He Traded His Lucky Charm for a Fraud의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 8

"What's the matter? The great Cassiopeia Vale, who used to think she was better than everyone else and wouldn't share a thing for fear that someone might get ahead, suddenly has nothing to say, huh?"Seeing as I refused to acknowledge him, Silas Kielsburn decided to raise his voice at me on purpose."Keep it down, Sile!" Maisie Caldwell, Silas' current girlfriend, piped up as soon as I turned around. "Cassie looks pretty… wretched, judging from her current situation. Let's not trigger her anymore…"I could see the barely concealed flicker of malicious joy in Maisie's eyes despite her words of sympathy directed at me.Silas just scoffed, completely ignoring Maisie's attempt to diffuse the situation. Instead, he took a step forward. His loafer, which was polished immaculately, almost stepped on my mud-caked fingers."How the tables have turned, Cassiopeia. Look at you now. You've sunk so low that you're on your knees, digging through the grass for stones just to get by, huh?"What,

I was completely taken aback by Silas' accusation. The truth was, I had once given him the same type of crystal a long time ago.At that time, he had failed to establish his business for the first time, so he locked himself up in his rented apartment without eating or drinking anything for three days.Having performed a dreamwalk on Silas' dream, I searched high and low across the city and spent every last penny I had to find him a fortune-shifting crystal.He once told me that the crystal was the only beacon of light in his dark life. How was it a fraudulent trinket now?As I gripped the crystal tightly, I was about to refute Silas when a delighted voice cut in. "Ms. Vale, is that you?"I looked up to see a young man in a sharp suit, gazing at me excitedly."It really is you, Ms. Vale! I saw you on the cover of the International Association of Dreamwalkers' yearbook!"The young man quickly approached me and extended a hand in a friendly manner, completely disregarding Silas a

I felt a hand holding me by the waist firmly, soon yanking me away from the security guards' suffocating grip.It was Damien!Maisie was already scared shitless after noticing Damien's murderous gaze, so she instinctively loosened her grasp on Adrien.Naturally, Adrien bolted toward Damien immediately. He was already crying when he started hurling accusations at Maisie."Daddy, that mean woman… strangled me! She also had Mommy captured!"As Damien looked down at Adrien, he reached out to gently pat the latter on the head in reassurance, the gesture practiced and effortless.Meanwhile, Silas kept staring at Damien's arm, which was still wrapped around my waist. His gaze, which used to be filled with endless arrogance and mockery, was now left with hollow disbelief."C-Cassiopeia… h-how could you marry Mr. Ashcroft?" he blurted out.There wasn't a trace of color left on Maisie's complexion. She instinctively took a step backward, which caused her to bump against the flower bed in

Maisie's beautiful eyes went wide with shock. She kept staring at Silas unblinkingly afterward."Are you seriously helping those bastards drag my name through the mud as well, Silas? Have you forgotten that I was the one who helped you achieve this level of success throughout these years?"Silas just looked at Maisie wearily."Was I, though? The truth is, I did suspect you several times over the years, Maisie."He took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping over the onlookers as if he were convincing himself to spill the beans."Every time I brought up the complicated details in my dreams, you were always scrolling through your phone impatiently. Yet you could still recall those key details accurately. It was as if you were… memorizing the answers that were available to you."Then, he pointed at me. "Whenever Cassiopeia performed a dreamwalking session on me, she'd ask me many questions about the details in my dream. Then, she'd keep bringing up countless predictions while reminding me