Katherine's eyes stayed fixed on the missed calls and unread messages for a long time.
She knew clearly that Joshua must have found out his mother came to look for him.
A complicated feeling flashed in her eyes. She slowly swiped the screen and read every message carefully, then finally sent a reply.
To her, Joshua was not wrong, and his mother was not being unreasonable. They just had different points of view.
How many rich family marriages are really decided by the people themselves?
She just felt sorry for Joshua. She worried it would be hard for him to live the life he really wanted.
When the message was sent, she seemed to have made a very hard decision. She blocked all of Joshua's contact information.
She knew she could not let Joshua have trouble with his family because of her. This was her last way to protect their friendship.
When Joshua saw Katherine's message, the dark cloud in his heart was chased away by a small hope. His eyes lit up.
He quickly opened the message, but the more he read, the darker his face became, like dark clouds covering the sky.
In the message, Katherine showed understanding, but behind that understanding was a decision that they would never meet again.
Joshua's heart hurt. He did not want to believe this was real. Just yesterday everything was fine. His fingers moved without thinking and dialed the familiar number again.
The busy signal came from the phone. It hit his heart hard, breaking the last little hope he had.
Katherine really blocked all his ways to contact her.
He slowly put away his phone. His face was dark and serious like it was dripping water. Then he drove the car fast out of the underground parking lot, heading to the Joshua family villa.
Joshua rushed home. When he walked into the living room, he did not see his mother.
His voice was cold like a cold wind from a freezer. "Where is Madam?"
The servant near him shivered because of his angry face and quickly said, "Madam should be in the bedroom now."
Joshua did not hesitate. He ran upstairs.
At the bedroom door, he knocked hard twice. When he heard a reply, he pushed the door open.
His mother saw Joshua angry and rushing in. Her face turned cold too. "Why do you look like that? Are you going to eat someone?"
Joshua's chest rose and fell fast. He held back his anger and said, "Why did you go to find Katherine? I told you not to."
"All the things I did for her, I did them willingly. She never asked me for anything."
"Why do you always try to control other people's lives?"
"Do you know what kind of trouble you put me in? Katherine she…"
Before he finished, his mother sharply cut him off. "Katherine, Katherine, you say her name so nicely."
"I just came back not long ago, and she already told on you?"
"Hmph, it looks like she is a two-faced person."
Joshua clenched his fists tightly. The veins on his forehead popped out. He gritted his teeth and said, "Enough. She did not say a word to me."
His mother smiled coldly, "Did not say a word? Then why do you have such good information? Did you send someone to watch me?"
"Are you afraid I will do something to her?"
"You really care about her, huh!"
His mother crossed her arms and said, "Joshua, I tell you, you will never marry her in your life."
"Don't push me, or I will make sure she has nowhere to go."
Joshua's eyes turned cold. He stared at his mother, "If you dare, if you do anything to her again, I will make the Joshua Group disappear from this city."
His mother's eyes darkened. "Joshua, you have become bold. You actually dare to threaten me."
Joshua's lips curled into a cold smile. "If this is a threat, you can wait and see."
"If you do anything to hurt Katherine again, I will do what I said."
After saying that, Joshua turned and left.
Joshua's mother stomped her foot angrily as she watched him leave.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Ungrateful son, let's see if you can escape my hands."
A sudden thought appeared in her mind. If the day really came, she wouldn't hesitate to eliminate everything.
Secretary Jin saw his boss return and quickly stood up to approach him. "Boss, did you see Doctor Shen?"
Joshua's face was dark. "No."
Secretary Jin looked anxious and followed him into the office. "Boss, what should we do now?"
Joshua was confused and didn't know what to do.
"Secretary Jin, contact the finance department. When they receive Doctor Shen's payment records, notify me immediately."
Secretary Jin nodded quickly. "Okay."
...
Katherine got her visa in the afternoon and went straight home to start packing.
She threw away what she couldn't take.
She asked the buyer, and they didn't mind the furniture, so Katherine left the appliances to the buyer.
Tomorrow the house would belong to someone else. Tonight she had to move out and clean the room.
She packed her things in a suitcase and saw the divorce certificate. She put it at the very bottom of the suitcase.
She would leave once the verdict came out.
Andrew was distracted at work in the afternoon.
He pressed the intercom and called Assistant Ryan.
Assistant Ryan came in and asked, "Boss, what can I do for you?"
Andrew tapped the desk with his fingers and hesitated before speaking. "Is there still no result on Katherine's case?"
"No police report yet. The result probably hasn't come out."
"Call and find out what's going on. All the evidence is complete. Why is it taking so long?"
Assistant Ryan smiled. "Boss, are you planning to help Doctor Shen with this?"
Andrew looked at him sharply. "Who said I'm helping her? It's Old Master Zhou. He called me to ask."
"The old man isn't well. I don't want to upset him anymore. I'm just asking, it's not a problem."
Assistant Ryan understood clearly. It wasn't Old Master Zhou who called. It was Andrew himself wanting to help Katherine.
"Whatever you say. I'll ask now."
After Assistant Ryan pushed, the police soon gave the result.
The plot by Hospital Director Wang and Shanshan to frame Katherine was confirmed.
The police said they would pursue criminal responsibility according to the law.
Katherine received this news at night.
Right after finishing the call, a sudden wave of nausea hit her stomach.