Joanna shook her head. "I don't have an answer, and I don't want to make a guess. I'm also not in the mood to listen to your nonsense. You'd better get out of the way, or I'll run you over!"
Jovan sat lazily in front of the car. He ignored Joanna's warning completely. "I thought you've grown much stronger in the past few years, but you're still as much of a coward as ever. You don't even have the guts to face the truth. Don't you think it's sad that you have to lie to yourself like this?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Joanna exclaimed. "I'm saying this for the last time. Get out of the way!"
She placed her foot on the gas pedal. All she needed to do was step on it lightly, and Jovan would be crushed into a pulp of flesh.
"Hehe. Do you think you'll be able to change my dying cousin's fate by running me over?" Jovan slowly got up. He propped his arms on the hood and smiled creepily at her.
"Weren't you curious why I brought you to the middle of nowhere? Look around. Don't you think this gravesite has very good feng shui? I heard the Moran family specifically chose this place for Ace. Once it's time to bury him, my proud, aloof cousin will be trapped here forever…"
Joanna's head was pounding. Her mind went blank.
She couldn't understand what he was saying and couldn't be bothered to try. She kept repeating the phrase 'my dying cousin' in her head!
'No. This isn't possible. How could Ace be dead? If a cat has nine lives, he has ten!' Joanna refused to believe Ace was dead.
"You know very well whether I'm lying or not. If you don't believe me, you can come and look at this grave. His tomb has already been erected in advance. The irony is… Since you're his wife, your name was also inscribed on it. It's hilarious!" Jovan crossed his arms and looked at the large tomb ahead. There was a sarcastic look in his eyes.
"When I think about it, sometimes, life can be quite meaningless. It doesn't bother how capable or amazing someone is; at the end of the day, one is still a mere mortal. Once a person dies, he's no different from an insect or a pest. Everything goes back to dust. I can step on him if I so wish!" He added before stepping on Ace's black-and-white photo on the tomb.
"Ace, aren't you all that amazing? Haven't you always been number one? Why don't you get up and fight back?"
"Do you have any idea how I've always lived in your shadow? When other people get a score of 99 on an exam, they receive praise. When I did the same, I got beaten up. It's all because you'd always get a score of 100!"
"I lost sleep and skipped meals to make Moran Group one of the top three players in the market, but I was transferred abroad to work on sideline projects all because of something you said!"
"Everyone criticized me for being an idiot and a womanizer. They said I brought shame to the family, but nobody knew I had to be compared to you at all times. How was I supposed to ever stand out?"
"Fortunately, God is fair. You died for a woman. It gave me an opportunity to come back. From now on, I'll reclaim everything that I once lost, including the woman of my dreams!" Jovan uttered excitedly. The smile on his face was becoming cold and twisted.
He stomped fervently on Ace's photo, letting out all those years of jealousy he had concealed!
"Stop it!" Joanna had gotten out of the car at some point. "You're insulting a dead person. Can you even call yourself a gentleman?"
"Do you feel bad for him?"
Jovan lifted his foot and turned sideways to look at Joanna. He smiled. "I was never a gentleman, to begin with. I bring shame to the family. It's not like you've never heard about that… I couldn't do anything to Ace when he was alive, but I can insult him all I want now that he's dead!"
Joanna's eyes filled with tears. "You're mad. Even if Ace's dead, he'll always be stronger than you!"
Jovan's eyes glistened briefly. He approached Joanna one step at a time. "Is that so? What can he do right now? My footsteps are on his face, and I'm about to sleep with his wife in front of him. All he can do is watch. Do you call that strong?"
"Shameless!" Joanna slapped Jovan hard across the face. "You're a loser. Don't ever think you can get close to me!"
Joanna still felt angry even though she'd said those things. She lifted one leg and kicked Jovan in the stomach.
"Hmph!" Jovan curled up and kneeled in front of the tomb.
Joanna stood behind him and stepped on his back. "This is how you should behave in front of your brother. If you can't seem to learn it, I don't mind teaching you again."
"Hahaha! Keep treating me like this. Don't stop. I like you when you're like this!"
Although Jovan was clearly almost beaten to death, he seemed unusually excited. In fact, his eyes were even glistening.
"You asked me why I admired you so much but insulted you at every given opportunity after you married Ace. I'll tell you why. It's because you let me down!" Jovan exclaimed with his eyes closed.
"You're evidently a capable, talented, bright, and divine being, but you married the man I hated and looked down on the most! Ace is an emotionless robot, but you were willing to disband Ocean's Word and become a boring, rich housewife for him. You carefully sucked up to everyone in the Moran family and stayed with a man who didn't even love you. You had huge potential in life, but you wasted it away. It felt like watching the person you love falling into a pool of disgusting waste. Who else should I humiliate but you?"
Jovan's words left Joanna in shock.
"Y-You're unbelievable! You're an absolute pervert!" Joanna exclaimed.
She never realized that a man she barely knew would think of her so highly … Was this a case of a fan turning into a hater?
Anyway, he was as mad as a hatter!
"From your reaction, it seems that you probably haven't moved on. Unfortunately, Ace is already dead. You have no choice but to move on. Why don't you consider me? It won't be long before the entire Moran Group falls into my hands. I can give you everything you want!"
Although Joanna was still stepping on Jovan, he sounded fully confident.
Joanna appeared annoyed. "I can fight for what I want. I don't need anyone else to give me anything. I refuse to believe Ace is dead. It's all in your head!"
"If you don't believe me, you can ask Liam to verify the truth. That is… If he's still willing to talk to you." Jovan smiled arrogantly.
He eliminated two rivals in romance in a single night. This excited him far more than taking over Moran Group