Chapter 25
Eric held up a champagne C
glass and gestured towards the camera, with the sunrise of Paris rising slowly outside the floor–to–ceiling windows behind him.
The sunlight on her wedding dress was just like out of a dream.
After returning from their honeymoon, Elie went back to her hometown alone.
The phoenix trees in the old house are taller than I remember, with height marks from my childhood still carved on the bark.
She squatted at the base of the tree, using a shovel to dig into the soft soil, revealing a rusty biscuit tin that had long been buried.
In the box lay a yellowed diary, the first page filled with the faded name “Eric” in highlighter.
She flipped to a certain page in the middle.
Today when I was helping him organize the files, I found out that he also liked to eat peppermints. I secretly put two packs in his drawer, hoping he wouldn’t think it was Clara who put them there…
The ink was blurred by water stains, I don’t know if it was rainwater or tears from that year.
“Mom helped you bury it. Alanna stood behind her at some point, holding freshly picked sunflowers in her hands. “The year you graduated from college, you cried and said you didn’t want it anymore.”
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Elie ran his fingers over the curled edge of the paper and suddenly noticed fresh handwriting on the last page.
Sorry it took me ten years to see this.
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The handwriting was clear through the paper, but the strokes were a bit shaky, just like the ones on the wedding card.
The wind passed through the trees, rustling like the sound of flipping through books in the library when I was young.
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Elie put the diary back into the iron box, along with the badge from her time working at the Lawrence Group, and buried it in the ground again.
“It’s all in the past,” she said softly, unsure if she was speaking to her mother, the plane tree, or the girl who had once buried her secrets here.
That evening, the financial channel replayed Eric’s interview.
The journalist asked, “Is the ‘old friend‘ you mentioned related to the foundation’s name? We saw in the registration documents that it is called
the Elie Plan…
The man in the camera lowered his head to adjust his cufflinks, which were engraved with delicate patterns on platinum.
“It’s just a coincidence, he said as he looked up, noticing Elie’s breath catch outside the screen.”
Those eyes that once made her tremble, now brimming with complex emotions she couldn’t understand, “I wish all those who have been hurt
can wait for the sunrise.”
Javon wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on the top of her head. “Should we auction off the necklace the foundation received? The children in the mountainous areas.
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“Okay. Elie turned off the TV and turned around to hug him tightly.”
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Outside the window, in their wedding house garden, the newly planted sunflowers were swaying in the moonlight.
I thought that those indelible memories and pains would eventually be gradually forgotten as time passed.
She finally broke free from all the shackles on her body and started to move forward slowly.
Now the loved one is by my side, the career is also thriving, and my mother has decided to come abroad next month to live with them.
These wonderful days were what she had always wanted to pursue.
From then on, she cherished everything around her and lived the rest her life filled with love.
The end.
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