The Unstoppable Comeback Of the Unrivaled Ex-Wife-Chapter 399 - 395

"Alright, let’s go have a drink. I haven’t had a good drink with anyone for a long time!"

Joanna felt that she got along well with Rosie. They hit it off right away. They came to a bar street in the city. They picked a cozy little bar, ordered a few bottles of strong beer, and started to drink.

The bar had a wonderful ambiance. A man on stage was singing folk songs while playing the guitar. It was refreshing to see a bar with this kind of atmosphere in the city, an unlawful area.

"Rosie, how long have you known Mr. Q for? You seem to have a crush on him."

Joanna gulped down half a bottle of beer in one go. The sting she felt in her throat actually cleared her head. It even made her feel a bit excited. She started feeling the urge to gossip.

"No woman can resist a man like Mr. Q. However, I have self-awareness. I know I’m already lucky enough to be his assistant."

Rosie had also relaxed a bit. She downed half a bottle of beer with great fervor. She did not hide her admiration for Mr. Q at all.

"Nice. You’re not pretentious. I like making friends with straightforward people like you. We’re sisters from now on."

Joanna bumped her bottle with Rosie’s. She was starting to take a real liking to Rosie.

She actually had very few close friends outside of Liam.

Rosie and she were both single mothers. When they started chatting, they realized that they had many similarities. They shared many stories of hardship and helplessness in taking care of their children alone.

"So you’re saying that you’ve already decided on Mr. Q and were going to marry him to start a family, but in the end... the person you became married to was the scumbag ex-husband who hurt you?"

Under the blurry light, Joanna downed bottle after bottle of beer with Rosie while Rosie listened to her story with Mr. Q and Ace Moran.

She did not understand why Mr. Q would do something like that either.

"Mr. Q isn’t someone who would break his promise for no reason, and he’s definitely not a bad person. If I had to guess... your scumbag ex-husband must have done something shady which forced Mr. Q to back off!"

Rosie was filled with righteous indignation.

"I think so too. That’s why I shouted like a madman earlier. I hope that Mr. Q will give me an answer. He suddenly disappeared. I don’t know what to think."

Joanna closed her eyes and spoke with pain in her voice.

"Actually, now that it’s come to this, I think you should just treat Mr. Q as someone who never existed. He asked you to reconcile with your ex-husband, right? Then maybe you should do that. After all, your ex-husband is your children’s biological father. No matter how good of a father an outsider is, he can’t take the biological father’s place. For the sake of the children, maybe you shouldn’t be too stubborn."

Rosie sincerely advised Joanna from the perspective of an outsider.

"Heh. Everyone thinks I should get back together with that guy for the sake of the children. In fact, I’ve considered it myself. But that means I’ll have to spend my whole life getting tangled up with him. Think about it... If you have to act like a loving couple and run a happy family with someone who once hurt you, wouldn’t you feel disgusted?"

"I can understand how you feel because my ex was a scumbag too. He abandoned me and my son in order to be with his mistress. My son was seriously ill, but he completely ignored him. He was busy enjoying himself with his mistress and celebrating his new son’s birthday..."

Recalling her painful past, Rosie clenched her fists tightly, and her eyes were filled with hatred. "Sometimes I don’t understand how the bad people can live so happily while the good people are trapped in hardship. If he were to come back to me and ask to reconcile, I would spit on his face and tell him to f*ck off!"

"Yeah, you understand, right? A broken heart isn’t easy to mend – even if it was fixed, there’d still be cracks..." Joanna said softly as her beautiful eyes teared up. She held her head up high, not wanting to let her tears fall. She refused to cry over that man again, especially when so many years had passed. It would be too humiliating.

"Honestly, for the longest time, I felt like my heart had crumbled to dust. I didn’t want marriage, I didn’t want love, I didn’t even want any type of relationship. I just believed that I would never become a bride again... until I met Mr. Q. For once, I felt like marriage could be a good thing..." Joanna started thinking about their brief time together. Although it had been a mere facade orchestrated by her children and she had never taken it seriously, every minute she spent with the man had been blissful. No other man had made her feel that way before.

Hence, she really didn’t want her judgment to be wrong again.

"Yeah, Mr. Q does have a certain charm to him. He might not have had the best reputation back then, but I feel like he had his reasons. Especially four years ago, when he lost to Ace Moran, which left a scar on his face... That’s when I found that he was more like a victim of circumstance. He has a big heart, so he really does seem more suitable for marriage compared to Ace Moran..." Rosie shared many stories from Mr. Q’s past, having known him for a longer time.

"Everyone sees the Carmine Pawnshop as some kind of hellhole, and thinks we would sell anything for profit, even human lives. They just assume that we are immoral people, and that Mr. Q is the infamous ’Night Demon’, the leader of this horrible place."

"Some have even said he would resort to murder if it profited him, but I’ve never seen him commit any crimes, even after I joined the pawnshop. In fact, he’s actually helped a lot of others who were suffering like me..."

"I remember one night, we all heard loud wails in the front yard, and we were terrified. Rumors said that the ’Night Demon’ ate babies, after all, and yet... Heh, did you know what he was actually doing?"

"What?" Joanna stared at her curiously.

"He was helping a cat give birth! Can you imagine a grown man like him squatting in that pitch black yard, cheering for the mother cat? The cat was agitated though and scratched his hand, which made him cry out in pain. But people spread rumors saying he was so excited about eating children that he was crying out in glee... It was so ridiculous that we secretly laughed at him for a whole year!"

"It really is hard to imagine him helping a cat give birth!" Joanna couldn’t help giggling. As the two continued to drink happily, Joanna soon became drunk.

On the contrary, due to her background, Rosie had quite a high tolerance, and was still sober. "Miss Pierce, you’re drunk. We should head back." She was worried Joanna might not be able to walk later, and tried convincing her to stop.

"Head back? Nuh uh, we’re drinking like there’s no tomorrow... Waiter, get me another two bottles of beer!" Joanna stumbled over and pushed Rosie back into her seat, slurring her words. "Come on, tell me more about Mr. Q! That guy’s such a comedian!"

"Well..." Just as Rosie was wondering what to do, she noticed that Joanna’s phone was ringing.