The Farming Saint in the Starry Wasteland (Elizabeth Schofield) novel Chapter 209

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Meanwhile, far away on Planet A001, at Tycoon Farm, Elizabeth was crouched beside a newly planned row of fields, electronic tablet in hand, frowning as she worked through the crop rotation order for the next planting cycle and how to allocate the spiritual energy infusion.

The farm had just gone through a huge harvest and a frenzy of sales. Funds were plentiful now, but that only meant she needed even more careful planning if she wanted to keep production stable and preserve the land’s strength.

The device on her wrist gave a soft vibration, notifying her of new account activity. Elizabeth glanced at it casually, intending to finish recording the data in her hand before checking it properly.

But the moment her peripheral vision caught the summary flashing across the holographic screen, her whole body froze.

“Kingdom Central Bank Notice: Your account has received a transfer of 5,000,000.00 stellar coins. Sender: Cristian. Note: Household expenses.”

Elizabeth went completely blank. She blinked, wondering if she’d overworked her brain lately and started hallucinating. She set down the tablet, opened the full notification, and read it three times in a row.

No mistake. Sender, Cristian, her husband in name. The kingdom’s youngest major general. The eldest son of the Hewitts. A stranger she’d never had any real contact with beyond seeing his name on their marriage documents.

Amount, five million stellar coins. Not five thousand. Not fifty thousand. Five million. And the note said household expenses?

What household expenses? Wasn’t this a contract marriage?

Weren’t they supposed to stay out of each other’s lives? What household was there to support?

Elizabeth’s first reaction was disbelief. Her second was suspicion. Nobody offered favors for no reason. What was Cristian trying to pull?

She could understand the Hewitts, with Trevor and Zaylee signaling goodwill through their actions.

But Cristian himself? They didn’t even know each other.

Had his parents forced him to send it?

No, that didn’t sound right. The note said household expenses. That didn’t read like something written under pressure.

Could this be some new kind of scam? Someone pretending to be Cristian?

But the Kingdom Central Bank’s encrypted transfer system made impersonating a high ranking military officer both insanely difficult and incredibly risky.

After thinking it through, Elizabeth decided that no matter what the motive was, she couldn’t accept the money

There was no real marriage between them. She had no reason to take his household expenses. So she opened the transfer record on her device and decisively selected Return.

“Processing refund request..

“Request successful. Funds have been returned to the original account

10:49 am Pp

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Elizabeth put away her device and prepared to get back to work. Then her device vibrated again.

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“Kingdom Central Bank Notice: Your account has received a transfer of 5,000,000.00 stellar coins. Sender: Cristian. Note: Military tradition.”

Elizabeth fell silent.

Military tradition? What military tradition?

Without a second thought, she returned it again. Her device vibrated almost instantly.

“Kingdom Central Bank Notice: Your account has received a transfer of 5,000,000.00 stellar coins. Sender: Cristian. Note: Accept it.”

Elizabeth stared at those two words, “Accept it“, concise to the point of sounding like an order, and at his relentless refusal to let the transfer stay rejected. Suddenly, she felt both a little exasperated and a little amused.

She thought she understood now what he meant by military tradition.

Cristian had probably seen other soldiers sending money home to their families and decided that since he was married, he should follow the same custom.

Was this man just that rigid? Did he seriously have no idea what kind of marriage they had?

Or maybe, for someone as purely military–minded as he was, once the legal paperwork was in place, that automatically meant he had certain obligations to fulfill, like providing living expenses for his wife.

She had already returned the money twice, and both times he’d sent the exact same amount back without hesitation. It was obvious he was determined to make her keep it.

Elizabeth let out a sigh. She knew that if she kept refusing, they’d just get stuck in an endless loop. Whether she wanted to or not, she was going to end up taking the five million stellar coins.

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