The Substitute Wife

CHAPTER 26

"What? The car broke down and you can't make it here? Okay... I'll find a way back... No, the housekeeper's off work today... No, you don't need to order a car for me, many people drove here. I'll ask one of them to take me home... Okay, alright... Bye!"

After hanging up the phone, Yoon Jane stood there for a while, then went back into the building with her phone in her hand.

After that, Choi Jeongyeon walked out from behind the rosebush.

She looked at the place where Yoon Jane had just stood with her head tilted, then lifted her head up to see the cloudy sky. Suddenly, a bright light flashed through her eyes when she thought of what the weather forecast had said that morning—-A rainstorm will hit the city tonight.

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The weather that day had been bad since the morning. After a hot spring bath, Rosè Jang took a shower and touched up her makeup, but when she got back to the private room, the whole sky was covered with clouds, as dark as night.

With the weather being so bad, many people had said goodbye to her, for they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to return to the city if a storm came.

One lady who had a good relationship with Yoon Jane asked Rose Jang before she left, "Jane, how will you get home? Is there anyone coming to pick you up?"

Rosè Jang was about to tell her that her minivan had broken down, but Choi Jeongyeon, who had just been talking with Lee Chan by the window, suddenly turned her head and shouted loudly, "Yes, of course, there definitely is. I just happened to hear Sister Jane calling Brother Jimin and telling him to pick her up."

When had she called Park Jimin and asked him to pick her up? Rosè Jang frowned slightly, and when she was just about to ask her, Choi Jeongyeon tilted her head and continued to say with an innocent smile, "Sister Jane, isn't he coming to pick you up, since you called him? When I went out this afternoon, I heard from my brother that he and some other friends made an appointment to play Mahjong at the Majestic Clubhouse, doesn't he have time to come and pick you up?"

"Brother Jimin has gone too far! I'll call him now!" Choi Jeongyeon pouted with an angry face, then took her phone out of the bag.

Choi Jeongyeon had invented a scenario just for the purpose of preventing Rose Jang from getting a ride.

However, she had to admit that her little scheme had worked very well.

She was clear about Choi Jeongyeon's goal, but she was unable to prevent her from achieving that goal, because she couldn't call Park Jimin. If he got on the phone and heard that she wanted him to pick her up, he would definitely have some vicious words for her. With so many ladies around, if Choi Jeongyeon fussed deliberately, the news that Park Jimin loathed Yoon Jane would spread throughout the whole city in an instant.

She was unwilling to be laughed at, and if that really happened, she couldn't give a reasonable explanation to Yoon Jane.

Thinking this, Rosè Jang looked up slightly and took a look at Choi Jeongyeon.

Choi Jeongyeon was looking at Rosè Jang at the same time as she was playing with her phone.

When their eyes met, Rosè Jang could tell Choi Jeongyeon was quite confident from her look, even though neither of them spoke.

Truth be told, she saw the pride in Choi Jeongyeon.

Choi Jeongyeon knew Park Jimin didn't like Rosè Jang and wouldn't come to pick her up. She also knew Rose Jang didn't dare to make a call to Park Jimin.

No matter what happened, she would be the winner. How could she not be proud?

Rosè Jang had her lips pressed together. She was thinking how it wouldn't be a big deal if she couldn't get a ride. She could always call a cab later to get home.