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A moment later, Adeline was sitting in a chair in the corner of the playground, holding hands with the principal.
“Aline, are you really not going that day?”
The principal’s words were filled with regret as she had watched Aline grow up with her own hands and knew how much sweat and tears she had put in to get out of the mountains.
Now she has finally come out of the mountains, now she has come back to this school again, and even registered her household registration. If she wants to go out again, it will be much harder.
So when the principal learned that the Bernard Group was sending someone to inspect the school, she was very excited. Even when choosing teachers to accompany the visitors around the school, she immediately thought of Adeline.
Adeline was so outstanding that if she was praised by the person being inspected later, she might also be noticed by the leaders above, and could be transferred to other better schools in the future, and could also have her household registration transferred out again.
She was still so young, she shouldn’t have wasted her youth in this small village.
Principal’s kindness Adeline understood, but she wouldn’t go out.
She still refused the principal with those words, saying that her heart only wanted to stay here, and this was where she grew up, she would not despise this place.
Not to mention, “I didn’t want to see him again.”
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This was the fundamental reason Adeline did not want to go, she did not want to see the person who had deceived and hurt her time and time again for Steffie.
Not seeing each other was the final outcome between them.
The principal sighed deeply, his eyes full of regret, but in the end, he chose to respect her thoughts.
Just as the principal was about to leave, Adeline suddenly called out to him, “Could you please cover for me when the time comes?”
If it was really Hugo who came by then, or if I really saw her, then it would be troublesome.
The principal did not look back, just waved his hand and said, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”
A few days later, the convoy sent by the Bernard Group appeared on the winding mountain road. Before they entered the mountains, Adeline and Wendy had already taken a car to the neighboring town in the next mountain to purchase necessities.
In the back seat of a car in the distant convoy, Hugo looked at the winding mountains that seemed to have no end in sight, his eyes filled with complex emotions.
Is this the place where Adeline used to live?
A few days ago, while Hugo was on the phone instructing someone to intensify the search for Adeline’s whereabouts, his assistant knocked on the door and handed Hugo the funding inspection project for this quarter from the Bernard Charitable Foundation.
Among the many projects, Hugo immediately noticed the school nestled in the deep mountains.
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The Bernard Group mostly funded environmental protection and medical care for the poor, rarely providing support to schools. After all, there are already too many people in this circle who are willing to support schools, and the Bernard Group is not lacking in this regard.
It would be better to use this money for other charitable causes that need
it more.
Just as Hugo was about to scratch off this project, he suddenly
remembered something and asked his assistant Adeline for her hometown address.
The assistant first mentioned an orphanage where Adeline had briefly stayed in the past, but seeing Hugo remain silent, quickly changed course and spoke about the school Adeline had attended as a child, which was the very same school mentioned in the project book.
Hugo immediately forgot about everything else and asked his assistant to contact the principal of the school to arrange for a visit and discuss the details of the investment.
Hugo did this because he wanted to ask the principal about Adeline’s whereabouts.
Before, Hugo always thought that Adeline was an orphan with no relatives or friends, so he never considered looking for her in that aspect.
Now Hugo knows that Adeline still has close people around her, maybe they know her whereabouts.
After all, she was so emotional that it was impossible for her not to keep in touch with these people.
A week later, Hugo’s convoy appeared here.
After several hours of bumping along, Hugo and his companions finally arrived at the school where Adeline had stayed.
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Hugo bent down and got out of the car, looking up at the newly renovated school in front of him. Even though the school had undergone a major transformation, he could still see the old, dilapidated appearance beneath the new facade.
Adeline stayed in such a harsh environment for more than ten years.
In an instant, a hint of heartache appeared in Hugo’s eyes.
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