For this kind of good things, Brian could say it constantly in a tsundere manner to everyone. This
excited him even more than his own accolade.
“Yes, it is our Luke. No. 1 in the world.”
“Awesome, Luke is awesome. He is just six years old, but he won No. 1 in the world. Brian, I can’t even
imagine that Luke did it. Good...Good!”
Felix had never been so excited from he married a wife and had children to now he had grandchildren.
What an honor! The world was watching!
“I didn’t expect him to win the championship either. Luke is really good.”
Brian’s excitement depressed some, but his grandpa’s call made him back to the peak of excitement.
“Good, he is the pride of our whole family.”
Felix calmed down and then continued.
“Brian, say thank you to Winwin. If it were not her, Luke wouldn’t be so good.”
Felix’s approval was more important than thousand words. Hearing that, Brian was happy.
After he hung up the phone, he immediately told Winnie.
“Winwin, Grandpa asked me to thank you. He said without you, Luke could not have today’s
achievement.”
Winnie was surprised to hear Felix’s appreciation.
“Chairman can recognize me... Say thank you for me.”
Winnie did not know how to describe her mood at the moment. It was not easy to hear a heartfelt thank
from Felix.
But she didn’t know if he really recognized her contribution to the child, or he said it politely taking her
as an outsider.
Before Brian had time to say anything, the call came one after another, and Winnie’s mobile phone also
began to ring.
They all called to congratulate Luke, and they got the good news from the domestic news.
“Luke wins an honor for you and for the country, or it will not broadcast. I have just watched the
international channel, which is also broadcasting the news of Luke winning the competition. I am so
happy that she has achieved so much at his young age... It is a happy thing.”
Isobel was too excited to say a word. She just said she saw it from this channel and that channel. In
short, it was all about Luke this morning. How she could not be excited for such a propaganda effort?
“I am happy too. Luke’s efforts have not been paid in vain. But I didn’t expect it would be in the news.”
Winnie was happier than anyone else, but she did not expect that the state was also taking this matter
seriously.
“How could the news not broadcast something that won glory for the country? Tell Luke I am happy to
have a grandson. When I am available, I must buy the best gift and deliver it to him.”
Isobel could only express the congratulations to Luke with this kind of means, because temporarily she
had no plan to go back.
“I will tell Luke, but Aunt, are you sick? You sound feebly.”
Winnie could hear her aunt’s excitement, but the degree of her excitement was not same as her words.
She didn’t feel awake but sick and weak.
“No, I am good. If I get sick, I will go home.”
Isobel denied, afraid that Winnie would worry about her and forced her to go back.
“Take care of yourself. No matter you relax or have fun out, don’t let yourself be too tired. Don’t make
yourself sick.”
Winnie felt worried and said to her aunt. She would like to say it again and again over the phone.
“Aunt, come back early. The two children miss you, and so do I and Vanessa.”
She said this every time. She has been worrying that her aunt would not come back and the Vanessa
and she would lose the only one family.
“I miss you too, but I finally come out once, let me have fun. When I get older, I won’t be able to go out.
I won’t be able to climb mountains or walk on roads. There will be no point in coming out.”
Isobel wanted to go home too, she hated this kind of situation that she could not go home, but she
could do nothing about it, she could only take it as punishment.
“Every time you said so, but you are still young. You’ll have plenty of chance. You can take us out with
you when Vanessa has a holiday. We’ve been working hard in all these years and never had traveled.”
“Aunt, come back early, and I’ll go out with you next time. If you can’t walk, I will carry you, if you can’t
climb the mountain, Vanessa and I will carry you. What are you afraid of with us around?”
Winnie knew that her aunt had been paying efforts for so many years, it was normal to go out for a trip.
But she did not feel at ease and felt her aunt would never come back.
The last time her aunt left home was more than 20 years ago. After leaving, she didn’t contact with her
family for a long time, which made her parents worried a lot.
Now Winnie rest assured that was because she could be able to contact her aunt and know her
whereabouts. But Winnie felt that her aunt had a trip because she had something in mind.
Thinking of this, Winnie said something that she was not sure about.
“Aunt, there are something you can’t hide, you will have to face it.”
Winnie’s sudden words came from her childhood memories. At the age of seven, she heard something
about her aunt, though she had no intention of getting involved in adult affairs.
Her aunt might be in love with a married man and his family made a big scene. Later her aunt applied
for the support team of the hospital, and left with the support team and never contacted her family
again.
In so many years, her aunt had never been in love nor married. Winnie felt that she had not got over
and still loved that man.
Her aunt’s reluctance to go back to B City for so many years was an escape from her past. This time,
Winnie wondered if her aunt had met the man and left because she didn’t want to see him again.
It was because of this speculation that Winnie was afraid that her aunt would not come back, so she
said what she had just said.
Isobel was silent. She did not expect that Winnie would guess the reason she wanted to escape and
that she would sense that. How did she know? Did she know it from childhood memories or hear
something?
When Isobel was silent, Winnie heard a male voice over the phone. She could not hear exactly what
they were talking about, but they seemed to be happy.
Who was Aunt with? His voice and tone sounded familiar.
“Aunt, is there anyone else in your room? I seem to have heard someone is talking.”
“No, no. I’m in the hotel, and the TV’s on, it could be from the TV.”
Isobel denied it.
“Winwin, I want to play for some time. You take care of Vanessa. I am going downstairs to do some
exercise. I’ll call you when I am available.”
With that, Isobel hung up the phone at once and then looked to Rufus who was on the phone.
She was in bed, and her voice was low. Rufus was about five meters away from her, but his excited
voice was so loud that Winnie heard it expectedly.
Isobel was still afraid that Winnie knew her relationship with Rufus.
Winnie was a persistent and brave woman to face all the difficulties. If she knew it, no matter how bad it
was for her, she would put things out to solve it.
Winnie had put down the phone, but she was still thinking about the male voice in her aunt’s phone,
which did not sound like that from TV. The man seemed to have encountered something happy, so he
was in high spirit.
If it was not from the TV, who could the man be?
Winnie thought about it, but suddenly she was in soliloquy laughing at herself.
“I was so stupid. If I did not ask aunt but listened carefully for a while and I will know.”
“It seems that I am old and my brain is slow in thinking.”
“What are you talking about? Who’s old?”
Brian put down the phone and came to Winnie.
“No, I just feel I am old and my brain stiff. Were you on the phone with your father?”
Winnie avoided the story of her aunt because she was not quite sure what was going on and could not
tell anyone about it.
“Yes, he called me. Now the nation knows Luke got champion. The newspapers, the headline of the
major social software are reporting it. I don’t accept the interviews because I don’t want to make it
public, but it seems that it has not been under control.”
Brian spoke with the corners of his mouth raised. His father had made a few calls to make
congratulation.
Nor did he pay attention to the media blitz. If he really wanted to control the media, it was easy to do so
on his own power.
But now the news was broadcast, proving that Luke was indeed the pride of the nation. It should be
known by the people.
“I didn’t expect it would have such a big impact,” he said. “In my opinion, it’s just a contest. I didn’t
expect it would bother the news anchor.”
“Brian, those social platforms should be under appropriate control, after all, there may be many
opinions. I’m afraid it will strike Luke’s enthusiasm.”
“I saw it too, there are a lot of videos of the four of us exposed. My appearance in this why will affect
your family, control it.”
Winnie did not want to be exposed, because she could not explain her identity at this time.
“It is good that you are exposed, so that we don’t need to explain to grandpa.”
Brian did not mind it. With more people knew the existence of Winnie, his grandpa could not explain.
And not it was an opportunity.
“Don’t, don’t put Chairman on the spot. We can’t use this method to force him to submit. I still want him
to accept me from the bottom of his heart.”
Winnie did not agree with what Brian said. If Felix was forced to accept her in this way, Felix would
think that she was playing tricks again. Even after being accepted, Winnie would be mocking. And it
would be pointless.
“You don’t have to worry about that. Grandpa has his way of thinking. If your presence makes a big
difference, he’ll figure it out.”
With that, Brian lifted his hands and fell on Winnie’s shoulders. He looked at Winnie affectionately, so
that Winnie would not consider too much.
“Winwin, it is not us expose it, so we don’t have to think too much about it or worry that Grandpa would
have other ideas. We just do things in an open and honest way, and Grandpa will be suspicious if he
thinks if it is suspicious. So no matter what you do, as long as you have a clear conscience, don’t care
about what others would say, don’t care about what kind of person they say you are.”
Brian instructed Winnie.
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