My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 83

She heard that Michael had ten great experts around him, and each of them had their own extraordinary ability. Sophia had only met Hale and Gary before, but Hale always mentioned Gemma. He said that Gemma was a psychopath, but he wouldn’t say in what way she behaved that made her seem like one.

However, Gemma seemed like a cute Lolita girl to her—there wasn’t anything psychotic about her at all! Since she was on Michael’s side and couldn’t possibly hurt Nathan, Sophia was relieved and allowed her to live here with them.

Ever since Gemma arrived, the average fighting strength of Company 49 had increased exponentially. She was the fastest runner, had the biggest appetite, and could eat a lot. Besides, she was smart and pretty good at socializing.

Gemma appeared very professional and charming, and her presence made Sophia feel threatened. She was worried that Gemma might replace her as the leader of Company 49.

As soon as Nathan came back, he went into the drill instructor’s camp immediately to find out about what they thought of Company 49. When he came back, he told everyone about the conversations between the drill instructors.

According to them, Company 49 had not been performing well lately; the team was not as fierce and strong as they used to be before this.

Upon hearing that, everyone in Company 49 became motivated immediately. After all, they were the company that was supposed to have dinner with the General!

With Nathan around, Sophia felt that military training had finally become interesting and fun again, just like how it used to be.

However, their little spy Nathan had definitely attracted too much attention to their company. When they trained every day, Nathan would run around the training base and eavesdrop on conversations between the drill instructors. Then, he would report everything back to Sophia; this was why Company 49 had been achieving exceptionally high scores and performing well.

According to the rumors floating around, there were lots of hidden and unsuspecting details in the military training where drill instructors would secretly deduct points if their cadets violated the rules. Naturally, the drill instructors did not inform the cadets about these details and were very secretive about it.

What were the hidden rules? No one knew. Since the drill instructors never mentioned anything about this at all, Nathan was the one who went around and eavesdropped to find out about these hidden rules before reporting them to the people in Company 49.
Being aware of such rules, the company managed to avoid getting their points deducted secretly and obtained high scores while training.

In other words, Nathan was like a golden goose. Many companies thought about luring Nathan into their company in order to help them achieve better scores.

Someone had investigated Nathan’s background too. Based on the information gathered, Nathan was the grandson of a university professor from a third-tier city.

Since he was extremely intelligent with a high IQ, an exception was made for him and Nathan was accepted into the Junior Class of Bayside University through some connections. Since he wasn’t from a prominent family, many people began thinking about ways to trick him…

On the eighteenth day of military training, Company Commander Ford made an exciting announcement—the cadets were going to have a training session at the shooting center tomorrow. It was an actual shooting training involving real guns and bullets.

Naturally, the shooting center was the one in Audistin.

However, everyone wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about this piece of news. After all, there were lots of wealthy students in the university; most of them were already Audistin premium members who often visited the shooting range in Audistin.

What really excited everyone was the fact that they could visit the set of ‘Doctor Invincible’ during training tomorrow! Most importantly, they were going to see Taylor and Ethan in person!

The two award-winning actors had ventured into the filming industry for over ten years now. They remained very popular in the entertainment industry for a long time and had worked together in many films before.

During the recent Cultural Revolution, the duo transitioned from golden partners to becoming a golden couple; it was rumored that both of them got married in the Netherlands. However, it wasn’t sure whether the rumor was real or not.

The two award-winning actors were seldom involved in tabloid scandals. Besides, they kept a low profile and rarely appeared in public events. There weren’t too many real photos of them on the internet; most of their photos were film posters and photographs officially published by their agency. Even for wealthy people, it was extremely difficult to see them in person.

Therefore, why wouldn’t the students be happy and excited now that the two award-winning actors were just filming next door?

Sophia wasn’t interested in seeing the award-winning actors. However, she was very interested in the shooting training. She had made the necessary preparations for it and was ready to show off her impressive shooting skills.

Since everyone in Company 49 received the news that they were about to meet the two handsome actors tomorrow, they trained very hard and with much enthusiasm that day. They were afraid that the company commanders would not allow them to visit the filming set and meet the actors due to their poor performance.

Even during recess, there were lots of students who took the initiative to practice their formation exercise at the training field. Since Sophia was the student who performed the best in formation practice, she tried her best and spent her leisure time teaching everyone the formation practice.

While she was busy teaching, she took a glance and accidentally noticed Nathan being surrounded by quite a number of boys and girls.

Nathan was the most well-liked member in their company, so he was constantly surrounded by girls. However, Sophia seemed to have noticed Xyla and Richard among the crowd this time. Hence, she went over immediately to see what was going on.

She pushed her way through the crowd and heard the following exchange of conversation.

“Nate, my cousin is a member of the Edwards Family. If the Edwards take you in as their godson, you’ll be part of the Edwards Family too. Then, you can live in a big house every day; you can even buy lots of delicious snacks and lots of friends will play with you too!” Xyla stood in front of Nathan and persuaded him.

A blonde-haired girl stood right across Nathan. Girls were not allowed to let their hair down at military camp, but the girl was bold enough to break the rule. She let her blonde hair down without tying it up, which appeared eye-catching like a gorgeous but fake flower.

She was Faye Edwards, a member of the Edwards Family; they were one of the Four Great Families in Bayside City. As a member of the family, Faye had the exclusive right to let her hair down. Thus, her striking blonde hair became the noble representation of her unusual status, which was superior to others. Although everyone felt jealous of her, no one dared to protest. After all, she was an Edwards.

Nathan appeared sullen. He kept quiet and enjoyed his watermelon quietly with an impassive expression on his face.

Noticing how unresponsive he was, Xyla continued to persuade him. “Nate, Faye is a very nice girl. She’ll keep you company and play with you every day in the future.”

Faye looked proudly downward at the fair and chubby little guy. Realizing that he hadn’t replied after a long while, she became impatient and frustrated. A subtle look of unhappiness crossed her face. She had exquisite features, which were beautifully and carefully crafted by the scalpels of a plastic surgery hospital. Xyla, who noticed Faye’s displeasure, persuaded her immediately in a polite manner. “Don’t be angry, Faye. He’s just a child who doesn’t know anything. We just need to be patient and persuade him, that’s all.”

“That better be the case.” Faye became really impatient. If Nathan wasn’t the only child in the camp, she wouldn’t have paid any attention to him at all.

She heard that the kid could eavesdrop on conversations between the drill instructors easily and found out about several hidden details where their points could be deducted and added, which was why Company 49 always scored high marks. That was the only reason why she thought about luring him to her company. If she managed to trick Nathan and brought him over to their company, their marks would definitely increase as well.

However, she was reluctant to share such a useful pawn with everyone; she just wanted to have him all to herself. She only wanted Nathan to increase her score in hopes that Joel would notice her! Unfortunately, the kid was so ignorant that he completely ignored her offer.

Xyla was eager to fawn over Faye. Hence, she continued to persuade Nathan again immediately. “Nate, Faye is a great person from a prominent family. If she becomes your god sister, your father, mother, grandfather, grandmother and even your whole family will prosper in the future!”

Richard helped Xyla to persuade Nathan too. He said, “Yeah, Nate! Listen to us. Come over here and just call her Faye. From now on, she will play with you!”

Richard was desperate to trick Nathan away too. Since Kayla had already gotten a zero for her military credit score, there were probably some other ways to save their situation which he didn’t know about.

Since the drill instructors wouldn’t tell them about it, perhaps the unusually smart kid could spy among the drill instructors and obtain some useful information.

Everyone could clearly see Nathan’s unusual capability; he always ran around and eavesdropped on the drill instructors’ conversations while everyone was training. All the company and regimental commanders liked him very much, and one of the regimental commanders even held him high above the air frequently!