Cutie, Please Marry Me Again (Jenna and Hansen) novel Chapter 404

Zoella chuckled when she saw Liya's expressions. She took out an empty cheque from the drawer, wrote a few words, and handed it to Liya.

Liya looked at the cheque with her mouth agape. Five million dollars? It was a huge sum for a modest woman like her. Her face lit up when she thought of her father in the ward, but she became worried again. She put the cheque on the table and muttered, "I can't take that much money, Miss Yates. Besides, I don't have the ability to pay it back."

She gripped her shirt tightly as she kept glancing at the cheque from time to time. Her gleaming eyes showed a hint of unease.

Zoella noticed it. She pushed the cheque towards her and sat down next to her. She held her hand and said, "It's my fault for only finding you yesterday. I didn't realize your family had come to such a state. What a pity."

She spoke with a trace of sadness in her eyes. Liya was moved and her eyes welled up with tears. "Miss Yates, I'm grateful that you even thought of my family, unlike other people who only wish upon our death."

She said with a trembling voice as hatred appeared in her eyes.

Zoella sighed and said, "Ten years ago, my family collapsed and I didn't ask about you. However, I had done my best to send some money your way. Did you receive it?"

"Money?" Liya's eyes widened when she heard this. "Miss Yates, you sent them? You had no idea! That money supported me through college but I didn't know who sent it. I always thought it was the Richards family."

She said excitedly as she looked at Zoella with eyes full of surprise and joy.

She had always assumed that the Richards Family had sent the money. She didn't expect it to be Zoella. This was unbelievable.

Why was Zoella so good to her family?

"Sigh. Perhaps it's because we share the same fate. We were all miserable and had been oppressed by others back then. I have remembered you ever since. Not to mention that we played together when we children," Zoella said with a sad tone.

"That's right. Life was horrible then," Liya said as she took a trip down memory lane.

She was only nine when her mother took her to Richards Manor and had stayed there for three years. It was during that time she found out what kind of life the children of rich families were living compared to hers. After Old Master Richards had passed away, she and her mother were chased out of the manor.

She held onto her mother and cried in the heavy rain the day they were chased out. Then, her mother had fallen ill and never woke up. When she found her father, he had been living a life filled with anxiety and hunger.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and her face was frighteningly pale. She gripped her clothes tightly and gritted her teeth.

"It's all in the past, Liya. I'll be like your older sister from now on. We're family now. Don't worry, I won't treat you shabbily." Zoella moved Liya's heart like a spring breeze. She lifted her eyes and said gratefully, "Zoella, you treat me so well. I don't know how to repay your kindness."