Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
If she didn’t know that Brian loved Grace, she would have thought that Brian loved her based on their interactions over the past few days.
Was it possible? Could she be that lucky?
Could Brian fall in love with her in such a short amount of time?
In the evening at the villa, Valda watched Brian walk out of the bathroom and took the initiative to approach him, saying, “Let me help you dry your hair.”
“Okay,” he replied, handing her the towel and slightly bending down.
She helped him dry his hair little by little, then gently brushed aside his bangs.
Suddenly, his black phoenix eyes came into her view, and at the same time, her appearance was also reflected in his eyes.
Her fingers lightly touched his eyes, and Mr. Yeats said that the way he looked at her was the gaze of someone in love.
Does he really love her?
All she knew was that his gaze towards her was very gentle and focused.
“What’s wrong?” Brian asked. “Do you have something to tell me?”
Valda pursed her lips for a moment before finally asking, “Brian, do you…have feelings for me?”
Brian’s body stiffened, his eyelashes trembling as he looked at her phoenix eyes, and a certain avoidance began to appear because he didn’t know how to answer her question.
Silence… spreading in the air.
And Valda’s heart sinking bit by bit.
His silence was enough to tell her what his answer was.
She knew it was almost impossible for him to give up so much love and fall in love with her in such a short time. But after hearing Mr.
Yeats’ words, she couldn’t help but hope that he really did fall in love with her.
But now, she was disappointed once again.
Seeing the disappointment in her eyes, Brian’s heart felt a sudden pang.
“Valda…” he spoke with difficulty.
She quickly pretended to be casual and said, “You… don’t have to say anything, I understand. Just forget that I asked anything, I was just asking casually.”
She smiled deliberately to show that she didn’t care about his silence or his unanswered question.
But the more she acted like this, the more painful it was for him.
“I’m sorry, I… I don’t mean to not answer you, I just…”
“I, I know, I really know.” Valda’s voice became more urgent, and the forced smile on her face became even more apparent. “Brian, you really don’t need to explain anything.”
“But…”
“Brian, let’s just forget about this, okay…” Valda’s voice had a hint of nasal tone. “Don’t say anything more, because… because if you keep going, I’m afraid I won’t be able to talk to you with a smile like this anymore…’
He knows that the smile she wears now takes a great deal of effort to maintain.
She just wanted to quickly move past this topic, but he kept bringing it up repeatedly, leaving her feeling powerless.
My nose is becoming more and more sour, and tears seem to be uncontrollably welling up in my eyes!
Suddenly, Valda said urgently, “Sorry, I… I want to go wash my face.” Without waiting for him to say anything, she hurriedly ran towards the bathroom.
The bathroom door slammed shut, separating the two people.
In the bathroom, Valda stared blankly at her reflection in the sink mirror. At this moment, tears finally welled up in her eyes and flowed down her cheeks uncontrollably.
What’s wrong with her? She clearly knew from the beginning that Brian loves Grace. Why is she crying now?
Didn’t she prepare herself for a long-term struggle from the beginning?
But now, just his silence alone almost made her give up completely, as if all her defenses had been shattered.
“Valda, you need to be stronger. You chose this path yourself, so there’s nothing to regret!” She said to herself in the mirror.
Making Brian fall in love with oneself was already a difficult task, and now it’s just the beginning.
Sometimes, we just hope for bigger things, which is why we end up feeling even more disappointed when they don’t happen.
Just pretend that Mr. Yeats never said these words. After all, judging whether someone truly loves another person just by looking into their eyes may be a bit hasty and arbitrary.
Valda took a deep breath and turned on the faucet, splashing her face with the cold water to wash away her tears.
On the other side, Brian stood still, with Valda’s teary eyes and almost crying expression still fresh in his mind. However, he noticed that she was trying hard to force a smile, as if she didn’t care about what had just happened.
It was him…who made her sad again!
She was clearly looking forward to hearing him say he loved her, so why didn’t he say it just now?
Even her request was just “a little bit”.
If he just says that he has fallen a little bit in love with her, then she must be incredibly happy, right?
At this moment, Brian feels almost overwhelmed by guilt.
Finally, the bathroom door was pushed open and Valda walked out from inside.
Brian quickly walked up to her and noticed that her eyes were red and swollen.
She must have just cried!
Brian’s heart was once again gripped by pain.
“Valda, I actually have a little bit of…”
But before he could finish his sentence, her finger was already on his lips, stopping him from continuing.
“Brian, I don’t want you to say things that aren’t true because of feelings of guilt or anything like that,”
Valda said.
Suddenly, he felt embarrassed, and her clear eyes seemed to see right through him.
“Many people say that white lies are good, and maybe they are good for some people, but for me, I would rather know the harsh reality than a well-intentioned lie. After all, in my opinion, a lie used to weave a temporary beauty will eventually be exposed.
The so-called eternal lie simply does not exist.”
He felt the finger on his lips burning hot.
“So, I also hope that you promise me that you will never lie to me in the future, no matter what happens,” Valda looked at him seriously and said, “Even if the truth is painful, don’t lie to me. I don’t want to be someone who lives in a lie without knowing it.”
He met her gaze and gently pulled her hand down, holding it firmly in his palm. “Okay, I promise you that I will never lie to you in the future, no matter what happens.”
Valda smiled lightly at his words, then wrapped her arms around Brian’s waist and buried her face in his chest.
“Brian, I’m not as fragile as you think. Although you haven’t fallen in love with me yet, which makes me a little regretful, I’ve actually thought about it for a long time,” Valda said. Holding her like this, feeling his warmth, made her slowly reveal her innermost thoughts to him.
Actually, when I think about it, if you can fall in love with me so easily, then what do your previous relationships even mean? I don’t know how long I will wait, five years, ten years? Maybe twenty years, thirty years. I even feel like I’m willing to wait until I’m old and gray…
Her words made his heart tremble, and he hugged her tightly, “No, you won’t have to wait that long!”
“Okay, then don’t make me wait too long. I’m afraid that by the time you come, I’ll be so old that I’ll have lost my teeth and it will be even harder for you to fall in love with me,” she joked.
“I won’t change my love for you, even if you grow old and lose your teeth,” Brian said hoarsely, with a hint of emotion in his voice.
“Really?” she murmured.
“Really, Valda, this is not a lie,” he said. Yes, it’s not a lie, but his truest feeling in his heart.
He will definitely fall in love with her, no matter how long it takes, he will fall in love!
That night, when they went to bed, Brian held Valda’s hand tightly as if he was holding a precious treasure that he had finally found. He was afraid that if he let go, she would disappear from his side.
The next morning, when Valda greeted him with her usual smile and they had breakfast together, Brian felt a bit dazed.
She was right beside him, just like usual, but for some reason, his heart felt a little uneasy.
The little princess on the Reed family’s side, who was born prematurely, is finally going to have a banquet for her – a belated full moon banquet – now that she is over three months old.
Of course, the Reed family also invited many celebrities from Emerald City, and receiving an invitation from them was considered an honor by many.
Valda and Brian, of course, received the invitation without any surprises.
Valda looked at the invitation and remembered that Grace had mentioned the party when they met before.
Because there have been rumors circulating about her poor health and the baby’s life being in danger, the Reed family went out of their way to make this banquet more grandiose. They also wanted outsiders to know that the Reed family’s mistress and the newly born princess are doing well.
Valda is a bit worried when she thinks about the grand banquet. She’s afraid that if she attends the banquet with Brian, she might embarrass him.
Although she had accompanied him to parties before, the scale of those parties was not as large as they are now. Furthermore, at those parties, not many people knew about her relationship with
Brian, and most of them just assumed that she was a temporary companion brought by Brian.
But now things are different. After Brian’s live broadcast on TV, many people came to know about the fact that she is his girlfriend.
In the evening, after returning to the villa, Brian had not yet arrived. Valda went to check her wardrobe to see if there were any suitable dresses.
She remembered that Brian had also bought her some dresses before, some of which she had never even worn.
The dresses were not kept in her regular wardrobe, but in a separate dressing room.
When Valda walked into the room and opened the closet door, she indeed saw many dresses displayed inside, with various colors. However, there was no purple dress among them.
Purple… Valda’s expression suddenly dimmed. In fact, not only these dresses, but even the clothes he bought for her never had purple.
No matter if it’s dark purple, light purple, or any other shade of purple, there won’t be any color in the purple family.
She remembered that Phoebe Cross had once told her that Brian wouldn’t let any other woman wear purple clothes because that was Grace’s color.
Even… Phoebe also mentioned that there is a closet in Brian’s villa, filled with purple dresses that
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