Chapter 4 A New Beginning
Story: Reborn to Revenge Author:Liu Qi Qi words:7558 Update time:2019-11-12 08:00:06
The Zhang Residence was located on the hillside of a mountain. It was a manor that covered a vast area.
On the way back home, Hailey was staring outside the window of the car all the time. She felt her eyes began to form tears again. In the past life, this old manor with a long history was occupied by that bastard after she killed Edward.
She was the killer who killed Edward! She was the accomplice which contributed to the bankruptcy of the Zhang Family! There was not one second she did not blame herself after she realized that man’s evil intentions.
When the car was running on the broad road with big trees on both sides, the sunshine cast a shadow of man, who was sitting next to her, on the window at her side. Hailey could not help reaching out her hand to touch the shadow. She felt the coldness from the glass. Yet, it made her feel warm in her heart.
She turned her head around. The man seemed to feel her strange behavior. So he looked to her. Hailey smiled at him brightly and made a promise secretly. Now that God has brought her back, she would protect everything here along with Edward! She would never trust those evil people and would love Edward for the rest of her life!
This time, she would never hurt her family to amuse her enemies, she would never be selfish and arrogant, and she would never break his heart. She would make up for Edward for all those terrible things she had done to him in the past life. She would pay him back to thank him for being tolerant of her. Edward was the only one she could consider being her family in the world.
Edward, on the other hand, looked at her bright smile for a few moments. He did not utter a word. Then, he turned around and said to Jack who was sitting in the front, “Call Doctor Lin here when we arrive home.”
Hailey felt her heart tightened at once. “Edward, what’s wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?” she asked with a concerned voice immediately.
This was the second time she called him Edward today.
Edward looked at her with concerned eyes. “I will have him checkup you. I think you are acting very strange.”
Hailey was speechless as she twisted the corners of her mouth. She tried to say something to refute back. But eventually, she held the urge to talk back and did not say anything.
“So, tell me. What happened to you?” Edward let out a sighed before he spoke again. She was acting very weirdly. In the office, she hugged him and cried like a baby. Later in the car, she smiled brightly at him. Now, she did not refute back! That was totally abnormal! If Edward did not witness all of those, he would have thought this Hailey in front of him was a disguised by some other girl!
“What? I… I’m good! Everything goes well,” Hailey replied. She was aware that he must be feeling extremely suspicious when she treated him nice. In her past life, she would not even sit beside him at that time and she would definitely quarrel with him on everything.
Hailey chose to not tell him what happened to her. How could she explain? Telling him that she was not the Hailey nowadays but the Hailey who killed him in the past life? Telling him that she was reborn? No, that was not going to work at all. If she really told him everything, she was one hundred percent sure that he would call many psychiatrists to examine her!
Edward did not say anything further. He just stared at her. Hailey also looked back into his eyes, trying hard to conceal her true feelings. “Hey, Edward, here is something I’d like to discuss with you,” she said.
The third time!
Edward could not hold his curiosity and asked, “Why do you call me Edward?”
Hailey was dumbfounded at this question. Immediately, she remembered that she rarely called him Edward at this time in the past life. She would only call him a tyrant or a murderer. But a few years later, she began to call him Edward on purpose in order to get some benefits from Edward as instructed by that malicious man.
The more she thought about that memory, the more guilty she felt. Taking a deep breath secretly, Hailey forced out a smile and said, “Your name is Edward, isn’t it? If I don’t call you Edward, what should I address you? Uncle? Do you prefer that?”
Edward locked his eyes on her face, trying to detect any change of her facial expression. But he failed. He tapped his fingers on his knees and said, “What would you like to discuss?”
“So, here is the thing. As you may know, I am having a really bad relationship with other students in that school. So I am wondering if I can transfer to another school? I want to start again from the beginning,” Hailey said. There was a hint of unnoticeable cunning expression in her eyes. In a few months, the No. 1 High School would be trapped in a sex scandal that went rival on the Internet. Almost all the students would suffer from a bad reputation by being a member of that school. Hailey did not want to be considered to be a freak by other people anymore. So she thought it would be the best for her to stay away from that school as early as possible.
“That’s not a problem. I will arrange everything. You don’t need to go to that school anymore,” Edward said as he nodded his head.
“Thank you, Edward.” Hailey sighed in relief before she smiled happily again.
The car stopped in front of the gate of the main building steadily. The moment Hailey got off, the servants who were waiting at the door bowed to her and Edward in a respectful manner.
“Welcome home, Mr. Zhang, Miss Hailey,” they greeted.
Looking at those familiar people, Hailey had a lump in her throat. She felt all this too good to be true. It had been a lifetime since she saw them last time.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up when she saw someone. She walked towards the old steward quickly and greeted, “Hello, Louis, it’s been a long time! Is everything all right with you?”
“Yes, everything is all right here. Thank you for asking,” Louis replied. He was surprised to see her greet him like that. But he did not show any surprise on his face. Louis just made a slight bow decently. He seemed to be very distant when faced with Hailey. It was not difficult to tell that he did not like her that much.
Hailey understood why he reacted like that. She smiled bitterly in her heart. She knew Louis did not like her, and also knew it was her who caused him to dislike her.
Her father was Edward’s bodyguard and diver. He had worked for Edward or almost twenty years. Three months ago, someone tried to kidnap Edward. Her father died in order to protect him. Later, Edward adopted her, making her the darkling daughter of the Zhang Family. However, Hailey did not feel grateful. She insisted that if it were not for Edward, her father would not have died. So she considered Edward to be her enemy. She hated him so much. As a result, she hated everything and everyone that were connected with Edward, including everyone working in the Zhang Residence.
Before she moved to the dormitory of the school, she had been living here for about three months. But she had been behaving so terribly that no one liked her. Once she even overheard the servants say that what they hated the most was Hailey staying here, and that they would even feel difficult to breathe when she was home.
Hailey breathed out and decided not to think about those unhappy memories anymore. She still had the chance to treat them nice, didn’t she?
She had already made up her mind that, in this life, she would not take everything Edward gave her for granted, she would not consider herself to be the true darling daughter of this family, and she would not be arrogant and resentful! She wanted to be a member of this family, a real member with all her heart!
Hailey’s room was on the second floor. It occupied one-third of the whole second floor. And it was beautifully and sumptuously decorated.
Standing by the door, she looked at those familiar things in her room with greedy eyes. When she felt the familiar smell, she felt peace of mind. She was home! Her sweat home!
After taking a comfortable bath, she went to the study as she wiped her hair with a dry towel. She then turned on the computer and opened a word file. She was going to write down all the important things happening in the next ten years in her past life. She knew she was not a smart girl and sometimes, she could become really stupid. Otherwise, she would not have bitten off her own head in her last life. Now that God had offered her another chance to re-live her life with all the memories, why wouldn’t she grapes this chance? It would be a big waste if she did not use her ability to be a prophet.
Hailey began to recall what happened in the next ten years. Meanwhile, she typed everything she could remember in the file.
In the study on the third floor, Edward, furrowing his eyebrows, was listening carefully to the man in front of him. That young man was handsome and gentle.
“You just said she suddenly burst into laughter or tears and had emotional upheaval. This is part of an emotional abnormality. And an emotional abnormality is the early symptom of schizophrenia,” the man said.
Edward furrowed deeper. He reached out his hand and rubbed in between his eyebrows. He felt the situation very troublesome.
“You mean, Hailey probably is suffering from schizophrenia?” he asked.