Book 1: She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement Annulment

Chapter 32

Chapter 94: A Wet Dream

Cherry didn’t know at all that the platform had sent her messages. Neither did she understand things like customer service and so on. She was engrossed in the game, so she didn’t reply to the messages at all.

As a result, when the customer service staff didn’t get any response from her, they used a photo of Cherry from that one and only time she had revealed her face and her mask had dropped off for the contest. Then, they sent her another message:‘The photo has been uploaded. We are currently in the registration phase. The contest will start tomorrow. Opponents will be randomly assigned when it starts. We look forward to your great performance in this contest!’

But of course, Cherry wasn’t aware of any of this.

“Do you really know how to play? You’re not using a computer keyboard, you know. There are only four or five buttons on the cell phone, yet you’re still pressing the wrong ones all the time!Even your pet cat pressing randomly on the phone can play better than you!”

After dinner, Nora went upstairs. The moment she opened the door, she immediately heard the irritated Cherry scolding someone. The corners of her lips spasmed a little as she poured her a glass of water.

Cherry was using the study, so Nora went to the sofa and turned on her computer.

With her eyes downcast, Nora’s long slender fingers flew across the keyboard as she typed a few letters on a webpage. A dark webpage loaded. She then typed another few letters and it changed to another webpage.

After another few times of the same thing, she reached the final destination.

It was the web version of a chat room belonging to the Imperial League.

The Imperial League consisted of more than a dozen people, and each of them had their own dedicated account. At six o’clock New York time on this day every month, they would hold an hour-long meeting to discuss world economic trends.

Just a casual word from them could change the structure of the economy and cause huge fluctuations in the corporate world.

The chat room had a black background.

None of them knew who any of the others were. The only thing they knew was that the prerequisites for joining the Imperial League were very harsh.

There had been barely any newcomers during the recent few years.

Most of them had inherited their accounts.

Only the heirs to the account holder's clans could inherit the accounts, and thereby inherit the Imperial League’s connections and information.

Nora, whose chin was resting on her hands, was wondering what they would talk about today when she saw someone sending a message.

Eagle: “How is America’s real estate industry going to be in the future?”

As soon as Eagle raised the question, several people in the chat room started to talk.

Tiger: “Real estate has now formed a bubble, especially in America. Housing prices have skyrocketed in the past few years. Can America’s economy cope if this continues?”

Lion: “I’m still optimistic about the real estate industry!”

Bear: “I’m not optimistic about it, though. The real estate industry has been going downhill since the beginning of the year.”

Wolf: “But it’s showing signs of picking up recently.”

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Everyone used animal code names in the Imperial League.

During the discussion, Eagle asked: “In that case, what are we going to do to promote the real estate industry?”

Everyone shut up immediately.

Nora clicked her tongue.

Barring any accidents, the leader of the Imperial League would be speaking next.

Sure enough, a message was sent:

King: “Housing prices will develop steadily for the next ten years. Refrain from making them soar or plummet.”

Should they plummet, it would cause an economic subprime mortgage crisis and trigger global turmoil.

In the Imperial League, King was the only one who could issue orders. He was the king of the Imperial League!

No one knew who he was, let alone what country he was from.

Nora had tried to investigate his background before, but she couldn’t find any information about him at all.

As for the rest, she suspected that Eagle and Wolf were from top-class wealthy families in the States. This was because the two of them had talked about America the most during past meetings.

Her aunt abroad had mentioned before that Justin was the hardest person to deal with in the States, so she had once suspected that Justin was Eagle.

Out of everyone there, Eagle and Wolf had talked about America the most in recent years. Wolf was a little milder in nature while Eagle came across as a little aggressive and showed faint signs of becoming the No. 2 of the Imperial League.

Nora seldom spoke in the chat room. Over the years, she only used the information she got from here to make a bit of money. It was fine as long as she had enough to spend.

She didn’t have any grand ambitions. Being filthy rich and whatnot wasn’t a lifestyle suitable for her. Besides, it also affected her sleep.

She yawned and watched the people in the chat room talk about other industries next. Finally, King wrote: “We’ll end today’s meeting here.”

Everyone said goodbye.

Nora also finally sent her first message of the night:

Cat: ‘Goodbye.’

After sending the one-worded message, she closed the meeting webpage.

At the Hunts’.

Justin leaned on the desk and narrowed his eyes.

Rejecting the Lowe's investment proposal with the claim that he was in a bad mood was just an excuse.

In the near future, housing prices would develop steadily and would no longer soar like how they had in previous years. The real estate industry would also gradually become less profitable.

Why would he still invest in real estate at such a time?

He was about to leave the chat room when he suddenly saw the code name ‘Cat’, who rarely participated in the chat.

In the past, he didn’t take much notice of those who didn’t participate much in the chat.

Perhaps it was because he’d had a lot of contact with that woman recently, but when he saw the name, he suddenly thought of her.

She was always lazy and careless, yet also noble and elegant.

Even when she was gobbling down her food during meals, she never looked boorish.

That woman was just like a cat.

Justin shook his head. He was really overthinking things.

How could she possibly be in the Imperial League?

Imperial League members were either rich or noble.

They were people among the world’s wealthiest tycoons.

With that in mind, he left the chat room.

He then accompanied Pete for a while while he studied. When he found that his son’s personality seemed to have switched back again, Justin finally went to sleep with peace of mind.

In the middle of the night, the door suddenly opened.

Justin looked over to see a graceful figure draped in moonlight walking in elegantly.

It was actually Nora!

Justin was taken aback. “Why are you here?”

Nora smiled at him and laid down on the bed. She put both her legs up and looked at him coyly with her cat-like eyes. She said, “Mr. Hunt, I’ve liked you for a very long time. Let’s… give it a go?”

Then, she slowly placed her hand on his leg.

He, someone who had always been a man of abstinence, actually found himself somewhat unable to control himself at the moment.

Justin’s eyes suddenly flew open. When he realized that he was dreaming, he sat up in chagrin. After thinking to himself for a while, he went to the bathroom.

The next day.

Cherry got Tanya to take her to the Quinn School of Martial Arts first before sending her to class, with the excuse of ‘Mommy asked me to pass them something’.

There was no way Tanya could wake the sleeping Nora to ask her if it was true, so she took her there.

Pete was practicing martial arts at the Quinn School of Martial Arts today.

A while after Cherry ran in, Pete changed into the skirt and walked out awkwardly.

Tanya, who didn’t notice the child’s odd behavior, took Pete to the kindergarten just like that.

As soon as he entered the classroom, Sinead rushed straight up to him and shouted, “Cheryl! Brandon’s not going to let you off! You’ll definitely bark like a dog today! I’ll watch you become a joke and see you cry today, Cherry the Doggy!”

Chapter 95: How Do You Become A Boy?

Cherry the Doggy?

Pete’s expression immediately turned cold.

His big round eyes, which looked exactly the same as Cherry’s, were dark and somber.

He wasn’t someone who talked a lot, so he ignored Sinead and entered the classroom.

When Ms. Lynn saw him, she subconsciously walked over and gave him a hug. She even pinched his delicate and round cheeks and said, “Wow! Little Cherry looks even cuter today!”

Pete stiffened.

However, when he sensed Ms. Lynn’s kindness, Pete resisted the urge to push her away.

To be honest, he was indeed mildly autistic and disliked having physical contact with people, so he was an anomaly among the Hunts. He couldn’t even accept the occasional hug from his Great-Grandma.

However, it seemed like his level of tolerance had become much stronger after he found his mother and younger sister.

Just as he was about to reach his limit, Ms. Lynn finally let go of him. Pete breathed a sigh of relief, carried his stool over to the side, and sat down.

After a short while, another child came. After bringing his own stool over and sitting next to him, he took out some Mathematical Olympiad worksheets. Then, he said, “Good morning, Cherry.”

Pete glanced at him calmly and pursed his lips.

He must be the ‘very good-looking’ Seth Walker that Cherry mentioned, right?

He looked so small and skinny like a pretty boy. Why did Cherry even find him good-looking? Pete lowered his gaze and looked at the Mathematical Olympiad worksheets. “I heard that you’re very good at Mathematical Olympiad problems?”

Seth’s narrow eyes blinked. “So-so, I guess?”

“Oh.”

Pete opened his schoolbag, rummaged about in it, and took out a set of Mathematical Olympiad worksheets. He handed them to him and asked, “Can you solve these?”

Seth, “?”

He was taken aback.

When he took the worksheets from Pete and took a look at them, his expression became even more dazed. He shook his head and replied, “No, I can’t.”

“How stupid.” At this point, Pete suddenly remembered that he had to imitate Cherry’s way of talking, so he forcefully changed the rest of what he wanted to say and said, “I could already solve these problems a year ago… yeah!”

Seth, “??”

He wanted to say something, but Pete had already turned away. He said, “You can only sit next to me again when you can solve this set of problems… yeah!”

Cherry had definitely been duped by him. He wasn’t great at Mathematical Olympiad problems at all!

Seth, “!!”

Cherry had just picked him the day before. Was she already despising him now?

Before today, he had merely found Cherry cute and likable. However, at this moment, Seth felt that she practically couldn’t get any more outstanding.

Therefore, he would definitely sit next to her and ask her for advice!

Pete was completely unaware of what he was thinking.

The timetable set by the kindergarten was very packed. At about ten in the morning, the teacher allowed the children to rest.

Pete stood up, intending to go to the bathroom and relieve himself.

He was wearing a skirt. Instead of bouncing about like how Cherry walked, every step he took was very steady. After he exited the classroom, he subconsciously turned into the men’s toilet at the side.

Brandon, who had used the opportunity during rest time to come over and look for him, was puzzled.

He followed after Pete and entered the men’s toilet together with him. He was about to say something when he saw Pete standing there and peeing…

Brandon was stunned.

After Pete was done relieving himself, he turned and immediately saw Brandon staring at him, which startled him.

He suddenly realized that he should have gone to the women’s toilet instead!

With this, wasn’t the cat completely out of the bag now?

While he was trying to think of a way to explain and gloss over the topic, Brandon stretched out a trembling finger and pointed at him. He said, “Ah! Ahhh! Y-you really became a boy?!”

Pete, “?”

Brandon rushed forward and grabbed his hand. “You’re so amazing! You actually really became a boy! Can you also turn back into a girl?”

Pete replied, “… Yes, I can.”

Brandon’s eyes shone.

The little boy’s imagination was already running wild. He said, “So, Mommy was wrong! People can change their gender! Cheryl Smith, I declare that you’re my boss from now on!”

Pete, “…”

He felt that the boy might not be very mentally sound, so he circled around him and entered the classroom.

Sinead had been staring at him ever since the last period ended.

When she saw Brandon also going out of the classroom after Pete left, she immediately knew that he must have gone to intercept him.

With that, Cheryl would definitely cry.

She was happily imagining the scene when a voice suddenly reached her. “Boss, do you want water? I’ll pour a glass for you!”

“No, I don’t… yeah.”

Pete opened the door and entered the classroom after replying to him.

Sinead immediately saw Brandon following after him obsequiously.

“… Waaaa!!”

Sinead burst into tears at will.

“…”

There were no secrets among children.

In just a morning’s time, the way everyone looked at Pete had changed.

Every one of them had a look of amazement on their face as if saying, ‘Wow! Cheryl Smith is so amazing! She can conjure a little willy out of nothing!’

Pete turned a blind eye to their gazes and continued attending classes.

At the end of the first lesson in the afternoon, a small and skinny girl came up to him. The little girl was a little shorter and smaller than most kids and had delicate and lovely facial features. It was just that she had a

timid look in her eyes and her voice was also very soft. She said,“C-Cherry.”

Pete looked at her.

The little girl immediately lowered her head as if she didn’t dare to make eye contact with him. “M-my name is Mia Smith…”

She didn’t dare say anything more after that.

Pete had always treated everyone coldly, but the girl looked so frail and delicate. It was as if she would burst into tears from fear if he spoke even just a little louder.

He couldn’t help but frown. He said as mildly as possible, “Is something the matter?”

Mia Smith was Brandon’s cousin. She looked as if she would keel over the moment the wind blew. In a very small and soft voice, she asked, “Can you turn me into a boy, too?”

Pete, “?”

With a sullen expression, he explained with a straight face, “No, I can only switch my own gender… yeah.”

“Oh, I see.” Mia hung her head as if she was sorely disappointed. Even her eyes had turned red.

The way Sinead cried turned off people and disgusted them, but the way Mia looked at the moment, only filled one with sympathy.

Pete asked curiously, “Why do you want to become a boy?”

Mia bit her lip and answered, “Because my mom often says, ‘If only you were a boy’. I want to make her happy.”

After saying that, Mia left in disappointment.

Soon, school ended.

It was Tanya who came to pick him up again. Pete got into the car and made up an excuse that he had forgotten his books at the Quinn School of Martial Arts that morning, so he asked Tanya to take him there before going home.

In the distance.

“Mommy? Mommy?”

Mia called out softly. Only then did her mother, Hillary Jones, come back to her senses.

However, her gaze was still fixed on the car driving into the distance.

If her eyes weren’t deceiving her, that woman just now was Tanya… Why was she back?

Hillary clenched her fists.

Tanya, who was driving, wasn’t aware of this. After arriving at the Quinn School of Martial Arts, Pete hopped off the car and ran inside.

At the same time, another car was also parked at the side.

Justin had deliberately come a little earlier today. He strode into the Quinn School of Martial Arts.

Chapter 96: Live-Stream Face-off!

As soon as he entered, Justin saw a familiar figure running nimbly into the inner courtyard.

It was just that the person seemed to be wearing a skirt?

Justin’s expression suddenly darkened and he took two quick steps forward. He grabbed Pete and said grimly, “Pete, you…”

He looked at his son with a complicated look, wishing he could rip off the clothes on him!

It was all over.

His son’s condition had worsened again.

Pete, “??”

A sullen Justin picked up Pete and went out.

Tanya, who was waiting in the car, was taken aback when she suddenly saw him coming out with ‘Cherry’ in his arms. When she recovered from her astonishment, she hurriedly got out of the car and shouted, “What are you doing?”

Justin stopped and looked at her, puzzled.

Tanya was about to rush over and grab the child back.

How dare anyone abduct children like that in broad daylight? It was unforgivable!

But just as she was about to take a step forward, Pete shouted, “Daddy, what’s the matter with that lady?”

Tanya, “??”

‘Daddy’???

Before returning to the States, she had already heard from Nora that she had found her son. However, he was living with his father, so it wasn’t easy for her to take him back. Could he be Cherry’s father?

In the midst of her spacing out, she subconsciously glanced at the Quinn School of Martial Art's entrance again. That was when she saw Cherry, who was wearing boy's clothing, hiding behind the door frame and jumping up and down while waving at her.

After being stunned for a moment, Tanya finally said, “… Sorry, I mistook the two of you for someone else.”

Justin glanced at her and said nothing. With a frown, he led Pete into the car and left immediately.

After they left, Cherry ran out and said, “God-mom, you frightened the living daylights out of me! You almost exposed us~”

Tanya, “…”

On the way home, Cherry begged and wheedled, “Don’t tell Mommy, God-mom. She’ll get mad!”

Just as Tanya was about to say something, Cherry sighed and said, “You’re so beautiful, gentle, and understanding, so you’ll definitely agree to Cherry’s request, right? You won’t be able to bear watching Cherry suffer smacks on her bottom, right? I knew it! You’re the best godmother ever!”

“…”

Could Tanya refuse when she had already put it like that?

The pair returned to the Andersons after they reached an agreement.

As soon as they entered, they spotted Nora sitting on the swing in the yard, leaning against it while resting with her eyes closed.

Cherry, “…”

Likely because she heard the car, Nora slowly opened her eyes. Her eyelids were still droopy and her world-weary face looked exquisite and beautiful.

However, she looked at Cherry with a seemingly half-amused smile and said, “Cherry, your kindergarten teacher just called.”

Cherry, “??”

A slightly foreboding feeling formed in her and she thought to herself, ‘Surely not? There’s no way Pete would misbehave, right?’

She quickly lowered her head. “Mommy, I’m…”

Before she could utter the word ‘sorry’, she heard Nora say, “Your teachers sang your praises.”

Cherry, “??”

She immediately beamed and said, “Mommy, I’ve always been very outstanding! You don’t have to be so proud of me~”

Upon hearing that, Nora’s cat-like eyes narrowed and she said, “Uh-huh. To think I actually didn’t know that you’ve secretly learned how to solve Mathematical Olympiad problems at some point while I was raising you the last five years. Your

teachers said that they’ve sent an application for the Mathematical Olympiad competition on your behalf, so they want you to take part in it when the date arrives.Looks like you’ll have to practice your Mathematical Olympiad problem solving skills for an upcoming period of time.”

Cherry’s expression turned pitiful the moment she heard that she had to study. She thought to herself, ‘Sob! Pete, how could you!’

Mommy was so mean, too! She definitely knew what was going on, yet she simply didn’t expose her, so that she could force her to learn how to solve Mathematical Olympiad problems.

Cherry was so pitiful!

She hung her head and walked into the room with her shoulders drooping.

Before entering the living room, she also heard Nora say, “Oh, the teachers are also telling you not to spout nonsense in school anymore. Your classmate Brandon Smith heard from you that boys will become girls once they cut off their little willies, and then return to being boys once they grow out again, so when he went home… He almost mutilated himself.”

Cherry, “…”

Was he an i***t? How could he believe something like that???

“Are you an i***t? How can you believe something like that?!”

In the Smith's living room, Warren Smith, who was the second eldest in the family, was pulling Brandon by his ear and scolding him loudly. He

said, “It’s a good thing you were too much of a chicken, so you burst into tears from fright and didn’t dare do anything even though you were already holding the knife!

Otherwise, it would have been terrible!”

Despite being scolded, Brandon didn’t cry. He turned his face to the side, grabbed his father’s hand with his own little hands, and said, “But that’s what Cheryl Smith said. She was still a little girl yesterday, but she stood while she was peeing today! I saw it with my own eyes!”

Warren spanked him angrily again. “Are you still lying even at this point? You’re infuriating me!”

“I’m not lying! Everyone in the school knows about it, including Mia! You can ask her about it if you don’t believe me!”

As soon as he said that, Warren stopped what he was doing.

On the sofa, the seated Joel Smith narrowed his fox-like eyes.

When he heard what he said, he subconsciously looked at his daughter, who was in his arms, and asked, “Is he speaking the truth, Mia?”

Little Mia nodded and replied softly, “Yeah!”

Joel sounded a little concerned as he asked, “Did you also see her peeing while standing with your own eyes?”

Mia shook her head. “Nope~”

Only then did Joel breathe a sigh of relief. Then, he heard his daughter continue and say, “But she went to the boys’ toilet~ What a pity. Cheryl Smith says that she’s the only one who can switch her gender as and when she wants to. Other people can’t do it.”

Joel, however, narrowed his eyes when he heard her.

He quietly chatted with his daughter a little more before he got up and went to Hillary’s room.

Hillary was packing the room. When she heard the door opening, her eyes lit up and she said, “Joel, you’re her—”

Joel was amicable to everyone, but she was the only one to whom he was cold and frosty. He sneered, “Hillary, have you been spouting nonsense to Mia again?”

Otherwise, why would she find it a pity that she couldn’t turn into a boy?

Hillary’s eyes flickered a few times.

Then, she lowered her head and replied, “Joel, we’ve already been engaged for so many years, but you simply refuse to take me as your wife all this time. Is it because Mia isn’t a bo—”

However, before she could finish, Joel suddenly gripped her throat. The man had a terribly violent look in his eyes as if he wanted to kill her, frightening Hillary so badly that she couldn’t say even a word.

An icy Joel said, “Remember this, Hillary. Mia is my daughter. You’re not allowed to bully her!”

He turned and left the room after saying that.

Hillary gasped for air. She bit her lip hard but smiled after that. As long as he loved his daughter, it was all good.

As for Tanya… She cast her eyes down and let out a cold laugh.

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At the Andersons.

Cherry, who had finally dodged Mommy’s interrogation after much difficulty, entered the study with the mission of learning how to solve Mathematical Olympiad problems on her shoulders.

She stared at the Mathematical Olympiad problems in front of her. After five minutes of headache, she said, “It’s time for the live-stream. I’ll come back to the problems after live-streaming for a bit.”

She picked up her cell phone and opened the live-streaming app.

As soon as she did, she saw a large face-off interface splashed across her live-stream channel. It was hard for anyone to ignore even if they wanted to.

Cherry was dumbfounded.

What the heck was this????