(✔️) The Villainess' Secret | Bang Chan

43 | He Must Become The Devil

Liverra's POV

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"YOUR MOM?"

No, it wasn't me or Chan, but Minho who had been shocked as hell to get a lot of information about us, about Seungmin and Jisung, about who Allina was, and about the fact that we had a mission behind this marriage. Minho, who didn't know anything— he came here purely to save me— certainly didn't expect this. I felt guilty for accidentally involving so many people when I was intending to fix everything myself.

"You—" Still with his mouth open, eyes bulging, finger pointing at Allina as if she was a ghost. "You're the daughter of the famous detective?"

"Uhm, yes."

"Why did you keep it a secret all this time?"

"Because she wanted to protect me. Privacy privacy, bro."

That's what my dad did for me too. He said he had something to keep secret, which I assumed was because of his enemies who could bring me into their dirty business. That was also JJ's way of protecting Allina so that she could live a normal life as an Uni student.

Maybe my dad's way was not entirely right, but his intention wasn't bad. He was a dad who loved his daughter in such a naive way. And on the contrary, as his daughter, I could only ruin my family's good name with my stupid behavior. Although he wouldn't say so, basically, as long as we live with other humans we will be demanded to be perfect. Unconsciously, we will pursue something better even though it will never be perfect. As long as we decide to live side by side, there's happiness and sadness— but that's life.

"Any more questions?" Allina asked, and Minho shook his head. He was probably still in shock, as well as Chan and I. "Alright, let me continue the story."

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Story number 2: Allina's POV, still on the same day.

"Xenon is in a lot of debt and the company's sales are not improving. Yejoon will soon sell the shares because Xenon was involved in the incident that k1lled his twin. And he intends to join us on this mission."

Enzo frowned. "But does this mean Maddie will quit on her own? Her dad won't have the money to support her stupid troops."

"It's not really about Xenon or her dad actually, but Madelaine herself. She would run the troops herself to blow away anything that gets in her way. I ended our friendship because of her— you know, pure fakeness. Acting kind but gonna bite your skin and spread the poison. She stole Yejoon from me the same way she stole Chan from Liv. She will always do that to be a kind-of-popular-girl."

My explanation was enough for them to understand that the crazy girl would still carry out her plan without any involvement from other parties. It was true that Xenon had put this on Maddie to threaten EML, but that was her stupidity. Xenon would let her go by herself and let her face the law alone, acting like they did nothing wrong and putting everything on her. Evidence of her pure crime would be her own ticket to jail.

"Alright. So we'll let her kidnap Liv in the afternoon. I'll take part in following her. Gonna bring some food and meds just in case." Jisung appointed himself as the intermediary between their ship and us, and at the same time we would move from the island across. Their ship had to pass through the strait in front of the island so it would be easy for us to catch them.

"Are you sure, Ji?" My mom, JJ, asked, and the boy nodded enthusiastically. She liked to tell me stories about how reckless Han Jisung was but smart and cheerful.