Chapter 645

Chapter 645

Simon was holding a potted plant when he froze for a moment.

Then he asked, "Elizabeth, why are you suddenly asking me about this? Did you find out something?"

Elizabeth's heart skipped a beat too.

But she still shook her head: "No, I just noticed that you run to my mom's place every weekend, so I figured you only have my mom as family, haha."

She laughed, trying to act casual.

Simon immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but he sighed helplessly: "Speaking of this relative gives me a headache."

Elizabeth fell silent.

After a pause, she asked casually: "What's wrong, Simon? Do you really have other relatives?"

Simon sighed with a bitter smile: "You bet! My mom even knows this relative. This relative was my mom's classmate in kindergarten, and they wanted to be best friends when they grew up. But when this relative found out about my aunt's background, she kicked my aunt out of the Jones family."

Elizabeth stayed quiet.

Elizabeth had heard her mother cry about that story before.

Her mother had a childhood best friend. They got along great, but when that little friend heard that her mother was a child born from an affair, she cut off all contact with her mother.

She even forbade her mother from entering the Jones Manor.

If Elizabeth remembered correctly, her mother's former best friend who broke ties with her was surnamed Bailey, named Janie.

Surnamed Bailey!

Juliana was also surnamed Gu, and Juliana also had a relative who was an old man surnamed Bailey.

This couldn't be a coincidence.

She looked at Simon. Simon simply put down the flowers and sat on the doorstep, saying to Elizabeth: "Actually, Grandpa isn't sick. This trip to Paris was mainly to avoid this relative."

"What?" Elizabeth was shocked.

Simon continued in a helpless tone: "This is mainly Grandpa's fault. This cousin of mine, who is my grandmother's sister's daughter, grew up by my grandmother's side. Because my grandmother's daughter died young, Grandma treated my cousin like her own daughter."

"Naturally, my grandfather also loved this cousin very much."

"This cousin of mine is named Janie."

Elizabeth knew.

So she calmly listened to Simon talk about Janie.

Janie's parents were both mid-level officials at the time. Although the Gu family was much better off than average middle-class families, compared to the Jones family, the Jones family was extremely powerful and influential back then.

So Janie's parents stayed very close to the Jones family.

Plus, Janie's mother and Simon's grandmother were very close sisters.

So this family connection remained very close.

For a long time, Eric felt that Janie was like his real sister.

So Eric and Janie had a very good relationship as cousins.

Because of this, the Jones family helped the Gu family in every way.

Until twenty-eight years ago, when twenty-four-year-old Janie wanted to study abroad, Declan did everything possible to get his niece, whom he treated like his own daughter, into the best school overseas.

However, Janie didn't make good use of the opportunity there.

The first thing she did abroad was fall in love.

She found a Chinese person with foreign citizenship. She thought she could marry into a top Chinese wealthy family abroad, but it turned out that the foreign-born Chinese guy was just playing with her.

Playing with her was one thing, but her boyfriend also shared her with a client.

The worst part was, Janie got pregnant.

She didn't know whose child she was carrying.

But for various reasons, she couldn't abort the baby.

When the child was born, her wealthy boyfriend told her clearly: "If the child is mine, I'll give you a hundred million! Then I'll take the child away. My child certainly can't stay with a dirty woman like you!"

"If the child isn't mine, then sorry, get as far away from me as possible!"

Janie was furious at the time. She cried and yelled at her boyfriend: "Wasn't it you who brought me to be played with by your friend! And now you despise me?"

Her boyfriend laughed cynically: "Of course! If it's just for fun, I like them dirty, because I have unusual tastes. But the mother of my child, that's a different story!"

Janie fell silent.

In complete humiliation, Janie did a paternity test.

However, disappointingly, she couldn't get a single dollar.

Because the child wasn't her boyfriend's.

Janie couldn't find the other man either. He seemed to have disappeared from the world. When she asked her boyfriend, she learned that the man had actually died in a high-stakes gamble.

At that time, Janie with her child was truly at her wit's end.

She had originally wanted to marry into a wealthy family abroad and then return home in glory.

But her studies failed, and instead she had a child. At that time, Janie could only ask her family for help.

Her so-called family was, of course, the Jones family.

For those years, the Jones family sent Janie plenty of money.

Fortunately, the Jones family was wealthy and powerful, sending Janie about ten million each year, enough for Janie to live comfortably abroad with her daughter.

Over twenty years passed. Janie had a stable job abroad, and her daughter had studied economics at some Harvard-like university abroad, making her a top student.

Although Janie's life wasn't perfect and she had been badly deceived, at least she lived comfortably without financial worries.

In a flash, over twenty years had passed. Janie, who had never returned home, suddenly wanted to come back. Before returning, she called Alice's late husband.

Janie's uncle was, of course, Declan.

"Uncle, I just miss you and want to come back to see you, celebrate your birthday and such. Are you doing well, Uncle?" Janie asked Declan very warmly.

However, after more than twenty years, Declan no longer felt the same affection for this niece as he did when she was young.

Moreover, Declan now had his own daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter.

So he didn't want Janie coming back to claim family ties.

Especially since Janie used to be Donna's little friend and had bullied Donna.

So when Declan received Janie's call about coming back to visit him, he had nowhere to hide. At his age, he didn't want to offend a child he had loved like a daughter for a lifetime.

So Declan said to Simon in an extremely aged voice: "Simon, take Grandpa to Paris. Grandpa doesn't want to see your cousin Gu."

Simon didn't think it was a big deal: "Cousin still cares about you, you—"

"She's not my biological daughter after all. I loved her a hundred times more than my own daughter back then. Now when I see her, I remember all those things I did, so I don't want to see her."

Simon understood Grandpa's thinking and, together with his parents, took Grandpa to Paris.

They were gone for a week.

They originally thought that after Janie returned home and came to visit the Jones family but found no one to receive her, she would take the hint and stop coming.

However, this morning when they just got back, the Jones family's landline received a call from Janie.

She still insisted on coming to visit Declan.

At this point, Simon looked at Elizabeth and sighed: "Ah! This is really a relative we can't shake off."

After hearing Simon's account, Elizabeth asked without hesitation: "Your cousin's daughter, how old is she? What's her name? Does she already have a granddaughter?"

Simon asked in surprise: "How do you know?"