Chapter 245 - I'm Using You 1

Stephanie regretted sitting in the back seat.

Fortunately, she carried the script with her. She read it and fiddled with the bookmark. She was going to join the crew the day after tomorrow, so she had to memorize the lines.

Emily looked at the bookmark between her fingers and asked, "What is that?"

It was a rectangular piece of paper, about ten centimeters long and two fingers wide, with a plum blossom on it.

"Bookmark." Stephanie put the bookmark in the script, revealing a section. "See? Next time I'll know where to start."

Something crossed her mind as Emily looked at the petals of the plum blossom. "Is this thing very productive?"

Although Stephanie was a little confused, she used her phone to search for a while. "It sells very well. Look, many shops are making this."

"Why asking?" Stephanie looked at Emily and said, "Do you want to be a bookmark distributor?"

"..."

Harold, who was driving, cut in, "Miss Emily can draw."

Stephanie pondered for a moment before she came back to her senses, "I see. You want to draw on bookmarks, and..."

Emily reached out her hand and said, "Glad to be working with you."

Stephanie was confused.

Emily took the bookmark in her hand and observed it. "You have a lot of fans. The public will follow the trend under your influence. I want you to use the bookmarks with my paintings in the future."

"You want to apply for exclusive copyright?" Stephanie asked.

"Copyright?"

Emily didn't know much about law, and it was the first time she had heard of this word. She used her mobile phone to search. When the car arrived at the Hump Village, she said to Stephanie, "I'll contact you when I'm ready."

She was still young, but when she spoke, she was calm and composed, looking mature. Stephanie wanted to say something, but Harold already walked to the back seat and opened the car door.

As soon as they got off, they saw a few people coming out of the village. A middle-aged man wearing a hat was introducing the scenery like a tour guide. There wasn't much scenery to be enjoyed. It was just empty land everywhere. The winter was coming, and the surroundings looked desolate.

"It's a great place to spend your life after retirement. Look around! How fresh the air is! How beautiful the view is!"

A cold wind whipped past, and the man chuckled awkwardly.

The two young people with him looked at each other and pondered. One of them said, "Nobody lives in this village..."

"That's not true! The one you met just now is the famous Doctor Miracle!" The hat man pointed behind him with a proud expression.

"You mean that old man?"

"Yes."

"He's Doctor Miracle?"

"If you don't believe me, you guys can do some search on the internet." The hat man looked agitated. His lips were pale from cold, but his face was red. "Doctor Miracle lives here. It means that this is a nice place to live!"

"Why does he live here alone?" the other young person asked.

The man in the hat sighed. He probably knew that he had already lost this deal, so he told the truth, "To be honest, there was a flu ten years ago. It has been many years. But people still fear it, and they don't want to live here. But look, Doctor Miracle has been staying here for so many years, and he's fine."

"He lives here alone for many years?"

"Why doesn't he go out?"

"Rumor has it that when the flu happened that year, he was traveling around to practice medicine. He'd saved a lot of people, but when he came back, he discovered that everyone in the village was dead. How ironic. He saved so many people out there, but he lost everyone in his village, including his son and daughter-in-law. He has never left this place since then."

"The guilt is torturing him. I hear that he doesn't practice medicine anymore," the man in the hat said as he walked up to Emily and her companions.

Seeing Emily and Stephanie, the man in the hat asked, "What are you doing here?"

The wind had carried all their words over, and the two girls heard everything. Stephanie was silent. Emily looked up and said calmly, "Enjoy the view."

The man in the hat didn't say anything else. He led the two people away. They seemed to be leaving the village.

The two young people turned to look at Stephanie and muttered, "She looks familiar. I think I've seen her somewhere before..."

Stephanie had put on her mask or sunglasses. However, the rabbit hair around her neck made her face very eye-catching. The mole at the corner of her eye was distinct.

When they went in, Spencer wasn't in the field. Harold knew where the old man lived, and Stephanie remembered where her home was.

They walked and took a lot of turns before reaching a small red-brick and red-tile house. The door was unlocked. They went in and saw that there were three rooms inside. The courtyard was not big, but there were all kinds of grass and a few trees in strange shapes. The entrance was covered with green grass. It was winter, but the glass in the courtyard, including the grass at the entrance, was flourishing.

It was Spencer's lunch break time. No wonder he wasn't working in the field.

They stood in the courtyard for a while. Stephanie was depressed. The conversation she'd overheard just now naturally had some influence on her.

"Since he says that he would no longer practice medicine, let's go," said Stephanie. Emily was surprised.

Emily had never told Stephanie that this was why she had gone to the rooftop to save Stephanie. She was only one step away from achieving her goal, but Stephanie told her to give up. How could she agree?

It would be raining the day after tomorrow. She did not want Vincent to suffer that kind of pain again.

Emily looked her in the eye and said, "I don't want to say this, but I only saved you on the rooftop because I want you to help me make this happen."

In other words, she was using Stephanie. People usually wouldn't say this kind of stuff out loud in person, but Emily just did. And she did it frankly.

"I knew it the first time I came here.." Stephanie was surprised for a moment, and then smiled and said, "But I didn't expect you to be so straightforward."