You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 398 Thinner

Michelle's last sentence surprised John. 'Why is she connecting those two things together?'

"What do you know?" he asked, his eagle-sharp eyes narrowing suspiciously.

John's cold tone stopped Michelle from kicking him. Usually timid, she braved a look into John's eyes and found them blazing with murderous intent.

Nina once told Michelle that one usually would become angry once their most hidden thoughts were revealed.

Michelle was so angry that her face turned pale. She pointed at John and cursed, "It's just as netizens are saying-you're really marrying your childhood sweetheart. You two really must have killed Nini! You're a scoundrel and a cheater! You are nothing but scum!" Since the news of Nina's drowning was confirmed, Michelle had been inconsolable and completely irrational like a wild, rabid dog.

John remained calm and indifferent under the barrage of insults from Michelle, but a deep pain flashed in his eyes.

Except for Nina, no one else dared to irritate John.

Michelle's tirade frightened the passersby that they gave her a wide berth.

"That's her! Get her out of here!" the receptionist yelled.

Two security guards rushed up to drive Michelle away, but John stopped them.

Someone recognized Michelle as a good friend of John's wife, as well as a relative of James' wife. John didn't get angry or drive her away, and his lack of action mystified everyone. That person immediately contacted James.

As it turned out, James was somewhere nearby. As soon as he received the message, he rushed over in time to see John being kicked from a distance.

James hadn't seen John for only a few days. His uncle looked like he had lost some weight.

In particular, his face seemed to be especially thin.

His body also looked surprisingly skinny. In the past, he looked strong enough to protect others. Now, he looked like he was on the brink of collapse.

It was as if his soul had fled.

Michelle didn't show mercy at all and continued hurling curses at John, who did nothing to dodge the attacks.

Nobody was saddened by Nina's passing more than John. Michelle's words left him heartbroken.

"Mimi!" James exclaimed as he hurriedly grabbed Michelle's arms from behind and dragged her away. "Mimi, calm down. It's not Uncle John's fault. No one expected such a thing to happen." Michelle moved back, but she was still lashing out. "It's all his fault! He killed Nini!

He slept with Vivian on the night of your engagement! Nini felt so sad and fell into the water.

She was a good swimmer, so how did she drown? Either somebody set her up so she would drown, or she was too heartbroken that she didn't want to live anymore."

Michelle's words struck deep. She had lost her fear as she glared at John with hatred.

"Let go of me!" Michelle kept struggling and charged toward John like a bull. It took all of James' strength to stop her.

"Mimi, don't do this."

"What? Did I say anything wrong? You can ask him if anything I said was wrong."

John stood still like a piece of ice that had been frozen for a thousand years. His eyes were dull, and his voice was lifeless. "She's right."

'Everything she said was right.

I failed to protect Nina.

It's my fault.'

"Humph!" Michelle heard his acknowledgement and finally stopped struggling. Finally, James let go of her.

Michelle's hair was in a mess, and her clothes were wrinkled. She looked down at herself and suddenly felt embarrassed.

She smoothed down her hair and said, "John, I loathe you.

If you really end up marrying Vivian Ye like people have been saying, I will personally make sure that your wedding ceremony would be ruined. Then, I will blow the two of you up." John couldn't help but marvel at a woman's intuition.

He never told anyone he was going to marry Vivian, but Michelle felt that he was going to do so.

In his opinion, Michelle's plan of blowing people up wasn't bad.

"Mimi, what are you talking about?" Sometimes, James could be really clueless about what women were thinking. They were too imaginative.

"Even if Aunt Nina is dead, Uncle John won't marry anyone else." James had always believed that.

"Nini is still alive!" Michelle whirled around and roared at James. She made quite an intimidating sight, with her gritted teeth and her bog, round eyes widened alarmingly. James felt a frisson of fear.

He used to think that Michelle was like a docile rabbit, but now he had an idea of how fierce she could be. She looked ready to sink her teeth into someone's throat.

"If you say one more time that Nini is dead, I will hate you as well." Michelle stepped on James' foot, which hurt so much that he yelled in pain.

She then turned around and stomped off.

John also left, leaving James hobbling around on one foot.

James thought, 'Aunt Nina was really a wizard. Anyone, even the meekest people, who got along with her ended up becoming hotheads who beat others up.

Mimi only stepped on my foot, and now my foot is in pain. She kicked Uncle John even more times, so he must be in much greater pain than I am.'

The thought of Nina's death came to his mind again, and the pain in his foot was suddenly forgotten because the ache in his heart was much worse. He put down his right foot and sighed as he chased John to his car.

"Uncle John, are you okay?" James turned and went to the back of the car to take out the first aid kit. "Roll up your trousers first and let me check. Mimi kicked you so hard." "It's nothing." John leaned back against the back of the seat and closed his tired eyes. He listened to the car engine's rumble underneath them and the sound of the wind. When James rolled up John's trousers, he saw several bruises already forming on his uncle's legs.

"Uncle John, hold on." Squatting in the narrow space inside the car, James applied some liniment to John's bruises. "Helen told me that you haven't been to the North Yard for a few days now. Where were you staying?"

"The office." John kept his eyes closed. James applied the liniment rather rudely, but he didn't seem to feel any pain.

As James dabbed at the last bruise, his eyes felt warm. "Uncle John, do you know that you've lost weight? You're so thin. I'm sure that Aunt Nina would feel uncomfortable if you hugged her right now. She wouldn't like this."

John did not reply. James saw John's eyelids tremble at the mention of Nina's name.

On Scher Mountain, Bruce took the watch and the pendant and went to replace Nina.

When he found her, he held out his hand and said guiltily, "I'm sorry, I could only take back these two things. I failed to get your ring back."

"Thank you, Dad." As Nina held the watch and the pendant in her hands, a smile that had been missing on her face for so long finally made an appearance.

The fact that these items were with her right now was more than she had expected.

As for the ring, she thought that she could take her time in getting it back.

For now, she was elated to get the watch back. When everyone fell asleep at night, she could secretly contact John.000000