My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 340

“But I didn't give up. I have worked a hundred times harder than anyone else. In the second month,I caught up with the class average. In the third month, I was already in the top ten of the class. Bythe end of the first semester, I got a perfect score for my English! Since then, my English resultshave always been in the top ten for the whole grade! I have once again proven with my actions thatI'm not late!”

There was another round of thunderous applause and cheers. Compared with Natasha's innateadvantage, Sophia was indeed the real genius!

"At the age of fifteen, I enrolled into Riverdale High School with results of being in first place frommy middle school. At school, I was exposed to chess for the first time. I wanted to learn, but I didn’thave any knowledge about it.

The hobby class teacher told me that it was too late for me to start learning chess at fifteen. But Ididn't give up and was the champion of the Bayside City's Youth Chess Competition a year later.”"At nineteen, I attended the first ever piano lesson in my life. My piano teacher told me that I wasabsolutely late at nineteen if I wanted to start learning piano and it would be impossible for me todo well, but I refused to believe it. I placed a lot of effort into it and worked a hundred times harderthan the others. One year later, I received my Piano Grade 10 Certificate.”

“Before I enrolled in university, I had no knowledge about any minority languages. However, in myfirst year of university, I obtained two minority languages’ certificates. Before this year, I was an artstudent. I had never once in my life been exposed to any knowledge on computers.

This year, I decided to learn computer programming, game design and app design. Look at me now,I have participated in the development of the app that you are now using to vote.”

"Colonel Sanders worked hard at the age of 27 and founded Kentucky Fried Chicken, Samuel L.Jackson wrote “Journey to the West’ when he was 50, Steve Carell became a successful comedian atthe age of 42 and Betty White was only famous at the age of 511"

The audience almost went frantic with their applause!

Compared to Natasha's “I'm already seventeen and I'm running out of time’, it seemed like everyonepreferred “I'm only twenty years old, so what if I was late?’

After all, not everyone would have had the same reputation like Natasha when they were seventeen!The live comment section exploded.

I'm twenty and I've decided to start dancing!’

“This junior is inspiring! She has just reignited my dream to work harder! I'm 21 and have decidednot to waste my life anymore. I'm going to start studying medicine!"

“I'm already in my third year but I hate my current major. From now onward, I've decided to enrol inmy second major!"

"Oh my God! This app was actually designed by a junior who has only been into programming for afew months? This is so amazing; I support you!”

On the app, Sophia's votes spiked like a rocket. In a blink of an eye, Natasha was pushed down fromher number one spot, but her fan base was very powerful. The moment they noticed that somethingwent wrong, they immediately caught up. Both contestants chased one another wildly on theranking board.

Looking at the live comment section on the screen, Natasha was still scoffing. It seems like lies likethis can be very useful to deceive those underachieving students!

Those who don't work hard all love this kind of thing the most!

However, how will the judges be fooled?

While at the panel of judges, Michael did his best to clap for his wife. When he was finished, heimmediately gave his wife a perfect score and simultaneously ensured to vote for her on the app—the account was being registered with the university's student number. Each user would be able tovote once every ten minutes until the event ended. He used his former student number to registerand vote.

The second round of public speaking came to an end. The scores given by the judges were allcollected with the total being calculated for the contestants—from the ones by the panel and theonline votes. The marks from the first round, which was the catwalk, would also be concurrentlyannounced.

The host announced in a melodious voice, “The first place in the first round goes to No. 1, NatashaMitchell with 9.88 points. The second place goes to No.23, Sophia Edwards, 9.86 points and thethird place...”

Upon hearing that, Natasha was acting as if it was what she deserved, but Michael, who was in thepanel, frowned.

How did it happen?

I had painted so many zero for Natasha; how can my wife still be in second place?

He quickly took a glance at his phone and discovered that her online votes from the first round wasso splendid that he had no idea when she accumulated a thousand more votes than the secondplace.

What happened?

Michael immediately contacted the admin, Stanley. According to Stanley, it seemed like it was Harrywho fished for votes on her behalf on Twitter.

Michael clicked into Harry's Twitter account and saw that the latter had posted an advertisement forStanley's app. The app was now not only being used by the university, but it became popularamong the students around the campus.

Stanley had visited most of the universities and signed contracts with them to link theiradministration system with the app. Anyone could simply register themselves on the app with theirown student number.

The Twitter post was originally only meant to promote Stanley's app, but Harry never expected thathis fans would download and register themselves—just to vote for him!

Even though Harry did not participate in the contest, he had graced the catwalk together withNatasha! There was no way that his fans would stop voting for her.

So, he had accidentally drawn votes for her!

He had more than 40 millions followers on Twitter! Even if only one million registered themselves,that in itself was already a terrifying number.

Upon knowing the result, Michael almost wanted to choke him to his death on the spot!

Not knowing what had recently happened, the innocent Harry stared at Michael with saucer eyes.The first round had come to an end but Harry's fans were still downloading and registeringthemselves like crazy. They went insane when they voted for No. 1 and as Michael was glaring athim, Natasha’s online votes were rising again. In a heartbeat, her votes were again two thousandsahead of Sophia!

No matter how many students Bayside University had, they were no match for Harry's fans. No onecan ever compete with the numbers of followers he had on Twitter!

No matter how many zeros Michael had given to Natasha, it was now completely useless!

He had thought of so many ways but missed out on that part!

Michael immediately logged into his account—the one which he had not been using for years. Heretweeted the advertisement that Stanley made to promote the app and left a message that read,“Student No. 23's speech was moving for someone like me who was only admitted into university atthe age of 23. If you can dream it, you can do it. What's the matter with being late?’

Once they saw that their idol had personally nominated for No. 23, his fans quickly downloaded theapp, registered and started voting.

Since he had humbled himself to personally solicit votes for Sophia, her online votes finally beganto catch up and track Natasha's, as if they battled in the battleground. As both Taylor and Ethan'sfans were involved, it seemed like the front was no longer the girls’, but a battleground between thefans of the actors!