Cheaper By The Dozen Novels & Stories

Chelsea asked the girl. "New arrivals are all sold at a five percent discount. Let me calculate it for you." She picked up a calculator and looked up. "After the discount, it is 519 dollars." Before Chelsea could say something, Jared blurted out, "So expensive?" After saying that, he regretted it. How could the shoes in this shop be cheap as it was well-decorated? He was like a bumpkin who had entered a world that did not belong to him. He was not used to it at all.

After ten years studying interior design overseas, I came back to my hometown to do work that mattered to the people who raised me. I offered the full package, from site survey to soft furnishings. The materials were chosen by hand. The price was fair to the bone. The town had just gone through a redevelopment. Everyone was getting new units. With the new family policy, every family wanted a third bedroom too. My business was good. Customers from the next county were driving in. Then a girl just back from a city college kicked open my studio with her phone on a livestream and her neighbors at her shoulder. "This is the dishonest one. Look at her. She has been ripping the village off." "

The next second, a bank transfer notification popped up on my phone. "I must have been blind back then!" Chelsea spat as she grabbed the other two and stormed out, slamming the door so hard that it rattled. I stared at the string of zeros on the screen and tried my best to hold back the tears welling up in my eyes. When Chelsea and I first got together, we had nothing. To keep her from envying other girls, I ate nothing but plain bread every day and delivered food after work to earn extra money. Feeling sorry for me, she secretly learned how to do manicures to earn extra money and lighten my burden. When I casually mentioned that it took too long for our clothes to dry, she spent half a mont

Then Day 7 we go back to De Luca Hospital NYC, not Lion's Head Mansion — different mansion, same long first rule. Chubby queen stays where $10 thrift crop top still fits size 16, where mango fruit $2 still buys kick. Original wins because original lived $12, $18, $21 — copy only bought $400, $169, green tent.