They’d spend Christmas Eve together, and as soon as the midnight bells chimed, they’d be the first to wish each other well. But now, the person celebrating Christmas with her had changed.

Everything from before was in the past.

As Cornelia reminisced, the midnight bells rang once again. At the same time, Cornelia’s phone buzzed. She thought it would be a message from Abigail and Zack, but the name on the screen read ‘Ben‘.

After the collapse of the Hartley Group and the news of Marcus‘ death, Ben had disappeared. Cornelia didn’t expect him to call at this moment. She picked up. “Merry Christmas, Ben!”

Ben replied, “Merry Christmas, Cornelia! It’s been a while, how are you?”

Cornelia answered briefly, “I’m good. You?”

Ben replied, “I’m good too.”

Then, they fell into silence. Ben tried to break the silence, “What have you been up to?”

Cornelia answered, “Work.”

asked, “What kind of work? Can you tell me?”

“I’m writing a script.”

asked, “What kind of

“A

each response brief and to the point,

“Can you tell me more? After all the time we’ve worked together, we can’t be that much

didn’t want to talk about herself, she turned the conversation to Ben, “That’s

at a start–up. Would you be interested? If you want, I could help you get a position here.”

laughed, “No need, I really like

topic again, “I heard

Cornelia answered, “March.”

asked concernedly, “March isn’t that far off. Are you still working? Have you considered taking a break to prepare for

the way he spoke from their time working together. This

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