Chapter 408



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Lily went back to her room, changed and hurried out.

She had just pulled into the parking lot and was about to open the car door when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a shadow in the distance. Startled, she exclaimed, “Ah, it’s a ghost.”

Quentin: “…”

The corners of her lips tightened. He walked leisurely to the outside and said like the eighth-grade syndrome sufferer he was, “Are you calling me a ghost when I was obviously standing there like the living human I am? Do you have bad eyesight?”

Lily, who was bolder than many girls, looked closely at Quentin, and her eyes immediately lit up. She asked, “…Who are you? Why did you become a thief if you’re so handsome? Why aren’t you a good person? This is the Smith mansion, you know?”

“…Who do you think you’re calling a thief?” replied Quentin.

Lily’s eyes widened. The tall girl wasn’t afraid of the man at all. “You, of course! If you’re not a thief, why are you hiding in the shadows so stealthily? I’ll tell you one thing: I can take down weaklings like you in threes all by myself!”.

Quentin: “?”

Who was he calling a fucking wimp?

There really must be a problem with the woman’s eyes!

She was about to speak when Lily got a good look at Quentin with the help of the car lights. Her eyes immediately lit up and she asked, “Tell me, why are you going out of your way when you’re such a handsome man? Shall I help you?”

Quentin: “?”

Lily coughed and asked, “Do you have a girlfriend?”

Quentin: “?”

Wasn’t he changing the subject of their conversation too quickly?

How come they were suddenly starting to talk about whether or not he had a girlfriend?

His eyebrows drew together and he replied, “No, I don’t.”

Lily said excitedly, “I don’t have a boyfriend either!”.

gⱯlnσν𝒆𝓁s․com, the heart of storytelling Quentin: “…”

The corners of his lips tightened as Lily asked, “Do you make a lot of money stealing?”.

Quentin: “…”

“Definitely not much, right? How about this, why don’t you go out with me? I can give you money and a place to live. I can even buy you a house in New York, I have an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars! That’s almost a million dollars, you know?”

Quentin: “!!!!”

The corners of his lips spasmed again. He felt the conversation becoming more and more implausible.

Was she flirting with him?

She stared at Lily. If she wasn’t Big Sister’s assistant, Quentin would have punched her and a display of his martial arts prowess a long time ago.

He sneered, “Do you think I’d be tempted by that little bit of money you have?”

Lily thought for a moment. “Well, that’s true. Someone like you who specializes in robbing rich families must be a master thief, right? I guess that kind of money I have won’t appeal to you, after all. By the way, I’m a doctor. If you get hit during a robbery, you can come to me. Of course, if you ever decide to retire and regret it, and you don’t feel like working hard anymore, you can also come to me then~~”

Lily pulled out a business card from her pocket. When she looked back to pass it to Quentin, the man was already gone!

Lily: “?”

He was gone so fast?

What a shame, he was so handsome!

Lily sighed and got into her car.

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Quentin was someone who belonged in the shadows.

Apart from a few of the Smiths, very few outsiders knew him, and even fewer had met him. Therefore, Lily had never seen Quentin, despite having lived in the Smith mansion for so long.

Quentin walked into the living room. As he watched Lily walk away, he couldn’t help but hold his forehead.

It didn’t matter that his cousin was a weirdo…er, a genius, but why was everyone around her so weird too?

The corners of her lips twitched a little. It was at that moment that her phone vibrated. She pulled it out and saw that Nora had sent her a screenshot of a chat.

In the screenshot was a message Lily had sent to Nora: “Chief, a burglar just broke into the Smith mansion. By the way, if you catch him, can you avoid punching him in the face? He’s quite handsome and he’s my type. It would be a real shame if something happened to his face.”

After sending him the screenshot, Nora also sent him a question mark.

Quentin: “!!!”

Quentin was furious!

How could he possibly be a thief? How could an inferior creature like a thief be worthy of his position as the ruler of the Smiths’ secret forces?

His cousin’s maid was simply too much!

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Nora had received Lily’s message shortly after bringing Pete into the room. When she saw her describe the burglar as a very handsome man, and thought about how infatuated Lily had been while looking at pictures of young male celebrities in the past; she knew immediately that the ‘burglar’ she was talking about was Quentin.

Lily had come out very suddenly. Quentin had probably been in the parking lot, so the two of them must have collided.

After forwarding the screenshot to Quentin, she went to take a shower.

Shortly thereafter, he heard a light knock on the door. The person knocking on the door seemed very cautious.

Nora yawned and opened the door. It was Quentin. He asked slyly, “Nora, are you going to the arena?”.

Nora: “?”

She asked in surprise, “Hadn’t we already asked for a day off yesterday?”

She was going to take her children to the amusement park, so the day before she had informed the arena staff that they would not be playing any games that day.

Quentin replied, “But Victor and the others have matches today. As they say, know the enemy, know thyself, and you will fight a hundred battles without danger of defeat.”

Nora yawned again and said sleepily, “You’re right.”

Quentin was overjoyed. As he was about to say ‘Let’s go,’ Nora slapped him hard on the shoulder and said, “Therefore, I leave this arduous task to you! Only when you know the enemy thoroughly will you be able to guide us two weaklings to defeat him!”

Quentin: “!!!!”

The corners of his lips couldn’t help but spasm. “Nora, if I remember correctly, last night you fell asleep at ten o’clock and this morning you only woke up at eleven. You slept for thirteen whole hours…”

Nora was surprised. “Really? In that case, I did sleep an hour longer than usual.”

She yawned again.

For some reason, she was feeling unusually sleepy lately.

Quentin: “…”

The corners of her lips spasmed again. “Okay, I’ll go!”

There was no other way. Among the team of three, one was there just to make up the numbers while the other was Big Sister, who didn’t like to bother with such things. Therefore, the arduous task could only be entrusted to him now!

Quentin headed for the tournament arena. The masked man strolled inside. After greeting Linda, he sat down in the VIP dining room to watch the match.

There were three people on Victor’s team.

Tonight they challenged the E-class teams.

However, they defeated their opponents in only ten minutes.

The announcer was silent for a moment before finally announcing in disgust, “The ‘Americans Are Incompetent’ team wins!”.

None of the spectators applauded or cheered.

Victor and his teammates stood up in the ring and arrogantly shouted, “Isn’t there any team that can wrestle in the United States?”

The people at the back of the ring shouted one after another:

“Why are you guys so arrogant, tomorrow you will face Team Third in the World! Victor, have you already forgotten how #028 sent you flying with a kick?”

“Hahaha, exactly!”

“World Team Third! World Team Third!”

These two powerful teams had shone the brightest in this year’s tournament. Although the two teams seemed evenly matched, everyone had pinned their hopes on Team World’s Third Team.

When the crowd shouted his team’s name, Quentin suddenly stood up in the crowd. With a sharp glare, he stared at the stage. Then he pointed his middle finger at Victor and the other two in the ring.

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