"What is she trying to say?" Joshua glanced coldly at Adrian as a sneer crossed his face. "Mr. Lynch, do you honestly think that Jacqueline, a beautiful woman in her twenties, would be willing to marry a man more than twice her age? Do you think you won her over with your irresistible charm somehow?"
He fixated his frosty gaze on Adrian's face and said in a tone as cold as ice, "Do you think Jacqueline would have even given you a second glance if it weren't for the fact that you're Adrian Lynch, father of Joshua Lynch?"
Joshua's tone was so sarcastic that some of the audience could not help snickering at this. The truth was, everyone knew that a woman in her twenties would never willingly marry a man twice her age, not unless she had ulterior motives, and especially not since Adrian was such a useless man.
When he was younger, he relied on Grandpa and Granny Lynch, then after he married Rianna, she became the head of the family, while he eventually became dependent on Joshua, their son.
Not only that, but he even changed his name to Adrian just so he could repay Rianna for helping him support the family.
His name Adrian was a portmanteau of Rianna's name, and this symbolized that his entire heart belonged to her and only her.
Many years had passed, and this name became even more ironic in the setting of his wedding to another woman more than 20 years his junior.
The irony became even more apparent after Joshua and Celia exposed the truth about his involvement in Rianna's murder.
"What nonsense!" Adrian, who was still under the delusion that he still possessed charming qualities despite being in his mid-fifties, could not believe his ears at all. He glared at Joshua and snarled, "Joshua, don't try to discount Jacqueline's love toward me! You can't possibly understand our everlasting love, so don't try to criticize us!"
Luna could not help chuckling when she heard this. "Mr. Lynch."
She curled her lips into a smirk and turned to glance at Adrian. "You're perhaps the only person in this room who truly believes that Jacqueline is marrying you for true love."
Although Luna and Joshua had been married for many years, she still remembered that when they got married, Adrian refused to attend the wedding because he was upset at Joshua for disobeying his wishes to marry Hailey Walter.
Not only that, but after that, Adrian rarely returned home, so Luna was reluctant to address him as her father-in-law. 'Mr. Lynch' was the more appropriate term when it came to their relationship.
"What are you talking about?" Adrian shot her a murderous glare. "What right do you have to speak here?"
"She's my wife, of course she had the right to speak." Joshua furrowed his eyebrows as he stepped forward, shielding Luna behind his back, and said coldly, "Mr. Lynch, now's not the time to explore the true meaning of your and Jacqueline's marriage."
With that, he tapped on his phone, and the news of Rianna arriving in Banyan City with Eanne the year Joshua turned five appeared onscreen.
The color drained from Adrian's face when he saw this. He stepped backward and stared at Joshua in shock. "Where… Where did you get this?"
Was Eanne not dead at this point? Not only that, but her husband, Carl, was murdered not too long ago by his own son.
Therefore, none of this information should have been available to anyone at all, so how did Joshua manage to get his hands on this?
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