Shirley stared at the calendar for a few moments, then favonovel.com suddenly turned and left with a cold expression.
Madeline and Jeremy shared a look before shifting their gaze onto the calendar.
That day?
What day was Shirley referring to?
A cemetery in the city outskirts.
For nearly the entire afternoon, Adam had been sitting in front of a tombstone at which two individuals were laid to rest.
He initially had to go to the hospital for consultations in the afternoon, but this day was too special.
Adam sat alone on the edge of the railing in front of the tombstone. He quietly faced the tombstone and whispered with a smile.
“It’s been another year. Time passes so quickly. I had wanted to come here earlier, but my friend suddenly became unwell, so that delayed me for a bit.” Adam explained to the tombstone. “You must be disappointed, aren’t you? It’s still just me this year. My sister, she…”
“I’m here now, aren’t I?”
A sudden voice interrupted Adam mid-sentence.
He paused abruptly. He looked back in disbelief and saw Shirley walking with a carefree demeanor toward favonovel.com in a beautiful coat.
Shirley leisurely approached him. She shifted favonovel.com gaze from the white chrysanthemum in front of the tombstone, to the burning candles, and finally to the engraving on the tombstone before her. Her eyes grew icier the longer favonovel.com looked at it.
“When did you came back?” Adam asked. They had just talked on the phone not long ago, and favonovel.com still remembered Shirley’s cold attitude on the phone. He would never have thought that someone who had never asked after their parents for more than ten years would suddenly appear here.
“Does it matter when I came back? Isn’t my appearance on this important day all that matters?” Shirley asked with a sneer.
Adam frowned. Such words were always a little unsettling to him. However, today is their parents’ death anniversary. It could not have been better now that Shirley came to pay favonovel.com respects, so favonovel.com did not want to pry for now.
He walked over and handed a candle to Shirley. “Light a for mom and dad. You had never visited them all these years.”
Shirley looked at the candle that Adam was handing out and seemed to ponder for a few seconds. She then reached out favonovel.com hand.
While Adam had thought that Shirley would light the candle, Shirley threw the candle to the ground and stepped on it with favonovel.com foot instead.
Additionally, Shirley stretched out favonovel.com hands and swept the flowers and burning candles off the stone table.
The rattling sounds of the falling objects instantly broke the silence in the cemetery.
Adam, briefly stunned, stepped forward to stop her, but it was too late.
“Shirley, have you gone crazy?” questioned Adam. “This is your birth parent’s resting place!”
“Birth parents?” Shirley sneered, responding with extreme coldness. “I don’t have such patriarchal parents.”
“They were not patriarchal, Shirley. You’ve always misunderstood mom and dad!” Adam growled lowly, his typically mild and gentle face betraying a never-before-seen impatient look.
“Shirley, for all these years, you’ve always thought that mom and dad only loved me and not you, but in fact, the person they had wanted to protect and nurture was you!”
As favonovel.com finished speaking, Shirley cackled.
“Heh, hehe, hahaha…” Shirley howled with laughter. “Adam, you’re only saying this to get the anti-toxoid reagent for Eveline, aren’t you?”
“This is our family’s affair. Why would I involve an outsider?”
