Boyfriend and Bestie Schemed for My Fortune; Comments Crushed Them

I brought the online boyfriend I'd finally met in person to meet my best friend, and the second the two of them latched onto my arms and refused to let go,

I suddenly saw the comments scrolling across my vision.

【The male and female leads of this possessive-romance finally meet! The moment the male lead lays eyes on the female lead, he wants to lock her away and keep her all to himself!】

【From now on the two of them will play out she-runs-he-chases right in the female side character's mansion, and she'll have nowhere to escape! Just thinking about it is such a rush!】

【Sure, the male lead marries the female side character, but only to get his hands on her family fortune and clean up the female lead's family troubles! Suffering all this for love, I could honestly cry!】

【Anyway, the female side character gets poisoned to death at thirty, so we'll just have to grit our teeth and wait it out!】

Huh?

A poor man who needed me to buy his plane ticket before he could even show up in person.

A scholarship girl who only finished college because I funded her.

Two broke people, staging a possessive-abduction drama inside my big mansion. Did anyone ask my permission?

......

From the comments, I gathered that I was the villainess of a possessive-romance novel.

My boyfriend, Sylvester Delgado, the male lead, had fallen hopelessly for my best friend, Penelope Fox, that pitiful little scholarship flower.

He'd swallow his pride and marry me, then coldly order Penelope not to marry anyone until he'd made his name.

And Penelope, torn with guilt over the betrayal, would help Sylvester poison me anyway.

After my death, the two of them would go through a whole tug-of-war and finally end up together.

Reading the whole thing through, all I saw was me dating and marrying like a normal person.

I gave Sylvester his connections. I gave Penelope a comfortable, well-off life.

And in the end I somehow became the villainess?

In front of me, the two of them caught the change in my face and grabbed my hands at the same time.

"Leah Pruitt, are you not feeling well? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Looking at the two of them, eyes brimming with worry, I started to doubt whether those comments were even real.

I'd been in an online relationship with Sylvester for two years, and the whole time he'd coddled me over everything, putting up with all my spoiled-heiress moods.

If I didn't text back within seconds, he'd bombard me with a flood of apology videos.

Not to mention Penelope, who treated me like her whole salvation and said "having Leah is my good fortune" every single day.

Last year, when a test wrongly flagged me for kidney failure, she'd all but begged to give me one of her kidneys on the spot.

【The female side character's loving all this flattery, isn't she! I hate people like her, a little money and they act like they own everyone!】

【The male and female leads only want her money. To confirm each other's feelings, they'll push the female lead to take the overseas transfer any second now!】

The next second, Sylvester spoke up.

"Are you still on the fence about the transfer? It's not a bad growth opportunity!"

Penelope leaned against my shoulder and said, half wheedling,

"Don't worry about me, I can keep an eye on the house for you!"

The transfer was to Manhattan, where I'd meet a lot of major players. A rare chance.

I'd only hesitated because I was worried the two of them wouldn't get along at the house.

Well then.

I took a deep breath and curved my lips.

"Then I'll leave the house to you two."

After sending the housekeeper the order to install whole-house surveillance,

I took Sylvester and Penelope out shopping at the mall until nightfall.

【Here it comes, here it comes! The male lead poisons the female side character three times total, and today's the first!】

【To find out whether the female lead fell for him at first sight, the male lead can't wait to slip the female side character sleeping pills today, then trots off to grill her about it!】

My eyes darkened.

Sylvester carried in a glass of milk and stepped into my room.

"During our online days we basically chatted at two or three in the morning, so I know you sleep badly. Drink some warm milk!"

His voice was gentle as he crouched down by my knees.

So impatient.

He hadn't even wiped the white powder clean off the rim of the glass.

I'm not a patient person.

I don't give third chances.

"Set the milk down. You can go."

Sylvester pulled me into his arms, and my nose caught a sharp whiff of Penelope's perfume on him.

"I know you're upset that we just met and now we'll be apart for half a month. I'll video-call you every day and check in, just like when we were dating online!"

Who wants a man who's already about to go filthy?

I pushed him away gently and reminded him, "Penelope scares easily. Take good care of her."

Sylvester beamed and nodded again and again.

His steps were quick, even as he pretended he couldn't bear to leave, and walked out of my room.

I poured out the milk and pulled up the hallway camera.

Sylvester had backed Penelope into a corner, his voice hoarse.

"I can't help it. The first moment I saw you, I knew you were meant to be my woman!"

Penelope, her voice thick with tears, said, "We can't betray Leah like this!"

Even as her hand was already fisting the front of Sylvester's shirt.

After the kiss, the veins on the back of Sylvester's hand stood out.

"I'll build a hidden room in this mansion, and I'll lock you away in it. You'll belong to me alone!"

Illegally remodeling my mansion?

I smiled.

Since they loved playing this game so much, I'd let them have it.

I'd send them both behind the same set of iron bars, with a pair of silver bracelets thrown in.