Hold On Mr.! Your Sweetheart is a Real Queen-Chapter 627: Three years
Coco is not an easy woman to deal with. Even after he agreed that she could be with Edward Stephens, she still caused quite a bit of trouble at the Stephens family home.
Once, she somehow learned how to make bamboo tube rice and ended up cutting down a significant part of his precious purple bamboo forest. When starting the fire, she almost burned down the entire bamboo forest.
He never thought he would have such a lapse in judgment.
He used to think Daisy Ginger was the ultimate troublemaker, but he was surprised to find that the woman Edward found was even dumber than the last.
This woman’s life is tough; if she weren’t so hard to kill, he wouldn’t have been eventually worn down by Edward to agree to such a marriage.
With Coco around, he really couldn’t spare the energy to keep an eye on Daisy and Erin Ginger. He never expected that Daisy would take Erin and run away right under his nose.
Having the Stephens family lineage scattered in the outside world was something he couldn’t allow. He tried his best to bring Erin back, but with Coco in the Stephens family, servants would report every other day that she had caused some new trouble. She ended up leaving him with no time to deal with it.
As time went on, Daisy completely escaped with little Erin.
Being outsmarted by Daisy, his disdain for Coco only grew, yet Edward seemed to have either hit his head in a car accident or had his aesthetic standards gone awry, as he indulged her at every turn, defending her relentlessly, and the whole thing sickened him, though there was little he could do.
He’d seen how reckless Edward could be when he was in love, so he didn’t dare to handle Coco with the dangerous methods he used on Daisy, fearing it might drag Edward into it, making him falter in dealing with Coco’s matters.
Furthermore, his health and spirit were not what they used to be, and gradually, he let go of bringing Erin back.
After all, George Stephens could still inherit the Stephens family.
Although George wasn’t as sensible as Erin, he was a rare genius, and with proper grooming, he could still be the next leader of the Stephens family.
He rarely suffered setbacks, and naturally, he was unhappy about it, but things had come to this, and there was nothing he could do but accept it and resign to fate.
Sometimes, seeing the charred blackness of the bamboo forest at his doorsteps, he couldn’t help but feel a bit of regret—marrying such a stupid and vulgar woman rather than letting Edward be with Daisy. At the very least, with Daisy’s upbringing, she would never do something like setting the bamboo forest on fire at his doorstep.
This regret couldn’t be shared with outsiders, so he could only brood alone, disdaining Edward’s choice in women over the years, each worse than the last.
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For Erin’s eighth birthday, Daisy rented a seaside villa to celebrate it for him.
Maybe it was due to living by the sea all these years, but most of Erin’s oil paintings were blue.
Dark, light, translucent, gentle, and warm blue hues.
Even someone like Daisy, who didn’t understand art, could immediately fall into the emotions depicted in Erin’s paintings without anyone needing to tell her that her son’s artistry had reached a new level through their wandering life over the years.
But due to Robert Stephens searching for them, Erin’s paintings were no longer publicly displayed. Sometimes, when she met someone who liked his paintings, she’d get Erin’s agreement to give them to those predestined people.
At four in the afternoon, Ethan Pond and Zoe Hilker also secretly arrived by helicopter.
With familiar people around, young Erin was noticeably more relaxed, and as Zoe immediately picked him up and studied his ever-more-resembling face to Edward, she couldn’t help but exclaim, "Daisy, Edward’s genes have definitely taken the upper hand here!"
