Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Reed family’s ancestral hall, where Mason finally stopped.
“Do you remember when I told you about my grandparents’ story?” Mason suddenly said.
“Ah?” Veronica paused for a moment, then nodded and said, “I remember,”
“Well, then you should also remember how my grandfather died,” his voice continued.
“Uh-huh,” she responded.
“He lost the will to live because he was abandoned by the person he loved, and chose to freeze to death in the icy wilderness,” Mason murmured, looking towards the entrance of the ancestral hall.
“When I first found out how my grandfather passed away, I didn’t understand why someone would choose to die instead of living on.”
His voice paused, slowly turning his head and his gaze landed on her face. “And then, I understood why.”
In an instant, Veronica felt as though all the blood in her body was freezing under his gaze.
She could only hear his voice continuing to speak, word by word. “Because when you love someone too much, you see them as more important than your own life. If that person disappears, then your own life becomes insignificant.”
She struggled to swallow the saliva that suddenly accumulated in her throat. “But…what does this have to do with the misunderstanding between us?”
“Because I don’t want to love you too much anymore. I don’t want to end up with no hope, only despair,” he said. “So, Veronica, this is where we part ways.”
She froze, is this the end? Is he really going to distance himself from her completely?
From now on, he won’t be her brother or family anymore, he’ll just be Mason from the Reed family!
In an instant, a feeling of fear surged from the bottom of her heart! This fear and discomfort even surpassed the feeling she had when she broke up with Daniel.
No! She didn’t want this! If he was doing this because she only saw him as a brother, then she could even…
She took two steps forward, wanting to grab his hand, “But what if I don’t want this?”
But suddenly, he pulled his hand away, leaving her hand empty.
“What makes you think you have the right to want or not want anything right now?” he asked in return.
“Veronica, not every time do you hold the power to make the decisions!”
“Mason!” she cried out. “Can you really just end it all so easily? Can you just throw away all those years of our relationship?”
All those little moments they shared together were what had once supported their bond and strength throughout the years.
At this moment, Veronica tried to use their past emotions to dissolve the distance between them.
But his next words shattered all her hopes, “I can.”
He said this, and her eyes dimmed a little, her lips trembling as she asked, “Can you…?”
“Yes, I can, because those long-standing feelings you mentioned no longer exist in me now,” he said.
She stared at him blankly, feeling like he was a complete stranger. “What do you mean by that?” she asked.
“Do you know hypnosis?” he abruptly asked.
“Do you know about hypnosis?” he abruptly asked.
She furrowed her brows, feeling increasingly uneasy.
“Once, my mother and father were separated. My father thought my mother was dead and he was on the brink of madness. At that time, Secretary Wylie, who took me away, had my father hypnotized to forget about my mother’s existence. This way, my father didn’t go completely insane.”
Veronica didn’t understand why Mason suddenly brought this up. After all, he hadn’t forgotten about her! He knew who she was and remembered everything between them!
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“But hypnosis doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting. There’s another way where you can remember everything, but… that feeling can be erased,” Mason said.
Veronica stared at him in shock. Erased… what does that mean? “What do you mean by erased… I don’t understand,” she said nervously.
“To erase means that everything that happened between us, for me, is like watching a movie as a bystander. And now that the movie is over, there’s nothing left,” he explained.
“A movie? Everything between us is just like a movie to you now?” she asked.
“Yes, just like a movie,” he replied, his gaze cold as he looked at her. This kind of look was like how he usually looked at his classmates in class. She had never thought that he would ever look at her with such eyes.
But now, reality has slapped her hard in the face.
“Are you joking with me? How…how is it possible to have that kind of hypnosis? Are you still angry because of my previous misunderstanding?” She asked anxiously.
But his expression remained calm, so calm that it made her extremely uneasy.
“You know, I never joke. I voluntarily underwent hypnosis during my time abroad,” Mason said.
“Veronica, as I said before, I won’t call you Veronica anymore, so you don’t have to treat me like a younger brother. If there’s no need in the future, we don’t have to meet again. You can go back now.”
After saying this, he turned around and headed back the way he came.
She watched his gradually disappearing figure and suddenly lifted her feet, rushing towards him and reaching out to stop him in his tracks. “Mason, do you really not care about our years of relationship?”
she asked.
“I don’t care,” was his reply.
Her hand finally fell weakly to her side as he continued walking forward.
She bitterly smiled, never having thought that one day she and he would come to this point.
He hypnotized his feelings for her, their past was just a movie to him, and now that the movie was over, they should naturally go their separate ways.
Is this their ending?
Just now, she even wanted to blurt out that she could try not to ay just treat him as a younger brother, and see if she could fall in love with him!
But in the end, she didn’t have the chance to say those words!
At this point, even if she did say it, it would only be self-defeating.
Veronica returned to the Barlow family in a daze, only to face her father and stepmother’s repeated questioning, “What did you say to Mason when you went to the Reed family? Will Lionel be found guilty in the final judgment?”
“Speak up! What are you staring at!”
In her ears, her father and stepmother kept asking questions, but she seemed to have trouble hearing them clearly. All she could think about was Mason’s cold gaze flashing through her mind.
Was all the love they had shared now only in her heart?
Did it mean nothing to him anymore?
And the irony was… he was the one who willingly underwent hypnosis. At that time, he was in pain and chose to undergo this kind of hypnosis.
Veronica felt like there was a hollow space in her chest. She realized that something was lost and she couldn’t get it back no matter how hard she tried.
This time, she had truly lost Mason.
She had lost her closest family member!
During the next few days of the trial, Mason never appeared again. Although Veronica showed up, she looked very haggard and even spoke very little. This made Jasper even more worried.
The reason why Mason was so cold towards Veronica after returning to the country was revealed to her when she accidentally overheard a private conversation between Mason and his parents.
Hypnosis!
It turns out that there is such a hypnosis technique that allows one to remember everything, but at the same time, it can also diminish the emotions associated with those memories.
At that time, she clearly heard his father ask Mason, “How could you bear to use this kind of hypnosis?”
This is Mason’s response:
“Because at that time, I felt like if I didn’t undergo that hypnosis, I wouldn’t be able to go on living.”
“Was it really that bad?”
Did Mason’s feelings for Veronica reach such a deep level at that time?
Initially, she had hoped that Veronica and Mason could reconcile, or that they could become a couple, but after everything that has happened, it seems unlikely.
Mason no longer has any feelings for Veronica.
After the trial ended, all the kidnappers were sentenced to 7-15 years in prison. As for Lionel, since he was a minor and evidence showed that his initial intention was only a fake kidnapping, and Jasper and
Veronica both issued forgiveness. letters for Lionel, he was released on the spot.
Archer and Rosalind were crying and laughing while holding their son, while Veronica stood aside, looking like an outsider.
Jasper wanted to go over and talk to Veronica, but William next to him pulled him back and said, “Don’t go over there!”
“But what about Veronica?” Jasper asked, feeling worried.
“If you go over there now, it will only make her more embarrassed and uncomfortable. Besides, with your situation with Mason and her, what do you plan to say to her? Are you going to tell her not to worry or tell her to go find Mason again?” William advised.
“If you go over there now, it will only make her more embarrassed and uncomfortable. Besides, with the situation between you, Mason, and her, what do you plan to say to her? Are you going to tell her not to worry about it, or tell her to go find Mason?” William said.
Jasper was speechless, as neither option seemed appropriate.
“This is between her and Mason. You are just an outsider, and getting involved would only make things worse,” William continued.
Jasper had also learned about Mason’s hypnosis from him yesterday.
After finding out, he couldn’t help but admire Mason’s determination to make such a difficult decision.
Perhaps only someone who has liked someone before would understand how much courage it takes for Mason to make that decision.
Upon hearing this, Jasper hesitated for a moment before ultimately deciding to leave with William.
As they walked outside the courthouse, Jasper asked, “Do you think hypnosis can really completely diminish one’s emotions?
Even if they remember everything that happened, can they still detach themselves from it?”
“I don’t know,” William replied. “But based on how Mason is treating Veronica now, it seems to be the case.”
“Mason clearly likes Veronica, so why doesn’t he try to pursue her again? Maybe if he did, Veronica wouldn’t just see him as a little brother,” Jasper frowned.