A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

After some time, Ethan finished placing the food that he had brought into the bowls. One was for Estelle, one was for himself, and the last one left on the bedside table was for Estelle's father. Ethan stood right beside him and said, "Uncle, happy New Year! I hope you like the food."

Seeing the sincerity of his actions, Estelle unconsciously raised her head to hold back the tears in her eyes. It seemed inappropriate to cry at this moment. It was the first day of the new year, after all.

After a few moments, she was able to calm herself down. Then, she walked over to grab a bowl of soup as if nothing had happened.

"Ethan, happy New Year. Thanks for bringing some food for us again."

"No need to thank me, Estelle. By the way, my mother also placed some coins inside the rice dumplings as tradition. Everyone at home ate the rice dumplings, but none of us got any coins. It seems that they are in this batch of dumplings. Someone here is about to be very lucky this year!"

Ethan lightheartedly replied while he took his own bowl of food from the table. He then briefly added, "Well, let's eat! The food won't taste good if it gets cold."

Being visited by Ethan all the time seemingly caused all of the negative emotions in Estelle's heart to fade away.

To everyone's surprise, the lucky coins were in Estelle's dumplings. Upon seeing how surprised and envious Ethan's eyes looked, a joyous smile appeared on her face.

After they finished their meal, Estelle and Ethan agreed to go downstairs and look at the sunrise. When they arrived outside, Estelle let out a heavy sigh and uttered, "It's hard to believe that it's already a new year."

"Yeah, time went by so fast," Ethan briefly responded. Then he took a deep breath and thought to himself, 'I guess a new game of cat and mouse is coming as well.'

In the meantime, Louis was in a rush to head back to the company. Since the holidays were over, he had to deal with his business once again. Moreover, he had to keep an eye on Scott.

Similarly, Jacob kept a close eye on Darren. He ordered his people to report to him about even the slightest of change in Darren's situation.

At the same time, Bonnie was reading random books in the study room of the manor.

She had no other option to entertain herself. The games she had on her phone was already too boring since she had played them so much. She had been to every inch of the manor and, worst of all, Darren didn't allow her to go out. So, books were the only things left to amuse her.

That evening, Darren came back home while Bonnie was trying to make a new dish she had just learned.

Upon seeing the light in the kitchen, Darren placed his coat down on a chair and walked over to see Bonnie in an apron.

Under the warm yellow light, the side of Bonnie's face looked gentle and charming.

her cooking. His legs even became numb from standing still for so long.

It smells so

out of the blue, causing Bonnie to be surprised. Then, he leaned over her shoulder and sniffed

back home this soon, so she was completely flustered. She wondered how long he had been standing there watching her, especially since

the thought of this, her cheeks flushed

there? I'm making some meatball soup right now,"

been here since you started to shape

It made him look

such a long time. It was unusual for him to have nothing to say, which confused her.

I'm quite hungry,"

romantic ambiance. He then went to the dining room and took

indeed heard Darren say that he was hungry, but she was still in a

and placed them into the bowl she had prepared beforehand. She then poured lotus root

Darren. It only took him a few minutes to finish all of it.

wouldn't like what she made, so she asked in a timid tone, "Do you want

upstairs to rest. I have to do something early tomorrow. Good night," Darren replied after

go upstairs. Then she cleaned up the table and kitchen before going back to

Darren left quite early to

a little worried at the thought of not knowing when she could possibly go back

He was inexplicably irritated when he looked through documents that showed the state of his company. Almost all of the papers showed a downward spiral to bankruptcy. Darren had

with Jacob was a good idea, but he

take a lot of painstaking effort to establish the company once again. And there was no guarantee that

his past experiences and wits to restore the company to its

the hospital, Estelle came to visit her father right after getting off work.

to take good care of him so that he would wake up soon. That was why she

three nurses to help Estelle. The plan was for two nurses to stay with her father during the day, and the last one to be with Estelle at night.

objections, so they

It was something she did all the time as

nurse said. The nurse saw Estelle holding her father's hand