When Hazel Sinclair heard this, she snorted.
“I don’t believe you.”
“You don’t have any money right now.”
“Not unless you can get it for me in two days.”
Leon Sterling immediately agreed.
“Okay, give me two days.”
Hearing how quickly he accepted, Hazel Sinclair froze for a moment.
‘Looks like two days was still too much time to give him.’
‘A Lolita dress that costs over four thousand, and he just agrees to buy it like that.’
Evelyn Kendrick, sitting across from her, heard their conversation and scoffed.
“It takes you two days to buy a dress?
Hazel Sinclair, have you really fallen this far?”
“Everything about you just screams ‘cheap.’ Your hair has gotten all dry and brittle, and that pretty face of yours has lost all its color.”
Evelyn Kendrick assessed her piece by piece, then narrowed her eyes, chuckled, and said, “Just say the words ‘I lose,’ and I’ll take care of you.”
Hearing this, Hazel Sinclair’s eyes lit up.
A beautiful, charming, gorgeous woman wanted to be her sugar mama.
It was hard for Hazel Sinclair not to be tempted.
Just as she was about to agree, the System suddenly appeared.
[Host, you must not!
You two are mortal enemies, sworn rivals who fight the moment you see each other.
How can you possibly become inseparable best friends?]
[This would be a serious violation of the original character’s persona and would cause an OOC event.]
Hazel Sinclair swallowed the words she was about to say, cursing the System viciously in her mind.
‘Stupid System, trying to ruin my life.’
Hazel Sinclair gave a haughty snort, lifting her chin to reveal the exact same arrogant and proud expression as the original owner.
“I would never lose to you.”
“Leon Sterling will get back on his feet.
You just wait and see.”
Leon Sterling, who hadn’t hung up the voice call yet, was deeply shaken to hear her unconditional faith in him.
‘So this is what Hazel Sinclair really thinks of me.
She’s always had faith in me.
All those times she called me useless, worthless, and a good-for-nothing who couldn’t earn money…
it was all to motivate me.’
Evelyn Kendrick’s voice came through the earpiece.
“You still believe in him?”
“You’d be better off believing in me.
At least my risk tolerance is higher than his, and I earn enough to support a bottomless pit like you for a lifetime.”
Hazel Sinclair thought about the magnificent feat of her rival transferring a hundred thousand dollars with a flick of her wrist, and her heart ached with regret.
‘I can let go of the original owner’s damn pride.’
Hazel Sinclair tried to reason with the System.
‘You’re not being fair.
The original owner was willing to sleep with those debauched rich heirs for money.
What’s so wrong with me saying ‘I lose’?’
[But the original owner always saw Evelyn Kendrick as a worthy rival.
Therefore, in front of Evelyn, her pride was higher than the heavens.
She could only win, never lose.]
Hazel Sinclair: …
‘I’ve got nothing.’
“Hmph, Leon Sterling will earn money too, and I’ll earn my own money in the future.
You just wait!” Hazel Sinclair retorted with another haughty snort.
“You can run a company, and I can earn enough to support myself.”
“We did graduate from the same university, after all.”
Hearing that she wanted to earn her own money, Leon Sterling quickly interjected, “You don’t need to earn money.
You can just stay at home and relax.”
“I’ll support you.”
His voice rang out, leaving both women on the call speechless.
“And how are you going to support her?” Evelyn Kendrick laughed, reaching for Hazel’s phone to ask him directly.
“Eating meals that cost a few hundred dollars, unable to afford a dress that costs a few thousand, and wearing cheap clothes from head to toe.”
“Is that what you call ‘supporting’ her?”
“Chairman Sterling, you’re as confident as ever.”
Leon Sterling arrived at the customer’s home.
He checked the order notes, took a photo, and knocked.
The customer opened the door and took the delivery.
With Evelyn Kendrick’s questions ringing in his ears, Leon Sterling couldn’t manage a single word in rebuttal.
“Get over your chauvinistic ideas.
Hazel Sinclair is brilliant.
She’ll succeed at anything she puts her mind to.” After saying this, Evelyn Kendrick hung up the phone.
Handing the phone back and noticing that she was still using an old model, Evelyn Kendrick took a sip of water and asked, “The new iPhone 17 Pro Max is out.
Aren’t you going to upgrade?”
‘The fully loaded version costs ten thousand dollars!’
Having gotten used to being poor, Hazel Sinclair couldn’t bear to spend the money.
She quickly made an excuse.
“It’s too expensive.
It’s hard for Leon Sterling to earn money.”
Evelyn Kendrick’s eyes widened when she heard this.
“You’ve fallen for him?”
“I admit the man is handsome and very capable, but his family background is lacking.
He’s not good enough for you,” Evelyn Kendrick said seriously.
“Snap out of it.”
The two of them browsed the mall a bit more.
With Evelyn Kendrick’s black card, Hazel Sinclair was suddenly flush with a host of new, stylish, and beautiful clothes and shoes.
Not only that, Evelyn also bought her tons of makeup, skincare products, hair oils, and perfume.
Watching her hand over the card without a second thought, Hazel Sinclair’s eyes turned into stars.
‘What do you do when your mortal enemy is this rich?’
When they parted ways, Evelyn Kendrick sat in the driver’s seat and looked at her.
She was wearing sunglasses, a confident smile on her face.
“Hazel Sinclair, if you’re in trouble, come find me.”
“Whether you’re looking for investment or starting a business, you can come to me.
I want to see what you’re capable of.”
“If you fail, you’ll just be another one of my defeated rivals.”
With that, Evelyn Kendrick drove away.
Meanwhile, Hazel Sinclair sat in a taxi, a smile playing on her lips as she thought about Evelyn Kendrick’s words.
‘She really is a woman who says one thing and means another.’
‘Since Evelyn has laid down the challenge, I can’t be a lazybones anymore.’
‘Social media world, here I come!’
She returned to her rental apartment carrying bags big and small, so hot she just collapsed on the sofa, unwilling to move.
After cooling down in front of the fan for a long time, Hazel Sinclair took a shower, put on makeup, and changed into her new clothes.
Looking at her reflection in the full-length mirror, Hazel Sinclair nodded in satisfaction.
‘Beautiful enough.’
She set up her phone, put on some music, and started dancing to the beat.
She danced it over and over again, only nodding in satisfaction on the tenth take.
‘That’s the one.’
She knew how to edit videos, create social media content, and do livestream sales.
She’d even been in a girl group, and on top of all that, she could act.
‘What choice did I have?
I was too poor, working several jobs a day.’
‘If you want to be a content creator, you need to know how to edit and produce high-quality videos.
I got into livestream sales because that’s where the money was.
And I learned to act back when I first entered the workforce, taking on cannon fodder roles on various film sets.’
‘There was a salary, and there was food.’
‘But they didn’t provide housing, and rent was a huge expense.’
That was how she’d hustled and scraped by, earning money to pay off her debts.
But in the end, the debts weren’t paid off, and she had worked herself to death from lack of rest.
Now, picking up her old trades again, Hazel Sinclair found it all came naturally.
When she posted it, she wrote the title: “Day 1 of Becoming a Content Creator in a Rental Apartment After Going Bankrupt.”
The title was explosive enough, and combined with the video of her dancing in a beautiful outfit, she figured it would probably go semi-viral.
After posting, Hazel Sinclair lay on the sofa like a salted fish.
After delivering his last order, Leon Sterling turned off the app and went to the grocery store to buy ingredients before heading home.
Just as he was leaving the market, he ran into Jill Kensington.
“Hey, we meet again.” Jill Kensington walked over and greeted him, feigning a familiar air.