After quickly eating breakfast, Cierra's dad had already left for work. Luckily, she remembered that Cynthia's online novel seemed to be wildly imaginative but based entirely on their family. Cynthia had a major flaw—she was too lazy to come up with names and character backgrounds.
The supporting female character in the novel was named Cierra, and coincidentally, her mom was also named Cynthia. Perhaps when Cynthia was writing, she was a bit sloppy with the setting, making the character a carefree housewife.
In the novel, Cierra's dad was also named Louis, which sounded very king-like, but he was a 80% match to Louis's real dad. Her dad, after gaining weight, was unkempt with a scruffy face. Both in the novel and in real life, he was a high-ranking executive in a tech company, living a hidden yet mundane life, often found lazily sprawled on the couch when seen.
Since Cierra was just a supporting character at the beginning of the novel, Cynthia hadn't put much effort into detailing her brothers. This left Cierra deeply concerned about her elder brother Colt and younger brother Dallas's futures in the novel, uncertain of what fate had befallen them.
"Mom, where's Colt?" Cierra asked cautiously.
Cynthia walked over to Cierra and touched her forehead. "Hmm? No fever. How did you suddenly lose your memory?"
"......"
"Colt is working at aviation center now! Did you forget?"
Aviation center? Cierra held her cheek in disbelief!
Colt, the one who barely made it into his second-choice high school and got into a national university's atmospheric science department because of his passionate love for outer space, really ended up at Colt?
Suddenly, she felt like worshipping Cynthia. Thankfully, she didn't succumb to laziness all at once and give up on Colt."
"What about Dallas—"
"Dallas went to class," Cynthia said with a face full of pity before Cierra could finish asking. "He's in medical school and only has time to come home on weekends. If you're really not feeling well, it's okay to lie down again."
Dallas had always been particularly interested in insects and creatures that died on the ground for no reason. Cierra remembered when he was a child, he once dissected dead beetles and lizards with a knife and fork, a scene that still made her scalp tingle.
Dallas holding a scalpel—Cierra glanced at Cierra and thought, it really isn't out of place at all!
But suddenly, Cierra's eyes widened—Avian center and medical school?
Doesn't that mean out of the three siblings, only she had this love bounty hunter job, and she had always had the best grades among them, Their grades are far worse than his. Why did it feel like they both had bright futures while she was stuck as a love bounty hunter? This job sounded like some sort of gig work, and the main point was that she was just a supporting character—a supporting character, a supporting character!
She suddenly remembered the conversation with Cynthia when she was in sixth grade. Cynthia said that even if you had fair skin, beauty, and long legs, so what? In the end, a supporting character was still just a supporting character.
Supporting character! Ugh! Cierra stomped her foot in anger. "Mom, am I really your biological child?"
"What now? Of course you are. Why are you suddenly asking that?" Cierra sighed, walked over to Cynthia, and hugged her. "Sweet daughter, tell me, what's going on with you today?"
Smelling the familiar, reassuring scent, Cierra finally started to feel a bit better. She snuggled into Cynthia's arms, feeling wronged. She felt that her mom clearly favored her more. Were all those sweet words Cynthia had said to her in the past lies? Was she actually an old-fashioned soul who favored boys over girls?
"Why am I doing this bounty hunter job?" Cierra pouted. What she really wanted to ask was, why did Cynthia write her into such a profession?
"Silly child, what are you talking about? Did you forget how many competitors you beat to get this job? H Trust is a multinational corporation, and you haven't been in the industry for long. Your annual salary is almost the same as your dad's. When the position in the Northeast's Love Trust Department was first released, countless lawyers, models, and flight attendants were eager to try. Yet, it was my genius daughter who got it first. How could you forget all this?"
Cynthia held Cierra's head with both hands, standing up to examine her head from all sides, making sure it was intact before feeling a little relieved.
"H Trust?" Cierra was stunned. How could Cynthia make this company sound like a scam syndicate? People working under a scam syndicate would all be fraudsters. So, being a love bounty hunter is actually no different from a cheater?
Cierra frowned, feeling far from comforted. She got up dejectedly and headed to her room. "I'll go upstairs first."
"Remember, if you're not feeling unwell, go through the new client's information. Mom remembers you used to prepare thoroughly before starting work."
"Yes, yes." Cierra suddenly felt her future was bleak. It was already baffling to cross into her mom's novel, but what was even more maddening was her mom's rambling. Yesterday, she read half of the online novel and hadn't even gotten to the main points. All she knew was that the male lead was named Basil, which sounds just like a seasoning that my mom loves to use when cooking. The female lead was Lettie, which sounded like some kind of vegetable...
She read the novel with her eyes rolling all the time, but she still didn't know how the plot of this damned online novel would develop in the end.
