A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

"Come on, let's go inside." Seeing that Estelle seemed to be looking a little pensive, Ethan couldn't help but feel worried. "What's wrong?" he asked softly.

She shook her head at him. "It's nothing. Let's just go inside." Estelle looked up slightly and tried to fight back her tears. She wanted to assure Ethan that she was fine, so she acted as if nothing had happened.

They opened the door and went inside the house to grab shovels. After they found some, they went to the backyard.

"Here it is," Estelle murmured. She stopped near a swing and pointed at the ground under it.

The two of them got to work immediately and started to dig out the soil. It took them a long time but eventually, they dug out a box.

The box was made of wood, and it had a lock that looked like it had rusted over time. Ethan found a tool and broke the lock without difficulty.

He opened the box excitedly and found a dress, a jade pendant, and a black bow hairpin inside.

As he stared at the objects in front of him, Ethan realized that Estelle was indeed the girl he had been looking for. With the pendant and hairpin in his hands, he suddenly came at Estelle with a hug.

"I have finally found you," he said in a choked voice. He held her tightly in his arms with no desire to let go.

He considered himself a tough gentleman. It wasn't as if he was an emotional person. However, he couldn't help but tear up a little because of his excitement.

The little girl in his memories had had a very serious illness in the past. Bill had cast her away because he had thought that she was useless. After that, Ethan had always thought that the little girl might have passed away from her illness but he hadn't been able to confirm it. He hadn't expected that the little girl would really turn out to be Estelle, who was alive and well in his arms.

Estelle was shocked and didn't know what to do. She hadn't expected that Ethan would be so emotional about it.

If the little girl that Ethan had been searching for was truly her, then her decision to break up with him had been just a waste of both time and energy. All this time, she had just been jealous of herself.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel several emotions about it.

her as a substitute for somebody else. She hadn't expected that she was the

calmed down a bit, he felt a little embarrassed of his actions. However, he still didn't loosen his embrace and held onto Estelle more tightly.

Estelle told him, her voice a little breathless

okay." Gently, Ethan let go of Estelle. He felt as if he had just woken up from a

go, they both

massaged her numb legs and looked at Ethan,

wanted to memorize every part of

two of them had a good rest,

now," Ethan said seriously as

expression neutral and listened intently to

more than just a substitute. In a fit of rage,

been stupid enough to believe Ellen's words without doing any investigation of her own. Maybe if she had

of her hand, Ethan led her back to the car.

a human trafficker named Bill. On the way, that girl didn't talk at all. I tried everything to get her to speak

As a man, I thought it was my duty to protect her, so I took

to me. She bandaged me in

to that little girl. However, the more I got to know you, the

of that reason. It confirmed her previous sentiments about being a substitute. As she realized

I truly love you, the real you, Estelle. When I found out that you were not the biological daughter of Mr. Wang, I sent someone to investigate this matter. Many of the traces already disappeared though, so it was a difficult investigation. However, almost all the clues we found led us to the Wang family.

that could show

explanation, Ethan bent over so he could gently hold Estelle in his arms. He held

of what had happened in their childhood. She looked at Ethan curiously. But

met Ethan somewhere before. His

turned out that they had met before. She just couldn't remember it.