Four days had passed since that day.
On the day she returned, Stephanie indicated that she would never go there again. There was no other reason. Her grandfather was alive, but he did not look for her. She did not want to go back to him.
Fifteen years ago, a flu caused a disaster in the entire village. Because the kids including her went out to school, they survived. But her young parents died. Her grandfather was traveling and hadn’t returned for half a year. The other day when she saw that her grandfather’s name was also on the death roll, she took it for granted that the whole family were dead. Later, she was sent to a shelter. At the age of seven, she was adopted by a wealthy family because of her beautiful appearance. The family treated her well and hired various teachers to teach her singing, dancing, piano, violin. When she was eight years old, she fainted due to lack of rest. However, when she woke up, there was no change. Her schedule was still full.
At the age of twelve, she learned about her foster parents’ true intentions when she got a big prize from a contest. Since then, she has been entering various contests, earning millions of reward money for her foster parents at a young age, and even successfully became an actress as they planned.
Her foster parents’ abilities were limited and they could not get any resources for her. Therefore, she worked hard and reached where she was now in the entertainment industry all by herself. However, all the money she earned went into their pockets.
Her nightmare didn’t end until she reached adulthood and used means of law. Then she finally got them to give up their adoptive relationship.
However, even though her family was still alive, she did not know….
She had a grandfather, but she was adopted. Her blood sucker foster parents used her to make money. It took her an entire eleven years to get rid of them. She was afraid of yet longed for kinship. Therefore, the fact that her grandfather saw her and ran away was a heavy blow for her….
Because of that experience of being adopted, even if she wasn’t rich, she would still support a poor student every year and ensure that these children lived a better life than she did before.
However, she never thought that the story of the farmer and the snake would really happen to her. She only longed for love and did not care about her ex-boyfriend’s past experiences. However, he still abandoned her when she was in trouble and it became the last straw that crushed the camel to death.
When she stood on the rooftop in the cold wind, the thing she cared most was that even if she died, no one would remember her.
She longed so much for someone to really like her, love her, and treat her like a family.
Of course, she wouldn’t tell Emily about it, but Emily understood the change in her mood. After all, Emily felt the same.
“When I was seven years old, I was brought to the Britt’s. In the past ten years, my mother hasn’t looked for me once.” On the way back, Emily spoke slowly, her voice carrying a calm tone that did not seem to belong to a girl at her age.
Stephanie looked at her in surprise, “She…?”
Emily could see what she wanted to ask and smiled. “She’s alive.”
“Why?”
“Adults will always sacrifice themselves to help their children.” Emily looked out of the window with a very calm expression. “I think she must have hoped that my stepmother would treat me better, so she didn’t dare to appear.”
“Your grandfather is the same. He must have his reasons for not looking for you.” She turned to Stephanie and said, “Harold went there and stayed for a week. The old man ignored him. When you fell, he hastily applied some herbs to you. He even lost one of his shoes while running to help.”
Stephanie held her hand covered with herbs with a dazed expression. She did not notice this detail.
“Your grandfather loves you very much.” Emily was very calm, making it impossible for people to see any exaggerated and artificial elements, as if she was just stating a fact.
“Then what should I do if he won’t see me?” Stephanie gradually calmed down as she heard Emily saying,
“Next time you will come and deal with the misunderstanding.”
…
It was four days later when they went there again.
Emily picked up her phone and said, “Let’s go today.”
Elsie went to school today. Beverly was at home which was rare. When Emily passed by Beverly’s door, she heard laughter coming from inside. It sounded a bit pretentious. She paused for a moment, and came up with an idea. But in the blink of an eye, she remembered Eliot’s face. She hesitated again. If later Eliot knew that she did it, would he… never forgive her?
“Miss Emily?” Harold asked.
Emily pinched her palm and said, “Let’s go.”
She shouldn’t forget the pain Beverly and her daughter had given her, and she shouldn’t forget how Elsie stabbed the dagger into her chest.
Eliot was innocent, but his mother and sister were so vicious!
When they arrived at the main hall, the butler just came out of the kitchen and saw Emily walking straight out, so he chased after them and asked, “Lunch is coming soon, Miss Emily wants to go out?”
Emily said succinctly, “KFC.”
Harold added, “Miss Emily wants to eat spicy chicken wings.”
The butler was a little worried. Although Miss Emily had been quite cheerful recently and loved to go out, when would she be able to change her habit of eating KFC? Those things were not nutritious at all.
After Susan placed the dishes on the table, Beverly came downstairs. It seemed that she was in a good mood. She was not picky about the food, just sat down and ate it. She even kindly asked, “Where is Miss Emily? Why hasn’t she come down to eat yet?”
“She has gone out.” Said the butler.
“Where did she go?” Beverly was alert. This little girl was indeed restless.
The butler replied honestly, “KFC.”
Beverly was a bit surprised, “What?”
“I heard that she wanted to eat spicy chicken wings.” He added weakly.
“…”
Beverly had always been suspicious. After dinner, she called the driver. She heard the driver say with certainty, “Miss Emily is eating at KFC.” Only then did she feel relieved.
However, when she remembered the last time Emily met Maury in the coffee shop, she felt very uneasy. Maury never went to the coffee shop. Although she heard that they happened to meet at the amusement park, Beverly still felt strange, as if everything she did was exposed to others.
After finishing her hamburger, Emily took the family car to the amusement park, where he shook off the driver and got into Stephanie’s car, which had been waiting for her for a long time.
“Have you eaten?” Emily handed over a hamburger.
Stephanie waved her hand and refused, “I ate an apple.”
“An apple?”
“The calories are already very high.” Stephanie pinched her face and said, “I have to lose another three kilos in the next few days before I can be photographed.”
“Are you saying that you have an apple for lunch?” Emily finally understood.
“Yeah, like this, I haven’t touched it in eight or nine years.” Stephanie pointed at the hamburger in her hand.
“What a pity.” Emily took out the hamburger and took a bite. “It’s delicious.”
Stephanie was speechless.
