Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
These paintings showed images of her carrying him down the hill or snuggling with him in the woods.
Back then, all they could rely on was each other.
For the first time, he realized that she was so important that he might not be able to live without her.
Only one of these paintings was an exception.
It was not a painting of a child, but the face of a grown woman. The woman in the painting smiled faintly. Her almond-shaped eyes were gentle and serene, but it made people feel comfortable. It was as if being stared at by such eyes would make you feel calm. but also grounded at the same time.
Brian stood in front of the painting, gazing at the person in the painting with his dark phoenix eyes. Pain flashed in his always.
indifferent and distant eyes.
If Grace was here, she would discover that she was the person in the painting!
“Why aren’t you her?” his cold voice rang in the studio, but there was no reply.
The woman in the painting only looked at him with a faint smile.
Brian raised his hand and gently stroked the face in the painting. as if he was stroking the woman’s cheek.
If only… Grace was the one standing in front of him now. She would not let his hand touch her face like that.
When he saw her in a wedding dress today, he realized that she and Jason were really getting married.
She would be the wife of another man. From now on, she would only have that man in her heart, and she would bear children for that man.
It would be impossible between him and her!
‘Impossible!’
As the word flashed through his mind, he had a feeling of near suffocation.
After a long time, Brian left the studio. He said to his servant, “Put away all the paintings in the studio. Also, lock the door. No one is allowed to enter.”
“Yes,” the servant answered and did what he instructed.
Brian raised his eyes and looked out the window at the full moon.
Since he had misplaced his feelings, he was simply getting rid of them now.
This should be a simple matter to him.
After all, Grace was not the one he was looking for. He had only put that longing and despair on her!
‘I mistakenly fell in love with her because her features bear traits of the little girl from my childhood!’ Brian told himself…
In the three days that her grandmother’s body was at the Lu family’s house, many people came to pay their respects.
However, only a small number of them came sincerely for Mrs. Lu. Most of them wanted to take this opportunity to get close to Stella
Lindsay.
Stella Lindsay certainly enjoyed that feeling.
As for Grace and Jason, Jason once said in front of First Uncle and the rest that he did not want to be disturbed.
Therefore, no one dared to reveal Jason’s identity. In everyone’s eyes, Jason was just Grace’s boyfriend.
Who was Grace? She had been to prison!
In a small town like this, people had a natural disdain for ex-convicts. Some would criticize Grace, while some thought that Grace should not be here keeping vigil at all. She was a disgrace to the Lu family, so they should kick her out!
Every time the Lu family members heard something like that, they were so afraid that these words would anger Jason. If that happened, he would wipe out the Lu family and they would be too helpless for tears.
Although Stella was now under Brian’s protection, Brian had never said that he would protect the Lu family!
On the day of Old Mrs. Lu’s funeral procession, Grace stood. among the crowd while dressed in black. Her eyes were slightly red as she had obviously been crying again.
Jason wore a black suit. He stood beside Grace and accompanied her to the funeral home.
The Lu family booked a hall in the funeral home so that they could accommodate those coming to the service.
Grace stood silently during the memorial service. Her tears could not help streaming down her face as First Uncle told the story of her grandmother’s life.
Those who loved her had left her one by one.
Her mother left her, and so had her grandmother. Who would leave her next?
She felt a surge of fear in her heart.
Just then, a hand held out a handkerchief to her, gently wiping away her tears.
She stared blankly at the beautiful hand. Its movements were so gentle and cautious as if she was a cherished treasure.
Grace turned her head and looked at Jason who was standing next to her.
Jason… Would never leave her. He would stay by her side and grow old with her.
When First Uncle’s eulogy was over, the crowd began to move forward one by one to take one last look at Old Mrs. Lu’s body.
However, when Grace was about to go forward, someone suddenly rushed out and pointed at Grace, saying, “You have no right to come forward. You’re a disgrace to the Lu family and ought to stay in the corner! Have you not embarra**ed your grandmother enough? Do you want everyone to know that her granddaughter is an ex-convict?”
Grace’s face paled as she recognized him as one of the men from town who had previously courted her. She was a rookie lawyer fresh out of college and was in the limelight. This man had come to Grandma’s house to propose to her, but she turned him down.
After that, he spread rumors about her being snobbish and so on. When she was imprisoned, he and his family liked to talk about her to everyone in town, congratulating themselves for not marrying her.
She had heard of this matter but did not make much of it. After all, many people attacked her with gossip.
She just did not expect him to throw a tantrum at Grandma’s funeral.
“Whether I have the right is none of your business!” Grace said coldly.
“Then let everybody judge. How dare you be here when you’ve embarra**ed the Lu family! In my opinion, you probably have something to do with your grandmother’s death. Your grandmother was angered by your imprisonment and that shortened her life by a few years…”
Before the man could finish, he was already kicked to the ground.
with one foot.
“Sorry, I couldn’t control my foot,” Jason said lightly, but his left foot stopped on the man’s heart, causing the man to immediately cry out in pain. His face was red, but he could not move the foot that was pressed against his heart.
Seeing this, First Uncle, Second Uncle, and Third Aunt of the Lu family immediately came forward to say, “Mr. Reed, um… You shouldn’t be doing this at a funeral.”
“It would be disrespectful to the dead if anything happened.”
“The man only said a few words. Don’t take him seriously, Mr.
Reed!”
Jason looked lazily at the three people in front of him. “I think if Grandma saw someone insulting her granddaughter like this, she would probably approve of me doing so, wouldn’t she?”
His half-smile sent cold shivers down their backs.
“Of course, of course, she would!”
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