She Asked Us to Give Up SATs for a Million-Dollar Promise Chapter 07

She Asked Us to Give Up SATs for a Million-Dollar Promise Chapter 07

Ethan tightened his arm around Stella’s shoulders and turned to the camera, his expression darkening completely.

“Evelyn is just too full of herself. She thinks getting into college makes her better than everyone else. She has no idea that each of us will get ten million dollars just for skipping the SATs. Ten million dollars. She could work for the rest of her life and never make that much.”

“At the end of the day, Evelyn is short-sighted. She missed her chance to rewrite her fate, and she’ll spend the rest of her life regretting it.”

I watched the livestream and only smiled when I heard that.

Spend the rest of my life regretting it?

I was not the one who would end up regretting this.

Not many people in the livestream were swayed by them either. Most of the comments were dripping with sarcasm.

[Oh my God. These four have actually lost their minds.]

[Right? Ten million dollars? Do they even know how much money that is?]

[Did they get scammed? Has anyone called the police?]

Seeing those comments only made Stella and the others more confident.

Stella wiped away tears that didn’t exist and straightened her back, her eyes shining with undisguised, crazed certainty that victory was already hers.

“Hmph. Since none of you believe us, I’ll show you.”

The moment she said that, the comments went wild, flying so fast they were almost impossible to read.

[LMAO. Legendary.]

[Waiting for this to blow up in their faces. I don’t believe there’s any such thing as a System.]

[What if it’s real? There’s always a bunch of NPCs in novels who don’t believe the main characters, only to get slapped in the face over and over.]

[The most important thing these four can do right now is delete Wattpad off their phones.]

I leaned back against the sofa, my heartbeat thundering.

Here it came.

Here it finally came.

Stella and the others were about to take the stupidest, most irreversible step of all.

At the same time, Stella had already pointed her phone screen at the camera. The app with the solid black icon appeared in front of everyone.

The corner of her mouth curved up. In that moment, her ego was completely fed.

“See? This is the Skip-the-SATs Get-Rich System I’m bound to.”

Ethan, Mason, and Logan all stared greedily and feverishly at Stella’s phone.

The app launched.

As always, a mandatory thirty-second ad popped up first.

A tacky, melodramatic short-video sound effect rang through the livestream.

The four of them showed no embarrassment or discomfort at all. They simply waited in silence.

They looked like the most devout believers being granted the honor of gazing upon their god.

After the thirty-second ad ended, the screen went black. Then glowing rainbow-colored text appeared again.

[Get-Rich Mission activated!]

[Mission One: You have to give something up to gain something bigger. Skip the SATs and receive ten million dollars!]

[Mission Progress: SAT-skipping confirmed. Daily check-ins completed. Mission complete. Preparing to issue reward. 60, 59, 58, 57…]

Ethan leaned closer to the camera, his voice trembling with excitement.

“See that? This is the System Stella is bound to. It’s absolutely real.”

Mason and Logan, meanwhile, stared fixedly at the countdown screen and swallowed hard.

The livestream went silent for a few seconds. Then a few scattered comments appeared, things like [They’ve completely lost it.] and [Isn’t this just malware?]

Stella giggled and only said, “I get it. You’re all just jealous.”

Smug and triumphant, she stared at the countdown with crazed, greedy eyes.

[8, 7, 6… 2, 1!]

In that instant, all four of them held their breath.

I clenched my phone and leaned closer to the screen.

The next second, firework effects exploded across the phone screen. They were cheap, dollar-store-looking effects.

But before Stella and the others could celebrate for long, the screen flashed again, and gorgeous glowing text appeared once more.

[Congratulations, host. You have been awarded ten million dollars. Mission reward has been issued. Please claim it promptly.]

The livestream went completely quiet.

Ethan was the first to react. At a loss, he stared at his account balance.

“The money… didn’t come in?”