"My body is so dirty. How can I forget about my past? If I continue to be with Cedric, people in Beijing will look down on him."
Thinking of the laughter of those servants, Joanna pinched her palm hard with her fingers.
"Joanna, I asked you to open the door! Do you hear me? Or do you want me to knock the door open?" Seeing that Joanna did not open the door, Cedric became extremely unhappy.
"Sir, here's the key." The housekeeper took the spare key and opened the door.
After opening the door, Cedric went straight in. He scanned the entire room and then saw Joanna, who was huddling up under the computer desk.
Seeing Joanna's pathetic and even painful look, Cedric felt sad in his heart.
He waved his hand and asked the housekeeper to go out. Then he walked directly to Joanna.
"Stand up." He stood in front of Joanna, looked down at her and said in a low voice.
Joanna didn't move, as if she didn't hear what Cedric said.
Seeing Joanna like this, Cedric's eyes turned even colder.
He clenched his fists and tried his best to suppress his anger. With cold eyes, he said, "Joanna, stand up. Do you hear me?" He didn't want to see Joanna's painful, fearful, and even desperate expression.
Joanna shouldn't be like this.
"You're in great pain, aren't you? Do you want to kill me?"
Cedric squatted down and touched Joanna's pale face. He fixes Joanna's empty eyes with a piercing stare.
"Joanna, listen carefully. I'm the b*stard who asked those bodyguards to hurt you. The person you should hate is me. I hurt you. It's my fault. I'm a j*rk. Let me bear your pain."
"Get out." Joanna said with her pale lips, which made Cedric feel that she was very painful.
Hearing Joanna's words, Cedric felt sadder in his uncomfortable heart.
He took a deep breath, clenched his fists and closed his eyes slightly.
"Joanna, if killing me can make you feel better in your heart. I am willing to be killed by you. Remember, you didn't do anything wrong. It is me who hurt you again and again." Cedric hugged Joanna's stiff body and warmed her body with his own temperature.
"It's all my fault. Do you hear me? You didn't do anything wrong."
"Cedric... Please let me... calm down alone, okay?" Joanna looked at Cedric's face and said in a shrilling and painful voice.
She didn't want to see anyone. She only wanted to stay alone. She didn't want to see her own child, Cedric and anyone.
"If... I die, will you feel better?"
Cedric stared at Joanna and said in a painful and deep voice.
Cedric's words made Joanna's heart suddenly tremble.
Her expression was extremely horrible as she clenched her fists. Because of fear and pain, her whole body was trembling.
Her face became pale, and even her breathing became extremely rapid.
"Cedric... why do you have to force me?" She roared at Cedric in a hoarse voice.
Why did Cedric always use this method to force her? Why?
"If I don't force you, you can never forget your past." Looking at Joanna, Cedric said in a deep voice.
Joanna clenched her fists and yelled at Cedric, "Go out and leave me alone, okay?"
She only just wanted to be alone and did not want to think about anything at the moment.
Cedric stared at Joanna with keen eyes. He didn't move but stared at Joanna's eyes for a long time.
The housekeeper held Cedric's body and growled at the servant who had already been stunned at the door. "Madam, what happened? Why did you do such a thing?" The housekeeper turned around, looked at Joanna's pale face and said with criticism in his eyes.
Joanna couldn't say a word, and she couldn't even defend herself. She was scared by the blood and looked at the housekeeper with a stiff body.
Leaning against the housekeeper's arms, Cedric stared at Joanna who was in a daze and mumbled intermittently, "Joanna, let's start over again. You promised me, didn't you? You promised me that we would start over again..."
"Master, don't talk. The ambulance will come soon." The housekeeper looked at Cedric with melancholy and helplessness.
Cedric's stubborn character was too similar to that of Edward.
"Madam, he really loves you. He did a lot of wrong things in the past, and he has been trying to make up for it. He knows that you don't like his domineering and tough character, so he has been changing all the time. It was his fault to let those bodyguards rape you, but he killed all those bodyguards after that. Since he knew that he had fallen in love with you, he always hurt himself. He hates himself for being so cruel to you in the past."
"No matter what, I hope that you can forgive what he did to you in the past. He really... loves you."
After the ambulance arrived, the housekeeper took Cedric to the ambulance. When they left, the housekeeper looked back and said these words to Joanna. Joanna's whole body was stiff and tense.
She stood there in a daze with blood in her hand. When the servants came to call her, she couldn't hear anything.
Her mind was blank. All she could thought of was Cedric's blood.
"What happened? How could he hurt himself?" Nacho and Athena came to the hospital as soon as they got the news. Outside the operating room, Nacho's face was extremely horrible, and his eyes were so cold.
"Mr. Xi knew that the video at the engagement banquet was a great blow to madam, so he wanted to tell madam that it was all his fault. He wanted madam to forget those things and then hurt himself." The housekeeper said to Nacho with melancholy and helplessness.
"How could Ashe hurt himself! How could he want to die! What should I do if he really dies? Abigail has died. If something bad happens to Ashe, how could I explain to Ashley?" Athena looked at the operating room with the red light on and said with tears in her eyes.
Hearing Athena's words, the housekeeper lowered his head and sighed.
"He is as stubborn as Edward."
Nacho's face tightened, he leaned against the wall with no expression.
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