"What a load of rubbish!" Jennie's cold voice interrupted the female idols' conversation.
The girls all turned their heads in annoyance at being disturbed. However, when they saw that it was Jennie and V's group, they looked surprised and amazed at the same time. They all straightened their backs and presented their best behaviours.
"S-senior V!"
"Senior Jennie!"
As a domestic superstar, V was respected and admired by many young artists in the music industry. It wasn't surprising that these young female idols would feel starstruck by his presence.
Although Jennie didn't have V's same level of fame (yet), there were still quite a lot of musicians who looked up to her, especially those who focused on music techniques.After all, she was the recipient of a special award for her brilliance in this area.
The female idols felt like total fangirls in front of V, while they felt intimidated by Jennie. Her aura up close was on another level, especially right now that she was looking at them with such a cold expression.
V glanced at Jennie who now looked like she wanted to murder someone in cold blood. She might not be showing much emotion on her face, but the potent aura emanating from her was enough to chill weak-hearted people to the core. And indeed, some of the timider girls in front of them were already looking like they were about to cry. If others saw their current situation, they would think that Jennie was bullying these poor girls.
Right now, Jennie reminded V of his older brother whenever he teased him. Lisa would also turn cold like this and unnerve people with just his sheer aura alone.
'They're really a couple. Both so damn tyrannical in their possessiveness of each other,' he thought to himself.
Jennie started to stride towards the female idols like a predator about to swoop in on her prey, but her manager Alison pulled her back and stopped her. Sejin looked around with a paranoid expression, afraid that other people might see them and misconstrue the situation as Jennie pushing her weight around on the newbies.
The female idols didn't know what they did to anger Jennie. They cowered from her scary aura.
"Calm down, Jennie," Alison whispered to her in an urgent tone.
Jennie briefly closed her eyes and took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself. When she opened her eyes, her expression somewhat became gentler.
"Hello, my apologies for disturbing you," she told the female idols in a pleasant tone. Her eyes, however, remained cold. "I think I heard you talking about CEO Manoban's supposed fiancée? Since CEO Manoban is our Senior V's brother, your conversation made me very curious. May I know more about what you're talking about?"
The girls looked at each other. They were relieved when Jennie talked to them. She was actually nice and polite. Maybe they were just imagining that she was angry at them earlier. Or maybe her expression earlier was just her resting bitch face and had nothing to do with her actual mood.
"S-senior Jennie! Uhm... We normally don't talk about CEO Manoban but he's recently trending online after he commented on Prince—I mean, Senior V's blog post a few days ago. After all, CEO Manoban never used his account before. People have become very interested in him lately so...uhm, there are a lot of gossips about him online right now," one of them explained to Jennie.
"Yeah! We were just gossiping—uh, I mean chatting about what we read online. Someone posted a few photos of CEO Manoban with his fiancée at an online gossip forum just a few minutes ago. Here, Senior Jennie and...uhm, Prince—Senior V. Let me show you the post."
The girl held up her phone to let Jennie and V see. She blushed when V smiled at her.
Jennie looked at the alleged photos posted online on the girl's phone. V also peeked over her shoulder. Even Alison and Sejin stretched their necks to take a look.
Indeed, there were candid pictures of Lisa together with another woman. The person who snapped them must have been far away because Lisa and the woman looked completely unaware that someone was taking photos of them. The quality of the photos wasn't that great either, so Jennie ruled out the paparazzi. It might just be a regular person who used his or her phone camera.
Lisa looked tall and handsome as always with his usual cold and indifferent expression. He was in his business suit. Beside him was a woman Jennie recognized as Diana from the headshots Louis gathered from her public records.
The anonymous user who made the post claimed that he or she took the photos at a five-star hotel. Indeed, the background behind Lisa and the woman looked like a hotel lobby. The user wrote an accompanying post with the photos. It said:
"I was waiting for someone at the hotel lobby when I immediately recognized CEO Lisa Manoban. I also happened to recognize the woman walking beside him. She is Diana, a businesswoman. Her mother's side of the family are members of high society here, that's why I managed to recognize her even though Diana mostly lived in Singapore. The Manobans are close to her mother's family. I heard that the two families have been hoping to pair Diana to CEO Manoban for a long time now because they're both high achievers in the field of business. However, they have always been unsuccessful because everyone knows that CEO Manoban never showed any romantic interest in anyone before.
"Then all of a sudden, CEO Manoban revealed that he's engaged a few months ago. He hasn't introduced his fiancée yet, but seeing him and Diana together at a HOTEL made me connect the dots. The most eligible bachelor in the country suddenly got engaged. Then months later, Diana suddenly gets promoted to work as an executive at Manoban Corporation and moves from Singapore to permanently live here. Coincidence? I think not! I bet that Diana is actually CEO Manoban's fiancée. After all, the Manobans and her mother's side of the family have been hoping to pair them together since a long time ago.
"Both CEO Manoban and Diana are smart businesspeople who work at the most elite level of the business industry. They also come from wealthy and influential families. They're also close in age. I personally think that they're perfect for each other. And I know that there are many in high society and in the business world who think the same way. Manoban Corporation will surely become an even more successful company if CEO Manoban and Diana unite in both business and marriage. Don't you think so, too?"
Then the user suggested that Lisa and Diana must have spent an hour or two at a hotel room to find time for some quick loving despite their busy schedules as business executives.
"Hmm... That's Diana, alright," V murmured behind Jennie.
"Oh! You know her, Prince —I mean, V? Is that woman really your brother's fiancée?" one of the female idols asked him.
"No, she's not." Jennie quickly shot down the question.
The female idols were surprised that it was Jennie who answered instead of V. They turned to V for confirmation.
He flashed them his killer smile, dazing them. Then he said, "Junior Jennie is right. That woman is not my brother's fiancée. His real fiancée is more beautiful and more amazing than Diana."
Jennie gave him a side-eye, showing no expression on her face.
V winked at her.
Jennie borrowed the phone from the female idol and scrolled through the photos herself. Her thumb froze at the last three photos.
The first one showed Diana leaning very close to Lisa, almost rubbing her (non-existent) breasts against his shoulder. The second one showed her touching his arm. The final photo showed her fully holding his arm with her two hands.
Jennie gripped the phone in her hand and squeezed it, as a colder and more frightening aura emanated from her in suffocating waves.
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The Wife Is A Superstar 3
FanfictionA world-famous hacker and daughter of the most powerful criminal family who ruled the international underworld for many generations is killed when their organization is annihilated in a single night. She is reborn into the body of Jennie Kim, a pop...