Schemes Novels & Stories

The entryway was littered with shoes as if many people had walked through the path. And that wasn't the most shocking part. What stunned me most was the continuous dinging of text message notifications on my phone: "Dear Mr. Winston Shand, your savings account ending in 7824 at the Construction Bank has a remaining balance of 0.78 dollars." "Dear Mr. Winston Shand, your savings account ending in 9876 at the Industrial and Commercial Bank has a remaining balance of 0.08 dollars."

I commented when Vikranth started talking about the scheme with the actress Anny. "What?" Prathap asked turning towards me. "What? Why are you reacting like that? Isn't that why you couldn't propose or couldn't get your first love to fall for you?" I asked back and he just stared at me. "You were never in a relationship and never even talked about that crush of yours. At least I was in some relationship recently even though a failed one. Don't worry! I don't want you to get forced like this." I continued but felt surprised when the next moment he accepted to go along with the scheme.

[Attention player, according to system detection, your mission has failed. Since you did not complete any successful routes, the system will now erase you.] The system’s voice echoed in my mind as I stood in the shadows, secretly watching the wedding. Inside the grand hall, Michael Brosnan and Faye Summer exchanged a smile before kissing amid the playful cheers of the crowd. That wedding had been the final lifeline the system gave me. Now, it too had slipped through my hands. Back then, when I entered the body of a three-year-old child, I signed the system’s contract: within twenty years, as long as I captured the heart of any one of the three male leads, I would return to my original world.