Four years ago, she was seventeen, just an ordinary junior student at Southern County No.1 High School.
Back then, she had a complete family, loving parents, and she lived without worries.
But all that came to an abrupt end four years ago.
When the Golden Era Consortium decided to select the Rainflower District, where her family lived, to build the Golden Era Building, her once complete family started to fall apart.
Her mother resolutely refused to move out of the home she was emotionally attached to, but Golden Era relentlessly pressured them.
Sophie Smith vividly remembers Asher Land, dressed in a tailored suit, standing in her home's cramped living room.
He was like Lord Asura from Hell, too terrifying to approach.
"If you're not willing, then just die." That was the first thing he said.
She hid in a small corner of the living room, her head down, body shaking uncontrollably, yet he didn't even notice her existence.
