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.

a substitute for somebody else. She hadn't expected that she was the one that Ethan

little embarrassed of his actions. However, he still didn't loosen his embrace and held onto

go of me, I can't breathe," Estelle told him, her voice a little breathless from the hug. She patted

had

her go, they both fell to the ground.

at Ethan, who was chuckling

if he wanted to memorize

two of them had a good rest, they finally

now,"

heard him say that, she tried to keep her expression neutral and listened

grudge against Ethan. When she had found out that Ethan had been looking for that little girl all this time, she couldn't help but feel as if she was nothing more than just a substitute. In a fit of rage, she had decided to end her relationship with him. However, now that she thought about it, her sister was the main reason why she had started thinking that way

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

Ethan led her back to

On the way, that girl didn't talk at all. I tried everything to get her to speak to me but I

to hit her. As a man, I thought it

spoke to me. She bandaged

you, Estelle. I admit that in the beginning, I decided to be with you because you looked so similar to that little girl. However, the more I got

that Ethan would have started a relationship with her because of that reason. It confirmed her previous sentiments about being a substitute. As she realized this, she couldn't

real you, Estelle. When I found out that you were not the biological daughter of Mr.

on you that could show your true identity. What your father said earlier confirmed my suspicions,

over so he could gently hold Estelle in his arms. He held her as if she

in their childhood. She looked at Ethan curiously. But

she had met Ethan somewhere before. His presence

had met before. She just couldn't remember