Rebirth- Daphne’s Revenge

Chapter8-Meeting Edmund

September wind blew slowly, with the late summer heat and a cool autumn. Daphne reached out and rolled up the window. Turning her head sideways, John, who was driving, noticed her eyes and turned to smile warmly at her. There was no disappointment or heartache in his elegant smile.

After Daphne had just announced that she was well again, John came to her to take her out for a walk. John was a playmate who grew up with them, but John was lively and playful, he has the best relationship with her brother. As children, they often bullied Daphne, who was very angry. After growing up, they loved Daphne very much. Daphne had always treated John like a brother, but who knew that Griselda's presence not only captured Edmund's love, but also made John crazy about her.

Daphne pursed her lips and looked away, feeling some resentment towards the guy she regarded as her closest friend. He was a playmate who loved her and protected her all his life. After falling in love with Griselda, all he could see was her hostility to Griselda. He completely forgot the friendship between them. He just kept asking her to let go of her prejudice against Griselda and learn humility.

In the end, though, when Edmund conjoined to beat Whites to keep her from turning around, John didn't help him beat Whites, but his neutrality completely frustrated her.

Daphne has a bad mood when she thought about her past life. She curled up her mouth in a self-deprecating smile, her dark eyes reflected in the window, as if she had lost all color, far less vivacious than she should have been at her age.

John, who was about to tell Daphne that they would arrive at the destination, caught a glimpse of his reflection on the window and looked startled, almost subconsciously stepping on the brake. "Daphne, what's wrong with you?”

Had it not been for the lingering irony in the reflection, John would have thought it was his own delusion. Otherwise, how could his usually proud Daphne show such a look as if she had experienced a great disaster?

His eager tone suggested his concern, while Daphne, feeling somewhat irritated, silently shook her head, lifting her hands to gather the strands of hair that had drifted to her eyelids. Seeing this, John thought a little, sighed a little and said, "are you still thinking about your grandpa?"

Daphne kept silent, which John took as the default, and all his previous worries turned into a sigh. As far as he was concerned, Daphne was always coddled by Mr. White and Mrs. Because she was the only girl in the family, she was the only pearl on their eyes. Because she was born prematurely, her health was not good when she was a child. She often caught a cold and had a fever, which made the family feel very distressed and spoiled her. To date, Whites have always tried to satisfy what she as a lady wanted.

On the contrary, her grandfather, who had been abroad to take care of himself, rarely got along with Daphne, and Clement often did visit to him. After all, Mr. White and Mrs. White have to take care of both the company and the family. As an idle person, he had to be a representative to visit grandpa from time to time.

After a long separation, Daphne and grandpa were not in a good relationship, even if they had some difficulties. This time, when grandpa returned to China, Mr. White feared that the relationship between grandpa and grandson was getting weaker and weaker. In an unusual way, he ignored Daphne's will and asked her to move to another province with her father. When John heard about it, he was afraid that her family would be annoyed by the lady's temper. Even grandpa, Daphne might have taken it on.

"Grandpa… they do it for your own good, too, you... "

"I know.”

She also knew that because of her bad temper, John had to ask Edmund to persuade her, so she went to another province with her grandfather despite her reluctance. Then, she met Griselda, who let her taste what is failure, what is betrayal, what is not, what is regret... The woman.

John took a long look at her and finally stepped on the gas. Soon, the car stopped near a private restaurant.

After stepping out of the car, Daphne followed John to the private restaurant. When they entered the lobby, the clerk at the front desk came forward with sharp eyes and showed them to the backyard with a smile.

Into the backyard, elegant layout was not like a restaurant, but they were like into a small courtyard south of the Yangtze river. Daphne, ignoring the beauty of the courtyard and taking her eyes off the floor, arrived with John in the restaurant's VIP wing.

At the door of the wing, the person heard footsteps outside the corridor, and a pair of slender hands pushed the sliding door open gently. A tall figure appeared from behind the door. Seeing Daphne and John approaching, his handsome face raised a faint smile, like the moonlight in the night, which moistened the hearts of the group.

Daphne narrowed her eyes slightly. Even if the man in front of her didn't say anything, and he just picked a little bit of a smile on his eyebrows, which could make her feel like spring breeze. How could she not be attracted to a man who brought tenderness into his bones when she was only in touch with those who treated her as a child's pet?

And in the face of this man, even if he just used that pair of clear black eyes looking at her, there would be a kind of spoil, as if he would put the whole world in his hands to you in front of. When she was young, she could not escape the temptation, but she did not know the eyes of the other side had never exist a trace of love, all the tenderness was a mirror. Therefore, after discovering the man's affair with Griselda, she only thought about Griselda's fault and hated her.

"A few days later, our young lady didn't know me?" Edmund felt a slight surprise as he saw Daphne not pester him as she had been before. But he kept smiling.