Chapter 513 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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When the car started up again, Grace looked at the ointment. in her hand and fell into a trance.

Stella was terrified. Robert Brewer had been sent to the hospital for treatment while Brian was accompanying Grace to the police station to give their statements.

She was more afraid of being found out that she had framed Grace than the embarra**ment of people seeing her awful photos from the past.

“It should be alright!

‘Robert Brewer was drugged. They probably won’t trace back to me. Besides, I paid a cleaner to lock the lounge door.

and unlock it quietly. As long as the cleaner doesn’t tell on me, they won’t be able to trace it to me!

Besides, everyone had seen her photos because of this incident. Speaking of which, she was also a victim!

Nevertheless, Stella went to Brian’s house in the evening and waited until Brian returned. When he reached the living room, she immediately got up with a concerned expression and asked, “Brian, how is Grace doing? Is she okay?”

Brian glanced lightly at Stella and got straight to the point. “Did the incident today have anything to do with you?”

Stella froze, feeling as if her thoughts had nowhere to hide under his phoenix eyes.

“I… I know it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have asked Grace to wait for me in the lounge, but I really don’t know why that happened to Robert Brewer!” Stella put on a look of remorse.

“Today… Dazhu said he was coming to see me because he had something for me, so I told him to wait for me in the lounge. Then Grace came to see me, so I told Grace to wait for me in the lounge too. I thought that since they knew each other, it wouldn’t be too awkward for them to see each other in the lounge, but…”

Stella sniffled as she spoke, “Was Robert Brewer really drugged? Is someone trying to frame me? If… If Grace hadn’t come to see me today, then I might have been in danger if had gone into the lounge. Grace… took my place and was met with such an incident. Fortunately, she wasn’t… You know… By Robert Brewer, or I’ll really regret it!”

Stella said what she had planned to say, turning herself into a victim.

As long as she was a victim, Grace’s incident was not her fault. Grace was just unfortunate.

“Is everything you’re telling me now the truth?” asked Brian as he stared at the person in front of him.

Stella immediately said, “Of course. Why would I lie to you, Brian? You know what? The more I thought about it later, the more scared I became. If I had entered the lounge, and since.

I’m not as smart as Grace, then I’d… have gotten myself into a scandal in Emerald City and be laughed at by now!”

She wanted to throw herself into his arms and seek comfort as she spoke.

However, Brian pushed Stella out of his arms. “Stella, I’ve told you that I only regard you as my childhood savior, so don’t do anything inappropriate or say something inappropriate in case you mislead others.”

Stella’s expression immediately changed at that, and she bit her lower lip hard.

“Also, I hope you’re telling the truth today. The police have started investigating this, and it won’t be long before they have the results,” said Brian.

Stella forced a smile. “Yes, I also hope… they’ll have the results soon so that I’ll know who’s trying to hurt me!”

However, her heart was beating wildly and uncontrollably. It was almost as if it were about to burst out of her throat. Fear was welled up inside her.

‘What if… they find out? What do I do then?”

Stella could not help shuddering at the thought of what might happen.

Over the weekend, Lina asked Grace out to relieve her boredom.

Lina drove Grace to a famous temple in Emerald City.

“Why are we here?” Grace was a little curious. After all, Lina was not the kind of person who liked to pray to Buddha or worship deities.

“I heard that the Buddha here is efficacious, so I brought you here to get rid of your bad luck. By the way, you can also make some wishes to the Buddha here if you have any. Maybe they’ll come true!” said Lina.

Grace broke into a smile. “If you’re accompanying me here today, don’t you need to accompany Hadwin Stephenson?”

“He has gone back to the Stephenson family’s house to deal with some things! He won’t be in Emerald City recently,” said Lina before blushing suddenly. She seemed like she was about to say something but stopped.

“What’s the matter?” asked Grace.

“Well… Grace, if I say I’m going to marry Hadwin Stephenson in three months and want you to be my maid of honor, will… Will you do it?” Lina was in a dilemma when she said this.

After all, it would be the event of her life in three months, and she wanted her best friend to be her maid of honor. It was also a deal they had made when they were students. Whoever got married first, the other one would be the maid of honor.

However, from another point of view, her best friend had just ended things with Jason and was suffering heartbreak. Would making Grace the maid of honor make her sad? Would it make things even worse?

“In three months?” Grace was stunned, not expecting her best friend to drop such a huge bomb.

“Yeah, Hadwin said he’ll use three months to resolve the Stephenson family’s internal conflict, and we’ll get married after that,” said Lina.

Although it seemed too fast to her at first, she was at ease once she had made up her mind to get married in three months. She even began to look forward to the moment when she would become Hadwin Stephenson’s wife!

“If so, congratulations!” Grace said with a smile and sincerely gave her best wishes to her best friend. “Of course, I’ll be the maid of honor for your wedding! I’ll be upset if you didn’t ask me to be your maid of honor!”

“It doesn’t matter if you feel reluctant…”

The next moment, Grace reached out her arms and embraced Lina. “Lina, I’m not at all reluctant. I know you’re worried about

You’re worried that I’ll think of my relationship and be upset, aren’t you? But if so, you think too little of our friendship.”

Lina was stunned. Grace knew all about her thoughts and concerns.

“I’m really happy that you can have a happy ending with Hadwin Stephenson. Even though I may never wear a wedding dress, more than anyone else, I hope that you get to wear it. Therefore, I must accompany you and see you happy on your wedding day!”

Little by little, Grace’s voice crept into Lina’s ears.

Lina embraced Grace back and said with a sore nose, “What do you mean you’ll never wear a wedding dress? You’ll get to wear a wedding dress too! I’m sure of it!”

Grace did not want Lina to worry too much about her, so she replied with a smile, “Okay, I’ll try my best to let myself wear a wedding dress one day.”

When the two got out of the car, Grace asked, “You’re going to marry Hadwin Stephenson in three months. What did your parents say about this?”

“They don’t know yet. Hadwin will return to Emerald City in a few days and visit my parents at my house,” said Lina. She had no idea how her parents would react.

The two walked up the steps along the hillside toward the temple as they chatted.

The temple was built on a hill, so it was a little tiring to walk. up, but it was also a good opportunity to have a look at the scenery along the way.

As she walked up the steps and looked at the scenery, Grace felt as if her worries had been alleviated by a lot.

It seemed that walking like this was pretty good!

Once they reached the temple, Lina cried out a “huh” before saying, “There seem to be a lot more security guards here today.”

“Security guards?” Grace looked around, and indeed, there were several men in uniform standing at the temple’s entrance. Every pilgrim going in and out was checked with metal detectors.

“When did temples become so strict?” Grace asked, puzzled.

“I have no idea. There were at most two security guards at the entrance when I came here with my mother.” Lina was also puzzled.

After being checked with metal detectors, the two entered the temple.

Lina had been here several times before, so she was quite familiar with the temple. She brought Grace with her and bought incense and paper ingots in the temple before. heading to one of the halls nearest to the temple’s entrance.

There was an incense burner at the hall’s entrance. Grace followed Lina and lit the incense before putting the incense into the incense burner.

Just as the two were about to enter the temple hall, Grace heard one of the people burning incense behind them saying, “Did you hear? Jason is here too.”

“Jason? The Jason… from the Reed family?”

“Which other Jason would come here and have so many security guards conduct such inspections at the temple’s entrance?”

Grace trembled. She had thought that perhaps since his name was being kept in the bottom of her heart, she would never hear that name again after leaving the mansion.

However, she did not expect to hear the name again so soon! They were… even in the same temple.

Lina naturally heard this too and immediately looked at Grace. somewhat awkwardly. “Why don’t… we go back as soon as we finish worshiping the Buddha statue?”

Grace said with feigned nonchalance, “Don’t worry, I’m fine.

So what if he’s in the temple too? Does it mean that I have to quickly leave Emerald City and move to another city if he’s int Emerald City? Since we live in the same city, there’s always the possibility that we’ll run into each other at some point.”

With that, Grace grabbed Lina and walked into the temple hall.

There were a total of four Buddha statues in the temple hall, and Grace worshipped them all.

Her heart that was somewhat confused after hearing Jason’s name had suddenly calmed down when she walked into the temple hall.

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