Jennie put her phone away as she looked mockingly at Chaerin who was trying hard to hold her anger back. With a cold smile, she said, "It seems like you guys really did all these on your own."
"Tell me. How much money do you want?"
Chaerin thought about it for a moment, then forced all the fury down in her chest and looked up at Ye Jin. "How much will it take for you to hand the shares over? $20 million? $50 million?"
"If you really want it, I might consider $10 billion." Jennie raised her beautiful brows as she smiled and looked nonchalantly at Chaerin.
"Jennie, don't be too much!"
When she heard this and saw the smirk on Jennie's face, Chaerin, who was enduring all of this, finally exploded. She swiftly got up with her hands pressing the table firmly.
"Since you can't pay up, then don't speak to me with this attitude. What you want isn't with my mother anymore. If I see you people causing trouble again the next time, I won't be as kind as I am today. I'll just call my father. It's that simple."
As Jennie said this, she picked up Ye Jin's handbag and handed it to her, indicating for her to get up and leave.
"Are you threatening me?" Chaerin demanded with wide eyes.
Jennie did not hide it either. She nodded and smiled calmly. "That's right. Iam threatening you."
"Jennie, you... You don't have the right to speak to me like this! You will hand the shares over obediently, or you..."
"I'll wait to see how you're going to make me hand the shares over obediently." She played it down with this sentence, and then her sullen gaze swept past Chaerin before she turned to walk towards the door. Ye Jin shot Chaerin a cold look too before she followed her out.
On the way back to Maple Residence in the car, Jennie did not say anything, while Ye Jin who sat in the front passenger's seat remained calm. Her expression was a blank canvas; no one could tell how she currently felt.
It was not sure how long had passed when the silent Jennie finally spoke up, "I don't know what happened between you, Father, and Chaerin. Nevertheless, I respect you, so if you won't tell me, I won't interfere, but I know that in some situations, backing off and matchmaking someone else isn't the best way to end a war."
She suddenly turned to look at Ye Jin. "Mother, I can feel that Father still..."
"Enough, Jennie. Don't mull over these things anymore. Your father and I have a complicated problem. There's no point in bringing up all these from the past. You work on your own things. I'm fine, so you don't need to worry. Chaerin said that you stabbed a knife into your shoulder? What happened?"
Ye Jin's cold eyes suddenly turned a little sharp as she subconsciously looked towards Jennie shoulder.
Jennie looked at the alternately flickering traffic light ahead indifferently. Soon, she parked the car, the long eyelashes covering the darkness emanating from her eyes. She fell silent for a long while, and in the end, she did not answer. When the traffic light ahead turned green, she continued to speed all the way to Maple Residence.
When they reached Maple Residence, it was already past six in the evening. Hae Sook had already prepared the food while Do Kyung and Yong Gun were in the living room, drinking tea and playing chess. All of a sudden, Maple Residence seemed pretty lively.
When the family sat around the table for dinner, Hae Sook who stared at Jennie for a long time finally could not help but ask, "Jennie, have you and Lisa discussed when you want to have a child? The other day, I went to check out the dates with your mother. The fifteenth of this month is a good day. If you quickly organize it, we can make it. Otherwise, according to your birth dates, the best day wouldn't be until the first of October, which would be Mid Autumn Festival. Yep, that's the best for you."
The fifteenth of this month?
The fifteenth of the first month of the Lunar New Year? Was that not Naeyon and Jeongyeon's wedding day?
"I think the first of October [1] is pretty good. There'll be a lot of people, so it'll be lively. There's also enough time to prepare for the wedding..."
When Hae Sook finished, Do Kyung wanted to add on too, but before he could finish, he already received a cold look from his wife, so he swallowed the rest of his words.
"What if we can't hide it then? All the wedding photos wouldn't have been taken yet!" Hae Sook shot Do Kyung a stern look and exclaimed.
"Didn't we wait until Marco was born before we had our wedding?" Do Kyung softly answered, in a tone that clearly faltered because this matter was a thorn in Hae Sook's heart.
Back then, Hae Sook did not plan to have a child so soon, and the army had organized a special training. However, the night before they left, Do Kyung went to the military district looking for her. At that time, he could hold back and did not take precautions either. In the end, when she went for the body checkup in the first month of her special training, she was informed that she was pregnant. After that...
Yong Gun and Ye Jin got the hint of what had happened. They could not help but laugh, yet Jennie was stunned when Hae Sook said the words "can't hide it". She went blank for a while before she understood what it meant. She then blushed and responded, "Grandmother, the fifteenth of this month is my best friend's wedding, so... let's push our wedding back to the first of October. Plus, he's just taken over the company. In fact, we're quite busy in this period of time, so we might not start planning so soon... Before and after the first of October, we're relatively freer."
"That's too long. How about..."
"Let's temporarily settle on this date," Jennie insisted. They would need to work on quite a few huge projects after the New Year, so he definitely would not be able to find any extra time. As for her, she would probably be busy to no end with the South River project too. By her calculation of time, they should be freer by the first of October.
Seeing that Jennie insisted, the few of them went with her wishes.
Not too long after dinner, Yong Gun and Ye Jin went back while Hae Sook prepared breakfast for the next day to put in the fridge so that Jennie could heat it up the next morning. She busied herself until past 9 p.m. before returning to the Manoban residence with Do Kyung.
After she tidied up the living room downstairs, she returned to the bedroom to take an indulgent bath before she sat down before the desk in the study room. She was about to continue working on the South River project when Lisa called.
Just as he heard her answer the phone, Lisa asked "Where did you go today? When I called home, it was Grandfather who picked up." On the other end of the phone, he was casually standing before a set of French windows and looking out at the glorious lights with a freshly lit cigarette in between his fingers.
Jennie opened the laptop before her as she answered, "I went to the office. I've just finished settling things with the person-in-charge from the PR department about the launch. Tomorrow, we can start preparing Entertainment City."
"Mmm, I'll leave it to you. Have Grandfather and Grandmother went home?"
Lisa casually took a drag on his cigarette as his handsome brows furrowed slightly.
"They just left not too long ago. Grandmother called Grandpa who came over too. Coincidentally, I was shopping with my mother in the afternoon, so she just came back with me to Maple Residence for dinner."
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The Most Loving Marriage In History: Master Manoban's Pampered Wife
Romance"Missus, time to fulfil your duties!" Lisa demanded as he pulled Jennie closer with his arms intimately wrapped around her waist. It was a meticulously planned feast for the powerful. Her fiancé had knelt down on one knee and proposed to her sister...
