Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“What do you think?” Mick asked.
“It’s really fun!” Nancy said, “This battle game can adapt to different levels of difficulty, and has a high degree of freedom.
It tests the player’s overall level. When this game is released, it will definitely be popular.”
She wasn’t just flattering him, but telling the truth. Based on her gaming experience and the popular games on the market, the game Mick was developing had high playability and some innovative features that could attract players.
“I was asking about your hand,” Mick said.
“Huh?” Nancy was surprised that he asked this.
“My hand… um, it’s nothing,” she said.
“Let me see,” Mick said, taking Nancy’s hand.
Her hand was held in his palm, and the size difference between their hands was striking.
His hand seemed like it could easily envelop hers completely.
Mick kneaded Nancy’s palm and fingers, and suddenly a painful sensation surged up, causing Nancy to groan.
She hadn’t felt much before, but after being kneaded like this, her fingers felt a bit stiff.
“Bear with it,” Mick said.
“Don’t… don’t knead it anymore, it’s okay,” she quickly said.
“If your hands don’t get enough relaxation, it can lead to chronic problems that will be harder to treat in the future,”
Mick said.
Nancy blinked. Wasn’t that a bit exaggerated, chronic problems?
As if he could read her thoughts, he added, “Don’t doubt it. Do you know how professional athletes get their occupational diseases?”
“But I’m not a professional athlete,” she said.
“Your speed can rival that of a professional athlete,” Mick praised generously, “but the faster your speed, the heavier the burden on your hands. If you don’t want to suffer from hand pain when you’re older, it’s best to start protecting your hands now.”
Nancy was stunned. Although Mick’s voice was calm, his words showed that he was… concerned about her.
“I’ll give you a set of hand exercises for health next time, and you can follow the video to do them regularly,” Mick said.
“Oh, okay…” Nancy replied, but immediately after, her hands began to ache again, causing her to groan in pain, “Ouch…gentle, please!”
He glanced at her with his beautiful peach blossom eyes, and his movements became lighter.
However, despite this, she continued to moan in pain.
But he was still helping her, and she couldn’t just pull her hand away. So Nancy’s voice hardly stopped until the secretary walked into Mick’s office with a group of high-level executives behind her, and her voice abruptly stopped.
Although the expressions on the secretary and the high-level executives behind her didn’t change much, their gazes all focused on Nancy’s delicate hand held by Mick.
Nancy’s face turned red when she saw so many people coming in, and she wanted to pull her hand back.
But Mick didn’t let go, instead he tightened his grip on her hand, “Don’t move!”
“Um…you guys have business to discuss, right? No need to massage me, I can do it myself,” Nancy said awkwardly.
“Do you know the acupoints on your hand?” he asked.
“…” She was speechless, she really didn’t know.
“It’ll just take a little while longer, won’t delay much time,” Mick said.
So, under the gaze of the high-level executives, Nancy received a hand massage from Mick. In order to avoid moaning out loud, she had to desperately suppress the urge to shout, making her face even redder.
Finally, Mick stopped his hand movements, and Nancy felt like she had just gone through a disaster.
While Mick was discussing business with the executives, Nancy left Mick’s office.
The soreness in her hands from being massaged seemed to have turned into a warm sensation, and her finger joints felt more comfortable as she moved them.
It seemed that the massage earlier had been quite effective.
Nancy went to the restroom, and as she was about to open the door to leave the stall, she heard someone outside say:
“Mr. Reed has been keeping that woman in his office a lot lately. She doesn’t seem to be a socialite or anything. I wonder who she is.”
“Could she be some kind of minor celebrity? But she doesn’t even look that good!”
“Women like her won’t last long by Mr. Reed’s side.”
“In a little while, she’ll realize that it’s not easy to enter the Reed family. A man like Mr. Reed can have any woman he wants! This woman is just daydreaming.”
The voices outside gradually faded away until there were no other sounds in the restroom, and Nancy finally came out.
Although the words she had just heard were hurtful, she was mentally prepared for them. In the eyes of outsiders, this wo probably how she appeared.
But she had never daydreamed, because she was always clear about her goals.
When she achieved her goals in the future, she would eventually leave Mick’s side. This experience was just a memory in her life.
After leaving the restroom, Nancy walked to a VIP waiting area on this floor. There were many Reed
Group internal publications on a nearby display rack, and Nancy casually picked up one to read.
When she turned to a page in the publication, she was surprised to see a photo of Mick.
It was a photo from an e-sports competition. Based on the text and accompanying images, it seemed to be a competition that the group had held, and the winner had played a one-on-one match with Mick as a post-competition activity.
In this individual final, Mick directly defeated the champion.
Seeing this, Nancy remembered that it was indeed the case.
At that time, she was still in college and heard about it from her dormitory mates.
At that time, the people in the dormitory were divided into two factions.
One faction believed that Mick’s gaming skills were high, so it was normal for him to defeat the champion.
The other faction believed that the champion might have deliberately lost or was nervous because the opponent was the heir of a big boss.
Initially, Nancy leaned towards the second possibility. After all, in her opinion, a rich young man and a gaming champion. might have some intention of letting the other win.
However, these days, when she played games with Mick, she realized how good he was at gaming.
At this moment, looking at his photo in the internal magazine, with his bangs covering his forehead and wearing headphones, although it was a photo from two years ago, he looked completely different from his mature and elegant appearance now. In the photo, he looked calm but with a youthful feeling, with a hint of youthfulness.
Is that what Mick looked like two years ago?
I wonder what he looked like even earlier? Nancy guessed in her heart, and it seemed that her curiosity about him was increasing little by little.
Just then, the door of the CEO’s office not far away opened, and the executives and secretaries came out one after another. It seemed that things had been settled.
When Nancy walked into the CEO’s office, Mick glanced at her and asked, “Were you killing time outside by reading magazines just now?”
“Huh?” She just realized that she was still holding the magazine. “Um.”
“It’s a boring content.”
“No, it’s interesting. I even saw the content of your gaming match with the champion,” Nancy said. “Unfortunately, I wasn’t there at the time. Maybe there is a video of the match online. I want to watch it. It must be exciting.”
“It was just for fun, not a real competition,” Mick said.
“But the feeling on site is always different. I wish I had bought a ticket to see it live back then.”
Unfortunately, there’s no chance for that now.
“If you want to experience the atmosphere of a live battle like that, I can take you this weekend. Of course, if you want to play a friendly match after the game and experience it yourself, I can arrange that too,” Mick said.
Nancy was stunned, staring at the man in front of her.
Is he suggesting that she play a friendly match with the post-game champion? For ordinary people, this is something that is almost impossible to achieve, but when he said it so casually, it seemed like it was nothing.
“Do you want to go?” Mick’s voice rang out again.
“Okay…okay,” Nancy said. “But…there’s no need for the friendly match.”
“Whatever you want,” Mick smiled and said nonchalantly.
That night, in the rented room, Nancy looked at the black and white photo of her mother hanging on the wall. “Mom, I will avenge you and not let Clarissa get away with it. So…please bless me from heaven and let me succeed!”
On the weekend, Nancy and Mick arrived at the gaming competition venue held by the Reed Group.
Because Nancy didn’t want to attract too much attention, she deliberately only got regular seats. She was afraid that if she sat in the VIP area, she would end up in the gossip news the next day.
But even so, Nancy found that Mick himself was a source of light.
Even if he was just wearing ordinary clothes and sitting in his seat, he gave off a feeling that was different from ordinary people.
While watching the game, Nancy noticed that there were many female spectators around her, and their eyes would occasionally glance at Mick.
However, the live electronic sports competition was very exciting, and soon Nancy’s attention was completely focused on the game, gradually forgetting everything else.
As she immersed herself in the atmosphere of the competition, she would become tense with the intense situation of the game and applaud for the players’ brilliant moves.
When the final round ended with the player’s amazing moves, Nancy excitedly grabbed Mick next to her and exclaimed, “Did you see that? The last combo move was so amazing, the player’s prediction was incredible, it was like they knew exactly what the opponent was going to do!”
“It was amazing, so amazing! And the teamwork between those two players, no wonder the commentator said they were a golden duo.”
“They’re so talented, are these really esports players? How can they be so strong! It’s a shame I don’t play this game, otherwise I really want to try playing against them!”
Nancy chattered on and on, only to realize that she was almost hugging Mick while saying all this due to her excitement.
“Sorry…” she said awkwardly, quickly letting go of his hand.
Mick sneered lightly, “There’s no need to apologize, I don’t dislike your behavior just now.”
She was stunned, does this mean that his liking for her is increasing?