"It is not as simple as it was in the novel!" Mary sighed as she served the glass of wine to a man and then leaned on the wall.
The places used to look so elegant when she had read about them in the novel but in reality, all kinds of men come here.
While the other popular girls who wear those tight clothes were asked to serve the nobles on the third floor, she was assigned to the first floor where all kinds of men come and go.
She was asked to work all the time except at mealtime. If passing glass here and there was not enough, she felt nauseating looking at their gazes.
At some point, she even realized that it was not a dream but she was here in reality. How! She still did not know but she had ended up inside the web novel she was reading.
And not as the main character but a character who was not even mentioned in the novel. She was part of the crowd who was standing in the background to enhance the presence of the villain or hero.
Mary sighed as she looked at her rough hands. How in the world did she work as a waitress, when she had four companies to run in the future! Her hands were made to sign papers and contracts now carrying those trays.
"Meredith! Are you taking a break again?" She heard the cold and brutal voice of her boss now who had nothing to do except make sure that her life was hell.
She glared at the man as she crushed him in her heart.
"No! I was only taking a breath. Don't tell me you do not even let me do that." she mocked as she picked up the tray and went to refill the glass for a fat and greasy customer who bared his yellowish teeth to her.
"Even if Cassian walked in here, how am I going to meet him?" she muttered as she looked at those dolled-up women who chuckled looking at her condition and walked towards the stairs.
"Do you want to serve the elite customers too?" someone asked from the other side of the counter and she turned to face them with a skeptical look on her face.
"You just have to come with me for a night and I will help you in paying your debt and even provide you with a better position in the job." said the man with a smirk, she knew him.
It was James. He was a casanova and slept with every woman working in the bar. He was a wastrel that would be killed by Cassian when a woman would complain that he forced himself on her.
If only she had the idea which arc of the story was going on currently, she would have told him when he was going to die!
She took a deep sigh! It was worse for a reader to not know what was going on in a story.
She closed her eyes and ignored the man knowing well that he was not going to force her. He had only forced a woman that was his doom.
"Tsk! Suit yourself. But an ugly girl like you would never be chosen for the elite position." he cursed as he started working on the cocktails again.
Her lips smacked into a thin line as she picked up the glass of beer and walked towards the next table. Who was he calling ugly! She was nothing but beautiful with this curvy body and beautiful golden hair. She was sure she could even give a good competition to the female lead. hmph!
"Your beer, sir!" she smiled forcefully as she placed the wine on the table and turned to leave.
"Yes I know. But you do not need to worry. I have found another boy that matched the description. I may win the reward this time and then the condition of our orphanage will definitely improve." he laughed but the woman was not at all convinced as she only scoffed.
"You have said that last week too. I know that you have already taken seven boys from your orphanage and if you proved wrong this time too. Your highness would skin you alive and make a scarecrow of you." Mary paused when she heard that and turned to look at the face of the old man again when her eyes trembled.
The owner of the orphanage was only described once so she did not pay much attention to him but he was the one for sure.
He was the one who killed the male lead after failing to get the reward and that was why the genre was a revenge and gore story.
Though she enjoyed reading fight scenes and enjoying the revenge story a lot, the price on the male lead was exorbitant and if she would be able to get it. Her life, even as an extra, would be perfect.
She would be the richest woman in the empire and then she would start her own businesses and would be a big business woman in this world too.
Golden coins started to sparkle in front of her eyes as she smiled hard.
"Hey woman! Are you staring at my man?" She felt a sharp pain in her hands and came back to her senses only to see that the old woman sitting with the owner of the orphanage was pinching her arms and she frowned.
"Tsk! Have you looked at his oily head? It reminds me of my toilet bowl. Why will I stare at him?" she retorted as she pushed the hands of the old woman away.
"........."
"What did you say? How dare you insult me?"