Chapter 391 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

However, he chose to stand by her side and was willing to be the sword in her hand.

‘Is it really… fake? What if it’s true?’

“Hadwin Stephenson, do you really like me?” Lina asked suddenly.

Hadwin Stephenson suddenly narrowed his eyes. There was a flash of surprise in his eyes. He could feel that she was being unprecedentedly serious right now.

His thin lips parted as he said gently,

“Yes.” The simple word had already been declared his heart.

“Are you… still going to get even with me?” Lina took a deep breath before continuing to ask, “Are you going to dump me after I fall in love with you?”

He sighed. “If I only wanted to get even with you, why would I do so much for you? Lina, do you really think I’ve been with you all these days just to get back at you?”

She was speechless.

Regarding the time they had spent together these days… If there was a so-called boyfriend grading system, even if he did not get a full score, he certainly had a high score.

Sometimes she could not help but think that if she could find a boyfriend who would treat her as well as he did, then she would be really happy.

He made her know what it was like to be so carefully cherished by a man.

“Hadwin Stephenson, I think I like you. If you want, then… How about a real relationship? Not one that’s on the premise of revenge, but let’s become a real couple?” said Lina.

Speaking of which, this was the first time she was confessing to a man so seriously.

She did not want to escape the feeling in her heart. Since she had fallen for him, she did not want to miss him.

Or should she say she did not want to miss him a second time, having already missed him more than three years ago?

He stared at her, his beautiful black eyes looking as if he wanted to see through her.

“Do you want us to have a real relationship?” His voice was slightly hoarse.

She nodded.

“However, you must know that once we’re really dating, you can’t just leave me whenever you want anymore. I can forgive you for leaving without saying goodbye the last time, but if you leave again without saying goodbye, maybe

I’ll break your legs so that you can’t go anywhere,” Hadwin Stephenson said.

Each word sounded like a final warning to her.

Lina trembled, her teeth leaving a row of bite marks on her red lower lip.

“No, not just leaving without saying goodbye… You don’t even have the right to break up with me,” said Hadwin

Stephenson. He simply could not imagine letting her go once he had her heart.

He would probably not give her a chance to leave him when that happened. He would not let go even if she no longer liked him, or even if she hated him.

Lina looked at Hadwin Stephenson in shock, and the bite marks on her red lip became deeper.

“If you hate me in the future, I won’t break up even if you cry and beg me on your knees. So, do you still want to date me?” he asked, word by word.

His clear voice sounded as beautiful as a crooning cello.

However, every word seemed to be so heavy.

Lina discovered that there was a layer of cold sweat on her palms.

Perhaps she had never expected her confession to Hadwin Stephenson would cause him to say such things.

It was as if he was warning her that if she wanted to run away, she should do it now, and if she missed this opportunity, she would not have any more in the future.

‘But… Do I want to escape and miss my chance with this man again? Or… Should

I bet that we’ll never break up?

‘Should I bet that our love will be smooth sailing from here on out?’

She had never been one to bet on good luck, and she would lose most of her games at poker and mahjong.

However, now she wanted to bet with the rest of her life!

“I… want to have a real relationship with you!” She heard herself saying.

Lina felt that this was the most important decision she had ever made!

Just like that, they went from having a fake relationship to having a real one.

However, Grace and Jason had just split up, so she did not tell her best friend about it for the time being. She only planned to tell Grace about it later.

In the evening, Lina and Grace had a video call. “Have you tried on the clothes and shoes I bought for you? Do they fit?”

“They fit just fine,” said Grace.

“Good. Tell me if you’re still lacking anything. Don’t be shy. You can just pay me back after getting your salary,” said

Lina.

“Sure.” Grace smiled, but after a moment, she looked like she was holding something back.

“What is it? Do you need something?”

“No, it’s…” Grace hesitated a moment before saying, “When you picked me up yesterday… What was I doing?”

She thought about it all day, but she still could not remember what she had done after walking out of Drunken Days drunk! She only vaguely remembered seeing

Jason.

“You… Uh, leaned in Jason’s arms and blacked out,” said Lina.

Grace froze immediately. “Anything…

else?”

“No. I arrived and helped you get into the car with Hadwin Stephenson. However…

Before I got back to the car, I impulsively slapped him because I was mad at him for breaking up with you. I thought I was going to be in trouble, but probably because of you, he just left without saying anything,” said Lina.

Grace was stunned, not expecting that such a thing would happen after she got drunk.

Few people in Emerald City dared to slap Jason! However, he… was willing to let

Ling off the hook?

“Grace, did Jason really break up with you because he thought of your relationship as a game?” After yesterday’s incident, Lina found it a bit far-fetched.

‘If he really treated his relationship with Grace as a game, how could Jason not go after me for slapping him? And it was because Grace said something when she was in a dazed state.

“Yeah. He felt tired and doesn’t want to love me anymore, so it’s over. If that doesn’t make it a game, then what does?” said Grace.

Lina was speechless. She could only hope for her best friend to get over this failed relationship as soon as possible.

Grace lay in bed after her video call with

Lina.

The lights were on.

She could finally go to sleep with the lights off after dating him. However, after they broke up, she went back to sleeping with the lights on.

It was hot and stuffy in early August, even at night.

‘If it took less than a year to fall in love with him, how long will it take to forget him?

‘Regardless, I’ll get over him one day!’ Grace said to herself and slowly closed her eyes.

Her new job was hectic.

In the past few days, her colleagues in the office had been talking about her behind her back, but at least no one would ask her face to face if she was dating Jason.

Andrea Schwartz did not pester her these days, so Grace was left in peace.

At the end of the day, Lawyer Carter handed her a document. The document needed the client’s signature, but since the client was too lazy to visit the firm, they had to send it to the client for them to sign it before submitting it through the normal procedure.

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