Everybody felt rather speechless. Even so, Michael placed 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 players 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 fireplace, and everybody felt high-spirited.
“Go ahead!” Sarah was using a black fountain pen to draw a rough outline in a notebook. On the black-and-white-lined notebook, a female warrior wearing a glamorous costume was dancing while a girl was earnestly admiring the dance. Although the draft was yet to be completed, 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 replaced several times, the charcoal in the fireplace was changed several times, and the sound of mahjong echoed in everyone’s ears.
When Michael got tired of singing, he placed 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 fireplaces 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 a large blanket thrown over her and two orange cats snoring in her arms.
In the plum orchard across a small lake, Nathan was playing 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 playing mahjong until very late 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 planned 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 up late 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 very lavish. Sophia ate some noodles followed by a salad. After that, she ate some fruits while she planned 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 actors combined 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.
Curiously clicking into the introduction page for ‘Legend of Fan Lihua’, she saw the names of the main actors—Bethany Nicole, Nicholas Yates, Xyla Huff, and Faye Edwards. Isn’t this the f*cking movie Richard invested in?
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