Chapter 489: Chapter 489



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Meanwhile in the City C.

Dolores had poured herself a glass of water when she woke up during the night due to thirst, but she couldn’t continue sleeping after drinking the water and going back to bed, so she got up straight away and picked up a book to read while sitting by the bed.

She slept alone in the room, the two children were sleeping in another room, so she didn’t have to worry that she might disturb them. The place where she lived was not a single-family house, it was a residential area with great surroundings and facilities, and it was quiet. There was one unit on each floor, the area was neither very large nor small, it was one hundred and sixty square meters with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room.

When Theresa returned, she would be staying here as well. Dolores was the one who had asked Theresa to stay here because Theresa was hurt before, there were more people staying here and she could keep her from being alone and thinking too much, the four bedrooms were enough for them to stay.

There was a bookshelf placed to the right of her bedroom window, it was full of books. The books were not related to fashion design, they were books on China’s cultural history. As a powerful country with a history of five thousand years, the ancestors had left countless intangible cultural heritages that were profound.

Some of these books were related to embroidery.

There were many kinds of embroidery, such as hand embroidery, sowing embroidery, gold thread embroidery, double-sided embroidery, etc. She had noticed in the past, but did not research deeply about them, now she realized that these things were so beautiful after calming down.

Especially the traditional culture of the country, in which the red color gave a good symbol and meaning.

She had read a paragraph of an article talking about ancient marriage in a book, she felt so attracted to the wedding dress inside.

The wedding dress, ‘gown’ which was popular today, was the first choice of most young couples.

It was white and clean, representing the purity of love.

Actually, this was not the implied meaning at the beginning, but the explanation given by people in later times. The origin of the robe could be traced back to Roman times, since, during that time, the color white symbolized joy, it was that simple and simply similar to our country where the color red was the color of joy.

Visually, Dolores felt that the color red could represent a more cheerful and lively atmosphere.

The color red was full of enthusiasm, as bright as fire, deep but warm. She felt this could reflect more of the feeling than the gown when someone was getting married, it was positive and enthusiastic, some more brought the curiosity of the future.

According to her thinking, this was the feeling when getting married, looking forward and being curious about the future, with enthusiasm as well.

This time, she had created a series of wedding dresses with a total of twelve pieces. All the designs were made in reference to the old wedding dress, combined with some modern elements, each dress had different patterns, the embroidery was different as well, but the main fabric was the same.

The combination of tea silk with different embroidery, as well as combining the antique wedding dress with modern elements, giving a totally new design and symbol, she had named this series as modern Chinese.

She found that modern Chinese interior design was popular recently in the country, so it meant that people still had a deep affection for the things left by ancestors.

She not only wanted to bring tea silk back into the spotlight for people, but she also wanted to expand this culture to other places. She had the connections, it was not difficult for her to have a parade internationally. What she wanted to do now, was to make this show perfect and she had to make it shine on an international level.

She had faced a lot of problems during the tailoring process, she had recently been researching about them. Although she was a bit tired, her life was enriched.

Sometimes when she was free, she also missed that person, but she had spent more time researching and solving the problems. She kept repeating the experiment, the designs were also changed according to the patterns, so the time had passed quickly.

Tonight it was still the same, she had fallen asleep in bed while reading the book, the book was still in her hand.

She had not woken up even at dawn.

The two children had become more independent now, they could dress themselves, wash their faces and brush their teeth by themselves without the help of others.

Theresa had glanced at Dolores in the morning, she knew Dolores had stayed up late reading the books again, so she didn’t wake her. Theresa was wearing a long loose dress, she didn’t intentionally comb her hair, so the thick hair was a bit messy, but she looked beautiful in that nonchalance. She went to the kitchen and prepared breakfast, they had ordered milk for breakfast which would be delivered promptly at seven o’clock, the milk was fresh with no additives added and was healthier. It was better to have the milk without any flavor processing.

She was frying the eggs while putting the toast in the toaster, the two children who had woken up came in and said they wanted to help her.

Theresa frowned, “What can they do?”

“Help you fix breakfast?” Amanda stretched her arms out and wanted to help Theresa fry the eggs. Theresa didn’t want to disappoint them seeing they were so excited, but she couldn’t let them do the dangerous things, so she let them do what chores they could, “Amanda, help me get the milk out the door, Andrew help make the toast.”

Amanda was very active, running outside with her short legs, while Andrew stood in front of the toaster, looking at Theresa’s back who was slicing the fruit and asked, “Theresa, I seem to see a different person every time I see you.”

Theresa’s appearance had changed, although her name was also Theresa, but her appearance was different than before and her voice was not the same as before.

Her vocal cords were injured during the explosion, her appearance and voice had changed, so Andrew felt he could not adapt to this Theresa.

Theresa didn’t turn around, put the cut fruit on a plate, and asked, “Am I more beautiful now or before?”

Andrew rested his chin on his hand as he thought with a serious face, “If you just look at your face, you seem more delicate now, but I still prefer the way you looked before, you seemed kinder.”

Theresa had become colder now, she wasn’t as animated as she used to be, calling her Theresa made her feel like calling someone else.

Theresa put the fried eggs on the plate, turned and looked at Andrew, “Are you praising me or badmouthing me?”

“Of course I am praising you, whether you look good or bad was just appearance, you are beautiful only if you have a good heart. In the past, Theresa looked beautiful, and with a beautiful heart.”

“Little boy, you are getting more and more mellow, don’t show off.”

Andrew let out a chuckle, “I’m telling the truth.” He soon changed the subject, “Theresa, can I make a suggestion?”

“Hmm?”

Theresa put out the fire, the sunny side up eggs were done. She turned around and leaned against the stove, then looked at Andrew and asked, “What suggestion?”

“I feel that the current Theresa is not Theresa.”

Theresa frowned, “Little one, what do you mean?”

“No, don’t worry, let me finish my words first.” Andrew explained anxiously, his voice sounding anxious.

This time Theresa had calmed down, she folded her arms and waited for him to continue speaking patiently, she wanted to see what this child could tell.

“I think Theresa can be considered someone new, not only by changing the appearance and voice, I think the name can be changed as well, so this will make a whole new ‘person’.”

That way he and his sister wouldn’t feel uncomfortable calling her Theresa.

Every time he called her Theresa, he hesitated a little.

Theresa became self-absorbed, what this child was saying was somewhat true. Now all that remained was her name which was connected to the past, but her appearance was totally different from the past.

She was a whole new person, she really should consider changing her name.

“I’m counting on you to do it, help me think of a nice and lovely name.” Theresa lifted her chin toward Andrew.

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