After Being Replaced I Left Them All Behind-Now They Regret It novel Chapter 92

Chapter 92

Chapter 92

This time, Nicolas didn’t try to stop him.

He found himself thinking deeply about Jason’s words.

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Maxwell noticed Nicolas spacing out and gave him a shove. “What are you thinking about? Did he piss you off that bad?”

Nicolas snapped back to reality. “It’s nothing. I just feel like I was being stupid today.”

Coming here to confront them on impulse was a mistake.

“Let’s go. We should head to the studio too.”

Maxwell walked alongside him, still fuming. “I can’t believe Alicia made Jason a custom medicinal bracelet. She’s never made anything like that for us.”

Nicolas thought for a moment. “Why don’t you find a chance to pull her aside today and try asking her for one?”

Maxwell actually showed some self-awareness this time. “She doesn’t even want to talk to me. I doubt she’d agree.”

Nicolas offered a suggestion. “You could try playing the sympathy card. Tell her your wrist hurts really bad and it might affect your dancing during the performance. Just act as pitiful and pathetic as you can.”

In the past, whenever Maxwell played the sympathy card, Alicia would cave. Now he wanted to see how far he could push her limits.

Maxwell’s eyes lit up. “That makes sense,” he said.

He had occupational injuries from overusing his wrists, so they hurt all the time.

If he wanted to keep playing professionally, the pain would never fully go away.

Every time it flared up, he’d go to Alicia for treatment, and that would help for a while.

Last year, his team wasn’t in great shape before the global finals, so they ramped up training hard.

His wrist injury flared up again.

They were in Hocem at the time, and the pain was so bad he knew it would mess up his performance in the upcoming matches, so he called Alicia on video chat and played it up.

That same night, Alicia booked a flight and flew to Hocem to give him acupuncture and massage.

She grumbled and scolded him the whole time, but it filled him with a warm sense of security.

She even treated his teammates and got everyone back in shape. They ended up winning last year’s

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championship.

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That gave him back-to-back championships, and this year he was gunning for a three-peat before retirement.

When the two of them arrived at the studio, everyone else was already there.

The livestream started the moment they walked through the door.

Maxwell didn’t go to his seat; instead, he walked straight over to Alicia.

He held out the watermelon-flavored xylitol gum that he’d asked his assistant to buy and deliver just now.

Alicia glanced at it and said, “I don’t like watermelon flavor. You can keep it.”

Maxwell froze. “But didn’t you say yesterday that you liked watermelon flavor?”

Alicia rolled her eyes at him. “You just said it yourself-that was yesterday.”

Then she added with clear distaste, “And look, we’re not close, so I need you to keep your distance. I don’t want your fans coming after me.”

Yesterday, some viewers left comments saying that Maxwell and Nicolas were sucking up to her, and fans on both sides got angry. The irrational ones even went on X to attack her.

Maxwell rubbed his temples and said, “I’ll have my assistant manage the fans better. Please don’t take it to heart.”

Alicia gave him a cold look. “If you were the one getting attacked, would you just let it go?”

She was too lazy to care about the insults, but that didn’t mean she wanted to be a target.

Maxwell felt deflated. Not only had he failed to make things better, but he’d made her even more upset.

He pressed his palms together in a pleading gesture. “Okay, okay, it’s all my fault.” He gave her an apologetic look. “I’m sorry.”

Alicia nodded. “Fine. I hear you.”

Maxwell blinked in confusion. “That’s it?’ he thought. Before, she would’ve said something sarcastic like ‘you’re dismissed’ or whatever. What does ‘I hear you’ even mean? Is she forgiving me or not?’

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