Unfortunately, Leonard was no slouch either, because he admired Hazel and often went to hear Hazel’s plays, so he also got to know more about Hazel’s fiance.
At that time in The Capital, no one could withstand the Folsom family’s investigation. Soon, Leonard discovered JT’s unusual behavior and found that he was secretly colluding with many large and small families.
At that time, Hazel had been beaten up by the Browne family rice mill after she and the members of the Women’s Self-Help Association were humiliated. Leonard took the opportunity to take Hazel and the Women’s Self-Help Association under his protection.
The two began to have more contact.
Leonard was polite and courteous, and he never bullied people or overstepped the mark. He often took the initiative to go to the Women’s Self-Help Association to talk about saving the country and the people, and about the future of Country A…
Hazel saw the future of the country in Leonard, and she became even more active in developing the Women’s Self-Help Association to help those in distress in troubled times.
The good deeds of the Self-Help Association were very inspiring in The Capital, and her status also rose along with it, to the point where it was difficult to get a ticket.
At this time, Hazel also decided to marry JT, an ordinary clerk.
On the day of the wedding, Papa Bree’s red lanterns were lit and the guests were in full attendance. When Hazel, wearing her embroidered wedding dress, walked down the aisle with JT, Leonard sent his younger brother Landon.
Landon whispered to Hazel that something had happened to several people in the self-help club, and someone was already dying, hoping to see her before they died.
The people in the self-help group are all family to Hazel, so of course she couldn’t let them go. She immediately removed her veil herself, explained the situation to JT, and then left with Landon.
JT was left alone to face a full hall of guests, and Landon’s eyes were extremely provocative as he left.
JT stood in Papa Bree’s wedding clothes, facing the whispering faces, and his hatred reached a peak.
Paige has always been a fast reader, and she can read ten pages at a time without missing anything.
In the handwritten letter, JT wrote about the trouble with the self-help club in great pain, and even the penmanship was a bit distorted.
He had never wanted to deal with Hazel, and naturally he would not deal with the people in the women’s self-help club.
In his eyes, that was Hazel’s ideal, so let her play along.
He had clearly let it be known that no one was allowed to touch the Women’s Self-Help Association again, but the Women’s Self-Help Association once again got into a fight with the Reznick family over relief supplies.
During the argument, someone from the Reznick family couldn’t help but get physical, and the Women’s Self-Help Association was full of women, so they were no match for the men physically, and they were beaten to within an inch of their lives.
Leonard then called Hazel away from the wedding. Hazel was naturally angry when she saw her best friend die before her eyes, and wanted to take the Reznick family to the police station. The person leading the Reznick family directly pushed her, leaving behind the words “If it weren’t for…”, but the words were not finished, and the Reznick family closed the door tightly.
There were too many meanings to this sentence, and the Reznick family was obviously not talking about looking at the Folsom family’s face.
Then whose face?
This planted a question in Hazel’s mind.
From JT’s point of view, Leonard is a very capable person, even when it comes to women.
Leonard also has his own way of doing things.
Leonard did not directly tell her that he suspected JT of being involved, but instead helped Hazel personally to find evidence of his guilt, to find out about the Reznick family, who they were fighting with, why they were hoarding grain, and little by little, they traced it back to JT.
Hazel tried desperately to find out, and after all that hard work, she finally found out that it was her fiance who was behind it all. At that moment, she broke down.
The bond they had formed since childhood made Hazel feel so much pain. She questioned JT, and JT told her about his experiences growing up, making him hate those wealthy families.
Hazel couldn’t let go of their relationship, and could only repeatedly ask JT to turn over a new leaf, begging him to be a good person from now on and stop hypnotizing people.
At the same time, Hazel also begged Leonard to give JT a chance, and Leonard agreed, earning Hazel’s gratitude.
However, during a meeting between JT and Hazel, JT was ambushed and beaten up by the other two families. He narrowly escaped with his life.
JT believes that Leonard was behind it.
The Folsom family did not participate in the arrest operation, but when the time came, Leonard once again led the men to rescue Hazel, who had been injured in the operation.
The whole city was on the lookout for JT, but with his hypnotic skills, he was able to hide well.
However, he could not bear the fact that Hazel was taken into the Folsom family by Leonard on the pretext of recovering from her injuries. He believed that Leonard was deliberately getting closer to Hazel step by step and wanted to take advantage of the situation.
So JT did not wait for his injury to heal and recklessly infiltrated the Folsom family to take Hazel away.
That day, Hazel and Leonard were playing chess, laughing and joking. Leonard took good care of her, personally pouring water and passing snacks, and Hazel smiled frequently.
That scene irritated JT greatly. He was about to rush over when Leonard had already made plans, and a group of people rushed out.
JT didn’t even get to talk to Hazel and fled in a flurry.
JT naturally couldn’t swallow this, and he frequently engaged in private activities to deal with the Folsom family.
The next time he saw Hazel was when he was hypnotizing someone, and Hazel saw him.
Hazel looked at him with disappointment, feeling that he was incorrigible and would never change. She broke up with him on the spot, threw the jasper earrings he bought her, and got into the car.
Leonard was sitting in the car, smiling as he looked at her.
JT believes that Leonard has meticulously planned everything, even the entire process of Hazel’s distancing herself from him, and that he has calculated every step, not missing a single one.
To JT, this is already a hatred that cannot be reconciled, a hatred that cannot be forgiven.
Leonard’s constant scheming and Hazel’s distancing herself from him slowly begin to distort JT’s personality.
JT goes quiet for a long time, first to heal his wounds and second to lower the other person’s guard.
Sure enough, without his presence, Leonard impressed Hazel, and the two began to talk about getting married.
During the early stages of their marriage, Hazel, who had taken some time off from the sorority, was abducted by JT, and from then on, the two were completely on a path of hatred.
Paige sat in a chair, flipping through the pages of the handwritten letter, watching the lives of these three people, and couldn’t help but reach up and pinch her eyebrows.
JT’s handwriting was once again distorted. Paige wondered what state of mind JT was in when he wrote these words, probably extreme pain and madness.
She saw a large, faded red spot on it, and the red spot was very, very old.
It looked like… blood.
Paige felt as if she could see a man sitting at a table in a dimly lit room, and his back was either stooped or he was hunched over, no longer the proud man he once was.
He was recalling the details of the past, and those details were tearing him apart, so much so that he didn’t notice when he vomited blood onto the notebook.
JT is good at hypnotism, and if he really wants to hide, no one can find him easily.
He removed his gentle disguise, placed Hazel under house arrest, and dragged her into bed without using the marriage ceremony, making her his woman completely.