Chapter 1518: 1518. Aren’t you a thing?
Ethan White said that Adam Jones took everything from him, didn’t he?
These two people, who should have been as incompatible as fire and water, walked in side by side and stood in front of her, creating an indescribable awkwardness no matter how you looked at it.
Adam Jones didn’t rush to answer her but instead shifted his gaze to Sophia Taylor.
Sophia, who had been ignored earlier, now felt the chilling stare of Adam Jones, as if she were pinned to a gallows, awaiting a death sentence at any moment.
The next second, Adam spoke in an utterly disdainful tone:
"You tolerated her slandering you like this until now?"
The tone and choice of words, resembling remarks on a mere ant, made Sophia Taylor’s face abruptly pale.
Thing...
He actually referred to her as a "thing."
She knew that people in high society looked down on interacting with people like her from the ordinary world, but she had never imagined that in his eyes, she was merely "this kind of thing."
This time, she truly wanted to cry.
Glaring at Adam Jones and Ethan White, whose eyes were filled with intense disdain, she felt her dignity being trampled ruthlessly, and they even ground it into the dirt a few more times.
Sophia’s tears flowed out in an instant.
Onlookers pointed and whispered about her. The look of contempt in their eyes made her feel as though she were a joke at that moment.
"President Jones, how... how could you say that about me?"
"Aren’t you a thing?"
Adam Jones squinted his eyes, his tone imbued with even stronger disdain.
The moment he stepped into the Campbell Corporation’s lobby and heard Elly Campbell repeat the things this woman had said about her in a dismissive tone, a blaze of anger erupted in him.
Sophia Taylor was hit by Adam Jones’s rhetorical retort, and tears began to fall even more uncontrollably.
At this moment, she couldn’t tell whether she was terrified by Adam Jones or hurt by his words.
The murmurs of the spectators drifted continuously around Sophia’s ears.
"This girl is really ridiculous. I saw her sitting there when I arrived, and as soon as CEO Campbell returned, she rushed to block her. Now she’s going so far as to say CEO Campbell wasted her time."
"I heard she’s a volunteer teacher, but with that kind of character, I wouldn’t be surprised if her real motive for volunteering was to secure a good job later. Just one year—can that even be called volunteer teaching?"
"She thinks cozying up to CEO Campbell can turn Campbell into her stepping stone? Someone like her trying to get into IvyGate? Dream on."
"Her ambition is too big. She just casually asked to be sent to IvyGate. Does she even realize how hard it is to get in? Even if CEO Campbell really could persuade the principal, why would the principal bend over backward for someone as insignificant as her?"
"Does she genuinely think having a few words with CEO Campbell makes them friends? What delusion."
"Calling CEO Campbell promiscuous? I’d say she’s jealous because she couldn’t snag a rich man herself, which is why she’s smearing CEO Campbell."
"..."
Word after word of condescension repeatedly hit Sophia Taylor’s face, leaving her nowhere to escape.
Initially, she had wanted to use these people to pressure Elly Campbell through public opinion, but in the end, she got countered completely by Elly instead.
"Tch—"
A light laugh came from right in front of her; it was Ethan White.
Her eyes shot up at him, and she saw that his gaze was fixed on Elly Campbell as he said:
"So, you flirted with me too? Next time, make it more obvious when you’re trying to flirt. That way, I can respond properly."
Elly Campbell couldn’t help but roll her eyes in her mind.
What kind of situation is this, and you’re still cracking jokes like that?