Rebirth of the Film Empress' Beloved Wife [JenLisa Adaptation]

Chapter 29 - Brother Kim is Home

With the cast finalized, Lisa's days became busier and busier. Although she would still make time to cook Jennie dinner, they no longer saw each other as often.

Jennie was troubled about one thing, and that was how to get her final two smile points.

【 Can the Auxiliary Assistance function help me make Lisa smile? 】

Her expectations for the function had been raised by its success in helping her find an actress for Lisa.

【 Dear Master, that won't work. Auxiliary Assistance can only play an auxiliary role, it cannot directly complete System Missions for you. 】

001 rebuffed with a head shake. Jennie was a bit disappointed by 001's answer, but she had expected it. After all, the System Missions would be too easy if she could use Auxiliary Assistance to complete them.

The phone suddenly rang with a call from Mother Kim.

"Mom, do you need something?" Even towards her own mother, Jennie didn't show much enthusiasm. However, the tone of her voice was a touch warmer than usual.

"Do I need a reason to call my daughter? I think that women should be gentle and considerate. People are attracted to that. You've been with Lisa for so long now, and yet you're still so cold. What if she decides to abandon you?"

Mother Kim was joking, of course, but her tone did reveal a dash of real disapproval. Mother Kim was a lively woman, and Father Kim wasn't bad either, so she couldn't understand why both of her children ended up being such cold icebergs.

Oh, and there was also that frigid daughter-in-law of hers too. Her family was going to get taken over by the icebergs soon.

"She won't," was Jennie's assured reply. In her past life, that woman had stayed by her side even when she was confined to bed as a human vegetable. She'd taken meticulous care of her.

She was treating her so well now, so why would she want to abandon her? She definitely wouldn't.

At the other end of the line, Mother Kim rolled her eyes. Fine, suppose her daughter was right... but just who did her daughter inherit this level of self-confidence from, anyway?

Finally, she stopped joking around and told Jennie the reason for her call.

"Nini, why don't you bring Lisa back for dinner tonight? Your brother is home."

"Alright," Jennie agreed. She'd been wanting to talk to her brother Kim Taehyung anyway. After she hung up, she gave Lisa a call.

.....

Lisa was in a middle of a meeting with the main cast when she heard her phone ring with the ringtone she'd specifically set for Jennie. Immediately, she answered the call and quickly made a gesture to let the cast know that she had to step away for a bit.

"Jennie," she greeted. Unlike before, she didn't ask if she needed something and just waited patiently for her to speak.

"Is it alright to have dinner with my family tonight?"

Saying that put Jennie in a good mood. Her mother claimed that she wasn't gentle and considerate enough, but look at her now, she even knew to ask for Lisa's consent. How was she not gentle and considerate?

In the past, Jennie wouldn't have bothered to ask "is it alright?" so the current Jennie really was quite satisfied with her own progress and performance.

"Okay."

In Lisa's point of view... rather than thinking that she was asking for her consent, she believed she was actually implying that there was no room for disagreement. She still had the impression that Jennie was a strong, decisive, and dictatorial woman.

In any case, she hadn't planned on rejecting it in the first place.

.....

That night, Lisa drove to Kim Manor with Jennie in her car. They seldom visited together, and just in general, the number of times Lisa had visited was few. It wasn't because she didn't want to but because it seemed that Jennie didn't like it when she did.

After she opened the car door for Jennie and she got out, she didn't go straight into the manor like before. Instead, she stood by the car and waited for a moment before she slowly, very slowly, made her way to the manor entrance. Slightly caught off guard, Lisa quickly recovered and quickened her pace to catch up with her.

Grandpa Kim, Father Kim, Mother Kim, Brother Kim, and Lee Ye-jin were all waiting inside the manor, and each one revealed a different expression when they saw Lisa and Jennie walk in together.

"Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Big Brother," Jennie greeted first. Then, she went and took a seat on a side sofa. Although she completely ignored Lee Ye-jin's existence and did nothing to hide her obvious disregard, no one was really surprised because Jennie had always been this way.

It was as if in her eyes, Lee Ye-jin and Lisa were not a part of the family. However, the difference now was that only Lee Ye-jin was excluded.

Lee Ye-jin was sitting beside Kim Taehyung. Her eyes darkened slightly, but she regained her composure almost immediately and gave a gentle smile as if she didn't mind at all.

Lisa also gave her greetings. She said formally, "Grandfather, Father, Mother, Brother."

Just as Jennie had done, she blatantly ignored Lee Ye-jin. Thinking about what Lee Ye-jin had done last time, her goodwill towards the Lee family had all but vanished.

The Kim family naturally noticed the couple's indifference towards Lee Ye-jin, but nobody spoke up. Speaking of couples, the Kim family tradition was quite repressive.

Only marriage could completely set them free from the family's constraints. Otherwise, they would have no choice but to obey the elders' orders and change careers.

This resulted in the early marriages of the Kim children, but to them, marriage was marriage and nothing more.

Father Kim and Mother Kim genuinely loved each other, while Brother Kim and Jennie were both obviously just trying to meet the family's obligations. The other family members knew this but turned a blind eye to it.

However, the neglection of Lee Ye-jin and Lisa by their respective spouses didn't mean that they were treated as complete strangers by the rest of Kim's family. Father and Mother Kim wouldn't tell Taehyung to bring Ye-jin home for visits, and their attitudes towards her were rather indifferent, but they did treat Lisa much better than they did Ye-jin.

Mother Kim would worry about Jennie's post-marriage life, but she kept silent about Taehyung. It was easy to tell that the Kim family was relatively satisfied with Lisa, but not so much with Lee Ye-jin.

"Lisa, sit. Are you hungry? Dinner will start soon." Out of all the Kim family members, Mother Kim was the one who liked Lisa the most.

"Okay."

Lisa was sitting next to Jennie. Although their positions appeared intimate, their bodies were actually not touching. This was how they normally interacted—seemingly intimate when in truth, there was always some degree of distance between them.

Mother Kim peered at them from the corners of her eye and frowned a bit. Three years had passed, and yet the two were still like this.

She had assumed that disclosing their relationship would pull the two closer, but looking at them now, their progress didn't seem very ideal.

A cloud of worry hovered over Mother Kim's heart. How long would she have to wait before she could see her daughter and daughter-in-law be in love?

Oh, and there was her son and her other daughter-in-law too. Thinking about them only worried Mother Kim more. Although her daughter's marriage was problematic, her son's marriage was worse. Both Mother Kim and Father Kim had agreed that their eldest son and the Lee family's daughter were really ill-suited for each other.