Chapter 206
Then, she heard the sound of her young, clear voice singing
‘Man Bu Ren Sheng Lu.
“What if we… get caught again and can’t escape?” The boy’s
voice rang out.
“Idiot! With me here, how can we not escape? I’ll definitely
take you with me and escape!”
“If you ditch me, you’ll definitely be able to escape.”
“There’s no way I’m going to ditch you! I said that I will protect you, so I’ll protect you! I’m not afraid of those bad guys!”
“Why aren’t you going to leave me?”
“Because we’re friends!”
“Ah!” Grace opened her eyes with a start. In a flash, she sat up on her bed with her eyes wide open. What entered her line of vision was the pale rays of light.
This was her rental home!
Grace abruptly breathed in as she looked at the time. It was
only three in the morning.
Did she… have a dream? It seemed that she had dreamt
of a conversation between her younger self and a boy.
Furthermore, she had sung Teresa Teng’s ‘Man Bu Ren Sheng
Lu’
Good heavens, why would she have had a dream like this?
Could it be that she had listened to too many rounds of ‘Man
Bu Ren Sheng Lu’ back in Brian’s car, so she dreamt of herself
singing it?
However… the situation in the dream had such a realistic
feeling to it. It was as if it had really happened before…
At the same time, over at the Hart family’s mansion, the lights in one of the rooms were still on. Brian sat in front of a painting, looking at it silently.
In the painting, a little girl was carrying a little boy on her back as she advanced through a thorny forest.
His fingers glided slowly over the little girl’s face as he said in
a low voice, “When will I finally be able to see you again?”
His mumbling voice seemed to hold some yearning, regret, loss, as well as an unspeakable pain.
There were some people and some things that would never be
forgotten with time and would instead become even brighter as time passed until they eventually turned into a form of
obsession.
Two days later, First Uncle called to urge Grace to pay for her quarter of the medical fees. After thinking it over, Grace still decided to make a phone call to Lina Sweeney.
“Lina, can you lend me 7,500 bucks? I kind of need it urgently, but I won’t be able to pay you back straight away. Maybe just a little bit each month,” Grace spoke with some difficulty. After all, the person she did not want to bother the most was Lina.
Lina had already done so much for her, yet she was unable to
repay her in any way.
“Sure, I’ll transfer it straight to you with my phone,” Lina Sweeney replied readily.
“Thank you,” Grace uttered the two words softly.
“Grace, there’s no need to say those two words between
- You don’t have to rush to pay this money back either. Whenever you have money, you can pay me back then,” said
Lina Sweeney.
Despite those words being spoken, Grace still wanted to clear
the payment as soon as she could.
She could not owe Lina too much.
This was why when Claire Watts told her about a part-time job to earn some extra income and asked if she wanted to do it, she fervently agreed.
