Doted by Many: I became the Top-Tier Celebrity!-Chapter 525 - 520: His Gift (4)

This is an old notebook, and you can tell that the paper was the best you could get in 95.

Even after twenty years have passed, these pages are still very clean, with hardly any flaws; the corners of the paper are also very smooth, which shows that he has taken care to preserve it. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

She flipped through it again, paying attention to the writing on it.

Twenty years ago, he was only a few years old, yet his handwriting was very neat, indicating the care he took with each word he wrote.

The further you go, the more mature his handwriting becomes, reflecting the significant changes in his age and mindset until it settled between the years 11 and 15, with a style that was as simple and clean as the man himself and filled with grandeur.

She has just been reborn in this era and hasn’t had time to learn about the history of the twenty-first century, nor about the events that have occurred in her first twenty years.

These are what her fourth brother recorded and gave to her as a gift.

This gift is so wonderful that it feels like a thousand pounds in her eyes, a priceless treasure on her heart, more real and sincere than any gold or silver.

She is grateful to have come to this great country.

Aiden Shaw saw her silently looking at the already blank page: "These are just the most profound events for me over the past twenty years, and there’s more, which I’ve written down."

She placed the notebook on her chest and looked up at him, her pair of beautiful fox-like eyes lacking the previous slyness and charm, looking as clear as a lake, pressing her lips, she sincerely said: "I really like it, thank you, my fourth brother..."

"Mm."

She thought he would say some sentimental words about the reunion between siblings, yet he didn’t say a word, only that clear and uncomplicated sound.

But only after seeing these things, looking at the photos he recorded, the newspapers that were prevalent at the time, carefully pasted on that page of the notebook, did she realize how thoughtful he had been in doing these things.

Her nose suddenly felt sour.

One affair, a person undertaking it for twenty years.

He did these things all for the sister who may never return; she suddenly felt as if her chest was hit by a punch, somewhat painful.

She came back too late...

Luckily, she came back.

She took a deep breath, looked up at him, where in his daily life the young fox was accustomed to charming, only respect was left: "Fourth brother, twenty years ago, why did you suddenly think of doing these things?"

Back then, he was only a few years old, yet did he already have such deep thoughts?

Aiden Shaw looked at the notebook in her hands, the one their mother bought for him to use for studying.

Initially, he didn’t intend to give his sister a gift.

That was something that happened at the end of 95.

As a child, he suffered from sleepwalking and walked to the door of his parents’ bedroom, awakened by the sound of their crying inside.

He intended to go in to comfort their mother but inadvertently heard a secret.

Their father told their mother that their sister couldn’t be found; a baby’s corpse was verified, and DNA confirmed that she was indeed the sister who had been taken away.

Their father confirmed with the police that the sister had already died.

At that time, he was too young to understand what death means, but he could comprehend one thing: their father’s implication that the sister would never come back and had gone to another world.

Their mother cried for a long time, still unwilling to accept this fact.

Afterward, she asked their father to keep it a secret, forbidding him to tell the children, wanting the children to believe in the next ten, twenty, even one hundred years that their sister was still alive, holding onto this belief so the Ford family members wouldn’t forget their daughter.

So the fact that the sister had died, none of the other brothers knew, only he knew.

At that time, he thought, if the sister went to another world, then surely she wouldn’t see everything happening in this world.

He wanted to record all these things and show them to her if there was an opportunity in the future.

When he grew up, he understood what death meant.

He wanted to record it for a lifetime and bring it into the crematorium on the day of his passing, burning it together, and then to another place, to show his sister all the falling blooms in the world he once lived in.

Tiana Thorne saw him silent, not speaking, feeling somewhat anxious, she asked again: "Fourth brother, say something, I really want to know."

Aiden Shaw’s thoughts turned back, watching her, then in a clear voice he quietly spoke: "Dad and mom thought you passed away; your other brothers only thought you were abducted, while I knew the truth, so recorded all of these. Now that you’re back, this notebook is a gift for you, the next eighty years are to be recorded by you."

"Passed away..."

Tiana Thorne seized upon the key point of that sentence.

Why would mom and dad think she had already passed away?

Could it be, did they identify a corpse?

Upon thinking, Tiana only felt this conspiracy growing larger, there must be someone behind planning all this, making mom and dad firmly believe she was already dead; is that why they haven’t been searching for her all these years?

So, all these years, only the fourth brother knew she "died."

And the few older brothers didn’t know; hence, they never stopped searching because they held onto this belief for so many years, so when finding her, they would spoil her to the heavens.

No wonder her brothers would search endlessly, yet couldn’t find her...

How could anyone find a person who’s already believed to be dead?

"When the brothers were looking, if mom and dad were secretly stopping them, is that why they also didn’t investigate the truth of my ’death?’"

Aiden Shaw nodded: "Mom would rather you vanish without a trace, than be a dead person in our minds."

Tiana Thorne smiled.

This smile made her eyes somewhat damp.

Dad and mom certainly wouldn’t want their sons to know this cruel truth; therefore, during their search, there must be interference, ensuring that no matter the direction they sought, it would all be in vain.

It turns out to be like this...

It turns out that things are actually like this...

Tiana Thorne softly leaned back on the sofa; she had always wondered how a family with the Ford’s power couldn’t find her.

But it turns out, her brothers were always the ones searching, while dad and mom were stopping them.

At this rate, they wouldn’t find her even if given a hundred years.

The person behind orchestrating all this is truly insidious, utterly detestable.

After a while, she said: "Fourth brother, thank you for telling me all this."

Though she had always known that her parents must have had their difficulties in not searching for her, but even so, there was still some resentment in her heart.

Now she understands the truth, only feeling that her parents were pitiable people...

They always held her in the most important place in their hearts, never forgot for a moment.

Let her live well in the hearts of these brothers; let her live in the hearts of her parents; it turns out the Ford family’s everyone loves her so much.

"And thank you for your gift..."

Filled the floating heart that drifted for twenty years.

Thinking of this, she smiled again: "How can you be sure I can live for eighty years?"

Aiden Shaw: "Open a gift box."

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