Chapter 1~ A Fateful Encounter

Shyla Jennings, our beautiful main lead is a hardworking and ambitious girl who came to the big city with a pocket full of dreams waiting to be fulfilled. Coming from a small town, the city life is very new to her and she's still struggling to adjust to this new lifestyle.

Shyla is an artist who came to the city to find a job so she could look after herself and her family. Her very first day at this beautiful yet intimidating city was nothing short of a disaster!

What is the first thing one does when they come to live at a new place? They look for a home, right? Now you must be thinking what could possibly go wrong here, right? EVERYTHING!

So let me tell you from the very start what exactly happened! It all began with her going to a broker in order to find an apartment she could rent. The broker showed her a couple of apartments but she didn't like any. In the end he showed her a fully furnished apartment on the 4th floor of a residential building in a good neighbourhood. And guess what? She actually liked it. It was perfect! So she completed all the formalities and shifted to the apartment with all her belongings. This was the beginning of the aforementioned disaster!

Shyla's POV:

It was around 9 pm when I reached the apartment, I was really tired because of all the travelling and just wanted to take a nice cold shower. It was the month of July, but due to the lack of rainfall, it was very hot and humid. I went to the bathroom with my towel and clothes. I undressed myself and after putting my clothes on the laundry basket, I stood under the shower.

I turned the shower on but to my surprise there was no water! I then checked the tap to see if it was just the shower, but turns out there was no water in any of the taps either! I immediately called my owner to ask what the hell is up with this to which he said that there is a water shortage in the area and water is only supplied at a certain time during the day. The balls he had! This son of a biscuit did not even bother to mention this before!!! I literally paid the rent along with the security deposit and broker's commission yet no fucking soul bothered to inform me about this situation?!

I was damn annoyed at this and had to buy water just so I could fucking shower! After the shower, I had my dinner while watching my favourite Thai BL, 'Kinnporsche'. Then I talked to my parents and decided to go to bed as I had a job interview the next day.

I came to my room and turned on the air conditioner as it was a hot day. But to my surprise (or should I say shock!) it wasn't working! As if I hadn't had enough already!!

I called the owner AGAIN and told him that the AC was damaged to which he said it's too late and he can't do anything about it at the moment. By then it was 10:30 pm so he said he'd send a mechanic in the morning! I was so frustrated that I cut the call without even responding to that bastard.

So after this long *** day of house hunting and the water supply crisis, I now had to sleep in this hot room when I actually paid double the amount of money than I could afford on this stupid house just because of the AC that wasn't even working!!! By the way the temperature must've been at least 45 degrees Celsius that day! On the very first day, I was conned by these big city money hungry beasts.

Anyways, I fell asleep thinking about the upcoming interview. Oh by the way, I can't even describe how excited I am for the interview at Whitestone Digital, the biggest IT Company in our country! I've always dreamt of working here, ever since I was a kid. I really hope everything goes well...!

Time skip~ Next Day...

I woke up at 7 am and got ready early as I DID NOT want to be late at such an important occasion (you know, I have a tendency of being late for literally everything)! So I left home at around 9 o'clock as my interview was at 11 and it would take an hour or so to reach the office.

I took a cab and was stuck in traffic but I somehow managed to reach by 10:30 am. As soon as we reached, I paid the cab driver and got out of the cab. The office was on the other side of the street so I had to cross the street myself (as there was a lot of traffic and in order to reach the office he'd have to drive further and then take a turn coz it was a one way street so I decided to it'd save a lot of time if I just crossed the road instead).

While crossing the road, some idiot almost hit me with his car! It was a luxury car as far as I could tell but I can't tell which one (as I'm not that into cars). Although I must say, it was the sexiest looking car I've ever laid eyes on! Matte black body with such a sleek design, I almost got distracted by it's shine. But soon, I came back to my senses and knocked on the window of the car. The window glass rolled down slowly and a guy's face was revealed. The guy had a fair complexion with skin as pale as the moon, beautiful brown eyes that were shining brighter than his million dollar car lol, smooth glass skin that made me wonder wtf is wrong with mine and above all, he had long, thick eyelashes fanning over his eyes. Just can't understand why guys who don't even give a flying **** about their looks have such gorgeous eyelashes while we girls actually have to go to hell and back to make ours look long and thick by wearing fake eyelashes and applying layers after layers of mascara!

I was lost in my thoughts when I heard a clicking noise and was brought back to the reality. The guy snapped his fingers right in front of my face and asked, "Do you have a problem?".

Not gonna lie that made me furious! After almost killing me, he had the audacity to ask if I had a problem. Of course I had a problem or else I wouldn't be standing outside his window staring at his handsome face... I mean, waiting for him to apologise!

"Of course I have a problem", I said. "You almost hit me with this beautiful car of yours...". I don't know what had gotten into me at that moment but my tongue just kept slipping for some reason! I immediately corrected my tone and said, "You owe me an apology mister". A small grin appeared in the corner of his lips.

He looked straight into my eyes and said, "You're the one who owes me an apology".

I was stunned by his reply, why the hell should I apologise to him?! "Excuse me?", I said.

"You were the one walking like a blind person. You deliberately came in front of my car so you could get some money off of me. I know your type very well", he said with a straight face.

This arrogant little son of a bitc- ! How dare he!! Is he calling me a gold digger or some sort of con artist who steals people's money in broad daylight?!

This comment of his made me so angry that I just wanted to pull him out of the car and punch him on that pretty little face!!! "What the hell do you mean by 'my type'?! It's literally been 5 minutes since we met and you already know me well enough to categorise me into a certain type...? You're such a judgmental asshole! Keep your stupid apology to yourself, I don't want it anymore. And you know what, you belong to the narcissistic, so full of shit category by the way!" I said as I walked away, still red with anger.

Is this city full of such bastards, I thought to myself. I just hope I don't come across any such person ever again (Little did I know that I'd have to meet the same bastard every single day starting from today...)!

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