Huge chunks of ice smashed against Stephen Grant’s exquisitely sculpted face.
Even if the freezing water hadn’t jolted him awake, the pain certainly did.
His forehead, nose, lips, jaw—there wasn’t a single spot on his entire face that didn’t ache!
Upon waking up in agony, Stephen Grant was appalled to discover that he had been tied up.
Squatting beside him was a young girl; though her eyes brimmed with murderous intent, she wore a bright, cheerful smile.
Not to mention, there was a bitter, deep-seated blood feud between the two of them!
The situation was terrifying enough to make a man tremble.
His Adam’s apple bobbed.
Stephen Grant hadn’t felt this kind of fear in many years.
“Juno, what are you…
trying to do?” he asked, only then realizing that he was trembling pathetically.
“Twelve years ago, Derek Jacobs took his daughter to the amusement park, and Juno Jacobs was abducted by a teenager.
That person was you, wasn’t it?
But you were just a kid yourself at the time, and in your panic to escape, you lost her.
You only managed to find her four years ago, right?” She recounted the past with a cheerful smile, as if the girl with that bitter, tragic fate had absolutely nothing to do with her.
In truth, the identity of the person who had abducted the original host was never explained in detail in the main text of the novel.
However, in Stephen Grant’s side story, Juno had unexpectedly stumbled upon a specific passage.
Stephen Grant doted on the girl and took her to the amusement park.
As his daughter sat on the carousel, the book described Stephen Grant like this: “He looked tenderly at his daughter’s pretty little face, just as he had looked at his wife back then.
At only six years old, she was as beautiful and cute as a doll.
Seeing her so innocent, he suddenly couldn’t bear to make his move…”
Perhaps the author was afraid that the scumbag male lead would draw too much hatred, so they didn’t elaborate further.
But combined with everything else Stephen Grant had done, it was absolutely certain that he was the one who had abducted the original host.
As expected of the male lead, he was incredibly tough.
After Juno revealed the truth of what happened back then, he paused for a moment before letting out an extremely arrogant laugh.
“Juno Jacobs, you’re dead.”
He didn’t even ask her how she found out the truth, nor did he ask what she intended to achieve by tying him up.
In Stephen Grant’s eyes, Juno Jacobs was a weak, helpless idiot who only knew how to cry when bullied!
With his assistant standing right outside the door and four bodyguards just a short distance away, she was finished.
From now on, she would be stripped of all freedom…
“Stephen Grant, aren’t you a bit too arrogant?” The girl wasn’t panicked in the slightest.
Smiling, she pulled a knife from behind her back.
In the dappled morning light, the sharp blade glinted with a chilling gleam, reflecting Stephen Grant’s flawless face.
A flash of panic finally crossed his handsome features.
“What are you doing?!”
“Taking your life while you’re vulnerable, of course.” The girl tilted her head, revealing two cute canine teeth as her smile grew even sweeter.
Stephen Grant’s Adam’s apple bobbed nervously.
But he was the male lead—the arrogant, domineering, and undeniably badass male lead!
Even if he was terrified, he refused to let it show.
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You won’t survive either!
The entire Jacobs family will follow me to hell!”
“No, no, no!” Juno wagged her slender, fair finger.
“We live in a lawful society; we can’t go around killing people!
But you owe Juno Jacobs, so I should at least collect some interest, right?
I’m leaving soon, so I don’t have time to play with you.
I don’t want any further involvement with a scumbag like you in the future, either.
So, let’s settle this debt right now.”
As she spoke, she pressed the knife against his underwear.
The icy blade touched his thigh.
Stephen Grant shuddered, nearly pissing his pants in terror, and his voice trembled even more.
“Juno Jacobs!
Are you fucking insane?
If it weren’t for me, you’d still be holed up in that little mountain village!
You wouldn’t even be able to afford school, and you’d be married off to some idiot!
You owe me!
Juno Jacobs!
You owe me!”