A heavy rain in the middle of the night, accompanied by a whistling wind, shattered the sweet dreams in the room.
Early the next morning, the rain stopped, and the fresh green outside the window, accompanied by the rising sun, indicated that today would be a good day.
Evelyn Steele stood on the terrace. The early spring wind was still chilly, but she was wearing a thin hospital gown and looked dazed.
The nurse who was taking care of her pushed the door open and saw this situation. She became a little nervous and said, "Ms. Steele, please come back soon. Don't catch a cold."
After persuading Evelyn Steele to go back to her room, the nurse handed her the medicine on the tray. Evelyn Steele swallowed it all without even looking at it, without even frowning.
The nurse looked at the girl's face covered with red spots - this was an adverse reaction to the new medicine, not only causing a rash but also severe pain in the joints.
In fact, during the three years that Evelyn Steele was hospitalized, she suffered from persistent fever, infection, vision loss, severe headaches and other symptoms, but the little girl refused to cry out in pain, her strength was so heartbreaking.
The nurse was full of worry: "Mr. Xi said he would come to take you home early this morning. Please take care of yourself in the next few days."
After three years of illness, Evelyn Steele's physical condition has improved and she was finally able to be discharged from the hospital.
Evelyn Steele thanked the nurse politely, but her expression was calm and steady.
She knew that the nurse was happy for her, but was today really a day worth being happy about?
Evelyn Steele waited until the afternoon before receiving a notice from the nurse: her father Richard Steele had a traffic accident on the road today and could not come.
The nurse looked a little reluctant when she said this, thinking that the little girl must be very disappointed. She even took the initiative to comfort Evelyn Steele, saying that Richard Steele would definitely come tomorrow.
Evelyn Steele thought for a moment. "Can I leave the hospital on my own? I'm an adult."
In fact, after today, she will be eighteen years old.
The nurse was stunned for a moment, but she didn't dare to say anything: "I'll ask the doctor for you."
After she left, Evelyn Steele made a call she hadn't made in a long time: "Uncle, I want to go home, can you arrange someone to pick me up?"
There was a flurry of activity on the other end of the line, followed by Nathan Harper's ecstatic voice: "Yes, of course!"
Even though Nathan Harper was not in the country, half an hour later, the car sent by the Yan family stopped downstairs.
Evelyn Steele sat in the car, looking at the street scene moving backwards, with a dazed look on her face.
It was the first time in three years of hospitalization that she left the hospital and returned to this noisy and bustling world, as if every breath in the air carried the scent of freedom.
She couldn't help but think of the dream she had last night. The feeling of weightlessness from falling from the building in the dream seemed to be real, and she couldn't help but hug her arms.
——If anyone dreams about being framed by their loved ones and forced to jump off a building to die, it is impossible for them to remain calm, right?
In the past week, Evelyn Steele has had the same dream countless times and jumped off the building countless times.
In her dream, the world she lived in was a novel about a substitute's counterattack.
She is the sickly white moonlight and also the vicious female supporting role.
The protagonist of the novel, Lila Carter, is a country girl from an impoverished mountainous area. Because she looks very similar to her, she is adopted by her father Richard Steele as her substitute.
Those chosen ones who had a crush on her could not get her, so they took advantage of Lila Carter while feeling deeply in love with her. Slowly, they were attracted by Lila Carter's gentleness, kindness and self-improvement. One day, they came to their senses and escorted Lila Carter all the way to the top and made her famous all over the country.
In contrast, Evelyn Steele, a brilliant and brilliant woman, became the control group, exposing her inner ugliness and falling completely into disgrace.
In the end, her face was disfigured by her former admirer, and she jumped from the 28th floor of a building.
…
The plot was so poisonous that Evelyn Steele didn't believe it at first.
However, Richard Steele's absence today was like a slap in the face.
She couldn't just wait passively for Richard Steele to pick her up like in her dream, so she contacted Nathan Harper.
She wanted to go home and see what was going on.
——
Three hours later, the car arrived at a villa area.
The yard of my villa was decorated with lights and colors, and it was specially decorated.
Evelyn Steele was silent for a moment, then walked up to the lower courtyard door and pressed the fingerprint combination lock, but the voice prompt indicated that it was not registered.
Evelyn Steele looked at the fingerprint password lock and found it was indeed the one she had modified that year. Its performance could be said to be top-notch and there would definitely be no program failures.
She tried to enter the password - but was prompted that it was incorrect.
At the same time, in the three-story villa.
Ethan Cole, holding a glass of red wine, leaned on the terrace on the second floor, looking coldly at the furtive figure downstairs.
He waved to the servant and said, "Go and send that woman downstairs away. Warn her that this is not a place for her to come."
He looked unhappy, and even Jason Bennett, who followed him, was a little scared, and whispered to the servant.
"It's probably someone who doesn't know the rules and brought a female companion here. Just ask them to leave and don't make it too difficult for the girl."
After the servants left, he turned around and looked at Ethan Cole with a smile, "Okay, Mr. Huo, don't be angry. I know you are worried about Lila and don't want those low-class people to sneak into her birthday party..."
——
Evelyn Steele lowered her eyes, pondered for a moment, and suddenly took out a special key from her small bag and violently opened the door.
Fortunately, she made an extra key and always carried it with her, otherwise she might not be able to get into the house today.
When the servant arrived, he saw Evelyn Steele walking across the courtyard and straight towards the gate.
He shouted, "Who are you? Who let you in? Get out now!"
While quickly walking to Evelyn Steele, he reminded her in a low voice, "Miss, don't you see what kind of occasion it is today? Don't make those young masters angry. Hurry up and leave..."
Evelyn Steele ignored him and instead looked at the flower wall in the yard with the words "Happy Bridal Day" written on it, obviously celebrating her birthday.
In the center of the flowers is a big word "香".
"Who is the party for today?" she asked the servant.
Servant: "Who else? Miss Carter, of course! No, why am I telling you this..."
Evelyn Steele stared at the word "fragrance" for a moment, then turned and walked towards the door.
The door suddenly opened, and a boy with a slicked-back hair came out. Seeing this, he frowned and complained: "Why are all kinds of cats and dogs allowed in?"
Evelyn Steele said calmly, "This is my home."
She didn't know this person at all, so she wanted to ask him why he was here.
The man with the slicked-back hair was about to say something when he suddenly saw Evelyn Steele's face.
Although she was wearing a mask, her exposed forehead was smooth and full, with willow-shaped eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. Her eyelashes were very long, black and thick like crow feathers, making her eyes look as black as ink.
——Exceedingly beautiful.
The man with the slicked-back hair always felt that such eyebrows and eyes were very familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere, but when his eyes fell on Evelyn Steele's face, he couldn't help but become interested in the part covered by the mask.
He raised his hand and wanted to take off the mask: "It's not appropriate for you to come to someone else's house wearing a mask..."