[Comprehensive] Hollywood's new dignitaries

"I think you started school in early January, why are you showing up in Los Angeles now." Candice frowned at the teenager with peacock blue eyes.

Massachusetts, where Harvard University is located, is far away from Los Angeles, and she doesn't think Eli would normally sail for six hours just to attend a luncheon that had nothing to do with him.

"Are you worried that I won't get enough credits?" The handsome young man smiled decently, "Don't worry, I've got more than 100 credits."

Different from Stanford's quarter system, Harvard adopts the traditional semester system. Students need to complete 120-128 credits to graduate successfully. Eli Daly is currently studying in the second semester of his junior year at Harvard University. 100 credits is enough to show his diligence, but it is for this reason that the fact that he flew to Los Angeles is all the more abnormal.

"C, I just want to meet you, aside from that meeting when you were in a coma, we have—" Mr. Daly Jr. recalled exaggeratedly, "we haven't seen each other for more than 11 months."

Indeed, after her conflict with Mrs. Daly intensified, she naively chose not to return to that Washington home, even though she flew to Baltimore near Washington, DC at least once a month.

Candice looked at him, "After meeting me?"

"New York? Paris? Or Tokyo? Whatever it is, I want to start enjoying a pleasant vacation." Eli shrugged indifferently, and his slightly frivolous movements were made chic and charming by him.

"uh-oh," Candice said with a calm smile, "it seems that Mr. Daly has arranged something for you again, and that happens to be something you don't like." Just like when they were 15 years old, they had a similar temperament As a controlling parent, Candice is very familiar with his behavior at this time, because it is a common way of relieving stress that they shared a few years ago. Mrs. Daly asked her to be the perfect daughter to accompany her to various social occasions. After these things accumulated too much, they would choose to travel together to enjoy the holidays.

Eli Daly became less friendly, he looked at Candice, "Don't always act like you know me so well, c, I'm just a companion who was abandoned by you."

Candice's expression changed instantly, but she still cared about the other people on the round table who thought they were having a friendly conversation. Fortunately, because it was a large enough round table, only Tom and Brian could hear their specific conversation, "Eli, That's been a long time ago, and I don't think there's any point in discussing it."

Eli noticed that she deliberately maintained the illusion of friendly and harmonious conversations with others, so she cooperated with her intimately, but the words she said were not so pleasant, "That's why you can always get what you want, because all the people you hurt are meaningless people."

Eli didn't want to hear Candice's answer anymore. He had complicated feelings about this "sister", and he didn't think it would be a good result for the two to continue talking. He stood up gracefully, "Sorry, I need to rush to the airport .”

Everyone at the table couldn't help looking at this beautiful young man and leaving, only Candice maintained her original posture, and Tom felt as if his stomach was being squeezed when he saw the beautiful smile on her face , he held hers with his slender fingers, and then he noticed that the girl flinched slightly, and Tom finally confirmed that she was pretending to be strong again, just like she had been doing all along.

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After returning to the villa after the luncheon, Candice buried herself in Tom's arms to take a nap. She was really sleepy, and the culprit was this British man.

But the English gentleman patted her on the back tenderly, just like her mother would do to her before she was seven years old, when her relationship with Larry hadn't broken, she was a man who was controlling but still gentle. Mother, but after her divorce brought Candice back to Washington, her tenderness was completely swallowed up by hatred. Candice chose to accept after adapting. After all, no one asked mothers to love their children unconditionally.

Candice is slowly learning to confess the past to Tom, which she has always refused, even to Larry, David and even Meghan, she never recalls the eight years in Washington, "Maybe, you want Would you like to hear my childhood story?"

Tom was distressed by the fragility in her voice, and he kissed the girl's forehead lightly, "I never want to force you, Darling, if those memories make you sad, we won't talk about them."

Candice hugged him tighter, her arms wrapped around his waist, and the tip of her nose was already close to his chest, "My mother wasn't like this before—at least before divorcing Larry."

"She sacrificed a lot to marry Larry, and they lived a sweet life for a few years after marriage, but after I was born, many conflicts have intensified and become uncontrollable, maybe because Elaine has a strong desire to control, maybe Larry can't last long You know, geniuses are always curious, they're never patient. I sometimes think Larry is to blame for it all, that the wedding vows weren't made out of him, some kind of Maybe my mother is also a victim to some extent, and then another person will pop up in the head to refute - it was Elaine who chose to leave the family crazy for love, it was her own decision, and she has no integrity for this terrible consequence Blaming Larry from a standpoint, I was always refusing each other for these things in my mind, until I gradually became indifferent."

Candice has a feeling of confiding to a psychiatrist, the difference is that the psychiatrist will gently and distressedly kiss her on the forehead and cheek, as if she is his most beloved treasure, which she once longed for, but no longer extravagant. It was also what she had obtained but finally abandoned.

"We didn't have a good time back in Washington at first. The Dodd family refused to readmit my mother, and even though we had Larry's high child support, Elaine refused to use it. She chose to join the legal profession. Very busy, can you imagine? I didn't see her at home for more than 4 days, and I just turned nine years old," Candice joked, "I should have sued her for child abuse, What a mistake."

Tom didn't even dare to guess those details, and he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to maintain a gentlemanly manner when he saw Elaine again-for such an irresponsible mother.

But that's obviously just the tip of the iceberg, "We talked about empathy, do you remember? Elaine almost thought I was a monster kid, I couldn't help empathizing with people, maybe it was really weird, and My mother didn't want people to think she had a freak daughter, and she refused to allow me to see a therapist on a regular basis, and instead asked me to be normal." Even after she used empathy again, she was once locked up by Elaine Introspecting in the cabinet, this well-known lawyer who is passionate about defending women's rights has abused his own daughter for a long time, but at least in Elaine's view at the time, her behavior was helping Candice return to normal.Candice even tried to find excuses for her mother. For example, she was just too tired and unhappy, so she was too strict with herself. Ryan.

Tom kissed her eyes lovingly. "Well, I have a little girl who can do magic. It's like a superhero's talent. Maybe one day you will come down from the sky in armor and save me?"

"Magic? Superhero?" Candice smiled sweetly, her voice was low, "It would be nice to know you earlier."

This is his extravagant wish. If he could live in Silicon Valley at the age of 14, he might know that a little blonde princess was born in the Ellison family; and then at the age of 17, he could be wronged by David cutting off his beloved hair When she was crying, he touched her head to comfort her; at the age of 21, he would reassure her that she would no longer be afraid of her parents' quarrel; , is the secret magic that God bestows on the little angel he loves most; and then he guards her to grow up like this, and never leaves her again, how could he be willing to leave her.

"Eli Daly, I know you're curious about our relationship," Candice told him, recalling her past, "Eli was the boyfriend my mother asked me to accept, not just boyfriends, I All the good friends were selected by her, and money and rights were the most important thing in that friendship middle school, and I was not accepted and valued at the beginning," she smiled triumphantly, "but you know, I Best at getting people to like me."

Tom stroked her side face with his fingers, "Yes, you are the best at making people like you. The British man here is one of them. You make him crazy about you."

The girl raised her head proudly, "But this British man is the only one I like." She chose to continue talking about the past, "Not long after I was with Eli, my mother met Mr. Daly, and then we used We got engaged and got married at an unimaginable speed, so Eli and I became siblings out of nowhere."

"It was only after they got married that I realized that these two people are too similar, a typical example of a strong desire for control and ambition, and Eli and I are the best outlet for this couple's strong desire for control. Unlike my talent for empathy, Eli He lost his mother when he was young, perhaps because Mr. Daly asked him to maintain an elegant and friendly posture for a long time, and he was not allowed to have any negative emotions. His real character is very depressed. At that time, we were the best partners in the same situation, and we agreed to resist our parents. The desire to control, at least in this family, must be the only consolation for the other party, can you imagine? A 15-year-old boy, thinking about not being driven crazy by his parents every day, the two seem to live in that amazingly powerful family dependent on each other. She took a deep breath and chose to speak out about her despicable behavior, "But I don't know when, I started to worry that we couldn't stand up to Daly at all, and this worry grew more and more every day, until I learned that Larry was raised for me. When Kwon started a game with my mother again, I finally found the perfect way to escape—I chose to sacrifice Eli."

Her voice was calm, "I threatened my mother that if she doesn't give up my custody rights, she will disclose the news of my love affair with Eli to the tabloids. scandal."

She smiled wryly, "But you know what? My mother even felt relieved that I finally won her once, even with despicable means."

"I did win—she gave up my custody." She looked at Tom with stars in her eyes, "This is my despicable past, but if I do it all over again, I will do it again, I'll always choose to hurt someone else for myself. Maybe you should leave me, Tom—"

The British man's kiss forcefully forced her to stop saying any parting words. He poured all his heart into this passionate kiss. His lips seemed to be entangled with her forever, and they breathed more and more hotly at each other. In, Tom's gray-green eyes are determined, "Candy, I will never let us part."

Candice finally cried out in his arms, "I was just afraid of hurting you."

"Then hurt me," Tom's voice was elegant and deep like a cello, "Candy, I may be sad, and that's far better than not having you in my life," he kissed the girl's crying eyes, "Yes You make me look forward to tomorrow."

Tom's gray-green eyes were full of tenderness, "It's okay, I will give you what you lost in the past, I promise."