Husband, Be A Gentleman 『Liskook』

Chapter 15

Lisa waved her fan anxiously.

Jungkook pulled Lisa onto his lap and he whispered in her ear. 'Wife, you don't need to worry. My spies have secretly investigated everyone in the manor. Now that Su Yue is gone, you're free to climb walls or roll on the ground.'

'Who's worried?' Lisa asked. Jungkook reminded her of embarrassing childhood memories and she jumped off his lap. 'What climb walls? It was you who provoked me to climb walls. What roll on the ground? It was you who forced me to roll on the ground.'

Jungkook smiled happily at the sight of an angry Lisa.

Lisa ran to sit on the chair opposite jungkook. She worried pointlessly, jungkook had a dangerous stomach and anyone that dared to wrong him was unlucky.

'Huang Guo's messenger sent Su Yue the poison,' jungkook said. 'I asked Bei Dou to check her chamber long ago. In the past I didn't hesitate to eliminate spies sent to the manor. But she was Huang Guo's spy... out of consideration Consort Chen was my adoptive mother, I acted like I didn't know about Su Yue spying on me. I had her followed and I slowly thought of ways to return her without offending Huang Guo... that was two years ago. After I came back from Southern Jiang I could only avoid her and I waited for the right opportunity to chase her back to Huang Guo's manor.'

'Big brother, how are you going to deal with Huang Guo?' Lisa asked.

'As long as my wife is happy I'll use all my abilities,' jungkook said.

Lisa didn't know how jungkook could talk nonsense while looking serious.

'Wife, you can see that Huang Guo doesn't want to only spy on me anymore,' jungkook said. 'If I didn't deal with Su Yue then I don't know what would have happened to us.'

Lisa remembered the bottle of poison and her heart shivered fearfully. 'Big Brother, the poison... is Huang Guo's scheme?'

Jungkook nodded and Lisa took a deep breath. 'But in the morning didn't big brother said Huang Guo... if big brother can't have children then what's the purpose of you climbing high?'

In the morning jungkook whispered in Lisa's ear, 'Huang Guo always wanted me to climb high, but I don't want to.'

Each time Lisa remembered jungkook's words, her heart pounded continuously. She thought the battle for the throne was only between seventh prince and crown prince. She didn't know there were court officials who secretly supported jungkook. Although Huang Guo resigned, Huang Guo's influence in the imperial court wasn't insignificant.

Lisa didn't know why if Huang Guo was secretly supporting jungkook then why Huang Guo sent Su Yue to poison jungkook.

'Lisa, you should know in this world there's something called puppet,' jungkook said.

Lisa stayed quiet for a while and thought about the meaning of jungkook's words.

Jungkook smiled at the sight of Lisa's revelation expression. He leaned back on his chair and he thought about Consort Chen. When Consort Chen was alive, Huang Guo's desire was for him to become emperor. But Consort Chen didn't want him to be caught in the deep web of battles. Consort Chen only wanted him to grow into a healthy and carefree man. After Consort Chen died, Huang Guo resigned and to other people it appeared like Huang Guo didn't have any influence left in the imperial court.

When jungkook was eighteen years old, Huang Guo asked him, 'who do you think suits being emperor?'

'I don't know,' jungkook said.

'What if you are emperor?' Huang Guo asked.

'I don't suit,' jungkook said.

'I think you suit more than them,' Huang Guo said.