Chapter 810 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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However, she did not manage to find out what had happened that made him suddenly go to the mourning hall.

“Grace, Grace!” Old Lawyer Watts’s voice rang out in Grace’s ears.

Grace snapped back to her senses. “Ah, Mentor. What’s the matter?”

“Is Jason… not coming today?” asked Old Lawyer Watts.

“Jason has a meeting this morning, so he might be late. Let’s enter the cemetery first,” said Grace. The car had stopped in front of the Reed family’s cemetery.

“Alright,” said Old Lawyer Walls as he helped Mrs. Watts out of the car.

Mrs. Watts had not said a word since she left the hospital today. Mrs. Watts stopped dead in her tracks in front of the entrance of the cemetery while staring blankly at the gate, Her eyes reddened.

“Mrs. Watts, why did you stop?” Grace asked aloud.

“Ah, n-nothing. Let’s go in,” Mrs. Watts said, sounding like there was a slight lump in her throat.

Old Lawyer Watts patted his wife on the shoulder as if comforting her or reminding her of something.

Grace led the two into the cemetery and arrived at her father-in-law’s grave. There was a black and white photo of her father-in-law when he was young on the tombstone. The man in the photo had a slight smile on his lips and appeared as gentle as water.

Time also seemed to freeze in the black and white photo.

Looking at the person in the photo, Mrs. Watts suddenly burst out into tears with a cry as if she could no longer control her emotions.

Grace was instantly at a loss. “Mrs. Watts, what’s come over you?”

However, Mrs. Watts only continued to cry. She was almost kneeling in front of the tombstone. Her cries sounded sad and mournful.

“She probably recalled one of her friends… She had a friend who died young too, so she’s a little emotionally unstable,” explained Old Lawyer Watts. Then, he crouched down to comfort his crying wife, saying, “Stop crying. It’s over. It’s all over now. You were just discharged. You’re going to exhaust yourself with all the crying, and your leg will probably take longer to recover.”

Mrs. Watts could not stop sobbing.

Old Lawyer Watts said to Grace, “Let Mrs. Watts cry all she wants. She has suppressed some emotions in her heart for too long.”

However, because Mrs. Watts was crying so sadly, Grace could not help but think that there was something strange about Mrs. Watts’s behavior.

After a long time, Mrs. Watts slowly stopped crying and said to Grace, “Grace, I… I want to offer incense to your father-in-law, and I… I made some food. I want to put them out here for your father-in-law. I hope he’ll like them.”

Mrs. Watts took out several food containers from the bag she was carrying and opened them as she spoke. They were filled with home-cooked dishes that were local to Emerald City.

Grace could not help frowning. These dishes were common in Emerald City. She had never seen Mrs. Watts cook these dishes before when she was in L City.

Did Mrs. Watts learn to cook Emerald City’s local food to pay respects to her father-in-law?

Mrs. Watts had now placed the candles and took out the incense sticks.

Old Lawyer Watts bent over to light the candles, but Mrs. Watts said, “I’ll do it. I want to light the candles myself.”

Old Lawyer Watts handed Mrs. Watts the candles in his hand when he heard this.

With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Watts lit the candles and then the incense. Holding the incense sticks as she stood in front of the grave, she muttered to the gravestone, “Rest… in peace, and if there’s a next life, I hope you can be happy there.”

If there really was a next life, she would atone for all her sins and repay him with all her might!

“Rest in peace? Do you really think he can rest in peace?” A voice suddenly came from behind them, making Mrs. Watts stiffen.

‘This voice is…

“Jay, you’re here!” said Grace as she headed over to Jason.

“Yes, I’m here,” said Jason as he looked coldly at Mrs. Watts with her back facing him. Moments later, Jason looked down, took Grace’s hand, and said, “Grace, remember what you said? You won’t stand against me no matter what happens.”

“Yeah, why are you bringing that up all of a sudden?” Grace asked in confusion.

“Because I have something important to do next,” he said.

Then, he looked at Mrs. Watts again. “What’s the matter? Do you think you can wipe the slate clean by paying your respects like this one time? How can someone like you have the nerve to show up in front of him?”

Mrs. Watts trembled, and Old Lawyer Watts’s face turned pale. If Jason could say something like that, it meant… he knew everything. He knew that the person in front of him was his missing mother.

“Jay… Jason…” Mrs. Watts mumbled as she turned around.

Jason’s expression turned colder. “Who are you to call my name?”

Pain flashed across Mrs. Watts’s eyes. “I know how wrong I was. Jason, please… forgive me, I know it’s my fault. It’s my fault!”

Mrs. Watts fell to her knees with a thump as she spoke.

Old Lawyer Watts got worried as soon as she knelt. “You just left the hospital, and your leg hasn’t recovered. Your wound will split open if you kneel!”

Grace was also surprised. “Mrs. Watts, what are you doing?

Get up and we’ll talk it out!”

Grace tried to walk toward Mrs. Watts as she spoke, but Jason held her hand without letting go, thus preventing her from going over.

“Jay?” She looked quizzically at the person next to her.

“Let her kneel as she ought to,” Jason said coldly.

Grace froze. She thought he was being as cold and ruthless as the Jay she remembered from long ago. There was even a surliness about him that no one could ignore.

“Jason, I… I owe it to you… I owe your father so much. I haven’t lived a good day in all these years. I’ve been thinking about how I could be heartless enough to leave you and let things come to this irreversible state!” Mrs. Watts burst out into tears.

Grace was shocked, staring in disbelief at Mrs. Watts, who was on her knees. ‘Could Mrs. Watts… be Jay’s long-lost mother?

‘How is that possible? How could such a thing happen?’

 Then, she heard Jason’s icy voice in her ears. “You indeed owe us a lot, so now it’s time for you to pay for your actions. Right, Mother?”

Mrs. Watts turned extremely stiff. Her son had called out the word ‘Mother’, but he said it in an extremely cold voice that made her heart sink.

She knew her son hated her!

That hatred had only grown deeper over the years.

“I think we should leave first,” said Old Lawyer Watts as he helped Mrs. Watts, who was still in tears, get up. “This is not the place to talk. Let’s go somewhere else to talk.”

However, when Old Lawyer Watts tried to leave with Mrs. Watts, Jason suddenly sneered and said, “Old Lawyer Watts, you can leave whenever you want, but she… has to stay!”

“What do you mean?” Old Lawyer Watts instantly had a bad feeling.

“What I mean is that she can’t leave without my permission.” As soon as Jason finished speaking, a line of men in black suits walked over.

Grace immediately recognized the men as the Reed family’s Bodvous The bodyguards surrounded Old Lowyer Watts and his wila Old Lowver Watts could not help shouting. “What What’s the meaning of this The bodyguards easily separated Old Lawyer Walls from Mrs Wotts, Grace quickly turned to lason and sold. “Jay, what are you trying to do? Even if Mrs. Watts is really your mother”

“Grace, don’t forget what you said yesterday in the mourning hall. You’ll respect my decision and let me settle the issues with my mother myself!” reminded Jason.

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