Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Many people want to flatter and please her!
He used to think that such a person was far away from him and beyond his reach in his lifetime.
But he didn’t expect that, at this very moment, the distance between them would be so close.
Seeing the other party remain silent, just staring at her blankly, Harley furrowed her brow. She leaned in closer and asked, “Did you hear that?”
The young man finally snapped out of it and awkwardly replied, “Yes, I heard.”
“Then you should go to the hospital now,” she said. He had been beaten up and needed to see a doctor.
“No need,” he quickly insisted, trying to leave.
However, the place where he had just been hit was hurting badly. He took only two steps before stumbling and falling forward, about to hit the ground.
Harley quickly reached out and offered, “How are you? Should
I call a taxi to take you to the hospital?”
After all, she had helped him before, so she wanted to help him completely!
However, the other person refused again, saying, “No need.”
“Don’t you want to go to the hospital? But your injury…”
“I don’t have money. Going to the hospital costs a lot, it’s not necessary,” the boy said, lowering his head.
Harley was taken aback. She wasn’t a princess who didn’t understand the hardships of the world. On the contrary, because of her mother’s humble background, she was well aware of the lives of ordinary people.
However, in this school, most students came from wealthy families. Even those with poor family conditions wouldn’t be so destitute as to not afford medical treatment if they could attend this school.
So when the boy in front of her said he couldn’t go to the hospital because he didn’t have money, she was truly stunned.
“Thank you for helping me. Goodbye,” the boy said simply, intending to leave.
But Harley didn’t let go of his hand.
The boy looked at Harley with confusion.
Harley said, “Let me take you to the hospital, I’ll pay for the medical expenses.”
“What?” Karen exclaimed, “Harley, seriously? Just give him some money if he doesn’t have any.
There’s no need for you to personally take him to the hospital.”
The boy lowered his eyes, hiding a fleeting hint of sarcasm.
People like them, who were wealthy, usually just used money to dismiss the poor.
In their eyes, all the poor people need is money.
He was about to refuse again when he heard Harley say, “I’l| take him to the hospital, Karen, you go ahead!”
After saying that, Harley looked at the young boy and asked, “Are you okay? Can you still walk? I’ll support you and we can take a taxi to the school gate.”
The young boy was stunned, and it took him a while to lift his head and look at Harley, nodding slightly.
“Harley, why do you have to do this?” Karen kept nagging.
Harley ignored her friend and supported the young boy, walking towards the school gate.
Along the way, Harley’s act of supporting someone caught the attention of many passersby and made them curious about the identity of this young boy with a swollen and bruised face. They wondered how he could be supported by the princess of the Hart family!
At the school gate, Harley hailed a taxi and took the boy to the hospital!
At the registration desk in the hospital, Harley asked the boy,
“What’s your name?”
“Calvert Elledge,” the boy replied.
Harley wrote his name in the newly purchased medical record book, assigned him a number, and then accompanied him to wait in line outside the examination room.
Calvert looked at Harley, who had been by his side all along and felt a different kind of emotion.
He rarely came to the hospital because it was a luxury for him.
Even on the few occasions he did come to the hospital, he came alone without anyone accompanying him!
He used to envy those patients who had someone with them at the hospital, but gradually, he stopped feeling envious.
Because he knew that envy was pointless. It would only make him complain more about the unfairness of fate, without bringing any change to his own life.
And now, she is by his side.
It didn’t take long before it was Calvert’s turn. At that moment, he even felt like time was too short.
The doctor examined Calvert’s injuries and informed him that there was nothing serious, just a need for some ointment.
As the doctor examined him, Calvert felt a bit embarrassed when he had to take off his shirt. Harley said, “Don’t be shy, it’s more important for the doctor to see the injuries!”
Calvert took off his shirt, revealing a multitude of old scars that made Harley gasp.
Besides the visible bruises from today’s beating, she never expected him to have so many old scars. It was as if he had been beaten since childhood.
The doctor took a look and sighed, “You need to take care of your body from now on. It may not show now while you’re young, but you’ll know the pain when you get older!”
Harley paid for Calvert’s medical expenses and handed him the medicine after picking it up.
Calvert took the medicine and asked, “Do you find it disgusting?”
“What?” She was taken aback and didn’t understand what he was asking.
“You saw the injuries on my body just now, did you find them disgusting?”
Disgusting? Harley didn’t feel that way. She was more surprised, and after the surprise, she felt a kind of sympathy towards him.
She shook her head, “No after you take these medicines back, make sure to apply them properly.”
“I will repay you for the cost of the medicines, although it may take some time,” he said awkwardly.
“No need to repay me, I promised to help you with medical expenses. By the way, are you going back to school now or somewhere else?”
“I’ll go home first,” he whispered.
“Alright,” Harley said, hailing a taxi for Calvert outside the hospital. She then handed him $100 before he got in.
“No need, I’ll take the bus back myself,” he hurriedly said.
“You can barely walk steadily right now, so why don’t you take a taxi back? $100 should cover the fare. Take good rest!” After saying this, she stuffed him into a taxi, closed the door, and turned around to catch another taxi and leave.
Calvert stared blankly at the departing taxi, feeling a mix of emotions.
“Where to?” the driver in the front asked Calvert for his address.
Calvert took a while to come to his senses and then provided the address.
20 minutes later, the taxi stopped at the entrance of a run-down alley in Emerald City. Calvert got out of the car and looked at the old houses in front of him. There were many beggars along the way, and trash was scattered everywhere.
This place is known as the gathering place for the poor in Emerald City and is jokingly referred to as the slums of Emerald City. And he, grew up here since he was a child.
When he was young, he didn’t think much of it, but as he grew older, he realized that people are truly different from one another.
He used to believe that as long as he worked hard and had good grades, he could change everything.
He studied hard and made sure his grades were always good, wanting to prove that even if he was born poor, he could still make something of himself.
However, when he entered university, he realized that the gap was much bigger than he had imagined.
Because of his excellent grades, the school waived his tuition fee, allowing him to attend this prestigious university.
But it was precisely because of this that the disparity became more apparent. He discovered that there were many things that even good grades couldn’t change!
As he walked into his old, dilapidated house filled with a smell of decay, he saw his father rummaging through boxes and cabinets, angrily muttering, “Why don’t we have any money? Why can’t we find even a single penny?”
Seeing this scene, Calvert knew that his father had probably lost in gambling again. So now he was at home searching for money, wanting to find some to continue gambling.
“Did you steal my money, you brat?” As soon as his son came back, Calvert’s father immediately grabbed his collar and loudly questioned.
Calvert coldly replied, “Do you think you still have money for me to steal?”
After listening to Calvert’s words, Calvert’s father forcefully pushed him away and said, “You, if it weren’t for me, how could you grow up like this? It’s all because I raised you!”
After speaking, he continued searching in the house. Suddenly, Mr. Elledge seemed to have found something, a look of excitement flashed across his face. He grabbed that thing in his hand and hurriedly left!
Calvert noticed that the pendant his father had just found belonged to his mother in the past. It was made of silver and wasn’t worth much, but for his father, even a little money was good at a time like this. It was all he had for gambling!
Facing a father like this, it’s no wonder that his mother escaped from this household and even left him behind!
Taking a glance around the dimly lit house, Calvert silently took out the medicine that Harley had given him from his pocket.
Is this the compassion of the wealthy?
That princess, so high and mighty, never would have expected to have any connection with someone like him one day.
But the intersection, that’s as far as it goes.
For him, the current life is just barely surviving, and each day on campus only makes him realize that he can’t change anything, including his own life!
Three days later, Tina and Lornell crossed paths, and Lornell handed her a pill.
“Take it!” Lornell said.
Tina took the pill without hesitation.
This action surprised Lornell a bit. “Aren’t you going to ask what this pill is?”
“Since it’s medication given by the Quentin family, there’s no need to ask. If anything happens to me, you’ll be implicated too,” Tina replied.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw him standing in front of me. It had been years since we last saw each other, but it felt like only yesterday.
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