Chapter 11

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Time passed by slowly, but Thomson did not panic. Even Alice had long given up.

She looked at Thomson, thinking that they could go home in a while.

Thomson was calm because he knew that Little Gates would not go against him no matter what. He would definitely send money over.

“Ding! 100 million dollars has been transferred.”

Suddenly, the crowd burst into laughter again.

“Hahaha, did I hear that correctly? One dollar? Who did you borrow it from? It can’t be a primary school student, right?”

“This is too funny. He borrowed one dollar. For the guaranteed 50,000 dollars, he doesn’t even care about his dignity.”

“This brother is shameless. If it were me, I wouldn’t be willing to do such a shameful thing even if I don’t have any money.”

The host slowly approached the two of them to confirm the actual situation.

Thomson was also very confused at the moment, and he looked very lost. He thought he had only asked Gates to transfer some money to him, so why did he transfer so much? This just made things difficult for him.

Thomson showed the host his phone when the latter was approaching. The receipt message indeed showed that he had received 100 million dollars. Unable to accept this sudden turnaround, the host felt so dizzy that he fell to the ground carelessly.

When the director saw the scene, he immediately sent two staff members to take care of the host. He also arranged for other technicians to check the transaction. 

At the same time, the audience was puzzled. What was on the phone to have shocked the host so much?

“What’s going on? Could it be that this guy has tons of savings?”

“Didn’t he just borrow one dollar? What’s the fuss about?”

“Could it be that this guy is a fugitive? This is big news.”

Alice was also very puzzled. She, too, heard that Thomson had only borrowed one dollar, which was a very funny thing. However, she did not show it because she was considerate of Thomson’s feelings.

The host stood up with the help of two staff members and said in a trembling voice, “Thomson borrowed 100 million dollars.”

The audience burst into an uproar.

“Is this program treating us like fools? Do you think we’d believe such nonsense?”

“Did the host wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? He’s crazy. Doesn’t the program team check the host’s health condition?”

The audience unanimously believed that Thomson was just a gigolo. Never in a million years would they believe that he had borrowed 100 million dollars.

In the audience’s eyes, it was as comical as saying that a beggar was a billionaire.

The director and the staff did not believe it either. They were all anxiously waiting for the final verification.

At this time, Mr. Gates was sitting in his Rolls-Royce. Having already transferred 100 million dollars, he heaved a sigh of relief. However, he could not help but feel a lingering fear in him about what had happened.

Seeing his boss so nervous, Michael was very puzzled, and he quickly asked, “What happened, Chairman? What exactly happened?”

Little Gates had calmed down, but he was not in the slightest bit happy. He questioned, “I asked you if someone called me, and didn’t you say that there was no one?”

“I’m sorry, Chairman. I really didn’t think there was a need to tell you that a swindler called. I didn’t know that the person who called to borrow money was a VIP. This won’t happen again.”

“Stop the car now.”

When the driver heard this, he immediately pulled the car over, not daring to delay.

“Get out of the car!”

Michael panicked. “I’m sorry, Chairman. I really didn’t do it on purpose. This will not happen again in the future. Please give me another chance.”

He realized now that he had gotten into big trouble, and he was about to lose his job.

“I’ll say that again. Get out of the car now and disappear from my sight. I don’t want to see you ever again.” Mr. Gates, who usually kept his cool, shouted with a gloomy face.

Michael had to get out of the car.

Then, Mr. Gates immediately asked the driver to drive away, leaving Michael alone.

Michael was in despair. His job was many people’s dream, and his annual salary was three to four million. As the assistant of one of the wealthiest people, he had long been accustomed to a luxurious life, yet just like that, he had lost everything.

Moreover, that stain of Mr. Gates’s firing him could never be washed away. From now on, it would be difficult for him to survive in this industry. As the saying went, it was easy to go from frugality to extravagance but difficult when it was the other way around. No matter what, he could not accept the fact that he had to give up his current life and start living an ordinary one.

In order to keep up with his extravagant life in the future, Michael would probably have to do some illegal things, and by then, he would most likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

At that moment, the driver in the car asked Mr. Gates, “Chairman, how do you want to deal with him?”

“I don’t want to see him ever again. I want him to disappear from my sight forever!”

As for Mr. Gates, he was no longer in the mood to discuss matters with his partners. All he wanted was to figure out how to explain everything to Mr. Gates. He had to be responsible for these matters.

At the live show, the audience was starting to distrust the program team, who was making a fool of themselves since they could not even report the data correctly. 

The director did not look happy either. If this show were to go on like this, it would be ruined. Hence, he urged his subordinates to verify the matter.

The staff member picked up Thomson’s phone and could not hold back his shock. “One… 100 million dollars. Contestant Thomson borrowed 100 million dollars.”

The host might have seen it wrongly, but how could it be that someone else did as well?

Upon hearing the staff member’s report, everyone present was dumbfounded. The entire venue burst into an uproar.

“Do you guys think we’re idiots? It usually takes a few days in advance to borrow a few hundred thousand dollars, but you managed to do it this time. Are you kidding me?”

“You guys really know how to lie to us. You just said he borrowed 100 million dollars without even showing us the evidence. You’re bluffing.”

The audience’s reaction was understandable. After all, for an ordinary person, to be able to borrow 100,000 to 200,000 was already very impressive. Hence, to borrow 100 million this time was beyond their imagination.

They could only earn 100 million dollars over several lifetimes, so they could not relate to it at all. 

Only then did the staff display Thomson’s phone screen on the big screen. The audience was very shocked, and they were now forced to believe it no matter what because the transaction notification was there.