The Wife Is a Superstar 2

Chapter 227 - The Manobans React To The News

"I'm s-sorry..." Chitthip sobbed, covering her wet face with her hands. "I l-love my children the most b-but...I also love my sister and Jieun-..." She looked up at Grandma with pitiful eyes. "Mother...w-what should I do? I'm so confused...I don't know what to d-do..."

Grandma sighed. Her daughter-in-law had always been pure at heart, generous in her affection, loving and loyal to the people she trusted. Chitthip's unchanging innocence was what endeared her to everyone when she married into the Manoban family. It made all the men in the family, including her own two sons Lisa and V, to want to protect her like a delicate treasure.

In short, Chitthip was very spoiled by the Manoban family. Not in a bad way. It was actually adorable. However, this made her too emotionally dependent on other people. She was already delicate to begin with. If anything happened that was more than she could bear, she would break down like this. She always needed someone to lift her up and support her.

"Chitthip my dear—hm?" Grandma saw her assistant in her peripheral vision standing by the door. "What is it?"

It was the man from the helipad who welcomed visitors to Grandma's mountain estate. He gave an apologetic bow. "Please forgive this humble one for interrupting the two madams. But I have urgent news that I believe the two madams need to know."

"Alright. Come in and show us," Grandma said.

The man bowed in respect before entering the bedroom and handing a tablet to Grandma. Chitthip sat up on the bed with great effort from her lying position. She was also curious about what kind of urgent news it was.

Grandma gasped in shock. "This...good heavens!"

"Mother...what is it?"

Grandma glared at her daughter-in-law, her eyes flashing. She also began trembling in fury.

Chitthip flinched at her mother-in-law's hostile look. Her eyes watered once again. "M-mother...?"

"So this is the kind of girl that you love so much?!" Grandma threw the tablet on the bed in front of Chitthip. "You're willing to defend such an evil person to the point that you'll blame your own children?! I have never been so disappointed in you, Chitthip! Read it! Now!"

Chitthip began crying again but still took the tablet with shaking hands and began reading. Then she gasped. The tablet fell from her hands to bounce on the bed. "Th-this...no. There must be some m-mistake... Jieun is not like this... She would n-never do something like this..."

"Chitthip! Listen to yourself! That evil girl did such wicked things to trap your own son and you're still defending her?! Even Lisa's Jennie has fallen victim to her! Oh! I can't imagine what Jennie must be feeling now, poor girl. Her parents, too. This must be so traumatizing for her." Grandma touched her forehead in distress before glaring at her daughter-in-law again.

"Jennie...?" Chitthip didn't read the part about Jennie's car accident, so she grabbed the tablet again and began reading. "W-what...? No... H-how could this be? Jennie...oh no..."

"I've had enough of your denial, Chitthip! Listen to me!" Grandma pointed a shaking finger at her daughter-in-law. Her rage was so palpable that the maid and her assistant cowered and retreated a few steps away. "If you still dare to defend that evil girl and her family of criminals, even if my son—your husband—curses me from heaven, I would stop recognizing you as a member of this family! My heart breaks that my two grandsons have a mother like you who'll choose a criminal over her own children! My family doesn't need a blind, stupid and spineless fool like you!"

Grandma stormed off the bedroom. Her assistant and the maid followed behind her, leaving the shocked Chitthip staring after them.

She continued reading on the tablet until she couldn't bear it anymore. Then she broke down and sobbed with all her heart.

"I'm so sorry...."

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Sejin was driving on his way to V's house when he heard the news about Jieun's crimes on the radio. He almost crashed the car in his shock. He hurriedly stopped over at a plaza to park, and then searched the news on his smartphone.

What he read sent chills down his spine. He immediately tried calling V but the guy wasn't answering. He tried several more times but to no avail. He became worried, so he rushed to V's house.

When Sejin arrived at the house, the living area was a total wreck. He could hear banging sounds coming from upstairs. He ran, following the sounds. He winced at all the wreckage he passed by along the way.

He found V wreaking havoc inside his bedroom. V was silent yet his whole body was emanating unbridled fury. Sejin hesitated and didn't go near him.

"V?" he cautiously called out.

V stopped and gave him a cold glance. "Oh, you're here. Based on your expression, you must've seen the news."

"Yeah."

V threw his head back and laughed in a mocking way. Sejin cringed at the sound.

"This is just great! Now the world knows that I, V, had been cuckolded! I, the one who was once known as the national playboy! Ahahaha! What a f*cking reversal!"

Sejin didn't know what to say, so he just stayed silent.

"I knew it. I f*cking knew it! I've always been very careful about using condoms. I only use my own and never accept the ones in my partner's possession because I heard that some girls tamper with condoms to get pregnant. But because it's Jieun, I f*cking proposed to her even when she miscarried. Oh right. She didn't miscarry. She f*cking aborted it because I wanted a DNA test! Ahahaha!" He kicked a chair and it fell to the floor with a loud bang. "F*ck you, Jieun! F*ck all of you from the entire Lee family!"

Then he punched hard at the wall, alarming Sejin.

"V, stop! Your hands! You're gonna break your hands!"

Sejin grabbed V's hand and saw that his knuckles were now angry red. They were going to bruise badly later on. Sejin felt the hand and sighed in relief when nothing was broken.

Ever since V announced that he was going to write his own music once again, he returned to playing the guitar and even the piano. His hands should be protected from now on.

Thankfully, V didn't struggle and stopped punching. Then he dropped to sit on the floor, cradling his head with his hands. "F*ck! Those fourteen women were harmed and some were even killed because of me! Sh*t!"

"No, V! Don't you dare blame yourself. It's that evil woman who harmed them, not you. It's not your fault! Okay?"

Sejin was now worried. It was outside his expectations that V would feel guilty for the fourteen women harmed by Jieun. He didn't want his artist to bear such a heavy emotional burden like this. It might affect him in a detrimental way. Sejin must not let that happen.

"Even Jennie..." V rubbed his hands over his face, as if trying to erase the surface of his skin. "I didn't even interact with her that much and she was...she spent one whole f*cking year in coma! F*ck! I can't believe all of this..."

'Me neither,' Sejin thought.

"I don't think I'll be able to face Jennie from now on."

V knew that it wasn't his fault. He wasn't the one who harmed and killed the women, but he still couldn't stop the feeling of guilt from growing within him. It ate at him, making him hate himself for the first time ever for being such a playboy. If only he wasn't such a ladies magnet, perhaps those fourteen women would still be safe and alive.

He hated himself but he hated Jieun even more. All the tender feelings he felt for her from watching her grow up since childhood disintegrated, replaced by hatred so intense that he imagined wrapping his hands around her throat and squeezing the life out of her.

"Don't let me see you again, Jieun, or I won't be able to control myself," he hissed.