Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Chandler calmly allowed himself to be pulled by his collar. “I guess it’s because I find it strange.”
“Strange?” Mason was puzzled.
“Can someone who once cared so much really forget about it because of hypnosis? Can someone just stop loving another person just by saying so?” Chandler said.
“If you find it strange, then you can try it,” Mason said in a cold voice.
“I won’t,” Chandler said with great certainty.
“You won’t because you think Tina will eventually fall in love with you?” Mason said sarcastically.
“Even if she doesn’t, I won’t give up,” Chandler said. “Tina is my own choice. I chose her even before she was born. Since this is my choice, I will naturally work hard for it.”
“If she doesn’t love you, then your efforts will be useless,”
Mason said bluntly.
“If I don’t make an effort, how can I expect her to fall in love with me?” Chandler retorted.
The two of them faced each other, their faces very close, until
Tina’s voice interrupted them. “What are you guys doing?”
Chandler and Mason turned their heads and saw Tina and
Jasmine had already come out of the restroom. The two women were now staring at them with wide eyes.
Jasmine asked curiously, “Mason, are you going to kiss
Chandler?”
Upon hearing this, Mason and Chandler’s faces changed immediately. Mason quickly let go of
Chandler’s hand, and the two men instinctively stepped back, creating some distance between them.
Tina pulled Jasmine’s arm and whispered, “You can’t be so straightforward about these things.”
Jasmine was confused and asked, “Why not? But Tina, in the comic book you showed me, there were two men kissing!”
“Well… comics are comics, and Mason isn’t… Anyway, he doesn’t want to kiss Chandler, but if they did, it would look pretty good…” Tina muttered to herself.
The two women thought they were whispering quietly, but they didn’t realize that the two men could hear them clearly.
Mason was relatively calm, still looking cold and indifferent.
But Chandler was speechless, wondering what they were talking about. And what kind of book did Tina show Jasmine?
After the concert ended, Tina had planned to chat with
Jasmine a bit more, but Chandler immediately pulled her into the car. “Alright, I’ll take Tina home first.
We can talk another time.”
“Hey, I’m not in a hurry to go home. I still have things to talk to Jasmine about,” Tina protested.
“Whatever you have to say, you can say it another time,”
Chandler replied, closing the car door and driving away
Jasmine then went back to the car with Mason and ask.
“Mason, should we say goodbye to Veronica?”
Mason replied coldly, “No need.”
“Mason, do you really not like Veronica anymore?” Jasmine asked.
In her memory, when she was still young, she vaguely remembered that Mason liked Veronica very much. Many times when Mason came to their house, Veronica would come along, and Mason would smile at her, even though he didn’t smile at others.
And Mason always liked to hold Veronica’s hand. Wherever
Veronica went, he followed her like a tail.
But today, when Mason faced Veronica, he was so indifferent that it made her feel unreal.
“Yes, I don’t like her anymore,” Mason replied flatly.
“Because of hypnosis?” Jasmine asked again.
Mason was somewhat surprised and glanced at her. “How do you know?” After all, in his opinion, his little sister was still young. Although he had no intention of hiding anything, he didn’t expect his little sister to know.
“I heard my sister and brother-in-law talk about it,” Jasmine said. “Mason, can hypnosis really make a person go from liking to not liking someone?”
Mason pursed his thin lips. Chandler had asked him the same question today.
If it were in the past, he could have answered “yes” without hesitation. But today, the word “yes” seemed to be stuck in his throat and was difficult to say.
And in his mind, he flashed back to the scene where he instinctively rushed to Veronica’s side today and blocked the bowl of pasta that was thrown at her.
Why did he still have such instincts when he clearly no longer liked her?
“Mason?” Jasmine spoke again after not getting a response for a long time.
Mason snapped out of his thoughts. “I have no feelings for her anymore, so don’t mention her in front of me again in the future,” he said.
This sentence was like he was talking to his little sister, but it was more like he was talking to himself.
Yes, he had no feelings for that woman anymore!
At this moment, Tina was still grumbling in the car, “Why did you pull me up so quickly? Today is
Jasmine’s birthday, and I wanted to go shopping with her a little longer.”
“It’s already so late, do you not fear danger while wandering around?” Chandler retorted impatiently.
“But we have you and Mason with us, how could we possibly be in danger?” Tina replied.
It must be admitted that her flattery was quite good, at least for Chandler, it was effective.
Chandler glanced at the person sitting next to him and suddenly asked, “What kind of manga did you lend to Jasmine? Yaoi?”
Tina chuckled nervously, “Not entirely, I also gave her some manga that are very youthful, energetic, and positive, about striving hard.”
“Such as?” he asked.
“Such as…” She began to rack her brains, and finally managed to name a few manga books about sports.
“Jasmine is still young, don’t always give her those ‘kinds’ of manga. If you lead her astray in the future, see how your parents will deal with you,” Chandler warned.
Tina grumbled, “The manga I read is not a big deal. My mom even watches them with me and says the boys in them are handsome!”
“…” Chandler was speechless for a moment. It seems that he still needs to communicate with his future mother-in-law in the future. “Do you also like the love in those manga books?”
he asked.
“What?” She was stunned.
“The love between men, do you like it?” he asked.
“I like that kind of love, but it doesn’t matter if it’s between a man and a woman,” Tina said. “I think as long as it’s two people who truly love each other, age, gender, wealth, can all be overcome.”
As she spoke, a dreamy expression of longing appeared on her face. At her age, she may not yet understand what true love is, but she has a naive yearning for it.
“And what about you? Would you be willing to overcome everything for someone you love in the future?” Chandler asked.
“Me?” Tina blinked and turned to Chandler. “But in the future, I’m supposed to love you, Chandler. Do I need to overcome anything else?”
Chandler’s heart suddenly shook. The car stopped at a red light, and his gaze fell on Tina. “You ‘have’
to love me?”
“Of course. Isn’t that what I’m supposed to do?” she said. “You and I are engaged, and this engagement was arranged since I was born. You also saved my mother’s life. Without you, both my mother and I might not be alive.”
Chandler felt a complex emotion rising in his chest. He hesitated for a moment and said, “Don’t you feel uncomfortable? Because I saved you and your mother, your engagement has to be tied to me?”
“No,” Tina shook her head. “I think it’s great. I have a fiancé like you. My classmates envy me because you’re handsome, a famous university student, rich, and talented… everything is perfect.”
Chandler tightly pursed his lips. She felt good and didn’t feel any sense of restraint because she hadn’t truly fallen in love with him yet.
She hadn’t fallen in love with him, she just saw him as a
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habitual presence, which was why the could say such things
If one day she fell in love with someone else, would the feel that he had used his life-saving act to force her info an engagement, binding her for life, and that it was a despicable oct?
Would she turn against him and even want to break free from their engagement and leave him?
“What’s wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?” Tina asked strangely, raising her hand and waving it in front of
Chandler.
He suddenly grabbed her hand and held it in his palm.
“Tina, I… hope you can love me in the future, but I don’t like it because you ‘have’ to love me,” he murmured.
Perhaps it was his greed, hoping that she didn’t love him just because of their engagement or his family’s favor to hers.
Tina seemed a bit confused. “So…what should I do?”
He raised his hand and touched her forehead. “In a few years, maybe you’ll understand.”
A few years later… Tina felt a bit regretful. She wasn’t as clueless about love as he imagined. After all, she had read so many comics, novels, and watched so many movies and TV
shows.
Has she never seen a pig walking just because she hasn’t eaten pork?
Besides, there were classmates in her class who were in relationships. When the girls got together, they would talk about these things too.