Chapter 146: Chapter 146
Emma Bennett asked along her words, "What happened afterwards?"
"Later, by coincidence, I met my husband."
"Are you saying... your first love was also him?"
"Yes." Lucy Eaton couldn’t help but laugh when she mentioned it, "Originally he asked me to be his girlfriend, I didn’t agree, so he proposed marriage instead."
"And then you agreed?"
"Of course not, I only agreed after considering it for a while."
"If you really like someone, it seems you could give an answer without needing to think about it."
"I never thought about having a future with him. To me, he was someone I could admire but never reach."
Emma Bennett unexpectedly detected a hint of admiration in her words, "You look up to him?"
"Not exactly, because love itself places two people in a position of facing each other. If it involves looking up, then the relationship is unequal. When I say he’s unattainable, I mean from the first time I saw him, I placed him in a position where I could only see but couldn’t get close."
"Because I felt he couldn’t possibly fall in love with me."
Emma Bennett laughed, "Lacking confidence ? That’s not like the you I know."
"Only when you care about someone do you determine in your heart whether they will love you or not, it’s just that..." She went to the coffee table, poured a glass of water, and drank as she said, "I didn’t expect I’d miscalculated."
This applied to herself, to Jacob Green, for both of them.
"You didn’t expect him to fall in love with you."
"I didn’t expect it. Do you want some water?"
"No need, I’m not thirsty."
Lucy Eaton put down the glass, returned to the computer desk, and sat down again.
The topic naturally ended between them.
Emma Bennett’s mind was turbulent like a raging wave, unable to calm down for a long time.
As expected, it started raining after eight o’clock in the evening.
In a foreign place, and also in a crisis-ridden foreign country, Lucy Eaton found it hard to sleep.
Lying on the sofa with her eyes open.
It wasn’t until around eleven that she felt sleepy.
Surprisingly, she had a peaceful night’s sleep until morning.
When she woke up, it was raining even harder outside.
While having breakfast, Theodore Fenn came in to report, "The medical professor who had an appointment scheduled long ago is already waiting."
"Understood, we’ll head over after breakfast." Emma Bennett instructed, "Arrange the car first."
"Yes, Your Highness."
When leaving the hotel, bodyguards surrounded Emma Bennett to lead the way, while Lucy Eaton lightly supported him with her right hand, raising a black umbrella with her left hand over his head, escorting him to the car.
Three cars slowly made their way to the hospital.
Emma Bennett was already accustomed to eye examinations, so after a detailed examination, the elderly ophthalmology professor sighed, "Blindness since age six, that’s nineteen years ago now. Based on the information provided by your father, and looking at the condition of your eyes now, I’m afraid I’m also powerless."
Emma Bennett’s face showed no emotion, "I knew long ago it couldn’t be cured. Coming here, I didn’t have much hope."
The elderly professor hesitated but finally said, "I’ve wasted the Second Highness’s trip."
"It’s alright, it’s stuffy in the Presidential Mansion, it’s nice to get some fresh air." He stood up and said to Lucy Eaton beside him, "Let’s go back."
"Professor, we’ll take the examination results with us." Before the old professor could nod, Lucy Eaton reached for the pile of examination slips on the desk.
The old professor hurriedly said, "Young man, you can’t understand those examination slips."
"No need to understand; if the Highness has to do another test in the future, they can serve as a reference." With that, she turned to help Emma Bennett, "Highness, shall we go?"
After they left, the old professor’s assistant couldn’t help but show a look of worry, "Is it really okay for them to take the examination slips away?"
"At worst, they can just say I’m an incompetent doctor." The old professor sighed, "This Second Highness doesn’t have much time left, I’m afraid he won’t even have the chance to call me incompetent."
The assistant felt poignant; high status and power are just illusions, not even comparable to an ordinary civilian.
After getting in the car, Emma Bennett asked, "What do you need the examination slips for?"
"I already said, for reference."
"I won’t be doing any more tests." He added another layer of disappointment to his eye situation, "Your wish can’t come true, how could my eyes possibly be cured?"
"I don’t think that way." She said, "As long as it exists, there has to be a solution. It’s just that it seems insurmountable right now, but in the future, who knows?"
"You’re quite the optimist."
"Since I’m being optimistic, you still need to do a check-up, and it’s today."
Lucy Eaton hummed an acknowledgment and instructed Aaron McCarthy, who was driving, and George Green in the front passenger seat, "When we get to the hotel, I’ll take the Highness out alone. You continue with your tasks; there’s no need to follow." Chapters fırst released on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝙣𝙚𝙩
"Brother Yin, just you and the Highness going out alone, is that okay?"
"Don’t worry, I have a way to shake off those watching us."
Even though she said so, the two in front were still uneasy.
They suggested going together but were refused by Lucy Eaton, "If you go, wouldn’t it alert those watching us that we’ve also gone out? Remember, among the ten guards, there are five whose identities are unclear. Make sure to cooperate properly before we return and don’t let them see anything amiss."
Emma Bennett didn’t need to ask to know the reason she wanted him to have another examination today.
If it was just for comparing with the examination slips here, it would make sense to do a check-up in their own country beforehand.
There was only one reason she wasn’t doing this: she knew it wasn’t easy for him to go out of the Presidential Mansion alone. The last time he went alone to the Prime Minister’s Mansion to meet her, it made the Presidential Mansion monitor him even more closely.
As the car arrived at the hotel entrance, the group got out and headed straight for the elevator.
Back in the hotel room, Lucy Eaton let Emma Bennett sit on the sofa.
"Let me work on you a bit, don’t move." She took her bag, opened the zipper, and quickly pulled out a makeup kit from inside.
Emma Bennett sensed she was putting makeup on him and obediently sat there motionless.
She was very close to him, and even though he couldn’t see her, he could feel her gaze lingering on his face, which made him inexplicably uneasy.
Lucy Eaton was quick in her actions, finishing in just a few minutes.
Looking at Emma Bennett in front of her, she was quite satisfied with her handiwork.
She was most skilled at applying makeup on the dead, but she also excelled at doing it for the living.
"Change your clothes." Lucy Eaton went to the wardrobe to get him a set of casual clothes, then headed to the bathroom.
When she came back out, Emma Bennett had already changed, sitting there waiting.
"They’re guarding outside the door; going out , won’t we be easily recognized? Especially since no one came in?"
"We won’t leave through the front door."
PS: Happy Labor Day, darlings~