A lot were complaining about the MC lacking personality, I'll be trying something new to see if I can give him a bit of that personality.
Let me know what you think.
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The night air in Aurelia City had a way of magnifying silence, especially in an apartment that felt increasingly like a command center rather than a home. Jake stood by the window of his apartment, the distant hum of traffic serving as a low-frequency soundtrack to his thoughts. The day's board meeting at Aurelia Capital Partners was still echoing in his mind—the heavy weight of a billion-mark hotel, the calculated gazes of his new partners, and the staggering fifty-million-mark commitment he had just made.
It was a dizzying sum, a figure that would have seemed like a fever dream only a few months ago, but now it was a cold, hard obligation written in a contract that bore his signature.
