Daisy had not planned to celebrate Christmas, but she had been busy nonstop for the half year since arriving in this world. Seeing everyone else taking the day off today, she decided to give herself a holiday as well.
Now that she had a little money, the first thing she wanted to solve was her living situation.
Westerners and Easterners had different ideas. They liked building villas in the suburbs; the richer they were, the farther out they built them. Tony Stark's villa in Los Angeles was even built on a seaside cliff! Open the window, and there was the Pacific Ocean, with the sound of waves always within earshot!
If enemies wanted to attack him, they would not need to go to much trouble. They could fly over in a helicopter while singing, because this was practically the national border. Others had emperors guarding the gates; he had a billionaire guarding the frontier.
This value system was very different from Daisy's. She had no interest in the middle of nowhere, and for convenience, she planned to buy a place downtown.
But Manhattan housing prices were no lower than those in the imperial capital or the magic capital of her previous world. During this time, Daisy had been studying the S.H.I.E.L.D. spirit and inheriting the fine traditions of the older generation, such as Nick Fury's—embezzling production funds on a massive scale.
Using every method available, she had skimmed more than five million dollars, but that was still far from enough to buy a home in central Manhattan.
Besides, the subprime mortgage crisis would hit next year. Buying a house now looked foolish no matter how she saw it.
She rented a detached house and usually left it for the maid to manage. Today was the first time she had actually