Hearing that, Ivan almost peed his pants and resisted Michael’s tug. “There’s no need for that, really. Sir… I-I just said that out of annoyance. You don’t have to do this… You know what? I’ll do it! I’ll do a sexy dance in front of you! You just have to sit down to watch it!”
Michael continued to drag him as he said politely, “Come here. Don’t be shy! I’ve already practised all the dance moves. Come take a seat!”
Ivan replied, “No, no, no. Sir, you should take a seat. I’ll stand.”
Michael’s smile was too cunning and terrifying. It made Ivan’s heartbeat speed up.
After all, he was a professional actor.
Taking back his old vigor while training first-years, he asked firmly, “So what do you want? Do you still want to watch the sexy dance? Are you going to work for my wife and sign the contract?”
Stammering, Ivan answered, “S-S-Sir, I-I’ll sign it…”
With that, Michael pushed the contract to him, along with the stamp and a pen. Ivan didn’t even dare to look at the contract as he signed it with trembling fingers.
After that, he slumped to the ground in a daze.
Meanwhile, Sophia took the contract away happily. “Give me a moment to stamp on it. I’ll send your copy to you later.”
After Sophia walked over, Michael sat down with Ivan while Sarah quickly prepared tea for them.
Patting Ivan’s shoulders, Harry felt sorry for him.
“How did you become like this? You’ve fallen from grace! Back then, you were a famous talent at Bayside University. At least in our batch, everyone knew your name. How did you reach such a low point to watch men perform sexy dance? What a disgusting hobby!”
To be honest, Ivan didn’t have any intentions to watch any sexy dances. He was just annoyed by Sophia, so he wanted to scare her off so that she would know it wasn’t going to be easy. Unexpectedly, Sophia actually managed to invite Taylor Murray.
Ivan’s cheeks flushed red immediately. Taking this opportunity, Michael quickly treated him to a meal and some beer. After all, it would be better to talk to him about this if he was drunk.
Michael was quite devoted to his beloved wife’s business. Right after he returned, she asked him to perform a sexy dance, and he even practised it. At the final juncture, if Ivan really wanted to see it, he was already prepared to dance.
Of course, it would be the best if he didn’t have to do that.
Finally, he understood how Nathan felt when he forced him to dance to ‘Three Little Bears’ the other time.
Nate must have been cursing in his heart the entire time.
Soon enough, Ivan was drunk after being served some beers by them. Then, Michael and Harry dragged him to a secluded rooftop to continue drinking.
After so long of not seeing his old friends, Ivan couldn’t help remembering his younger days, crying as he drank on.
He probably cried out all the contents that he drank.
Sobbing, he began to tell them his experience for the past few years.
“Back then, I went abroad before I could even finish studying at Bayside University. I had no choice—my house was cheated away by my relatives who only gave my sister and I some money. Taking the money, I went abroad because I might be tricked by my relatives more if I had stayed. They were even thinking of marrying my sister off to get some money as dowry. After I went abroad, I studied design while working part time to support my sister. My career had been doing well, so she came to work with me after graduating. The first time I met Lavender was at a cinema. She loved your movies, Commander. I even promised to bring her to meet you after we came back here. However, everything was so unpredictable… After my sister came back here to continue her career, I didn’t know that she was already so fragile… When I was busy with her funeral, I forgot to care for my cat, Raindrops, which ate my sister’s hamsters. When I found out, it was already too late. My hamster, my sister, Raindrops, Lav, and the baby—they were all dead. But I still had Tiger. After I came back here, I started an office and lived together with Tiger. When I was drawing, it would always lay by my side. With it around, I thought, At least Tiger’s still here with me. However, one fateful day, after I had a meeting with some clients, I found out that thieves had broken into my house and left the door open. Because of that, Tiger ran outside. After searching around for it, I found out that it had been picked up by others. When I asked for it back, they disagreed and threw it out of the tenth floor in front of me. I-I…”
Sobbing, he couldn’t continue anymore as tears streamed down his face.
Who would have expected that he’s living such a miserable life? His parents, sister, wife, and child are all dead. Even his pets are dead. I wonder how he has lived through all these years…
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