My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 18

As soon as Michael was gone, Sophia needed to restrain herself. Fortunately, she had anotheridentity—a student of Bayside University. Bayside University was the top university in Cethos andthey emphasized on nurturing students, so they wouldn't simply allow their students to skip classeslike other universities.

The university also had a very strict credit system and school rules, so any violation of those ruleswould lead to a deduction in credit. It didn't matter who you were because those who looked downon the school, had disciplinary problems, or even earned bad grades would be expelled from theschool immediately.

No matter how rich and powerful the people were, once they were expelled from the university,there was no coming back.

Sophia felt more secure with her identity as a student of Bayside University. Michael can’t force meto drop out of school and go home to be with him. If he really tortures me to death, he will beresponsible for everything when the school investigates about it.

Every student in the university was carefully chosen, especially civilians like us who were admittedsolely based on our academics. Therefore, everyone in the university is a high-achieving scholar.Daytime was Sophia's free time and she could decide the number of hours she wanted to stay inschool. Therefore, she signed up with a few clubs at once and she even chose three elective coursesthat were carried out during the evening. She also filled up her schedule with personal trainingcourses in the gym.

Seeing her schedule that was filled with classes and gym courses from 7AM to 9PM, she felt that shecould finally stay at school in the open for the whole day without returning home. I can even directlyapply to stay in school through Michael.

After all, it takes half an hour to reach here from home, and Bayside City is globally renowned for itstraffic, so sometimes, we may not even reach home within an hour. Let's just see how long I candrag this.

Sophia was content with herself—even though her Yamaha bike was confiscated, she still couldshuttle around the school ground on her skateboard.

She felt like a happy little bird and Michael was an old, wrinkly woman who always tried to keep herin a bird cage.

Holding onto the class schedule that she had just filled, she made her way toward her next class butseemed to feel that someone was watching her from the back. When she turned her head, therewasn't anything strange behind her.

From the moment she entered school today, she felt goosebumps all over her body, as if a pair ofeyes secretly watched her every move. Could it be someone from the Harper Family?

But they won't dare to lay their hands on me on the university campus. Maybe it's because thatpervert is back, so I'm starting to hallucinate due to stress. Sophia thought about it in that way, so itdidn't concern her.

However, right at that moment, her fully-packed schedule fell into Michael's line of vision. Hestopped at the right moment and enlarged her timetable to see the elective courses she chose.Food nutrition, social etiquette and English as well as sex and health education... She even signedup for three clubs—culinary culture club, drama club and the night marathon club. Her timetable isfully-stacked.

Elective courses start in the evenings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and her club activitiesare held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Night marathons were scheduled for every weekend. Her whole day is almost filled with classes andshe even enrolled in a personal training course at the gym. Is she planning not to come back andsee me even during the weekends?

“Tsk!” He exclaimed once again. Am I that terrifying? What makes her so disgusted of me?

He chewed on a piece of gum, revealing a profound smile on his lips. Gary, who drove the car, sawhis sweet smile in the rearview mirror and instantly knew that he might be up to something nogood.

Sophia had a busy day at school today. When she left the university's gate, it was already 6.30PM.However, her elective courses hadn't started yet because it was the beginning of an academic year,so she didn’t have any other classes to attend in the evening.

Therefore, she planned to change her clothes and have a meal before playing games in a cybercafeuntil 10PM when it was time to return home.

Just as she had everything planned out for the night, she received a phone call from Hale. “Madam,Boss has asked me to pick you up. He has already booked a table tonight at the Pearl CouplesRestaurant.”

After she ended the call, she wandered out in low spirits, but she didn’t notice that someonefollowed her closely from behind.

When she came to a corner and prepared to look for a washroom to change her clothes, someonesuddenly grabbed hold of her shoulders.

“Sophia.” The gentle and warm voice of a man was heard from behind.

She stopped in her steps and turned to see Richard standing behind her.

As the eldest son of the real estate tycoon in Riverdale, the Harper Family, he was the same as otherstudents in Bayside University. He was born with a silver spoon, so his soul had traces of nobility andelegance.

He used to be the love of her life and she was also aware of the gap between them, but she did notbelieve in fate. She had worked hard to become the woman that was worthy to be by his side.However, the cold reality had given her a ruthless slap on her face—a medical report and anexpulsion letter almost ruined her life, but the man she loved the most merely sat there watchingwith another girl in his arms!

Richard had been learning how to run his family's business since high school, so he was now alreadycapable of supporting half of the Harper Family's enterprise.

However, at school, he was merely a student. He wore a snowy white shirt, resembling a prince inevery young girl's dream. He was full of warmth and vitality without any contamination from society.However, Sophia was already indifferent toward him since she wouldn't look at him. “If you havesomething to say, say it quickly. Please don't talk about the lawsuit.”

Richard smiled bitterly. Sophia is now like a hedgehog that raises her quills upright whenever I comeclose to her. She is so defensive and vigilant toward me while no longer being the same innocentSophia as before.

“It's fine, I'm just here to see you. I heard that you've signed up for loads of elective courses.Actually, you don't need to work so hard because it will be easy for you to earn those credits withyour academic results.” His voice was still as gentle as before, like a whisper to a lover's ear.However, Sophia was emotionless after hearing him. “So, what does that have to do with you?”Richard was rendered speechless, but in the end, he lowered his lashes to illustrate his melancholyand grief. “I know you still hate me, but you can't take your anger out on Kayla. You know clearlythat she wouldn't do something like this...”

“I'm sorry. I don't hate you. I'm just taking back what was once mine.” She interrupted himimpatiently.

Richard's face was full of sadness as he looked at the girl in front of him. She was completelydifferent from the person he remembered in his mind. Not only was her appearance different, herheart was also different. “You've changed.”

Sophia was being stubborn. “I've installed braces.”

He was rendered speechless again. He loosened his tight fists as he finally revealed the reason whyhe came to her. “Can't you just direct everything toward me?

Kayla and Xyla are innocent. I'm the one who wronged you. Don't project your hatred for me onothers!” He took two steps forward and grabbed her shoulders while his emotions boiled up. “Tellme now, what should I do to make you withdraw the lawsuit?”

Sophia laid out her conditions. “Ask your sister to apologize publicly and I need 5 million ascompensation.”

Looks like he couldn't replace a way out with Mr. Fields, so he came to me to replace a breakthrough.Richard rejected her conditions immediately. “Sophia, you know clearly that we are a prestigiousfamily of Bayside City, so it's impossible for us to apologize for this sort of thing. If you withdraw thelawsuit, I will give you ten million and you can even return to me.

Can't we just treat this as a mere misunderstanding? I don't care about your past and I'll treat youwell for the rest of your life. I know that you can't have kids after your abortion, but we can adoptlots of kids together in the future. You know that I've always loved you.”

I can't have kids because of my abortion? Is this the latest story that Xyla made up? Sophia wasemotionless inside and she even wanted to laugh—laugh at herself for falling in love with ascumbag like him.

She lifted her chin and slowly wore her sunglasses, showing her cold elegance. “I'm sorry, but I'malready married to an old, ugly, and perverted man who has the whole city in his hands. If you loveme, you can always speak with that old man. If you are able to return home alive, I'll truly respectyou as a man.”

“Tsk!” On the way to the Couples Restaurant, the person who was referred to as the old, ugly, andperverted man who had the whole city in his hands exclaimed while watching a live broadcast on hisphone.