Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
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Roger’s eyelashes trembled slightly, “Then you I make up for the harm I have suffered? Do you think the only thing I have suffered is the death of my parents? Do you think a light revenge on you can really make up for everything? Jasper, don’t understand how dark this world can be!”
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There was pain and struggle in his eyes, which shook Jasper’s heart. “Then you can tell me, what happened to you, what have you experienced during these years of disappearance?”
His lips were tightly pursed, his body trembling. Tell her? Tell the person he hated the most about his most embarrassing side? Those memories were so unbearable and so difficult for him to endure…
Roger’s face became increasingly pale, and his body trembled more and more violently.
She noticed that something was wrong with him and asked urgently, “What’s wrong? Are you okay?”
“I…” He gasped heavily and suddenly hugged her tightly.
She was startled and instinctively wanted to struggle, but all her resistance stopped when she felt his body trembling.
He was shaking like a child who was extremely scared, and this kind of Roger made Jasper feel a dull pain in her chest.
He held her tighter and tighter, like a drowning person holding onto the last piece of driftwood.
It seemed that if he let go, he would sink completely to the bottom of the water.
Jasper let Roger hold her like this, “Where do you feel uncomfortable? Should I take you to the hospital? You…”
Before she could finish her sentence, his hands suddenly loosened, and then he pushed her away completely.
She staggered back several steps and almost fell to the ground.
His face was still extremely pale, “I’m fine! There’s nothing wrong! Since my gift has been delivered today, I should leave now! Please tell Miss. Reed and your parents for me. I’m leaving now!”
After saying this, Roger turned and left quickly, leaving Jasper standing there in a daze, looking worried.
What’s wrong with him? Is he really okay?
For some reason, Roger’s appearance just now made her feel like he had experienced something terrible.
Did the conversation just now remind him of his parents’ death, or did he experience something even more terrible?
At this moment, Jasper felt his mind was in chaos.
Meanwhile, when Roger rushed out of the Reed family mansion, he almost stumbled and had to lean against the walls along the way.
In that moment, he thought of the experiences he had after being kidnapped by the kidnappers from the hospital, those dark experiences he didn’t want to recall!
And she even asked him to speak it out!
How could he describe such experiences?
How could someone as pure and clean as her think of such darkness?
The cleaner she was, the more he felt his own filth, and the more he had the urge to destroy her.
He wanted to destroy her cleanliness and make her as muddy as he was!
But why… did he still want to hold her?
Even he himself didn’t understand this impulse!
When Jasper returned to the main room, it was almost time to cut the cake. William walked up to her and asked, “What’s wrong? I sent you a message, but you didn’t reply. Mason has returned to the living room.”
“I… I didn’t notice the message,” Jasper stammered.
“Why do you look so bad? Did something happen?” William asked.
“Nothing, nothing happened,” she forced a smile.
After a moment, it was time to cut the cake. The Reed family stood beside today’s birthday girl,
Jasmine. With a knife in her hand, Jasmine made a wish, blew out the candles, and began cutting the cake under everyone’s gaze.
Laughter and congratulations filled the scene.
William, however, looked at Jasper’s strained smile and showed a thoughtful expression.
Not long after Jasper left, Roger also disappeared. And when Jasper returned, Roger was nowhere to be seen in the living room.
So, did something happen when Jasper went out to look for Mason?
And could this be related to Roger?
While everyone was eating cake, William walked up to Jasper and asked, “Roger isn’t in the living room. Do you know where he went?”
“Ah, he said he had to go back first,” Jasper answered nervously.
“Go back first?” William pondered. “Did he tell you that?”
“Yes, when I went to find Mason earlier, I hopped to enter intis him, and he said he had to go back first, Paper and Although what she said was true, the inexplicably felt guilty.
“Oh, I see,” William smiled and changed the subject. “By the way, Mason is going to accompany
Jasmine to a concert today. Are you going?”
“No, I’m not interested. Besides, it’s not just Jasmine and Mason going. Tina and Chandler are going too,” Jasper said.
“Then after the birthday banquet, how about you accompany me somewhere?” he said.
“Where are we going?” she asked.
He smiled slightly, “You’ll know when we get there.”
After everyone had finished lunch, the birthday party finally came to an end. People left one by one.
When Tina left, she said goodbye to Jasmine, “Jasmine, don’t forget to come with me to the concert tonight!”
“Got it!” Jasmine nodded her head, “Mason will come with me!”
“Great, see you at the concert!” Tina said, happily leaving with Chandler.
Mick whispered to Mason, “Are you really going to accompany the little girl to the concert?”
“Otherwise, how can you replace me?” Mason said calmly.
Mick refused directly, “No, you should go by yourself.” He didn’t like the noise of concerts.
It was rare for the little girl to ask Mason to go. He didn’t have to endure this kind of fatigue. He was looking forward to it!
Mason gave Mick a white eye.
Mick patted his brother’s shoulder and said seriously, “It’s rare for you, as Mason, to come back. You should accompany the little girl well. Today is her birthday, you have to make her happy!”
Mason pursed his lips and said nothing.
After saying goodbye to his family, Jasper left the Reed House with William and went to a second-hand market.
Jasper looked puzzled and didn’t understand why he brought her here.
“Are you looking to buy something?” Jasper asked.
“I’ve brought you here to see something,” said William, leading Jasper into one of the shops. The shop was filled with toys, clearly a second-hand toy store.
However, the second-hand items in the store were not cheap toys, but limited edition or discontinued toys, all from high-end brands, and priced at a premium.
Some of these second-hand toys were even priced higher than the original retail price, and some could even be considered antiques.
As soon as the shop owner saw William, he recognized him and immediately put on a friendly smile.
“Mr. Barlow, welcome!” he greeted.
“I’d like you to show this young lady the set I was interested in last time,” said William.
“Sure thing!” the shop owner replied, and soon brought out a set of wooden toys.
As soon as Jasper laid eyes on the set of toys, her body stiffened and even her breathing paused. Was this the set of toys she had given to Lawrence? The set of “home” toys for playing house?
The entire set of toys was a wooden toy villa, complete with various scaled-down wooden furniture.
She had given this set of toys to Lawrence, and later, when Lawrence and his parents planned to escape Emerald City, Lawrence had taken this set of toys with him.
But later, his parents were killed, and he lost this set of toys during his escape.
And now, she saw this set of toys reappear before her eyes.
“This…” Jasper murmured, staring intently at the set of toys in front of her.
“I don’t know if it’s the same set from back then, so I brought you here to take a look. I asked the shop owner, and he said it was on consignment from someone else, who only said they got it from a small vendor. But now we can’t find that small vendor,” William explained. “Did you have any special markings on that set of toys back then? Anything that could help identify it?”
Jasper paused for a moment. If it was a mark, she remembered accidentally bumping into this set of toys when she was a child. There should be a mark on the corner of the wooden house’s roof.
She looked towards the roof of the toy house and found the mark she remembered.
So…this set of toys was really the one Lawrence lost! Thinking of this, Jasper’s eyes became moist.
“Is this the one?” William asked.
“Yes!” She nodded. She never thought that after so many years, she could find this set of toys again.
William then said to the shopkeeper, “Please wrap up this set of toys.”
The shopkeeper was overjoyed and quickly wrapped up the toy. After all, this set of toys was not cheap here, and the two people in front of him were both dressed in high-end clothes. They were probably very wealthy!
At this moment, the other party didn’t even ask for the price and just asked to wrap up the toy!
“Do you need anything else? I have many antique toys here, some of which are brand new,” the shopkeeper enthusiastically introduced.
“No, thank you,” Jasper said.
After the toy was wrapped up, William carried it and walked out of the store with Jasper. “Do you want to keep looking around?” he asked.
“This thing is heavy. Let’s put it back in the car first,” Jasper said.