My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 370

Staring at Stanley who was hugging his thigh with a teary face, Michael clapped his forehead andexclaimed, “I've been too busy attending to your Aunt Sophia's matter that I totally forgot aboutyour stuff.”

Stanley wept miserably, “Do you even remember that I'm your nephew?! Bah...”

"Hubby, are you back?"

As Sophia's voice came from the second floor, Michael immediately nudged Stanley away with hisleg. “Get away from me.”

Stanley refused to leave him alone and tightened his grip on his thigh. “If you don't join thetournament with me, I'll tell Aunt Sophia how you play as a female character in the game in order toflirt with guys! I'm sure she'll divorce you!"

At that moment, Sophia reached the living room and was confused to see Stanley crying whilehugging Michael's thigh. “What's going on?”

Stanley wailed, “Aunt Sophia, the tournament will be held on the day after tomorrow but two out ofeight players of my team can't be reached at all! My team is going to be defeated! Boohoo..."

The tournament!

Sophia felt as if something just exploded in her head.

She had totally forgotten about the Esports World Championship as she had been too busy trackingdown her father over the past fortnight.

Feeling a numbing sensation creeping over her scalp when she looked at Stanley's teary face, shequickly proposed, “Stanley, you should stay for dinner tonight.”

With that, she quickly turned around and went to the study.

Watching her leave, Stanley still glued himself to Michael's thigh and he was dragged along witheach step he took.

"You have to be there the day after tomorrow or I will kill myself here!”

Michael gave him a kick and relented, “Fine, I promise I'll be there.”

Stanley was acting all melodramatic. “Also, make sure your bottom is there too and I know you havehis contact number! If anyone of you is to be absent the day after tomorrow, I'll hang myself todeath at the entrance of the National Stadium! I'll also leave a suicide note saying that I was forcedto my death by the two of you!"

Impatiently, Michael tried to yank him away. “Fine, fine. I'll be there, okay?"

“You have to make a pledge!”

"What sort of pledge do you want me to make?”

“If you are absent the day after tomorrow, your wife will get more and more hideous day by day!"What a vicious pledge was that.

Reluctantly, Michael vowed, “I, Michael Fletcher, hereby swear to God that if I'm absent at theEsports World Championship, my wife will get more and more hideous day by day!”

It was only then did Stanley let go of him and rose to his feet to wipe away the tears on his face.“Uncle Michael, I should get going then. Please remember to go online at eight sharp tonight andwe'll be having a training session tomorrow since you haven't played for two weeks already.”

After getting rid of Stanley, Michael shook his head in frustration.

So annoying!

Meanwhile, Sophia rushed back to her room in order to take out her phone used specifically forgaming. As she had left the phone at home and forgot about it, the battery was flat. She found shehad hundreds of messages once the battery of the phone was fully charged.

“Sirius, where the f*ck have you gone?! You'd better get online now!’

'If you don't appear soon, I'll hang myself to death at the door of your house!"

"You'd better wait for me at home because after the tournament, I'll shoot you with a gun!Without further ado, she logged into her account and found that she had received hundreds ofmessages from her teammates in the game just to curse her.

At night, the team finally reunited because Scary Phoenix as well as Sirius233, who had both gonemissing in action for a long time, finally made their appearances.

Inside the game, Snow Fox nearly wanted every player in the team to kneel down in front of Sirius.Snow Fox: “Oh, my darling, my fair lady, could you please never do this to me ever again? We'll beplaying the final round tomorrow! It's the final round of the Esports World Championship heldbetween our team and the champion team from North America, and it'll be held at the NationalStadium!

Do you have any idea how grand it will be? The ticket cost five thousand each and all tickets havealready been sold! While teams from other countries were all defeated, we're the last man standingand we're going to represent Cethos in the world of esports! If we screw up, we'll bring disgrace toour country! So, you have to be there tomorrow or I'll kill myself in front of you."

Sirius233 sent him a reply which sounded extremely guilty: “So sorry about that. I've been very busylately as my son's pet dog just gave birth and I had to handle the delivery.’

Snow Fox: “Il don't want to listen to any of your bullshit. Anyway, you have to stay online for thewhole day tomorrow or I'll hang myself to death at the door of your house!"

The team of eight finally appeared in full and they went on to train for the entire night.

Michael stayed in his study for the night busy doing something unknown while Sophia continuedplaying the game in her study. She rested there at midnight and continued gaming in the morning;she was so absorbed for the entire morning that she had to ask Maria to send her lunch to herroom.

At first, she assumed the Esports World Championship was not a big deal, but to her amazement,the event was actually a very grand one.

As Cethos was hosting the tournament, the venue of the final round was fixed at Bayside NationalStadium.

“Swordsman Game’ was the first game created in Cethos which became popular worldwide, and itwas also the first game from Cethos that was made a sports event in the Esports WorldChampionship. Although this game had been included in the championship for years, the Cethosteam had only been crowned the champion twice so far and they usually suffered severe drubbingsin the hands of teams from other countries.

It was especially embarrassing because the game was an invention of Cethos.

This year, the Cethos team finally made it to the final round and they actually stood a high chanceof winning because the team came with very impressive combat power.

Thus, it became a sensational topic in the world of esports in the country, but the other reason wasbecause this year, one of the players of the Dragon Fox Team of Cethos was Scary Phoenix—alegendary player.

Several years ago when the Swordsman Game was first included in the Esports WorldChampionship, it was Scary Phoenix who led the Cethos team to victory.

The event was already a hit even before it began and the tickets were resold at more than ten timesthe original price. The price of the best seats even reached twenty thousand per ticket but despitethe exorbitant price, it was still hard to get a ticket.

Worried that Michael would give her a surprise visit to inspect her work, Sophia decided to sneak offto a cybercafe just outside the residential area and she got a private room there to start gaming.

It was only at night did she leave the cybercafe and went back home in darkness.

As she had played the game for most of the day as well as the previous night, obvious dark circleshad formed under her eyes and they had become puffy.

Her skin was so oily that even her bangs were stuck together. She found a pin to pin her bangs upbut then her oily forehead as well as her untrimmed eyebrows were revealed. In other words, shelooked unkempt and haggard.

Since the Lord wouldn't get to see her in this state, she didn’t mind.

Feeling her stomach rumbling on her way back, she stopped by a kiosk at the entrance of theresidential area and bought bread and a bottle of coke. Munching on the snacks, she startedheading to her house.

Unexpectedly, she bumped into Natasha who happened to be walking out of the residential area atthat time.

Natasha was a girl who looked as elegant as a princess at all times. At this hour, she was stillwearing a princess-style short skirt which revealed her fair thighs matched with a pair of limitededition customized high heels.

In comparison to her, Sophia, who was wearing a casual attire and a pair of slippers with one handholding bread and another holding a bottle of coke, looked just like a middle-aged married woman.Natasha spotted her too and she purposefully strutted over, making crisp sounds with her highheels. However, the elegant and graceful footsteps of hers sounded annoying to Sophia.

“You're back! I'll be having my piano concert tomorrow and I just sent the invitation card to Michael.I wanted to give you one too but you weren't at home, so I asked Michael to pass it to you.”Obviously, she was harboring some secret agenda by sending things to a man in the middle of thenight while dressing in such an alluring way.