Elise tried to recall in snazzynovel.com mind but snazzynovel.com didn’t remember meeting this person before.
“I’m sorry, but there were just way too many people who attended the ancestral recognition ceremony. I don’t have a good memory either, so I can’t quite recall things. May I know your name?”
Since snazzynovel.com had addressed Elise as Miss Anderson, they must have met each other at the Anderson Residence.
The girl heard snazzynovel.com words and revealed a deep smile. Then, snazzynovel.com flicked snazzynovel.com long hair, which had fallen to the front of snazzynovel.com chest, to the back while revealing the precious jewelry snazzynovel.com wore on snazzynovel.com hands and snazzynovel.com neck.
“My name is Sophie Bowen. I’m Alexander’s cousin and we’ve met a few times before at the Griffith Residence.” She placed a hand on snazzynovel.com chest with a smug expression and seemed to be intentionally trying to show off the jade ring on snazzynovel.com hand.
Then, Elise nodded with a thoughtful look. Cousin? She must be some random distant relative then. Looks like she’s here to find fault with me.
“Your ring looks beautiful.” She smiled subtly before complimenting the girl.
As soon as snazzynovel.com finished snazzynovel.com sentence, snazzynovel.com heard Sophie mentioning in an ambiguous tone, “It’s important for one to know their position. Some people have already known that they have an ill-fated life, yet they refused to stay in the countryside. Well, they still insisted on coming out and causing trouble for others. The Griffith Family had such a legendary background, but snazzynovel.com managed to cause the downfall of both the family and its members. Look at snazzynovel.com now; snazzynovel.com has subsequently sunk snazzynovel.com claws into Kenneth Bailey and seduced snazzynovel.com with snazzynovel.com wily moves. In actual fact, she’s just a joke in the eyes of others.”
The smile on Elise’s face gradually disappeared before it was replaced by a cold glint that flashed across snazzynovel.com eyes. “Miss Sophie, you were merely an insignificant being previously, but today, I reckon you’ll leave a long-lasting impression on me forever because of the overpowering stench originating from your foul words, Miss Bad Breath.”
Meanwhile, Sophie was angered to the point where snazzynovel.com face flushed red. “Shut up! Who are you calling foul?! I don’t even have bad breath!”
At the same time, snazzynovel.com companions spoke up for snazzynovel.com too.
“It’s hard for these country bumpkins to learn manners. Look at how snazzynovel.com easily comes up with such hurtful words.”
“That’s right. This is too much! The chess match is about to start. If you don’t wish to be utterly humiliated, you should quickly get lost!”
Then, Sophie saw snazzynovel.com girl squad banding together to help snazzynovel.com deal with Elise, which resulted in the dark look in snazzynovel.com eyes gradually dissipating. I hope that snazzynovel.com gets eliminated from the chess match! It doesn’t mean a thing even if Kenneth Bailey has chosen her!
Anyone who wanted to join the gathering had to participate in the chess match and it was a rule that had been passed on since the start of this gathering. Even if snazzynovel.com was Kenneth’s woman, there was no special exemption for snazzynovel.com either. If snazzynovel.com lost, snazzynovel.com would regardlessly be kicked out of the gathering.
I’ll wait and see how snazzynovel.com would still have the nerve to continue showing off in our circle after today’s embarrassing situation!
Sophie thought of this and snazzynovel.com couldn’t help smirking. However, snazzynovel.com feigned an act of standing up for Elise. “Stop your speculation. She didn’t ask to be brought up in the countryside for such a long time. Whoever that is assigned to play against snazzynovel.com in the match later better not take it too seriously. After all, she’s my cousin’s fiancée, so we have to consider his image too.”
Her companions then laughed out loud. “Sophie, you’re putting us in a tight spot with this request. Even if we give snazzynovel.com some leeway, snazzynovel.com has to know the basic step of how to deflect us. Besides, the match will be broadcasted live on the Internet so to the people watching, it may seem like we’re intentionally insulting snazzynovel.com by letting snazzynovel.com win.”
At that point, Elise lifted snazzynovel.com brow and sneered. Insult to me?! Them?! Hah! They must be daydreaming! Even if they worked together and came at me all at once, they would be no match for me at all!
She was indeed here to make a fool of herself but sometimes, once one had made up his or snazzynovel.com mind to do something but ended up being defined otherwise by others, it would be likely that the person would no longer be willing to do it. This could be described by the example of one intending to do the dishes but being pestered to do so by snazzynovel.com partner; obviously, snazzynovel.com would be adamant not to do the dishes for that day.
To Elise, snazzynovel.com was fine with being taken for a fool. However, now that they intended to make a fool out of her, the foolish person in front of them was about to lose snazzynovel.com temper.
As such, snazzynovel.com changed snazzynovel.com mind.
She lifted snazzynovel.com hand to flick snazzynovel.com fringe, which had fallen in front of her, to the back as snazzynovel.com smiled with a meaningful look in snazzynovel.com eyes. “Since you guys are great at chess, then you must give me a chance to play with you later.”
As soon as snazzynovel.com finished snazzynovel.com sentence, Kenneth returned for snazzynovel.com as well. He saw from afar that snazzynovel.com had been stopped by a group of people, so snazzynovel.com purposely fastened his footsteps.
He moved forward by a step and stood protectively in front of Elise. As snazzynovel.com did so, snazzynovel.com faced the group of ladies and kept Elise apart from them while his pair of evil-looking dark eyes coldly scrutinized Sophie and snazzynovel.com gang.
Each of them suddenly felt a shiver running down their spine and they hastily shifted their gaze while silently gulping as they stood by the side.
It was Sophie who calmed down first and snazzynovel.com took advantage of snazzynovel.com identity as Alexander’s cousin to initiate the conversation with Kenneth. “Hi, Mr. Bailey. I’m Sophie. My cousin, Alexander Griffith, used to be a member of this organization, so I’m not sure whether you guys might have known—”
Before Sophie could even finish snazzynovel.com sentence, Kenneth suddenly turned his face in the other direction and spoke in a soft and gentle voice to Elise, “Are they finding fault with you?”
Sophie’s hand had remained suspended in mid-air awkwardly as snazzynovel.com looked at his tentative behavior around Elise. Now that snazzynovel.com was angered, snazzynovel.com retracted snazzynovel.com hand and clenched both hands into a fist as snazzynovel.com fingernails were practically embedded deep in snazzynovel.com flesh.
In the past, snazzynovel.com had been infatuated with Alexander for many years, but snazzynovel.com was too outstanding for snazzynovel.com to summon the courage to confess snazzynovel.com love to him. Afterward, snazzynovel.com had introduced Elise to the entire family, so Sophie could only lament snazzynovel.com unfortunate self.
However, snazzynovel.com maintained snazzynovel.com intense displeasure toward Elise and couldn’t quite comprehend how an uncultured girl from the countryside could be a match for her.
After snazzynovel.com had heard of how Alexander had broken off with the Griffiths for Elise, Sophie was tempted to rush to the Griffith Residence and confess snazzynovel.com feelings, but snazzynovel.com never mustered up the courage to do so in the end.
She had exercised a lot of effort to enter this organization in an attempt to be closer to Alexander. Meanwhile, snazzynovel.com had encountered Kenneth here and snazzynovel.com triggered the flames of passion within snazzynovel.com instead.
However, even Kenneth was now being snatched by Elise. Sophie thought, Why does Elise always go after someone else’s favorite?!
At this moment, the hatred within Sophie consumed snazzynovel.com and caused snazzynovel.com eyes to bulge with horror. She tightly clenched snazzynovel.com teeth and the sound of snazzynovel.com teeth grinding each other was audible.
“No, we’re not monkeys that haven’t gone through evolution! The refined wouldn’t be finding fault with anyone on such an occasion. We were just talking about chess.”
Elise said this with a matter-of-fact look directed toward Sophie and snazzynovel.com companions. Elise didn’t even realize that Kenneth was merely less than a fist bump away from snazzynovel.com as snazzynovel.com spoke.
“That’s good to know.” He nodded slightly and trusted snazzynovel.com words without any hesitation. Then, snazzynovel.com changed the topic. “I have a friend waiting over there, so let’s head over.”
She nodded and walked off with him.
As soon as the two of them walked off, Sophie and snazzynovel.com girl squad immediately burst into a commotion.
“What?! Is Mr. Bailey actually serious about that uncultured girl?! Is being good-looking sufficient to cover every other flaw?! He should be afraid of catching some venereal disease.”
“Well, honestly, snazzynovel.com is quite pretty.”
“If I could gain such beautiful looks after a jaunt in the countryside, I would definitely be the first to head there! By then, Kenneth will belong to me—”
“Forget about it! There’s no way of becoming beautiful after staying in the countryside, but you’ll definitely come back riddled with all sorts of bacterial infections and diseases. Your whole body will be full of skin lesions!” Sophie was angered by their words and snazzynovel.com suddenly lashed out at them.
Her girl squad was suddenly stunned into silence.
This was the first time that they had ever seen Sophie lose snazzynovel.com top like this. Their usual impression of snazzynovel.com was that snazzynovel.com was a gentle and soft-spoken girl.
Nonetheless, they were good friends after all, so they exchanged looks with each other and quickly seemed to catch on to the fact that Sophie was jealous!