My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 211

Word soon got around that Sirius was now in possession of a godly weapon from Scary Phoenix. Countless players in the game came and asked Sophia to sell it to them, but she turned them down coldly.

Beast popped up as well. He kept sending her private messages which read, ‘F*ck, Daddy. You just got a stroke of luck—my dad simply gave his Hundred-Mile Streamers to you!’

Sirius233 replied haughtily, ‘Yeah, he lent it to me for a few days so that I can play with it.’

Sirius’s relationship with Beast had improved a little these days, and they often played together. Switching the conversation to another subject, Beast texted ingratiatingly, ‘Daddy, why don’t you lend the Hundred-Mile Streamers to me for a few days so that I can play with it as well?’

Beast texted back, ‘You’re my Daddy—even my dad has said so. How could you do this to me?!’

Sirius replied, ‘This weapon is my master’s!’

Sophia had wanted to key in the word ‘hubby,’ but the damn character input software automatically changed it to ‘master’ due to its predictive text feature. She quickly corrected herself, ‘It’s a typo—I didn’t mean to write “master.” It’s “Master!”’

In the end, the message was sent with the word ‘master’ still being used.

Beast replied, ‘You’re so disgusting. I know that he’s your master, so you don’t have to repeat that to me so many times. If you don’t want to lend the weapon to me, just forget that I even asked!’

Sirius was silent this time.

Meanwhile, Michael managed to get Stanley to leave after pleading with him in every way he could. It wasn’t until he logged into the game and gave Stanley another godly weapon that was second only to the Hundred-Mile Streamers that the latter’s anger was finally appeased.

Stanley thought his uncle did so out of his care for him. Much to his dismay, he logged into the game to discover that everyone in the team had received a godly weapon from Scary Phoenix as well.

Their team was probably considered first-class in Cethos, but it was unknown how well they would fare on the international level. Cethos’s esports teams could not be compared with overseas ones since the country started relatively late on esports in the first place. Therefore, they had to strengthen themselves as quickly as possible to increase their likelihood of winning the championship.

The four professional players who joined the team wanted to win the championship to achieve a higher status in the field, whereas Snow Fox and the other two students wanted to win the championship to receive the five extra credits. As for Scary Phoenix, however… nobody knew why he joined the team.

Michael stealthily opened the door to Nathan’s study and watched through the cracks as Sophia played the game with pleasure. The sight of her happiness filled him with immense gratification.

Michael left home on the seventh day of the New Year to act in a film overseas. Sophia felt lost after he left, but she had no time to dwell on her sense of loss since the first round of selection trials was coming soon. Therefore, she began training herself night and day.

How embarrassing it would be if her team couldn’t even enter the selection trials!

Luckily, her team’s members were all expert players, so they passed the selection trials with their eyes closed and got themselves qualified to enter the championship without a hitch.

The new semester then started in the blink of an eye. Since Sophia had many courses in the second semester of her first year at university, she was as busy as a bee; whenever she had free time after her classes, Sophia either headed to a nearby Internet cafe or went home straight away to turn on her computer and play the online game.

Her team got through the preliminaries across all servers and entered the quarterfinals, the semifinals, then the finals until they finally made their way into the Cethosian division of the championship. After fighting their way up again, they narrowly won first place in that division to become one of the three teams representing their home country. They would compete against a few well-known teams from other countries in the Aseanos region since only the top three teams would be qualified to enter the global finals.

After winning the Cethosian finals of the championship, everyone in the team could finally get some rest.

Sophia also had her hands full these days since she had to take care of both her studies and her gaming endeavors; she even felt that she had lost quite some weight.

Going through all of this just for some extra credit! Sophia thought to herself.

Everyone else in the team had also worked hard for many days. After winning the Cethosian finals of the championship, Snow Fox—who was Stanley in real life—proposed having an offline gathering, but Sophia refused him without hesitation.

Stanley even made a call to Sirius233’s cell phone and said, “Hey, why the hell are you so scared of showing your face? Everyone in our team can be trusted, so your identity won’t be leaked. It’s just a gathering—we’re not going to devour you!”

Sophia had installed a voice-changing application on the cell phone so that her voice sounded like a male’s. She answered, “It’s not that I don’t want to come, but I would like to keep my reality and the gaming world separate from each other.”

Stanley stopped pressing her further. Had Michael not forbidden him from doing so, he would have found Sirius’s personal information and dropped in on him a long time ago. However, he could only hang up and call up everyone else in the team for the offline gathering.

There were eight people in the team, but since Scary Phoenix and Sirius would certainly not come to the gathering, only six of them would be present.

After hanging up the phone, Sophia packed up her stuff and left the library as she wanted to pick Nathan up at the School of Computer Science.

Besides having to learn some knowledge about other subjects, she had also begun reading academic books for her second year at university; she had been so busy these days that she had no time to play with Nathan at all. Now that the championship had come to an end for the time being, she had to go outdoors and play with Nathan no matter what.

A movie that Tay Tay had starred in would be premiering soon, so she could take the opportunity to watch it with Nathan!

However, when she arrived at the School of Computer Science, she learned that Gary had picked Nathan up a long time ago.

She turned back and walked alone while kicking the pebbles when she suddenly realized that Michael hadn’t been home in nearly two months; he hadn’t come home ever since he left during the New Year. Even though they video called each other every single day, she couldn’t help feeling like something was missing since he wasn’t by her side. Not only that, she felt even more uncomfortable upon seeing couples after couples walk past her hand-in-hand.

She also wanted to walk hand-in-hand with Michael on campus grounds and enjoy other people’s envious glances.

She had sneaked into Michael’s fan group in Bayside City. According to the information that spread out from the fan group, the filming of ‘Doctor Invincible,’ which had been in production for almost half a year, was nearing its end. Members of the fan group were planning to meet Michael at the airport when he came back.

Not only that, his fans were also going to book out an entire cinema to watch Tay Tay’s new movie when it premiered.

The new semester also came with all kinds of activities and competitions, including a debate contest and a cash-counting competition. Sophia was still pondering over which competition she would like to take part in; as a straight-A student, she would never miss any opportunity of earning extra credits.

As she was deep in thought by herself, she didn’t notice that a person was heading her way. The person stopped her in delight and said, “What a coincidence meeting you here, Sophia!”

Sophia looked up to see Richard’s smiling face. She wanted to pretend that she didn’t know him, but she couldn’t do so since he knew her in person.

Therefore, she put on a smile that was both polite and distant, asking, “Is there anything, Zane?”

Richard stared at the lady before him; he hadn’t seen her for nearly two months, and she seemed to have become prettier since.

He wished that he could have her to himself, but he couldn’t put the scene of her necking with Stanley in the stadium and the thing she had done with Joel in bed out of his mind.

He balled his fists in his sleeves before taking an invitation card out of his pocket. “This is the invitation card for me and Xyla’s engagement banquet. Please be sure to come,” he said.

Sophia frowned as the sight of the invitation card put her on the spot.

If she didn’t accept the invitation, the Harper Family might think that she couldn’t bring herself to attend the banquet because she still had feelings for Richard; nobody knew what they were going to say behind her back.

However, accepting the invitation would make her feel sick to the stomach. Furthermore, she already had apprehensions about attending all banquets hosted by the Harpers after the previous incident. Who knew what sort of wicked idea they would come up with to harm her at the banquet?

Richard couldn’t bear the sight of her hesitation deep down inside; he knew that it was very cruel of him to invite Sophia to this banquet. Nobody would be willing to see their loved one getting engaged to another woman, especially in front of her eyes.

Not only that, he even gave this invitation card himself!