After saying that, Henry got up and dragged Amy out with him. Meanwhile, Olivia sat on the chair motionlessly. Eugene watched her without saying anything. Imitating her behavior, he pulled her head into his embrace. “I learned this from our son. He claims that this is how I should hug my girlfriend.” She had been feeling sad earlier, but she laughed at his words. “I really have no family to return to anymore.”
He stroked her hair gently and coaxed her, “Who said that? My family is your family. Besides, the Maxwell Family is also your family. You can head back anytime you want. Can you sever all ties with him just because he is not your biological father? Of course not. The only difference is that you might get another family. You will never lose your family.”
Olivia hugged him and spoke in a calm voice, “It’s just a change between being a biological child and a non-biological child. All of a sudden, I no longer feel any hatred or resentment toward my father. It’s just… I can’t help feeling awkward. In the past, I refused to return home because I was resentful toward him and blamed him, but I discovered today that I don’t even have the right to resent him.” While speaking, her tears filled her eyes once more. “I even feel as though I’ve been extremely unfilial!”
Eugene lovingly coaxed her again, “That’s not how the relationship between a child and their parents work. It doesn’t matter who gives or who takes. Obtaining happiness is the same for everybody. Your parents loved you like their own biological daughter and you reciprocated the same affection for them that you would have had for your biological parents.
That’s enough. On the contrary, it will be unfair if you treat them courteously instead. Just like now, your real emotions have suddenly become some form of gratitude and compensation. That is true unfilial behavior. If your father fell ill one day or was bullied by others, would you just stand by and watch without doing anything? Of course not! Can the adoption certificate really change anything? It doesn’t change anything. You just need to continue being yourself.”
She looked at him with tears in her eyes. “Can I really do that?” “Of course!” he said. ‘Alright. Let’s not go out for dinner. I’ll whip up something delicious for you myself.”
“Okay.” She nodded. When North saw that she was in a better mood, he piped up, “I want to eat spicy crayfish!”
The three of them then returned home where Eugene personally cooked their meal. On the other hand, Olivia brought the necklace to Jewel’s home as she could not be certain anymore. Is there a problem with my memory? Or, is there a problem with my judgment? Otherwise, how can there be two identical necklaces?
As soon as she entered the house, she was hit by the smell of alternative medicine. “Are you making medicine?”
Jewel nodded and happily pulled Olivia into the room before she used her phone to type out the words, ‘Didn’t you head to the Nolan Group?” Olivia sat down and responded. “I just returned. How are you feeling?”
Jewel typed. ‘Not bad, but the medicine is too bitter. At that, Olivia laughed. “Bear with it. Good medicine is always bitter. Once you finish the entire course of medicine, we will stop for a week to observe your condition.”
It was something that Jewel nodded in response to. Afterward, Olivia took out the necklace from her pocket and handed it to Jewel. “Look at this. Do you remember this?”
Then, Jewel took a look. She immediately turned to look at Olivia in astonishment and anxiously gestured in sign language. After gesturing for some time, she recalled that Olivia could not fully understand sign language. Thus, she hurriedly picked up her phone and typed. ‘Isn’t this the princess of Eurasia’s necklace? Did you take the necklace out of the Double Dragon Court?’
Olivia looked at Jewel. “Do you think so too?” A suspicious Jewel looked at Olivia, not quite understanding what Olivia meant. She typed, ‘What do you mean? Isn’t this the necklace we stole back then?”
Olivia took a deep breath before revealing, “No, this necklace already existed 27 years ago.”
