Chapter 541
Everybody felt rather speechless. Even so, Michael ced his hands on the strings and began
strumming. Despite being an extremely girly song, it did not affect his performance. Using that low and
sexy voice of his, he turned the song into one with a different feel to it. “You’re a pretty young thing. It’s a
damn cool thing…”
Thus, everybody listened intently as he sang such a girly song yet he still managed to make it sound
great. However, they couldn’t remain calm. The two of them leaned in closer and closer, and their gazes
became hotter and hotter. Watching them, everyone began to worry that, at any time, those two might
start an intense make-out session in front of them.
Stanley had eaten a lot of honeydew by then. Burping loudly, he said, “Come on; let’s have a game of
mahjong.”
Stanley, Sean, Linus, and Sarah made just the right number of yers for a game of mahjong. Thus,
they set up the mahjong table. It was snowing heavily outside. However, it felt like a small spark could
start a huge fire inside—it was as warm as spring. Besides, the charcoal fire burned brightly in the
firece, and everybody felt high-spirited.
When the mahjong table was set up, Stanley rubbed his hands together in anticipation. He hoped that
he could get rid of the bad luck hanging around him and win some money while he was at it. Seeing
that Sarah still wasn’ting, he urged, “Little Kitten, are youing? If not, I’m going to ask Nichs
to take your ce!”
“Go ahead!” Sarah was using a ck fountain pen to draw a rough outline in a notebook. On the ck-
and-white-lined notebook, a female warrior wearing a morous costume was dancing while a girl was
earnestly admiring the dance. Although the draft was yet to bepleted, the emotions in the picture
were clearly expressed…
The snow finally stopped falling in the afternoon, and the entire mansion looked like a snow sculpture.
Meanwhile, the snacks on the table were reced several times, the charcoal in the firece was
changed several times, and the sound of mahjong echoed in everyone’s ears.
When Michael got tired of singing, he ced his guitar to the side and pulled Sophia into his arms.
Afterward, the two of them sank into the soft sofa as they watched the snow. There were fireces in
front of them and behind them. Therefore, they were warm and cozy. Moreover, Sophia had taken off her
shoes and curled up on the big sofa to watch the snow with arge nket thrown over her and two
orange cats snoring in her arms.
In the plum orchard across a smallke, Nathan was ying with the two dogs together in the snow and
having a great time.
“Are you happy?” Michael asked in a whisper, kissing Sophia lightly on the forehead.
Sophia nodded. Leaning into his arms, she gazed out in the distance. I’m happy; I’m very happy. I don’t
think I’ve ever been as happy as this. It’s even better than the time when I got to eat cured meat as a
child.
The cats in her arms snored away and she became drowsy too. By the time she woke up again,
everybody was grilling skewers around the charcoal fire they used for warmth. Thus, the smell of cumin
wafted throughout the entire mansion. After finishing off the skewers for dinner, they changed locations
and moved indoors. Then, they continued ying mahjong until veryte into the night before they
retired to their bedrooms.
Meanwhile, Sarah finished her rough outline in the living room. She had not brought her tools with her on
this trip. Therefore, she nned to wait until she got home before scanning the picture and coloring it.
She intended to make it into an album or a table calendar and give it to Sophia as a present. That night,
she was sleeping in the guest room the butler had arranged for her. After washing up, she turned on the
night light and felt her way into the bed. To her surprise, she touched a man’s bare chest when she got
into bed…
The next morning, everybody was still sleeping in after staying upte the night before. Hence, only a
few people were present in the dining room during breakfast. Linus was one of them—he was the type
that had to have breakfast in the morning. Nathan was also drowsily sitting there after being forced out of
bed to eat breakfast. Lastly, Michael was like a nanny, holding the chubby Persian cat as he fed it with
cat food.
Breakfast was veryvish. Sophia ate some noodles followed by a sd. After that, she ate some fruits
while she nned out the schedule for the day.
First, let’s invite everybody to go and watch a movie with me. That way, I can contribute some tickets
again… It had been nine days since ‘Doctor Invincible’ was first released. The total international box
office earnings had exceeded 6 billion. Therefore, it easily slid into the top 100 rankings in the global box
office records. Just yesterday, the domestic box office earnings recorded more than 300 million. With
Asian actorsbined with a Western storyline and team, the movie was killing it both in the East and
the West—its box office earnings were soaring into the sky.
First, she used her phone to check the movie ratings and reviews. Then, she checked the movie
schedules for the day. After confirming that ‘Doctor Invincible’ was ced first, she finally felt at ease.
However, she noticed that there was a premiere for a self-proimed gigantic production today.
Moreover, the scheduling in cinemas for that movie was catching up to ‘Doctor Invincible’.
The movie was called ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’. It was adapted from a popr online novel. For that
reason, it had arge existing fanbase that was raring to go. They imed that they intended to surpass
‘Doctor Invincible’, an adaptation of an overseas story, and make the local online novel adaptation shine.
Curiously clicking into the introduction page for ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’, she saw the names of the main
actors—Bethany Nicole, Nichs Yates, X Huff, and Faye Edwards. Isn’t this the f*cking movie
Richard invested in?
She was reading on her phone when she suddenly heard the sound of footstepsing her way. Lifting
her head, she saw the arrogant, blond-haired Harry walking in. He was dressed in pajamas and there
was a bite mark on his face. He said nothing as he walked into the dining room, picked up an empty
bowl, and filled it up with noodles. “Huh? Uncle Harry? Weren’t you on a vacation by the beach? When
did you return?”
He filled therge bowl with noodles, then carefully topped it with the avable condiments and poured
some soup over it before answering her. “I arrivedst night.”
Watching him take so much of her favorite handmade noodles, she couldn’t help rebuking him, “Uncle
Harry, you won’t be able to finish that alone. Don’t take so much of it.”
Even so, he picked up his noodles to leave, saying, “It’s fine. This is for both of us. We exercised a lot
last night, so we’re hungry now. We’ll be able to finish it.”
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Sophia watched as Harry returned to the guest room. Looking at the direction he went in, she
thought, Isn’t that the guest room Sarah is using?
After breakfast, everybody came out one after the other and drove two cars to go to the movies together.
Even though it was the 10th day since ‘Doctor Invincible’ was released, its poprity was not
decreasing. Sophia had reserved tickets for the morning show. When she bought her tickets, she noticed
that more than 75% of the seats for that screening had been sold out. So, she only managed to get seats
at the back.
Arriving outside the cinema, she immediately discovered that the promotional posters for ‘Doctor
Invincible’ that was still there the day before were gone. Instead, they were reced by ‘Legend of Fan
Lihua’. Entering the inner part of the cinema, she then discovered that the inside was stered with
promotional posters for ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’, and the promotional screens in the lobby of the cinema
were promoting it too. In addition, one could take photos with cosyers cosying as the male and
female leads of the movie for free. The publicity for ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’ was very aggressive and
intense—it was everywhere. Everywhere she looked, she could see the faces of X Huff and Faye
Edwards. Thus, she felt very ufortable.
Upon returning home after the movie, she began to pay attention to ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’. Glory
Entertainment had invested a lot in the movie. The entire team came from Hollywood, and the two main
actors were famous domestic A-List celebrities. Moreover, they spared no cost for the production and
publicity of the movie. It was known to have a budget of 500 million. The estimated domestic box office
earnings were 3 billion while the global box office earnings should easily hit 5 billion.
On the surface, the main actors were Bethany Nicole and Nichs Yates—two mega-celebrities.
However, the real purpose of the movie was to support X Huff and Faye Edwards. After all, thergest
investors in this film were the Edwards Family, the Huff Family, and the Harper Family. The two mega-
celebrities were simply there to serve as a foil and gimmick to attract viewers. Besides, Richard was
hoping that this movie would be a hit, which would sessfullyunch X into stardom. If her
acting career could help repay the money owed by the Huffs, then they would still have room to
maneuver.
After ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’ was released, Sophia began taking notice of it. Following its premiere, the
box office earnings were strangely high. On its first day of screening, it managed to hit 300 million in box
office earnings and sessfully pushed ‘Doctor Invincible’ to second ce.