The Seventh Miserable Bride

Chapter 67

In the blink of an eye, two days passed. Yasmine never expected to meet Raelene again, and more so under such a situation.

On Friday evening, during sunset, the sky was dyed red. As the weekend was coming, the students and teachers were very relaxed. Yasmine and Lily walked side by side out of the school gates among the crowd of students.

A fiery red Lamborghini flamboyantly stopped in front of them, then a woman stretched her fair leg out of the car, clad in similarly striking red heels. Yasmine looked up at the woman, and a shiver ran down her spine.

"Who is that?"

Lily leaned towards Yasmine, and whispered. "Sebastian's ex-wife,"

Yasmine answered quickly.

Raelene walked up to Yasmine and raised her eyebrows. "Are you surprised to see me?"

Yasmine glanced at the students who were watching and whispered, "Let's talk somewhere else."

"Hmph, if I wanted to look for a quiet place, I wouldn't have come all the way here. Last time you made me lose face in front of everyone. This time, I'll make you experience the same humiliation!"

As soon as Raelene finished her sentence, she took out a bucket full of tomato sauce from the back seat of the car. Before Yasmine could react, Raelene dumped the contents of the bucket all over Yasmine.

"Oh my!"

Lily, who was standing aside, screamed in horror, as she pushed Raelene away. Lily fumed, "You're crazy!"

Yasmine was entirely covered in tomato sauce, feeling like a soulless puppet. Students and teachers surrounded her, so she could only close her eyes in humiliation.

Raelene's horrible behavior aroused public indignation. Yasmine's students came out to stand up for Yasmine. Facing the group of teenagers, Raelene felt a little guilty and timid, but still smugly reprimanded Yasmine—

"You watch out. This time, it's tomato sauce, the next time, it might be acid!"

As soon as she finished her words, several teenagers stepped forward and grabbed Raelene's arm. "Apologize to our teacher. Now!"

"Let go of me, b*stard."

Raelene shouted with a livid face, "I won't apologize to this b*tch. On the outside, she pretends to be a proper person, but on the inside, she's just a sl*tty fox. She's not the good teacher you think she is!"

Raelene spat on Yasmine, and then Yasmine could not take it anymore. She stepped forward and gave her Raelene a hard slap in the face. When Raelene wanted to fight back, Lily rushed forward and gave her another slap. Raelene was going crazy, struggling and cursing like a mad woman. Seeing their teacher being insulted, the impulsive teenagers raised their fists to hit Raelene.

The chaotic scene was finally stopped when Scott appeared. Raelene was not willing to let them off as they attacked her, so she immediately called the police.

When the police arrived, Scott whispered to Yasmine, "Don't worry, I'll handle it."

Yasmine shook her head expressionlessly. "It's none of your business. I'll handle it myself."

She did not want to owe Scott anything anymore. She could not rely on others all the time to clean up her mess.

Yasmine got into the patrol car calmly. Lily, as a witness, followed her, and the group of students were also taken away as accomplices.

When she arrived at the police station, she went straight to the point and said, "Let my students go. It has nothing to do with them."

The policeman in charge of the case glanced at the several teenagers behind Yasmine and shook his head. "The victim was covered with bruises, I can't let them go just because you asked to."

"They're still kids. They hit her because their teacher was bullied. Don't you know what the woman did? She came to the school to create trouble and dumped a large bucket of tomato sauce on Yasmine. She started it first! We couldn't do anything about it. We were just defending ourselves."

Lily shrewdly pushed the blame to Raelene. "We'll investigate whether it's self-defense or not. Now, please tell us what happened."

Yasmine told the whole story without exaggerating or covering up the truth. Lily, as a witness, proved that what Yasmine said was true. After the recording was over, a man who was seemingly the police chief, came over and whispered a few words to the police officer recording the case. The police officer nodded repeatedly and then said to Yasmine and Lily, "Okay, you can go now."

"Are we innocent?"

Lily did not expect that the problem would be so easily solved. It was unbelievable, but she was secretly a little happy.

"Yes."

The police officer nodded meaningfully and got up to pack up the record book on the desk. Yasmine did not look happy, and instead, she looked very solemn. She turned around and said to her students, "Let's go now."

The students followed her out of the police station. She was very angry and reprimanded them, "Who asked you all to be 'heroes'? Don't you know that if you get any criminal records, it would affect your future? How would I explain it to your parents then?"

Lily sighed and said, "Forget it. They did it to protect their teacher. They will not repeat this."

Then, two cars stopped in front of them, and several parents of the students alighted. They pulled their children over and scolded them. After that, they pointed their fingers at Yasmine and said, "Miss Taylor, how are you teaching our children? Did you teach them to beat people up instead of having the right moral values? Do you deserve to be a teacher?"

Yasmine bowed her head in guilt. "I'm sorry. It's my dereliction of duty. It won't happen next time."

"Next time? They're only in middle school and they've already been arrested! Who would dare send their children to your school from now on? We will not let this matter go easily. We will go to your school tomorrow and talk to your management!"

The children were more reasonable than their parents, so they tried to help their teacher. They said, "It's not her fault! We saw it happen and we couldn't just stand and watch her being bullied!"

"If you couldn't bear to watch your teacher get bullied, why didn't you just slash the lady with a knife and get locked up for the rest of your lives?"

The parents cursed and left with their children. Lily comforted Yasmine, "Don't mind them. They're just being unreasonable."

Yasmine smiled bitterly. "It's alright."

Compared to Raelene's humiliation, these

accusations were nothing to Yasmine.

"Why don't you come to my house tonight?" Lily offered.

She took a handkerchief to wipe off the tomato sauce on Yasmine's hair, "You'd be embarrassed if you went home and let Sebastian see you like this."

"It's okay. It's not like he's never seen me in such a mess." Yasmine turned around dejectedly and walked in the opposite direction. After walking for a long time, she felt something amiss behind her. She turned around and found that Scott was following her the whole time.

Since she had already realized his presence, Scott did not hide anymore. He walked up to her and said teasingly, "I knew we had chemistry."

He was trying to lighten up Yasmine's tense mood.

"You did it, didn't you?" Yasmine asked lightly.

"What?" Scott pretended to be innocent.

"We could get away so easily. Don't tell me that it has nothing to do with you."

Scott smiled. "Seems like I can't hide anything from you."

Yasmine kicked a small stone under her feet, and said with self- mockery, "It's nice to have an influential father."

"If you really think it's nice, marry me! Then, my father will be your father, and you won't have to envy

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me.

"Don't you think such a joke is very inappropriate now?"

Scott withdrew his playful expression and said seriously, "Why do you want to live in such a mess? You could choose a completely different life."

Yasmine bowed her head and walked forward, not answering his question.

"Do you want to leave?" ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

She was stunned all of a sudden. She looked up and asked blankly, "What do you mean?"

"The school is offering to sponsor a teacher to further his or her studies in Paris for two years."

Paris, France... It used to be the place Yasmine yearned to visit the most. Now, the opportunity was at hand, but she was so hesitant.

"Would you give me the chance?" She did not think it was possible.

"Personally, I don't really want to give it to you. But because you're the model teacher of our school, it makes sense to give it to you. More importantly, I don't want to see you living this way."

"I'm living well now."

"Are you? Your husband's ex-wife dumped tomato sauce on you in front of your students. Do you really think you're doing well now?"

Scott's interrogation made Yasmine's situation seem pathetic. She said half-truthfully, "If I really went to Paris, I would most likely choose to stay there and never come back. Your efforts would be in vain."

"I did think of such a consequence, that's why I struggled to tell you about it. But now, I have made a decision. If you don't come back, I'll wish you all the best in your life. Of course, if you do come back, I'll be here waiting for you."

Upon hearing his words, Yasmine's heart was filled with mixed feelings. In the past, she could not understand Scott's feelings, but now, because of Sebastian, she could.

"I'll think about it." "Well, tell me when you've made your decision."

Yasmine nodded and said softly, "Thank you."

She arrived home, filled with worries. Fortunately, her parents-in-law were not around, and there was no one in the living room, so she went upstairs slowly. When Yasmine saw that the light in the study was on, she did not go in, but went straight into her bedroom.

Perhaps Sebastian heard her footsteps, so he came out of the study, but Yasmine had already entered the bathroom.

He knocked on the door. "You're back?"

Standing under the shower, she answered in a low voice, "Yes."

"Why are you back so late? Have you had dinner?" "Yes, I did."

Sebastian did not sense anything abnormal in her voice, so he went back to his study again. About half an hour later, when he finished his work and was on his way back to his room, he saw Yasmine coming out of the bathroom.