Chapter 310
Fire?
While Joe was happily waiting for his son-inw to visit, he suddenly saw billows of smoke rising from
the second floor. Then, Faye and X ran outside anxiously from Faye’s room.
“Dad, the second floor is on fire!”
Joe nced at the second floor. A trail of fire traveled down the staircase.
There was a lot of solid wood furniture at the Edwards’ ancestral home, which had been around for
around 30 years already. On top of that, the hot and humid weather quickened the spread of the fire. In
no time, the fire had spread to the first floor down the staircase. Joe was so shocked that he jumped
out of the couch. “Let’s go! Let’s go now!”
Since most of their belongings were already moved out, there were only a few old magazines and
furniture left—nothing to be missed.
In no time, Joe, Faye, X, and their servants had all run out of the mansion. They stood in the garden,
looking helplessly at the smokeing out of the room.
Suddenly, Joe pped his thighs. “Oh, God. My youngest daughter is still inside!”
They had locked Sophia and her two bodyguards in the room on the third floor! The door and windows
were both tightly shut. How would they be able to escape?
When everyone ran out of the mansion that was on fire just now, they hadpletely forgotten about the
three people in the room.
Everyone raised their head subconsciously to look at the third floor. Smoke had started escaping from
the locked window.
“Save them!” Joe quickly pushed people to save the fire.
She’s my cash cow!
If my son-inw arrives and sees a burnt corpse, there’d be nothing we could do anymore!
What if he res up and vents his anger at me?
A few bodyguards quickly rushed to open the door. However, once they opened the door of the mansion,
fire burst out from within with a whoosh. It burned the bodyguards until they retreated immediately.
“Mr. Edwards, the fire is too strong! We can’t enter!”
“Call the fire brigade to put out the fire!” Joe was so scared that he almost peed his pants.
Everyone anxiously tried to douse the fire with water from the garden. However, it was not enough. The
fire quickly gobbled up the entire mansion. Just like that, the Edwards’ ancestral home was destroyed.
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Standing far away, X was finally relieved after she saw fire breaking outpletely in the room with
locked windows on the third floor.
Sophia, you are not my match!
While everyone in the Edwards Family were frantically trying to douse the fire, nobody noticed that the
car Sophia arrived in had slowly driven away.
Hale had a silenced gun with him, so the locks could not hold them in at all.
Before they entered the mansion, Gemma’s mini-drone had already finished examining the entire
surroundings. Before the fire got out of control, they had already escaped from the backdoor used by the
servants daily, which was connected to the garage.
On the way, they even saved the servant, who had fainted.
Firstly, they drove to the hospital as Sophia wanted to send the servant to the hospital. Before they left,
the servant grabbed Sophia’s hand. “Your mom was a good person, just like you. I really regret bringing
her to the Edwards Family…”
After paying for her medical bills, Sophia went home.
When they reached home, Michael had not returned yet. Recently, he went back to the filming crew to
film some movies, so he would returnte every night.
After Sophia finished her dinner, she sat in the study looking at her mother’s photo album. She flipped
through each photograph in the album again and again.
Every photograph in the album was exquisite, like a modern photoshoot on the streets. Based on
Annabel’s financial situation back then, she shouldn’t have had the money to hire a professional
photographer with high-end equipment to take these photos.
So who took these pictures?
Sophia was suddenly curious about this.
As there were some bugs in the album, Sophia took all the photographs out and wiped them one by one
before putting them into a new album.
Upon seeing that, Nathan asked curiously, “Who is this person?”
Sophia replied, “This is your grandma.”
After she was done with the album, she saw some lightning outside the window once she raised her
head. The skies near here were clear, but it seemed cloudy in Riverdale. asionally, streaks of light
could be seen in the clouds. After a while, thunder grumbled in a low voice from Riverdale’s direction.
Sophia called Hale after she saw that. “Is there a thunderstorm in Riverdale tonight?”
After hanging up the phone, Sophia continued to unpack her mother’s belongings. Apart from the
photographs and notebook, there wasn’t really anything notable. Even so, she kept them away orderly.
When I’m free, I’ll burn all of these in front of her grave.
Finally, she saw the notebook.
After she put the diary on her study, she looked at the poem on the first page. The fountain pen
handwriting was quite nice indeed. It could almost be passed as calligraphy. Subconsciously, Sophia
thought that it was written by a man, and she couldn’t help reading out loud.
“If the generals of the city were present, the barbarians’ horses would never have crossed the
mountains.”
Curious, she opened the first page and saw two lines of fountain pen writings on the paper that had
turned yellow.
‘Day X, Month X, 199X, Sunny. My first deary entry.’
At this point, the writing style suddenly changed. The handwritings looked soft and wriggly, as if it was
written by someone who had not written for a long time. Apart from that, there were spelling errors. It was
completely different from the handwriting on the first page. Obviously, it was written by a different person.
Was this really Annabel’s diary? She was not a cultured person. Why did she suddenly keep a diary?
The misspelled word, ‘deary’, was circled and crossed out by another person with a different handwriting.
Then, the correct word, ‘diary’, was written next to it in a powerful handwriting, followed by a wriggly
handwriting that repeated the corrected word ten times next to it. It looked like a primary student being
punished for making a spelling mistake after being discovered by the teacher.
Sophia looked further down the notebook attentively.
The person who wrote the diary had limited education. There were many misspelled words, and the
grammar was all over the ce. There were only a couple lines of diary entries everyday.
On the second day, it was written in the notebook—‘Coop took some photografs of me today. I’m so
happy.’
The handwriting was still wriggly, as if a primary student had written it. Sophia guessed that the writer
meant to write ‘photographs’ instead. Sure enough, the powerful handwriting appeared and drew arge
cross on the word, ‘photografs’. Then, ‘photographs’ was written in a huge font underneath it in a neat
and tidy way.
Sophia flipped back to the first page topare the handwritings. They were very simr, so it was
probably written by the same person.
Next to the gracefully handwritten ‘photograph’, the same word was written again in wriggly handwriting.
Even though the handwriting was not very neat, every alphabet was written seriously.
Sophia’s interest was piqued. She looked through a few pages again—the person with the wriggly
handwriting wrote a few more diary entries, but the content was quite simple.
‘The business of the restaurant is very good today. I’m so tried. But Coop came to eat here. I’m happy.’
‘Went to take some pictures with Coop at a gardin in South Bayside.’
‘Coop said that I’m the most biutiful woman on earth.’
‘Coop got his second docterate.’
Everytime she made a spelling mistake, the powerful handwriting would appear and cross it out. Apart
from that, he even singled out the punctuation errors and wrote the corrected version. Then, the person
with the wriggly handwriting could be seen correcting the mistakes ten times, and she even tried her best
to imitate the powerful handwriting.
Sophia seemed to understand that this was indeed her mother’s notebook, and that she didn’t have the
habit of keeping a diary. This might be something Coop had asked her to do.
After reading through a few pages, Sophia could vaguely guess what had happened. When Annabel was
working as a waitress in a restaurant, Coop was probably one of the customers. They met and fell in love
there, and the photographs of her were taken by Coop.
Before she dated Joe, Annabel actually had another boyfriend!