Jim Thorne froze. He glanced at his sister's disappointed face, then down at the gleaming banknotes on the floor. His expression instantly grew serious.
Scoring a zero on his tests had never made him reconsider the importance of studying. But what Tang Xiaonan had just said struck a nerve deep inside him.
'What's the point of earning money if I can't even count it right?'
'Someone could cheat me out of it, and I wouldn't even know what happened.'
"How much do you think is here?" Jim Thorne asked Adrian Hawthorne. He wanted to know if others were as clueless as he was.
