The speaker seemed very angry, with a hint of contempt in their tone.
And the reply came in another weak voice.
“Yes, sorry Bianca. This necklace was left to me by my mother, I can’t lend it to you.”
“Oh, so it’s something from a dead person, then I don’t want it to avoid bad luck.”
“I just took another look, this necklace’s style is too old-fashioned, and the ruby’s color is not vibrant enough, it doesn’t match my noble status.”
Clearly, being refused to take away someone else’s mother’s legacy, but speaking such disparaging words.
It made people uncomfortable to hear.
Channing couldn’t help but wonder how thick-skinned the other person was, they must be very ugly.
He turned around to look.
Only to see two girls standing not far behind him, the one asking for the necklace turned out to be unexpectedly outstanding even among the city’s outstanding beauties.
While the bullied girl had short hair and kept her head down, making Channing mistake her for the maid of the young lady.
“What a joke!” He regretfully commented.
This remark happened to be heard by the two, Bianca immediately changed her tone when she saw there was a third person present.
She hurriedly explained, “Don’t get me wrong, Jaelynn and I are actually best friends, she’s very tolerant and won’t mind, right?”
The girl Jaelynn kept her head down, nodding obediently in response.
“Yes, that’s right.”
Channing’s brows furrowed deeper.
He disdainfully glanced at the coquettish young lady, lips curled in sarcasm as he said:
“Oh really? Then she’s unlucky to have a friend like you, Miss, you’re not careful with your friends.”
“You even want someone else’s mother’s belongings, your attire doesn’t look like that of a poor person, so vain?”
“Can’t get what you want, so you show contempt. It shows how bad your character is.”
“I wonder who will be unlucky enough to marry you, a noble young lady like you.”
Bianca, who was always pursued by men wherever she went, when has she ever suffered such injustice?
She angrily cursed at him, “It won’t be you anyway!”
Channing laughed heartily, patting his chest with relief.
“That’s for the best, otherwise I’m afraid my ancestors would jump out of the ground in anger while I sleep at night.”
“I’ll marry, but I’d rather marry the girl next to you, she’s much better than you.”
Bianca was so angry her face twisted.
She racked her brains but couldn’t come up with a curse, shaking with anger.
“Do you know who I am to dare to slander me like this, foul-mouthed, uncouth, lacking any gentlemanly demeanor… Do you even deserve to be called a man?”
“Someone like you will be single for life.”
Channing shrugged indifferently, not caring who she was.
“I don’t need to know who you are, and I don’t need you to manage whether I’m a man or not.”
“By the way, unfortunately for you, I won’t be single because I already have someone I love very much, much better than you, hahaha.”
After saying this, Channing left breezily.
Little did he know that his appearance had stirred the hearts of the two girls.
Jaelynn was extremely grateful to him.
Because of his words saying he would rather marry her than Bianca, she felt the taste of being recognized for the first time.
Love quietly arrived at that moment, but the person involved was oblivious.
When she understood what longing was, it was already too late to extricate herself;
Only to be entangled deeper as she struggled.
Meanwhile, Bianca also had a deep impression on Channing, this man made her feel an unprecedented desire to conquer!
“He dares to insult me like this, then I’ll make him fall deeply in love with me and then dump him, hmph!”
To retaliate against Channing, she immediately sent a maid to follow him.
Later, the maid came back and heard someone call him “Mr. Harrison”.
Surname Harrison?
Appearing at today’s banquet, such a handsome young man, apart from Abel in Onistead, who else could it be?
“But it’s rumored that the Harrison family’s young master is gentle and courteous, steady and gentlemanly… how could that rude guy just now be him?”
The maid replied, “I don’t know either, I heard those young masters call him that.”
Jaelynn, on the other hand, had seen the real Abel’s appearance.
She immediately knew that Channing was not Abel, but she was curious about his identity.
Later, at the wedding, when he appeared as a groomsman, she found out that he was Master Channing of the recently returned Lucas family.
However, this time, he was accompanied by a pure and beautiful young girl.
Jaelynn’s dream – shattered!
Channing treated it as a small episode and forgot about it.
But bringing up the old story made him realize many hidden details.
Suddenly enlightened.
“No wonder after marrying into the Harrison family, Miss Davidson’s health improved but her character changed drastically, it turns out the person who married her was that rude and ugly Miss Davidson.”
Abel had also suspected this matter.
However, he had never seen the real Miss Davidson, and the two sisters looked so much alike that it was impossible to tell them apart.
“You wouldn’t recognize her, because Sadie Davidson passed away from a sudden heart attack before the wedding.”
“In order to maintain the relationship between the two families, the Davidson family had Bianca marry as a replacement.”
“Only the old lady of the Davidson family knew the truth, and she took it to her grave.”
Jaelynn learned about Bianca’s true identity many years later.
By then, they had both experienced the hardships of life and no longer were young;
Elsa and the Davidson family’s daughter Emily became good friends just like they were years ago.
At a gathering, Bianca mentioned the necklace incident, stirring up her memories and revealing the truth behind this twisted marriage.
From another perspective, they were both pitiful souls in the world of love.
The two reconciled their differences and restored their friendship.
What about Mr. Harrison?
Whether he knew or not, it didn’t make much difference to him.
This was the first time Channing had looked at her seriously, and a glimmer of hope arose in Jaelynn’s heart.
Would he… after hearing this story…
But his response in the next moment was even more ruthless than before, completely shattering her strong will.
“If I had known that I was defending someone like you back then, I wouldn’t have bothered!”
“You can die, I won’t have any sympathy for you!”
“You! Pfft-”
Jaelynn was so excited that she spat blood again, the anticipation in her eyes dissipating, leaving only the deepest despair.
“Hahaha, so that’s how it is! So that’s how it is…”
Is it wrong to love someone?
Jaelynn couldn’t help but repeatedly ask herself in her mind.