And she even called him a temporary guest.
It seemed like jennie had yet to give up on jungkook.
That made sense. Early this morning, when his second sister fought with jennie, she even swore that she would only ever marry jungkook. How could she possibly give up this easily?
The maid had been worried that she would be punished for neglecting the guest. After hearing taehyung's response, she was instantly relieved.
Jennie was filled with rage but on the surface, she maintained a generous and understanding expression. “Alright, you’re my brother . I’ll let it go regardless of whether you treat me as a proper guest or not. By the way, taehyung, where did you go last night?”
Monkey clearly claimed that he had kidnapped him and thrown his comatose figure on the bed in room 615. How did it become someone else?
“Sleeping in the Jeon Villa.” taehyung came up with a random excuse.
Jennie was suspicious. Could it be that taehyung had seen through her scheme? However, as she took in taehyung's innocent expression, she was unsure about the whole thing.
She had wanted to look for Monkey for a proper answer, but the person had gone off the grid.
She wasn’t sure if he had run away, or if jungkook had dealt with him.
She did not dare to think too deeply about it.
However, it was a good thing that taehyung had been asleep in the Yu Ting Villa. Yesterday, jungkook had been affected by the aphrodisiac and because of the urgency of the matter, he had been unable to rush back to the Jeon Villa and could only look for a different person to vent his desire.
In other words, a different, lucky person had climbed into jungkook's bed.
taehyung asked her directly. “Didn’t you say you had a secret to share related to jungkook?”
Jennie glanced at the maid. “It’s not appropriate for me to say this in front of an outsider.” If the servant shared this information with jungkook, she would definitely be in trouble.
Taehyung waved his hand and the maid immediately backed away.
“Here, I’ll show you a photo.” jennie brought her phone out and tapped on a photo.
It was taken at night when jungkook entered the love Hotel.
This photo was taken of him from the side. “I was shopping on the streets last night when I met jungkook entering a hotel.”
She had taken this secretly before she followed jungkook in.
Taehyung shrugged. “Oh.”
“What ‘oh’?” jennie glared at him. “Why are you so silly? You’re not even paying attention to this matter!”
“Why do I have to pay attention to it?”
“Wasn’t jungkook supposed to be overseas for five days? He returned in four days and immediately visited a hotel...” The unfinished words clearly indicated that jungkook had slept with someone else.
Taehyung pretended to play dumb. “It’s normal to check into a hotel after returning from a business trip. This is the so-called extremely urgent secret that you know about jungkook?”
“It’s a hotel in our city. Isn’t that considered a secret?” She gritted her teeth heavily. “taehyung, are you silly? Jungkook clearly returned from his business trip early yet he didn’t inform you. He went to sleep with some other person !”
“It’s just a photo. Don’t spout nonsense about things that you don’t have evidence for.” Suspicion appeared in his gaze. “Second Sister, how did you know that jungkook returned from his business trip early?”
Jennie did not expect him to ask this question. To prevent taehyung from suspecting that she had a spy in the Jeon Villa, she found a suitable reason. “Earlier, when I was passing by the Jeon Villa’s front yard, I heard the servants discussing this.”
“Is that so? What a coincidence!” taehyung pursed his lips and did not express if he believed her words.
Jennie intentionally changed the topic. “You shouldn’t wait until you’re at a dead end to give up. Look at this...”
She then tapped on another photo. It was taken in broad daylight when jungkook carried a person out of love Hotel.
Unfortunately, the person in his arms kept his face pressed against jungkook's chest and his appearance was not revealed.
Taehyung glanced at the photo. Wasn’t that a picture of jungkook and him leaving the hotel this morning? he frowned. “How did you obtain this photo?”
Jennie saw him reaction and assumed that he was angry. She immediately responded. “taehyung, no matter what, I’m still your second sister. I admit that I still have feelings for jungkook. Who asked him to be that outstanding! You say, how many person in the world aren’t charmed by him? But no matter what, he is your fiancé. When I saw him entering the hotel, I felt that I had to take your feelings into account. Hence, I could not pretend like I didn’t see anything. Thus...”
She smiled bitterly. “I stood outside the hotel for an entire night and half a day. I was shocked when I saw him carrying a man out.”
In fact, she had spent the entire night and half the day on jaewon's bed. When she left room 615, she heard that jungkook had yet to leave the place. Thus, she secretly hid by the side wanting to see who exactly had climbed into jungkook's bed.
She then took this photo secretly.
When she saw that the man’s figure was impressive, she planned to edit the photo with her and claim that she had slept with jungkook.
However, she recalled that she had slept with jaewon in room 615 last night. If she told taehyung that she had slept with jungkook, on the off-chance that taehyung questioned jungkook about it...
The fact that she slept with jaewon would also be revealed. Not only would she have failed to succeed in her goals, she would also suffer a great loss.
In any case, now that jungkook had slept with a different man, she was certain that based on her understanding of taehyung, this dumb trash would be extremely concerned about loyalty.
How could he not be thoroughly heartbroken? Or angered to the point of turning violent?
A hint of surprise flashed past taehyung's eyes. “To think that that happened!”
It seems like jaewon's stamina in bed was really poor. After leaving room 615, jennie actually still had the strength to wait around.
On the other hand, he had been left unable to even move a finger in room 639. Jungkook had to carry him out of the hotel eventually.
“That’s right!” jennie assumed that taehyung was agreeing with her and immediately became agitated. “taehyung, no matter what, your second sister also doesn’t wish to see jungkook be seduced by other person . I really did not expect him to sleep with someone else behind your back!”
Previously, taehyung had been similarly surprised when jennie brought the sheets stained with blood to jungkook and claimed that he had slept with jaewon.
She had been completely unaware that taehyung's first time had been with jungkook.
This time, the situation had completely reversed and she was actually accusing jungkook of having an affair.
If this had been in the past, taehyung would certainly have been provoked by jennie.
But after having experienced one life, he did not believe even a single word of jennie's.
Taehyung was clearly aware that jungkook had been on his bed last night. However, he stayed silent and did not clarify the matter.
jennie glanced at him in sympathy. Her beautiful face was filled with heartache. “taehyung, your appearance is unattractive. Second Sister knew that jungkook would disdain you, but I didn’t expect him to betray you even before the two of you are married. Jungkook stayed for the entire night and half a day in a hotel room with that person. It’s clear that he cherishes that man very much. I’m sure that that person will soon come to Jeon Villa. You have to prepare yourself mentally.”
His second sister was so ‘thoughtful’ towards him. Taehyung cooperatively performed the show with her.
He nodded. “En.”
Just an ‘en’? Jennie's expression was slightly poor. Wasn’t he supposed to jump up and scold jungkook for being worse than a beast and for not having a conscience? He would then leave the Jeon Villa in a fit of anger, wouldn’t he?
She decided to continue nagging more.
“tae, ah. You know that with your appearance... Jungkook is surely already sick of you. Rather than remaining in the Jeon Villa and waiting for jungkook to toss you out, why don’t you return to the Kim home with Second Sister right now.”
She then reached for taehyung's wrist and turned to leave.
Taehyung pulled his hand back with force. His expression was cold. “Did I say I was leaving with you?”
Jennie did not expect him to be so strong. She staggered for a moment before managing to stand properly. She guessed that this was a result of taehyung's constant efforts to lose weight.
A hint of frustration flashed across her face before she spoke up in grievance. “Third brother , I’m doing this for your own good. If you were chased out by jungkook, you wouldn’t only be throwing your own face away, even our Kim family’s face would be thrown away alongside yours.”
Taehyung burst into laughter. “Does the Kim family still have any face to speak of?”
his icy cold gaze landed on jennie. “Right now, you’re the most outstanding white lotus bitch on this earth. Your mother is a bastard who would even scheme against her own son. As for hyunwoo, I suppose he is just a gigolo whom your mother is raising.”
Jennie was angered by his words. She also felt some fear. Based on taehyung'd words, could he have noticed something?
She managed her expression and said carefully, “tae, what do you mean by that? No matter what, our mom is still your birth mother. Although, Second Uncle has taken some benefits from the Kim family, he is still our uncle.”
“Before my father went into a coma, he never mentioned having a young brother.” taehyung had a strong feeling that everyone in the Kim family was an outsider. Aside from his father, none of them were his family!
Of course, though his elder brother, yoongi, was not related to him by blood, he was as close to him as a family member.
However, he struggled to understand why a copy of the DNA test that was not tampered with actually indicated eunji to be his mother!
“I know that both Mom and I made mistakes. We’ve let you down.” jennie softened her attitude. “But now that jungkook has betrayed you, and there is another person trying to take over your position, I feel that we should be standing on the same side to deal with this outsider.”
taehyung smiled. “In that case, I should really be staying here to deal with the outsider.”
Jennie finally understood that there was absolutely no way to persuade taehyung to leave the Jeon Villa.
She scanned the Jeon Villa’s living room. It was extravagantly decorated. Combined with jungkook'd powerful status, if she had been in taehyung's shoes, even if jungkook betrayed her a hundred or even a thousand times, she would also struggle to give up this infinite pool of wealth.
Jungkook must never have expected taehyung to be unfazed by his betrayal. To think that he was but a whore who was greedy for wealth.
“Alright. In that case, your second sister will stay too. I’ll help you deal with the person that jungkook is keeping outside.” jennie appeared as though she was making a difficult choice. “You should know this as well but jungkook is a dangerous man to provoke. Yet, I’m staying to help you deal with a man whom he wants to protect. Your second sister is taking a serious risk right now.”
Although she spoke this way, internally, she felt that as long as she remained in the Jeon Villa, she would have an opportunity to climb into jungkook's bed.
She had slept with jaewon, but in this day and age, most women had slept with more than one man. She believed that jungkook would not mind it too much.
Besides, last night, jungkook had commanded her to accompany jaewon. She felt that she had cooperated with jungkook in some manner, didn’t she?
Taehyung responded to jennie's words. “How could I bear for my second sister to ‘take the risk’ with me? There’s no need for you to stay. Servants, send the guest away!”
A maid who was waiting outside the living room immediately approached them. She made a ‘please’ gesture to jennie. “Miss Kim, this way please.”
jennie still had a lot of things to do. How could she possibly leave just like that?
She glanced at the phone taehyung had left on the coffee table.
She turned quickly and used her bag to ‘carelessly’ nudge against it.
With a loud clamor, taehyung'd phone fell on the ground. Jennie immediately picked it up. “Aiya, Third brother , I’m so sorry. I accidentally threw your phone onto the ground.”
While saying so, she covered the phone with her bag and quickly removed the useless phone card from taehyung's phone and replaced it with a functioning one.
She assumed that her actions weren’t visible to anyone.
In fact, taehyung was able to see everything she was doing. He simply did not make any moves to interfere.
In his past life, taehyung's ‘damaged’ phone had begun working around this time too. However, the location had been the Kim home.
It turned out that jennie was the one who replaced the phone card in his phone.
It was no wonder that the phone began working again.
jennie placed her phone back on the coffee table and frowned as she took in the old and worn-out phone. “tae, why are you using an old phone like this that’s worth less than a hundred dollars? jungkook is really too stingy when it comes to you. It seems like you’ve truly lost his favour. Even the way he treats you has changed.”
The maid hid a mocking smile. It seemed like jennie was unaware, but when the young master bought gifts for taehyung, he was generous enough to buy him ten luxury cars at a go.
Only taehyung alone received such a treatment.
taehyung was too lazy to explain to jennie why she was still using such a phone. “It’s unrelated to you. Why haven’t you scrammed yet?”
jennie's expression was extremely poor. She offered her own phone to taehyung. “I’ll let you use my phone.”
This was the phone that jungkook had compensated her with, previously.
As long as taehyung accepted it, jennie could complain to jungkook that taehyung had forcefully taken it.
Taehyung glanced at it and immediately recalled that back when jungkook had tossed jennie's phone into the fish tank, jennie had demanded a new one with a thick skin. This was the one that jungkook arranged for the servants to buy for her. “I’m not interested in a second hand phone.”
jennie's complexion turned pale. However, she could only helplessly take the phone back. She then began negotiating. “Third brother, the sky is turning dark. It’s not safe for a girl like me to go home alone. Let me stay here for a night.”
Everything else was secondary. The key was that she needed to find an opportunity to tamper with taehyung's medicine!
“What’s unsafe about it? We’re not located in the forest. All you have to do is call a car to take you home.” taehyung waved his hand.
The maid immediately understood and began dragging jennie out.
“Third brother, I’m only requesting to be a guest here for a while. Aren’t you being too heartless by chasing me out like this?” As jennie was dragged away, her voice rose by several notches.
She was frustrated about leaving just like this. Not only was she losing the opportunity to tamper with taehyung's medicine, if taehyung stopped using the medicine, she would lose all hopes of carrying out an effective scheme.
Regardless of whether or not jennie was willing, the maid still dragged her out of the Jeon Villa.
Taehyung checked his phone and confirmed that jennie only replaced the useless phone card.
In fact, he had intentionally left the phone on the coffee table so that jennie could carry out this matter.
He set a passcode to his phone card.
From now onwards, regardless of who had made a replacement phone card for his number, they would be unable to use his phone number without the passcode.
Ding!
With this noise, taehyung received a new message. He tapped on it to see that it was from jennie.
[taehyung, let the things in the past remain in the past. We’re a family. If jungkook really chases you out, return to the Kim house. The Kim house will always be your home.]
He read through jennie's message. The first half was rather moving.
But the second half...
He had always been the Kim family’s son. What did she mean by ‘the Kim house will always be your home’? On what basis did jennie have to speak as though jennie was the master and he was the guest?
Until he turned eleven, though his mother treated jennie well, it was clear that his mother had doted on him the most.
Although jennie had been young at the time, she had tried her hardest to please their mother.
It was only with their mother’s personality changes that jennie's ambitions began to reveal itself over the past seven to eight years.
Were it not for his rebirth, he would also be in an extremely pitiful state.
Thankfully, things were gradually turning for the better.
Some time later, jennie sent him another message: [taehyung, don’t delay your responsibilities for a man. It’s not worth it. You didn’t even attend class today. Quickly start preparing for classes.]
taehyung smiled mockingly. Jennie's thoughtful and considerate tone made it seem as though she had attended school today.
Earlier this morning, jennie had still been in jaewon's bed.
If this had been in his previous life, this message from jennie would have moved him to death.
But right now... a hint of worry rose in his heart.
He narrowed his eyes and suspected that jennie had prepared a serious welcome for him at school.
Du, du, du...
At this moment, a request for a video call came from his good friend, jimin. He answered the call.
On the other end of the call, jimin immediately shouted. “My dear, why didn’t you come to school today? You worried me to death!”
Taehyung was astonished.
In this life, hhe did not expect to find a good friend who would be concerned for him.
He felt moved. “I’m sorry. I forgot to tell you beforehand.” he did not know that jimin would be this worried.
“It’s fine if you’re alright. I even went to the Kim house to look for you.” jimin continued. “That mother of yours is really disgusting. She knows that our relationship is good and held my hand to cry about how she knows she was wrong. She blabbered about how she shouldn’t have made everyone misunderstand that you’re unfilial. She even said that she has turned over a new leaf, and that she has been crying everyday, waiting for you to come home. She said she wanted to visit you at Jeon Villa but was turned away at the door. With the way she spoke, even I was moved.”
“If you were moved, why do you think she’s disgusting?” taehyung felt that jimin wasn’t someone with a heart of steel.
“I saw that you weren’t at the Kim house so I left. But then I realised I had left my bag behind so I went back to retrieve it. Do you know what I saw?” jimin's expression was full of anger. “That horrid mother of yours was searching through my bag. There wasn’t anything important in it so she gave up quickly. But what was especially horrible was that she actually told hyunwoo she was only temporarily enduring ‘taehyung, the whore’. Hyunwoo then persuaded her and claimed that the kim Corporation didn’t have any money coming in and only jungkook could rescue the company. He said that a few words from you is all that is needed to obtain benefits from jungkook, and hence, they are all trying to coax you right now.”
The more jimin spoke, the more upset he became. “It’s my first time ever seeing someone this shameless!”
Taehyung smiled. He had been more than aware of these things ever since his previous life. Still, he said, “Thank you for informing me.”
“tae, don’t believe in that nonsensical DNA test result. In this world, how could there be mothers who would address their own children as ‘whores’? Previously, I felt that the DNA test couldn’t have gone wrong, but right now, I’m certain that she isn’t your birth mother!” jimin concluded angrily.
“En.” taehyung nodded. “The Kim family are just a bunch of poisonous scorpions. In a few days, I’ll return home and look for ways to obtain their blood or hair. I’ll do a new DNA test with all of them.”
“Why do you have to wait a few days?”
“Nothing is more important than spending time with jungkook.” In fact, his legs were sore to the point where he couldn’t walk too much. He could only take some time to rest first.
“Hey, for the sake of a man...”
“He is worth it.”
“Alright then.” jimin nodded. He spoke a few more words of concern before ending the call.
Jungkook's message came in right after.
[There’s a last minute issue. I won’t be able to come home tonight. I’m sorry.]
After reading it, taehyung felt a little dejected.
He wished that he could spend every moment with him. However, with his status and position, at times, he simply could not escape from his work...
In his previous life, he had also once dreamed of living well with him. However, he was always very busy. The Kim family’s people always interfered and claimed that he did not care for him whatsoever.
Thus, he grew to mind the way he was always busy, very much.
This time...
He was not upset about it. Instead, he was very understanding of him. He also felt proud of his fiancé for being this outstanding.
“Mr. Kim, what would you like for dinner?” Butler kim approached to ask him respectfully.
“I don’t have much of an appetite. Anything will do.” Without jungkook, the food won’t taste as good.
“Do you have any other requests? The young master has instructed that your needs are to be fulfilled to the best of our abilities.”
“No.” he waved his hand.
If h wanted him to make jungkook appear here right now, could he do that?
Forget it.
He leaned back against the sofa lazily and took in the carved ceilings. He had just been intimate with jungkook this morning. He missed him dearly...
An hour later, a luxurious spread was prepared for dinner.
taehyung took in the twenty different dishes and frowned. “Butler Kim, I said that I didn’t have an appetite. How am I supposed to finish all of these dishes?”
“Young Master has instructed us to serve you well. Even if you only take one bite out of the food, we are not to prepare a simple affair.”
taehyung sighed internally. Jungkook truly doted on him like a princess.
Indeed, one to two bites of every dish would be more than enough to make him full.
The food was going to be wasted again.
Thus, he poured all the remaining food into a bucket and walked around the entire estate before stopping at a fenced area in the backyard.
The fences went around a large piece of land. In the corner of the space, there was a dog house built with white walls and glazed roof tiles. It appeared just like a miniature home.
Inside the dog house was a large wild dog which jungkook had picked up – Bam.
Even the dog jungkook was raising was treated differently. It had its own home and land.
Most people weren’t treated this well.
Bam immediately came running out of his home. He glared harshly at taehyung and growled to warn him off.
In the past, taehyung wasn’t afraid of dogs. However, he was afraid of bam.
Bye bye! Take care!