CHAPTER 160: CHAPTER 164 MALICE

"Haha, a blind man, still called Ming. Anyway, I won’t go find that blind man. If you want to find him, you go by yourself!"

As a result, Mabel went up the mountain alone to find Daniel. She wasn’t sure what exactly happened in between, only knowing that in the end, Daniel carried Mabel back to the village, and Mabel fell seriously ill, ran a high fever, and was unconscious for several days. During Mabel’s coma, people from the Harris Family came to the village and took Daniel and his mother away.

If Daniel found out that she was the girl who always mocked him and called him blind back then, the consequences... she dared not imagine.

"Daniel, I really miss our days in Drumbeat Village. I won’t hide or lie to you, because for me, you’re the most important." She said, feeling she had composed her expression and emotions, then looked up and smiled gently at him. This smile was somewhat shy yet somewhat eager. As an actress, she had practiced many expressions in front of the mirror and naturally knew that this kind of smile could most stir a man’s heart.

Daniel Harris looked at the smile on Grace Yowell’s face before him. Somehow, an image of that screenwriter he had met earlier, smiling, flashed in his mind.

Although Grace Yowell’s smile was beautiful, it always seemed to be missing something to him.

"You’re also very important to me," Daniel Harris said.

"Daniel, I know how much you value the film ’Sound of the Wind.’ I’ll definitely perform well and put my heart into playing the role of Amy." She said, then seemingly unintentionally added, "By the way, did anything impress you today?"

Impressed? Daniel Harris gave a gentle smile and simply replied with two words, "No."

A small screenwriter wasn’t enough to leave an impression on him.

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When Mabel Quinn returned to the restaurant, she realized she had forgotten to ask the male actor’s name. Then she thought, in the coming months, everyone would be in the same crew, so there would always be chances to meet.

When leaving the restaurant, Mabel Quinn got into the car Kyle Kinston had sent to pick her up. Recently, Kyle Kinston feared similar accidents might happen again, so he sent a driver to pick and drop her off. Mabel herself was worried about accidents, so she didn’t mind, especially since J City was undergoing a large-scale anti-crime campaign. Once that was over and things were safer, she could go to work on her own again.

As Mabel Quinn got into the car, Lyra Grant and several other colleagues were walking out. When they saw the car Mabel Quinn was getting into, someone remarked, "Hey, isn’t that the Bentley we saw last time dropping Mabel Quinn at the company?"

"That car isn’t cheap!"

"Wow, who would have thought, Mabel Quinn is actually from a wealthy family."

The colleagues were discussing, and Lyra Grant snorted coldly, "What wealthy family? Mabel Quinn’s family doesn’t have money or power. She’s just being picked up by a luxury car. Who knows if she’s kept by someone? These days, some female college students, without money but greedy for luxury, sell their bodies for such vain things."

"But Mabel doesn’t seem like that kind of person." Someone said.

"What a person seems like on the surface isn’t always true. I was her high school classmate for three years and her university schoolmate for four years, and I never realized she was someone who didn’t cherish and respect herself!" Lyra Grant desperately smeared Mabel Quinn’s reputation.

Most of the colleagues knew about the animosity between Lyra Grant and Mabel Quinn, so they didn’t say much more.

Watching the car drive away, Lyra Grant’s eyes suddenly lit up like she had thought of something. Since all her humiliation and suffering were because of Mabel Quinn, she must pay her back doubly. Mabel Quinn must also taste the same suffering.

She wouldn’t let Mabel Quinn go so easily, definitely not!

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The next day at the Corporation, several colleagues asked Mabel Quinn about being picked up by a luxury car the previous day.

"That’s my friend’s car." She said.

"Then your friend must be quite wealthy. That car isn’t cheap." Lilith said.

"Well, the family has some businesses." Speaking of which, the Kinston Family’s business is indeed quite extensive. She remembered seeing online that the Kinston Family’s wealth, accumulated over generations, might be enough for Kyle Kinston to buy a small country.

Lyra Grant came forward, sarcastically saying, "How old is this friend of yours? Isn’t he a fifty or sixty-year-old man? Mabel Quinn, do you have any shame, engaging in such relationships for money?"

Mabel Quinn stood up and said sternly, "Lyra Grant, do you have any basic decency? You actually dare to say such things. How old my friend is, is my business, I don’t have to tell you. But if you continue to talk like this, I won’t take it lightly."