[2] The Substitute Wife

CHAPTER 201

No matter how Bambam thought about it, his conclusion was that this was the only possibility. To verify his conjecture, he specially went to Choi Jeongyeon's home, where he accidentally caught her in the process of plotting something. He initially had wanted to stop her but, after some thought, not only did he not stop her, he even gave her a secret incentive.

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Lisa Lim hadn't contacted Zero for a couple of weeks, but the night after Jeon Jungkook had left her house she had sent Zero a message. She chatted with him every day, and Zero was obviously Jeon Jungkook; however, Jeon Jungkook's face would still surface in her mind from time to time and, wittingly or unwittingly, she would always pick up her phone to look at his phone number.

She could interact with Zero casually and freely, but there was no reason for her to contact Jeon Jungkook. Thus, every time, she had only stared at Jeon Jungkook's number before she'd open the game to look for Zero and chat with him as usual about everything under the sun as if she didn't know that he was Jeon Jungkook.

Whenever she had chatted with Zero before she knew he was Jeon Jungkook, she had always imagined about what kind of man he was. She had imagined him to be middle-aged now, in his 40s, and an accomplished man when he was in his 30s. She had even imagined him to be as beautiful as Adonis.

But one day when Zero had told her that drinking a cup of milk at night could improve the quality of her sleep, a vision of Jeon Jungkook serving her a cup of milk had suddenly flashed in her mind. Subsequently, she had then realized with shock that ever since the day Jeon Jungkook had left after having prepared breakfast for her, she had subconsciously treated Zero as Jeon Jungkook whenever she chatted with him.

Three days before New Year's Eve, Rosè Jang dropped by Lisa Lim's club for a spa session, because Lisa Lim had arranged the most skilled staff person to serve her. When the session ended, Rosè Jang entered Lisa Lim's office, where she was on the phone. Rosè Jang took a seat on the sofa and then grabbed a magazine to browse through while she waited. After Lisa Lim hung up the call, Rosè Jang then closed the magazine, and they began to chat.

Throughout their conversation, Rosè Jang was picking up her phone and replying to Park Jimin's texts. When she placed her phone down at one point, she said in a passing remark, "Jimin mentioned to me earlier that Jungkook is returning to America five days after New Year. Jungkook is planning to treat them to a meal the day before he leaves. He was over at our house a while back, and I unintentionally heard him tell Jimin that this time he plans on permanently staying in America. I really don't understand why he wants to stay in America when everything's good right here at home."

When Lisa Lim heard this, her hands, which were holding a pen, froze momentarily; however, she managed to keep her surprise in check and replied with a slight smile on her face, "Is that so?" Afterward, with a casual expression on her face, she continued conversing with Rosè Jang as if she'd already forgotten what Rosè Jang had just told her.

At 5:00 p.m., Rosè Jang received a call from home to notify her that Little Peanut was awake and crying for her mother, leaving her with no choice but to cancel her dinner plans with Lisa Lim and take her leave.

When Lisa Lim was alone in the office, she finally placed her pen down and limply sunk back into her chair with her lips pursed tightly.

Jeon Jungkook is actually going to return to America—and so soon?

When he leaves this time, he even intends to stay in America permanently... To stay there permanently... And perhaps never even to return to Korea?

And we'll only be able to chat in the game, and we'll never interact in real life again.