CHAPTER 48: 48. THE TALENT

"Do you have a problem, Liz?" Riki asked immediately after class ended.

Liz, who was packing her things into her bag, turned to Riki and smiled.

"A problem? What human being doesn’t have problems, Riki? And one of my problems is that the person I like seems to be playing with me... he makes me fly high, then knocks me down quickly, but then makes me soar high again." Liz turned to Riki, looking at him with her sweet smile.

"Are you in love with someone, Liz?" asked Riki, confused by the girl’s words.

[She’s talking about you, master. Why can’t you understand something this simple?]

Riki raised an eyebrow, not believing that the system had just said to him. It seemed like the system was fed up with the way Riki’s brain worked, taking a long time to understand a girl’s words.

"Forget it, actually, I’m thinking about a lot of things, one of which is... what talents I have. I feel like I can do many things, but I don’t feel like I’m good at everything I do. My abilities in the things I like are, in my opinion, only average," said the girl.

Riki nodded, trying to understand what the girl was saying, but he was always distracted by her beauty.

"What are the things you like, and what do you like the most?" asked Riki.

Liz sighed deeply, then tried to think, "Like gardening, I do it to relieve stress, and I like it. When the flowers grow and bloom beautifully, or when the seeds I plant grow well. But I also know that I’m not very good at it. Then, I also like making clothes. My mother is a designer and has her own boutique. She taught me how to design my own clothes and sew them myself. But I also know I’m not an expert at that either. Just like my other hobbies, such as knitting, singing, dancing, traveling, songwriting, and my new hobby lately, which is learning makeup. Actually, what I like most is singing or songwriting at certain times. Well, even though I realize that my abilities are average."

Riki was silent at that moment, staring at the girl. Liz looked sad, but also enthusiastic at the same time. It made Riki realize that Liz’s problem at that moment was just to convince herself that she could be better than others.

No wonder when Riki said that Liz was prettier than Hannah, the mission was immediately successful.

And it seemed that Liz needed encouragement from others to tell her that she also had talent in certain fields.

"Then, how about we find out if you really are talented or not," said Riki.

Liz looked at Riki with her enthusiastic gaze, which was adorable.

"Like... how?"

"Show me how you sing."

Suddenly Liz became nervous, even though Riki’s smile had made her feel more relaxed.

"But not here... I’ll show you somewhere else," said Liz.

Riki nodded, "Okay, let’s go to the park. I’m sure there won’t be many people there."

Liz shook her head shyly, "How about we go to the roof instead? There won’t be anyone there."

The roof?

The university building certainly had a roof, and it was quite an interesting place. There was a mini garden up there, and even a mini vegetable garden. It was equipped with several solar panels, which helped with the electricity problem.

However, no one knew who started it, but there was a horror story about that place. Because of the horror story rumors, even the garden and vegetable garden had been neglected for several months. Riki didn’t know if the plants there could survive or not.

But one thing was for sure, it was very quiet there. Because the place had become haunted, even though the horror story was just a rumor.

"Of course."

Riki and Liz went up to the roof, unaware that someone was following them.

Of course, it was Hannah.

Hannah just didn’t like seeing Liz take Riki away from her, even though she was the one who dumped Riki. But as if she had amnesia, Hannah didn’t remember that she was the one who cheated first.

Hannah felt a chill when she found out that Riki and Liz had gone to the roof of the building. But she tried to keep following them, even though she was scared. If the two of them went to a secluded place like that, Hannah was sure that they would do something indecent.

Moreover, she had heard earlier that Liz was going to show Riki something there.

What a bitch. Hannah knew that Liz was definitely a cheap woman; she even made her cousin break up with Riki.

Hannah, who was happy that she could embarrass the two of them after this, chose to do a live broadcast on the most popular social media platform.

Hannah had always been very active on social media, so she had quite a lot of followers. Because Hannah was very beautiful, and she also often flexed her wealth. Even though everything she showed off was Anton’s wealth, Anton’s gifts... and everything Anton owned.

Even so, she also often showed off Riki as her boyfriend in the early days of their relationship. Because Riki was handsome, of course. But she soon stopped showing off Riki when she found someone richer than him, namely Anton.

Riki didn’t know anything about it, because he didn’t have time for social media.

By doing a live broadcast, people would quickly see the embarrassing things that Riki and Liz would do.

Hannah was sure her live broadcast would be a sensation.

Hannah did a live broadcast while secretly recording Riki and Liz there.

"I’m not sure, Riki..." said Liz.

"It’s okay, relax, Liz, I know you can do it. If you’re embarrassed, then I’ll never know if you’re talented or not," said Riki.

Liz closed her eyes, cleared her throat several times until her nervousness disappeared. Then she started singing.

Hannah, confused as to why Liz was singing instead of taking off her clothes, just stood there silently, lost.

Liz’s melodious voice was loud. It was very soft and clear. Liz’s singing voice was like a gentle breeze or a river flowing in the countryside. It was soothing, but also powerful at the same time.

Riki was speechless when he heard it.

How could this girl say she wasn’t talented when she could sing such a difficult song, with its various difficult high notes, so effortlessly? It was as if the song wasn’t difficult at all.

Even though Riki and Hannah didn’t know much about singing, they knew Liz was using great vocal techniques.

Hannah was stunned at that moment.

Damn it.

The live broadcast was indeed crowded with viewers, but that was because of Liz’s extraordinary voice. It wasn’t because of the indecency that Hannah had thought of earlier.

Viewers in the comments started asking who the girl with the beautiful singing voice was. People began to recognize Liz.

Was Hannah helping that girl become famous?

Oh, damn it.

Hannah turned off the live broadcast and immediately left before she got even more annoyed.

Now, everything seemed to have turned around. In the past, Hannah was the one who received a lot of praise because she was beautiful, friendly, and had a great style...

Hannah could also bully rich girls like Liz because of her slightly chubby body, calling her fat, and also laughing at her for liking Hannah’s boyfriend at the time, Riki.

But suddenly Liz became slimmer and healthier. Liz’s appearance became fresher and more beautiful with a light touch of makeup. She also turned out to have such an extraordinary singing talent.

Damn it!

"Where have you been?"

Hannah stopped when she saw Anton waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs.

"None of your business!" Hannah tried to get past Anton, but he quickly grabbed her hand.

"Let go of me, Anton!"

"Why are you covering your face like that? Don’t tell me you just had plastic surgery! My credit card that you’re holding also has a lot of charges, Hannah! Quickly return my credit card!"

Hannah quickly racked her brains, not wanting to lose Anton again.

She grabbed Anton’s arm and hugged him.

"Come on, Anton... you’ll be happy if I’m prettier than Angeline and Liz, right? Then, we have to work together to get back at Riki for always embarrassing us."

Anton pushed Hannah’s hand away and glared at her.

"Stop acting up! If you still want to be with me, be a calm and nice girl. Stop bothering Riki, because he now has a lot of money. He even bought a mansion for ten million dollars! He even bought back the shares of the company that used to belong to his father. You’d be stupid to do anything to him, because you’ll definitely get karma again."

Hannah, who didn’t want to give up, grabbed Anton’s hand again.

"Then I won’t bother him anymore. But help me, Anton! I have to become an idol now!"

Anton furrowed his brow, confused by Hannah’s strange request.

"What are you saying just now?"

"Come on! I want to surpass Angeline and Liz! You’ll help me, right?"

Anton finally gave in. He felt like a fool who was still trapped with Hannah.

"Okay, but promise to do it well, okay?"