Sophia’s words caused everyone to fall silent. The whispers quieted down, plunging the alumni corridor into complete silence. Even Natasha didn’t know what to say in response.
Suddenly, Linus, who was standing off to one side, took the lead and clapped his hands twice. Like a chain reaction, there was a burst of thunderous applause. Natasha was indeed not qualified!
Amid the applause, Natasha’s expression darkened even more. She was shaking all over and two fat tears fell down her eyes.
After her emotional speech, Sophia turned around and left in big strides while her friends hurried behind her. Before she left, Stanley didn’t forget to warn Natasha, “Don’t hang your photo here again, otherwise I will take it and throw it in the trash next time!”
Natasha’s photo was hung up in the alumni corridor but was taken down by Sophia within a few hours. It evoked a huge reaction and discussion within Bayside University, and some even broadcasted it live on the on the campus forum application.
When the vice chancellor learned about it, he paid a visit to Michael’s house. “Sir, I’ll kneel down and beg if you want. Please! I beg you! Please stop humiliating the Mitchell Family!”
Michael was wearing cartoon pajamas while sitting on his sofa like a middle-aged man. He spread his hands and feet wide comfortably as he drank healthy ginseng soup, two orange cats in his arms. After taking a sip of the soup, he put down the bowl and murmured, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
The vice chancellor explained while drinking the soup, “It’s your wife. She got into trouble at school again. She took down Natasha’s photo from the alumni corridor right in front of Natasha. She’s embarrassing both the Mitchell Family and the university. Can’t you ask your wife to keep a low profile?” What happened to Michael recently? Has he retired in advance? There’s a scent of wolfberry and ginseng in his house.
Michael touched the belly of the orange cat and replied calmly, “Oh—about that, I instructed her to do it. I only got my photos hung up there after great difficulty, yet Natasha got her photo up there so easily. I’m really not pleased about it.”
This married couple was going to drive the vice chancellor into an early grave sooner or later. He understood that it was not easy for Michael to marry a woman at this age, but could he at least try to understand that the vice chancellor had his own difficulties? “Well, the Mitchell Family is really pissed off now. You also know that they have a huge influence in the school. Now…”
“I’ll give an additional five million in grants.”
Michael totally subdued the vice chancellor’s dissatisfaction in one sentence. The vice chancellor drank two sips of Michael’s nutritious ginseng soup before replying, “Alright. Truth is, I don’t agree with having Natasha’s picture hung on the corridor either. Although she is excellent, she is still too young and has little influence…”
Michael knew that the only reason that this old guy came personally was to either ask for money or a building.
After drinking the ginseng soup, the vice chancellor took two boxes of wolfberries and left. Before leaving, he said, “Today I received an anonymous complaint saying that your wife is not filial and disowned her relatives and friends, so she’s not worthy of the National Scholarship. I just disregarded all these claims.”
When Sophia, who was playing a game with Nathan, heard these words, her ears pricked up. Unfilial and disowned my relatives and friends? Was it possible that the old guy Joe was making trouble again? That day, her wealth was revealed in Ido’s Flagship Bridal Shop. Thus, Joe must have been thinking of a way to make her acknowledge the Edwards Family. If it was really Joe who did it, then Sophia had to be wary of him.
Michael quickly connected the dots, thinking back to when Stanley shot Phantom Wolf, making him infertile. This kind of injury was fatal to men. Now, Phantom Wolf was frantically kidnapping the world’s top male reproduction experts because he wanted to find a doctor to heal his injuries. So his next goal…
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