Chapter 99: Saying One Thing and Meaning Another

They were rarely intimate, but their communication at night was exceptionally harmonious.

Pierce’s pupils were pitch black, reflecting her delicate face in his eyes, as if a clear lake was rippling with the deepest secrets.

The palm of my hand was empty.

Sophia snapped back to reality, glaring at him with some annoyance, unwilling to show weakness, she hooked up the corner of her lips in defiance:

“Generally speaking, it’s all lies, utterly terrible.”

She said, and then walked right past him.

Pierce’s face darkened, anyone would be upset to hear such a comment.

Reflecting on their few encounters, her performance should have been considered satisfactory.

Watching her retreating figure, he gritted his teeth in silence:

“Words were not matching the heart.”

Sophia walked over, and/Mike, observing his niece’s expression, immediately made room:

“Come on, you take a turn.”

Sophia laughed, “I’m not good at it.”

Others laughed and chimed in, “Don’t be shy, Ms. Cruise, it’s just a

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game. How about this, for every goal you score, we’ll put in a million. How does that sound?”

Everyone found it interesting: “Alright!”

They had just witnessed Sophia’s ball skills a moment ago, which were really not impressive.

So that’s why they started this gamble so generously.

Anyway, I couldn’t invest much money.

Sophia blinked, watching them:

“Really?”

“Of course, Mr. Clement was there too. Did Mr. Clement agree?”

One of them called out to Pierce, who was standing not far away.

Pierce hooked the corner of his lip:

“I bet five million on scoring a goal.”

He just had to be different from others!

Mike clapped his hands and exclaimed excitedly:

“Alright, it’s settled then, Ms. Cruise. Whether we can attract investment this time is all up to you!”

Sophia, seemingly under great pressure, walked to the middle.

She played ball like a weakling, everyone was waiting to laugh at her.

The first hole was a par three.

lowered her head, aimed the pole at

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Thing and Meaning

make it

couldn’t help but laugh.

as a practice, the next shot officially starts.”

but curve the corners of

the next

steadily passed Pierce and went into

green.

for a moment, then began to applaud her

is not bad,

of people on the side, adding Pierce’s

“Twelve million!”

third stick with a smile, and

“Twenty–four million!”

“Thirty–six million!”

anymore, even the applause was sparse. They looked at

round was

difficulty increased, the

by, squinting his

Thing

performed poorly on her first shot, and everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

shot also

to the tenth pole, there

completely lost their ability to laugh.

hole in

in four

hard that he was almost in stitches on the side.

that attracting investment

had noticed that Sophia was deliberately

a mistake in every game, as a face–saving gesture for everyone else. Otherwise, the deception would be too great.

next to me started laughing and

it’s the last

“Don’t worry, I’ll go

was no small feat for Sophia to have Pierce stoop to pick

if everyone wanted to back out, it was

the one

glow enveloping him, as if he were coated in

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he bent down to

in a daze, suddenly lost her grip, and

gasped in

“Mr. Clement……”

changed color, he was holding back, gripping his own wrist, and cold

after a brief pause, he slowly straightened up again and

slowly breathed a sigh of

nervously glanced at

were too accurate.”

airing her

truly wronged. It was a

she possibly “bully” Pierce in

casting a casual glance at Sophia. With an air of nonchalance, he placed the ball

a goal, the previous one didn’t count.”

her heart

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One Thing and

your wrist?”

“Yeah, Ms. Cruise’s aim is really good,

we should go to

let’s go take

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