Chapter 539
Thanks to that incident, it was already past eleven o''clock when Sophia and Alexander arrived back at
the mansion.
The car slowly drove into the mansion. Alexander parked the car before he turned to Sophia, who was
asleep beside him. “Sophia?”
Sophia had already dozed off on the ride back. When Alexander saw her shifting after he called her
name, he swung open the car door and alighted from the car. Circling to the other side, he opened the
passenger door and carried her out.
Sophia roused the moment he carried her. The light in the garage was a tad bright, so she squinted for
a moment. She fixed her gaze on the man. “We''re home?”
“Yeah,” Alexander replied.
With her in his arms, he headed upstairs straight away.
By the time they made it to the master bedroom, Sophia had awakenedpletely. She stretched out
a hand and took the warm water Alexander handed her. Then, she nced at him. “I''m going to take a
shower first.”
“Go ahead.”
Alexander reached out and took the ss from her hand before patting her on the head.
Drowsiness had long since assailed Sophia when she had spent so much time outside that day. When
she came out after her shower, she hit the sack without waiting for the man.
A flurry of messages flooded her phone. Someone took a video of her and Alexander participating in an
event together and uploaded it to the inte. In a sh, it started trending.
Ever since Sophia encountered Miles on the way home, she had not taken a single look at her phone.
Hence, she was entirely oblivious to the matter.
When Alexander came out after his shower, he saw the pop-up notification on his phone. After looking
at it, he forwarded it to his group chat with his friends.
It was Valentine''s Day, but Samuel, who was single, worked overtime into the night.
He had just arrived home and was nning to take a shower when his phone abruptly vibrated.
Dipping his eyes for a look, he was greeted by the sight of a notification about Alexander having sent a
video to the group chat.
In all the years he had known Alexander, it was his first time seeing the man voluntarily sending
something to the group chat.
Hence, his curiosity was piqued. When he clicked in for a look, however, he was rendered speechless.
Argh! It''s the middle of the night now, and I''ve just finished working overtime, yet he''s putting on a
public disy of affection! I should just cut off ties with him!
When Sophia woke up the next day, the sun was already shining brightly.
Alexander was long since gone from the bed. She rolled over, only to sense something falling from her
neck. Quirking a brow, she looked down and saw a ne adorning her neck.
It was a thin tinum ne with a cloud pendant that was very much adorable.
A smile bloomed on Sophia''s face. She then got out of bed and washed up.
By the time she went downstairs after washing up, Alexander was already done cooking breakfast.
Upon seeing that she hade downstairs, Alexander handed her a ss of warm water. “Good
morning, Mrs. Xenos.”
“Good morning, Mr. Xenos.”
Taking the ss, Sophia took a sip of water. Subsequently, she reached up and touched the ne
on her neck. “What''s this?”
“A Valentine''s Day gift.”
“Oh, I see,” Sophia murmured.
She drank another sip of water before continuing, “But I don''t seem to have prepared a Valentine''s Day
gift for you, Mr. Xenos.”
Pinning his eyes on her, Alexander raised a brow for once. “Isn''t it all prepared?”
Puzzlement inundated Sophia. “No.”
I really didn''t prepare anything, and I''m not trying to keep him in suspense.
Right after she had spoken, the man pulled her into his arms without warning. Before she realized what
was happening, she sensed warmth on her lips.
She stared at his face that was inches away from her, blinking slightly.
Alexander merely kissed her briefly, letting her go in the next heartbeat. “Wasn''t that your gift?”
A sliver of embarrassment crept into Sophia. Verily, she was wholly taken off guard.
“Let''s have breakfast.”
Knowing that she was shy, Alexander did not continue teasing her. He took away the ss in her hand
before whirling around and returning to the kitchen.
It was not until past three o''clock in the afternoon that Sophia noticed the sudden presence of some
sulents beside the goldfish pond. She had gone downstairs to feed the goldfish. It was not hot
under the shade, so she carried a deckchair over and basked leisurely in the sun beside the goldfish
pond.
Unexpectedly, she glimpsed several nt stands the moment she turned her head. There were various
types of sulents ced on them, and they all looked adorable and beautiful in their pots under the
sunlight.
She could not help clicking her tongue. Tilting her head a fraction, she nced at Alexander beside
her. “When did you buy them?”
“I had someone send them over yesterday,” Alexander answered honestly.
It had been a long time since Sophia hadst kept sulents. For one, the mansion was too big. If she
were to care for them alone, it would be too taxing, and she did not have the motivation for it anymore
after moving out of the Xenos residence.
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In truth, she did not love sulents all that much. It was just that she was too bored at the Xenos
residence after marrying Alexander and could not be bothered to go downstairs and waste her time
talking with Thalia and Kristen. Thus, she spent most of her time in the master bedroom on the third
floor as long as Kristen did not summon her downstairs, reading books and sketching sulents. It
was a pretty leisurely life.
When sheter got divorced from Alexander, she left the sulents she kept for more than three years
behind instead of taking them away with her.
At that time, she felt that there was naturally no need to take the nts she cultivated in their three
years of marriage when she was already leaving, lest she was reminded of the past, and they added to
her sorrow.
Thereafter, she had no idea what happened to those sulents.
Remembering the past, Sophia was inexorably mncholic. “Have all the sulents at the Xenos
residence been thrown away?”
“No.”
Alexander reached out and pulled her up. He led her over to the sulents. “Don''t you find them
familiar?”
Hearing that, Sophia tsked. “Don''t tell me these sulents are the ones I kept at the Xenos
residence?”
“I had someone transport them from the Xenos residence yesterday.”
Needless to say, Alexander did it to give her a surprise.
Sophia was stunned for a moment before she proceeded to carefully scrutinize each pot of sulents
on the nt stands.
She had kept the sulents for over three years, so she naturally remembered her nts.
Initially, she thought Kristen would undoubtedly discard everything that belonged to her after she left
the Xenos residence in such a “dignified” manner. In that case, the sulents would never have
escaped the same fate.
Never had she expected the dozens of sulents to still be in pristine condition.
Touched, she turned and looked at Alexander with a smile. “I thought Mdm. Lambe would''ve thrown
them away ages ago.”
“I stopped her from doing so.”
Coincidentally, he returned to the Xenos residence on a rare asion that day. Kristen happened to
have ordered the help to clean out the ce. When she saw himing back, she deliberately took
everything Sophia once used to show him and told him they were bad luck.
He thought nothing of it at that time nor was he interested in dealing with his mother.
But when Kristenter instructed the help to go into the master bedroom to throw away the sulents
on the balcony, he inexplicably asserted that they were not allowed to touch anything in the master
bedroom.
Back then, Kristen was seemingly a touch chagrined. s, he was also in a foul mood that day.
Ultimately, she merely griped for a bit without pursuing the matter.
Later, he told Felix about the sulents on the balcony, and thetter regrly sent someone over to
take care of them. Therefore, the dozens of sulents were still in impable condition right then.
When he was nning to return to the country a few days ago, he thought of Valentine''s Day. Hence,
he had Felix transport the sulents over yesterday in hopes of giving Sophia a surprise.
At present, it seemed that keeping the sulents back then was the right choice.