was as if she was showing off her best work.

She was the one that made Jasmine into the outstanding person she was.

How could she not be proud?

“Enough!” Edmund gave Melinda a glare, and she quickly stopped smiling.

“Tenth? That’s it?” Eden questioned her with a mocking tone.

Both Jasmine and Melinda froze. Jasmine struggled to find the words for a while before finally saying, “Do you have any idea how much effort it takes for me to be ranked tenth at Riverside Senior High?”

Eden set her fork aside, and as she stood up, she said mellowly, “I don’t. But I know that only when you’re ranked first, you’re the best.”

And then she turned around and left without a care in the world.

Leaving behind everyone who looked at each other with mixed feelings.

At Estburg Cemetery, it had started raining out of the blue.

Eden slowly walked into the depths of the cemetery, still wearing her black hoodie with her head lowered.

Her cap was covering her face, and only shadows were left behind where she had passed by.

Her expression was stony as the surrounding atmosphere seemed to plummet.

In her left hand, she held a pack of beer, and in her right hand, a bouquet of flowers. She stopped in front of a tombstone with the name “Jerred Hunt.”

She didn’t even feel it when the rain soaked her clothes; she did not have an umbrella.

Eden put down the flowers in front of the tombstone. Then, she sat down on the stone steps next to the tombstone and opened a can of beer.

She lifted her gaze and looked at the photo on the tombstone. Her lips formed a faint smile. With that beautiful face of hers, she looked especially solemn.

She murmured under her breath, “I’m here... How are you?”

The man in the photo had a chiseled face, and his bright smile shone into her heart.

Everyone in the Hunt family believed that she was a wild child that nobody wanted. They didn’t know that their most beloved son had known her for a long time.

The people in the Hunt family would never know the relationship they shared.

The rain was getting heavier, and Eden’s slender figure was almost drowned in the rain.

At this time, her phone started ringing. Eden looked back and switched on her voice modulator. Only after that did she pick up the call. “Speak.”

The melancholy voice of a man came from the voice modulator.

“Someone made an offer for Nosoi’s contact details—one billion dollars.” The voice on the other side was also melancholy, but his tone was gloomy.

However, there was only respect in his tone toward Eden.

She was K, a god-like hacker.

“Not taking the job.”

Eden put her hand into her pocket with her head hung low, her tone indifferent. “Make an announcement. I’m not taking any jobs for a full year.”

“What?!” the man on the other side of the call yelped in shock. “Do you know how serious the consequences are if K stops taking up jobs? It will shake the entire international community.”

He could already imagine the uproar it would cause once he announced it.

There was no hesitation from Eden. “That’s all.”

She hung up and switched off her phone and the voice modulator.

When the person on the other side attempted to call again, Eden had already switched off her phone.

He immediately stood up with sweat on his forehead. He pushed open the office door as he anxiously made a call. “Tell everyone to return right now...”

At the same time, Eden took out another phone from her other pants pocket.

It had her personal number. There were only about a dozen contacts in her list.

Eden grabbed another can of beer and took a swig. After that, she called her contact, who went by the name “L.”

“Do you have the results?”

“I was just going to call you.” This time, Eden didn’t use her voice modulator. The other person also sounded quite young.

“Alain Ward also had heart surgery that day. But I’m still not sure if it was Jerred’s heart.”

The Ward family was the most powerful family in the capital city of Rielton.

With their ability, there was no way they would simply let anyone find out about that.

Eden narrowed her eyes and finished her can of beer. Her rosy lips formed a cold, faint smile. “That’s fine. I’ll investigate the rest myself.”

Marrying Alain was the best way.

She put the empty can back into its pack and got up. She looked at the photo on the tombstone, her voice icy. “I’m heading out now. Give me some more time. I swear I’ll drag the person who took your heart here to apologize to you.”