My Dreamy Old Husband

Irene looked at the chessboard in disbelief. She could not accept that she had lost.

Sitting across from her, Sophia was acting like a spoiled and pampered child. “No, this isn’t right. You can’t keep letting me off easy, Irene. It’s so obvious that you’re letting me win. Who loses before even making ten moves? Let’s go again!”

Stanley also came to a realization. Irene is letting Sophia win! No wonder she lost two times in a row when she’s usually an ace player!

He knocked on his head. “Oh, me and my blabbermouth. Did I scare you, Irene?” He quickly explained, “Irene, I was only joking. Sophia is not that weak! Even if she loses, she won’t run home and weep to my uncle. Just relax and play! You don’t have to go easy on her. Just beat her! Let’s do this again. You can’t lose on purpose this time!”

Did I lose on purpose?

She felt like there was something distracting and confusing her in the background, bringing her to defeat when she was still confident and unaware.

But everything happened so quickly that she did not have a chance to react. She almost believed that she did, in fact, lose on purpose.

Forcing a smile, she continued with the game. This time, she was on high alert and was not going to show any mercy. Right from the start, she was very swift in her attacks. Her moves were extremely aggressive, and she used the most brutal and unrelenting way to end the battle without considering Old Master Fletcher’s feelings.

This young girl isn’t easy, but neither am I!

Just like last time, however, she was led to another dead end when she was still full of confidence. She had made exactly ten moves when she heard Sophia squeal, “Checkmate!”

Did I lose again?

Putting down the chess piece, Sophia started to whine, “Irene, I won’t come anymore. You keep letting me win. It’s not fun anymore!”

but it looked like I was letting her win? If this girl is not naïve, then

was not as easy as she

her, she said, “I’m older than you. It’s only right

things left to do at the troupe. I’m going to head off first. Have fun playing, you

waved goodbye to her. “See you, Irene. I’ll visit you often to

quickly recovered her expression. “Sounds good. I

Irene shuddered when

have I not witnessed before? How can I shudder in the presence of a girl who

crowd watched

that moment, the foolish Stanley finally sensed something—he had

almost become something that happened in their

how many years had passed or even if it had happened in their past

a sense of hostility toward the ex-lovers of

had already begun fighting a silent battle with

her talons that still had the remains—blood, flesh, and

the more it did not seem right. At the same time, however, he did not know what the problem was. He only felt chills all over his body as if the menacing dragon was staring at him and making him feel like he

the end of it. Stanley has always been foolish, but how did he get

Irene today and ridiculed Sophia. You…” He hesitated then gave him a final sentence of advice,

now, he had made it onto

for him and grew more afraid the more he thought about it. Being scared senseless, he ran to Sophia’s room and

of her that Stanley had never seen before. She