Chapter 460 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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There was no sign of Jason in the house.

‘The pills I laid out for him yesterday have all disappeared from the bedside table. He probably took them afterward.

‘But the rest of the medicine is still in the box. He didn’t take them with him. It’s still on the bedside table.

‘I wonder how his stomach ache is now, Grace thought to herself. Then, she laughed. ‘Why am I worrying about him? He has Emerald City’s best doctors to treat him if he feels sick!”

She quickly washed up, changed her clothes, and went to work.

When she arrived at the firm, her colleagues also arrived one by one. Many of them would look at Grace from time to time.

Some even whispered to each other as they looked at her, obviously talking about her.

Finally, one of her female colleagues who was usually a big gossiper, approached her to ask curiously, “Grace, are you really dating Young Master Gu? Young Master Hart waited. for you downstairs when you got off work yesterday. We’re so envious of you. Many top female celebrities can’t even get the same treatment!”

Grace looked at the colleague with a dull gaze. The exaggerated admiration on her face and the words of flattery uttered were just to find out if she was dating Brian or not.

Seeing Grace’s silence, she was about to ask more questions.

when suddenly, there was a cry of surprise from other colleagues nearby. “Hey, Andrea Schwartz, What happened to you?”

Andrea Schwartz hobbled into the firm with a few bruises on her face. It looked like she had been… abused.

“No… Nothing. I just tripped yesterday,” Andrea Schwartz said with a look of embarra**ment on her face. She glanced over to Grace as she spoke, her eyes full of resentment.

Grace was somewhat puzzled. ‘Speaking of which, Andrea

Schwartz and I don’t have any bad blood, but Andrea

Schwartz seems to be giving me trouble all the time. Is it because I took the spotlight when I first joined our previous firm?’

“By the way, what were you guys talking about?” Andrea Schwartz managed to suppress the resentment in her eyes and put on her usual demeanor as if she was on good terms with Grace.

“You took the day off yesterday afternoon and left early, so you don’t know that when we got off work, the crown prince of the entertainment industry was waiting for Grace downstairs.

He eventually left with Grace. I was asking Grace if she’s dating Young Master Gu!”

Upon hearing this, Andrea Schwartz immediately became jealous. What she went through yesterday was a far cry from what Grace went through.

However, she seemed to say with concern, “Hey, I read online. that Young Master Gu’s girlfriend seems to be a woman named Stella! I think she wants to join show business, so

Young Master Hart gave her lots of resources and found her a top manager. Grace, you know that, don’t you?”

Grace looked at Andrea Schwartz’s ‘concerned’ expression with a cold gaze and said, “I know. So what?”

“I’m just afraid that you’ll inadvertently become a homewrecker. After all, netizens can be brutal! Look, Young Master Hart is aggressively making Stella famous. Rumor has it that Young Master Hart will get her the Best Actress award if Stella wants to win it,” said Andrea Schwartz,

“I read online that Stella is just a girl from the countryside, and she isn’t that good-looking. The media even exposed that she’s a divorcee. Surely Young Master Hart can do better than that!” said the gossipy colleague nearby.

“Who knows? Maybe it’s true love. Look at all of Young Master Gu’s previous girlfriends, yet Young Master Hart is still willing to keep a woman like Stella with him. Besides, he has never denied the rumors online and clarified that they’re not a couple. If this isn’t true love, what is?” said Andrea Schwartz.

Hearing this, the crowd seemed to think her words made sense. They suddenly looked at Grace with sympathy rather than envy.

Andrea Schwartz analyzed it and said, “Moreover, Stella has already started shooting a TV series. It seems to be a good role. I also heard that Young Master Hart accompanied her to the shoot! As for Grace… She’s only a paralegal at the firm. Young Master Hart could just start a firm for Grace if he wanted to…”

Andrea Schwartz looked at Grace apologetically as if realizing that she had misspoken.”Grace, I’m sorry, I… I’m just making a wild guess. Maybe… Young Master Hart will start a firm for you soon!”

However, she was implying that Brian was not taking Grace seriously.

Sure enough, the other colleagues around them heard and agreed. ‘If the crown prince really cares about Grace, why would he let her work here as a mere paralegal?’

As a result, some colleagues were now looking at Grace as if she was a failed homewrecker.

However, Grace did not pay Andrea Schwartz any attention. and only buried herself in work. She ignored Andrea Schwartz completely, making Andrea Schwartz look like she was talking to herself.

Andrea Schwartz returned to her seat, feeling resentful for having humiliated herself.

Just then, the gossipy colleague from earlier exclaimed, “Andrea Schwartz, you’re trending online!”

‘What does that mean?’ Andrea Schwartz was stunned.

Then, the colleague kept quiet and dared not look at Andrea Schwartz anymore.

Andrea Schwartz quickly pulled out her phone and searched the topics that were trending online. A moment later, she saw the name ‘You Keer’ on one of the trending topics.

She instantly had a bad feeling. When she clicked on it, the scene she wanted to erase most appeared in the relevant video.

In the video, two women were pulling and hitting her while You Keer glared at her. “So you’re the one who led me to the firm the other day to catch the homewrecker and embarra**ed me! I thought someone righteous like you was innocent, but you’re just a f*cking b*tch! Does your boyfriend know that you’ve been going on blind dates with other men?”

Then, they could hear Andrea Schwartz’s screams and struggles in the video. Even her clothes were torn to pieces.

‘What’s going on? Who filmed it?’ When You Keer left yesterday, she had warned her not to reveal this to the public. After all, it was illegal for You Keer to get someone to beat people in private.

Now, someone had posted the video online.

Andrea Schwartz quickly turned off the video, but when she looked up, she found that the colleagues who had looked at Grace with sympathy earlier were now looking at her sympathetically.

No, there was more disdain than sympathy.

“No, No. It’s not like what it seems in the video!” Andrea

Schwartz quickly tried to defend herself,

“What’s it like, then? Were you not the one who asked You Keer here that day?”

“I was wondering how You Keer got here so fast that day. If Young Master Hart hadn’t come, You Keer would probably have quarreled with Grace thinking she was a homewrecker.”

“Andrea Schwartz, we’re all colleagues. Don’t you always say that you and Grace are old colleagues and you two get along well? How could you do such a thing behind her back?”

“Well, some people just like to act one way to our faces and another behind our backs!”

Their colleagues spoke up. Andrea Schwartz only wished to dig a hole in the ground and bury herself in it! Now, instead of Grace getting kicked out of the firm, she was the one who could not stay any longer!

Andrea Schwartz’s incident seemed like a joke. Since it was trending online, Andrea Schwartz took the day off and went home while Grace worked on her files.

Baldwin’s trial would begin in a few days. Although Elise Dean refused to admit that she was the perpetrator, the police had re-investigated the case. The evidence chain had become clearer and everything was going in the right direction.

‘Right direction… Grace’s eyes fell on her right hand which was tapping the keyboard.

This was the hand that slapped Jason last night. It was the same hand he held carefully while asking her, “Does it hurt?”

However, his stomach ache had seemed to hurt more than her hand.

‘I wonder if he felt better after taking the medicine?

‘Gosh, I’m thinking about him again!’

Grace shook her head to stop herself from thinking about Jason. ‘Jason is just a pa**er-by in my life. I never need to take his matters to heart!’

Terrence was anxiously pacing back and forth in front of the mourning hall in Reed Residence.

Master Reed had been inside for three hours and was still not out. Several important meetings that were supposed to be held today had been put off to another day.

Master Reed seemed a little unusual after leaving Grace’s rental house today.

Terrence wanted to call Grace and ask what happened last night that triggered Master Reed to come back early in the morning and go to the mourning hall.

Master Reed seldom entered the mourning hall except on certain days!

Jason stood in front of his father’s memorial tablet in the mourning hall, looking at it quietly. His back was straight, and his handsome face was full of loneliness and self-mockery.

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