Lisa:"!!!"
She was furious.
"You, you're the real yellow-haired brat!"
Louis:"??"
He touched his blond hair and was furious.He hated it when people pointed out his yellow hair.He
looked at Lisa and roared, "Say that again if you dare!"
Lisa: "You're already a yellow-haired brat.Why can't you let others say it?"
Louis took a step forward and was about to scare her when he tripped and suddenly pounced at Lisa.
Lisa was not as agile and was immediately pinned under him.
Fortunately, there was a big lawn beneath them.
It did not hurt much, but coincidentally, Louis's lips were on Lisa's.
Everyone:"!!"
After 10 seconds of silence, Louis stood up with his hands on the grass in a daze.
Lisa's eyes widened as she wiped her mouth with all her might.
"Ah, you pervert!"
Seeing her look of disdain, Louis pouted.
"I don't have an infectious disease.Aren't you overreacting?"
He touched his lips, and for some reason, he suddenly recalled that soft feeling from earlier.
His face turned a little red.
At this moment, he saw Lisa turn to look at the ground.
Her eyes immediately turned red, and large tears rolled down her face.
Louis was shocked.
"Hey, what are you doing? Isn't it just a kiss? Is it worth crying and making a scene?"
Lisa cried, "Of course you don't feel anything! But...I can't afford to pay for these lawns!"
Louis:"!!"
It turned out that this was the reason! He scratched his head and coughed.
"Don't cry.These lawns are not expensive"
Another tear fell from Lisa's eye.
"Didn't you just say that a single orchid cost hundreds of thousands?"
Louis: "...I lied to you."
Lisa wiped her tears and was so angry that her heart hurt.
What kind of family did Nora live in?! The people here were all too perverted! She followed Lily into the
living room angrily.
Louis followed her in and sat on the sofa.
He had his hands behind his head and glanced at Lisa from time to time.
At this moment, Yvonne walked down from upstairs and smiled.
"There's another guest at home?"
Her behavior was still magnanimous and appropriate.
She looked like someone from a noble family, and Lisa immediately sat up straight and felt restrained.
Lucy replied, "Miss Yvonne, she's Miss Nora's cousin."
Yvonne smiled.
"Nora really has a lot of friends and relatives!"
Her words were filled with mockery.
Lisa bit her lip.
She had always been a sensitive and suspicious girl.
It was obvious that she could sense Yvonne's hostility.
Especially when Yvonne looked at her from head to toe, her eyes filled with disdain.
Lisa didn't even know where to put her hands and feet.
At this moment, Louis said, "Tsk, why are you acting as the mistress here? I heard that Joel has taken
away all your rights! I should really buy some firecrackers to celebrate!"
Yvonne clenched her fists and smiled.
"Louis, there's a guest here.Speak properly."
She looked like a good sister.
Louis pouted.
"She's not a guest.She's Nora's cousin, which means she's also my cousin"
Yvonne smiled.
"But isn't Nora unrelated to the Smiths in California? I heard that she broke off ties with them during the
last live broadcast"
These words made Lisa even more embarrassed.
It was as if she was pestering them right now.
She stood up suddenly and was about to say goodbye when she heard Louis laugh.
Yvonne asked, "What are you laughing about?"
Louis touched his hair.
"I'm laughing at you.Anyone else can talk about blood relations, but can you? You're not related to our
family by blood.According to your logic, you're not a member of the Smiths?"
"You"
He dissed Yvonne to the point that she was rendered speechless.
She turned and went upstairs in a huff.
Louis curled his lips disdainfully behind her and said to Lisa, "Don't bother with her.She's just spoiled"
Spoiled? Lisa bit her lip.
"She looks pretty graceful to me, though"
Louis gnashed his teeth in fury and said, "It's all an act.I know that woman the best, we grew up
together.She does one thing in front of other people and another altogether behind their backs, and is
the most hypocritical person ever.She has no blood relation to the Smiths.She'd be nothing at all if
Uncle lan hadn't adopted her"
"...Oh’’ said Lisa.
After saying that, Louis realized that it wasn't appropriate for him to badmouth his family to an outsider,
so he said, "Just keep waiting here.
I'll go up for now’ He had a bedroom in the Smiths’ manor.
When Louis heard that Yvonne was no longer taking charge at home, he had come back excitedly,
hoping to see her down and out.
He had made up his mind he was going to move back to the Smiths’ from this day on! In the suburbs of
New York.
Tanya was playing games with Pete in the villa.
She had specially bought a jigsaw puzzle meant for twelve-year-olds and above, which had a higher
level of difficulty, so that she could keep Pete company.
But unexpectedly, a brief two minutes later, Tanya looked at the completed jigsaw puzzle on the floor,
and then at Pete, who sighed and said, "It's too easy."
Tanya: She asked tentatively: "Shall I buy you a jigsaw puzzle meant for grown-ups next time?"
"...God-mom, do you like jigsaw puzzles a lot?"
Tanya:"?"
Pete sighed and said, "I've already played with you for so long.Can I go and do my Olympiad
assignments now?"
Tanya:"!!"
So, to Pete, doing jigsaw puzzles with her was actually a waste of time and energy?! The corners of
Tanya's lips spasmed.
"Go ahead."
Only then did a satisfied Pete walk over to the desk next to them and take out his Mathematical
Olympiad workbook from his schoolbag.
Before he started working on the problems, he suddenly looked at Tanya and asked, "Is Mommy really
okay?"
Tanya was taken aback.
She had brought Pete back with her after school the day before.
Pete had followed her home without saying anything at that time.
She'd thought that he wouldn't ask about it, but unexpectedly, he was actually such a perceptive boy.
Tanya said, "She'll be fine"
Pete kept quiet for a while before he asked, "Mommy will come and pick me up, right?"
Tanya:"..."
The way he was asking those questions so seriously and with such a tense look on his face broke
Tanya's heart.
It was only then that Tanya realized that even though Nora had found Pete, and that even though he
was sleeping on the same bed as his mother every day these days, Pete was actually still very
insecure at heart.
She walked over, hugged Pete, and kissed him on the cheek.
"Don't worry, she'll definitely come.Your mom loves you very, very much.When we were looking for our
children abroad back then, she was really crazy about it."
Her words piqued Pete's interest all of a sudden.
He asked “How so?"
Tanya:"????"
Pete put down the workbook in his hand and looked at her seriously, his eyes full of interest.
He really wanted to know all the details! The corners of Tanya's lips spasmed.
She had gotten him so many toys, yet none of them had aroused Pete's interest at all.
Instead, a simple one-liner from her had unexpectedly made the boy so fixated on something.
She could only say, "Your mom was in poor health when she first went overseas.Even so, she insisted
on coming to our meetings every week and listened to us share our experiences in looking for our
children.After that, she would try again and again to return to the States.At that time, she was falling
comatose for a while almost every day, so your grand-aunt never allowed her to come back.Thus, she
got people to look for you in the country instead "
I remember that there was once a liar who called your mom and told her that he had found clues about
your whereabouts.
We all knew he was a liar, but your mom believed him.
I tried to talk her out of it when she was giving him money, but she instead said, ‘‘I know he's a liar, but
what if he really has news about my son? I won't allow myself to miss out on any possibility.”
"There was also another time someone told her that they might have news about you.She had a fever
at that time, but she still made herself go over.In the end, it also turned out to be fake news, but she
passed out in the wilderness and was almost eaten by wild dogs..."
Tanya's eyes reddened as she spoke.
It hadn't been easy for her and Nora during all those years back then.
Nora's suffering had already come to an end, but what about her? There was still no news about her
child even now.
Tanya lowered her head.
She didn't notice Pete's eyes flickering.
Even though Pete now had a mother, he had still felt insecure all this time.
After all, his family was incomplete, and Mommy was always finding Daddy too troublesome.
He had actually had nightmares quite a few times.
He dreamed that Mommy had gone abroad with Cherry and didn't want him anymore.
He kept chasing after them, but he simply couldn't catch up to them at all.
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