The CEO's Beloved Wife (Jenlisa Adaptation)

Chapter 5

Jennie's phone rang with an incoming call. Without even checking, she knew it was from her assistant. The familiar caller name made her narrow her eyes slightly, and the air around her seemed to drop in temperature. Her eyes even flickered with murderous intent.

Off to the side, as Lisa watched, her expression also became more solemn, and she couldn't help but begin to speculate who the call was from.

Immediately upon answering, Jennie spat out a cold "wait" and walked outside. However, with just this action and her response, Lisa was able to conclude who the caller was.

Jennie had two personal assistants; a male and a female. The male was called Jisoo, and he was responsible for handling the company's external connections and communications. The girl was called Krystal Jung, and she was responsible for Jennie's personal affairs.

The two could be considered her left and right hands, so naturally, she trusted them very much. Usually, Krystal was the one in charge of picking Jennie up.

This was the same Krystal who had ended up betraying Jennie in her past life, and it was not only betrayal but blatant murder. By concocting a car accident, she'd succeeded in sending Jennie into a vegetative state for two years until Sunmi came along and finally killed Jennie off.

Jennie knew about Krystal's betrayal because when she was a stuck being a human vegetable, Krystal and Sunmi had stood together by her bedside and told her themselves.

Every single word had been imbued with malice and jealousy, their dissatisfaction towards her, their hatred for her, and most importantly, the scheme they'd devised to use against her.

The image of their vicious faces at the time was still impossibly vivid in Jennie's mind. Thinking about the scene again caused the cold aura around her body intensity more.

Lisa looked on and started to worry.

she had a feeling that something big was about to happen. Though there were several rumors that depicted Jennie's cruelty, this was his first time seeing such a bone-chilling and murderous expression on her face.

Unfortunately, in the end, it didn't matter how worried she was. She could only stand in one place as his gaze trailed after her departing figure. The look in her eyes became deep and serene.

For the sake of chasing after this Woman, she'd truly put up a desperate fight, but years had passed, and the distance between them showed no signs of closing. Lisa was helpless —so helpless— and she seemed to have become accustomed to this helplessness.

Because of the divorce plans, Lisa had freed up his entire day. Now, she had nothing to do. She went into the study. Recently, she received the Starlight Film Empress Award, so all of the scripts she could select from went up by a grade. One of them was a fantasy drama called ⟪Demon Meteorite⟫. She liked it enough to consider taking it up.

However, after more than ten minutes had passed, she still couldn't focus on the script. The image of Jennie and how cold she had looked before leaving was stuck in his mind.

Just what had happened?

Lisa shifted his attention over to the computer. Lisa turned it on and went directly onto Kim Entertainment's official website. Everything was normal.

Next, she went onto her own official webpage, and there, it was as lively as always.

As she read over the myriad of comments, she really didn't know whether she should laugh or cry. The gossipy ones especially; they rendered her speechless. Lisa was clearly clean and possessed excellent self-control, pouring her whole heart and soul into pursuing Jennie, and yet she was still involved in rumors and scandals.

Some insisted on making groundless claims about her and an actress she'd worked with recently, and others were just completely fabricated out of nothing. She didn't even know where all of these women came from, and Lisa had no choice but to hand it over to the imaginations of her fans.

Lisa kept scrolling until a comment made by a fan named "Lisa's Little Sister" caught his eye.

[Lisa unnie, I heard you fell in love again. Is it true love this time?]

True love? She only had one true love!

Maybe it was because she'd been struck with too much excitement in just the span of one morning, but she really didn't know what she was thinking when she did what she did next. That comment was like a fire match, frying his brain until before she knew it, she had posted a message on the website.

[I have only one true love, and I'll love her for life. The relations mentioned in scandals are completely fabricated, none of them are true!]

To the outside world, Lisa's most notable qualities consisted of his monarch-like overbalance, good looks, masculinity, and her dignified and lofty aura. However, she was actually a very lowkey person. She never took part in any variety shows or talk shows. Aside from shooting films, she would... shoot films.

Contact with fans was negligible, and she didn't even have any personal posts on his official webpage. Everything was managed by her assistant. For these reasons, Lisa's fans were labeled as the most pitiful fans in the entertainment world.

If it weren't for how outstanding Lisa was, she never would've reached his current level of popularity.

And now, she had thrown his entire webpage into chaos. After the initial shock wore off, a herd of fans frantically began to leave comments.

[Warning! Warning! Film Empress webpage has been hacked; an impostor has left a fake message!]

[Shameless hacker, how dare you pose as Lisa unnie! Plank her!]

[What kind of ruse is this? I feel a bit dizzy; I think I just saw an alien!]

[Lisa unnie, Planet Earth is so scary, please take me away from here!]

There was a number of comments, each one more far-fetched than the one before, but their contents could all be summed up with one sentence: None of them believed it was Lisa herself who had posted the message.

Her fans were arrogant in calling themselves "Imperial Fans," and as an Imperial Fan would say: Our Empress Lisa would never say something like that! Absolutely not!

Lisa glared at the screen and couldn't restrain herself from typing again. She wanted to say that she was the real Lisa, but two characters later, she received a call from her agent, Jinhwan.

"Did you write that message on your official webpage? Did you go crazy?"

"It was me. I didn't go crazy." All she had wanted to do was tell everyone that her heart was already taken, and she didn't want to be caught up in those messy rumors and scandals anymore.

"You didn't go crazy, but you still dared to say that kind of thing? Do you know how much trouble you've just caused? Do you think that just because you became the Film Empress, you can do anything you want? Do you know what you just caused?"

Jinhwan was speaking in a very harsh tone, and the anger in his voice couldn't be more obvious. The reprimand didn't sit well with Lisa.

As a veteran of Kim Entertainment, Jinhwan had entered the company much earlier than Lisa did, and the Woman would often put-on airs in front of Lisa. She actually didn't like this agent of her that much, but Jennie had personally selected the agent for her. Even if she was dissatisfied, she wouldn't voice it.

Besides, Jinhwan was indeed very competent.

That didn't mean he had no temper though.

"Watch your tone. If you don't know how to handle this, then I'll go find someone who does," Lisa said coldly.

Jinhwan was capable, yes, but most of the time, the two would find themselves on completely different pages. Lisa knew about all of the little tricks Jinhwan had pulled over the years.

If it wasn't for his worry over how Jennie would react, Lisa would've switched to a new agent already.