Ch. 1701..1710

Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 1701

Lucas was confused to hear this.

Joshua had been saying the same thing for the whole day, whether to Cheryl's parents, Jim, or even the police.

He had claimed that if Luna refused to return to Banyan City with him, he would let Luna be imprisoned forever.

He would not let her out or give her even a small taste of freedom until the Landry and Quinn families were destroyed.

All of a sudden, Joshua was saying that he would not let Luna be imprisoned indefinitely for his benefit.

Glancing at Lucas' puzzled look, Joshua narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice, "Luna is just one of the suspects in this murder.

"Even the security guards who witnessed this only saw Cheryl choking Luna before she died, demanding to know why she wanted to kill her, none of them saw Luna assaulting her. She merely struggled, and she didn't even fight back.

"On top of that, the cops have found a fingerprint that didn't belong to Luna on the murder weapon. Because of this, everyone knows that there is another suspect out there."

With that, he curled his lips into a smirk and said, "What would you do after Luna was brought into jail if you were the murderer?"

Lucas fell silent for a moment, then suddenly came to a realization. "If I were the murderer, I'd be keeping a close eye on the investigation progress of this case.

"If the police and the victim's family all insist that Luna is the murderer, then I will act as though nothing had happened...

"However, if they were to come after me, I'll leave Merchant City immediately!"

Joshua smiled when he heard this. "You're getting cleverer now."

Having been praised by Joshua out of the blue, Lucas scratched his head meekly and replied, "It turns out you were just worried that the murderer would escape, and that's why you chose to keep Ma'am in jail..."

Joshua murmured in approval and continued, "I've already asked Nigel to help me get his hands on the complete guest list of the wedding last night.

"Keep an eye on all the male guests that attended and watch out if anyone has sought medical help recently because of a right index finger injury."

Lucas froze for a moment, then quickly nodded. "Yes, Sir."

After giving these orders, Joshua rubbed his brows in frustration and leaned against the backseat lazily. "Where are Cheryl's parents?"

Lucas furrowed his brows and shook his head. "After you went in to visit Ma'am, the two of them left after signing the papers to claim Cheryl's body.

"When I asked them where they were headed, they told me that they had some relatives living in Merchant City and that they were going to discuss cremating Cheryl."

With that, Lucas could not help shaking his head. "What a pity..."

Joshua murmured in approval, his eyes closed. "Yes, a pity indeed."

Joshua suddenly recalled what Luna had told him in the visitation room.

"I'm starting to think that you sent someone to kill Cheryl yourself so that you could send me into jail."

Joshua curled his lips and let out a bitter chuckle.

He wanted nothing more than to tell her...that he had plenty of other ways to imprison her if he wanted to.

According to his influence in Merchant City at this moment, as well as Luke's power among the gangs, he could have kidnapped Luna and kept her by his side. No one would be able to save her, not even the Landry and Quinn families combined.

However, he had never thought of doing this at all because he respected and loved her, but that was not what she thought...

What kind of person did she think he was?

"Sir." Lucas pursed his lips and glanced in the rearview mirror as though he could understand what Joshua was thinking of. "Is Ma'am still having misconceptions and misunderstanding toward you?

"Why don't I...see her and talk to her about this myself?

"I believe that if she finds out about the effort you put in for her, she'll definitely—"

Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 1702

"There's no need," Joshua interjected Lucas curtly. "The Quinn family also has a few spies among the cops."

If Lucas were to tell Luna the truth, the change in Luna's attitude toward him would surely give them away, even if no one was eavesdropping on their conversation.

Glancing at Joshua once more, Lucas let out a sigh but did not say another word.

Soon, the car arrived at Lynch Tower.

As soon as Joshua and Lucas got out of the elevator, they came face-to-face with Theo and Gwen, waiting outside his office.

Seeing that Joshua had returned, Gwen immediately stormed forward and glared at him. "I hear that you were the one who convinced Cheryl's parents to keep Luna imprisoned, weren't you?"

She gritted her teeth as she continued to glare at him. " Don't you know what kind of person Luna is and whether she can possibly kill someone or not? How dare you do this to her!"

Joshua glanced impassively at Gwen and curled his lips into a smirk. "How dare you talk about this with me?

"When Luna's mother was injured, didn't she also doubt my integrity? If you hadn't notified Luke and me, I would've become the murderer that almost killed Rosalyn.

"When Luna mistrusted me, you didn't blame her at all, but now, you're blaming me for doubting Luna.

"I know you're Luna's friend, but that doesn't mean you can hold double standards like this, does it now?"

With that, Joshua circled past Gwen as though she were made of thin air and strode toward his office.

Gwen clenched her fists and gritted her teeth but could not say a single word.

All of a sudden, Theo walked toward her. He gently patted her shoulder and said, "I'll go talk to him."

With that, he followed Joshua into his office.

As soon as the door closed behind him, he sat down in the seat across from Joshua, smiling. "How's Luna doing in there? You must've sent some people to protect her, haven't you?"

He gave Joshua a gentle smile and continued, "I wouldn't want what happened at the mental asylum to happen once again. Luna has only nine fingers left, you know."

Joshua narrowed his eyes and shot Theo a cold glance, then smirked. "Why aren't you reprimanding me?"

"Because I know you too well." Theo let out an exhale and shifted into a more comfortable position in his chair, a small smile playing on his lips. "When I went to see Dr. Rachel, she told me she had met you before and that you were a weirdo.

"You were so busy, yet you had the time to wait outside her house for a week so that you could convince her to come with you to Merchant City and save a woman that was your mortal enemy."

With that, he fixated his penetrating stare on Joshua and continued, "I'm sure neither Luna nor the Landry family knows about all this.

"Since you were willing to beg Dr. Rachel to save your mortal enemy for Luna, how can you possibly not trust her and instead frame her for murder?"

Joshua fell silent upon hearing this.

He did not expect that the person who would understand him the most was the man who had once competed with him for Luna's heart.

Joshua could not help letting out a bitter chuckle when he thought of this.

He lifted his head to stare intently at Theo. "Do me a favor."

Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 1703

"Something terrible has happened, Vice President Land ry!"

At Landry Group Tower, Jim had just finished gathering his notes of the Land ry Group and Quinn Group's merge and was pondering how to solve this predicament when his secretary stormed into the room. "Something bad has happened!"

Jim furrowed his brows. "What's wrong? Why are you so anxious?"

His train of thought had been utterly interrupted.

The secretary said, panting, "Um... Someone has shown up with a banner at our building entrance right now to cause trouble!

"They're claiming that the CEO of Landry Group, Luna, had killed their daughter, and they have many reporters with them!

"They even said if Landry Group doesn't give them any compensation for their loss, they'll bring their daughter's corpse over to let everyone know the truth about us..."

With that, the secretary quickly took out his phone and handed it to Jim. "Look, the whole ordeal is going live on the internet right now!"

Jim quickly stood up and took the phone from the secretary.

The secretary was right. The people in the live footage were none other than Cheryl's parents, which he had bumped into at the police station that morning.

Hund reds of thousands of people were watching this live stream, and the audience was all postulating what had happened.

[Luna is a murderer.]

[Landry Group has lost its money and killed innocent people.]

[Landry Group should get out of Merchant City.]

All this news about Luna and Landry Group had surged to the top of the search results.

Jim narrowed his eyes and looked closer at Mr. and Mrs. Martin in the livestream.

Soon, he noticed some familiar faces.

Jim recognized a few of the people that were protesting among the crowd.

They were actors from a famous PR firm in Merchant City, and this PR firm...belonged to the Quinn family.

Jim narrowed his eyes and strode into the control room.

According to the security footage, it took less than an hour for Mr. and Mrs. Martin to arrive at the building entrance until the entire city heard about this news.

Jim narrowed his eyes. Someone had planned this.

The only person who could do this...

It was either Joshua's work, or the Quinn family were behind this.

However, this was not the time to find out who the mastermind was.

The most important thing at hand was to reassure his employees so that they would not panic over this sudden twist of events.

As soon as he thought of this, Jim let out an exhale and said, "Contact Malcolm Quinn, and then count how many reporters are gathered downstairs. I want to sue each and every one of them for falsifying news.

"Also, invite Cheryl's parents into the VIP room and serve them well.

"Finally, I want you to get rid of the crowd that's here to cause trouble!"

After giving these orders, Jim let out an exhale and rubbed his temples in frustration after returning to his office.

A few minutes later, he received a call from Malcolm.

"Jim." Malcolm let out a bitter chuckle. "Heather and I have also been kicked out of the Quinn family after what happened last night.

"You shouldn't contact me about anything regarding the Quinn family anymore. Contact my Granny instead; she's the head of the family now."

With that, he let out a sigh and added, "Heather and I have both been kicked out of our respective families overnight.

"Can you take us in, Jim?"

Jim furrowed his brows upon hearing this.

Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 1709

Lucas’ jaw dropped in shock.

It turned out that...the fingerprint left on the murder weapon was not that of a right index finger.

This was just a piece of false information leaked out by Joshua and the police to lure the murderer.

The murderer would surely try to destroy any evidence pointing toward them as soon as they found out about the fingerprint.

Therefore, anyone who was desperate to get rid of the finger that had allegedly left behind a fingerprint at the scene of the crime would be the murderer!

As soon as he thought of this, Lucas could not help admiring Joshua’s intelligence. He raised his thumbs at Joshua and said, ”What a great plan, Sir!”

Joshua shot him an impassive glance but did not reply.

Lucas meekly pulled his hand back and continued, ” Well, Sir, since we already know that Hunter Quinn was the one who had killed Cheryl...would the

police take any action?

”Will Ma’am be able to get released from jail after the police arrest Hunter?”

Joshua narrowed his eyes and lowered his head to toy with his phone. ”I don’t intend to let her out at this moment.”

Heather and Charles had just handed over Landry Group to Jim and Luna, and there would surely be plenty of things to take care of during this time.

Considering that Luna did not have any experience running a company, she would face many challenges, but Jim was different.

Jim had been running Landry Group since more than a year ago before he eventually quit his job.

Therefore, Joshua did not want Luna to get released from jail at a time like this.

At least, he wanted to wait until Jim had successfully segregated some of the Quinn Group’s assets from that of Landry Group’s before releasing Luna so that she would not have to deal with so much bothersome stuff.

However, Lucas did not understand this at all.

That evening, Lucas was talking with his girlfriend on his phone as he ate dinner at the restaurant on the ground floor of Lynch Group Tower. He could not help lamenting as he told this story to his girlfriend, ”I guess love is always selfish; even President Lynch is no exception. Even after knowing who the real murderer is now, he still wants to keep Ma’am locked up in jail for his benefit.

”I know he doesn’t want Ma’am to become his opponent in the future, but won’t doing this make her hate him even more? I don’t understand what he’s trying to do...” Lucas said as he ate.

In a corner of the restaurant, a woman with sunglasses curled her lips into a smirk as she tucked her phone away.

She put on a cap and mask and exited the restaurant, disguising herself in the shadows.

The woman hailed a taxi, leaned against the backseat, and said, ”Driver, go to the police station.

The driver glanced at her through the rearview mirror and said, smiling, as he started the engine, ” Miss, what are you doing, wearing sunglasses at

night like this? You’re so covered up and even heading to the police station; are you going there to turn yourself in?”

The woman leaned against the backseat lazily and said, ”Why can’t I wear sunglasses at night?”

Her tone was so icy that the driver could not help shuddering upon hearing it. ”Nothing. I was making small talk, that’s all.

”I just think you seem like a beautiful lady, so I was wondering why you’d cover yourself up like this...”

”You think I’m beautiful?” The woman curled her lips into a smirk as she removed her cap and sunglasses, revealing her face that was covered in multiple scars. ”Do you still think I’m beautiful now?

When the driver caught sight of the woman’s face i n the rearview mirror, he was so startled that he almost lost control of the steering wheel.

The car jerked for a split second.

However, the woman seemed to be used to this reaction. She put on her cap and sunglasses gracefully and said, ”Keep your eyes on the road and your nose out of other people’s business.”

The driver nodded, his face pale, and did not dare to say another word.

The car soon arrived at the police station.

After the woman got out of the car, the driver zipped away into the night without even taking her money.

She curled her lips into a sneer as she watched the car disappear, then turned and strode into the police station.

Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 1710

Visitors were not allowed at night, but the woman emanated such a terrifyingly sinister aura that the police on duty made an exception for her and let her in.

Luna was awoken from her sleep.

She could not stop asking the prison guard who the visitor was as she followed her out of the cell.

However, the prison guard could not offer her any information apart from the visitor’s gender. The visitor was a woman.

Luna furrowed her brows, thinking it was Gwen.

To her surprise, it was a strange woman dressed entirely in black and wearing a pair of sunglasses.

Luna entered the visitation room, frowning, and sat down across from the woman. ”You are...”

”Let me introduce myself.” The woman lifted her head to smile at Luna. ”My name is Charlotte Jacobs, I’m about the same age as you, and I was your brother Jim’s first girlfriend.”

Luna widened her eyes in shock.

Jim’s...first girlfriend?

How did she not know that Jim had ever had a girlfriend before?

Ever since she returned to the Landry family, she had only known of Jim’s reluctance to date, and even Harvey’s birth six years ago was simply an accident, so where did this woman come from?

”Jim and I were together six years ago, and at that time, you hadn’t returned to the Landry family yet, so it’s natural that you’re unaware of my existence.” The woman smiled. ”I’ve been avoiding this for six years now, and it’s about time I face the truth.”

With that, she elegantly removed her sunglasses and mask, revealing her scarred face to Luna.

Luna stared at Charlotte’s face in shock.

This was a face that looked even more terrifying than hers after Malcolm had deliberately ruined her face.

It was clear that this woman had tried to salvage her appearance, but scars all over her face were too deep to get rid of entirely, and her wounds were still shocking to any onlooker.

”You’re different; you’re not scared of me at all.” Charlotte curled her lips into a smile when she saw Luna’s surprisingly calm expression.

”Your brother and I met at the orphanage when we were young. I used to love wearing red clothes and would always follow him around, calling his name.

”At that time, he mistook me for you and wanted to take me away from the orphanage.

”However, after that, the Landry family found Heather and brought her home instead, so I didn’t get to leave the orphanage with him in the end.

”After we grew up, we managed to reunite again, but unfortunately, not long after your brother and I got together, Heather lured me to an abandoned warehouse and set it on fire, ruining everything that I had.”

With that, she gazed at Luna and continued, ”I should be thanking you. If it weren’t for you, Heather wouldn’t have been kicked out of the Landry family, and I wouldn’t have gained the courage to return to Merchant City.”

After she finished describing her experience to Luna, Charlotte let out an exhale and fixated her gaze on Luna. ”All these years, I’ve been learning how to run a business while I was abroad, and I always hoped that I’d be able to stand on top of the world, right next to Jim.

”Now that the Landry family is going through difficulties, I couldn’t bear to see him go through this alone, so I decided to come back.”

Luna pursed her lips and let out a small sigh when she caught sight of the look in Charlotte’s eyes upon mentioning Jim’s name. ”The reason you came to visit me so late at night...is to thank me?”

”Of course not.” Charlotte took out her phone and played the recording of Lucas’ voice that she had overheard at the restaurant to Luna.

”I guess love is always selfish; even President Lynch is no exception. Even after knowing who the real murderer is now, he still wants to keep Ma’am locked up in jail for his benefit.

”I know he doesn’t want Ma’am to become his opponent in the future, but wouldn’t doing this make her hate him even more? I don’t understand what he’s trying to do...”

When the audio clip finished playing, Luna felt as though her entire body had been submerged in ice- cold water.

She bit her lip as despair filled her entire heart.

It turned out Joshua had already found out who the real murderer was...yet he would instead let the culprit get away scot-free than release her from jail.

”I can help you get out of here.” Charlotte stared at Luna intently. ”But you have to agree to one condition.”