“What’s your name?”
“My name?”
“Yes. I told you mine, so you should tell me yours.”
Right now, Delina was supposed to not know Noah’s name. So Delina naturally tried to use a voice command, but Noah shook his head slightly.
“I won’t tell you.”
“What? Why?”
“My name is very expensive. If you want to know, pay me.”
“…….”
Right. I almost forgot. If Bensent was mad for devices or experiments, this one was…
Mad for money.
“Is there no way to know without money?”
She also had a feeling that she should just say she knows hypnotism and call his name, but somehow the persistence not to tell it made her obstinate.
“Expensive things work too.”
“No, not material things like that. There are things in the world that money can’t buy.”
“What can’t you buy with money?”
“Um. For example…”
Indeed. What can’t you buy?
Trying to somehow beat Noah, Delina desperately racked her brains and answered.
“Like a person’s heart? You can’t buy that with money.”
It was a somewhat considered answer, but Noah spoke with a mocking expression.
“Why can’t you buy it? You can buy it with money.”
“What?”
“If I hold 100 million gold in front of me right now, my heart will beat right away.”
Completely unexpected words left Delina’s mouth slightly open for a moment.
This kid. Already understanding such worldly wisdom… No, no, no.
Almost unknowingly nodding her head, Delina barely came to her senses.
“No. That’s only good at first, not always good.”
“Then, just keep giving 100 million every time it feels good.”
“……No, no, there’s something you can’t buy.”
With the way things are going, I think I’ll be defeated, so Delina pointed to herself.
“Me!”
“…….”
“I can’t be bought with money.”
At Delina’s confident gesture, Noah slowly blinked his eyes.
“Really won’t your heart beat? Even if I give you 100 million?”
“Yes.”
“1 billion?”
“Yes, obviously.”
“10 billion?”
“…….”
Calm down, heart.
Imagining the sum that made her heart beat even thinking about it, Delina tried to manage her expression. At her face, Noah raised the corners of his mouth.
“You look too good for that.”
“No. It’s just that something good happened.”
“Then if I tell you my name, are you coming to me instead of money?”
“……?”
At Noah’s words, Delina reflexively stepped back and pressed against the mirror.
“Why, why is the conversation going that way?”
“That’s because you said you’re a valuable person that can’t be bought with money, so you have to come for the value of my name.”
Suddenly being on the verge of being sold, Delina quickly shook her head.
“No. Thinking about it, I’m not curious about your name. I’ll just make up a name and call you that.”
“What name?”
“What… like Dick or James or something?”
As Delina continued to speak, Noah looked at his watch and soon narrowed his eyes.
“I’d love to talk more, but I have to go now. You should go too.”
“Oh, okay. But I’m curious… is this passage something you made?”
“Yes, I paid for it to be made. A space of my own.”
……How much does one have to pay to create a secret passage in the Duke of Ulfrim’s house?
Delina quietly estimated the amount in her head, struck by Noah’s spending, which was on a different level.
“Come to think of it, I was going to go look for you.”
“…….”
“I have no idea what happened in the exam hall that day. And it’s not like the witnesses can be bought off with money.”
At Noah’s words, Delina quickly averted her eyes.
“How much do I have to pay for you to tell me instead?”
“……I can’t tell you. It’s a lifelong secret of the family.”
“Yeah. Well, I expected that anyway.”
As much as she loved money, it was not worth her life. Noah chuckled at Delina’s firm words.
“My name’s Noah.”
And then he revealed his name. Delina blinked at his attitude of casually telling her.
“You’re just telling me?”
“Yeah. The name you said, it’s totally lame.”
“…….”
“I’ll collect the value of my name later, okay?”
Delina was about to stammer something in astonishment at that moment. The mirror against which Delina had leaned rotated, and just like that, with a springing motion, Delina was thrown into the playroom.
“Hold on……!”
How much is the value of a name?
Delina hurriedly got up and struck the mirror with her hand.
“Hold on, hold on! I actually knew your name, you know? It’s a poison technique, a family secret that neither the daughterinlaw nor the soninlaw knows……! It’s true!”
Delina clung to the mirror, moving her hands this way and that, but the mirror no longer moved.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
