My wife is a beautiful Ceo 1

Chapter 99: A rather long story

When they left Maple Forest Leisure Centre, Jisoo was gasping for breath from all that running.
Seeing Lisa who still refused to let go of her hand, Jisoo pretended to cough, it was unknown whether it was due to shyness or the exercise that her face was bright red.
"What's wrong? Is something wrong with your throat? Miss Jisoo?" Lisa feigned ignorance as he asked.
Jisoo glared at him, "Release your pig trotters!"
Lisa, whose face wasn't the slightest bit red laughed, but he still let go of that white and tender hand. The feeling of holding it was great though, as he took the chance to explain, "Miss Jisoo, these words of yours are incorrect. Pig trotters can't possibly bend and grab onto your hand."
Jisoo already knew that bickering with this fella wouldn't end well, so she didn't bother arguing with him, and directly walked towards her car.
After the two of them got on the path back, Lisa turned to ensure that nobody had chased after them. He then sighed with a breath of relief.
Jisoo wore a rather playful smile, "So someone with thick skin also has people they're afraid of, are you worried that Kim Tae Hyung would chase after us?"
Lisa was truly worried of that sissy chasing after him. He awkwardly smiled, "Miss Jisoo is truly wise and intelligent, you managed to figure out such a profound problem."
"Relax, although he was born as a part of the underworld, in our circles he's famous for being modest and polite. There isn't a shred of a big family's young master's demeanor to be seen from him, he never uses force to make people comply."
"Hearing you say such a thing, he seems very kind......" Lisa mumbled.
Jisoo stretched her hand out to tap on the volume rocker on the steering wheel, bringing the music volume to the minimum, then said, "Of course he can't possibly always be so kind, if he was truly so harmless, then everybody wouldn't be so fearful of him. I'm just saying that if you don't provoke him, and don't do anything that would harm his bottom line, Kim Tae Hyung would always treat you warmly, this sets him apart from his father."
"You've even met Kim Soo Huyn before?" Asked Yang Chen.
Jisoo glanced at him like she was looking at a moron, "Of course. The Dongxing Group isn't some small enterprise, it isn't anything strange for us to see him during some public events. However, to be honest that old man truly doesn't look like a businessman, despite many years of laundering his image, every time I've see him, I feel like he's shrouded in darkness, with a gloomy aura that makes one's heart fluster."
That goes without saying, how could he be the east region's underworld emperor otherwise? Lisa felt that it's rather normal for Kim Soo Hyun to be that way.
As she spoke to this point, v-maintained silence for a while, then said, "As thanks for helping me today, I'll give you a chance to choose where we eat."
Once Lisa heard this, he celebrated the fact that he no longer needed to follow Jisoo to weird places, he thought for a moment and said, "I want to eat hotpot!"
Jisoo shouted at him a glance, "It isn't even wintertime yet, why eat hotpot? The heat from it would cause acne."
"You said you'd let me choose, well what do you feel like eating?" Lisa asked in grief.
"We'll eat at a roadside stall."
"Eat at a roadside stall again!? Big sis, didn't you say that you were giving me the chance to choose!?" Lisa bitterly smiled.
Jisoo snorted, "Like you said, what I mentioned was chance, not the right to choose, the place you chose has been vetoed, now we'll go to a roadside stall!"
He painfully shut his eyes. This woman was too unreasonable!
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Half an hour later, Lisa depressed sat across Jisoo in Sis Xiang's roadside stall; various Sichuan dishes were laid in front of them, and the bright red chilies looked spicy enough to kill Lisa just from looking at them.
Because it was still early, there weren't many people in the roadside stall, so it seemed rather deserted compared to the last time. The cool winds of autumn's beginning blew past, bringing with it a slight chill.
Jisoo drank a mouthful of white spirit, then looked at Lisa who looked like a bullied child. In a displeased manner she said, "What kind of expression is this, I'm treating you to a meal, yet you have a face of hardship."
Lisa wiped away the sweat on his forehead caused by the spiciness, "Unlike you who began eating spicy things since childhood, I rarely eat such spicy food overseas."
"Oh, I nearly forgot, this great scholar in front of me had studied abroad, a wild brat like me who was raised in a small mountain village can't compare." Jisoo ridiculed.
Lisa couldn't be bothered to bicker with her. He suddenly thought of something, with a serious expression he asked, "How are you planning to deal with your stepfather Kim Jun Ho? I previously didn't know what the reason was for your depression the past few days, but now that I think of it, it should be that man giving you a headache. If you need my help, just ask, I'm very free and you know it."
Jisoo's chopsticks froze, she looked up straight at Lisa, then asked, "You've been paying attention as to whether I've been depressed or not?"
"Erm..." Lisa smiled embarrassedly, he couldn't possibly say that he had been secretly taking glances at her every time she walked past, then staring at that butt of hers, could he? So, he just said, "Our colleagues in the office all say that you've been in a bad mood, that's how I found out."
A little disappointment showed in Jisoo's eyes, she softly said, "Do you remember the phone call I picked up the last time we came here?"
"I remember." Lisa also remembers that he was forcibly hugged that night!
"It was a call from my mother, she said Kim Jun Ho wanted to look for a job in Zhong Hai and wanted me to help him arrange it." Jisoo sneered, "Fact was he didn't come here to build a career, he had built up a pile of debts in our hometown, and if it wasn't for me paying off his debts, he'd already be beaten to death a long time ago... but his reputation was already so horrid there, so he decided to escape to Zhong Hai.
"You knew perfectly well that he was like this. Why did you allow him to come here?" Lisa curiously asked.
"Would you mind listening to a rather long story?" Jisoo returned with another question.
"If the next time we go to eat you don't bring me here, I'm willing to hear what you have to say......"
"Not possible."
"Erm..." Lisa posed a sad smile, "You can go on to say it then."
Jisoo's lips formed the smile of a victor, then she dully began to narrate.
"I've told you before that my father died when I was thirteen, then my mother remarried to Kim Jun Ho. Kim Jun Ho was one of the few men in the village who hadn't married. He was considerably young, and had always liked my mother, so my mother agreed to the marriage in the end. At that time Kim Jun Ho wasn't much of a gambler; although we were poor, we still had enough food and clothes."
"...... But a few months later, my mother fell sick due to her weak constitution and from working at the farm every day, she was bedridden. At that time, I was just thirteen years old, after I went through elementary school in the village, I stayed at home and couldn't obtain a middle school education. Fact was we didn't even have a middle school in our area."
"During that time, I wanted Kim Jun Ho to take my mother to the closest little town to see a doctor, because I was afraid that after my father left me, my mother would leave me too. If that were the case, I would truly be an orphan. I was very afraid, and kept begging Kim Jun Ho... before that I had never called him daddy, but to urge him that time, I kept calling him 'daddy', 'daddy'......"
"But Kim Jun Ho suddenly changed, to the point where I didn't know him anymore, like he was a stranger... he didn't listen to a word I said. Other than asking for some herbal medicines from the village chief, and giving it to me to boil it for my mother, he didn't do a single thing......"
"Afterwards, an auntie who was my neighbor told me that Kim Jun Ho was too poor, he didn't have the money, even if we went to the town's hospital, there was no way to let my mother see the doctor, and it was even more unlikely for us to be able to afford the medicine. He was so poor that he couldn't even afford to buy the ticket to take the bus to the town."
As she spoke till this point, Jisoo's voice turned a little hoarse, her eyes reddened, then she poured herself a small cup of white spirit and downed it.
"Then your mother, she's......" Lisa didn't continue the question.
Jisoo replied, "Afterwards my mother turned for the better. I don't know whether it was sympathy from the heavens, or the village chief uncle's herbal medicine being effective. However, after that sickness my mother seemed to become a lot older......"
"However, I was still very afraid then, I began to think, if mom turned sick again, and we still didn't have the money to bring her to see a doctor, what was going to happen? I didn't dare think more of it, I only had one thought at that time which was to make sure mom had enough money to go see a doctor......"
"So, you came to Kim Jun Ho alone?" Lisa suddenly understood.
Jisoo nodded, and mocked herself, "Do you find it very absurd, very foolish? A little girl who wasn't even fourteen yet, pretended to be very mature, yet she didn't know a thing. She just took the train to Zhong Hai, with a wish to earn enough money to let her mother see a doctor."
"You weren't silly, you were incredible. I'm very curious as to how you attained the money to buy a train ticket." asked Lisa.
Jisoo's dodged his gaze, hesitated for a moment and said, "I stole a person's wallet at the train station......" After she said that, she lowered her voice and asked, "Will you look down on me, and feel that I'm very shameless? Despite having done such a terrible thing, I'm still able to boldly say it out?"
What's stealing a wallet? I even robbed a bank before...... Lisa thought, but he didn't say it of course, he just sincerely shook his head and said, "I won't, for all humans err. At least you're much more skillful than me, I've gone into the police station twice now."
Jisoo finally laughed, then continued to say, "You may know a little about what happened after. When I came here alone, I looked for ways to self-study. I received help from Sis Xiang and others who came from the village along with some help from the welfare agencies to get into middle school. After that, Jennie's grandma, who was Kim International's CEO at the time, came to my school to give a speech. She took fancy to me and provided me with financial aid. From then on, I was able to raise my head in Zhong Hai. If it weren't for the previous CEO, there wouldn't be the Jisoo of today.... You should be able to understand why I became so angry when I found out a rogue like you married Jennie, right?"
Lisa understandingly nodded.
The greatest favor in the world was no other than providing help when one needs it most. Although Jisoo seemed unperturbed about it, it obviously wasn't easy for her to come out from a remote mountain village without anybody to rely on, she was just a little girl who had nothing. She was provided with an education, brought into high society, and even became one of the elites in Zhong Hai's business world. What Jennie's grandmother gave to Jisoo wasn't just monetary aid, perhaps she was even more of a spiritual pillar for Jisoo to lean on. Of course, throughout that time the amount of effort Jisoo put in had to be several times that of others, the sweet, the sour, and the suffering involved, only she herself understood.
"Later on, I finally earned some money. I still remember the first time I sent my mother some money, my mother cried on the phone for a long time, but we were very happy...... My mother knew that I had grown up, and I knew I could finally take care of her......"
"However, that was also when Kim Jun Ho began to indulge himself in gambling. After he knew that I was able to earn a considerable amount every month, and that I had deep roots in Zhong Hai, he began rolling higher and higher. From what began as cents, turned to a few dollars, then he began betting tens and twenties, in the last two years, he was already gambling hundreds a time." Jisoo depressingly said.
Lisa creased his brows, "Then why don't you let your mother divorce him, and let your mother leave him? Wouldn't that be the end of it if you brought her here to live with you? With your income, you're perfectly capable of allowing the both of you to live well, why care about that gambling addict?"
Jisoo made a sad smile and said, "In your eyes, he's a disgraceful gambling addict, and in my eyes, he's a useless and disgraceful stepfather...... but to my mother, he's a man who sheltered her during her most bitter period of life, a man who accompanied her for over ten years. No matter how bad Kim Jun Ho was, he hadn't done anything outrageous to my mother, and had always kept her company......"
"So, for your mother, you kept helping Kim Jun Ho settle his gambling debts? And even let him come to Zhong Hai?" Lisa had already understood the crux of the matter, and felt sad, every family had its own problems. If he hadn't heard Jisoo say it herself, who would've known that this incredibly bright and beautiful executive had such a dark past?
Jisoo nodded, "What more can I do? I can't force my mother to divorce, my mother can't reject Kim Jun Ho's imploring, and I can't reject my mother's request."
"Do you think your mother loves Kim Jun Ho?" Asked Lisa.
Jisoo was stunned, then said, "If she doesn't love him, she wouldn't stay with him in that poor and secluded place. Despite knowing that her daughter had a house, a car and a career in this flourishing city, she still silently stayed with Kim Jun Ho, and stayed in that shabby house with a two-mu farmland."
"Why are you so sure about that? I'm guessing that perhaps your mother just doesn't want your career to be harmed by her coming here. After all, if others knew about your background, it may be detrimental to your career."
"I don't care about that!" Jisoo was a little agitated, she truly hadn't thought about this point before, hearing Lisa point it out for her, she suddenly turned a little sober, "Do you think there's really such a possibility? That my mother isn't staying because she loves Kim Jun Ho, but because she's worried about causing a negative impact on my career?"
Lisa thought for a moment, then made a strange smile, "If you're willing to believe me, we can conduct an experiment, after that the truth will come to light."
"Experiment?" Jisoo doubtfully looked at Lisa, but she instinctively trusted him, so she made a slight nod.