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Sir, You Don’t Know Your Wife Chapter 21
“It’s impossible,” Janet adamantly uttered. She had intended to graduate from Star High School with a low profile, so it would be impossible for her to be participating in a cultural performance. On top of that, she had never promised Emily that she would give a performance.
Gordon thought that Janet was pulling his leg, so he tapped open his Messenger and forwarded the performance list.
Performance List of Class A:
Gordon Yaleman: Singing.
Emily Jackson: Playing Piano.
Wendy Young: Calligraphy.
Janet Jackson: Dancing.
Janet was even the finale act. As she squinted her eyes, she found that the handwriting on the list was exactly the same as Emily’s. It immediately dawned on her that Emily was the one who had signed her up for the performance! Now, this is going to be fun. Since she is so eager to see me perform, I surely won’t let my sister down! She then replied to Gordon via text. ‘I’m coming over now!’ He immediately replied with an ‘Okay’.
After that, she fished out a piece of paper—a prescription list—from her bag and handed it to Mason. “Just follow the prescription on the paper and get the medicine for the old madam. Inform me immediately if her condition takes a strange turn.”
Their fingers had touched under the paper, thereupon a stunned Janet raised her gaze and met with Mason’s before she blinked her eyes. “Young Master Mason, I’ll text you my account number when I return home. You can transfer the commission to my account.”
The man looked at her and chuckled. “Sure.”
“Thank you. I have something urgent to attend to, so I’ll head to my school first.”
He raised his brow. “I’ll ask Sean to send you.”
“There’s no need for that.” Janet picked up her thin jacket and impassively headed toward the door.
The man’s sexy mesmerizing eyes stared at the teenage girl’s disappearing back, as if gazing at his prey. His lips were slightly curved upward and the warmth of her finger seemed to have remained on his due to their touch earlier. He brought his fingers to his lips and inhaled the lingering scent on them.
Meanwhile, at the backstage of Star High School, the voice belonging to the class teacher of Class A was suddenly heard. “Are all the performers here?”
Emily stood up first. “Mr. Smith, only Janet isn’t here yet.” She had planned everything out in advance—whether Janet arrived tonight or not, it would still be a humiliation to her. If she were to show up on stage, but was unable to present a performance, she would become the laughing stock of the whole school. If she didn’t show up, everyone would mock her for being timid and weak.
After glancing at the three people, the class teacher scratched his head in frustration before suddenly shouting, “Damn it! Why did I approve Janet’s application at that time?” He knew that Janet was a problematic student, but since the performance list had already been provided to the host, there wasn’t any way to cancel her performance.
“Mr. Smith, don’t worry. I have contacted Janet earlier and she will be here in a while,” Gordon stepped out to console him.
Upon hearing Gordon’s words, Mr. Smith felt as if his worries had been swept away and believed that there wasn’t any reason for the student to lie. After that, he gladly returned to the audience seats to watch the performances. The order of the performance during the school festival was now determined by drawing lots—Class A was the second last class to perform.
A choir by Class B kickstarted the performance, which was followed by a few smaller choir groups. The performances were dull and lacked energy, causing the initially excited audience consisting of teachers and judges to almost doze off. Then, a few students from Class C gave a rap performance, which instantly livened up the atmosphere.
According to the performance list, Class F only had one performance—a girl with a plump figure went onstage to perform. She was warming up her body with her back facing the audience. Upon seeing that she was wearing a pair of shorts with a tank top, the audience guessed that her performance could be a sexy dance. A second later, voices of some boys were heard from the audience.
“She’s so fat. I’m going to throw up what I ate for dinner.”
“She still has the guts to dance with that sort of figure? She should have learnt to paint instead!”
“The school festival this year is so boring. None of the performances are good.”
Nevertheless, the plump girl on stage wasn’t influenced by the comments from the audience as she focused on getting into position onstage. Then, the lights dimmed followed by the music being played. As the lights were focused on the center of the stage, the hall was instantly filled with pin drop silence. Her body moved according to the rhythm and was perfectly in sync with the melody of the music. Coupled with the wild and dynamic melody, she instantly captured the gaze of everyone.
A student suddenly shouted, “Robot dance!” Nobody had expected that the plump girl was able to perform that highly difficult dance.
The class teacher of Class A frowned. This powerful dance happened to be arranged before Janet’s performance. The audience would definitely compare this girl to Janet and certainly cause her to overshadow my student.
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The students from Class A now intensely prepared themselves backstage.
At that moment, some of the students had paid attention to the score of the plump girl onstage.
“She managed to attain 95 marks in the end, which is the highest score so far,” The host immediately cheered. “This is the highest score so far. Congratulations! Class F is our number one winner for now. Next, let’s invite students from Class A to perform onstage.”
The first one to appear was Gordon. He was going to sing his original song—‘Starry Night’.
His accompanist was Emily—one of them played the piano while the other sang a song about passion and youth.
“Young Master Yaleman is so handsome!”
“Class A will win! Class A will win!”
“The girl next to Young Master Yaleman is quite pretty too. They are a perfect match!”
Although it was a school festival, the bunch of girls offstage made the scene look like it was Gordon’s personal concert, which obviously illustrated how crazy the audience was for him.
In the end, he obtained a high score of 97, which was the night’s best performance at that point.
Emily thought their performance would certainly attain the highest score, causing her to grin from ear to ear.
The class teacher was beyond anxious backstage. It was nearly Janet’s turn, but she was nowhere to be seen and she didn’t even answer her phone.
Emily and Gordon went to the backstage after their performance. Upon seeing that, he asked, “Janet still hasn’t arrived yet? Gordon, quickly give her a call and urge her to come!” The class teacher reminded him.
She intentionally bit on her lips and wore a dark expression. “Can she still make it?”
Mr. Smith now regretted approving her application. I’m doomed. If something were to happen during the school festival, the principal is going to invite me to his office for another round of scolding. Why do I have such bad luck to have Janet, this jinx, as my student…
The host was already calling for Wendy to perform her calligraphy writing onstage.
Her performance only took 3 minutes and in 5 minutes’ time, it would be Janet’s turn to perform onstage. If she couldn’t arrive within that time frame, then it would be equivalent as Class A losing an opportunity to be rated.
As minutes and seconds went by, the backstage was filled with nervousness. Mr. Smith was so anxious that he paced in circles.
“Young Master Yaleman, do you think that Janet is coming?” Emily asked.
Gordon ignored her and continued to call Janet, but her phone was switched off.
“How about I tell the host to cancel Janet’s performance?” Mr. Smith scratched his head. Although he might not succeed, he had to at least try to communicate with the host.
A triumphant expression flashed across Emily’s eyes as she arrogantly raised her head. “Mr. Smith, I’m afraid that you’ll have to take the trouble to do so. If she intends to escape, why even bother to participate? She’s really wasting our time! I wonder what she has in mind.”
Right after she said that, a slow yet calm female voice was heard backstage. “Who says that I’ve escaped?”
“Oh, my God! You are finally here!” Mr. Smith immediately went up to greet her.
Gordon had also approached her with his phone in his hand. “I couldn’t get through to you.”
Janet took out her phone from her bag and glanced at it before smiling awkwardly. “I’m sorry. My phone ran out of battery and switched off.”
“Janet, are you ready? Wendy’s performance is going to end soon and it’s your turn next.” Mr. Smith was close to tears.
Emily scoffed while deliberately wearing a worried expression, saying, “Mr. Smith, stop asking. Don’t give Janet too much pressure. After all, she has never learned dancing before!”
A menacing smile appeared on the corner of Janet’s lips as she asked, “Really?”
Emily stepped forward and grabbed her hand. “Hey! Let’s stop talking. Janet, you should quickly go and get changed.”
Janet retracted her hands on the spot, which caused the fake smile on Emily’s face to freeze. Is she disgusted with me? Her hypocrisy is so revolting. I would like to see how she humiliates herself tonight!
“Janet, you should go and get changed!” Gordon pointed at the clothes hanging at the side. “Those are the performance attire. You can choose one for yourself first and it will be your turn to perform later.”
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Janet nodded and tossed her bag aside while Emily rolled her eyes and taunted, “I must say, you’re really bold!”
Three minutes later, Emily knocked on the door of the dressing room impatiently and asked, “Janet, are you done?”
As she could not hear anything coming from inside, she was just about to walk into the dressing room when the door swung open. She was greeted by a young girl wearing a green embroidered dress, carrying a lute in her arms as she was leaving the room. She had exquisite makeup on her face with two roses drawn beside her eyes, accentuating her radiant and flawless skin. Emily was awestruck by Janet’s beauty.
“Is it my turn soon?” Janet curled her crimson lips slightly upward into a mysterious smile and it was the first time that Emily had seen her wear that expression.
When Gordon approached the girls, he was immediately blown away by Janet’s dazzling beauty, his eyes glued to her. Exasperated to see how infatuated he was with Janet, Emily deliberately questioned, “Janet, I’m surprised you know how to play a lute. Do you really know how it works?”
“I’m curious too. Why did you decide to perform on the lute?” Gordon asked.
Janet flashed them both a helpless smile. “That’s my only choice because I have no idea how to play the other instruments.”
Emily consoled her right away and said, “It’s fine. Gordon and I have just seized the first place for our class with our performance. So, you don’t have to be nervous; you’re free to perform anything you want.”
“Really? The two of you are amazing!” Janet ignored Emily completely and gave Gordon a nudge instead, as if the two were the best of buddies.
Emily wasn’t too bothered by it because she knew Janet would soon become the laughing stock of the whole school from tonight onward. That thought instantly cheered her up. Her performance was the last from Class A as well as the entire event, so she had a crucial role because everyone would be paying their full attention to her.
“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming to join us in celebrating Star High School’s anniversary tonight. We guarantee that all performances tonight have not gone through any rehearsal and everything will be done in a fair and square manner so that we will be able to uncover the student who has the most potential in becoming a star in the future!”
The audience responded with a round of warm applause. The much-anticipated last performance of the night was about to begin.
“Now, let us welcome the last performance of tonight. Miss Janet Jackson, a newcomer from Class A of Twelfth Grade! Let’s put our hands together to welcome her dance performance!”
At the same time, whispers broke out among the audience.
“A newcomer? I can’t believe she has the guts to be the last performer at such a grand event. I guarantee she must be someone who loves to be in the limelight!”
“Janet Jackson? Isn’t she the one who beat up the campus belle, Jennifer Lewis, so badly that she had to skip school for ten days?”
“Not only that, she even cheated in exams and she was so slick that not even the principal or the teachers could catch her red-handed!”
“Damn it, is she backed up by some big shot? Let’s see how she’s going to fare in the final exam!”
“I couldn’t give a crap about that because she will forever be my enemy for hurting my idol, Jennifer Lewis.”
“Hey, stop talking and watch her performance.”
At this moment, Janet walked onto the stage. The dress she wore was embellished with green embroidery and it wrapped around her elegant body perfectly, as if it was made exclusively for her. The fair skin of her arms were also on display.
“Oh gosh!”
“She’s so stunning! I think I’m falling in love with her!”
“Is she carrying a lute?”
“No way, does she know how to play it?”
“Isn’t she going to dance?”
Gracefully, Janet sat down and started stroking the lute with her fingers. Curving her fair-skinned fingers into a hooked shape, she started strumming the strings and playing a song named ‘Sorrow’. The song conveyed the bitterness of a woman who was longing for the return of her husband. Toward the end of the song, Janet slowed down the movement of her fingers and ended the song with a single note of longing.
The audience immediately broke into tremendous applause.
“Her performance was breathtaking!”
“She looks so beautiful when she’s playing the lute in that green dress.”
“She’s definitely the best performer tonight!”
“Her performance is even better than Emily’s piano performance.”
“She has to be crowned as the winner tonight!”
Meanwhile backstage, Emily glared at Janet with her teeth gritted as she was surprised that Janet could really play the lute. How could this be? Did villages now come with so many good resources? Emily knew she was surely going to miss out on being the winner this time and she had only herself to blame for that.
On the other hand, Gordon was impressed by Janet’s performance because it was better than many celebrities who performed inn talent shows on television.
Instead of retreating to the backstage right away, Janet put the lute down. Removing the pair of high heels she was wearing, her ankle and calf were revealed as the slit on her dress parted while she walked around the stage. All the guys offstage were smitten by the temptation.
“That’s not the end?”
“Is she going to dance?”
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Once again, the audience went into an uproar when they saw Janet remain onstage. The music played and she started moving gracefully, her dress accentuating her slender waist and swaying along with her movements.
She successfully made every single movement of hers look perfect and elegant while she glided on the stage nimbly. At the same time, she would move her eyes gracefully, looking mischievous at one moment and elegant the next, perfectly complementing her dance moves.
Everyone was transfixed by her performance, their eyes brimming with admiration. The judges and the audience were stuck in a trance even after her performance ended. By the time everyone recovered, Janet had already retreated backstage.
“Please play ‘Sorrow’ again with the lute!”
“Please dance again!”
“My idol, please come out to the stage now!”
The audience were crazy about her but the young girl who had successfully charmed them within five minutes never reappeared on stage despite their keen requests.
Meanwhile, Mason was watching Janet’s breathtaking performance on his computer at the Lowry Residence. As it turned out, Janet had left hurriedly just now because she needed to attend her school anniversary celebration. At that exact moment, someone knocked on the door of the study.
“Come in.”
Sean cautiously walked in and placed a file on Mason’s desk. He inadvertently glanced at Mason’s computer and was immediately enamored by Janet’s performance. Taking a closer look at Janet’s face, Sean asked in astonishment, “Isn’t she that superb doctor?”
Mason took a sip of wine, his movements exuding a noble and distinguished aura as he responded, “Yes.”
“Young Master Mason, did you hack into the CCTV cameras installed at her school?”
Mason stared at the screen with his long and slanted eyes, much like a predator staring at its prey. Sean was first shocked to see the woman who appeared on the screen and then was flabbergasted to see how smitten Young Master Mason was with her. Since when did he make so much effort for a woman? For her sake, the young man was even willing to go to the extent of hacking the CCTV cameras installed at her school…
“Sean, help me check what happened along her journey to the hospital earlier today,” Mason instructed.
“Yes, sir.”
He almost forgot about the tiny abrasion at the corner of her eye when she reached the hospital. It seemed like she got it not too long ago and it didn’t seem to be caused by a fall. In that case, what had she experienced that could have left the injury on her face? He had to get to the bottom of it—he would never allow anybody to touch her!
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With such a scintillating performance, it didn’t come as a surprise that Janet was crowned as the winner of tonight. Regretfully, she left right after her performance and didn’t stay for the award ceremony.
The runner-up was Emily and Gordon. Gordon accepted his defeat very readily because Janet’s performance was absolutely better than his. As for Emily, she congratulated Janet for her win but deep down inside, she felt overwhelming resentment. If she had known that Janet would steal the limelight of the event from her, she wouldn’t have registered Janet for the contest.
That night, some boys from the school immediately posted the performance video and photos of Janet to a campus belle forum on Reddit. The rest of the boys frantically added their comments in the forum to show their support for Janet. One of them even posted a video comparing Emily to Janet. It was said that Emily had done well that night and managed to impress the audience but as soon as Janet appeared, her performance was immediately forgotten.
When Emily logged into her Reddit account and saw most of the comments were about Janet, she freaked out and nearly smashed her laptop to pieces. Janet’s performance rose swiftly to fame and even the campus belle, Jennifer Lewis, almost paled in her presence. Noticing that her performance had become a hit, Gordon quickly called Janet to inform her. “You’re a celebrity now, Janet! Your performance video is all over Reddit and Twitter!”
Janet quickly hung up on him to check out her Twitter account. Goodness gracious!
Never had she thought that her performance would go viral on the Internet. By hook or by crook, she had to do something to quell the public enthusiasm on her performance. Shortly later, she called Lee and told him, “Hey, I accidentally went viral on the internet. Can you help me tone down the discussion? I want everything related to my performance to vanish.”
“Janet, why don’t you just delete your Twitter account?” Lee provided her with an even better solution without having to spend a single cent.
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Janet frowned at Lee’s suggestion and insisted, “I think we should just spend the money to make sure it’s done properly.” She thought it best to adopt a more cautious approach because if she closed down her Twitter account, she might even risk attracting some unwanted attention to her.
“Fine, I know you like to keep it low. In that case, I’ll get straight down to business!”
After ending the call with Lee, she opened Reddit and searched for the topics related to her. Within a matter of seconds, over one hundred comments about her were deleted.
The boy who initiated the discussion on her was still posting more comments when he noticed the sudden disappearance of the entire discussion. Thinking that he must have accidentally deleted them, he tried to start another one.
But to his dismay, he found that he was prohibited from forming any new discussion related to Janet. Not only that, any account would be blocked and banned permanently after more than three searches on Janet’s name.
On the other hand, Emily was just about to use her fake account to start throwing mud at Janet but her search came back with zero results. After trying to search for Janet’s name three times, her fake account was immediately blocked.
Nevertheless, she was overjoyed to see that all Janet’s performance videos and photos had all vanished from the forum and wondered on who Janet could have offended to end up this way. She was elated because that was exactly what she wanted to happen.
The following day, Class A’s atmosphere was exceptionally lively.
“Janet, I’m really surprised that you can play the lute and dance so well too!”
“Janet, where have you been taking dance lessons? Would you mind telling me who your dance teacher is?”
“Janet, not only are you beautiful, you can also play the lute and dance well. From today onward, you are my idol!”
“Oh, please. Janet is everyone’s idol and now that Jennifer Lewis is not around, Janet will be the campus belle of our school!”
“Janet, may I have your number please?”
Janet was surrounded by a bunch of her classmates as they vied for her attention.
Sitting behind her, Gordon looked resigned because he realized he could no longer have Janet all to himself now. What a bummer!
Meanwhile, Janet answered her classmates, “I’ve never taken any proper dancing lessons and I only learn by copying the moves from dancing videos posted online.”
“Oh, what a shame! In that case, can you be my teacher then?”
Abby tugged at the sleeves of Janet’s shirt and croaked, “Janet, will you still sit next to me now that you’ve become so popular in class?”
Janet couldn’t help but chuckle as she caressed Abby’s head. “Silly, why won’t I sit next to you?”
Abby wrapped her arms around Janet’s waist and said, “Thank you, Janet.”
Abby was the only one in the class who had never looked down on Janet or tried to shun her. Thus, there was simply no reason for her to despise Abby. On the contrary, those people who were swarming around her were just a bunch of fence-sitters who would start gossiping about her behind her back again as soon as Jennifer returned to school.
Sometimes, having sharp hearing ability was not too much of a blessing. At that moment, some boys started shouting outside their classroom, “Gosh! My crush is back!”
“Who’s back?” Some of the boys inside started asking those standing outside.
“It’s Jennifer Lewis!”
“Why is she back so soon? Isn’t she suspended from school for ten days?”
“I think her rich dad must have bribed the principal to let her back.”
“Seriously? Quick! Let’s go and take a look.”
In the blink of an eye, those people who surrounded Janet left her for Jennifer. Everyone seemed to have forgotten how Jennifer had bullied her before.
Inside the teachers’ office, Class B’s class teacher advised, “Jennifer, please make sure you catch up with your lessons as soon as possible.”
With her swollen and red eyes, Jennifer looked up at the teacher with a distressed expression and sniffled, “I’ve realized my mistake. I promise I will study and catch up with the lessons diligently.”
Breaking into a beaming smile, the class teacher patted her shoulder and said, “In fact, I don’t think you’re solely to be blamed for what happened. As the saying goes, there’s no smoke without fire. There must be something wrong with that Janet Jackson to begin with!”
Jennifer pursed her lips and nodded in agreement.
“Alright, you’re dismissed,” said the class teacher while staring at her.
A bunch of boys who were hovering outside the office were psyched to see Jennifer back. They even started chanting a slogan, “Jen, you’ll always have our support!”
“I’m so glad to see Jennifer back. Otherwise, that bumpkin from Class A would’ve become the campus belle of our school!”
“Who cares? For me, Jennifer will always be the one and only campus belle of our school.”
“Oh, just keep your mouth shut. Janet Jackson is nothing compared to Jennifer.”
Listening to them talking about Janet, Jennifer couldn’t help losing herself in her thoughts. She had spent one whole year’s worth of her allowance to hire a bunch of guys to finish Janet off but what happened in the end?
Those useless guys came back with injuries instead without managing to hurt Janet in the slightest bit. She was really curious as to what was so great and special about this Janet Jackson…
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Unbeknownst to Jennifer, Janet had already instructed some of her subordinates to start investigating the bullet casing with an inscription of a letter ‘M’. Later that night when Janet was having a discussion with the organization on the bullet casing, her phone on the desk started ringing urgently. She glanced at the screen and found that it was from an unknown caller.
“Who is this?”
“It’s me.” A familiar man’s voice came to her from the other end.
Assuming that he had called to update her on the condition of the elderly lady, she queried, “Has Old Madam Lowry woken up?”
Mason answered, “Yes.”
“I’ll go and take a look at her now.” As a doctor, Janet felt obligated to make a trip to the hospital again.
At the largest private hospital in Sandfort City, it was morning when Old Madam Lowry regained consciousness. She seemed to be in better spirits after having an acupuncture treatment by Janet.
After removing all the silver needles from the elderly lady’s body, Janet looked up and found the elderly lady staring at her in a warm and amiable way. Judging from her eyes which were brimming with admiration, it was obvious that the elderly lady had taken a liking to Janet.
“Her condition has improved a lot,” Janet told Mason.
“All thanks to you.” Mason’s eyes were glued to Janet right from the very beginning.
Old Madam Lowry had noticed the way Mason looked at Janet long before this. As someone who had immense experience in love and relationships, she knew what it meant. Old Madam Lowry then stared at Janet. “Oh right—Miss Sandra?”
“You may call me Janet.”
“Janet… What a beautiful name. In that case, I’ll call you Miss Janet from now on.”
“You may call me anything you like.” Janet wasn’t too bothered by how the elderly lady addressed her because it was just a trivial matter.
Staring at Janet warmly, Old Madam Lowry made a move to hold her hand but Janet frowned and dodged her.
As someone who was wise, Old Madam Lowry appeared unruffled and pretended as if nothing had happened. Looking at Janet’s fair complexion, she asked, “Miss Janet, do you have a boyfriend?”
“Nope.”
“In that case, is there anyone in your heart?” Old Madam Lowry pressed on.
The muscles in Mason’s face tensed up when he heard the question. Being such an attractive girl, he was sure she must have plenty of suitors.
“Nope,” Janet answered truthfully.
The muscles in Mason’s face relaxed slightly when he heard her answer. Meanwhile, Old Madam Lowry had been keeping an eye on her grandson’s reaction. To her, Mason always looked unapproachable and aloof like a block of ice, mostly of his poker-faced expression. She then thought about how she was just a peasant girl who lived in a village decades ago and never in her wildest dreams did she think she would marry Mason’s grandfather and become the matriarch of the Lowry Family. She was filled with nostalgia for a short while before she turned and said to Janet and Mason, “Do stand closer to each other.”
Janet wondered what the elderly woman was trying to achieve by asking her to stand closer to Mason. However, before she could protest, Mason had already edged closer to her as per Old Madam Lowry’s instruction.
Admiring at the sight in front of her, the elderly lady nodded her head in approval and beamed. “The two of you look great as a couple!”
In response, Mason lazily raised his eyebrows and broke into a charming lopsided smile. Janet, on the other hand, looked indifferent.
“Miss Janet, I was so lucky to bump into you or I would’ve…” Old Madam Lowry sighed heavily. She then held onto Janet’s hand and this time, Janet didn’t try to move away. “I’d like to thank you but… I can’t think of anything to offer you. What about this, would my grandson as your husband do?”
Sean, who was standing in the corner of the room, was confused by the elderly lady’s humble tone. What did the name Mason Lowry actually represent? It represented immense power in Sandfort City and there were many wealthy young ladies who were very keen to marry into the Lowry Family and become Mason’s wife. Why was Mason made to sound like an unattractive man when it came to Janet?
“You don’t have to offer me anything in return because I merely did what I was paid for.”
Old Madam Lowry didn’t push it seeing how disinterested she looked. She understood that she had to let nature take its course when it came to relationships because it might make matters worse if she tried too hard to bring them together.
“I shall get going if you’re feeling fine now.”
Janet and Mason walked out of the ward after that.
“My grandmother said we looked great together.”
Janet glanced at him sideways and snapped, “Nothing will ever happen between us.”
“Now, now. How can you be so sure without giving it a try?”
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Mason couldn’t help but raise his brows slightly, suddenly feeling impulsive deep down inside. It was a bizarre sensation because it had been years since he last felt something like that.
He thought he had already successfully banished those emotions which could take a toll on his rational thinking. Little did he know, this young woman just made him experience something he had not felt for a very long time.
“My instinct told me so,” Janet remarked, a nonchalant expression on her face.
“Well, my instinct tells me we should be together.” Mason squinted his long and slanted eyes as he curled the corners of his lips into a crafty smile.
Staring at the man who rarely smiled, Janet thought of the thing she had been wanting to tell him. As he looked very attractive when he smiled, she wanted to stop him from smiling too often; otherwise he might just make girls fall in love with him, yet at the same time, break their hearts by not dating any of them.
“Young Master Mason!” Sean approached him and whispered something into his ear.
Realizing that she shouldn’t disturb them, Janet left after saying goodbye. Looking at her back which was slowly vanishing into the darkness, the gentleness in Mason’s eyes disappeared in an instant when he asked Sean, “Did you find anything?”
Sean answered in a respectful tone, “Young Master Mason, Miss Janet was attacked near her house by a group of assassins from M Group in Sandfort City.”
“M Group?” Mason narrowed his long eyes slightly in contemplation. Since he had never heard of it, he supposed it was a newly established organization which must be desperate to do anything for money. “Where are those assassins now?”
Sean answered him truthfully, “We’ve captured and locked them up in Mason Vault.”
Upon hearing, Mason parted his lips slightly and instructed, “Let’s go.”
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It was a chilly night that evening. Suddenly, the door of one of the underground cells in Mason Vault was kicked open with an ear-splitting sound, echoing throughout the entire underground space. The black trench coat Mason was wearing fitted his tall and muscular body well and gave him an icy and bleak aura that made him look like the Grim Reaper.
“Young Master Mason!” The assassins’ eyes lit up with hope the moment they recognized the pair of mysterious and cold eyes. “Young Master Mason, please help us!”
“Help you?” Mason drawled, then narrowed his eyes into slits and looked at them murderously. “Why should I help you?”
“Young Master Mason, we’ve realized our mistake! Please let us go! We were only temporarily tempted by the money!”
Looking down, the crooked smile on Mason’s face vanished as he questioned them, “You guys were paid?”
“Yes. Young Master Mason, please forgive us because we didn’t really cause any harm to that girl and we promise we won’t do anything against the law in future!”
Mason sneered in response. “Which hand did you guys use to fire the gun at her?”
“What?” The assassins were confused by his question.
“I asked, which hand did you use to fire the gun?”
“I used my l-left hand.” What came next was an agonized squeal—the assassin had one of his hands chopped off.
Mason sized them up, his eyes brimming with menace. “Tell me, who paid you guys to do the job?”
The assassins stared at Mason dazedly with wide eyes. Stroking the gun tied to his waist threateningly, Mason snapped, “What’s wrong? Are none of you going to say anything?”
“I’ll talk! I’ll tell you!” One of them caved in and came clean. “It’s a girl with the last name Lewis and she is studying at Star High School. She paid us five hundred thousand to kill that girl.”
Mason narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. “Sean, go and investigate that Lewis girl.”
“Yes, sir!” Sean nodded in acknowledgement.
Looking at the group of assassins, Sean asked cautiously, “Young Master Mason, how should I deal with them after we’ve got what we need?”
With a cold smirk, Mason responded, “Keep them here for some time and make sure they get the best ‘treatment’.”
Sean was speechless. Casting a glance at the bunch of assassins, he couldn’t help thinking it was better being killed straight away rather than being kept alive at Mason Vault.
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Janet contacted the organization as soon as she got back home and within the same night, the organization managed to trace the owner of the gun through the bullet casing. She soon received a message from someone within said organization.
Lara: ‘Janet, we’ve found something.’
Janet: ‘Who is it?’
Lara: ‘It belongs to a newly established organization which does jobs for money.’
Janet: ‘Where are they now?’
Lara: ‘We just tracked their location to an underground cellar named ‘Mason Vault’.’
Janet: ‘Thanks.’
After closing the conversation window on her laptop, Janet went to her wardrobe and took out a long black dress with a nametag ‘Shadow 1’ embroidered at the chest area. Opening the window, she vaulted through and landed on the ground. The hem of her long back dress formed a beautiful arc, swaying along with her movements.
It wasn’t long before the security guards at Mason Vault slumped to the ground, unconscious. Janet made her way to the group of assassins and they were so horrified to see her that they immediately cowered in fear. “Why are you here?” they gasped.
Flashing them a crooked smile, Janet countered, “Why can’t I be here?”
“Please spare our lives; we’ll tell you everything. Don’t you want to know who hired us? I’ll tell you everything right now.”
Janet switched on the voice recorder on her phone and one of them started confessing, “A girl with the surname Lewis hired us to kill you for five hundred thousand.”
They were first paid half of that amount as a deposit and would only be paid in full if they got the job done. At first, they thought they would be able to make a quick and easy buck out of it thinking that the target was just a young girl. However, they clearly had not expected the girl to be physically trained and stronger than any of them.
Just like that, Janet knew that it was Jennifer Lewis, the campus belle of Star High School, who hired the assassins to kill her. “What were her orders?” Janet asked.
The assassin who confessed just now stammered, “She wanted us to snap some of your nudes and post it online so that you would leave Star High School out of embarrassment. If we didn’t manage to do that, she wanted us to finish you off.”
Upon hearing, Janet narrowed her eyes in confusion. Since she didn’t really have a huge fallout with Jennifer, she couldn’t believe Jennifer really wanted her killed over something so trivial. Tsk, tsk, tsk. How vicious that woman is! She always thought that she could stay out of trouble as long as she kept to herself and didn’t offend anyone. However, there were still people out there who resented her and wanted to punish her. “How did she pay you the deposit?” Janet queried.
The man answered in a quivering voice, “She transferred the money to my bank account.”
“Give me your name and your identity card number,” Janet demanded.
Hesitating, the man read aloud his details at such a slow speed that by the time he finished, Janet had managed to remember all the numbers by heart.
“You aren’t allowed to tell anyone about what happened today.”
“Yes! Of course!” The man nodded his head vigorously.
Just as Janet took two steps out of their cell, the horrifying images of how she was nearly killed by them came back to haunt her again. Spurred by the terrifying memory, she turned around and made up her mind to take her revenge. Soon, what remained in the underground cellar was the agonizing squeals and painful shrieks that echoed in the air.
Meanwhile at Lowry Residence, the branches and the leaves rustled in the gentle breeze as the temperature dipped, a hint of early spring in the air. The moon was obscured in the overcast sky and could only be seen vaguely. In the darkness, a man with a tall and slender body was sitting leisurely on a sofa made from genuine leather.
A man in black dashed to him hurriedly and said, “Young Master Mason, all our men guarding Mason Vault were left unconscious and that group of assassins have died of excessive bleeding.”
The moon was starting to find its way out of the clouds and managed to illuminate the man’s face. He was extremely attractive, a charming but wicked smile playing on his lips. “Really?” He curled his luscious lips upward into a sly smile and remarked, “Seems like they have plenty of enemies.”
Who could have broken into Mason Vault and killed those guys? What could have been the motive?
“Can we see the person’s face from the CCTV footage?” Mason asked.
The man in black answered him straightforwardly, “One of our men checked the footage and found that someone hacked into the system and deleted all the records.”
“The only thing they managed to see is that those guys all died a horrible death. The tendons in their legs were removed and they all died from excessive bleeding.”
Mason narrowed his eyes contemplatively as his face turned serious. Could it be Shadow 1? It was a widely known fact that every time Shadow 1 was out on a mission, his or her opponents would end up either being handicapped or killed.
To top it off, Shadow 1 had a preference for removing their tendons so that they would not be able to run away and get help. Although Shadow 1 was a vicious killer, he or she had only killed those who had offended him or her, but never for money. Was Shadow 1 active in Sandfort City again?
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The sky was getting darker as Janet climbed the walls of Jackson Residence and sneaked back to her room surreptitiously through the window, avoiding the CCTVs. Then, she burrowed under the blanket. Sitting on the bed cross-legged, she typed furiously away on the keyboard with her slender fingers, sorting out the evidence she had gathered.
Within seconds, she managed to hack into Jennifer’s phone. When she spotted the record of Jennifer’s transaction with the group of assassins in her bank account, she snorted, “Seems like she really does hate me to the core, huh!” Opening her WhatsApp application on her phone, she sent a folder to Lara.
Janet: ‘Please help me post everything in that folder to Star High School’s forum on Reddit.’
Lara: ‘Got it, Janet!”
Lara got down to business as soon as she received the folder.
Then, Janet sent her another message: ‘Do come up with an eye-catching headline.’
After briefly going through the materials inside the folder, Lara suggested: ‘Breaking news! Jennifer Lewis, the campus belle of Star High School, made a questionable deal with a bunch of men!’
The following morning, Janet purposely waited for Jennifer at the school gates. As soon as she spotted her getting out from a luxurious car, she approached Jennifer and intentionally stumbled onto the ground in front of her.
Jennifer stopped in her tracks and glared at her, eyes brimming with disgust and hatred. Then, she pointed at Janet and scolded, “Hey, are you trying to frame me up by deliberately falling right in front of me?”
An eerie and icy glint flashed through Janet’s eyes as she rose to her feet. Curling her bright red lips into a sly smile, she muttered menacingly, “You know what? Those who tried to sabotage me all paid a very heavy price.”
Jennifer shuddered at the words that sent chills down her spine. “You…” With a deep frown on her forehead, she stopped herself from blurting out the question on her mind just in time. Once she asked Janet that question, the latter would know right away that Jennifer was the one who hired the assassins to kill her.
Her smile vanishing, Janet’s face turned cold as she warned, “You’d better watch out.” With that, she spun around and walked away.
…
As soon as Jennifer entered the classroom, she managed to completely put Janet’s warning out of her mind. She looked like a star today wearing a floral dress from Louis Vuitton—a gift from her father that cost over a hundred thousand. Secretly thrilled because she knew that all eyes were on her, she couldn’t help but break into a beatific smile. Putting down her bag, she left the classroom to take a stroll on the field, enjoying the boys’ admiration.
Little did she know, her classmates from Class B started to criticize her right away as soon as she was far enough away from them.
“Why is she looking so smug in that dress?”
“I finally realize that she is not only a campus belle, but also a wicked one.”
“I suppose she’s on her way to show off that dress to all the boys in school now.”
“She hasn’t got a clue what happened, has she?”
Just as Jennifer reached the basketball court to watch the boys, all the other girls who were there to root for the guys quickly scattered. Whispering between themselves, they eyed her skeptically. The way they looked at her was definitely not in admiration or envy.
Feeling puzzled, Jennifer walked over to one of the girls and shoved her hard. “Why are all of you looking at me that way? Is this the first time you’re meeting the campus belle?”
The girls chuckled in response.
“You’re right. I’ve never met a campus belle who is so wicked.”
“I’ve never met one who is so vicious.”
“Me too! I’ve never come across one who loves to show off so much.”
“In fact, this is my first time meeting a campus belle who is so cheap.”
All at once, they showered Jennifer with a deluge of degrading remarks. Jennifer snapped and slapped one of the girls across the face. “What did you say?”
The girl also lost it, raising her voice to counter, “I said you are disgusting!” Then, the girl opened Reddit on her phone and clicked into Star High School’s forum which was filled with discussions on Jennifer and showed it to her.
When Jennifer’s eyes landed on the video posted there, she was so flabbergasted that she felt as if her world was about to explode. The video showed the chat messages and bank transaction she had had with one of the assassins. A recording of a phone conversation between one of the assassins and a mysterious person was also included. As the voice of the mysterious person was technically modified, no one knew for sure who it actually belonged to.
“It’s not me!” Jennifer lunged toward the girl, snatching her phone away before throwing it to the ground. “It’s not me in the video! Delete it! Delete everything right now!” she shrieked.
Seeing that her phone was thrown onto the ground, the girl seethed, “You can’t change anything even after breaking my phone. Everyone in this school already knows how wicked and vicious you are. Soon, you will be asked to leave Star High School!”
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No way! That’s impossible! Jennifer shook her head vigorously in disbelief. How did the chat messages and bank transactions in her phone get exposed to the public? Was it the doing of the assassins she had hired?
That was unlikely because to those who were involved in jobs like these, integrity was their motto. However, nothing else could explain how the information appeared on Reddit. Then, who was the one who sabotaged her? She had to get the principal’s help now.
The girls watched her storm off and started sniggering.
“Even the principal cannot save her now.”
“Tsk, not only is she going to be expelled, she will even be sent to jail for committing a crime!”
“That’s for sure. Not even her father can save her now.”
…
The matter caused a sensational stir in Star High School. The students all left their classrooms and swarmed to the principal’s office to peek in on the ensuing drama.
Meanwhile, Janet was leaning against the table sleeping when Abby and Gordon approached her hurriedly and asked, “Janet, are you alright?”
Janet looked up groggily and nodded her head. “I’m alright. What’s going on?”
Abby and Gordon looked stunned for several seconds, eyeing her disbelievingly. “Janet, rumor has it Jennifer hired some assassins to kill you. It’s all over our school’s Reddit forum now.”
“I had no idea.” Janet just shook her head at them.
Not bothering to explain it in detail to her, Abby and Gordon hauled her out of the classroom. “Let’s go! Let’s see what it is all about!”
Grinning, Janet thought she ought to join in the excitement too. With a faint smile, she agreed. By the time the three of them reached the door of the principal’s office, there were already throngs of students, including some teachers, hovering outside.
Jennifer was shrieking, “Sir, you have to believe me! I didn’t do anything of that sort! You must instruct the students to delete their comments in the forum or all of you will suffer very badly when my dad hears about this!”
Who on earth was the one who sabotaged her and put her in such a dire situation? Glancing at the bunch of nosy students who were watching the drama outside, she spotted Janet and all of a sudden, what she said to her in the morning popped in her mind. “You know what? Those who tried to sabotage me all paid a very heavy price.”
To everyone’s surprise, Jennifer suddenly pounced on Janet and seized her by the collar of her school uniform as she growled, “Were you the one? It must be you! Janet Jackson, you dirty little b*tch!”
Janet looked as though she was on the verge of bursting into tears, her eyes glistening. “Sir, what’s wrong with Jennifer? I’m scared!” she croaked.
Gordon stepped forward and gripped Jennifer’s hands. “Let go of her! You’re frightening her!”
Staring at Janet and Gordon, Jennifer felt as if her head was exploding; the hatred, rage and jealousy surging in her body were overwhelming. Why? Why was Young Master Yaleman now on her side? She couldn’t accept it! She charged forward and grabbed Janet’s uniform again. “It must be you who sabotaged me! I’m very sure!” she roared angrily.
The principal approached them to mediate the fight. “Jennifer, why are you doing this to Janet? Let her go now.” Although they usually disliked Janet, they could still see that Janet was the victim in this situation.
Jennifer looked terrifying as she glowered at Janet, her eyes brimming with rage and hatred. Since Janet had ruined her life, she had to kill her. Immediately, she lifted her hand, intending to give Janet a slap. Her cheeks would surely become swollen and red.
However, just moments before her hand connected with Janet’s face, Gordon grasped her wrist tightly and managed to stop her just in time. Looking down, Janet had on a miserable look as she asked, “Jennifer, what are you trying to do?”
“Young Master Yaleman…” It had never occurred to Jennifer that Gordon would actually grip her wrist so hard just to protect Janet.
“Jennifer Lewis, what are you doing? How dare you attack Gordon?”
Fury and indignance was eating Jennifer up. Couldn’t they see it was Gordon who was holding her wrist in such a tight grasp and refused to let her go?
“Jennifer Lewis, the management of Star High School has unanimously decided to expel you because of your morally corrupt behavior,” the principal announced righteously.
Face turning pale, Jennifer denied, “No, Sir; I’m not! I’m not!” It was the end of the world for Jennifer.
At that moment, Janet suddenly stepped forward and spoke, “Sir, I have no idea about what was said on the forum. Could there have been a misunderstanding?”