Confess To Me (Jenlisa Adaptation)

Chapter 1

After raining for half a month, today finally ushered in some good weather. Jennie looked up towards the sky and saw a clear blue, as if it had been thoroughly washed clean. The wind was refreshing, and the sun beautiful; it looks like any word that described good weather could be used today.

It was a fine day, totally different from when they got married. She remembered that when she had married Lisa, a great thunderstorm had been raging outside. The thunderous lightning was loud and booming, and it made her feel like the apocalypse was close at hand. It was her most profound memory of the day.
　　
"Sister-in-law, I really think you should be the one to put it in." Jisoo, Lisa's best friend, pushed the funerary casket towards her.

Jennie looked at the 'casket' Jisoo held. It was supposed to be her former husband's casket, Lisa's casket. But Lisa knew that the ashes it contained weren't Lisa's because he died in a plane crash. His plane exploded while flying through the Pacific Ocean, and its pieces crashed down into the water's depths. Three months have already passed, but a single piece of wreckage had yet to be recovered.

"That...what's inside it?" Jennie's voice was raspy and small.

"It has the things Lisa treasured the most. Did you want to see?" Jisoo ruefully smiled then placed the box in her hands, "Maybe you'll find a few of them familiar."

Jennie didn't understand what Jisoo was trying to imply. She raised her head to look at him in puzzlement, but Jisoo had already turned and left. In the end, Jennie had to bring the box to the back of the tombstone herself. Behind the tombstone was a small square hole for the ashes to be buried. On each side of the small opening were staff members in charge of the burial, their faces cold, as if they would immediately fill in the hole as soon as Jennie put the box down.

Jennie crouched down, her palm stroking the dark grey casket. It was a simple design, with no extra ornamentation. It was just like the man called Lisa. Just like their five-year marriage.

Before marrying Lisa, Jennie didn't have much of an image of him. She knew that Lisa was a child the Manoban family brought in from the outside. Some people speculated that he was the illegitimate son of Peter Manoban, and was brought in only due to the fact that there were no male sons to inherit the family business. It was also said that Peter Manoban was deeply in love with a girl during his college days. They married and had Lisa, but were eventually forced by Manoban Father the to split up.

For Jennie, these rumors were nothing but idle gossip, so she never considered them seriously. Other than that, the only interaction she had with Lisa before their marriage was an occasional polite nod when they happened to cross each other in a reception or a party.

Jennie was the only daughter of the Kim family. Because of her delicate and weakened body, Mrs. Kim could no longer get pregnant after she had given birth to Jennie. But the Kim husband and wife pair had always been quite loving. Even when they could no longer have a son, their feelings towards each other never diminished. They would also never make their sole daughter unhappy. Jennie never liked to do business, so anyone in Seoul City who knew anything, knew that marrying Jennie would equal to essentially getting the entire Kim Group.

The Kim couple had always joked that they would have to sift through millions of willing bachelors when the time came for Jennie to marry, but they never could have imagined that one day, they would have no choice but to marry off Jennie to Lisa.

Almost six years ago, Kim Father invested in Mexico Country's investment project. But due to a sudden change in Mexico Country's policies that restricted foreign trade and investment, Father Kim's investment immediately lost value with billions of funds going down the drain. The Kim Group's stock sharply dropped, the company's capital chain broke, and the bank continuously pressured them for their rising debts. Just when Father Kim was about to declare bankruptcy, Lisa suddenly came to their home.