Getting off the plane Victor hugged Lily from the back like a perverted young master and whispered in her ear,
“From now on I will start to act like an arrogant young master who fears the strong and abuses the weak, so play along with me.” He ordered her.
Lily was surprised but she understood him and nodded her head.
“Young master, you genuinely like to abuse the weak,” she whispered in a faint voice. But Victor acted as if he heard nothing.
They walked straight from the runway to the street outside of the airport as this airport was operated by the family and he came in a private family Jet.
He didn’t have to wait for his bags as he didn’t have any, all of his luggage was sent to the mansion, as for Lily, she had none and she needs to go shopping ASAP.
At the door, there was a luxurious car waiting for them, It held the logo of Horizons Media, so Victor recognized it at once, It was sent by his new company, so he walked towards it with Lily.
Standing next to the car was a young driver with oily combed hair, when Victor approached him, he quickly looked at a photo in his hand and then walked forward and saluted Victor.
“Mr. Victor White, I presume ?” He asked to make sure.
Victor nodded his head a little in confirmation.
“Hello sir, My name is Leo, I am a driver in your company, I was tasked to pick you up by the Vice-president.”
“Hmm, The driver? why were you so late? You should have driven this car through the runway to get me. “ said victor arrogantly, putting his hands on his waist.
“How dare you make me walk. And where is that vice president, I heard she is a beauty, and even my father liked her, why is she not here to welcome me?” he continued while looking around as if searching for someone, making Leo wonder if this new CEO was an idiot or just arrogant.
As for Lily, she looked at him strangely, but then quickly remembered what he told her before. And decided to play her part as well.
“Don’t be angry young master, he can’t enter there, he is just doing his job. Let’s quickly go and see the mansion your father gifted you. Didn’t you say it was very grand and promised to show me around? As for the Vice-president, You will be able to see her tomorrow anyway and maybe punish her for her disrespect.” she said as if she was appeasing a child, making Victor nod in agreement and seem to repeat the word ‘punish’ silently with an evil smile.
Then Lily turned to the frowning Leo and bowed slightly.
“Sorry Mr. Leo, but my young master is usually on a tight schedule, he did not mean any offense.” she stepped forward and said, “Let me introduce myself, My name is Lily, I am a young master’s assistant.”
Looking at Lily, Leo was startled, he didn’t pay attention to this veiled girl earlier. But now after he looked at her he could tell that she must be a super beauty. Too bad he couldn’t have a clear look at her face. As the thin veil only revealed her beautiful eyes.
He was able to pull himself back together and stretched his hand offering Lily a handshake with a bright smile flashed on his face “Hello, miss Lily,”.
But he could never touch her, as Victor Interrupted him rudely while shooting him an angry look.
“What are you waiting for, Do you want This young master to beg so you can open the door for him, Do you want to be fired so bad? Why are there no work ethics no more?” He mumbled.
Leo was a little annoyed, This morning the vice president told him personally that the new CEO of the company would arrive this afternoon, she gave him the task of being the CEO’s driver for the time being. When he got Victor’s Information he was flabbergasted. The new CEO turned out to be a teenager, so he inquired about him from the VP, but she did not tell him much, So he did his usual information gathering the old way, and after collecting gossips from here and there, he got a general idea, it seems this Victor is the son of the owner of their parent company, and he was here to attend high school, so his father gave him a company to train his hands.
When he woke up this morning, Leo thought that this was his chance, If he can please this guy and gain his trust, he is set for life.
Now, it seems like this young master has something wrong in his head, and this girl is taking advantage of that.
“No, I have to find a chance to get in his shoes too,” Leo thought while opening the back door of the car and waiting for the passengers to get in.
Victor looked at Leo’s frowning face with some amusement, “This guy is as opportunistic as ever.” He thought.
He met Leo in his past life too, and he knew that Leo was not the simple guy he seems to be. But victor is not going to throw him away, on the contrary, he is going to put him to good use.
He is not a bad guy anyway.
Lily entered the car first and dusted the seat for Victor who entered the car arrogantly, but due to his weird posture, he hit the car’s roof with his head, so he screamed and shot Leo a murderous look. but Lily quickly appeased to sit down.
Leo acted as if he saw nothing and professionally closed the door, went to his seat, and started the engine, Then inquired about their destination, so Lily quickly gave him the address of Victor’s new mansion.
After the car drove for about five minutes, Leo started to adjust the mirror casually, wanting to use it to sneak a peek at Lily, but what he saw made him almost hit the car in front of him, but as an old driver, he was able to get hold the car pretty quickly.
It was Victor who ordered Lily to massage his injured head, then he gave her the signal to kiss his injury so it can heal. So the blushing Lily removed the veil and quickly pecked her young master on the forehead, before putting the veil back on, hiding her blushing face.
This was seen by Leo, who after stabilizing the almost wrecked car, did not dare look anymore, “Damn, this chick is so pretty.” he thought, “Why does she have to be with this idiot. It’s like putting a fresh flower in cow dung. Very rich cow dung.”
He really began to hate this new CEO. But he quickly reminded himself to be patient. He has to get close to this young master, so maybe someday…. A perverted smile slowly appeared on Leo’s face.
...
They reached the mansion pretty quickly. While it is called a mansion, in fact, it was a complex of four huge buildings built on top of a hill. It contains everything a young master might need from a pool to a gym and a separate building for the servants, It was also surrounded by lush evergreen forest.
Leo could not help but swallow his saliva,
“Damn, If this is just his son’s mansion, how rich the father !”
As for Victor, he looked at this complex strangely, when he arrived at this city back then, This entire hill was burnt to the ground. He wondered what happened, so he decided to task Lily with surveying the property. Just to be sure,
After the car stopped next to a closed gate down the hill, a guard went out of his booth to check the visitors. He spoke with Leo, then looked at the back seat where Victor and Lily were sitting and nodded in respect before quickly retreating to call his boss.
After a few minutes, a middle-aged woman came out of the gate, she seems to be the manager here, she was dressed in a dark blue long dress and her brown hair was arranged in a bun, On her face, Victor could see the signs that she was a beauty when she was younger. And he could immediately tell that she must be a PLAYER, she just came from the top of the hill and didn’t seem to be out of breath at all.
So he activated his appraisal skill,
NAME : HILDA
LEVEL : 21
CLASS: Maid+
ABNORMAL STATUS : SLAVE ( weak )
AUTHORITY : 3
Strength : 29
Agility: 25
Intelligence: 30
Luck : 15
Charm : 9
Order: 15
SKILLS :
Eye for Talents, S, Passive
Spotless Cleaning, A
Dagger Arts, B
“She must be one of my father’s servants, But I have never seen her before, Her status is average but she has some interesting skills.” Thought Victor before leaning out of the window to address her.
“Are you the manager here? Why are we not inside yet? This young master is hungry and wants to have a good meal.” Victor said with a loud voice.
Hilda frowned a little but after a minute she recognized him as the new master of this mansion, according to the information sent by the family, so she quickly reacted and greeted him respectfully.
“I just wanted to make sure it was you, young master, My name is Hilda, I am the manager here, and the master has already informed me of your arrival,” she said, then she berated at the guard “What are you doing, quickly open the gate for the young master!”.
The guard who was surprised quickly responded by pressing a button on a bulky device in his hand, and the large gate opened a second later.
Hilda entered the car with them and sat next to Leo, who after greeting her, started to drive uphill, towards the central building.
I don't get it. Why the arrogant young master attitude. I thought he wanted to be lowkey. Him acting like this is completely contradictory to him acting lowkey cause now everyone is going to know and hate him
He only wants to appear lowkey to the truly important people, and to them acting arrogant without any substance is indeed lowkey.
@Fishless That makes no sense. Everyone will remember their bully or the person that treats them like sht. Even if people won't take him seriously, they will definitely remember and hate that individual. It is why people always remember when someone does something terrible to them but easily forget it when someone does something good to them. If the mc really wanted to be lowkey his early shy and scared attitude would have been far more effective. This young master attitude would just end up with nobody taking him seriously but everyone remembering him and wanting to kill him or atleast be glad if he endes up dead.
@Marxdarkbear He doesn't care how many random people he offends, he cares about the impressions of the higher ups (who he would be sufficiently humble towards). He's expected to act arrogant because that's how a young master acts, so that's what he does. If he started acting actually low-key then it might draw their attention as a scheming type, something to be wary of. They would notice any unusual moves he makes, whereas with his acting anything he does will be seen as just a whim.
@Fishless Then why did no one think he was a scheming type at the start of the novel when he still had that shy/scared attitude. After all according to your logic they should have been wary of him when he had no backbone whatsoever. And like I said, yes his arrogant attitude would make it so that nobody takes him seriously but he will definitely stand out. When I think of lowkey I think about characters that nobody knows anything about. Like those billionaires you have never even heard of. To be as average as possible or play a role in the background. The guy is litteraly flaunting saying "Hey everybody, look at me and my attitude". For this situation his shy/scared attitude would have been far more optimal. And if you actually read further your statement becomes untruthfull because he is starting fights with the strong characters with his arrogant attitude, which completely negates what he was trying to achieve.
@Fishless At this point honestly it doesn't even matter anymore cause I have already dropped the novel. Just trying to say the arrogant young master attitude makes no sense and it is just something the author came up with even though it is completely contradictory to what he said. At least just say that he want people to look down on him then the arrogant young master attitude eould have made some sense. But saying the mc wants to act lowkey while doing everything except acting lowkey is just bad writing
@Marxdarkbear He's obviously going to act shy when he is young and among his own family with superiors all around, especially since most expected him to die in the ceremony. Once he passes, gains power, and goes out into the world of normal people it's only natural that he would become arrogant. It happens all the time and people default to thinking it's the same with him. He starts fights with people that would be his enemies anyway. But the heads of the big families and sects and player organizations, he wants to remain low on the radar.
You're taking an instance of the word lowkey and getting mad he doesn't fit your definition of it. Look at the title, his goal is to appear as a standard young master. He's got some power for being a player in a big family and apparently it goes to his head. But in the shadows he is much more than just a young master, he has higher stats and a rarer class than anything thinks he does. He subtly plans for the future by doing seemingly nonsensical things that could only be attributed to pleasure seeking or showing off or random whims, but they are actually important later. I think it makes sense.
@Marxdarkbear If you've dropped the novel then stop complaining about it. Constructive criticism is something the author could actually implement, not changing the entire plot when it has a good reason for being the way it is. Nobody cares what you dropped and why, comments like this only discourage authors.
@Fishless That is honestly really dumb. If he wanted to act like he got arrogant from getting power he only needs to show it to his family members or the people that matters. That would have made some sense but that is not what the mc is doing. He is litteraly going around pissing everybody off and acting like a little sht even to people who he knows will get a lot of power later on which obviously puts a tag on his head. HOW IS THAT LOWKEY! And you try to make it so that him not pissing everybody off is what my difinition of lowkey is. Look up the description of low key "Not elaborate, showy or intensive but more modest and restrained.". Me not agreeing that the mc being an arrogant asshole acting all powerfull and flaunting his identity left and right is not my definition of lowkey instead it is the complete opposite of what lowkey stands for. I never hated the author idea. I just didn't agree with it cause the mc will have all the attention drawn to him at any point and that is completely contradictory to what he is trying to achieve.
@Fishless Jesus dude I merely stated that I have dropped the novel to end this dumb conversation cause obviously you don't know what low key means. Appararently you have already forgotten how my first comment looked like but if that wasn't constructive critiscm then I don't know what is. When I posted the comment I was obviously still reading it. It was a few chapters later that I dropped it. Aside from this comment I never said anything else. So you saying "stop complaining about it" even though I only went into a discussion with you and never made another comment about the novel itself is stupid. This discussion stopped being about the novel but became what acting low key actually means, which in my opnion doesn't mean standing out as obvious as this guy. For my last comment, I do apologize to the author. I shouldn't have said that. But everything else was constructive critism and the mc attitude goes against everything he was trying to achieve
@Marxdarkbear he said he will act as a fear the Strong bully the weak character, you know, the type of character used as a minion type, which many ignore because that means they are scum and you don't give attention to since they Backstab you so you don't associate with and higher up ignore
@Fishless Yeah… about that, that's not the definition of Low-Key at all. It's "hiding one's true personality and schemes through blatant showboating and arrogance" at the very most. It will never be "Low-Key" because there is, in no world, that the definition of low-key is that.
This is a case of poor wording, though it doesn't fit that other ex-reader's taste and so he dropped it.
As for me, this story is… interesting, to say the least. It has this reverse-xianxia feeling while in the modern world but also a bit of Isekai/Apocalypse-type due to the game system. Its execution is a bit wonky at times but it doesn't feel as bad as some fiction that manages to screw up even their own premise. Looking forward to see how this story progresses.
Also this one has the RR comment section vibe
@Not_the_stick I get what you're trying to achieve but being an asshole to everyone makes everyone hate you. It screams for attention and people who would normally never know you exist now know you.
because it's in the title duhhh