Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
The gazes of those around her assessed the situation between her and Chandler.
Many people knew that she and Chandler had divorced, so the looks from the crowd toward the two of them were somewhat strange!
Lina and Hadwin were originally chatting with Brian, but when they unintentionally witnessed this scene, Lina instinctively wanted to go forward but was stopped by Hadwin.
“This is the children’s matter. Don’t go, Tina has to face it alone!”
“But…” Lina looked at her daughter standing there dumbfounded under the gaze of the crowd, looking at Chandler, but Chandler seemed to not have seen her at all and didn’t look at his daughter.
This situation made Lina, as a mother, feel very sad.
“This is Tina’s own choice, no matter what, she has to face it. Even if you can help her this time, can you help her forever?” Hadwin said. “Besides, if she really has no feelings for Chandler, then she wouldn’t feel upset.”
“What if she feels upset?” Lina asked.
The way our daughter is now, she doesn’t seem indifferent no matter how you look at it.
Hadwin said, “If that’s the case, it means she does have feelings for Chandler, she just doesn’t realize it.”
“Then…”
“No matter what, it’s something she has to deal with on her own,” Hadwin said.
When it comes to our daughter’s feelings, he doesn’t want to interfere. But after our daughter makes a decision, he will be her support and protect her from all storms.
Fortunately, at this moment, Harley walked up to Tina and said, “Tina, are you looking at Chandler?”
Harley’s approach helped Tina snap out of it and finally resolved the awkward situation.
The people around shifted their gazes away.
Tina looked at Harley and nodded.
“Did you really divorce Chandler?” Harley asked again.
When she asked this question, her eyes were clear, purely asking this question, not like many others who ask such things just to know gossip.
“Yes, we divorced,” Tina said.
“But you clearly still like Chandler, Why did you get divorced?” Harley asked in confusion.
Tina was taken aback, “You misunderstood, I don’t remember anything from before. I divorced him because I didn’t have feelings for him anymore.”
“But the way you looked at Chandler just now, it was clearly the look of someone who likes him,” Harley said.
Tina was shocked.
Was she looking at Chandler with the gaze of someone who likes him?
Like… that can’t be!
Even if she had some liking for Chandler in her heart before, after knowing his true intentions in approaching her, she no longer likes him!
“You misunderstood, Maybe it’s just because he was someone I liked before I lost my memory, but I don’t remember anything from the past anymore,” Tina said. “I don’t want to be bound by past feelings.”
Harley couldn’t help feeling sorry for Chandler, “But in that case, isn’t Chandler pitiful? He loves you so much.”
Tina remained silent, does he love me? Unfortunately, Chandler’s feelings for her are not pure love,
It’s hard to say who is more pitiful between her and Chandler now.
Harley seemed to realize his rudeness and quickly said, “Tina,
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to say you shouldn’t get a divorce, I just…”
“I understand.” Tina smiled faintly, “I’m going to take a breath in the back garden.”
“Then I’ll accompany you,” Harley said.
“You are the protagonist of the party today, don’t accompany me. I’ll take a breath and come in later.”
Tina said, walking towards the back garden.
The meticulously maintained garden, although it was night, was not pitch black because of the many hanging lamps and lamp posts placed in the garden. Instead, it gave a different beauty than during the day.
Tina walked into the garden, the silence here was different from the hustle and bustle in the hall, which allowed her to relax a little.
Maybe because she and Chandler both attended this party today, she could always feel many gazes on her.
Even those people whom she might have been familiar with before.
But for her now, most of these people could be considered as strangers whom she had only met a few times.
Just as Tina was looking at the scenery in the garden, suddenly footsteps could be heard not far away.
Tina frowned, turned around, and hid in a dark corner nearby.
At this moment, she just wanted to be quiet, she didn’t want to greet anyone, nor did she want to face the various strange gazes of others.
Originally, she thought that the person would quickly pass by, but when the footsteps got closer, they stopped.
Then a young man’s voice rang out, “Have you really decided to have no more involvement with Tina?”
Tina’s body suddenly stiffened, could it be that among the people who came, there was…
“Yes!” When the familiar voice sounded, Tina’s body couldn’t help but tremble.
It was Chandler!
“If she helps, the curse on your body can be easily resolved, but you actually plan to bypass this shortcut, it really makes people puzzled.”
“I don’t want to force her.”
“So you got a divorce?” the other person sneered, “If it were the old Tina, after knowing your situation, I don’t know if she would still divorce you.”
“She wouldn’t,” Chandler said in a low voice.
The other person’s voice carried a hint of surprise, “She wouldn’t? Does the old Tina know about the curse?”
“Yes, she knows,” Chandler said with a nostalgic smile on his lips. It was really good back then.
“If a person loses their memory, they lose their emotions as well. It seems like her feelings for you aren’t really strong,” the person continued.
“Lornell, don’t say that. It’s because I’m not good enough,” Chandler said softly.
“Lornell, I never realized before that you are this kind of person,” Lornell said. “I always felt that you were the one in control in your relationship with Tina, but now it seems like Tina is the one in control.”
Chandler didn’t say anything, he just lowered his head and looked at his hands.
On his middle finger, he used to wear their wedding ring even when she was missing.
But ever since he signed that divorce agreement, he took off the wedding ring.
And in that moment of taking it off, it felt like something was being stripped away from him, painfully so.
“But even if you ask the Quentin family to help you extract the curse, even my grandfather doesn’t have a hundred percent certainty,” Lornell continued.
“I know,” Chandler said.
His own grandfather went to the Quentin family himself. He also heard from Lornell that the two grandfathers had a long discussion in a secret room and finally came out.
Lornell’s grandfather agreed to personally extract the curse from his body, but the price was that the
Hunter family had to leave behind all the records of the curses and the worms in the Quentin family.
This meant that the Quentin family would know the secrets that originally belonged to the Hunter family.
“If the extraction fails, the backlash you will suffer will be severe. Even if the Quentin family can save your life, it may cause irreversible damage to your body,” Lornell said.
After learning about the Hunter family’s curse, he was shocked for a long time.
After all, such things seemed too vague and unreal in modern times, like a story.
But this story just happened to exist, and it happened to the person he had known since childhood.
“I know,” Chandler said with a faint smile. “Since I’ve decided to ask your grandfather to help me extract the curse, I’m mentally prepared for the worst outcome. However…”
“However, what?”
“If it fails and my body suffers severe damage, I hope that the Quentin family can keep it a secret and not tell the outside world the reasons behind my injuries, especially Tina.”
“You really care about her. Even though you’re the one suffering for her, why don’t you just have a child together? It would have been so simple,” Lornell mocked.
“A child shouldn’t be born for such reasons. A child is not a tool,” Chandler said. “Besides, Tina doesn’t owe me anything. It has always been me who has gained more from Tina.”
“I don’t understand why you can do this for Tina to such an extent,” Lornell said, puzzled.
“Do you love Harley?” Chandler suddenly asked.
“What?” Lornell was taken aback.
“If you truly love Harley, then you would understand why I went to such lengths,” Chandler said.
Lornell frowned, “I don’t need to love Harley, I just need to fulfill my duties as a fiancé. Besides, if I’m destined to get married and have children to continue the family line, then I’ll just find someone who I find pleasing to look at.”
“Is Harley just someone you find pleasing to look at?” Chandler questioned.
“What else?” Lornell retorted.
“But it was you who specifically asked her to be your fiancée,” Chandler reminded him.
“At that time, I just wanted to know what it feels like to have a fiancée, and she happened to need the
Quentin family to save her life. So, it was a fair exchange of conditions,” Lornell admitted openly.
“But matters of the heart are never fair,” Chandler said, looking at Lornell now, he somehow felt a sense of familiarity, “Lornell, don’t take everything for granted. If you love Harley, love her wholeheartedly. If you don’t love her, then don’t hold her back. Harley is a good girl, worthy of being loved.”
Lornell furrowed his brow, “Chandler, you don’t need to concern yourself with what happens between
Harley and me.”
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