Paige thought that Enrico had also placed her under house arrest when he first became JT, and this turned out to be influenced by JT.
But I don’t know if it’s because Enrico is in his bones, the reason why he is actually not that ruthless with her.
But in this handwritten diary, JT has not in the slightest affected his ruthlessness towards Hazel. If Hazel disobeys, he will put shackles on her hands; if Hazel says Leonard’s name even once, or gets distracted, he will drag her to bed and vent his anger over and over again; if Hazel says something unpleasant, he won’t even give her food.
Hazel spent day after day in a dark and gloomy place. She asked him to be JT again, but he hated her so much that he no longer knew how to say sweet things to comfort her.
He said that he had always been like this, and that she was the one who could not see it.
He mocked her for not being a good wife, and for her so-called care for the world being a joke. He forced her to sing opera for him, to talk about Leonard’s faults, to feed him his meals, and to keep her eyes open and her eyes closed, so that she could only see him…
But when he really tortured her, he would hug Hazel and say that he was wrong.
He apologized over and over again.
Over and over again, he said that he could not live without her.
He loves her and hates her.
Paige watched in silence, feeling her throat close up.
She flipped through the bloodstain that had soaked three pages, wondering if there was any remorse in that drop of blood.
Hazel was just a kind and soft-hearted woman, but if JT showed remorse and tried to win her back with tears at this time, Hazel wouldn’t completely lose every last shred of affection for him.
Hazel was locked up by him for a long time, and the light in her eyes completely disappeared. She didn’t ask for anything anymore, she didn’t fight anymore, and she didn’t even want to escape anymore.
JT’s hatred for Leonard was bone-deep, and he vowed to destroy the Folsom family. All he did every day was think of ways to send Leonard into unrelenting and unending pain.
He didn’t care about Hazel’s emotions.
When Hazel became pregnant, JT did not relax his confinement of her. Hazel gave birth to a boy in such a hopeless life, and all she could do every day was take care of the child.
JT then felt that Hazel would never leave him again, that she was no longer violent, and began to become gentle.
He even talked to her about the future.
Paige felt that this was just wishful thinking. JT promised Hazel that in a few years, he would no longer keep her locked up, and that he would let her live a life of luxury, giving her an endless supply of fine clothes and food… Of these three things, the only one Hazel wanted was the first.
The child was especially cute, and Hazel took good care of it, and JT gradually felt at ease.
After a year, JT finally took her out and put her in a mansion, only sending some servants to keep an eye on her. Hazel finally escaped.
She fled, leaving her child behind.
She begged at Leonard’s door, and when Leonard saw her, he immediately protected her.
In the past few years, JT has been careful and kept a low profile in order to dispel the three families’ pursuit of him. He has released a lot of power in his hands, and just when he felt that he could have the space to fight again, Hazel ran away…
Hazel even ran away without her child.
Immediately afterwards, the news of Leonard and Hazel’s marriage spread throughout The Capital.
This wedding, like the one Paige arranged, was a decoy, waiting for someone to fall for it.
Hazel had completely sided with Leonard.
JT then captured the eight people and tried to threaten Leonard and Hazel into ending the wedding. However, the note never reached Hazel and was intercepted by Leonard…
JT was unable to stop the wedding, and Leonard and Hazel successfully got married and spent their wedding night together.
Hazel became the matriarch of the Folsom family.
JT eventually became desperate and completely insane. He killed the eight people, and from a distance, he watched as Hazel wept bitterly, looking fragile as she collapsed into Leonard’s arms.
Later, JT faked his own death, and everyone thought he was dead and the world was at peace.
JT began to lurk in The Capital, hypnotizing the people of the family little by little and cultivating his own dark forces.
After several years, JT finally incited more than 80 large and small families to rush into the Folsom family.
JT did not find Hazel, so he abused the Folsom family, from top to bottom, to force them to tell him where Hazel was. But no one knew, and the Folsom family was bloodshed. Leonard knew he could not save his clan, so he killed himself in his room.
JT did not write much about this final bloodshed.
In his view, the Folsom family’s debt had to be borne by Leonard, and it was Leonard who had taken another man’s wife, so this was Leonard’s own fault, and no one else’s.
In the handwritten letter, JT wrote at length about his state of mind, about his feelings for Hazel that ran deep in his bones, and about the heart-wrenching pain he felt after Leonard stole his wife…
The Davis family went into hiding, the Folsom family was wiped out, and Hazel disappeared… Suddenly, JT no longer had the “fighting spirit” he had before to manipulate the chaotic family.
He spent the rest of his life searching for Hazel, building this replica city, and training countless hypnotized descendants.
Throughout his life, he never saw Hazel again.
Hazel’s fate was never known.
And in the drama that played out over and over again in the replica city, Hazel never chose JT.
It’s gone…
Sitting in this replica city, listening to the sound of the wind and snow outside, and reading this not-particularly-thick handwritten journal, Paige felt as if she had read the lives of three ancestors in the blink of an eye.
Apart from the word “repressed,” there was no other suitable word to describe her feelings at the moment.
Everyone watched her quietly. Paige handed the handwritten diary to Cynthia, and asked her to pass it to Beinice and Brangelina to read.
Cynthia walked over, and Brangelina saw Paige’s expression, so she reached out and took the handwritten diary to read it.
The firelight swayed in the meeting hall.
Alonso stood there looking at Paige, he didn’t say anything, but Justin asked directly, “Young master, do you also think that the master is scribbling in the handwritten letter like the Folsom family?”
“Then what do you want me to say?”
Paige looked up at Justin with a cold gaze, “Do you want someone who is related to the Folsom family to stand up and say that Leonard is scheming and JT is insane?”
“…”
Justin faced Paige but lost his previous courage and was momentarily at a loss for words.
Alonso looked at Paige, his hand by his side clenching tightly, and guilt flashed in his eyes.
After reading it, Brangelina was stunned for a long time, then she let out a bitter laugh, “What a mess.”
Beinice leaned over to Brangelina and followed suit, reading the entire handwritten account. She said, “This is all JT’s speculation. What Leonard did was not necessarily like what he wrote. It’s just that the Folsom family didn’t leave a word or a sentence, so there’s no place to argue.”
Beinice was heavily influenced by the Folsom family.
Alonso slowly spoke, “Beinice, to be honest, do you really think Leonard is completely innocent of the suspicion of stealing a wife?”
“I…”
Beinice opened his mouth to speak, but he suddenly ran out of things to say.
The Folsom family’s ancestral teachings were very strict, teaching future generations to behave in a proper manner. Leonard had indeed followed these teachings, and he had a heart for his family and country. However, when dealing with these two people, Hazel and JT, if he was truly innocent, it would seem like there were too many coincidences.
And in the end, he did marry someone who almost entered the bridal chamber with him.