Joan cast a sidelong glance at Scott and sneered, "young master, you want to philander with girls? Then clean yourself up before you come back. This isn't your brothel!"
No matter how unruly Jean was, Joan was still Scott's legal wife.
As long as they didn't divorce, she got a wife's right.
Although they got together for the sake of family interests, he had once knelt down to her in front of everyone and proposed to her. He had promised to protect her for a lifetime, and he had said that he would love her with all his heart. However, their marriage had only been half a year, and Scott...
She thought that they really loved each other, but it turned out to be her wishful thinking.
With a touch of sarcasm, Scott turned around. He put his arm around his Jean's shoulder and finally said, "Joan, do you think you are still the rich daughter of the Gu family? The Gu company has gone bankrupt. Now, you are nothing. "
Shocked, Joan's heart skipped a beat.
The Gu company went bankrupt?!
It was a long time before Joan came to her senses from the last sentence Scott said when he left with Jean with his dark face. She leaned on the door frame in low spirits, losing her strength, and slowly slid to the ground. She felt a pain in her chest and her nose twitched. When she touched her eyes, she realized that she had cried.
The bankruptcy of the Gu company? How could it be possible? Their family was the most famous corporation in S City back then!
"I don't believe it, I don't believe..." Then she rushed upstairs, opened her laptop and began to search for information about the Gu Company. One by one. When she saw the last one, Joan was freezing all over. Her hand froze at the mouse.
It turned out that her father, the chairman of the Gu Company, died of heart attack after she was put into jail. Since then, the Gu Company had been torn apart by several shareholders one after another. And it collapsed several months later.
Joan's heart ached so much that she had become numb. Her father died because of her. She hadn't even seen her father for the last time.
However, the bankruptcy of Gu Company was too fast, too fast to be normal, and the information found were all the same, as if someone deliberately written the whole story to let everybody speak the same words.
Facing the empty villa, Joan sat there for a whole day and night. Scott took Jean away and they didn't come back.
She took out her phone and unlocked it. The phone kept buzzing. The latest message came this morning from her bestie, Linda Ji. She asked whether she had been settled after she was released from prison.
When Joan called her back, Linda Ji cursed Scott and asked Joan to move to her house. Joan agreed.
The villa was full of traces of another woman. She was disgusted with their traces, and didn't want to stay here even for a second.
During the three years in prison, she had thought a lot. 'Scott wanted marriage and mistress. Screw him! I won't give up my self-esteem no matter how much I love him.'.
Originally, their marriage was all about profit. She was so naive to think that love could be cultivated and last forever.
Seeing it then, their marriage was just a mistake. The best choice is to end it as soon as possible.
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