Regret Came Too Late (Grace and Ethan)

Yancey looked up at the person in front of him, but the strands of his hair kept dripping water down into his eyes, blurring his vision and making it hard to see clearly.

He felt a sharp sting in his eyes. Rubbing them hard with both his hands, he could finally take a good look at the person standing in front of him. It was Dylan.

Yancey immediately turned his head away. "What are you doing here?"

Dylan noticed Yancey's slightly swollen eyes and swiftly handed a photo over to him.

"Yancey, do you know why Grace used to treat you so well back then? She was treating you as a substitute. The person she truly likes is someone else. I only managed to take a photo of his back. Doesn't he look a little like you? But this definitely isn't you.

"When Grace still treated you well, didn't you ever feel like she was seeing someone else through you? The person she truly liked probably got into some trouble, and afterward, she used you as a source of comfort."

"That's impossible!" Yancey instantly stood up, shouting back in denial with red eyes brimming with tears. He snatched the photo that Dylan had handed him.

Dylan had played a trick on the photo. It only showed the back of the unknown man, with no trace of Ethan holding a gun inside the frame anymore.

Dylan raised his hand and patted Yancey's shoulder. "Whether it's real or not, I'm sure you can tell. I even suspect that maybe Grace had her eyes on Ethan back then. That's why she did whatever she could to cling to you just to get Ethan's attention. How else would you explain why Ethan showed up at her graduation ceremony?"

Yancey's face turned even paler, but he and Ethan didn't really look alike.

Yancey scoffed coldly, clearly not so easily fooled now. He threw the photo straight at Dylan's face. "If the one she likes is Ethan, then who's the man in this photo you gave me? That's not even Ethan. You're doing this just to drive a wedge between me and Grace!"

Dylan let out a laugh as he lit up a cigarette. "You idiot. Do I still need to stir things up between you and Grace? I didn't even do anything, and she already hates you with every fiber of her being.

"As for this photo, I'm just not sure whether she likes Ethan or the man in it. I still haven't figured out the identity of this man. But if Ethan really is the one she likes, then everything makes perfect sense.

"After she woke up, she followed her heart, placing all her affection and trust in Ethan. Isn't that obvious enough?"

Yancey clenched his fists tightly, consumed by a sense of humiliation he had never felt before.

He used to take pride in how Grace acted like adapdog for him in the past, even treating it as a joke and telling everyone about it. He never thought that Grace had only ever seen him as a substitute-am expendable substitute.

After losing her memory, she completely forgot about him, her eyes brimming with disgust.

She said she had a boyfriend, but no one had ever seen who this man was.

Had she been lying all along? She

used Yancey to get Ethan's attention and started a secret relationship

with Ethan. On the surface, they acted like they barely knew each other to mislead everyone.

The more Yancey thought about it, the more twisted his face became. In that

case, what did his genuine affection mean? Had he just been toyed with like a monkey?

Tears streamed down in big drops as he forcefully wiped his eyes.

Dylan removed the cigarette from his mouth, curling his lips into a faint smirk. "Besides, do you think that Grace is just some incompetent fool? From what I know, she holds the certifications that are the hardest to acquire in the world.

"Just admit it, Yancey. She was just playing house with you. All this time, you werenoveldrama

nothing but a substitute to her-not even a backup."

Yancey's face turned utterly pale. He staggered while walking up the shoreline, and halfway through, he tripped and almost fell back down.

Seeing Yancey like this, Dylan chuckled softly.

Ever since Levi's body was found, Dylan had been busy arranging the funeral and meeting with other relatives, so he couldn't deal with Grace for now.

But Yancey was very easy to fool.

Even though the story he just spun was full of holes, Yancey clearly took it to heart.