Chapter 178

“When someone’s not hiding anything at all, their disgust and anger can be expressed through micro-expressions like furrowing their brow, squinting their eyes, lifting their upper lip, and forming nasolabial folds. If jealousy is very restrained, it is almost imperceptible. When anger is more prevalent, it usually manifests as wide-open eyes, unconscious staring, and keeping the rest of the face serious; when disgust is more prevalent, it usually manifests as giving the side-eye, and the rest of the face doesn’t have any significant expression.”

As Dylan started his analysis, everyone’s gaze shifted towards Davina. Indeed, every micro-expression of jealousy that Dylan mentioned was reflected on Davina’s face.

“What does that mean?” Payne asked, “Any woman would be jealous of Julie marrying Kerry. It’s normal for this Davina chick to be jealous too.”

“But in Davina’s eyes, there’s not just jealousy, there’s also hatred!” Dylan pointed at the video and said, “Expressions of hatred are complex. It’s a mix of fear, anger, sadness, and self-blame for being powerless.”

“How’s that?” Payne asked, curiosity piqued.

Hayden got it. The reason Kieran was not in a rush was that he knew who had kidnapped Julie. The only thing he didn’t know was her motive for kidnapping Julie. But since she chose to kidnap her instead of directly hurting her, this Davina chick in the video would definitely contact him soon. He was sitting on the couch, lost in thought, probably waiting for the kidnapper to contact him.

Dylan continued, “The fear is because Davina knows she can’t be compared with Julie. The anger is because she wants to eliminate her competition. The sadness is because she can’t do anything about the harm that’s already been done. See, her lower lip is tightly closed due to muscle contraction, causing her lips to be tightly drawn together. Her upper lip is slightly lifted, added to the downward pull of the corners of her mouth, making the entire line of her lips curve downwards. Tight lips are a sign of self-restraint. If she actually loses control and starts screaming, her emotions wouldn’t just be hatred, but total rage. So, in front of Julie, Davina is always restraining herself!”

This profound explanation was indeed harder for Payne to grasp than his computer.

But after hearing Dylan’s conclusion, Payne frowned, “So, the person who kidnapped her is this woman?”

As Dylan was speaking, Kieran had already grabbed his car keys.

Julien was not one to just sit and wait. She moved to follow Kieran, but Hayden grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

Compared to arguing, Julien preferred to take action. Almost as soon as Hayden pulled her back, Julien kicked at him.

Hayden nimbly jumped up, avoiding Julien’s attack. Julien swung a punch at Hayden’s handsome face with her left hand, but Hayden easily dodged it. Then, he grabbed Julien’s swinging arm.

Taking this opportunity, he pulled her into his arms.

Payne, watching from the side, was flabbergasted. Not until he saw Julien in Hayden’s arms did he react, “Could you guys just talk it out?! Why are you suddenly fighting?”

A peaceful conversation between Julien and Hayden? That’s a joke.

ready to continue resisting, Kieran’s phone, who was about to leave,

call made both Hayden and

sat down at his computer, “Answer it. If it’s the kidnapper,

time, he could track the caller’s

who was on the other end of

“Julie’s with me. If you don’t want anything to happen

phone, so she immediately hung up and smashed her phone against a

come a little later, the kidnappers might have let her go. But, Julie never expected that the cold voice at the door would

hearing was particularly sensitive. Davina’s voice in Julie’s memory was not sweet, but at least it was gentle. But the sentence she just

voice was truly terrifying when

wasn’t sure what happened, until Davina made that phone call

your desk?” After the shock, Julie asked Davina

and said to someone next to

she found herself hanging about ten meters high, below her was

fatal, she would definitely be seriously injured. Moreover, she

guessed that the two kidnappers might have used the

two

kidnappers were tied back to back by Davina’s people, with objects stuffed into their mouths,

point that Lucian was the one who kidnapped her,

a reunion when she bumped into Davina at the company,

with contempt, “You want to know why? You’re not worth it!”

so intense that it seemed to

even more baffled. She didn’t have a strong impression of Davina, but she could at least remember that they didn’t have any bad blood between them. So where

up at Julie, “Julie, I’m really curious… what do

mid-air like this, even with strong mental fortitude, she felt

her own strength was useless at this point, so she complied and looked at Davina, responding lightly, “Yeah, what do I see in him? How did I end up falling for him? Why

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