âThatâs me!â Sophia exclaimed.
With one look, Sophia could tell that she was the woman in the photo. She didnât think that she would ever be this fat.
âThis was when I was shooting âThe National Treasury Actionâ,â Michael explained to her. âThe character was a fat middle-aged man, so I made myself fat. Look, you accompanied me, and we grew fat together!
However, you werenât as fat as I was and lost weight in just a few days.â
Sophia felt this was very unusual. âYou really worked hard for the sake of filming a movie!â she exclaimed. âWerenât you worried you wouldnât be able to lose weight after that?â
Generally, actors cherished their body shape very much. Other actors would not dare to do what Michael did. If they couldnât lose weight and regain their figures, their acting careers would be ruined.
However, Michael didnât think it was something to worry about. âI wanted to try being fat. If one couldnât even control their eating habits, how would they control their own life?â
Sophia didnât say anything, but respect for Michael grew from the bottom of her heart.
What a bold man he is.
This was why Michael could become an Oscar-winning actor, while other actors could only be movie stars.
When she just returned to Bayside City and saw Michael for the first time, he looked so old and worn out that she thought he was Carmenâs grandfatherâ¦
True beauty lied on the inside and not on the outside. If one was beautiful and elegant on the inside, they would become radiant by just fixing up their appearance.
After looking over the photos, Michael suddenly asked, âTomorrow is your big day. Have you prepared your outfit?â
Sofia scratched her head. âIâll be dressing casually.â
Michael immediately said, âI have prepared some clothes for you. Would you like to try them?â
After speaking, he opened the cloakroom Sophia used in the past which still contained all her things.
There was actually a secret door inside the cloakroom. The outside stored only items of daily use, but there was also another cloakroom behind the secret door.
When she walked through the secret door, Sophiaâs eyes lit up. There was a wedding dress, a suit and a set of traditional Cethos wedding clothes inside.
The wedding dress had an affluent and elegant design, and every detail was very exquisite. Even if it was only worn on a plastic mannequin, it was still radiant and extraordinary. If it was worn on a real person, it would be even more glamorous.
As soon as she stepped inside the room, Sophiaâs gaze was locked onto the wedding dress.
âThis was a wedding dress we had commissioned,â Matthew explained to her. âYou personally chose the design!â
Sophia approached the wedding dress and took a look. She really had a good eye for taste.
âItâs beautiful,â she murmured.
Michael gave a bitter smile. After they had placed the order for the wedding dress, it took a year for them to receive it. By that time, Sophia was already pregnant and couldnât wear it.
Sophia had thought that after she gave birth, she would quickly lose weight and recover her figure, then immediately take wedding photos of her in her wedding dress and hold a grand wedding ceremony.
Such a pityâ¦
While Sophia was still admiring the wedding dress, Michael had already gone to find the custom-made clothes he had ordered for her.
The clothes Michael chose were naturally unique, and Sophia liked them very much. After choosing what she wanted to wear, Sophia made an appointment to come over to do the styling tomorrow morning, and then she went home.
After returning home, Sophia transferred the money for the clothes and the fee for the stylist to Michael, and Michael accepted it without any hesitation.
He didnât like to be courteous with Sophia as doing so would alienate her from him.
Sophia liked straightforward men like this. Michael would be coming to the event tomorrow, and she was looking forward to itâ¦
Meanwhile, late at night, Justin returned to the place where he had lived for three years. It was a secret research institute outside the city under heavy guard that belonged to the military.
There were many dangerous people locked inside here, such as Celine Fletcher.
Justin entered his room, which was no different from a normal room for 1 person. Although the room was small, it had all the necessary furnishings, but one of the walls was transparent.
On the other side of the transparent wall, there was another room. The furnishings in that room were simpleâthere was only one bed, one wardrobe, and a set of tables and chairs. It was as simple as a cell.
Justin turned on the light, took off his clothes, and hung them on the hangers. On the other side of the wall, a female voice said, âJustin, youâre back.â
Hearing that voice, Justinâs heart became heavier, but he put on a smile on his face, walked to the wall, and looked at the person standing on the other side before saying warmly, âIâm back.â
The person opposite him was Celine Fletcher. Three years had gone by. She had lost a lot of weight, there were wrinkles on her face, and she looked much older.
The two of them sat down, separated by a sheet of glass, and quietly looked at each other.
Celine had been detained here for three years. Justin had been accompanying her all this time, taking care of her while also monitoring her.
When she was normal, she was the same as before, but when she was abnormal, she would kill people indiscriminately. She was also extremely cunning and was always thinking of ways to escape.
However, no one knew why she would be normal in one instant and suddenly become abnormal in another.
Celine wanted to ask Justin something, but she felt she didnât have the right to ask, so Justin spoke up first. âI saw Sophia and Mikey. They are currently doing well. Sophia has forgotten about the past, but I can see that she still has Mikey in her heart.â
âTheyâre doing good. Tomorrow, Sophiaâs pet supply store is having a product launch ceremony, and Mikey is helping her prepare.â
Justin took out his phone and scrolled to a picture. The photo was taken by Justin during dinner, which showed Michael and his family sitting together for dinner.
Celine looked at the photo through the glass, especially at Carmen.
She remembered that day. She had accompanied Sophia to look at maternity clothes, but when she saw Quinton Clark, she suddenly lost control. She didnât know why she reacted that way either.
She could feel that there was another malicious person hiding in her body. That person could control her at any time and was hidden in her own body, and whenever she came out, Celine could only watch helplessly as she hurt her loved ones.
She could even feel her child slowly leave her body with a stream of heat.
âIf our daughter was born, she would also be around this age, wouldnât she?â
Celine murmured while looking at the picture of Carmen.
When Celine spoke of their daughter, Justin was so sad that he couldnât say anything. That day, when he ran up to the rooftop, Celine had blocked his way. In fact, it was Katrina as she had resurrected in her body. Not allowing anything to get in his way and in order to be able to take her down quickly, he hardened his heart and attacked her abdomen.
The place he struck was where their child was growing.
As a result, Celine suffered a miscarriage because of the injury to her abdomen. She was subdued by Justin in the end, but their second child, a daughter, was gone as wellâ¦
As the night went on, the couple leaned their backs against each other with a piece of cold bulletproof glass in between, trying to seek warmth from each other in the endless cold night.
Justin leaned against the glass, tears silently dripping down his face.
âCelie, we still have Nate! Heâs doing very well. Heâs now studying at Bayside University, and he works in Stanleyâs company after school.â
âStanley bought a new office building. His company is growing bigger day by day.â
â¦â¦
The second day was the day Pourl unveiled their new products. Sarah, Stanley and Sean had all come.
Maddie, representing their newspaper, had also come. Nicole had also turned down an event and made a special trip there to take a look.
Backstage, the two obsolete stars were ready to walk down the runway with their dogs.
Michael brought Judge along, while Harry brought his giant poodle. Carmen also enthusiastically wanted to do a catwalk too, and since they were the ones who organized the event, they let her have her fun.
Carmen would be walking with Snowball.
Sarah, Stanley and Sean were acting as hosts at the front, whereas Sophia was busy with the stuff backstage. She would split her attention to the models, then the dogs, and then to Carmen and Michael.
Carmen, who was about to go on a catwalk for the first time in her life, was extremely excited. She had been practicing for several days and was now following behind her father backstage, learning how to strut on a catwalk.
Cooper was overseeing things on the side. He was extremely disgusted when he saw Michael, who was wearing makeup.
Ever since the media had written about Michael as a gigolo who was financially dependent on a rich woman, he seemed to have found his place in life, and was developing more and more into a gigolo.