Thud! Alexander froze at the sound. After a brief pause, he turned around and saw that Sophia had
thrown her bag on the ground at the bus stop instead of leaving as he had expected. Following this, he
saw her start to crack her knuckles menacingly.
“Sophia?”
As the handful of men started to approach them, Alexander moved to shield Sophia behind him before
taking a step back. All the while, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion.
Sophia glanced at him and said, “It's all right. I haven't had much chance to practice for quite some
time.”
Just as she completed her sentence, the men swung their bats at them. Alexander's chest tightened as
he shouted, “Watch out!”
He was about to pull Sophia away when he realized that she had already kicked one of their attackers
to the ground.
Before he could react, a gust of wind suddenly rushed past his ears. He swiftly tilted his head and
narrowly managed to avoid the attack from the man before him. With his other hand, he blocked an
incoming blow from a baseball bat and proceeded to tug on it with the full force of his weight. His
opponent inevitably fell forward toward him, and Alexander smoothly finished him off with a kick,
causing the former to collapse to the side.
Of the five men that had approached them, three had engaged with Alexander while the remaining two
were dealing with Sophia.
As Alexander took in this scene, his heart suddenly went out to the men he was engaged in battle with.
Each blow he dealt them was more forceful than he had used during his training sessions. As he had
started bodybuilding and learning how to fight from a young age, each blow he dealt was executed with
perfect technique and inevitably sent the men crumbling to the ground, wailing in pain.
Once he had wiped the floor with his opponents, he wanted to head over to lend Sophia a hand.
However, he happened to see that one of the men had risen from the ground and was about to launch
a sneak attack on Sophia with the baseball bat he held in his hand. Alexander panicked, and he yelled,
“Your left!”
No sooner had the words come out of his mouth did he see Sophia deftly pivot ninety degrees to the
side to dodge the incoming sneak attack. She followed up smoothly by yanking hard on the baseball
bat before she rammed her elbow on the attacker's lower back. As a finishing move of sorts, she
viciously kicked hard at both of his knees. Unable to support his weight in that split second, the man
invariably collapsed on his knees.
As Sophia had a huge coat on, she was unable to extend her arms and legs out to their usual full range
of motion. However, despite the limitations and constraints she faced, she was ultimately still able to fell
the two men using the limited repertoire of moves she had available.
In just a mere two minutes, the ground was covered with collapsed men as they groaned and writhed in
pain.
Alexander stood there and watched as Sophia impassively walked to the side of the bus stop where
she had earlier thrown her bag to the ground. As the cool night breeze blew past her face, her hair was
picked up and whipped across her cheeks. She deftly grabbed hold of the errant strands and hooked
them behind her ear. In that moment, her cool demeanor and beauty were nothing short of captivating.
Somehow, he hadn't known she was that adept at fighting.
Just then, a car suddenly drove past them, and Alexander snapped back to reality. He directed his
attention back toward the men on the ground before he strode over to Sophia's side and asked, “Are
you hurt?”
“Nope,” she replied.
She patted her bag lightly before she glanced at him and handed him his set of car keys. “You can
head back first. I have some matters to take care of.”
He accepted the car keys but didn't leave. Instead, he probed, “What do you have to do?”
Sophia didn't respond to his question. She merely bent down and picked up a baseball bat before she
headed over to the man who had led the assault earlier. Resting the baseball bat on his shoulder, she
smirked lightly as she asked, “Did the Whitton family send you?”
“Spare me, gorgeous! We're merely mercenaries. All we did was take some money and did as
instructed. I don't know anything about the Whitton family and whether they were involved. Rex was the
one who hired us to keep an eye on you,” wailed the man.
“Rex?” she repeated.
She couldn't help but frown as she picked up on this unfamiliar name.
Just then, Alexander's mellow voice spoke up from behind her. “It should be Rex Langford. He's the
right-hand man that Javier has been keeping around.”
Sophia raised her eyebrows at this and surmised that she really hadn't wronged anyone after all.
The men on the ground knew that they had well and truly lost this time. They started pleading
desperately for mercy from Sophia. However, she scoffed lightly and said, “Each of you is just under
two meters tall, and yet you can't even take a hit. What a useless bunch of men!”
Even though Alexander was standing a distance away, he was still able to pick up on her casual
remark and noted that he was just under two meters tall as well. He frowned slightly and murmured,
“I'm 1.9 meters tall.”
I'm useful, and I can take hits too...
In a rare moment of surprise, Sophia was taken aback and froze before she remarked, “Mr. Xenos,
you're really tall.”
She brushed him off and perfunctorily replied with a compliment before she took up the baseball bat
and headed to the side of the road to wait for the bus.
Alexander wasn't too pleased at having just received an insincere compliment. As such, he followed
behind her and asked, “Where are you heading to?”
Tilting her head to the side, she glanced at him as she replied, “I'm in a relatively poor mood today,
Alexander, so let me give you a word of warning. You better not annoy me any further.”
She didn't know what she was capable of doing if she got annoyed or riled up any further by him.
Alexander knew why she wasn't in a good mood. Sophia's previous neighbor had revealed everything
the second she got paid a substantial sum of money.
Back then, it just happened to be the second day of the new year when Sophia's parents had gotten in
their car accident. They had gone behind Sophia's back to sneakily send some gifts over to her mom's
family. On the drive back, they narrowly managed to avoid an old man who had crossed the road
during a red light. However, in so doing, they had inadvertently driven straight into a huge truck and lost
their lives on the spot.
Sophia actually still had some relatives on her mom's side. However, her granny had a more traditional
mindset and tended to favor the males over the female children. As such, in order to save up more
money for her son, Sophia's granny subjected Sophia to several torturous years while the latter was
under her care. During this period, Sophia had been cruelly scolded, punished, and even hit by her
granny. However, the incident that had truly widened the chasm between Sophia's parents and
Sophia's granny was one that had happened when Sophia was five years old. At the time, she was
placed under her granny's care, and the latter had established a stall selling snacks right opposite the
welfare center. She often brought Sophia along with her when she went to man her stall.
One day, Sophia's granny had purposefully or accidentally left Sophia behind after she was done with
her stall for the day. The orphanage director saw how pitiful Sophia was and decided to take her in for
the night. However, it just so happened that a wealthy couple dropped by the next day to pick a suitable
orphan for adoption. They weren't keen on any of the other orphans that the orphanage had and had
their minds set on Sophia the second they saw her. Coincidentally, Sophia's granny arrived and
happened to overhear the wealthy couple speaking to the director about adopting Sophia.
They mentioned that they liked her a lot and were more than happy to donate a million to the
orphanage if Sophia was willing to go with them.
Sophia's granny started scheming the second she caught a whiff of the money. However, the director
truthfully told the wealthy couple that Sophia wasn't from the orphanage and had instead only been
temporarily left there by her family.
The wealthy couple were disappointed and had been about to take their leave when Sophia's granny
suddenly rushed forward and spun a tale about Sophia's origins. She mentioned how Sophia had lost
both her parents, so she had brought the little girl back and raised her ever since. She also mentioned
that she was willing to part with Sophia and let the wealthy couple adopt her if they truly liked Sophia
and provided some compensation for it.
Although the wealthy couple wasn't keen on this at first, Sophia's granny started plying them with lies
about how Sophia was an amazing and obedient child. In stark contrast to how she normally treated
Sophia with disdain, her granny now spun a tale about how Sophia had learned basic arithmetics from
reading her brother's books instead of from attending school. She had also added that Sophia didn't
seem like a child from a poor family, especially given her supple skin and the dignified way in which she
carried herself.
Since they had always wanted a daughter but were cursed with the misfortune of being infertile, the
wealthy couple had decided to begin their journey of seeking a child for adoption. However, faced with
the fatigue from their long years of futile searching and the amazing stories Sophia's granny told about
Sophia, they were primed and more than ready to take Sophia in.
Furthermore, they had also felt that Sophia's living conditions were relatively sub-par. She looked
slightly sickly and was thin to the bone. On a cold day like that, she had merely been wearing a single
woolen sweater without any outerwear. As such, they had instantly felt for her and generously offered
Sophia's granny two hundred thousand for her.
Although Sophia's granny had wanted a million, she recognized that two hundred thousand wasn't a
small sum either. She made up her mind on the spot and immediately rushed back to gather Sophia's
clothes. Thankfully, Sophia had eavesdropped on this entire exchange, and she managed to sneak
away from the wealthy couple while on the way back with them. She found a phone and immediately
called the police to have them contact her parents for her.
Due to this incident, Sophia's parents immediately cut off all ties with her granny and made
arrangements for Sophia to be brought back home with them.
The year her parents died, Sophia's granny had contracted a severe illness, and the hospital had called
to inform them she didn't have long left to live. After hearing that, Sophia's mom decided she couldn't
bear to let Sophia relive her childhood trauma. As such, she secretly discussed the issue with Sophia's
dad, and they made arrangements to drive over together early in the morning. The plan was to return
home and arrive just before Sophia woke up the next day so they could be around to greet her.
That said, they did manage to return home. Unfortunately, all they left Sophia with was the unbearably
tragic sight of their mangled bodies.
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