Inside her bedroom in the Rivers family home, Aliya was face-down on her bed, her phone buried in the mattress. The device was vibrating so violently against the comforter that it sounded like a trapped hornet.

"Oh my god," she groaned, flipping over and holding the phone directly above her face. "This is a literal natural disaster."

Ever since Jake’s broadcast ended over at Veyra One, the digital landscape had ceased to function normally. It was currently crawling past 20:00, yet the digital shockwaves from the live interview had cascaded far beyond the financial sectors. Veyra’s thirty million citizens were locked into a collective frenzy, and a terrifyingly sharp subset of that population had spent the last hour digging through historical digital footprints.

It hadn’t taken long. Someone on a local lifestyle forum had unearthed an old clip from her archives and linked her handle, @Aliya_Rivers, directly to the man currently holding the entire country by the throat.

She tapped her LOOP app. Her follower count, which usually hovered around a modest fifteen thousand lifestyle and fashion enthusiasts, was ticking upward in chaotic, uneven jerks.

[ 47,405 Followers ]

+1,200 new notifications

"It’s a joke," she muttered, sitting up and throwing her hair back. She tapped into her newest mentions, expecting the usual comments about her outfits or her pink camera rig. Instead, her feed looked like a chaotic broker chatroom.

User_9921: Is this actually the Gold King’s sister? Look at the background of her older posts, that’s definitely the kitchen from his old Facebook profile clips!

MarketTracker_Veyra: Miss Rivers, please ask your brother what time he is posting the gift! Is it gold futures? My entire capital pool is sitting in cash waiting for his LOOP update!

Lambo_Fanatic: Did he buy you the Urus and the G-Wagon in the cover photo? Tell him he’s a legend. Also, tell him to post the trade setup!

VeyraVibes_Daily: She’s literally the most powerful sibling in the capital right now and she’s just posting iced coffee aesthetics. Sis, leak the post time!

Aliya dropped her phone onto her lap, letting out a breathless, half-amused laugh. It was wild. Tonight, she was being treated like a backdoor pipeline to the country’s most volatile financial entity.

Curiosity getting the better of her, she swiped over to Jake’s official profile, @JakeRivers_GI.

She blinked twice, her jaw dropping.

[ 3,450,210 Followers ]

Account Status: Verified • 0 Posts

"Three and a half million?" she squealed, clutching her phone tightly. "He hasn’t even typed a single word! He doesn’t even have a profile picture!"

It was completely insane. Her own influx of followers was a tiny, microscopic drop in the bucket compared to the absolute leviathan of traffic swallowing Jake’s ghost account. Half the population of Aurelia was staring at a blank digital wall, waiting for a single character stroke from the ’Gold King.’

Down the hallway, the ambient noise of a local financial news station played softly from the kitchen. Aliya practically flew out of her room, her slippers skidding down the passage as she burst into the kitchen, phone extended like a weapon.

Their mother, Martha, was quietly brewing a late-night pot of tea, a gentle, knowing smile gracing her features as she glanced at the frantic girl, then back to her mug. "I saw the interview, Aliya. He looked very handsome in that suit. Very professional."

"Mom, nobody cares about the suit right now!" Aliya protested, hopping onto a barstool and aggressively refreshing her feed. "He told the entire country he has a ’gift’ for them, and now everyone thinks he’s going to manipulate the global gold market. Look! People are following me just to ask if I know what the gift is!"

"And do you know?" Martha asked out of pure curiosity, setting a cup of chamomile tea down in front of her.

"Of course I don’t!" Aliya groaned, throwing her hands up. "Jake would never tell me. He would rather I be the ladt person to find out if it was up to him! I sent him ten texts in the last hour and he just left me on read. Look at this text thread!"

She swiped to her messages with Jake, revealing a wall of green text bubbles filled with capital letters and emoji explosions. At the very bottom was a single, flat response from Jake sent five minutes ago:

Jake: Eat your breakfast, Al. Don’t look at you phone too much today.

"See? He’s doing the mysterious billionaire thing again, even though it’s already eight at night and breakfast was twelve hours ago!" Aliya pouted, though her eyes were sparkling with excitement.

She couldn’t just sit here while millions of people were losing their minds waiting for a post that Jake had completely left hanging. If her brother was going to keep the entire country in suspense, she might as well keep them entertained. ’I’m going to do something about this.’

She grabbed her phone stabilizer rig off the counter, clicking her device into place, and flashed her signature, high-energy camera smile.

"What is up, guys! Welcome back to the channel," Aliya said into the lens, her tone instantly transitioning into pure vlogger charisma. "So, as you can see by the absolute state of my notification tab... the rumors are true. The Gold King from tonight’s record-breaking interview is officially my big brother. And no, before you ask—I do not know what the gift is or what time he’s posting. But since he’s currently leaving thirty million people on read, I’m dropping a little exclusive to hold you guys over. Remember that crazy car shopping trip from this past Saturday? Yeah, the vlog is going live right now. Go look at how your ’King’ spends his weekends."

With a sharp tap, she uploaded the raw, high-production edit of their Saturday morning excursion to the northern avenue exotic district.

The internet did not just absorb the video; it violently imploded.

Within twenty minutes, the vlog swept through LOOP, TikTok, and every major regional forum like a tidal wave. The sheer, casual absurdity of Jake’s spending habits left the public completely breathless.

User_881: Hold on... did he just buy a Lamborghini Urus AND a G-Wagon for his sister because she couldn’t choose?! He said ’get them both’ like he was picking up two flavors of chips at a convenience store!

VeyraVibes: Forget those! Did you see the ending?! A Brabus Rocket and an Aventador SVJ for his personal garage? That’s over twenty million marks in under ten minutes!

MarketWatcher: Look at his face the entire time. His expression didn’t even change when the manager brought out the invoices. He has too many digits on his screen. This isn’t wealth, this is an absolute cheat code.

But it was the final segment in the glass rotunda that turned the casual viewer shock into absolute corporate terror. The footage captured the exact moment Jake stood before the non-sale, volcano-orange McLaren P1 and flatly commanded the attendant to call the owner.

"Tell him I am prepared to transfer the wire for this exact McLaren P1 within the next five minutes—at double its current maximum global market valuation."

The raw, unyielding authority in his voice, followed by the sight of the dealership general manager visibly shaking while clearing a private line to the Chairman, sent shockwaves through Veyra’s social strata. Forty million marks, authorized via a verbal command in a retail lobby just to bypass a ’non-sale’ sign.

The immediate psychological realization hit the country all at once: Jake Rivers wasn’t just a successful trader. He possessed a level of hyper-liquid capital that defied the standard rules of commerce.

Within the hour, local social media news channels began blasting emergency culture segments covering the viral drop. Aurelia Buzz and Veyra Digital Chronicle uploaded split-screen graphics comparing the price of Jake’s weekend haul to the total net worth of mid-tier domestic companies.

"An unprecedented look into the purchasing power of Golden Investments’ principal," a digital news anchor stated in a rapidly circulating LOOP clip. "The viral footage released by his sister, Aliya Rivers, confirms that within a span of two hours, the enigmatic ’Gold King’ deployed over sixty million marks in liquid assets. Financial analysts are now noting that if this is his baseline for casual weekend recreation, the impending ’gift’ teased for the trading floor could carry unimaginable market weight."

Back in the kitchen, Aliya stared at her screen, her hands genuinely trembling as she watched her own profile statistics. She had only intended to give the frantic public something to watch while Jake stayed silent, but the sheer gravity of her brother’s wealth had dragged her directly into the stratosphere with him.

[ 599,320 Followers ]

+551,915 new followers...

The numbers were spinning like a broken casino wheel. Her comments section was a blur of awe, envy, and thousands of new notifications flying in every second.

"Oh my god..." Aliya whispered, looking over at her mother, who was still calmly sipping her tea. "Mom... I think I just made it worse. And I was just about to post the second clip of the shopping. I think I should jus let this be because wow."

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