Chapter 168 Just Be Frank With Us If You Can’t Handle This Game

"At least I sat for the exam myself." Sophia harrumphed heavily. "If you think getting a low score isn’t so pleasing to look at, then you should have studied harder. Why stoop to cheating?

"You didn't have the guts to fight back when your papers were confiscated because you got caught for cheating and now you can’t stop complaining about the teacher all day. All these underhanded tricks you’re doing behind other people’s back disgust me!”

She had always disliked Ryleigh because of her two-faced character. She bullied the weak and feared the strong. What a vile person.

However, the Adam and Jones’ families always had business dealings with each other. Ryleigh shared a pretty good relationship with Leah and Leah was her friend, so it was hard for her to not bump into Ryleigh.

"You..." Ryleigh was so mad that she could not say a word for a very long time.

"That’s enough, guys. This is just a small matter. There’s really no need to hurt anyone’s feelings here." Leah smiled helplessly, turned to look at Sophia, and said, "I do have a pretty easy and interesting suggestion for you. I don’t know if you would be brave enough to do it, though."

Sophia grinned upon hearing what she said. She straightened her back and raised her chin slightly, saying, "There is nothing in this world that I’m not brave enough to do!"

"If that’s the case, give me a second. I'll go get the props." Leah curved up her lips, got up, and walked out of the room.

Sophia stretched her neck and peered out, muttering, "What is it..."

After a short while, Leah returned with a small item. She placed the item on the table and sat next to Sophia. "We’ll consider you as having succeeded in this dare challenge if you’re brave enough to go to my brother wearing this.”

"Just meet your brother? That’s no big deal. What's so hard about th..." Sophia opened up the item Leah had placed on the table as she spoke. When she got a closer look at the erotic underwear in it, her face flushed suddenly and her voice was cut off abruptly.

Ryleigh leaned over to take a look. Similarly, her face flushed crimson at once.

"Where did you get this stuff, Leah?!" Sophia held up the erotic underwear with two fingers and took several more glances at it with a flushed face before tossing it back on the table. "That’s just disgusting! I’m not wearing that!"

Elaine picked it up and looked at it a few times. "Is it disgusting? I think it looks pretty. Sophia, don’t tell me that you can’t handle this game?"

"It's not a question of whether I can handle this game or not, but a question of whether I should even play this game!" Sophia played with the headphones hanging around her neck restlessly. "As you all know, Charles is the only person I have ever had a crush on. Plus, I will be engaged to him at my birthday banquet tomorrow.

"Isn’t it just plain nonsense now that you’re asking me to wear this erotic underwear to go and hug William? I don’t have a problem with playing games, but let’s not play something that’s beyond common sense, okay?”

Leah’s eyes flashed when she heard the word 'engaged'. A dull and obscure look flashed across the depth of her eyes.

She bit her lip and reached out to grab the erotic underwear. "I thought we’re close enough, that’s why we don’t normally think too much when we talk to each other. I didn’t expect you to think of this as something that’s beyond common sense. I’m sorry, I’ve gone too far in making this suggestion."

"No, that’s not what I meant!" Sophia explained hurriedly. "We have known each other for so long, Leah. You should know that I’m a person who always talks without thinking first! I was just saying and didn’t mean anything else by that!”

Elaine snatched the erotic underwear from Leah and snorted at Sophia. "Leah is just making a suggestion and already you’re saying that her suggestion is beyond common sense. Don’t you think you’ve gone a little too far?"

"Sophia didn't mean it. Besides, this is just a game. Stop arguing, guys." Leah forced out a smile. There was a downcast look on her beautiful face, breaking the hearts of anyone who saw it.

"I'm sorry, Leah." Sophia stood up and apologized to Leah in an anxious but succinct way. "But I can't hug William in this erotic underwear!"

"I have a crush and am about to be engaged to him. Wearing something like that to seduce someone who has once pursued me is... such a b*tchy thing to do—I can't do it!

"Also, even if I didn't have a crush, even if I’m not getting engaged to Charles tomorrow night, I still won’t wear something like that to hug William! He has been pursuing me for so long. I’ll just end up toying with his feelings and giving him false hope, won’t I?”

Leah tried her best to tug at her lips. Her eyes were turning slightly pink. "I haven’t given much thought to it. It's all my fault. I will put the underwear away. Elaine, give it to me."

"No!" Elaine clutched onto the erotic underwear and yelled at Sophia, "It’s just a game, no? Do you need to make it sound so serious to the point of calling this something that’s common sense? A b*tchy thing to do, even? So you’re the only virtuous one here?”

"What’s wrong with you guys today? Why are you so edgy?" Sophia chastised, then turned to Leah and said with a frown, "I have always talked like that. You know this. I’m sorry if it makes you uncomfortable.

“I have a fiancé now, so I can’t share any ambiguous relationship with other men. I’ll regret it my whole life if Charles called off the engagement because of this.

"Also, think about it, Leah. That's your brother. If I do this and toyed with his feelings, won't you feel bad for him at all?"

Leah's eyes were turning even redder now. She wiped the corners of her eyes. When she opened her mouth to speak, her voice already sounded pretty nasal. "I just figured that this outfit looked quite similar to that of a bikini. At most, it's just a bit more revealing than a bikini. Giving my brother a hug wearing this isn’t going to be a big deal anyway."

She let out a self-deprecating laugh. "I didn’t expect that we would have such different opinions on this matter. I'm sorry my suggestion made you uncomfortable, Sophia."

"Don't apologize to her!" Elaine cast a sidelong glance at Sophia. "Sophia, just be frank with us if you can’t handle this game. There’s no need for you to be so distasteful and make everyone mad!"

Sophia pulled a long face when she heard what she said. "You’re saying that I can’t handle this game?"

Leah tugged at their sleeves and whispered, "Stop it, guys. This is my fault, I shouldn't have suggested such a..."

"You! I'm saying that you can’t handle this game!" The more Elaine saw Leah doing her utmost trying to take up the responsibility, the more Elaine found Sophia to be an eyesore. "You’re the one who picked dare and said that you won’t regret it. Now you’re also the one who’s running away because you can’t handle it and even called this beyond common sense. Say, you’re the one who can’t handle the game, no?”

Ryleigh had been observing the situation on the sideline the whole time. Seeing that they had started quarreling, she immediately stood on Elaine’s side and said sarcastically, "That’s right, just tell us if you can’t handle the game. Why must you put the blame on Leah? You’re just trying to bully Leah because she’s kind, aren’t you?"

"That’s enough, guys. Stop arguing." Leah's eyes were red, looking like a poor little rabbit. “This is just a game."

Ryleigh crossed her arms in front of her chest and rolled her eyes at Sophia. "It’s not the Qing dynasty anymore. This is the 21st century. There are so many people running around wearing bikinis nowadays. Hugging someone while wearing this attire isn’t that big of a deal, no?"

Under Sophia’s extremely sullen-looking face, she sniggered in a creepy way. "From what I can see, someone is using today’s incident to take it out on us because she has been dissatisfied with us a long time ago!”