Chapter 135: From Now On, You Are Not Allowed To Accept Gifts From Other Women

This was exactly what she wanted.

She said, "In that case, I’ll go first."

Just as she turned around, she saw Christopher and James.

"Hey, brother, Chris! James!" Sophie greeted them as usual.

Christopher didn’t speak, and his eyes fell on Janice.

Janice stared at Sophie in surprise. "What did you just call him?"

Sophie said, "Brother."

"You’re siblings?" Janice was in disbelief.

Sophie nodded. "You know my brother?"

Janice looked at Christopher, curiously waiting for him to introduce her.

James, who was standing by the side, was sweating. He thought to himself, <Oh my god. The day comes at last.

Finally, they still meet each other.

Chris is in danger.>

Just as James was nervous, Christopher looked at Janice and said, "Are you done eating? Let’s go home."

Janice was still waiting for Christopher introducing her to Sophie. Upon hearing his words, she was a little surprised, and then she said, "Yes, I have, but..."

"Let’s go home."

As he spoke, he reached out to grab her arm and was about to leave.

Janice took a few seconds to return her senses and then she responded, "Wait, my bag is still there."

As she spoke, she shook off his hand and returned to get her bag. Then she said to Yvonne, "I’m sorry. I may have to go. James said that he will pay the bill, so you can eat at your leisure."

Yvonne nodded. "Go ahead."

Only then did Janice leave with her bag. When she passed by Sophie, she nodded awkwardly.

Sophie stared at her departing figure with an extremely embarrassed look.

She had thought that Chris would at least introduce her, but she didn’t expect that he didn’t say anything at all.

<What is he thinking about?

Just pretend that I’m not even there?>

Sophie felt extremely uncomfortable, so she left angrily.

After Janice left, Yvonne also had no appetite. She put down the cutlery, looked at James who was standing by the side, and sneered, "It seems that there is something happened between Christopher and that girl."

James answered, "Don’t ask me. I don’t know anything."

He turned his head away.

Yvonne grimaced and said, "Forget about it!"

She picked up her bag and walked toward the stairs.

James caught up with her. "Wait for me."

Janice followed Christopher out of the shop in a confused state.

<Didn’t Sophie say that they were siblings?

Why didn’t he introduce us? Although, I have technically already met her.

I still hoped that he would take the initiative to introduce me. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

After all, Sophie is his family.>

In the car, Janice fastened her seatbelt and complained, "Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

Christopher glanced at her and said, "Nino should be hungry."

Janice was speechless. <What kind of excuse is this? Why haven’t I discovered before that he is so concerned about Nino?>

She remembered that Sophie had called him brother just now and couldn’t help asking, "Is... is Sophie really your sister?"

Christopher frowned and said, "Kind of."

He drove the car out.

"What do you mean by kind of?"

Janice was a bit speechless. <He could just admit or deny. What the hell is this?>

Christopher stared at her in resignation. "She is my father’s adopted daughter."

Janice was surprised by this answer. <So she is an adopted daughter.

No wonder one’s surname is Bateman and the other’s is Valen. Even if she took her mother’s surname, it should be Allson.>

She said, "Then why did you ignore her just now?"

...

She thought, "Although she was not his biological sister, he should at least say hello to her."

Christopher did not answer her question. He only asked, "How did you get to know her?"

Janice answered honestly, "I met her when I brought Nino to the hospital. She’s her veterinarian."

Christopher frowned. He actually forgot that Sophie studied veterinary medicine before.

He said, "Stay away from her."

Janice curiously asked, "Why?"

Christopher replied, "Just make sure that you do."

Janice looked at the side of his face and thought for a moment.

Then she seemed to understand. "I see. Did she steal a lot of paternal love from you when you were growing up, and that’s why you don’t like her, right?"

Christopher did not say a word.

Since he didn’t reply, Janice just assumed that she was right.

<In fact, this is similar to my situation. His sister stole his father’s love, while I have almost lost all my father’s love because of my sister.>

Thinking of this, she could understand Christopher’s mood and empathize with him.

After a while, she said, "Hubby, don’t worry. I will love you dearly in the future and make up for the love you lost since you were a child."

Christopher pulled a wry face when he heard what she said. <I haven’t even said a word, but she has already imagined so many plots.

She is really a professional reporter. Just a clue is enough for her to let her imagination run wild.>

He shook his head in resignation.

After returning to the villa, Christopher went to make a phone call, and Janice carried Nino out of the kennel.

"Well, Chris has said that he comes back so early because he is worried that you would feel hungry. Please, eat your fill."

She poured out the dog food and put Nino down. Before she left, she thought of something. Thus, she stopped and looked at Nino, who was eating food.

<No wonder she knows that Nino could jump over hurdles. It turns out that she is Christopher’s sister.

But, since she recognized Nino back then, why didn’t she tell me.>

The more Janice thought about it, the stranger she found the whole situation.

She thought that if she had the chance to meet her again, she would surely get to the bottom of this.

However, she saw Sophie in the cafe the next day.

The cause was that the program team had found a woman named Cecilia according to that email, and that girl introduced the protagonist of the story to the program team.

Therefore, Director Caleb took her to see the protagonist early in the morning.

Unexpectedly, she found out at the scene that the protagonist was actually Sophie Valen.

When Janice saw her, she was stunned.

"Sophie?"

"Janice?"

The two of them seemed to be equally shocked. But the difference was that Janice’s reaction was genuine, whereas Sophie’s was feigned. However, her disguise was very good, and Janice was none the wiser.

Director Caleb stared at their reactions. "You know each other."

"We’ve met a few times before," Janice replied.

"That’s good. Things will be easy since you know each other. How about this, Janice, you chat with Ms. Valen here. I have something to do at TV station so I’ll be back at first."

Since Director Caleb had said so, Janice could only agree.

However, she felt sorry for Christopher. After all, he had told her to stay away from Sophie yesterday.

However, she thought that since this was not a private visit, but for work, he could understand.

Thinking of this, Janice said with relief, "Sophie, I didn’t expect that it was you."

...

Janice was mesmerized by Sophie’s story.

Somehow, she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

But she couldn’t figure out what exactly was wrong.

She said, "No matter what decision you make, we will respect it."

After all, everyone had his or her own choice and she had no right to interfere.

At the end, Sophie suddenly asked, "Well, you and Chris..."

Janice felt a little embarrassed. She didn’t want to tell her relationship with Christopher to Sophie.

Although Sophie was not his biological sister, she still wanted Christopher to introduce her to his family in person.

However, when she recalled Nathan’s attitude towards her, she felt that it was probably impossible.

So, she said in a self-deprecating way, "It seems that you should call me sister-in-law, but I think Janice is better."

Sophie secretly sneered, but she quickly concealed it. "I also think it’s better to call you Janice. Well, I have something here that I need you to pass to Chris."

As she spoke, she took out an invoice from her bag and handed it over.

Janice took it and glanced at the contents. She confusedly asked, "What is this?"

Sophie said, "This is the invoice. Two days ago, I brought a gift from Switzerland for Chris. I was afraid that he wouldn’t like it, so I specially asked for this invoice. If he doesn’t like it, he can freely exchange it with it."

Only then did Janice realize that the expensive tie bar was given by Sophie.

<Although she is his sister, they are not related by blood.>

She suddenly felt a little jealous.

At night, when Janice returned home, she handed the invoice to Christopher.

Christopher took it and had a look. Then he asked, "What is this?"

"Can’t you see? Invoice," said Janice grumpily.

Christopher stared at her, puzzled. "Why are you giving me this?"

Janice looked at her fingernail and said, "Sophie gave it to me."

Hearing this, Christopher’s face suddenly darkened.

"Didn’t I tell you not to meet her?"

Janice felt a little guilty now. "I didn’t meet with her on purpose. I just happened to run into her. She asked me to pass it to you and told you that you could switch the gift out if you didn’t like it."

With a cold face, Christopher threw it aside.

Janice bit her lip when she saw his angry expression. "Why didn’t you tell me it was from Sophie?"

"Is it important?" Christopher frowned.

Janice said, "Of course. From now on, you are not allowed to accept gifts from other women."

"Not even from your sister," Janice added in her heart.

Upon hearing this, Christopher who was angry just now, seemed to understand something. He stepped forward and asked, "Are you jealous?"

"I am not. Don’t think too much," Janice said as she turned her head.

Christopher chuckled, "Okay, okay, okay. From now on, I only accept gifts from my wife."

Janice’s expression softened, but she still snorted, "However, I can’t afford to give you something so expensive."

Christopher chuckled, "I don’t like that kind of thing. I only like this one and this one."

He took out a pink shirt and flower-colored tie from the wardrobe.

Janice recognized the pink shirt. She had bought it for him when they just got

married, but that tie...