Chapter 623
Since it was summer break, there were no sses to attend. Trying hard to act like a dutiful wife and
loving mother, Sophia left home for work at 8.30 AM sharp and parked her motorcycle in the garage at
6.30 PM every day after finishing work. Moreover, she would leave home with Michael for a walk every
weekend.
Celine acted as if nothing had happened after Michael caught her in the act that day; she still acted
without restraint as if wanting to retrieve the seven youthful years that she had lost.
Her life was colorful as she spent every day clubbing, flirting withdies, and beating up high school
students. As a result, scandalous titbits about Taylor were updated regrly in the entertainment news
like a serial novel, with daily stories about him picking up girls, engaging in illegal racing, fighting, and
getting into brawls…
These days, many underworld gangs recruited members who were still studying, especially middle
school kids. Teenagers were hot-blooded and gullible; since they were rtively weak in distinguishing
right from wrong, they would think that it was cool and respectable to be gangsters.
Many kids who were tricked into joining these gangs also became addicted to drugs, neglected their
studies, and ended up spending the rest of their lives as gangsters.
Celine had been picking on these student gangs recently. Firstly, it was because such gangs were
rtively weak and were convenient tools for her to train the tenderfoots with. After all, these gangs
infiltrated schools to trick students into joining them because they were weak. Secondly, the members of
such gangs were all teenagers, making them easy targets to beat up—she could do whatever she
pleased with them while she was at it.
Thirdly, underworld gangs should be nipped in the bud. Students should go back and study instead of
joining the underworld!
Celine thought she had done a great deed by giving these teenage gangsters a beating and telling them
to return to school and study!
Meanwhile, Sophia had been acting like a dutiful wife and loving mother for several days before Stanley
asked her in secret, “Aunt Celine is going to have another fight with some gangsters at 12.00 PM
tomorrow, Aunt. Would you like to join us? It’ll be exciting!”
Sophia quickly waved her hand and conscientiously worked in her office with her sses on. “No, I’m not
joining! I’m never going to join you guys ever again; your uncle had been really angry thest time.”
Stanley assured her, “Don’t worry! This time, I’ve already asked around—Uncle Michael and Mr. Harry
will be having a meeting to discuss their scripts tomorrow. They’ll begin filming soon, and they’re bound
to be busy. We’ll go secretly and end the fight within two hours. This time, we’re going to beat up a
sc*mbag named Ben in Riverdale. He has quite the influence over there and has amassed a gang of
high school students to act like tyrants everywhere. He provoked Aunt Celine the night before yesterday.”
Sophia pricked up her ears upon hearing the word ‘Riverdale’, and the name ‘Ben’ resounded in her
ears.
She eximed, “Are you talking about Ben Oak?”
Stanley answered, “That’s right! It’s him that I’m talking about. You must know him since you grew up in
Riverdale!”
He’s more than someone I know! Sophia thought to herself.
Having quite some influence in Riverdale, Ben had more than 200 underlings. Most of them were
undergraduates and high school students.
It could be said that Ben’s name resounded in the students’ ears back when she was studying at
Riverdale High School. Everyone spoke of him with either a look of admiration or a look of terror on their
faces.
To Sophia, Ben’s name used to be associated with several past events that she couldn’t bear to recall…
She had just been admitted to Riverdale High School back then, and the school principal specially
approved the waiver of her tuition and amodation fees. Besides the living allowance that was
credited to her meal card every month, the school principal gave her some pocket money out of his own
pocket every month. She also earned extra ie by doing part-time jobs in school, such as delivering
barreled water and sweeping the floors. She was also awarded a yearly schrship, so she never had to
worry about spending money on food and clothing—she could even save some money asionally.
Sophia had forced herself to be stronger to reward the school principal for recognizing and
appreciating her talents. She finished in the top five of her ss during every exam; she usually had the
best grades in her ss, but there were also several asions where she had the second or third best
grades.
She heard of Ben’s name for the first time when several dozen female gangsters blocked her in the toilet
one day before her sophomore year’s second end-of-term exam.
Her head was pinned against the toilet seat cover as the female gangsters stripped off her school
uniform shirt. Then, they stubbed out a few cigarette butts on her back. It produced a sizzling sound and
the smell of burning flesh, which formed an extremely strange smell when mixed with the weird odor in
the toilet. Sophia shed tears of pain but didn’t dare say a word.
“You b*tch, you should have asked around outside! Rosie is Ben’s younger sister! Do you know who Ben
is?”
“You should feel honored that Rosie wants you to pass the exam questions’ answers to her, so don’t be
ungrateful by turning her down!”
She nced up at the girl named Rosie as her bruised face was pressed against the toilet seat cover.
Even though Rosie was dressed in school uniform, her hair was permed and dyed in multiple colors.
Wearing heavy makeup despite her young age, she held a cigarette between her fingers—her fingernails
of which were multicolored—and stared coldly at Sophia’s face pressed against the toilet seat cover.
Then, she let out a chuckle, blew a ring of smoke, and stubbed out the cigarette butt on Sophia’s back.
As she trembled with pain, Sophia’s tears fell drop by drop. Even so, she didn’t dare to utter a single
sound—she was afraid of Ben.
Who wasn’t afraid of Ben at Riverdale High School? He was a local bully in Riverdale with several
hundreds of underlings under him, and many boys in the school had joined his gang.
One would no longer be able to survive in Riverdale if he or she messed with Ben.
In the end, one of the female gangsters patted an old-fashioned Nokia cell phone on her face. “Listen up,
poor wretch! This is a gift to you from Rosie! Her phone number is saved on this cell phone. You must
finish answering all the questions 30 minutes before handing in your exam papers. You’ll have to pass
Rosie all the answers! Also, you mustn’t give Rosie away if the proctor catches you. Otherwise, I’ll have
a few gangsters gang-rape you! Are you afraid of being gang-raped?”
Sophia reached out her hand—her fingernails of which had been broken—and took the cell phone.
In that end-of-term exam, Rosie—who had always finished at the bottom of her ss—unexpectedly
made herself into the top 100 of her ss. As a result, Rosie and many students who had good grades
were called over by the school teachers to investigate the matter.
Sophia was so scared at the time that she didn’t even dare to sleep. She was afraid of being discovered
that she had passed the answers to them, but she was even more afraid that the school principal would
be disappointed with her…
If she remembered correctly, Rosie was the one who did it when Ka had a few gangsters break her
legs.
She was staying in Duckburgs when a bunch of gangsters attempted to rape her, forcing her to jump into
the river to save her own life. Those gangsters were Ben’s men.
“Sophia!” Seeing that she was in a daze, Stanley pushed her shoulder; only then did she snap out of her
past memories.
“Huh?”
Stanley winked at her and asked again, “Will you be joining us? Come on, I guarantee that Uncle
Michael won’t catch you!”
Sophia sneered as she took off her elegantly designed big-framed sses. She replied, “Why not? I’ll be
joining you guys.”
Her eyes, which once looked innocent, shed fire.
Thepany’s office closed at 6.00 PM, but the staff usually stayed until 9.00 PM. That evening,
however, Sophia drove home as soon as she finished work. Since the office was near her house, it only
took 30 minutes at most for her to arrive even if there was a traffic jam.
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She reached home that evening at 6.30 PM.
Lately, Sophia dressed like a high-flying career woman. Wearing a refined and decent-looking hip skirt
and a pair of big-framed sses without any prescription, she looked smart and resolute when she
walked in her ck stilettos. Her long hair was coiled up on the back of her head, making her look like a
white-cor elite in every way.
After reaching home, she took a shower, changed into cartoon pajamas, and went to the dining room to
have dinner with Michael.
Nathan was also here on this day, so the family of three had dinner together.
Sophia tried hard to pretend that everything was normal, acting like she was eating and sleeping well. To
her surprise, as soon as she finished her meal and put down her utensils, Michael asked in a perfectly
calm tone, “Are you going out to fight some gangsters tomorrow?”
Sophia trembled all over nervously while her muscles contracted. After a few seconds, she replied with a
smile, “How is that possible? I have work tomorrow.”
Sh*t, who leaked that out?!