Since he was such a high-society elite.
Surely, four hundred million wasn't asking too much, right?
If he couldn't even scrounge up that much, what kind of billionaire was he?
"Serena! Serena!"
Seeing her, Adrian's eyes instantly lit up with desperate hope.
He called out to her frantically, waving his hands.
If the oversight guards hadn't been blocking him, he would have thrown his pride away and crawled to her feet to beg.
She was so powerful now.
She could operate the only Sovereign-X Dragon in the country, and she had the absolute respect of Mr. Harrison, who treated her like a scientific oracle.
If... if she was willing to help him.
If she could just ask Mr. Harrison to intervene.
Wouldn't this four-hundred-million-dollar debt be wiped clean?
Then he wouldn't have to face the consequences?
"Serena, you have to save me!" he screamed, his voice cracking with desperation.
Lydia glanced over. "Captain, he's begging you."
Serena lazily lifted her gaze, giving Adrian a passing glance.
She didn't say a word.
Her sheer indifference sent Adrian into a blind panic. "Serena, please, for the sake of what we used to have, help me!"
"You're close with Mr. Harrison! If you just say the word, if you just ask him to step in and explain things..."
"Help me! If you just help me, my family and I will be eternally grateful. I'll give you whatever you want!"
"I promise! I promise from now on I'll listen to you, I'll be your faithful servant. I won't even mind what you have going on with... with Nicholas! As long as you save me, I won't care about any of it..."
His pathetic groveling earned shocked stares from the surrounding competitors, all eyes shifting toward Serena.
Ever since Adrian had arrived on the island, he had put on the ultimate billionaire playboy act.
Every word out of his mouth had been dripping with arrogance.
Whenever he interacted with Serena, he acted like a delusional narcissist.
Believing that every woman in the world was hopelessly obsessed with him.
Yet here he was...
Tsk, tsk.
He really did look like a pathetic stray dog.
In the face of Adrian's desperate begging, Serena didn't even twitch an eyebrow. She just stood there, exuding a lazy, relaxed aura, watching him with calm
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A memory flickered in her mind-four years ago, the day the Wynn family finally
brought her back to Vaelion City.
It was pouring rain.
She had stood outside the Wynn estate.
Listening to the laughter echoing inside, completely forgotten in the torrential downpour.
It was Adrian who had walked up to her, extending a hand, and said, 'Welcome home, my little fiancée.'
It was only because of that one sentence.
That the Wynn family finally acknowledged her existence, granting her a place in the household.
But later, he placed himself on a pedestal, looking down on the
country girl raised by her
grandmother in the sticks, refusing to even look her in the eye.
He got together with Hailey Wynn, criticizing Serena at every turn, his words laced with pure disgust.
And now.
He was groveling at her feet, pathetically begging her to save him, to help him. Serena's crimson lips slowly curved upward.
She smiled.
It was a breathtaking, radiant smile, yet it radiated a chill that made everyone's heart skip a beat.
"Adrian."
She spoke slowly, her voice impossibly light. "Didn't you say I was just a country girl waiting for you to save me?"
"Didn't you say that as long as I submitted, you would protect me?"
She arched an eyebrow. "So why is it that the great Mr. Cole is now
begging this country bumpkie!
a drowning dog?