Chapter 331


    The truth was, Joanna was the eldest daughter of the famous DuPont family of Northrive, and she was


    also known as the most beautiful woman there.


    She had been bom with a golden spoon in their mouth and grew up pampered. However, her


    adolescent years proved to be rather unhappy due to her rtionship with her family.


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    Joanna’s mother was riddled with illnesses, and failed to bear another child after Joanna was born,


    hence why she was the only child of her family. In fact, it was because of this that her mother bell no


    status in the family. Being unable to bear a son was the reason Joanna’s father would frequentlysh


    out at his wife in anger, and this matter also put a great strain on their marriage.


    Later on, Jeana’s mother was sent to live overseas, while Joanna was forced to stay behind. Despite


    her numerous attempts to find her mother after she grew up, Joanna’s father would stop all such


    attempts


    Later on, she applied to study at Southrive University and seeded, where sheter came to befriend


    Samantha. After graduating, Joanna established Bar and was initially nning on focusing all her


    efforts on developing it when sh suddenly received a phone call.


    This call was made by her mother’s caretaker from abroad, giving Joanna somme bad news about how


    gravely ill her mother was and how she wanted to meet her daughter onest time. Without any


    hesitation, she left Bar that very day after bidding her farewell to Samantha.


    After leaving the country, Joanna did manage to find her mother. Unfortunately, her mother passed


    away from her illness three monthster, and Joanna had been in a crazed state since then. She chose


    to stay overseas to try and ept the situation and calm herself from the unbearable shock


    This went or for two whole years until one day, Joanna’s father summoned her back to Northrive. He


    had found her a life partner she was to marry when she got back


    It waster revealed that her supposed spouse was the son of a higher–up within Northrive’s Internal


    Affairs. Joanna refused to go along with her father’s washes, and thetter became enraged and


    insisted that she returned home.


    A while after that, Joanna’s friend from Northrive contacted her with news that her father had brought


    home his illegitimate som–a twenty–two–year–old man named Jimmy DuPont.


    At that moment, Joanna finally realized that her father had been in an affair with another woman and


    they even had a son together. On top of it all, Jimmy was only four years younger than her.


    Jimmy’s mother even married into the DuPants and reced Joanna’s mother. She was the one who


    personally made the arrangements for Joanna’s marriage.


    Without any way out of her situation and having arro intention of getting married, Joanna thought it


    through for a very long time before deciding to reunite with Samantha II push came to shove, Joanna


    was going to choose to leave the world. painlessly.


    This was why Joanna called Samantha out of the blue and announced that she was returning to the


    country.


    “Phew!” Samantha let out a great breath when she heard about the darkest parts of Joanna’s life.


    Extremely furious, she said, “How could your father be so heartless? It’s obvious that he had a son with


    another worn when you were just four years old! He sent your mother overseas knowing that she was


    weak and frail just so that his illegitimate son could be legitimate!”


    Joanna nodded and continued to sob as she said, “My family has always looked down on my mother


    because she couldn’t produce a sun, and my father fell out of love with her because of this. She didn’t


    get to see him until the day she ded” “Your father’s such a heartless man.“Samanthamented.