Chapter 31

The person crouched gently and started helping me pick up my scattered things, one after another. Of all people, it had to be Sophia who saw me at my worst. I immediately blushed, and I felt so ashamed that I wished I could be on the other side of the planet right now. I couldn't care less if it was Camille. With her, I didn't care about my dignity or the humiliating ways she treated me. But it hit differently, looking like this around Sophia. The glass shards clinked noisily on the ground in the wind. I hurriedly grabbed her hand, shaking my head gently. "Stop. You're going to cut your hands." Sophia patted my hand gently. The gazes from the people around us didn't bother her at all. "It's fine. Everything becomes much easier when men and women work together." Her little joke lightened the load on my heart by a good margin. We quickly picked everything up. Then, Sophia gave me a gentle smile. "There's a new foreign restaurant up ahead. Do you want to try out some steak?"