However, since Liam left, no one sent her any of these cupcakes. She tried looking for it herself, but to no avail, which worsened her cravings.
With the comfort awarded by the cupcake, Joanna felt much better. She silently chewed on the cupcake at the table as she looked for the user’s IP address.
Liam glanced at her screen and smiled. "Who’s the big shot? Why are you personally looking for them?"
Joanna waved her hand dismissively, clearly not in the mood for banter." Oh, you won’t get it, kid. Go along and play sowhere else."
Liam folded his arms and cleared his throat. "Boss, you can just stop. The person who wrote that article is right underneath your nose."
"What do you an?" Joanna finally turned her attention to Liam, looking the man up and down.
Liam smirked pridefully. "I an it literally."
"You’re not saying you were the one who leaked that information, are you?"
"Pleasure to et you." The man nodded, patting Joanna on the head as if he wasn’t scared for his life. "Our boss is really getting smarter."
Joanna felt as if her mind had exploded, and she looked at him in disbelief." You... Why would you do sothing as pointless as that? And how do you know about my brother’s past?"
"To finish the task he gave . And, of course... It’s mainly because I don’t like Ace Moran.
"I backed out of our rivalry out of my own will, and he squandered the chance to cherish you and stay by your side! He even intended to marry another woman! How could I possibly allow myself to not ss with him? How could I face my own heart then?" Liam replied with a justified expression, rendering Joanna unable to refute his words.
She couldn’t help her curiosity either. "So, what was the task my brother gave you?"
"He asked to find a way to get Moran group’s share prices down by ten percent..."
Liam then took out his phone to look at Moran group’s current status, which showed that the stock prices were on a rapid downfall. ’ I think I’m going to complete my task soon, and I’ll
officially be recognized as your brother."
"You guys are so childish..." Joanna was speechless, unable to even bring herself to lecture him. "So that ans you did all of this? Including the whole revealing-my-brother’s-face thing?"
"Technically speaking, I ripped Quinton’s mask off by accident. I just decided to take this opportunity and go with the flow."
"Go with the flow?"
"Yeah, I know it’s a little insulting, but Quinton was all for it! He wrote most of the article anyway. He even sent the picture of him before he was scarred."
"God damn it!" Joanna pinched her nose bridge, feeling rather conflicted." Are you two mad?
Why did you even do that? Don’t you know Moran group was about to partner with Stellar Group? We’ll only be in deeper conflict after this! They wont be able to reconcile, ever!
"Why do you want to reconcile?" Liam didn’t understand. "Boss, you’ve always been a resolute person, and you’re always more than fine with letting go. But whenever it cos to that man, it’s like you turned into so kind of saint! Don’t you think he’s hurt you enough?"
"No, I’m... I’m doing this for my brother, not Ace." Joanna sighed heavily." And there’s a key figure in all of this, but I think Quinton deliberately hid this from you..."
Joanna’s words piqued Liam’s curiosity.
"Key figure?" Liam rubbed his chin and closer toward the woman with an intrigued
expression. "Keep going."
Joanna rolled her eyes at him and mindlessly scrolled through the webpage, her expression blank. "My brother doesn’t only hate Ace for destroying his face, but also for making his most trusted person betray him. She used to be the light of his life, but she betrayed him for Ace and stabbed him in the gut."
"That’s when my brother lost all morality. And well... How do I say this? He takes things to the extre now."
"Yeah, he is pretty extre." Liam nodded in agreent. "No wonder I felt a sense of
empathy when I first saw him. I knew he had hurt the sa way I did, for love."
Joanna rolled her eyes again. ’For love? Since when? Oh, stop playing the victim?"
"Is it not miserable enough that I acted as a loyal lapdog for almost a decade with no one to love back?"
The woman was speechless.
"You might not know this, Boss, but people who have suffered from love trauma have
piercing eyes. And Quinton is exactly that."
Joanna didn’t want to pay him any more mind, as he was still as playful and as usual.
However, she knew that there was so truth in his words.
Quinton would always express love in a twisted and sinister way. It was as if his heart had been corroded by half at this point. She was worried that sothing bad would happen if she didn’t take action sooner to help relieve this resentnt...
As Joanna looked through the trending topics, she suddenly noticed a photo of a beautiful girl sitting on the beach barefooted. She had silky black hair, and her beauty was refreshing to the eye, as if she were truly a princess.
The user who posted this photo also wrote the caption: [This is the love of the Night
Demon’s life!]
"Could she be Taylor Garcia?" Joanna held her breath, excitedly zooming in on the picture over and over again.
She could definitely understand her brother’s anger if this really were her. Having depended on each other for so long, the betrayal of this pretty princess was definitely enough to break anyone, especially when she betrayed him for so... man.
’If I were Quinton, I wouldn’t just hold resentnt against Ace, I’d be willing to kill off the entire world out of heartache!’ she thought.
"Taylor?" Liam was holding a cup of coffee when the photo on Joanna’s screen caught his eye.
"Why? Do you recognize her?"
"Of course I do!" Liam continued staring at that photo, exclaiming in a high- pitched voice.
"When I was on a trip to Cyndiano, I was tricked into selling my body in so red light district! Since I didn’t obey, they almost took my life! Taylor was the one who saved !"
"What... did you say?" Joanna grabbed him by the shoulders and questioned further. "Look carefully, is this really her? Are you sure she is Taylor?"
"Yeah, but we all call her Jo... she looks very different now. It’s like she’s a completely different person from this photo."
"Where is she now? Quick, let’s head out right now. I have to get her back!" Joanna jumped up, seemingly excited to set off.
"It’s best if you forget it. My master is very powerful, and I an, very- powerful... At the ti, he practically forced into becoming his godson and taught so many skills. So I was able to witness his terrifying power first-hand. That only made more certain that I needed to escape. And now you’re trying to take his princess away from him..."
Liam couldn’t help cowering in fear. "At the very least, I wouldn’t dare to go back anymore."
"Then don’t, I’ll go myself. Give the address."
Joanna didn’t want to put Liam in a difficult position either, and she was confident that she could take one person back with her martial skills and agility.
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