The Villain's Wife (Book 2)

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Harringfort was originally planning to use Jennie and her resources. It was supposed to be simple. She would investigate into the Corneels and realize that a particular Cartel were doing child prostitution and human trafficking, then she would ask George and Lisa to wage a war against them. Using this method, Jennie was bound to ruin them.

He frowned as his hand slowly balled into a fist. He was banking on Jennie's righteous nature to help the innocent. Why would she suddenly back out? Despite some of the council members discouraging him about it, he still insisted that Jennie's righteous nature would win.

Everyone wanted to be a hero. So why the heck would she refuse to become one? He narrowed his eyes as he thought of Jennie's smile. Behind her brilliant and beautiful smile was a cunning eye. Was it possible that she figured out the real reason why he chose to route the call to that particular Cartel? Impossible.

But the council clearly told him that Jennie halted all of the investigations that she was doing with her brother. Everything about it had been deleted from Taehyung's computer. The council would not say something like this unless their people that were keeping an eye on Taehyung's computer saw him delete all of the files about the matter.

Obviously, the person that he was thinking about was unaware of all the trouble that she would soon cause in Harringfort's career. Jennie was in the mansion, leaning against Lisa's chests as the latter wrapped his arms around her body. "I want Ramen." Seoul was slowly transitioning to its cold weather. Having a hot bowl of Ramen was such a good way to escape the cold and warm her stomach.

"I will ask Chef Yang to make one."

"Tomorrow... I want chicken rice porridge for breakfast." She demanded.

"Alright. I will mask Chef Yang."

Jennie giggled in response before she stood up. Moving away from Lisa's lap, Jennie walked towards his bookshelf and started scanning the title of different books in front of him. Seeing this, Lisa called Chef Yang and asked him to make some Ramen for Jennie. Then he turned his attention back to the pile of papers in front of him.

His company had been slowly reaching their claws out in the west. With Jennie's help, everything had been going great for LM Capital. However, this meant more paperwork for him. Not that he was complaining.

"I asked Taehyung to keep it subtle." Jennie said, her gaze was still on the bookshelf. "He deleted everything about the matter on his computers."

"You think someone is watching his computer?"

"No idea." She shrugged. "But it is always better to be safe than sorry." She looked at him, beaming, completely changing the atmosphere inside the room. "Irene informed me that the Corneels left the country this afternoon."

"Whatever you did. I'm sure it was enough to scare them off."

"And more is coming." Jennie uttered as she sat opposite to Lisa with a book about marketing in her hand. She started reading the book. "Rein will soon come and see me. Between the brothers, he is the weaker one." Surely, her words were enough to plant some doubt in between the brothers. Rein's trust towards his fiance will vanish while Herman would not trust his brother thinking that Rein somehow leaked some information about the real situation to his fiance. Wasn't that fun? She smiled. Either that or Leon would come crawling back, begging for her to sign the contract. By then, she would confirm the identity of the person who he talked to.

Either way. There was only Jennie winning this game in between the Corneels.

"At least Herman is smart enough to leave."

"He is... the future of Corneel Oils and Co. to be honest, if we had met under different circumstances, I would agree to become a business partner." She smiled. Jennie was sure that Herman was able to guess everything that she did. Though, he did not have a way to confirm it. "What a waste." She added. Corneels Oil and Co would have a hard time recovering from four attacks. Surely, Herman and his father have some tough choices to make in the coming days.