Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman || LK Adaptation

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝑿𝑽𝑰𝑰𝑰

The two have lived together for nearly twenty years, and without needing Joongki to say anything, Hyekyo could immediately tell that everything written on this paper was true.

Hyekyo looked into her husband's eyes. "You knew, you knew that... Miss Lalisa... is a daughter that I had borne?"

Joongki opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"Very well." Hyekyo took a deep breath. "No wonder your reaction when I mentioned accepting her as a goddaughter was so strong the other day."

She didn't say anything further, walking out of the room.

Behind her, Joongki's face was pale. What else could he have said?

Taking Lisa in as a goddaughter? In what position could they do that? As the founder of Nine Heavens Network, would Lisa even want the position of being the goddaughter of the Fu family?

Or should he have told her that Lisa was her biological daughter? But how could he dare to say it? Knowing that she had another daughter, and it was also a child that he had taken a liking to. However, Lisa was the child she had with another man. He was going crazy with jealousy when he remembered this, how could he have dared to say anything?

Joongki sat on the bed, staring blankly at the photos littered on it. These were evidence of him adopting Yeri, and the evidence that he had deceived her that he had once erased. Now, they had been dug out by somebody.

He suddenly recalled Hanbin who had been leaving when they bumped outside the elevator, and he covered his face.

The phone in his pocket rang again and again. He took it out anxiously, intending to hang up the call, but then he saw that it was a call from N City and he picked it up suddenly.

"Manoban family?" Joongki's eyes narrowed. "I don't want to see the existence of the Manoban family after a few days."

Throwing his phone to the side after that, he lit up a cigarette, sitting on the bed as he silently smoked.

***

In the living room, Yeri, who had the soul sucked out of her, sat on the sofa, the screen still playing the movie 'Empire Under Siege'. When she saw Lisa's appearance on screen, her face twisted into an ugly expression.

It wasn't until Hyekyo sat down beside her, that she kept her emotions in check.

Hyekyo glanced at Yeri, even though the child in front of her was not hers by blood, she had spent twenty years raising her, and feelings were impossible to be faked.

"Mommy, are you watching this movie?" Yeri brushed her hair back, a smile on her face as she looked at her mother.

"Yes." Hyekyo turned her attention towards the screen, saying in a dazed voice, "Miss... Lalisa's acting is very good."

Hearing those words from Hyekyo, Yeri felt her heart tighten. Why did she like Lisa so much? "Miss Lalisa and I are collegemates, actually. I heard that she's an orphan, an illegitimate daughter that was raised in the mountains by a village woman. When she returned home, even her elder sister was chased abroad by her, and that her sister can't even hold a paintbrush now."

Joongki and Hanbin already knew the existence of Lisa, as well as her true identity.

Yeri's fears were being realized one after another. The only thing that she could do now, was to make Hyekyo hate Lisa. This was the only way she could hold unto her remaining lifeline.

The information on Lisa had been given to her by Minhyuk.

"Orphan?" Hyekyo repeated, still dazed.