Chapter 96 - 96: Play Well In The Next Exam

Watson was silent for a moment.

Sophia could understand Watson's feelings at the time. He loved Diana, and it must be tough for him to help her find another man she loved.

Immediately, she said, "I can do that, Miss Garcia. I have got along well with Mich."

Just as she finished her saying, Watson said, "I'll go."

He really didn't need to do that, Sophia thought.

***

In the evening, Sophia received a private letter when she logged on her blog. Chubby invited her to play chess again.

This man had not shown up for a while. Sophia almost thought he wouldn't show up again.

Last time, he raised his offer and paid the money before she refused. She felt quite embarrassed about that.

She decided not to take his money this time.

Soon after she entered the game, Chubby got online.

Sophia clicked "Start," and the game began.

Three minutes later, the game was over.

Chubby was still bad at chess and had no improvement. Sophia didn't understand why he spent so much money looking for someone to play chess with him.

Sophia opened the dialog box during the break between the two innings.

"Sir, you don't need to pay me this time. I have taken you so much money but did nothing for you. I'm quite embarrassed about that."

Soon, Chubby replied to her.

"It's a fair deal. There's nothing to be embarrassed about."

"I think it's too expensive—three hundred dollars for three minutes. I feel like a fraud… How about this? One hundred dollars for one inning. That's enough for me." Replied Sophia.

There was a long silence before Chubby replied, "well, I agree to your request, but I have conditions."

Sophia was confused.

She offered to reduce the price, and he had conditions about that. What was that?

That was too much!

"I want you to chat with me." Replied Chubby.

Sophia was surprised. She had wondered what the conditions were. 

The condition is chatting. 

"No one talks to you?" She asked.

"No. But no one wants to tell me the truth." Said Chubby.

Sophia thought she could understand that. He was rich, and everyone around him must be flattering him, and no one would offend him by telling the truth.

"How do you know they're not telling the truth?" she asked, "What did they say?"

"They all say I am the most handsome in the world!" Said Chubby.

"Then… you'd better not believe that." Said Sophia.

"What kind of person do you think is the most handsome?" Asked Chubby.

"What a naïve question." Sophia thought.

She replied, "A handsome face is only on the surface. Even if he or she is very good-looking, with a dark heart, he or she is not handsome. The handsome person… The old gentleman who donated money to the poor students in our school is very handsome. Without the money, a student in my class would have dropped out of school!"

"Is there someone among your friends you think very handsome?" Asked Chubby.

Sophia thought about it. The handsome one among her friends… In terms of looks, it might be Pearson.

Especially when Albert rescued the driver of the sports car with her on the winding mountain road, she thought he was very handsome.

Anyway, Chubby didn't know her, and she just answered directly, "Yes."

"What kind of person is he?" Asked Chubby.

"He's a friend of mine. He's a little old, but he's a nice guy. I have saved a man with him." Answered Sophia.

Pearson was really older than her age.

After sending the message, she got no response from Chubby for a while. Later, he got offline.

He just left like that? What a wayward rich man.

***

In the building

Albert was surprised and angry.

He was… old?

He was only twenty-four years old. Okay?

Since the last time he heard that" Knowing A Person" was Sophia's blog account, he was very surprised and wanted to tease her in the game.

But he didn't expect her to say such hurtful words.

Ryan came up and handed over a cup of coffee, "Mr. Pearson. Aren't you going home yet? It's eight o'clock."

As an assistant, he couldn't go home until his boss left. So, he really wished Albert to leave.

Albert looked up and looked at Ryan, "Do I look old?"

"No. You don't." Said Ryan.

Albert kept looking at him, "Am I handsome?"

"Yes!" Said Ryan.

Why… why did he ask him that?

No matter how handsome Albert was, he was just a man. What did that have to do with him?

Ryan got nervous, and hurriedly turned his back to avoid more eye contact with Albert.

Albert closed the computer and stood up and said, "Let's go!"

On Monday, Sophia cycled to school and saw Director Bull again as she passed through the school gate.

"Sophia!" Director Bull stopped her with a cold face.

Sophia knew that the results of the first round of the Mathematical Olympiad exam should be sent to school today. He must have tried to reprimand her. As the only representative of the school, she neither got the ranking nor entered the second round of the test, which was really a shame.

She pushed her bike helplessly and walked up to Director Bull.

"Your score is out," Director Bull still had no expression, "your score is 70 points!"

Sophia lowered her head. She had looked at the minimum passing score of previous years. They were mainly above eighty points. With her grades, she won't get into the second round of the exam.

However, Director Bull slowly said, "You're in."

Sophia couldn't believe what she had heard, "I'm in?"

He sighed and said, "I didn't expect this year's exams to be so bad. You are really the worst one."

Sophia said nothing.

"Wait for the notice of the second round of the exam. Your grades are at the bottom of the list. Play well in the next exam!"

He shook his head and walked away, looking very disappointed.

Sophia wheeled his bicycle into the campus. It was quite a surprise for her to enter the second round.. There were lots of questions that she had not finished, so she had no hope with the test at all.