Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“Are you afraid?” Jasper asked as she blinked.
“I… I’m not…”
Then, before Mick Reed could finish, she hugged him. “Don’t be afraid. We have to be brave children. Daddy will be okay once the doctor comes!”
His little body accepted the hug stiffly. Mick Reed felt that this hug was different from the hug he just received from his mother, but… he found it familiar.
‘If she’s Mommy’s child, does that mean she’s my sister?’
‘Is this what it feels like to be held by your sister? The sister in front of me seems to be different from my other sister, Oriel. Every time she sees me, she just timidly stands there while looking at me with desperate eyes, wanting to please me. But she never once dared approach me.
‘But this sister… She holds my hand and hugs me like Mommy…
Mick Reed was unwilling to push his mother’s arms away earlier. Now, he was also unwilling to push his sister’s arms away.
Grace was happy to see the two children bonding. Although her son was rather indifferent, her daughter was more talkative and would take the initiative to approach people.
Her son did not seem to reject her daughter, which was a good thing!
Soon, Dr. Guzman came. After seeing Grace and Jasper Reed, surprise seemed to flash across Dr. Guzman’s eyes. However, he quickly crouched down and focused on examining Jason.
Mr. Reed slowly opened his eyes. “I’m much better now. It doesn’t hurt as much.”
Dr. Guzman was surprised. After all, every time Young master Reed had a headache, it would last for quite some time. From the time he got the call from Uncle Kwan to the moment he arrived, it had only been 20 minutes at most.
‘Young master Reed’s headache… is alright now?’
“I’d better examine you again,” Dr. Guzman said worriedly.
Jason pondered for a moment before following Dr. Guzman to the room on the second floor for an examination. Grace looked at Uncle Kwan who returned to the living room and asked, “Does Jay often have headaches?”
“In… the first year you weren’t around, he suffered a lot of headaches but they’ve lessened in the last two years. Maybe he’s having a headache now because he met you today, Young Madam,” speculated Uncle Kwan.
Grace was silent. ‘Is his headache related to his memories being erased? Is my appearance triggering those buried memories?’
Was that why he had looked at her like he was in a trance earlier and called her ‘Sis’ in an almost unconscious state?
“Are you my little sister?” Her son’s childlike voice pulled Grace out of her thoughts.
“Why can’t I be your older sister?” Jasper said in confusion as she blinked her bright almond-shaped eyes.
Grace looked on as the two little ones discussed who was older and who was younger.
Finally, the two pairs of eyes looked at her. Jasper asked, “Mommy, who’s older?” Mick Reed did not say anything, but his expression showed that he wanted answers too.
“…” Grace was speechless. This question was really… complicated! She had no idea who was older and who was younger, so Grace looked at Uncle Kwan who was nearby.
Uncle Kwan quickly said, “Secretary Wang only brought Little Young Master back. He never told us the children’s birth order.”
In other words, they could only find out the answer when they found Secretary Wang.
Grace looked at the two children in front of her and asked tentatively, “Why don’t you play rock paper scissors to decide who’s older and who’s younger?”
“I’m your older brother,” Mick Reed’s childlike voice said with certainty. His little face was solemn, but he was determined not to play rock paper scissors.
“I’m your older sister. Look, Daddy called Mommy ‘Sis’ just now!” Jasper corrected him with a mumble.
Grace was sweating profusely. Jason calling her ‘Sis’ had nothing to do with their birth order.
While Grace was having a headache over who was the older sibling between the two kids, Dr. Guzman was giving Jason a check-up in the other room.
After determining the severity of Jason’s previous headaches. and the timing of the onset, Dr. Guzman said, “It must have stimulated some parts of your past. As you said, it’s because… your wife said something that reminded you of a similar conversation in the past.”
When he said this, Dr. Guzman’s heart was in a flutter.
He had been dumbfounded for a while when Jason told him that the woman in the living room was his ‘dead’ wife.
‘Young master Reed’s wife isn’t dead? I can imagine what turmoil Emerald City will be in if the public learns about this news.
‘Young master Reed’s wife… will be the most respectable woman in Emerald City. Those socialites who still had ideas for Young master Reed will probably be heartbroken!
“In other words, if she says anything similar again, I might be triggered and get a headache like today?” asked Jason.
Dr. Guzman said, “That’s the idea. You got a headache because you were recalling some memories of yourself and your wife. Now that Mrs. Reed is back, it’s naturally easier to trigger those memories.””
“So it’s possible that I can recover my memories?” Jason asked again.
“It’s possible, but…” Dr. Guzman hesitated a little, pausing when he had something to say.
“But what?”
“But it’s painful to recover your memories this way. You’ll suffer a severe headache when some images recur to you after being triggered. If you keep getting triggered, the pain. will worsen and no one knows how much it’ll hurt,” said Dr.
Guzman.
After all, everyone had a different constitution. The way one recovered memories was different as well. Some people might immediately recall them without too much pain after being triggered, while others might experience the opposite.
Dr. Guzman referred to his previous cases and speculated that Jason was probably the least likely type to recover his memories.
He would often recall some snippets of the past or some conversations they had in the past. Then, he would suffer a headache as if these memories were suppressed.
Jason gently looked down. ‘Pain… If I want to recover my memories, how much will it hurt?
He used to not care about these lost memories. In his opinion, since he lost those memories, it meant they did not matter.
However… he now had an impulse to restore his memories.
He wanted to know about the scenes that flashed across his mind and find out what kind of past he had shared with that woman!
“Mr. Reed, how about I give you some of the medicine you used to take to calm you down and ease the trigger if you have another headache?” asked Dr. Guzman.
Jason said lightly, “Ease the trigger… Does that also prevent me from recovering my memories?”
“Yes, it’ll ease the trigger and make it harder for you to recover your memories,” said Dr. Guzman. He had also said the same thing when he first prescribed this medicine to Jason.
However, to his surprise, the man gave a very different answer this time. “Then there’s no need for a prescription.”
“Mr. Reed?” Dr. Guzman was surprised. ‘No prescription? Is he planning to… “Do you want to… recover your memories?”
“Yeah, I’ve forgotten them long enough. It’s time I restore them,” Jason said thoughtfully.
“But in that case, the pain may be too great for you. If anything happens, perhaps…” Dr. Guzman paused before he continued saying, “After all, the human body has a certain capacity it can take. It’s hard to predict what will happen once the limit is exceeded.”
Young master Reed was different from ordinary patients who wanted to recover their memories. Ordinary patients rarely experienced such pain. If anything went wrong while he was trying to recover his memories, the consequences could be disastrous.
“So what?” Jason raised the corners of his lips as if he was smiling faintly, but his eyes were grim. “Then let’s see whether the pain of restoring my memory is stronger or whether my body can endure it better.”
Dr. Guzman was stunned. The man before him held Emerald City in his palm. Should anything happen to him, it would be enough to change everything in Emerald City.
However, this influential figure seemed to be putting his life on the line just to recover his memory.
The man had casually said to him more than four years ago, “Then I’ll just take the medicine. It doesn’t matter if I don’t recover my memory.””
‘But…
‘Is it because of Mrs. Reed, who has risen from the dead and returned to the Reed family?
‘Is it possible? Is he willing to risk his life to regain his memories for a woman?’
However, Dr. Guzman could only bury the question at the bottom of his heart as he dared not ask.
It took Grace a while to get the two little ones to decide who was older and who was younger.
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