Michael spun his head around and asked in confusion, âDid I say something before the competition?â
As her face burned a bright red, Sophia retreated back into the covers and her eyes looked everywhere except at him. âYesterday, you mentioned that thereâs a reward after the competitionâ¦â she trailed off.
She was so embarrassed that she hid herself in the covers, pouting her lips.
It seemed like he had forgotten about it. âReward? What reward?â he asked, puzzled.
Fidgeting under the covers, she mumbled, âYou knowâ¦â
âI actually donât. What is it?â he pressed on.
âThe one which you mentioned yesterdayâ¦â she whispered.
Almost about to blow his top, he said, âSpeak louder; I canât hear you.â
Abashed, Sophis ducked into the covers and shouted from within, âItâs that⦠costume⦠reward!â
With his intelligence, itâs impossible for him not to understand what Iâm speaking about! Heâs doing this on purpose because he was unhappy that I didnât do it with him the night before, and heâs now doing this to spite me! But we already agreed yesterday that thereâll be a costume reward if we win the competition!
She waited for his reply for a long time, but there was no response for him. Her heart raced as she finally gathered enough courage to peek out from under the covers only to see a man in ancient Cethos clothing standing by the bed.
In a golden warrior robe, he wore a purple and gold crown on his head and mid-calf boots on his feet while his hair reached his waist. In a split second, it seemed as though he had travelled through time and dimension and entered the two-dimensional gaming world.
Sophiaâs eyes almost popped out from its sockets. Isnât this the exact same costume of his character from the game? Michael actually dressed up as him!
With a face like Michaelâs, he could pull off anything. When he wore a suit, he looked like a bossy president of a company, and when he was dressed up in ancient clothing, he could play the part of a fairytale lad. He looked exactly like his game character, Scary Phoenix. No matter if it was the appearance or aura, the resemblance rate was ninety-nine percent.
After fixing his head gear, he picked up the custom-made prop weapon, struck a pose and put on a straight face before gazing at Sophia and asked, âHowâs this costume?â
Trying her best not to drool as she spoke, she replied, âI-Itâs passable.â
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It was already noon by the time Stanley, who was taken in by Michael last night and slept in the guest room, woke up, and he rubbed his sleepy eyes. After he got out of bed, he had lunch at his place and that was when he saw Sophiaâs blushing face, a typical look of a satisfied woman.
âGet out of here by yourself after lunch,â Michael said.
While he ate, Stanley was browsing through the news on his phone, and he suddenly flew to Michaelâs side as though he had seen an alarming piece of news. âUncle Michael, look at this! The âSwordsman Gameâ is going to be filmed into a TV series of the same name. Youâre really popular on the Internet now and everyone is hoping that youâll play the male lead. Also, your die-hard fans seamlessly photoshopped your face onto the game character! This series will definitely become a classic piece of work if you play the male lead.â
Without even taking a look, Michael said, âIâm not interested.â
In fact, Stanley already knew that an A-list movie star like Michael would never play a role in a TV series.
However, Sophia seemed highly interested as she joined them and exclaimed, âLet me take a look!â
Some of Michaelâs fans had photoshopped his face onto the Scary Phoenix character in the game. The end result of the amalgamation looked complete and perfect, and it looked very much like the Scary Phoenix she slept with last night.
Coincidentally, TV series which originated from games were very popular recently, so âSwordsman Gameâ wanted to do the same while the trend lasted. Because Michael participated in the Esports World Championship, his fans were urging him to play the male lead of the game in its TV series! Despite the slim chance, they were still requesting for it.
Sophiaâs eyes widened with anticipation. If her Lord can play the leading characterâ¦
Seeing her face filled with yearning and anticipation while appearing blushed and tender, Michael placed his fork down and declared, âIâve changed my mind. If the script is good, fits my schedule and the team is great, I will give it a try.â
Dumbfounded, Stanley commented, âYou donât have a firm stand at all, do you?â
Next to him, Nathan ate in silence and sniggered, Well, he stands wherever Sophia wants him to.
With the end of the Esports World Championship, Sophia successfully obtained her five credit points while Michael returned to the intense filming of his movie. The movie he was filming now, âWar Dragonâ, was a big production, and he needed to go abroad to shoot some scenes.
In the meantime, Sophia did some self-learning every day at home and would go to the company occasionally to check on its progress.
That day after it was revealed that Sarah was actually Little Kitten, Sophia saw that she didnât stop uploading her dirty comics on her page on the Internet, as though she wasnât afraid of Harry at all.
If Sophia were her, she would have hid herself in a corner like she never existed.
Finally, she couldnât hold back anymore and texted Sarah: âLittle Kitten, why are you still making these drawings? Arenât you afraid of Harry?â
Almost instantly, Sarah replied her text: âNot at all. What can he do to me? Letâs hangout tomorrow and Iâll show you my latest sketches.â
There are new sketches? Sophia mused and agreed.
On the next day, she went out after having breakfast to meet Sarah in a coffee house downtown, where Sarah took out the sketchbook with her new dirty drawings from her bag. Her drawings had surpassed any humanâs imagination with her favorite theme of pairing up Harry with irrelevant characters and coupling Stanley with Sean.
Through Sarahâs tainted eyes, there were no men she couldnât forcibly couple together.
In the past, she loved drawing Taylor with Harry, but after she learned that Taylor was married to Sophia, her drawings of him lessened and she had now developed to become an expert at drawing Harry.
Especially recently after joining Stanleyâs company where she could encounter Harry personally, drawing him had almost become her obsession.
As long as love existed in her heart, she could even couple Stanleyâs husky with Harry.
As Sophia looked through her illustrations and saw Harry in indecent acts, she was seized by anxiety because her drawings were now bolder and even included group sex.
Oh my godâ¦
Studies were too boring and she needed to look at some stimulating images to relieve her stress, so the both of them browsed through the sketchbook while drinking coffee until it was noon.
Glancing at her watch, Sarah then said, âI have a lunch date with my classmates. I donât think you would like to join because you donât know any of them, so Iâm going by myself.â
After bidding her goodbye, Sophia finished her coffee, kept the sketchbook into her backpack and left the coffee house happily.
Later, she thought she would make a stop at the gym, but she usually went there to train martial arts with Gwen. Since it was just fitness, she could do it at home and what was more, her Lord would be home to instruct her.
Recently, Michael had left for the studios in the suburbs for filming and only returned home once a week on weekends. Usually, there was only Sophia alone at home, so she felt a little lonely.
Deciding that she would have lunch first, she had only taken a few steps away from the coffee house when a voice suddenly called out to her from behind, âSophia.â
She turned around and saw a person she never imagined she would meet standing not far away from her. âGeneral?!â