His Contractual Mistress || Liskook Adaptation

Chapter: 4

His Mom's Offer

Sejin Shen clears her throat as she begins.

"You already know why I invited you for a private talk".

Showing no emotion, Sejin once again picks up the teacup and sips her tea. Lisa, who remained lowering her gaze, nodded.

"I won't take this long. How much do you want?" asked Sejin.

Hearing this, Lisa lifted her chin and pursed a sweet smile. She said, "Madame Jeon, I'm sorry. But I don't understand what you are asking me about".

She sounded innocent, but clearly, her tone was sarcastic. Sejin Jeon mumbled to herself.

Pressing her lips, Sejin remained calm and expressionless. She already anticipates that this girl will answer her this way.

This was not their first meeting. In fact, it's the second time. They didn't have a plan to prolong this conversation, Sejin placed a check on the table.

Lisa glanced at the check. Her attention quickly returned to the middle-aged woman, with her sweet smile remaining on her face.

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Meanwhile, at the penthouse.

Jungkook lifted his head when his phone received a text message. After he reads the name of the sender, he picks up his phone and reads the text.

"I bumped into your mum. She was very generous. I wonder how many digits I should put in here?"

It was what the message said that Lisa sent, including a photo of a blank check.

"Oops. I accidentally tore it in half. I think the bank won't accept it anymore. Poor me".

Reading the messages, Jungkook couldn't help but chuckle and murmur to himself.

"Silly girl".

Jungkook types on his phone and presses send. It says, "Applause". He then adds an emoji of clapping hands.

Curling his lips with a smile, he put down his phone and stretched his back on his chair. His eyes landed on the food Lisa brought over to the study. He remembered that he hadn't eaten yet, and the time was one o'clock in the afternoon.

Jungkook sat up from his armchair and walked towards the sofa. He picked up the fork and pinched a portion of the buttered chicken the girl baked for lunch.

Once more, it impressed him with how it tasted heavenly. Even a five-star chef would be ashamed to compare the food he is enjoying at the moment.

Putting more food in his mouth, the more he praised the girl for being a cook mastered. Even the side dessert she prepared is mouthwatering just to look at.

"This girl can run her restaurant. And it's a ten-star one".

The reason the food budget he gave is enough to feed a hundred people in a month with a full three meals is that she spoiled him with food.

Every time he goes home to the penthouse, he is like dining in different parts of the world, savoring different dishes every meal.

For an unknown reason, he always found himself coming over to the penthouse. But lately, he realizes the reason. . .

It was because she was spoiling him.

In the middle of his meal, Jungkook remembers sending his mother a text message.

"mum, just give up already".

Meanwhile, in the South Expressway is a black Rolls-Royce headed to a particular village where only super-rich families could purchase a manor.

Sejin clenched her right fist upon reading the message her son sent her. It looks like that girl told her son about what she'd done!

"Unbelievable!"

Sejin gritted her teeth from anger. She doesn't know how to get rid of that girl away from her son's life. She couldn't accept that her son would bring a mistress to their home one day and become the Young Madame Shen. She won't allow that!

That girl clearly wants to ride the luxurious life her son could offer her. She won't leave her son because if that girl will succeed and her son gets his dream divorce and marries her, she will become Mrs. Shen.

And this annoys her. She already had all the means to end her son's affair. But her son doesn't budge!

Sejin wore a long face when she entered the Shen Mansion. Gue-sung Shen, her husband, took a glance at his wife, then turned his attention back to what he was reading on his thin iPad.

"Someone upsets you?" he asked his wife, placing the iPad on the table and picking up his cup.

Sejin, who ignores her husband's question, throws her bag on the couch before she drops her body on the cushion.

Narrowing her gaze like she was throwing a sharp look at that woman, Sejin mouthed, "Don't understand why our son couldn't dump that woman! Why is he looking for someone else!? His wife is perfect! Why couldn't he fix his marriage with Jennie!"

"Oh. You are talking about your son's girlfriend". Gue-sung commented without lifting his gaze.

"Who else?" Sejin snapped. "And why do you sound uninterested? Are you siding with your son now? And what are you doing? Why don't you look at me when you are talking to me?" Sejin demands.

Irritated, Gue-sung lifted his chin and said, "What do you want me to do? We always discussed this issue every single day! My ears are numbing already! Besides, I have already kicked your son out of the family! However, he is the only one who can run the company!"

Sejin glared at her husband. She frowned. "And because of this, you will tolerate your son's affair? Maybe you also have a secret mistress. That's why you don't do something about. . ." Before she could finish her words, her husband's loud voice echoed in the drawing room.

"Sejin!" The veins on his forehead are now visible because of his anger; what Gue-sung hated most is being accused of such things. Ever since he married Sejin, he swears to respect her and love her, even if their parents only arranged their marriage and love is absent in the beginning.

Maybe, This is what Sejin expects to happen to her son. But of course, things won't always work the same way. Gue-sung Shen thought.

From the kitchen, Kai could hear these arguments. Carrying a glass of water, he strode toward the living room and offered the glass of water to Sejin.

"Auntie, Uncle, you need not argue over this matter," he comforted the couple. "You can't force my cousin to leave his mistress if it well served him."

"What do you mean, it well served him?" Innocently, Sejin asked her nephew, Kai Johnson, the son of her younger sister who married an American businessman.

Curling a playful grin, Kai retorted, "Someone who satisfies my cousin's needs as a man."

With this, the water she was drinking at the moment choked Sejin.

"Auntie, are you okay?" Kai asked Sejin with concern in his voice. Gue-sung, on the other hand, had just been shaking his head.

Recovering from the shock, Sejin slapped her nephew's shoulder, who was now comfortably seated next to her.

"Are you going to kill me?" she blurted out, which her nephew had just grinning with amusement. Clearly, he was amused at what he was blabbering to her.

Sejin heaves a helpless sigh. She felt defeated that these men are not reliable to make her son Jungkook change his mind not to divorce his nominal wife but kick his mistress out of his life.