My Daring Wife

Pushed to her Lowest

"You brat, don't act so spoiled. I raised you for twenty three years with my own blood, sweat and tears!" Wang Neeseo slammed her manicured hand onto the glass table beside her.

"Mother , please. You only held me once as a baby and passed me off to different nannies until I could walk. And when I did, you found other nannies for me." Lee Jennie rolled her eyes at Wang Neeseo's melancholic story.

It was no rumor that Wang Neeseo didn't love her eldest daughter.

Lee Jennie was born when Wang Neeseo's relationship with Lee Wenjin was extermely rocky. Both of them were reluctant to marry each other. After heavy pressure from the elders on having a child, Wang Neeseo was forced to sleep with him.

For Wang Neeseo, a woman who was used to have everything go her way, that night was brutal torture. Not only was she stripped off her clothes, but also her dignity. When Lee Jennie was conceived, she was furious. After all of that torture, she had to try again?! The elders wanted a son, someone to pass the family fortune off too.

However, that mindset was changed by the time Lee Linhua was born, the rocky relationship between Wang Neeseo and her husband was gone. She was born from a night of love and consensual sex.

"How dare you show an attitude towards your mother? I might've not raised you, but I carried you in my stomach for nine antagonizing months where I couldn't drink my beloved wine! I pushed your big head out of me, screaming and crying. Show some respect! "Wang Neeseo had reached the brink of her patience.

Sometimes she wondered where she went wrong with her eldest child.

Wang Neeseo was so blinded by the delusion that throwing nannies and money at Lee Jennie would fix all of her problems.

When Lee Jennie was a child, all she wanted was her mother's love and attention. She received nothing but glares and spiteful words. Growing up, she was taught she would never be loved by her mother.

"Lee Linhua's birthday is two weeks from now. I expect you to be there." Wang Neeseo realized how quiet Lee Jennie had become. Hmph! This child finally had some senses talked into her!

After a few seconds of awkward silence, Wang Neeseo felt a vein pop out. Was she even listening? "Did you hear me-"

"Yes mother. I heard you." Lee Jennie sighed.

"You better come to your banquet. If not, your father and I will show up at your house. If I have to drag you there kicking and screaming, I will!" Wang Neeseo seethed, nearly throwing the glass of wine in her hand. Little did Wang Neeseo know, Lee Jennie had long moved out of the house brought by her parents.

"Besides you know how much Linhua loves you-" And just like that Lee Jennie hung up.

Lee Linhua loves Lee Jennie? Hah! That must've been the joke of the country.

Lee Linhua wouldn't love her elder sister even if her life depended on it. Born as a piano prodigy with hundreds of awards lining her bookshelves, she was already the most beloved daughter. She only cared about relations if there was a benefit in having it. When she had discovered her older sister had fallen from Xu Kai's grace, Lee Linhua was quick to disregard Lee Jennie.

"If you're going to the banquet, you need a suitable partner that will blow stupid Xu Kai out of the waters."

Lee Jennie jumped, nearly dropping her phone when she heard Kim Lisa's determined voice. Turning around, she was surprised to see her awake.

Sitting up with half of the blanket of her shoulders, Kim Lisa tiredly yawned.

"Good luck finding a man like that. Xu Kai is one of the wealthiest man in the country." Lee Jennie sighed tossing her phone onto the couch.

"I'm sorry for waking you up, was my conversation that loud?" Lee Jennie tried to change the topic.

She picked up her broom and went back to sweeping the floor.

"No, I'm just really a light sleeper. And besides who could sleep when they hear Wang Neeseo's nasal voice? Kim Lisa scoffed.

Lee Jennie laughed at her friend, happy she had someone on her side.

Kim Lisa stared at Lee Jennie sweeping the floor. It was a soothing sight that made her look like a gentle housewife. She did not look like the woman she used to be two years ago.

"You should raise the pay of the cleaner and have her come three times a week. It's not good to put so much strain on your back. What if your hand gets rough from all the cleaning?" Kim Lisa worriedly said.

Lee Jennie finished her last sweep and glanced up with a small smile. "A woman should at least be good at something. Cleaning can be my skill. Besides, my cleaner recently gave birth so she needs rest."

Kim Lisa had a wry smile. She couldn't believe the massive change in one person within a span of two years. She wanted to know what really happened on the night Lee Jennie placed down her crown as the Queen of the Socialites.

"You fool. You're good at many other things besides cleaning!"

"Because Wang Neeseo and Lee Wenjin wanted me to be good at those things." Lee Jennie nonchalantly said while placing the broom and dustpan back into the closet.

Kim Lisa frowned. "Don't lie to me. I know you enjoyed those skills as well".

Lee Jennie smiled as she walked to the kitchen. "Perhaps to some extent, yes, but I was a child whose ambition and dreams were shaped by Wang Neeseo and Lee Wenjin' s desire to have a perfect child". She took out the ingredients for dinner.

"But you were so good at the piano..." Kim Lisa muttered under her breath. Because Lee Jennie was so far, she didn't hear it.

When she noticed how quiet Kim Lisa was, Lee Jennie turned around to see her friend lost in thought. She shook her head as she started to cut the ingredients.

After a few minutes of quiet, but oddly comfortable silence, Kim Lisa finally stood up from her position. She wanted to pry more and force Lee Jennie to finally reveal the horrible things that had happened when she wasn't in the country. But she knew it wasn't the wisest move.

Although Lee Jennie will never admit it, there was a heavy cloud of somberness around her.

Whenever she was alone, her thoughts were dark and depressing.

Kim Lisa noticed that half of Lee Jennie's smile contained a hidden layer of heartbreak, sadness and betrayal. It pained her to see her best friend in such a pitiful state.

Sure, Lee Jennie still kept her pride and head high, but she lost whatever self-confidence she used to own.

Kim Lisa missed seeing the girl who confidently laughed, wore anything she liked, and did things without a care in the world. She fumed to herself. That bastard, Xu Kai, he really had the audacity to not only cheat on her, but also destroy everything about her!

Kim Lisa lifted her gaze from the couch she was sitting on to stare at Lee Jennie whose back was turned. There was a wonderful smell in the air that could only come from Jennie's amazing cooking.

As she watched Lee Jennie cook, she couldn't help but sigh and feel sympathy for her friend.

Lee Jennie had her entire life built around the very man that shattered her.

From a young age, she was drilled on how to become his pillar of support, how to manage a multi-billion corporation, how to handle the paperwork, how to fulfil his position when he was absent, how to be his safe heaven, and how to be his perfect wife.

All of her training and endless nights of sleep deprivation was completely shattered within the span of six months. In just six months, Xu Kai had pushed Lee Jennie to her lowest for a random woman he happened to fall in love with.

(Don't be sad Jendeuek. Your Prince Charming is on the way)