Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Brian said lightly, “You won’t be hired by the entertainment industry nationwide from now on, so you don’t have to worry about your connections and agency issues. If you don’t want to leave, be prepared to accept the consequences of this decision.”
Evelyn was shocked. Was… He trying to blacklist her completely?
Tony Cummins and Melinda Riley wanted to say something, but they were too scared. Before Evelyn came, Brian had done enough to scare them.
“Brian… It’s not fair. You’re going to blacklist me and drive me and my family out of Emerald City just because my parents. scolded Grace a little?”
As she spoke, she tried to get closer to him.
However, when Evelyn was only a few feet away from him, she was pinned down by Brian’s bodyguards.
Brian looked at Evelyn coldly. Fair? Was there ever justice in the world? If success was proportional to effort, he should have already found the little girl he spent so many years looking for!
However… He had not!
It was as if that person never existed in the world.
However… That person existed!
“If you want it to be fair, your mother slapped Grace, so let’s be fair and slap you too,” Brian said lightly.
Evelyn, Melinda Riley, and Tony Cummins immediately froze at this.
Melinda Riley sprang from her chair, screaming, “Why should I slap my daughter? You can’t do that even if you’re rich and powerful!”
“You can’t hit your daughter?” Brian laughed as if he had heard a joke. “But you can casually slap your stepdaughter who isn’t related to you by blood, is that right?”
There was a flash of embarra**ment on Melinda Riley’s face. However, she then argued. “How… How is it casual… It was Grace who shamelessly sabotaged your relationship with Evelyn…”
However, before she finished, Brian’s face darkened little by little. The next moment, Brian’s bodyguard had slapped Melinda Riley in the mouth.
Poor Melinda Riley had just had her tooth knocked out by Jason a few days ago. She had not replaced her tooth yet and was already slapped again. She immediately cried out in pain.
“If I hear you say something about Grace again, then your mouth need say no more.”
Brian finished talking. As if he was no longer interested in staying here, he stood up to leave.
Evelyn screamed, “You can’t do this to me, Brian!”
Brian glanced at her lightly. “You should be glad that your lips. look like hers. Otherwise, I won’t be so kind to you!”
With that, he left and was followed by several of his men.
There were only three of the Cummins family members left in the meeting room.
Melinda Riley covered her mouth which was stinging from the slap. She ran to her daughter in a daze. “What shall we do, Yin? What… Shall we do in the future? Are you going to be… Blacklisted? Are we leaving Emerald City?”
Tony Cummins seemed to have come to his senses. He immediately said, “What about the penalty if all your work is stopped? How much will they cost? Does that mean we won’t gain anything?”
Evelyn shivered. Was it only because of Grace that Brian was being so ruthless to her?
What was even more ridiculous was that Brian’s ‘kindness’
came from the fact that her lips look like Grace’s! This was the ultimate irony.
If she was going to have a hard time, she would not let Grace. do any better!
All of Evelyn’s jobs had been suspended, and it was reported that the entertainment industry blacklisted Evelyn for allegedly offending Brian.
Therefore, the nosy netizens started to cite the blacklisted actresses among Brian’s ex-girlfriends.
Then, someone commented that being Brian’s girlfriend was also a high-risk job. It seemed to be glamorous with many benefits, but they had to face the possibility of being blacklisted too.
Some reporters discovered that Evelyn was selling off her house and jewelry. Even the house her parents lived in was put on sale online, presumably to gather money for the penalty for breach of contract.
A busybody managed to get all of Evelyn’s uncompleted contracts and worked out that the total amount of compensation was estimated to be more than 70 million dollars.
For Evelyn, a D-list actress with a normal family background, this was a big number. Selling all her possessions might not even be enough to cover it.
Grace looked at the news on her phone, and one of the photos showed information about her family home that they had given the real estate agent.
There were some collages of the interior of the house in the information.
The Cummins family’s sale price online was 5,800,000 dollars.
The house with memories of her and her mother was now up for sale for 5,800,000. Grace felt a little emotional.
Actually, after so many years, there were hardly any traces of her mother in the house. There were more traces of Evelyn and Melinda Riley in the house.
“What are you looking at?” Jason walked over to Grace. He looked down at her phone screen and raised his eyebrows slightly. “Is your old house on sale?”
“Yes, the Cummins family is selling their house,” Grace replied as she nodded.
“Do you want it?” asked Jason.
Grace was a little stunned as she looked at him. Clearly, he would buy the house for her right away if she wanted it.
She shook her head and said, “No, I have more bad memories than good memories in this house.”
Her mother had only lived there for three years, but her stepmother and Evelyn had been living there for more than 20
years.
“By the way, you’ve known Brian for years. Is he… Looking for someone?” asked Grace.
Jason froze unnoticeably. Then, he asked, “Why are you suddenly asking this?”
“I read some gossip online. Some netizens were talking about Brian. It says that all of his girlfriends are actually substitutes, so I just got curious about it,” said Grace. She thought about what Brian had said to her that night when he was drunk.
Besides, she first met Brian because of a small bracelet.
“Are you curious about him?” Jason asked with a twinkle in hist eyes.
Grace replied, “I’m just curious about this.” After all, she almost became one of the substitutes.
Jason took Grace’s hand and rubbed it gently in his, saying, “Then you can only be curious about this. You mustn’t bet curious about him at all.”
Grace blinked, clearly puzzled.
He drew her fingers to his lips and kissed them. “If a woman. is curious about a man, she may be interested in that man one day. Maybe… She would even fall in love with the man. Therefore, the only man you can be curious about is me, not any other men.”
Grace did not know whether to cry or laugh. Was this also a sign of him being domineering in their relationship? Was he jealous again?
“Shall… I forget that I asked?” she asked. She had just mentioned it casually and did not need to know the answer.
Jason said, “Now that you’ve mentioned it, there’s no harm in telling you.” Even if he did not tell her now, she would know about it soon.
After all, it was not really a secret in Emerald City’s high society.
He might as well tell her himself rather than have someone else break the story to her.
“Brian is indeed looking for someone. He’s looking for a girl he knew when he was young, but he still hasn’t found her. You can say that his girlfriends are substitutes for that girl. Since he can’t find the right person, he finds replacements to comfort himself instead,” Jason said as he watched Grace’s reaction.
Grace could not help furrowing her brows. “He’s looking for a substitute for a little girl?”
“His ex-girlfriends look more or less like that little girl.”
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