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.

even became numb from standing still for so long. He then moved

are you cooking? It smells so

Bonnie to be surprised. Then, he

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

thought of this, her cheeks flushed

making some meatball soup right now," she said in

started to

Darren had a roguish smile on his face. It made him look quite attractive, causing the atmosphere around them to feel a little romantic.

Darren would simply stare at her quietly for such a long time. It was unusual for him to have nothing to say, which confused

I'm quite

then went to

responded. She had indeed heard Darren say that he was

into the bowl she had prepared beforehand. She then poured lotus root powder into it and brewed it with

she served the food right in front of Darren. It

like a hawk while he ate. She was a little worried that he wouldn't like what she made, so she asked in a timid

have to do something early tomorrow. Good night," Darren replied after he wiped his mouth with a napkin. He then picked up his coat and went

Then she cleaned up the table and kitchen before

next day, Darren left quite early to go

She got up and sighed, a little worried at the thought of not

he looked through documents that showed the state of his company. Almost all of the papers showed a downward spiral to bankruptcy.

honestly thought that taking back the company to deal with Jacob was a good idea, but he hadn't expected that

take a lot of painstaking effort to establish the company once

of his past experiences and wits to restore the company to its former glory.

in the hospital, Estelle came to visit her

better in the past few days. The doctor reminded her that she needed to take good care of him so that he would wake up soon. That was why she had

plan was for two nurses to stay with her father during

objections, so they did their work with contentment.

work. It was something she did all the time as a

the night shift nurse said. The nurse saw Estelle holding her father's hand and talking to him all the time.