Chapter 355 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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Lily became emotional. Her eyes were red, and her shoulders twitched slightly. Her tears were almost pouring out.

“Qirong, do you want to see your daughter’s years of hard work destroyed? Also, if word about this gets out, how is she going to face the public? She’d be despised by her husband’s family when she marries into the Stevens family!” Camelia Meyer was eager to stand up for her daughter.

Harold finally sighed and said to the mother and daughter, “All right. I’ll call Jason and see if there’s room for negotiation.”

Lily immediately breathed a sigh of relief. When her father said so, there was likely still room to turn the matter around.

Harold took out his phone and dialed Jason’s number.

After a while, the call got through, and Harold exchanged pleasantries before jumping straight to the point.

“I know Lily has done some things she shouldn’t have, so it’s only normal that you would want to stand up for her, Mr. Reed. However, Lily has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and she has put a lot of effort into it. I, as a father, can’t bear to see her years of work go wasted. Why don’t I take the piece of land in the south of the city as an apology and give it to Miss Cummins? What do you think of this, Young Master Reed?”

The mother and daughter, Camelia Meyer and Lily, were immediately surprised at this.

The piece of land in the south of the city was a hot piece of land. The Atkinson family had put in a lot of effort to get it. The real estate boom of the past few years had made this land now worth ten billion dollars!

Were they giving Grace ten billion dollars just like that?

How could they reconcile to that!

Camelia Meyer was just about to have a fit of anger, but what the mother and daughter did not expect was Harold’s face to pale. “Are you sure you won’t reconsider it, Young Master

Reed?”

Could it be that… Jason refused?

Camelia Meyer and Lily showed a surprised look at the same time.

After a while, Harold put down his phone and looked into the eyes of his second daughter with helplessness and sympathy.

The causes that were planted now bore the fruit.

Who would have thought that Grace, who anyone could trample on back then, would now have the most powerful backup in Emerald City?

“You’d better leave the entertainment industry and return to the Atkinson family. Since your sister has died, the Atkinson family is yours to inherit,” said Harold.

Of course, Lily knew that she would inherit everything the Atkinson family had, but she was going to wait after she was 30 years old when she had won all kinds of awards in the entertainment industry. Then, she would quit the entertainment industry, return to the Atkinson family’s business, and become the actual owner of the company as well as a legend in the eyes of others.

She wanted to follow the plan she had set for herself.

However, returning to the family business because she was blacklisted… How could it be the same?

She would only be a joke to others!

“Why did Jason refuse? Doesn’t he know that it’s worth ten billion dollars?” asked Lily.

“How could he not know? However…” Harold paused. “He said that since you destroyed Grace’s career, now he’ll destroy your career for Grace!”

All of a sudden, Lily felt every hair on her body stand on end.

‘Jason is such a lunatic!’

When Grace went to the small restaurant again, she did not see Nelson and Mrs. Corbyn, so she asked, “Did Aunty take Nelson to the small park nearby?”

“No…” She began to speak but stopped.

“What’s the matter? What happened?” asked Grace.

“I saw Martin Weiss in a shopping mall with Nelson yesterday.

I don’t know if he saw Nelson and me, but when he turned his head to look my way, I grabbed Nelson and ran away. I was afraid that he would find me, so I asked my mother to take

Nelson to hide somewhere else first. They can come back if everything’s all right after a while,” said Kyla Corbyn.

Grace did not expect Kyla Corbyn to meet Martin Weiss, so she thought about it before saying, “How about I ask Jason to help you find a place to hide?”

Kyla Corbyn smiled wryly. “Thank you, Grace! However, no thanks. You can help me once or twice, but you can’t help me forever, so I’d better take care of this matter myself

She had also figured it out these days. If it was doomed that she and Martin Weiss would be entangled with each other again and if it was doomed that Martin Weiss would find her, then when the day came, she would just let him take his revenge to his heart’s content.

“However…” Grace wanted to say more, but Kyla Corbyn gently took her hand and said, “I know you want to help me. I’m really happy to have a friend like you. It’s just… This is something between Martin Weiss and me. It’ll have to be settled eventually.”

After a pause, Kyla Corbyn added, “Grace, I have only one thing to ask of you.”

Kyla Corbyn’s expression was solemn and serious, which made

Grace’s heart tremble suddenly.

“I just hope that if… Martin Weiss does find me, then maybe I won’t be able to visit my mother and Nelson for a while. I hope you can take care of them when the time comes. After all, one is old, one is young, and both are incapable,” said Kyla Corbyn.

She had left all her money to her mother, but… She was still worried.

Due to Martin Weiss, her friends had all distanced themselves from her. Now, the only person she could trust was Grace.

Grace said immediately, “I’ll take care of them.” When she first came looking for a job, Kyla saved her from despair by letting her work in the restaurant despite having been in prison.

Of course, she wanted to repay Kyla for her kindness.

Besides, Mrs. Corbyn and Nelson were also very kind to her, especially Nelson. He had clung to her when he first saw her, and she really liked Nelson.

Kyla Corbyn finally smiled with relief. “Grace, thank you.”

“Kyla, I hope that if you really get in trouble, you would come to me too and not suffer all by yourself,” said Grace.

“Got it. If I really… Can’t take it, I’ll come to you.” However, she knew in her heart that if one day she really could not take Martin Weiss’s revenge, then it would be useless to find Grace.

Even if Grace had Jason backing her up and even if Jason ruled Emerald City, Martin Weiss… Was definitely no slouch.

She had been with Martin Weiss for years and knew this man all too well.

He was cruel enough, heartless enough, and cold enough!

She had once tried to warm his heart with her sincerity. She thought that constant effort brought success and that perseverance would prevail, but in the end, she was only deceiving herself.

Since she ran into Martin Weiss at the mall, she had been on edge these days, feeling as if something was going to happen.

Maybe… Some things would still happen no matter how she hid.

Looking at the calm Kyla Corbyn right now, Grace could only feel a heavy weight on her heart.

After coming out of the small restaurant, Grace was about to get in the car and return to Reed Residence when a voice suddenly rang behind her.

“Grace, can you give me a minute?”

Grace stiffened. This voice… Had once been so familiar to her.

The voice once said, “Grace, you’re the only woman I want to marry.”

The voice also said, “Grace, I’ll make you happy. Even if my family opposes it, I’ve decided that you’re the one I want to spend my life with.”

However, when she was in dire need of help, the man said, “What I regret most in my life is that I chose you to be my girlfriend.”

‘How ridiculous! How ironic!’

It turned out vows of eternal love were unable to withstand the blow of an accident. It turned out the so-called ‘the only one’ and ‘decided’ were easily replaced by another woman.

The voice that was once familiar now sounded so strange.

Grace turned to look at Sean Stevens who was standing not far behind her. He was still clad in luxury brands and was fashionable, looking just like a charming young man.

No wonder Lily chose to be with Sean Stevens. After all, he looked pretty good.

“I don’t think there’s anything left between you and me for us to talk about,” said Grace.

“Just a few minutes. I just want to say a few words to you.” Sean Stevens snapped. Then seemingly afraid of missing out on the opportunity, he added, “Grace, I know that I let you down with that incident. I didn’t protect you because of the pressure.”

Grace looked coldly at him. “Sean Stevens, you don’t have to tell me this. I’m not interested in listening.”

A flash of embarra**ment came over Sean Stevens’s face. “I just want you to understand that the person who’s really wrong for putting you in prison is Dexter Rios, not Lily. Lily is innocent. She just thought you’re the one who killed her sister, so she treated you the way she did. You shouldn’t hate her.”

Grace only found Sean Stevens’s remarks ridiculous.

‘Yes, it’s Dexter Rios who put me in jail, but what did Lily do to me when I insisted I was wronged?’

How many people had suffered the pain of having ten fingernails pulled out and the bones of their fingers being broken inch by inch?

From what she gathered, many of the people who abused her in prison had received money from the Atkinson family.

In the eyes of the Atkinson family, Jennifer Atkinson’s life was a life, but was the life of others worth nothing?

Sometimes, she even wondered if the Atkinson family really did not suspect and investigate the false evidence Dexter Rios made when Dexter Rios went abroad after she was sentenced.

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