Joanne had not yet gotten over the pain on her back before Brian caught her lips.

He pressed his hand against the wall, using his tall and wide body to trap her entire being. He kissed her forcefully and strongly, not allowing her to object.

"Umph... umph..."

Joanne tried to push him away but she became incensed at her refusal.

He wrapped his hands around Joanne's waist, trapping her hands as well. Joanne could not even more, much less struggle.

And like that, he could do whatever he wanted, swallowing her beauty.

In Joanne's impression, Brian might sometimes be unreasonable and behave like a hoodlum, but he was a gentleman. However, this time, he sucked her lips forcefully as if he wanted to suck her clean. She refused to, and he forced her lips open, holding her even tighter...

She felt as if it was an illusion. That she would become embedded in Brian's body in the next second.

Slowly, Joanne could not breathe.

She had only had a few intimate encounters with Brian. He kissed her at the charity dinner for Mia to see. It was forceful yet gentle. He would also be careful and cared whether she knew how to breathe. That night when he brought her back from the hospital, he had kissed her like a dragonfly kissing the water, and it made her feel at ease.

Those two times had made her feel intoxicated.

But this time, he was like a beast in heat who wanted to tear and swallow her up. She struggled with all her might, but he bit her lips. She felt a pain on her lips and then it started to bleed...

The madness stopped suddenly as if it were a paused movie.

Brian released Joanne. He looked at the beads of blood on her lips and there seemed to be a trace of regret and anxiety that flashed through his eyes.

"Joanne..."

His voice was deep and hoarse.

Joanne pushed him away, her eyes red. She swiped her lips with her right hand, bringing out a trace of fresh red blood.

Brian reached out, wanting to touch the wound on her lips. She dodged with an expression of disgust. His hand froze in the air for a second and he slowly retracted it.

Joanne looked into his eyes angrily then and said, "Brian, I'm not Rosalyn. Look clearly!"

She finally mentioned Rosalyn.

Brian's mood suddenly turned better. He looked at Joanne naturally and said, "You saw the news. Did you mind it very much?"

"Why would I mind?" Beads of blood emerged from her lips again. Joanne pursed her lips and licked it clean. "I already told you the day we got married that I won't interfere with you and Rosalyn. So don't interfere with my life!"

"What are you going to do that you'd ask me not to interfere in, hmm?" Brian closed in on her. "Are you going to look for Shawn?"

Joanne turned her head stubbornly. "Whom I'm going to look for has nothing to do with you. I won't interfere with whomever you have a relationship with and how long you do. We will go our separate ways and not interfere with each other's life!"

She turned around and went upstairs. The wound on her lips had finally stopped bleeding but she could not help her eyes turning red.

In their marriage of two months, while she and Brian had not been as loving as rumored, they had never fought as well.

This was the first time they argued.

Joanne had not imagined that she would be so upset after fighting with Brian.

Actually, how could she not mind who he was with? When she saw the rumors of him with Rosalyn, if she had not been at Freya's house, if she had not been so busy because of the appearance of the serial killer, she might have broken down long ago.

She would not forget how she felt at that moment. Every single word in those reports and even the punctuation were like needles. They pierced into her eyes and her heart.

The pain roused her from what she thought was bliss. Brian was just acting, and his gentleness toward her was a necessity in the plot. He would be able to get together with someone else just by turning around.

She accepted that he was together with someone else and had not pressed him for answers or asked of anything as his wife. Why did he have to interfere with her life?

At this time, Brian was standing right outside Joanne's door. There were a few times he wanted to knock on her door, but did not.

In the end, he still returned to his room.

They both needed time to calm down.

Joanne kept feeling as if there was something stuck in her heart. She felt tired but could not sleep. She tossed and turned and only fell asleep at three in the morning. When she woke up the next day, it was already about noon.

She put a set of clothes in her bag after making sure that Brian was not at home. Then, she told Simon to tell Brian that she was staying at a friend's house tonight. Simon had not realized what was happening when she drove off.

Norris Xiaxi was very surprised at Joanne's "running away from home".

She was sure that Joanne was not a girl who would make a fuss and use running away from home to threaten others. She felt that the matter was not a small one for it to escalate to this state.

"You fought with Mr. Brian? Why? Did he explain to you what happened between him and Rosalyn at the hotel?"

"We fought. Because I went home too late last night. He didn't explain."

Joanne answered with a few words. Then, she opened a bag of chips and tossed a few into her mouth. There were a few crackling sounds of chips being viciously chewed on.

"Oy! Don't eat trash just because you fought." Freya took away Joanne's chips and gave her an apple. "Eat fruit. Brian won't fight with you just because you got home late. Did he misunderstand something?"

"He thought that I'd been keeping Shawn company the entire night."

Joanne thought of the apple as Brian and took a bite. However, she accidentally touched the wound on her lips, and it hurt her badly.

"Ohhh." Freya looked at the small red wound on Joanne's lips carefully. "Mr. Brian bit you in his jealousy? Don't you know how to explain? How stupid. You won't gain 5kg by telling him that you were home late because you were shopping with me."

Joanne pursed her lips. "It was like he had swallowed 5kg of dynamite. He self-ignited without listening to my explanation..."

Freya hummed for a moment. "That isn't being jealous... he is completely and totally jealous!"

Joanne did not care how jealous Brian was. She took Freya's Ipad and watched a movie.

She only knew that she did not wish to see Brian today.

Freya knew that Joanne was feeling bad and prodded her hand. "We haven't seen a movie in a long time. The movie you've been waiting for is airing. How about I treat you to it? Then, we can go to Happy Valley to watch a performance!"

Joanne glanced at Freya and smiled. Then, she got up and changed her shoes and the two went to the movie theater.

Compared to Joanne's leisurely day, Brian is very busy.

There were repercussions to him returning without having signed the contract. The other party was dissatisfied with his actions and the company's team's efforts were wasted. His leaving had made the nights of work and overtime of several people become meaningless.

To save all this, even he himself felt worried.

He worked until about nine before he completed his tasks for the day. But when he returned home, Simon told him that Joanne left in the afternoon and said that she would stay at a friend's tonight and would not return.

Brian frowned as he ripped off his tie. He took out his phone and called Joanne.

Joanne picked up this time. However, he did not know where she was. She had not yet spoken but the sounds of her noisy surroundings could be heard.

"Where are you?" His voice was slightly impatient and angry.

"Happy Valley." Joanne's voice was light and she was obviously feeling great. "Didn't Simon tell you? I'm not going home."

"Are you with Freya?"

"Yes."

Brian rubbed his hurting temples and decided to give her a night's time. He said, "I'll have someone pick you up tomorrow morning."

"No." Joanne objected. She would go back when she wanted to.

Allowing her to make a fuss for one night was already Brian's limits. There was a trace of threat in his voice, "Or do you want me to pick you up now?"

Joanne fell silent for a moment. "Don't be too early tomorrow. I don't know when I'll wake up."

"Ten o'clock."

"... Alright. I'm hanging up."

Joanne hung up and muttered at her phone, "Tyrant."

The Hula performance was still going on. The light at Happy Valley was beautiful at night and it was light and entertaining. Freya cheered with the crowd and asked her, "Did Mr. Brian call to make up with you?"

Joanne thought about it, "We can't make it back tonight. Your favorite themed hotel is nearby. Let's stay in the deluxe double room!"

Freya raised her beautiful pale hand and cheered, "I love you!"

The next day, Brian got Wangyang to pick up Joanne from Freya's house. But Wangyang called and told him that nobody answered the door after he pressed the doorbell for a long time.

He called Joanne to find out that her phone was switched off.

He only dared to believe after two seconds that Joanne had lied to him!

He quickly got someone to check Joanne's whereabouts. It only then did he realize that she had gone to a hotel near Happy Valley straight last night.

At that moment, Brian's gritted his teeth so hard it felt as if they were going to break.

He had already forgotten how many years had it been since someone had played him.

Gavin was sending a document to Brian. He sensed that something was not right the moment he entered the office. And he "oh ho-ed" leisurely. "Joanne's ignoring you, right?"

Brian looked at Gavin darkly. How did he know that Joanne would ignore him?

"If it were me, I wouldn't be bothered with you either!" Gavin said disdainfully. "You took the same flight with your rumored girlfriend and even stayed in the same hotel!"

Brian threw away his phone in annoyance. "I didn't know about all these beforehand."

"Then what about the four hours you spent together with Rosalyn?"

Brian's eyes grew cold. "You knew what happened!"

"But Joanne doesn't know!" Gavin almost jumped. "She and the other netizens all think that you slept with Rosalyn, okay? She was in the hands of a perverted killer then! You didn't even explain anything when you got back. It's already not bad that she's willing to talk to you. I told you to kneel down the moment you got back, but you didn't believe me..."

Brian asked Gavin somewhat helplessly for the first time, "What should I do?"

"Three words- Explain to her!"

But she was not willing to listen at all right now. Brian hesitated for a moment and then asked Gavin to do something.

Gavin looked at him incredulously, "Are you sure?"

"You can go work in Vietnam if this news isn't spread across the internet by 12."

"Damn it!"

Gavin ran to contact the various media companies.