Chapter 174 - 174: You Can Think What You Want

Benjamin saw that Sophia seemed unhappy and asked, "Are you all right? Shouldn't you be happy to know that? His family is so rich that you can live on him."

Sophia frowned, "I feel upset. He had pretended to be poor. I don't know why he did that."

She felt like he fooled her. It pissed her off.

Benjamin laughed, "Don't you get it? Didn't you read the news? A rich man pretended to be poor to test whether the girl loved him or his money. When he was sure she loved him, he declared himself rich. They always do that. I know everything."

"I'm not his… Even if he wants to test someone, he should find one he likes."

"How do you know he doesn't like you?"

"How is that possible? He's so much older than me."

"Perhaps he is a shameless person who likes young and beautiful girls."

"Come on. We are just friends. Stop doubting, please. And he didn't just pretend in front of me but everyone."

She suddenly remembered the news she had read before. "I know. Because he is too rich, he pretended to be poor for fear of being kidnapped."

"You can think what you want."

Sophia didn't understand why people around her like to associate her with Albert. She had known Albert for so long and always taken him as her reliable friend.

She never thought he would be her boyfriend. She was five years younger than Albert, and she knew that he was not interested in girls younger than him.

She remembered that she had talked about love with Albert once.

"Pearson, haven't you got a girlfriend yet?" Sophia asked him.

He shook his head and said, "No. I stay in the lab all day. No girl wants to be my girlfriend."

Sophia laughed, "Don't belittle yourself, Pearson. With your appearance and talent, there should be a lot of girls into you. What kind of girl do you like? Shawn teaches grade four this year and many students were about your age. How about I ask him to introduce some girls to you?"

"No, thanks. I prefer girls who are older than me, preferably four or five years older."

"So many? Well, you should go to a Ph.D. college."

"No, no, no…"

***

With Albert's peculiar aesthetic, Sophia thought he wanted no more than the friendship from her.

As for her feeling about him, she was confused herself. With him by her side, she felt safe and calm. When she was with him, even if they were sitting like this, said Nothing, there would be no embarrassment.

It was a feeling for a good assistant, was it?

It must be so.

Benjamin sighed and said, "Forget about it. I should not talk about these things with someone who hasn't been in love. How is our mother, sister?"

"Our mother? She's my mother, not yours."

He was not her blood brother, and wanted to share a mother with her? Could he be more cheeky?

She thought Benjamin would go home with her if they kept talking about it, so she changed a topic, "Aren't you going to see your client? Nicole must be in trouble. You'd better help her out earlier."

"I hate trouble. What kind of trouble can a star have? About the contract? That's not in a hurry. Let's keep talking."

"You're a foreigner, and there are not many people here who know you, so I don't think anyone will go to you. In all likelihood, she finds you through your father, right? Mr. Terry is an internationally famous detective. Since Nicole went to him, it won't be easy to solve. I think you'd better go to her now."

Benjamin sighed and reluctantly left.

***

Coming back from Nasa Lake, they had lunch together and then got on the car and returned to Lands City.

In the evening, Sophia's phone rang. It was an unknown number. When she answered it, she heard a woman's voice. She recognized it at once. It was from Nicole.

She was surprised, "What's wrong, Miss Nicole?"

Nicole was very enthusiastic. "Sophia, I was on the show with you before. And then... I met you in Nasa Lake. Do you remember me?"

Sophia remembered that. But, on the show with her? She was just an audience then.

"Yeah. What's the matter?"

Nicole laughed. "Nothing... I appreciate you very much. I want to follow your blog and interact with you once in a while. Is that ok? I'm going to Glinton University to audit. And I heard that you are also an auditor. What a coincidence!"

"Audit?" Sophia paused. She was a big star. Why would she audit in Glinton? And she wanted to interact with her on the blog. What did she want?

Sophia didn't think Nicole had no purpose.

But she agreed. She followed many people's blogs. Whenever someone she knew greeted her, she followed him or her. Anyway, one blog could follow thousands of people. It was not easy to reach the limit, and she could think about it when it got there.

As for the blog interaction, she could not think of anything she could interact with Nicole. Nicole was an actor. But she didn't like TV series. So she didn't think they had anything to talk about.

After hanging up, Sophia told Louie about it. He would soon enter the showbiz and should know more about such things.

Soon, Louie thought of something. "I've heard of Nicole. She is very popular. But she's from a poor neighborhood, and her family did not allow her to go to school after primary school. So she only had primary school education. Many people looked down on her because of her poor education. She gets close to you and audits in Glinton, probably trying to make people think she was learned."

Sophia didn't think much about it. She didn't know Nicole, but she didn't mind doing such a small favor to her.

The next day, she came to Glinton for class early in the morning. As soon as she got to the school gate, she saw a large number of reporters there.

Sophia didn't know what was going on. She took out her phone and googled Glinton, and then she found out what they were doing here.

Nicole posted a message. "It's my honor to audit in Glinton and become a classmate of Sophia Green.. I'll study hard."