Filed to story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“How much longer until we reach our destination?” she asked.
Brian checked the time and said, “We’ll be there in 40 minutes. Just grab a little something to eat to hold you over. Once we get off the car, I’ll take you to try some local delicacies.”
“Oh,” she responded, feeling sweet and happy inside.
While eating, she watched Brian sitting next to her flipping through a travel brochure that introduced the destinations they were going to visit.
Valda looked at Brian, and saw the wedding ring on his hand. This man was really her husband now.
From now on, they would be together forever.
“What’s wrong?” He seemed to notice her gaze and turned his head to look at her.
“I… It’s nothing.” She smiled awkwardly. “I just think you’re really handsome.”
“You are also very beautiful, Mrs. Hart,” he said.
When she heard the three words “Mrs. Hart”, the sweet feeling in her heart became even stronger, almost overflowing with joy.
Yes, she is Mrs. Hart now, she is his wife!
After getting off the plane, Valda turned on her phone again and saw several messages from Camille.
She opened it up and saw her friend saying, “I said Valda, congratulations on making the hot search again.” There was also a screenshot.
The screenshot is exactly the scene of Brian walking with her in the airport.
And then later, Camille wrote several lines of text, “Sister, you’re really showing off your lovey-dovey relationship.”
“Quickly check the trending topics, many people are speculating if you had too intense ‘exercise’ last night!”
“So, have you arrived at your destination?”
Valda looked at her friend’s string of messages and immediately started sweating profusely. She quickly went online to check and sure enough, it had made it to the trending topics. It was currently at number 13, but judging by the current trend, it might climb even higher soon.
Valda clicked on it and found out that it wasn’t just photos, but people had also directly uploaded videos.
In the video, as Brian had mentioned before, she was wrapped in a blanket so that others couldn’t see her face. She leaned against him, and the only things visible to others were her hair and the hand wearing a wedding ring that was outside the blanket.
But the problem is that the hand wearing the wedding ring is easily recognizable as hers!
So there’s no need for anyone else to check, and everyone understands that the person Brian was holding at the time was her.
The comments were varied and often negative. However, the most popular comment was about how the intense battle from the previous night had led to her being carried into the airport like this.
Valda is sweating profusely. She…she just slept too deeply, okay!
“What are you watching?” Brian leaned over and asked.
“You carried me into the airport today and someone saw us and took a picture. Now it’s trending at number 13,” Valda said as she handed her phone to Brian.
Brian looked at the content above and asked, “Do you want me to explain?”
“No, it’ll just make things worse,” she replied. “Anyway, it doesn’t matter what they say. We haven’t done anything scandalous. We’re married, so why worry about rumors?”
He smiled at her words and said, “You’re right. We’re married, so let them speculate.”
“By the way, where are you taking me for our first local meal?” Valda changed the subject.
So, Brian and Valda began discussing what they would eat for their first local meal.
Although Brian isn’t a celebrity, his face is recognizable, and with the recent hot search, they were recognized while walking on the street.
Fortunately, it didn’t happen too often, or Valda would have thought she married a star!
“Should I buy a mask to wear?” Brian asked.
Valda was puzzled and asked, “Why would you buy a mask?”
“Prevent being recognized, so you can stroll around with peace of mind,” he said. “You won’t be bothered by these inexplicable things.”
“It’s not really inexplicable. At least it’s because you’re handsome that you’re easily recognized. If it were a common face in the crowd, you wouldn’t be recognized at all.” She said.
She amused him with her theory, causing him to relax his furrowed brow.
“Besides, there’s no need to cover your face with a mask. You’re not hiding from anyone,” Valda said.
“We’re not having a secret affair, so there’s no need to be secretive. Even if someone takes a picture of us during our honeymoon, it doesn’t matter.”
Her lack of concern surprised him.
Regarding the previous incident with the trending searches. and now that he has been recognized, given her personality, she definitely prefers to keep a low profile.
And the way she is now, may also be a form of adaptation for her.
She is adapting to the various situations she has to face while being with him.
At this moment, Brian took Valda’s hand, lowered his head, and gently kissed the palm of her hand.
“Hmm?” Valda looked puzzled.
“You are truly a great wife. It’s my good fortune to have married you in this life,” he said.
“The one who is fortunate in this life is me,” she replied with a smile.
In the following days, Valda and Brian went around tMason Swansonty during the day, which had a strong comic book atmosphere. There were also many well-known comic book artists living in tMason
Swansonty, and Valda even visited a few of them with Brian.
At night, she would video chat with Camille, Grace, Kyla, Amber, and Lina.
Sometimes, they would have a group video call, almost like having a tea party.
“How was your honeymoon?” Camille asked.
“It was great,” Valda replied.
“Then maybe you’ll be pregnant when you come back from your honeymoon,” Camille said.
Valda almost sprayed the water she was drinking, “Pregnant?”
“Do you still have no plans to have a child?” Camille asked. “You’re already 30, and Brian, although he looks okay, is not young anymore. If you don’t have a child soon, when do you plan to have one? Even if he doesn’t pressure you, your in-laws will.”
“I didn’t say I won’t have one, it’s just… um, is it going to happen so soon?” Valda hurriedly replied.
“I have no experience with that, you can ask the other experienced people,” Camille said.
The experienced people, of course, were the others besides Camille.
Grace cleared her throat and spoke as a representative, “Actually, getting pregnant can happen quickly or slowly, it’s really unpredictable. Sometimes it comes when you least expect it, and when you really want it, it doesn’t come. Anyway, just stay calm.”
“Yes, stay calm,” Lina said. “But hey, I really want to see your and Brian’s baby soon! It must be a beautiful baby!”
When these women talked about children, they couldn’t stop.
Just then, Kyla said, “By the way, did Jasper find the boy she was looking for?”
“What boy?” Valda asked in confusion.
“On your wedding day, Jasper heard a little boy playing the piano in the hallway near the utility room, and she wanted us to help her find the boy so she could hear him play again.”
“Isn’t Jasper good at playing the piano? Does she also want to listen to other children playing the piano? Does that child play better than her?” Valda was a bit surprised.
After all, she had heard Jasper play the piano before. When she first heard him play, she was completely stunned. She never expected a child to play so well.
“That’s not the case. She said that the boy’s finger technique is not so smooth in some places, but the sound of the piano has a certain charm,” said Grace.
The other people on the video call are not experts in this field, so it’s difficult for them to understand what “charm” really feels like.
“Is Jasper interested in the little boy and trying to find out more about him? What about the Barlow family’s child?” Lina suddenly asked.
“Lina, you’re overthinking it. They’re only a few years old,” said
Kyla.
“I didn’t think too much,” said Lina. “The Barlow family’s child and Jasper have been childhood friends.
He looks at Jasper with such a focused gaze that when they get a few years older, they’ll probably start dating. Nowadays, kids start dating earlier and earlier every year.”
“Indeed, children nowadays mature early. I also think that William must really like Jasper,” said Valda.
“Ah, if we find that little boy, it might turn into a love triangle in the future,” Lina imagined various scenarios. “Grace, are you really planning to find that little boy?”
“Jason has promised the child, so he naturally has to find them. It’s estimated that it will be within the next two days, and we can arrange for Jasper to meet the child,” said Grace.
At that moment, Brian emerged from the bathroom wearing a bathrobe and walked over to Valda. “Are you still chatting?”
Without waiting for Valda’s response, Lina’s scream came through the phone, “Ah, the temptation of a bathrobe! I actually saw Brian in his bathrobe, oh my god…”
Suddenly, the tone of the conversation changed drastically.
Next, on Lina’s screen, a hand covered her eyes and Hadwin’s voice came through, “Sorry about that, my wife just lost her cool. I have some things to discuss with her.”
After finishing, Lina disconnected from the video call.
The others looked at each other in confusion. Grace smiled and said, “Alright, we won’t disturb your honeymoon any longer. Let’s end our conversation here for today!”
After the video call ended, Valda turned to Brian and said, “I wonder how Lina is doing now.”
“I reckon Hadwin will make sure she understands not to scream at other men.” Brian bent down and lifted Valda horizontally, taking big steps towards the bed before setting her down. “What about you?
Would you scream if you saw someone else’s husband in a bathrobe?”
Valda really started to think about it seriously.
Think about Grace, Kyla, and Lina’s husbands, they are all incredibly handsome. If they were in the entertainment industry, they would be top-notch. If they really appeared in bathrobes, then she…
He saw her serious expression and furrowed his brows. He leaned down and kissed her cheek, “Okay, stop thinking about it.”
“But I have to think about it. How do I know if I will scream if they really wear bathrobes? I have to imagine it!” she said.