"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 because he was the young master of the Lynch family. He could let the people from the Civil Affairs Bureau go to the house and register their marriages. Celie felt superior to have that special service so she agreed…"
Luna furrowed her brows and cut off Joshua. "So the people who helped to register their marriage were fake?"
"Yes." Joshua took back the wedding invitation from Luna. He glanced at the groom's name. "Adrian lied to Celie. He hired actors to be people from the Civil Affairs Bureau. The marriage certificate is fake too."
"All the time, he knows granny will never pass the family's wealth to him and I will give him money because he is my father. Being a member of the Lynch family, the family will never desert him as long as he is alive. However, he knew neither me nor granny will give him more. The amount we give him is only sufficient to let him live. So he was afraid Celie will take away part of his wealth when she left him. That's why he put on a show and lied to Celie for more than twenty years."
Luna was so shocked that she did not know what to say. She always knew Adrian was a bad person… However, she thought Adrian was only ruthless to Joshua. It never occurred to her that he had this sort of bad intention toward Celie who had been beside him for more than twenty years and the mother of his son, Michael.
This man…was far more cruel and ruthless than she imagine.
She furrowed her brow as she looked at Joshua. "Celie did not fight back?"
"Of course, she did." Joshua raised his brows, "Who else do you think I hear this from?"
Luna paused. "She looked for you?"
"Yes. Joshua closed his eyes. "Since she was not officially married to Adrian, she failed to get any money after they broke up. She went to look for Adrian but he refused to see her. He even asked his bodyguard to hit her."
"After a few times, Celie stopped and came to me instead. Since I was not in Banyan City, she went to the company to cause trouble and looked for Jude too. I only know about these when Jude looked for me last night."
After that, he waved the invitation card, "But I never expect to receive this after knowing what happened last night.
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