My Dreamy Old Husband

Xyla strode toward Sophia deliberately. She said in a sweet voice, “Sophia, what a coincidence! You’re here for the competition too?”

Sophia turned around with her head lowered. “Yeah.”

“Good luck then. Richard and I will be watching you from below the stage.” Xyla walked away elegantly.

The competition began. Xyla used her sweet and pleasant voice to host the competition. “I hereby announce that the cash-counting competition begins now! Contestants, please take your place and get ready with your props!”

All the contestants took out their practice notes and placed them stack by stack on the table before getting ready to start the competition. Sophia opened her backpack and was about to take out her practice notes too, but the moment she opened her bag, she froze in shock. She didn’t take out the practice notes and simply sat there dumbstruck for a long while.

Noticing Sophia’s peculiar behavior, Xyla asked her in a ‘concerned’ manner. “Sophia, what’s the matter? The competition is about to begin. Hurry and take out your practice notes, or else you’ll be disqualified.”

Sophia kept staring into her own backpack for a long time. Finally, she decided to reach inside her bag, then she took out several stacks of notes and placed them on the table.

The moment she took out those notes, the whole place became silent. After a few seconds, waves of snickering could be heard coming from the audience, for the other contestants had taken out fake practice notes, while Sophia had taken out stacks of real banknotes!

The stacks of real cash were very eye-catching among the rest of the stacks of practice notes.

Sophia felt so embarrassed that she couldn’t bring herself to show her face in front of the audience. Because of the incident with Michael’s defamation, she had been out of sorts for the whole day. She started reading news when she woke up in the morning, so she mistakenly took the real cash stacks, which she used for training at home. She had placed them in her bag and ended up bringing them here.

She remained calm and unflustered by the situation while waiting for the competition to begin quietly.

This caught a group of supervising professors by surprise too. They had never seen someone actually use real banknotes as props to participate in the competition before! However, there were no rules that prohibited the usage of real cash, so after a round of discussion, the professors eventually decided that Sophia wasn’t going against the rules and the competition was to be continued as normal.

Xyla was dazed too before she let out a snicker.

of their cash-counting techniques, speed and skill. Whoever could count the fastest, had the most precise count and looked the best when they counted would get

the competition. She counted the cash as

round was over, Sophia kept her money properly, then she lowered her head and dashed down the

head still hanging. I

said, “It’s okay. It’s okay. Everything’s okay now. You did

face in Michael’s arms,

noticed their

with fury all of a sudden. She’s so promiscuous and shameless! She just dated Joel and Stanley before this! And now, she has another new boyfriend?! It

anyone. She finally moved

first place in the preliminary round of the competition. So, she would compete with the contestants from other groups in the afternoon

took the initiative to suggest a place for lunch. “Let’s have lunch

them stood up and were about to leave,

don’t you introduce him

who was holding Michael’s hand, turned around and saw Richard

just let out a cold snort, looking rather disdainful. To him, Sophia was worthless anymore since she was just a useless pawn abandoned by Joel. Yet, for

talk to them, yanked Michael quietly and signaled him to leave, but to her surprise, Richard actually stood in front of them and blocked their way. “Sophia, this

could say anything, Michael introduced himself first. “Hello, I’m Sophia’s current boyfriend.” Or

his pocket and pulled out a name card. “Hi, my name is Richard Harper. This is my name

pretended to be surprised by it. He acted like he was honored to meet Richard. “You’re

his sunglasses, revealing his well-maintained, beautiful and young-looking face. Richard couldn’t help but praise him when he saw his face clearly. “You

crossed Michael’s face. “I

on it. There wasn’t any trace on his face at all that suggested he had undergone a plastic surgery before. This made Richard feel even more determined to sign Michael as an artist

become a superstar. Would you like to get into the entertainment business and be