My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 97

Word was that there was a wealthy girl who had set her sights on him. She even bought out the whole cinema for his movie, and had purposely gone to all the places that he had been to. Unfortunately, before she could even succeed, her family went bankrupt, both of her parents committed suicide and she disappeared.

There were many similar examples, but one thing was clear—all the women who came close to Taylor would not have a good ending!

As everyone recalled this curse, they were frustrated yet happy at the same time—if I can’t have him, no one else can!

Sophia remembered when Joe sold her off to Michael, the middleman Daniel Levine said something along the lines that Michael was born to jinx his wife. If those who were weak went close to him, there would be no return. Even a female dog could go bald!

After selling Sophia off, Joe’s company really took a turn for the better! This made him even more convinced that Sophia was his curse. These days, he didn’t even ask about Sophia’s wellbeing. He had completely forgotten about her existence, and even wished for her to vanish from the world.

The slumber talk ended late at night. Sophia tossed and turned, not able to fall asleep. She couldn’t for the life of her understand why she married Michael.

Was it really because of my horoscope? Do people still believe in stuff like this?

I really don’t care if Daniel lied to others, but why would he lie to one of his own?

She couldn’t come up with a valid reason, and so she had to make one up. She told herself that Michael Fletcher was a sicko, a one-in-a-thousand kind of psycho! The things that were going through his head was surely not something an ordinary person would come up with!

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The training went on as usual the following day. With the final assessment approaching, everyone was working hard on the formation practice, wanting to get good results during the military parade.

This time, Sophia didn’t try to get out of it with an illness. She practiced with the team earnestly, and had even volunteered to help out other students who still couldn’t do well.

It was during their lunch break that Sophia asked Nathan out of the blue, “Tell me, why did your daddy choose me to be your mommy?” Before Nathan could say anything, she whispered to herself, “It must be because I’m pretty!”

She’d always thought that she looked pretty good, not to mention the plus point of having a lucky face. Back in the day, Richard’s grades weren’t the best.

Sophia, who was only in her junior year, had to tutor him, a senior. She even made him a record of his past mistakes. Before his exams, she was more nervous than him, supervising him throughout the night to make sure he memorized all of the questions.

Without her, Richard certainly wouldn’t have been able to score such high marks.

When Nathan heard her muttering to herself, he rolled his eyes. He would never tell that he was the one who’d picked Sophia!

Michael had never thought about getting married, but he couldn’t stand Daniel’s nagging, so he pacified him by choosing a mother for Nathan.

Daniel had found him 20 to 30 single girls, all with compatible horoscopes, and most of them from an ordinary family. He even sent people to investigate their backgrounds to ensure that they had no problems before choosing the ten most suitable candidates for Michael.

Daniel wanted someone with a good horoscope, a nice personality and a good appearance. It would be great for her to have a not-too-low IQ as well.

When he showed Michael the girls’ photos, Michael didn’t even glance at them. He simply showed them to Nathan, asking him to choose himself a mother.

Nathan had chosen the frumpiest-looking one of the lot.

He would never forget the moment he saw Sophia’s photo. Her face was bare, and her hair was tied up in a ponytail, her forehead full of baby hair. The circles underneath her eyes were dark, something she accumulated after long nights of studying.

Daniel had even specifically listed down the characteristics of each girl. It was written that Sophia was a star pupil with good grades, and was one of the best students in Bayside University.

Little did they know that when Nathan was making his decision, he simply thought that it would be great to have someone who could help him with his homework. Besides, a frumpy girl would disgust Michael, who had been trying to be his dad the whole time!

For the bidding, Michael had given him a total of 10 million. Daniel had made up excuses like him being strong enough to survive all hardships, to ensure that he could keep the price down. This had earned him a good deal, and he only spent 80 thousand to buy Sophia, and kept all the change for himself.

All this while, Sophia had her head up in the clouds. She stopped abruptly when she noticed that Nathan didn’t even care to entertain her, and so she continued with her lunch.

After lunch, Sophia asked again, “Is it true that your dad jinxed his wife?”

Nathan rolled his eyes again. “Do you really believe it?”

Sophia frowned but said nothing.

Does this mean that Michael Fletcher didn’t jinx his wife?

Scratching her head, Sophia became more determined that her appearance was the reason why Michael had chosen her to be his wife.

Nathan was mature and smart for his age, and he knew certain things.

He was sure that Michael didn’t jinx his wife.

That 40-ish depressed co-star who had taken her own life was trying to take advantage of the young Michael when they filmed the movie together. She had even told Michael directly about wanting to be his sugar mummy, threatening to end his career and ban him from the industry if he refused her offer.

But strangely, it was the actress who was banned, and all of her endorsement contracts were terminated. She knew she had offended some big shot, but she didn’t know who it was. In the end, she was so terrified that she went into depression, and had killed herself by jumping off a building.

The other women who had been in a scandal with Michael were also after his fame. They had contacted reporters on purpose to take misleading photos, trying to spread and hype up the situation. They clung onto Michael’s popularity, but turned around and accused him. All of them deserved to be banned after all those things they did to Michael!

As for the wealthy girl who went bankrupt, Michael was extremely annoyed by her actions, so he did a background check on her family business. He later found out that the company had been manipulating their accounts to avoid paying taxes, so he had reported it.

Furthermore, what happened to that actress was all Harry’s doing. He was trying to frame Michael into the wife-jinxer character as a joke.

Regarding Michael’s two fiancées, Nathan had no idea about them since that was a long time ago. Michael had never mentioned them, not even for the sake of showing off to Daniel and Harry.

But overall, Nathan thought that he had done a good job in picking out his mom because she could play games with him.

While Nathan was looking satisfied, Sophia was in deep thought.

No matter what Michael’s motive was, it wouldn’t change the fact that he was a sicko and her life would still be tough in the future.

The training in the afternoon was brutal as usual, but everyone seemed to have gotten used to the intense training mode. They were even enjoying themselves, and had been anticipating the final military parade, hoping to get a high score and have a meal with Joel.

Throughout their afternoon break, the Siamese twins Xyla and Richard had been appearing in front of Sophia on purpose. Xyla bragged about her signed cap and her charming boyfriend, but Sophia continued to watch movies the whole time, murmuring a response at whatever Xyla said.

There had been a rumor spreading around the camp that Sophia and Richard had made up, but Xyla didn’t confront Richard. She knew that if she asked, she would lose the first strike and would be no different from Sophia.

Although Richard had explained it to her personally, the fact remained that on that night, Sophia was indeed carried by a man into the infirmary, her body covered in hickeys. Besides Richard, who else would Sophia allow to give her love bites?