The Villain's Wife (Book 2)

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"I think so, yes." He shrugged. "I am not sure though. You should ask Taehyung... maybe he knows something."

"Oh!" Jennie put the stone back inside the jewelry box before closing it. "We should probably leave now. We can go to the columbarium before heading back home." For some reason, the rock together with her grandmother's diary made her curious.

If not for the moon rock that she received from Eliza a few weeks ago, Jennie would not have thought anything about it. However, in her world, coincidences rarely ever happened.

"Alright." He nodded. "Can I borrow one of these books?"

"Sure." She nodded. When she was a child, she remembered playing with the books on the shelves. "Be careful not to damage the others." She stood and walked towards the bookshelves. "What is that?"

She looked at the leather book with gold markings on it.

"Italian." He answered. "I believe this is The Prince."

Instantaneously, Jennie's eyebrow lifted. "The Prince?" She took the book from him. "The Niccolo Machiavelli's, The Prince?"

"Hmmm. I can't read Italian but yeah... IL PRINCIPE Di NICOLO MACHIAVELLI is pretty understandable." The thing about The Prince was that it was written in Italian instead of Latin. Of course, this might be because Machiavelli was from Italy.

"It is The Prince." Jennie eyed the other books in the shelves as she wondered, what kind of treasure would she find if she searched this place. "That is very strange." She uttered. Seeing Lilian's favorite book here... was a very strange thing.

"This book Is pretty old too, it's from the 1550's." He added.

"The Prince was published in 1530's." She said. "This means... this is a very old copy. I am not an expert in books but this might be one of the oldest copies in the world. So- " she met his curious eyes. "Why would a housewife have a copy of this book inside her secret room?"

Lisa only shrugged in response. Jennie gave the book back to her husband before she stared at the other stack of books inside the room. Just as she remembered, this room had always been like this. The room was always full of books that she didn't know, papers that she could read.

"Let's go?"

"Sure." She nodded as she held the jewelry box and notebook closer to her chest. She then held Lisa's hand as a small smile slithered onto her face. It seemed that her grandmother was also keeping secrets on her own, she thought.

...

After they left her grandmother's house, Jennie Lisa and Taehyung went to pay their respects to Grandma Kim before Jennie insisted that they go to the Kim Mansion as she wanted to check her grandmother's room.

"Are you sure?" Taehyung frowned. "It is pretty late."

"It's five in the afternoon." She retorted. Since she discovered some crazy coincidences, Jennie had been really curious about things. She could just go home and think about it all night, ah! With this curiosity, Jennie knew that she won't be able to sleep tonight.

Lisa only shrugged when Taehyung turned his gaze towards him. Sighing, he turned his gaze outside of the car. He wondered why Jennie would insist on visiting the place where she experienced abuse for years. Taehyung would never be able to do that.

This was one of the reasons why he chose to not see his father anymore. Another sigh escaped his lips before the sound of Lisa's phone interrupted the silence inside the car.

"Hm?" Lisa answered. "Really? Alright... I might personally go there. Hmmm. Yes... alright." He quickly ended the call and turned towards Jennie then towards Taehyung who was sitting in the front seat of the car. "Chuan... took Qi Xia" He said.