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Chapter 154
Eileen wiped her face with the back of her hand, then bent down to start packing up the stuff in front of
the tombstone.
Egbert looked at the gifts in front of the grave.
The usually frugal girl had bought a lot of stuff today for her grandparents.
Suddenly, Egbert grabbed her hand and whispered, “Hold on.”
Eileen looked at him, puzzled.
Egbert bowed deeply in front of Eileen’s grandparents’ tombstone.
Then he began to help Eileen pack up.
When they left, they both wore masks.
Eileen had originally come alone and planned to take the bus to the martyr’s tomb.
But now Egbert was here, and she could hitch a ride for free. Eileen was quite pleased
On the car, Eileen asked Egbert, “Did you come specifically to find me?”
“Yes.” Egbert answered, then asked, “Why can’t I reach your phone?”
Eileen felt heartbroken when she mentioned this. She said painfully, “My phone is broken, and it’s the
kind of broken that can’t be fixed…”
Egbert glanced at her without saying a word, only sending a message at the traffic light.
Soon, they arrived at the martyr’s tomb..
Egbert bowed to Eileen’s adoptive father in front of his tomb.
Eileen thought Egbert was a really good person.
She introduced him to her father, “Dad, his name is Egbert. He just got dumped by his fiancée. Bless
him to find true love soon. Let him be with his loved one forever.”
Egbert was about to leave the tombstone. Upon hearing this, he stood up straight and began to bow
again.
Eileen laughed and joked, “Are you that desperate to be with a woman?”
Egbert didn’t say anything, just glanced at her.
Eileen also started to bow, she said to the tombstone, “Dad, bless me too, bless me to become a rich
person, and to make lots of money every day!”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtEgbert watched her silently.
When they left the martyr’s tomb, it was already an hour later.
When Eileen was at Eternal Rest Gardens before, she felt very sad when she saw her grandparents’
tombstones alone. But now that she came to the martyr’s tomb with Egbert, she didn’t seem so sad.
Eileen was very grateful to Egbert.
When picking up the car, Eileen suddenly saw a person standing next to their car.
It was Egbert’s assistant.
After getting in the car, Egbert’s assistant drove, and Egbert and Eileen sat in the back
Eileen curiously asked, “Why are you here?”
Egbert’s assistant handed over an unopened phone box from the front seat and said, “Mr. Reed asked
me to buy a phone and deliver it over.”
Eileen looked at the phone, and her eyes lit up.
She tightly grabbed Egbert’s sleeve and pleaded, “Are you planning to change your phone? Do you still
need your old one? If you don’t need it, could you sell it to me with a discount? Please sell it to me!”
Egbert was taken aback.
He was silent for a while, looking at her pitiful appearance, pondered for a while, then said, “Okay.”
Mr. Reed’s assistant in the front seat was stunned to hear this.
Didn’t Mr. Reed tell him that this new phone was bought for Eileen? How did it turn into selling her his
old phone?
Eileen was very happy!
But at the same time, she asked cautiously, “How much are you going to sell it for? I’ve used your
phone, it’s not worth much, I can only give up to two hundred dollars. no, a hundred dollars!”
Egbert looked at her and said, “I can give it to you for free.”
Eileen asked in shock, “Really?”
Egbert took out his own phone, then turned on the new phone.
He changed the SIM card, then transferred all the data from the old phone into the new one with one
click.
He handed the old phone to Eileen.
Eileen couldn’t wait to hold the black, almost brand new phone, she felt super happy!
After she reset it to factory settings, she found that both the lock screen and wallpaper were pictures of
Egbert.
She wanted to change it, but she couldn’t. She asked in confusion, “Why is that?”
The assistant in the front said, “Eileen, this phone is a custom signed phone that the distributor gave to
Mr. Reed, the only one in the world. Not only is the wallpaper locked with Mr. Reed’s photo, but there’s
also Mr. Reed’s signature on the back of the phone.”
Eileen glanced at it, and sure enough, there was a signature on the back.
She didn’t reall
care, saying, “Okay, let it be.”
Anyway, she didn’t care about the wallpaper, she used to use the system’s built-in wallpaper. Using
Egbert’s photo as a wallpaper was fine, a lot of people use celebrity photos as wallpapers.
Egbert looked at her happily holding the phone in her hand and smiled.
After a while, the car arrived downstairs at Eileen’s house.
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When Eileen got off the car, she felt that Egbert had given her such a big gift, so she politely promised,
“I’ll treat you to a meal next time!”
Egbert looked at her at this time. He thought for a moment, then said, “Okay.”
Ten minutes later.
Eileen stood at the door of her small apartment, feeling very confused. She talked and looked at the
man who was following closely behind her.
“Um…” she tried to ask again, “Are you really not going home? Today is Christmas Eve.”
Egbert raised an eyebrow, Don’t you want to treat me to dinner?”
Eileen quickly said, “That’s not what I meant…”
In the end, Eileen had to open the door and invite Egbert in.
The small apartment was tiny, this was Egbert’s first time at Eileen’s house.
The room was very clean, well-arranged, refreshing, and doll-free.
It was different from the usual girl’s room.
As soon as Egbert entered, he saw the pyramid clock and the owl clock on the cabinet.
A smile appeared on his face again.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmWhile Eileen was cutting vegetables in the kitchen, Egbert made a call to his dad in the living room.
After talking for a while, his mom’s voice came from the other end, “Okay, Egbert, stay with Eileen for
the holiday. She went to the cemetery today, she must be very upset. Don’t let her spend the holiday
alone, stay with her.”
Then Albert’s voice chimed in again, “Tell them to come home for the holidays…”
“They
I come back, the two of them are just right together, you know nothing! Egbert, don’t listen to your dad,
that’s it, I’m hanging up.”
With that, she hung up the phone.
Egbert put down the phone, couldn’t help but look up towards the kitchen.
After a moment, he got up and walked into the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Eileen was chopping vegetables while on the phone.
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Her black phone was wedged between her shoulder and cheek. She was bragging to the person on the
other end, “Of course it’s a new phone, I spent the thousand dollars you gave me. Yes, it’s a new
phone, a really expensive one, with great quality.
She was mid-sentence when she noticed Egbert coming in. She froze, not daring to say anything else.
Egbert glanced at her casually without calling her out on her lie.
He just walked over to her, picked up the phone, placed it to her ear and whispered, “Go on.”
Eileen weakly explained, “It’s Ophelia, she was nagging me to buy a phone…”
“Got it,” Egbert said softly, “I didn’t say anything.”
Eileen didn’t dare to speak again.
Egbert then asked, “What are you cooking? Do you need help?”
Eileen thought for a moment and said, “Well, you can help wash the vegetables.”
“Alright,” Egbert said, then reminded her, “Your phone.”
Only then did Eileen remember that she hadn’t hung up the phone. She said into the phone, “Ophelia,
are you still there?”
After a while, a weak voice came from the other end of the phone, “I’m not, I’m dead.”
The second after Ophelia finished talking, she hung up the phone.
Eileen looked at Egbert innocently, but didn’t say a word.
Egbert didn’t say anything either, just put his phone away.
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