After Carlisle left, everyone waited for Gideon's further instructions. Both the Prime Minister and Secretary Jia stared at Jennie then at Gideon.
"Your Highness?" Secretary Jia asked, still waiting for Gideon's words.
"Go. You two... Leave us." He said while clutching his chest. "Don't let anyone disturb us. No one is allowed to come inside this room until I say so."
"Not even the Queen?" the Prime Minister asked..
"Not even the Queen." Gideon acknowledged.
Both the Prime Minister and Secretary Jia nodded before leaving.
After the duo left, Gideon's exhausted expression instantly changed. The tiredness in his eyes was now gone, replaced by alertness and relief.
« Jennie Kim? » He asked.
She nodded. "Glad you recognized me."
"Not everyone has the guts to offend the Crown Prince," he said before sighing. "I told you not to come here."
"I know."
"But you still came..." he stated. "Why? Are you not afraid?"
she narrowed her eyes at Gideon. "I will help you defeat the Kim Family."
"What do you want in return?"
"Information," she answered without batting an eye.
"About what?"
"You already know what kind of information I want," she said, her voice calm and collected. As if she was not talking to a King but someone equal to her.
"Your father is not here," he answered, before roaming his eyes around the room. "The Prime Minister is someone from the Queen's side. Did you disable the recorder's he had installed in this room?"
"I did." Jennie checked her phone before looking at Gideon again. "We have at least five minutes before your Queen reaches this place."
"Speak now. Before I have changed my mind," she added.
"How did you know that?" He furrowed his brows. He couldn't help but wonder if Jennie had hacked into the security system of the palace.
"Irrelevant," she answered. "Speak."
Gideon let out a long sigh before gathering his thoughts. After he came back from seeing Jennie, he realized his mistake of not telling her anything. Now that she was here, Gideon did not even hesitate in his decision.
"Your father, Li Jun is the King... and I... I am his right-hand man... pretending to be him." He answered. "However, your father... he... left two weeks ago when he realized, there was a possibility that your mother was still alive."
she raised an eyebrow at Gideon's words. "Two weeks ago?" Now, she couldn't help but think that it was also the reason Wang Ruo left.
He nodded. " I know it's crazy... I know your mother is already dead... However, he insisted that she was still alive and was taken captive by some dangerous people."
"Tell me more about my mother," she said.
"Wang Ruo, Rose, Ruo'er, she goes by a lot of names," he instantly answered. He already knew that this question was coming and he had already made up his mind to tell Jennie the truth this time.
"We only know that she was working for the military at that time. However, I know that she is more than that. Even your father didn't tell me her real identity. Yet, he told me a lot of things about your mother... after... after she left him."
"Your mother and father met in the West. Both of them were working with their own respective disguises. We never show our faces to anyone... but the people closest to us. At that time Li Jun was in a dilemma. He loved the simple Wang Ruo, yet, he couldn't reveal his identity to her."
"It was either he leaves his future throne or leaves Wang Ruo."
"And he chose the latter." Jennie stated.
"You are wrong." Gideon easily objected. "He chose her."
"At that time, he was not aware of her true identity."
"He was so in love then, he chose to abandon his family and chose to be with her."
"However... we don't know what has happened. We don't know why, but she suddenly pretended to die from an explosion, organized by Li Jun's enemies. We don't know if she was already aware of your father's identity or she deliberately did it to make Li Jun annihilate lots of people for her."
"By the time we realized her identity... it was already late, Li Jun has killed the ones responsible for the explosion. In his anger... he... came back to the family and ascended to the throne instead of me."
"You?" Jennie asked.
"Yes... I was supposed to be the one, sitting on this throne... I was the one, who married the Queen. When... When she started poisoning me... Li Jun seized the throne from me...We were good friends... we... I considered him as my brother..."
"Okay... this is confusing. So... Li Jun was originally the heir... Yet he abandoned the Li Family for my mother... Because of that... you were the one who became the King. However, my mother left him and in his anger, he switched places with you?"
Gideon nodded.
"Ummm... it doesn't make any sense... Why would he do that?" she asked, confused.
"Your Grandmother's family. He wanted to... He wanted to know everything about the Vercello family. He thought that Wang Ruo had run away because of your maternal family."
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