My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 198

When Sophia reached the campus, she saw Sarah and Sean walking toward her. Almost every day, the duo came to the campus together because they seemed to be neighbors.

“Sofie, come and take a look at the latest magazine! There’s a surprise inside!”

Sarah brought Sophia to the campus’s most crowded newspaper stand. There, the magazines that defamed Stanley had been removed and were replaced by a new edition of esports magazines. Coincidentally, Stanley was on the covers too.

This time, the magazines were full of Stanley’s well-groomed photos instead of candid shots. As usual, Stanley was in his punk style. He looked attractive in the professionally shot and slightly edited photos.

Oh dear. This guy is actually so capable, Sophia thought. Not only was he the worthiest esports player in Cethos, but he was also very famous in the international esports industry. Previously, he even led a team of Cethonian online gamers and defeated every foreign team in an international esports tournament, winning themselves the first place.

The British prince has asked for his guidance; the Swedish princess has tried courting him; the President has brought him on a state visit because he’s the most outstanding teen in Cethos…

“I’ve never thought that Stan is so talented!” Sarah exclaimed.

Meanwhile, Sophia also seemed to be impressed by Stanley because she had been regarding him as a nerd. It seemed like all the Fletchers were indeed extraordinary.

They walked to the basketball court while chatting.

After reaching the place and changing her clothes, Sophia began warming up and focused on the competition later.

The match was between the School of Economics and Business Administration and the School of Financial Management.

Since the School of Financial Management was full of rich, good-looking people, they had more fans in comparison to the School of Economics and Business Administration.

Richard was here too. When he reached the court, he walked to Sophia while smiling politely. “Sophia, I’m here to support you.”

He thought he was treating Sophia generously and kindly since he purposely didn’t bring Xyla along with him. In response, Sophia smiled, but she was cut short from her speech because somebody suddenly put his hand on her shoulder, and a deep voice could be heard behind her.

“Thank you!” Stanley showed up and held Sophia’s shoulder as he said mockingly, “Sophia has enough cheerleaders for today, so I don’t think she’ll need her ex. You’re an eyesore.”

His words made Sophia roll her eyes because she had no idea why Stanley kept treating her ex meanly.

For her, she had always chosen to ignore the Harpers to prevent them from having the idea that she wanted to rely on them.

In contrast to Richard, who was alone, there were a lot of men standing behind Stanley now. Aside from Nathan, Gary, and Hale, there were also a few men whom Sophia did not recognize, and even a few Caucasians.

“Sophia, come here! Let me introduce them to you.” Deliberately, Stanley started introducing his friends before Richard.

“Here’s my eldest disciple, Kevin. He’s the youngest prince of the British monarchy and the eighth in line to the throne.”

Then, he turned to another guy. “This is my second disciple, Wilhelm. He’s from the Swedish royal family.”

Pointing to yet another guy, he said, “He’s my friend, Shiloh, and he’s the heir of the largest tribe in Africa.”

As the humiliated Stanley was provoked, he asked his friends to come here to put Richard to shame.

Bayside University was never lacking international students because a lot of politicians and successful entrepreneurs sent their children here. Although Richard had thought about gaining their support, he had no ways to approach them.

Little did he know that Stanley could casually ask so many of them out.

It was also out of his expectation that Stanley was really famous by being an esports player. Esports did not only make him become famous worldwide and the worthiest gamer in Cethos, it also gave him the opportunity to know a lot of royalty and politicians.

Nonetheless, he was still a gamer no matter how arrogant he was!

Richard was quiet and his expression darkened.

Meanwhile, Stanley was glaring at him disdainfully.

Even though Nathan was in the gang, the average of their height was still around 180 cm. Hence, if they really went into a fight with Richard, they would undoubtedly be the winner because Richard was only by himself.

Sophia was the one who broke the tension. “Okay. Just go and find yourselves seats.”

Richard turned around and left with a foul expression. Then, Stanley was finally willing to bring his friends to look for seats.

During the match between the School of Computer Science and the School of Financial Management last time, they would have lost due to Richard’s tricks if Michael had not come to their rescue. Hence, Stanley brought his gang of friends over on this day to prevent the School of Economics and Business Administration from being fooled as well.

Aside from giving Sophia support, they were also here to stop those from the School of Financial Management from playing dirty tricks.

As giving out money had been the most common trick used by those from the School of Financial Management, the female basketball team had indeed used this trick on the School of Economics and Business Management before the match.

One day before the match, Sophia received an anonymous text message about giving her 100 thousand if she would quit the match. She just laughed it off.

On this day, the players from the School of Economics and Business Administration were in their best state and they were gaining points effortlessly. As their points kept going up, people from the School of Financial Management became anxious and kept sending out messages to them, offering them more money than before.

However, Stanley, who was in the spectators’ seat, suddenly shouted, “To the beautiful ladies in the School of Economics and Business Administration’s basketball team, let’s go for a meal once you all win! Just order anything you want because my friend will pay for the bill!”

At once, every girl around became excited, especially the girls from the School of Economics and Business Administration’s basketball team.

They did not care about what they would be eating; the key issue here was who they would be having dinner with.

As long as they could have dinner with their prince, money would not be an issue for them.

Hence, no matter how hard the School of Financial Management tried now, no people would accept their offer anymore.

The winner of the match was obvious now.

As Sophia’s opponents were too weak, she was running around and putting in goals without putting in much effort. She even wanted to yawn because her opponents simply couldn’t compare to her skills without the support of money they were given. Hence, she just let her other team members show off their skills, as a few princes were looking at them now.

When she looked at the spectators lazily, she suddenly found a man in a black down coat sitting in a corner. With a huge scarf around his neck, he was looking at Sophia smilingly.

Although he was wearing a black cap and had put his hair down to cover half of his face, Sophia still recognized him at a glance—Michael was here!

Hence, Sophia suddenly became competitive once again. She ran in front of her team and started snatching the ball and putting in goals. In the end, she even managed to make two consecutive three-pointers.

The match ended after the blow of a whistle. The School of Financial Management was totally defeated, making them go to the restroom in distress.

Nathan happily brought a bottle of water to Sophia after she had left the court. When Sophia was drinking the water, she kept sneaking glances at Michael’s direction and realized that he had disappeared.

Did he leave?

At once, Sophia became sad, and she even found the mineral water that she was drinking bitter.