The Villain's Wife

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"This is our Serpent collection, the only remaining set of Serpent couple watch that we have currently available in Asia." The manager was a middle-aged woman with a sleek French bun. Her perfectly shaped scarlet red lips lifted into a smile. "And this is the pocket watch - it's simple yet elegant, made with pure gold. This pair of couple watches is also our most expensive set in our Serpent collection."

After examining the pocket watch briefly, Lisa and Jennie both took a closer look at the wrist watch for the woman. The strap of the watch was designed to look like a snake clinging onto the owner's wrist. It was embellished with various stones that sparkled - some of which even Jennie couldn't recognize.

Jennie was familiar with the Serpent collection as it was the most expensive collection of watches that Bulgari offered its most prominent customers. However, she did not expect that the manager would so easily lead them into the VIP room to see the Serpent collection. While Jennie was close with the owner of LV and Bulgari in Europe, she wasn't familiar with the manager here.

Managers like these would not usually allow just about anyone to see their collection because one, it was an exclusive collection that was worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars and two, only the VIP members could see it. Jennie was a VIP but she hadn't introduced herself as one. Was Lisa a VIP member as well? Or....could it be that the manager already knew who he was?

"Miss Luo," another attendant came into the VIP room and approached the manager. "Please excuse me." She made a slight bow towards Jennie and Lisa then whispered something into the manager's ears.

"Please tell them that I am attending an important client, right now," Miss Luo, the manager said softly. In response, the attendant nodded and left. Then Miss Luo stared at both Jennie and Lisa, "Please pardon the disturbance." She smiled apologetically.

"I will be taking this, please get this packed," Lisa answered before he handed his black sleek card.

"..." Jennie was honestly speechless. How could this man just buy a couple of watches that cost half a million US dollars so easily just because he was hungry?

"Hey... do you like this?" he asked when Miss Luo left them to process the payment.

"I thought you liked it?"

"Who told you that I liked it?" Jennie instantly countered before she nodded. "Alright, I liked it but... half a million? Really?"

"You think it's cheap? No problem, I'll buy you something even more expensive than that... But the really expensive ones can only be bought when it's custom-made or you buy it through an auction. Nonetheless, I have heard there will be an auction soon..."

"Hold on," Jennie interrupted him. "Ah.... Never mind." She shook her head and made a mental note not to take Lisa shopping when he was hungry again. "Do you want to go to the restaurant, upstairs?"

In the end, they decided to dine at the restaurant upstairs before they continued their shopping. Or who knows if Lisa would decide to buy everything in the whole store just because he couldn't wait and wanted Jennie to finish her purchasing, a little faster?

.....

"What do you mean it's already taken?" A tall man with broad shoulders had raised his voice, prompting Jennie and Lisa as well as everyone on the ground floor to look at him.

The man was around Lisa's height and was wearing a dark blue suit. To his left was a woman who was wearing a yellow knee-length dress with a pastel blue silk scarf. She was also wearing what looked like a pair of five inches' wedge heels, making her look much taller.

"I had already reserved it! I had even personally called Manager Kenzo this morning to have it ready for me! Why did you sell it someone else?" the man said in a deep voice, and he was even louder this time.