"After Michael was in prison, Celie kept on complaining to Adrian that he failed to protect their son."Joshua turned to look at the sky outside the plane. He sneered, "Adrian felt annoyed and broke up with her. After that, Celie tried to get a share of their wealth. However, she found out Adrian had been lying to her all these years when she was at the Civil Affairs Bureau."Luna was startled. "Adrian has been lying to Celia all these years? About what?"Joshua turned around and looked at Luna's face seriously, "Their marriage certificate is fake."Luna widened her eyes, "The marriage certificate is fake?""Yes." Joshua nodded and his voice sounded quite helpless and happy, "I really don't want to admit that he is my father. I thought he did not love my mother. But…"He sighed, "I just didn't think he didn't love Celia too after being together with her for more than twenty years. He was just pretending to like her.""He lied to Celia by telling her he had special service becaus
Luna's jaw dropped. A split second later, she furrowed her brows as she glanced at Joshua. "Does this mean that not long after Adrian split up with Celia, he found a new girlfriend and is now planning to get married?"Joshua nodded. "A month, in fact."Adrian and Celia had broken up only a month ago.Luna was even more astounded by this. "It took only a month for him to split up with Celia, get together with this new girl, and decide to get married?"This was even faster than Sean and Denise. However, Sean and Denise were youngsters who had never been in love before, so Luna could large understand how they felt; to find two warm hearts in the cold Saigen City would easily make anyone want to devote their lives to each other.However, Adrian's situation with this woman named Jacqueline Grace was entirely different; he had split up with his girlfriend of over twenty years, Celia, and started dating Jacqueline within the same month.On top of that, Joshua had mentioned before that
Luna initially thought Joshua's answer would be the same as hers.After all, when they got married, it was only her pining after Joshua, and Joshua was just using her to retaliate against his family.He did not love her at that time, so she would not be surprised if he did not remember much about their wedding.Thus, she did not expect much from his answer at all, but to her surprise…Joshua curled his lips into a smile at this. "Of course I do. I still remember the dress you wore that day; it was a white bedazzled dress."At that time, Aura had not shown her true colors, and you two were still two peas in a pod. Initially, she had picked out a white satin strapless dress for you, but you thought it wasn't glamorous enough. You even said…"He reached out to pull her into his arms and pressed her head against his shoulder. "You said that since you'd only get married once, the dress you wore had to be gorgeous and glamorous so that you'd remember it for the rest of your life."Wit
Luna paused and lifted her head to meet his gaze. "Are you sure about this?"Even though Adrian's wedding would be a perfect opportunity to expose his true colors, all of Joshua's relatives and friends would be there. To do this would be to expose Adrian and Rianna's drama in front of everyone who knew them.This was no different from peeling open his bandage and showing everyone his old wound.Was this worth it?"I'm sure of it." Joshua's gaze was fixated on somewhere far, far away. "Adrian is a shameless man; if I don't draw my line with him in front of everyone, he'll continue to use his status as my father to take advantage of everyone else."He had seen past Adrian's true colors after Granny Lynch's death a year ago. After that, not only did he withdraw the assets that had been under Adrian and Michael's names, but he even refused to give Adrian any more money apart from his basic allowance.To his surprise, Adrian continued to trick the rest of their relatives on the basis
It was already 8 p.m. when the plane landed in Banyan City.Anne and John were already waiting for them with their baby.When she caught sight of Luna, Anne shoved the baby into John's arms and sprinted toward Luna. "Luna!"Luna and Joshua were walking hand-in-hand out of the terminal, and when she saw Anne running in her direction, she immediately let go of Joshua's hand to catch her in time.Anne wrapped her arms around Luna in a giant hug. "I can't believe you're home! I was planning to visit you in Merchant City in the future! Bonnie told me that you have other things to take care of and that you won't be in Merchant City for the foreseeable future. I even made her promise to tell me if you ever returned so that John and I will be able to fly over and give you a surprise! Why did you decide to come back all of a sudden?"Luna could not help smiling at the sound of Anne's excited voice. "Well, I came back because I had to."With that, she reached out to grab hold of Anne's han
Joshua nodded. "Let's go."John let out a sigh of relief, then walked over to Anne's side and took the child from her. "Let's go, everyone."Anne murmured in response and snaked her arm around Luna's. "Let's go, then! The place that John and I have arranged for your stay is very private and exclusive; no one will be able to find you there!"Luna frowned at this and turned to shoot Anne a dubious glance. "You arranged our accommodation?"This was Banyan City—Joshua's territory, and he owned an array of property in this city, so why did Anne and John go to all the trouble of finding them a place to stay?Not only that, but they even made the effort to find somewhere private and exclusive?"I was the one who requested it." Joshua smiled when he saw Luna's puzzlement. "I contacted John before we left Saigen City because of this."Luna's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Why?""Because I don't want anyone to know I returned." Joshua put on his face mask as he followed John out of the
Luna felt weird about what Anne said. "Shelly's real identity?"'Why didn't I hear Bonnie saying anything about it?' she thought.While she was accompanying Gwen in Saigen City, she never ceased keeping in touch with people back in Merchant City. Rosalyn and Charles were helping her to take care of her three kids. Bonnie and Jim always contacted her too.She was even on a video call with Bonnie this morning discussing the lawsuit. However, she never heard Bonnie talking about anything related to Shelly's real identity."Yea…" Anne pursed her lip and looked at Joshua and then at Luna. "You guys…don't know?"Shelly was the daughter Luna and Joshua lost; Bonnie was the one who told her about this. How was it possible that Bonnie did not tell Luna and Joshua?"I know," replied Joshua indifferently with a frown before Luna could reply. "I was going to bring Luna back to Merchant City after settling the issues in Saigen City, but something came up, so I had to take her here."He glanc
Perhaps Joshua had expected this sort of thing would happen, so much so that he did not look surprised when John told him that. All he did was frown and looked outside the window at the scenery."You're right. That's why I came back to settle this now," he said.John was confused. "Are you going to help Adrian settle his debt?"Joshua raised the corner of his lips and said coldly, "He should be responsible for his debt since he was the one borrowing money. I'm his son, but I'm not obliged to help him pay his debt."He switched his sitting position to a more comfortable position on the passenger seat. His eyes looked cold. "Of course, I'm looking forward to seeing how he'll react when he's cornered by his debtors."Adrian met Rianna when he was cornered, too. He was a bad businessman, but Rianna was a genius in doing business. With Rianna's help, Lynch Group prospered and took off.At that time, Rianna would never guess her life would end in the hands of the same man she trusted t