Chapter 125


    Chapter 125 She Doesn’t Die


    Joseph walked straight over and sat down on the sofa opposite Ashton.


    Joseph looked indifferent without giving Ashton a nce.


    “Just go straight to the point. I’m very busy and don’t have time to talk nonsense with you.”


    While speaking, Joseph thought of something, covered the palm of his right hand with his left hand,


    and took off the


    diamond ring on his ring finger calmly.


    For some reason, Ashton couldn’t help but nce at the door of the private room.


    On second thought, he didn’t think Joseph would bring someone here.


    Joseph put away the ring and then took a glimpse at Ashton opposite.


    He was a bit surprised.


    Ashton’s tone was calm, and Joseph thought someone as cold as Ashton might have long moved on


    from the pain of losing Deborah as it had been three years.


    Unexpectedly, Ashton looked a little unrecognizable.


    He grew visibly thinner and haggard, no longer as high-spirited as he was before.


    Ashton stared at Joseph with dim eyes and said, “It’s nothing else. I sincerely mean to take over


    Jingron Design and offer a high price of 2 billion dors. Mr. ck, why are you still displeased?”


    Joseph sneered impatiently, “You came so far just to say such nonsense to me? 1 don’t want to sell my


    things to you,


    for no reason.”


    Ashton said with a smile, “Oh, is there no other reason? Mr. ck, as far as I know, you’re interest-


    oriented. There’s no reason not to make easy money, right?”


    Joseph looked sideways at him with utter disgust in his eyes. “Ashton, don’t try to beat about the bush.


    Well, are you still fantasizing about Deborahing back from the dead and being hidden by others,


    hidden by me?”


    Ashton’s body froze obviously, and after his thought was seen through, the smile on his face finally


    faded.


    Joseph said coldly, “You spent so much money in acquiring so many designpanies just to show


    how affectionate you are. Drop the act in front of me. It’s disgusting. I’d rather throw or donate my thing


    than sell them to you.”


    Ashton sat there with a lump in his throat, unable to speak a word.


    Over the years, he told herself and forced him to believe that Deborah was gone and lost.


    So he was going to get her back, and he convinced himself that she was in a design studio


    somewhere, and that was the job she loved.


    No one would ever expose his self-deception. He just deceived himself like this, ignoring Deborah’s


    body, ignoring Deborah’s ashes, and looking for Deborah for three years.


    Until now, he realized that he had deceived himself too much, thinking that Deborah must have run


    away with Joseph.


    So he came to Oceanview City to ask for her from Joseph.


    He deceived himself to forget that Deborah was dead.


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    When she died in front of his eyes that day, he asked Rodger to personally carry out an autopsy on her


    and identified


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    her DNA


    The post-mortem revealed that the body belonged to Deborals.


    But he still didn’t believe it.


    Ashton believed that Rodger was lying to him and helping Deborah escape.


    So Jett said to him, “Mr. Mullen, how about getting another coroner to do the test?”


    Ashton refused without thinking about it, “No, forget it. Anyway, this corpse doesn’t belong to Deborah.


    It doesn’t.”


    He quickly had the body cremated and scattered the ashes into the sea.


    When he returned home, he imed that Deborah had disappeared and started looking for Deborah all


    over the world.


    The reason why he didn’t give up managing the Mullen Group was that he needed to carn money and


    power.


    Only in this way could we continue to acquire designpanies, throw money, and try every possible


    means to find


    Deborah.


    He was trying to find someone who could never exist again.


    Joseph got up directly and said, “Ashton, you are ridiculous. I have made it clear what should be said,


    and I think we


    should have nothing to talk about.”


    He walked outside, and behind him, Ashton got up and called him, “If Deborah really died, why don’t


    you feel sad?


    “You seem to have been doing well in the past few years. Deborah passed away three years ago, and


    you left decisively without caring about her body or her mother’s funeral.”


    Joseph suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned around.


    He seemed to be at the limit of his patience, and suddenly approached with a few steps, and punched


    Ashton hard in


    the face.


    Ashton was obviously in a trance now, slower in reaction.


    When the punch hit his face, he didn’t react at all. He staggered and sat back on the sofa.


    Joseph gritted his teeth and said, “Because I’m not interested. It’s meaningless to snatch a dead body


    from you!


    “Deborah is dead, Ashton, when she was alive, you had her for your own, and when she died, you


    snatched her body away. What qualifications do you have to ask her from me?”


    Ashton’s face trembled as he sunk into the sofa dejectedly.


    He muttered to himself, “She’s not dead. Don’t y games. You must have hidden her. Your business


    has been booming in the past three years. If she really died, can you live well as if nothing happened?”


    Joseph stared at him with scarlet eyes and snapped, “Just dream. Live in the dream forever! So what if


    I hide her?


    “The person she wanted to choose from the very beginning was me. She made a mistake, and you


    tricked her into believing you. If she hadn’t mistaken you for me, she would’ve been with me and we


    would’ve gotten married and had kids. You would’ve got a shot!”


    Ashton shook his head in despair and said, “I am the one Debby loved. We’d been married for more


    than four years, and our rtionship is the result of getting along day and night for so many years. It’s


    not because of the fact that you saved her, no,”


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    Joseph looked at him and found his words ridiculous. “You’d spent a lot of time together.


    “But it’s you who killed her daughter and mother, crippled Zayne’s hand, and made her suffer a terminal


    illness and have a miscarriage. Because of you, she lost her liver and her womb. Is this the way you


    two got along?”


    The color drained from Ashton’s face.


    It was so long ago, so long ago that he began to forget that he had hurt Deborah so much.


    It turned out that the marriage between him and Deborah which he thought so happy was so miserable


    that he


    couldn’t bear to recall


    Joseph snorted lightly, “She should indeed have endless feelings for you, endless despair, and endless


    resentment. I guess she couldn’t rest in peace because she didn’t kill you.”


    Ashton’s face was overcast with sadness. “I regret it. If I could have been earlier…”


    Joseph interrupted him, “Keep acting and acquiringpanies, and live in your dream.”


    With that, he exited the private room.