Chapter 243

The other woman replied with a look of contempt, “Were we? Are you sure you aren’t hearing things? You’re pretty popular right now. People are badmouthing you everywhere. Who knows, it could be the people next to your table gossiping about you!”

Sophia laughed softly as she picked up a glass from the table, pouring hot water into it.

“What are you doing?” the woman suddenly shouted with a terrible look on her face.

Sophia made the action of splashing water onto her, and the woman was so frightened. She backed away and ended up sitting on the floor with a pale look on her face.

Sophia swirled the water in the glass and said stoically, “It’s okay to gossip about me, but don’t do it in front of me. I don’t like listening to any of it.

Murderers like me don’t really have a great temper. You better be nice, pretty lady, or I can’t guarantee if this hot water will end up splashing your face or not.”

The man was so shocked with fear at this scene that he did not move at all. He could only stutter, unable to say a word.

The waiter walked over when he heard the commotion. “Do you need any help?”

Sophia placed the glass back on the table and looked coolly at the woman sitting on the floor. “I don’t. Does this lady need any help?”

The woman shook her head in embarrassment.

Sophia sneered softly as she returned to her seat. Charles had gone to the washroom and just gotten back. “What happened?”

“Nothing,” Sophia answered.

It did not take long for their orders to be served, although the crayfish needed a longer time to cook, so they needed to wait a bit.

“Meggie, listen to me, I really do love you. Be with me!” They suddenly heard a familiar male voice coming from nearby.

“I can look the other way about the other men you’ve been with as long as you’re with me!”

Sophia looked in the direction where the voice was coming from and saw Ben crying as he knelt on the floor, hugging the leg of a waitress. That waitress was Megan Zander.

It was as if Megan felt that gaze on her. She turned toward Sophia in surprise, looking both embarrassed and disheveled.

All Sophia did was give her a glance before turning away to continue with her meal.

“What are your plans regarding the pregnancy discussion?” Charles pushed the dish she was picking food from most frequently toward her.

Sophia paused for a moment. The best solution now would be to get pregnant, but... She did not want to.

Once she had a child, it would be much more difficult to get away from Charles!

“I won’t force you. If you can’t accept sleeping with me, we can have a test tube baby.” Charles may sound casual, but his hand was going pale gripping onto the chopsticks.

Once they had a child, she would stop thinking about leaving him all the time!

“... Let’s talk about this another time.” Sophia stuffed two mouthfuls of food into her mouth after she said this.

A dim look flashed across Charles’ eyes. He took out a piece of paper and placed it in front of her. “I’m willing to give you time to consider, but my grandfather won’t.”

Sophia chewed her food and said nothing.

On the other side, Ben and Megan were still in the midst of their entanglement. Those encircling them were basically blaming Megan...

“She cuckolded her boyfriend so frequently, but he’s still willing to forgive her. How can she still lose her temper at him?!”

“Why can’t he bear to part with this dishonest woman? I feel so much pity for this guy!”

“Isn’t this waitress shameless? How can she be with so many different men when she already has a boyfriend?!”

There were too many people in this world who loved sitting on their moral high horse while criticizing others.

Sophia wiped her mouth with a paper napkin and said to Megan, “Megan, I think the crayfish I ordered should be just about done. Can you serve the dish?”

Ben turned to look over when he heard the voice. His face turned ghastly pale when he saw Sophia and Charles. He immediately stood up and left in a crestfallen manner.

Megan brought the tray of crayfish not long after and served it to them on the table. She smiled forcefully, “Thank you for earlier, Sophia.”

“All I did was ask you to help serve me the crayfish. I wasn’t helping you,” Sophia replied.

Megan tried her best to put up a smile. Just when she was about to say something, Charles’ phone rang and she swallowed the words.

Charles picked up the phone, replied to the other end, and hung up. “I’ll order crayfish takeaway for you when I get back to the office. You need to go home with me now.”

Sophia sat in her seat and did not move. “You can return to the office first. I’ll go home by myself later.”

She paused and added, “Your grandfather doesn’t know I’m here. I’ll return to Bamboo Virtues Village after eight o’clock. You’ll probably be back by then too.”

“... Okay. Get yourself a handphone later and call me if there’s anything,” Charles took out his wallet and got out a black card to give to Sophia.

It looked like he had an emergency. He hurriedly gave some instructions before leaving.

“Mr. Harris treats you very well.” Megan watched as Charles left, her eyes filled with envy.

Sophia did not bother to continue that conversation. Instead, she said, “Sit down and join me for the meal.”

Megan probably could not continue working after Ben’s shenanigan.

“Wait for me a minute.” Megan left for more than ten minutes before returning. She had changed out of her waitress uniform.

“I resigned.”

All Sophia said was, “Okay.”

“I came here to work so that I could leave that life. After that disturbance from Ben, I can’t stay any longer. One can really drown in the saliva of others.” Megan laughed bitterly.

Sophia lowered her eyes as she cracked open the crayfish expertly, throwing the meat into her mouth.

“I have some savings from those years of working at Dream Club. Ben’s little company went bankrupt after Ms. Marie got involved, which is why he wants to get back with me. He wants to use my savings to start another business.” There was so much bitterness on Megan’s face.

Sophie pushed the crayfish to her. “Eat up.”

“I thought you wouldn’t even bother to greet me.” Megan cracked open a crayfish, threw the meat onto the plate of shells, and put the shell into her mouth.

It was only when it was in her mouth that she realized what she did. She laughed at herself, throwing the crayfish shell onto the plate.

Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around!

Chapter 242 Those Who Were Badmouthing My Girlfriend Sophia wiped her mouth and drank some water. “You didn’t do me any wrong. I won’t hate you.”

Megan was taken aback. It took her a while to realize Sophia was replying to her. She laughed at herself again. “You don’t treat me as a friend either.”

Sophia ate quietly, silently acknowledging this.

It was because of what happened with Leah that she would rather spend a lifetime alone than make a friend who was not sincere at heart.

“Did you think it was silly of me to get back together with Ben the last time? I thought I was pretty silly. I actually believed that Ben was just career-

minded, but at the very least, he still loved me...” Megan smiled at Sophia, but her eyes were a little red.

Sophia took out a piece of tissue and passed it to Megan.

“It’s embarrassing to be crying over something like this.” Megan was in a mess when she accepted the tissue to wipe the corner of her eyes.