Richard Steele looked at Evelyn Steele and groaned for a moment. "Evelyn, Logan Carter is Logan Carter, but Lila is a good child. I hope you won't let Logan Carter's story affect your impression of Lila."
Evelyn Steele smiled and said, "Dad, you worry too much."
"Lila Carter is Uncle Chen's daughter. Uncle Chen passed away many years ago. She has a hard life in the countryside. It's understandable that you want to take care of her." She sat upright, smiling confidently and calmly. "Anyway, our family has always been doing charity. We have also sponsored many poor students over the years, right?"
Richard Steele pursed his lips.
How can Lila Carter be lumped together with those poor students who receive financial aid?
The corners of his lips twitched, but in the end he did not refute anything.
After a long while, he said dejectedly, "Evelyn, are you still blaming Dad? I didn't pick you up yesterday because I had a car accident on the way. Lila held a birthday party to make the family more lively. I didn't object, but I didn't attend. I was indeed careless about the jewelry and the room..."
Every year when this day comes, he and Matthew Steele will feel sad and have no interest in anything.
Lila Carter had good intentions, but he and Matthew Steele were both absent, which really felt unfair to Lila Carter.
Out of compensation, after learning that Lila Carter's room was flooded by rain, he let Lila Carter move into Evelyn Steele's room and allowed her to borrow Evelyn Steele's jewelry.
At that time, everyone was certain that Evelyn Steele would not come back, but who would have thought that Evelyn Steele would run back home on her own, catching everyone off guard.
He also did this because he felt that Evelyn Steele was generous and magnanimous and would not care about anything.
But it turns out that Evelyn Steele does care.
Looking at his daughter's thin figure, and thinking of the two doses of anti-cancer single cell injections... Richard Steele couldn't help feeling guilty.
Evelyn Steele was silent for a moment, then stood up.
"I'll apologize, but I just hope that next time this happens, you can ask for my opinion and give me the minimum respect."
Mr. Anderson told her that the matter of changing rooms and jewelry was not initiated by Richard Steele, but was a casual "suggestion" from Logan Carter when Lila Carter encountered various problems.
Although it is understandable, it was a confusing thing to do after all.
Evelyn Steele smiled and said, "After all, the villa is still registered under my name."
The Xi family is not a prominent family. Their current wealth and status are all due to the support of the Yan family.
Evelyn Steele's mother, Victoria Steele, was not only a lady from a prominent family and an academic genius, but she also had first-rate business skills. After marrying into the Xi family, she invested all her dowry in a film and television company, which soon became very successful and became a leader in the industry.
After she fell ill, she transferred her company shares and several properties to her two children.
Richard Steele was deeply in love with his wife and he did not object to anything she did - of course, he probably knew he had no right to object.
But he probably never expected that one day his daughter would swear ownership of the villa in this way.
Richard Steele frowned slightly: "Evelyn, we are a family."
Since we are a family, we cannot say such words that can easily make people feel separated.
Richard Steele felt that his daughter looked much more unfamiliar this time when she came back, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
Evelyn Steele said calmly: "Because we are a family, I hope we can communicate well with each other."
She grew up in the Yan family when she was a child. After returning to the Xi family, she spent a short period of warm time with Richard Steele.
She still had some admiration for her biological father.
But Richard Steele disappointed her again and again. When his mother was ill, he was more distressed than anyone else and was unable to take care of everything, resulting in all the burdens of the family falling on her, who was only fifteen years old. After his mother passed away, Richard Steele became even more devastated and completely immersed in grief, unable to extricate himself.
Because of the pain, he was even afraid to face his daughter who also suffered from cancer.
During the three years of hospitalization, Richard Steele visited Evelyn Steele only a few times.
Evelyn Steele didn't blame him. During her hospitalization, she even took the initiative to reduce contact with her relatives and friends to reduce their ties with each other.
If it's really beyond my ability and I have to follow the same path as my mother, it's better to go on this journey without any worries.
I believe that as contact decreases, time can heal everything and my father and brother will not be too sad.
But even so, Richard Steele should not have adopted Lila Carter as his replacement.
This is disrespectful to both parties.
She felt unhappy when she thought about the fact that in the novel, Richard Steele later married Lila Carter's mother and allowed that woman to go on TV and discredit her mother's reputation.
She was unhappy and didn't want to pamper Richard Steele.
"Although I basically haven't lived in my room at the Yan family since I was ten years old, it has always been well maintained. Even if someone goes in to borrow a book, my uncle and grandfather will call me to ask about it."
This is the attitude that elders should have.
You can teach your children to be generous, kind and willing to share, but you must never ignore their will.
Richard Steele was speechless, and then wiped his face dejectedly, "I know, Qingcheng is such a person..."
Gentle and kind, yet firm and principled.
When Richard Steele mentioned his wife, his face showed nostalgia and sadness. Evelyn Steele knew that he would probably be immersed in his own thoughts again.
Evelyn Steele simply opened the door and walked out.
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Evelyn Steele returned to her room, made a long list and sent it to Nathan Harper.
Nathan Harper called immediately: "Evelyn, what are you planning to do? Can your body handle it?"
Evelyn Steele: "I want to continue my mother's previous research. Don't worry, I will take good care of myself."
Nathan Harper didn't know that the two single-cell injections had been generously given to someone else by Richard Steele, and he thought the injections had worked and was very happy.
"Okay, I will buy the medical equipment you want as soon as possible, and then your grandfather and I will go back to see you."
Thinking of her grandfather, Evelyn Steele said "hello" in a muffled voice.
She misses her grandfather too.
The Yan family was a famous academic family in those days, but my grandfather gave up literature and went into business, becoming the richest man in the province. He himself was full of legends, and his deeds have always been talked about with relish.
But my grandmother died young and my mother also died of illness. When my grandfather learned that Evelyn Steele also had leukemia, he almost couldn't hold on.
The old man earned countless wealth throughout his life, but he didn't care much about money. He just hoped that his wife, daughter and granddaughter could live well. For this reason, he did a lot of charity.
But there were rumors outside that my grandfather had done something bad when he made his fortune, and that was the retribution for which fell on the women in the family.
This made my grandfather very sad, and his hair turned white overnight.
"Evelyn Steele." Mr. Anderson knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"
Evelyn Steele put away her sadness, put down her phone, stood up to open the door, and was almost blinded by the scene in front of her.