Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Grace took Jasper to the sitting room while Mick stayed with
Valda in the main hall.
Valda looked at Mick, who was almost 10 years old and resembled Jason the most among the triplets.
However, their personalities were completely different.
Jason gave people an unpredictable feeling, but Mick was mostly cold and seemed indifferent to everything. However, he was very protective when it came to family matters.
At this moment, Valda and Mick looked at each other for a while before Valda spoke first, “Mick, do you have a girl you like in your class?”
Nowadays, children are much more open-minded than those in her generation. Some even have girlfriends or boyfriends in kindergarten, and in the first or second grade of elementary school, they can write love letters using pinyin and characters after learning just a few words.
Valda became curious and wondered what Mick would be like if he had a crush on a girl.
She was just destined to be disappointed.
Mick simply answered with two words, “No.”
“Do you not have a crush? Or are you just too shy to tell Auntie
Valda?” Valda continued to ask.
“No.” The little one’s face showed no sign of embarrassment.
“Do you have a favorite celebrity or cartoon character?”
“No.”
“Really none?”
“Why should I like them?”
Valda was left speechless by this question.
The two of them stared at each other with wide eyes, and
Valda couldn’t help but marvel at how different the triplets’
personalities were.
Not long after, Grace and Jasper returned to the main hall. They were accompanied by a slightly shorter and slender young boy.
The little boy is wearing a plain T-shirt and looks a bit pale and thin, but his facial features are very good. With proper care, he should grow up to be a very handsome child.
“Auntie Valda, this is Lawrence!” Jasper introduced, then turned to Lawrence and said, “This is Auntie
Valda, she’s a really talented comic artist. I have a lot of drawings that Auntie Valda made for me, I’ll show you later.”
“Auntie Valda is good,” Lawrence whispered, looking a bit nervous.
Valda smiled and said, “Hello Lawrence. I’m sorry I didn’t know you were coming today, so I didn’t prepare a gift for you. How about this? I’ll prepare a gift for you next time and have Jasper give it to you on my behalf. Is that okay?”
Lawrence looked surprised and widened his eyes, as if he didn’t expect to receive a gift.
“By the way, Lawrence, could you play a song for Auntie
Valda? I really want more people to hear your piano playing, they will definitely like it!” said Jasper.
How could Lawrence refuse those hopeful apricot eyes looking up at him?
Although he was worried that others might not appreciate his piano playing as much as she did, since he had never really studied it, and he had heard her play before, which made him feel inferior compared to her.
But at this moment, he didn’t want to disappoint her.
“Okay,” Lawrence nodded.
Jasper pulled Lawrence over to a white piano that was placed on one side of the main hall and opened the lid.
Lawrence sat down cautiously in front of the piano. It was so beautiful, even more so than the most expensive piano he had ever seen in the music store.
And when his fingertips touched the piano keys, the flowing music that poured out was just as beautiful.
He wants to perform well and not disappoint Jasper.
Lawrence took a deep breath, sat up straight, and his fingers began to glide over the piano keys.
Beautiful notes flowed from his fingertips, one after another.
Valda listened to the sound of the piano, even though she didn’t have much knowledge about it and couldn’t judge whether it was good or bad, she could feel the infectious power of the music.
The sound of this child’s piano playing will slowly immerse the listener into the music. Just then, Jason and Brian came downstairs. When Brian saw the unfamiliar little boy playing the piano, he was momentarily surprised, but then he seemed to understand and quietly asked Jason, “Is this the one we’re looking for?”
“Yes,” Jason replied.
“It’s definitely something Jasper would like,” Brian said.
Although Brian didn’t pursue music, as a wealthy child, he naturally had some knowledge in the field.
Therefore, he could tell the quality of the music being played and knew
After the song ended, Valda was the first to applaud. “That was very beautiful!” she said.
Lawrence blushed shyly.
“It was very beautiful,” Brian also spoke up. “Playing the piano requires skill, but it also requires talent, and you have talent.”
Lawrence’s little face turned even redder.
And Jasper proudly lifted her little chin, as if she was the one being praised.
After Valda and Brian left the Reed House, Jasper took
Lawrence to her room.
“You see, this is my room. I want to show you the painting that
Auntie Valda made for me,” said Jasper as he searched for the painting. Lawrence widened his eyes and looked around the room in amazement.
Today he came with his mom and dad to the Reed family, and he was surprised. He knew that the
Reed family was wealthy and that Jasper was like a little princess, but he never imagined that the Reed family would be so big.
And now, just her room alone is bigger than the small suite his family is renting.
He lightly bit his lower lip, as if once again realizing the vast difference between them.
“Found it!” Jasper whispered and then came over holding a booklet. Inside the booklet were all the comics that Valda had drawn for Jasper over the years.
“Is Auntie Valda really amazing?” Jasper asked.
“Mhmm,” Lawrence said, but his mind was not at all on those paintings.
“By the way, you haven’t seen my game room yet. Let me take you there. You can take any toy you like, I’ll give it to you!” Jasper said, taking Lawrence’s hand and leading her towards her game room.
At that moment, she simply wanted to be kind to her friend and share something good with them, without noticing the sadness in Lawrence’s eyes.
When the two children arrived at the game room, Lawrence stared in amazement at the huge room, which was like a small indoor playground.
A slide, a ball pit, a spinning wooden horse, various Lego blocks, tents, and a row of fancy dolls on the wall… All of these made him dazzled.
These are all things she possesses, but they are things he had never imagined before.
“Do you have any toys that you like?” Jasper asked eagerly.
Lawrence was at a loss and didn’t know how to respond.
“You’re a boy, so you probably don’t like dolls, right? What about toy cars? I see a lot of boys in our class who like toy cars,” Jasper asked.
Lawrence nodded hesitantly and said in a small voice, “Um… I like it.”
“So, which car do you like? You can take whichever one you want here!” Jasper said generously.
Lawrence looked at the various toy cars here, and among them was one that he had seen at a classmate’s before. At that time, the classmate had brought it to school to show off, saying that it was a very expensive car that he had begged his father for a long time before his father finally agreed to buy it.
But now, this toy car that was considered “expensive” by the student, appears so inconspicuous among a pile of toy cars.
Is this what my parents mean by “wealthy family”? Lawrence finally got a real sense of it for the first time.
These days, he’s been hearing his parents talk about wealthy families and how if he were to marry into a family like the
Reed family, he wouldn’t have to worry about his future.
Faced with these expensive cars, Lawrence didn’t dare to choose any of them.
Jasper said in a strange and authentic manner, “Don’t you like anything?”
“I…….” He became even more flustered, and finally pointed to a small wooden house that appeared to be the cheapest in his eyes.
“But this is a small house, not a small car,” Jasper said in confusion.
“I…I suddenly like this.” Lawrence stammered.
This is a small house made of wood. It has two doors at the front that can be opened and closed. When you open the doors, you can see the interior of a three-
story small house. This is a prop that Jasper uses when playing house.
“I thought boys didn’t like playing house,” muttered Jasper. She actually quite liked the little house, but since Lawrence liked it, she was willing to give it to him.
Lawrence’s face grew redder as he sheepishly admitted that he chose this one simply because it looked cheaper than the other expensive cars.
“Let me give this to you, along with all these things inside. Make sure you have fun with them!” Jasper reminded Lawrence, as he gave him all the wooden furniture and little wooden dolls that came with the small house.
And so, Lawrence left the Reed House with his parents, carrying a full little house and its accompanying toys.
“Ms. Jasper has sent you these, she must really like you!” Wilona said to her son. “You must try to please Ms. Jasper from now on! Don’t let her dislike you!”
Lawrence remained silent. He didn’t like the word “flattery” that his mother used. He genuinely hoped that Ms. Jasper could like him, but not because his parents believed that it could change his fate and make him wealthy in the future.
Just because she was the first person who liked his piano so much, she even came to find him for the sound of the piano.