The Wife Is A Superstar 3

Chapter 528 - Dinner At The Kim Ancestral Residence Part II

Dinner was an ordeal for everyone. Nobody had an appetite. The atmosphere was heavy and tense, making everyone uncomfortable.

As the elders, Jihoon and Jia tried to act as if everything was normal. They forced themselves to eat, even though the food tasted like sand in their mouths at that moment.

Alice began stress eating, shoving food into her mouth nonstop, much like her twin bro, the food-vacuum Jae. Although she was eating a lot, it didn't look like she was enjoying it.

The two men, Lisa and Hwi ate mechanically. Both of their expressions were cold, but they still continued to eat. They also looked like they weren't enjoying the food.

As for Jennie, she didn't bother eating. After a couple of bites, she simply stopped. She just sat there with her hands on her lap and watched her honey eating beside her.

Perhaps the atmosphere became too much for Jia until she couldn't bear it anymore because she shot a meaningful look at her husband, silently telling him to do something.

Jihoon carefully set his chopsticks down. Then he cleared his throat to get everyone's attention. The others stopped eating and looked at him.

"Hwi, Ruby, the two of you are my children. You are brother and sister. As your father, I want you to stop fighting like this. Talk to each other and try to solve all of the issues between you."

Silence.

Finally, Jennie was the one who responded to Jihoon first. "Your eldest son is the one who should stop hurting and make peace first with my friend Yeon and my godson Little Jun. He's the one who caused this mess. Once he asks for Yeon's forgiveness and she forgives him, then that's the time that I will stop fighting with him."

Everyone noticed that she stopped referring to Donghwi as her "Elder Brother", referring him to Jihoon as "your eldest son" instead.

Hwi glared at her. "I'm the one who caused this mess?! Yeon was the one who cheated on me first!"

"She didn't," Lisa interjected. "Hoyeon and my Eldest Brother Mingyu aren't in a relationship. They only met the weekend before you saw the photos of them together. That was just a coincidence. I don't think that they're even friends. Eldest Brother Mingyu is a man of integrity. He'll never destroy a committed relationship by having a love affair with one of the parties involved. You're the only one who latched onto this idea that they're cheating on you even though it's not true. You didn't even let the mother of your child explain her side of the story. You were just trying to find a reason to break up with her so that you can marry your current fiancée who's richer and has a status in high society compared to Hoyeon. Truly a pathetic man who can't even own up to your motives and decisions and just keeps on blaming others for the mess you made."

Hwi was triggered by what Lisa said about him. "What did you say, you bastard?!"

"Don't you dare call my fiancé a bastard!" Jennie also raised her voice at him.

"Enough!" Jihoon banged his hand on the dinner table, making some of the dinnerware bounce dangerously.

Donghwi immediately stopped, acting like a well-behaved son. Years of being trained and disciplined as the successor since he was a young child made him unable to openly defy his father. He could only do things behind Jihoon's back. If it was face to face, he didn't have the courage to do it.

On the other hand, Jennie wasn't the least bit affected by Jihoon. She even shot a cold look at her "father".

"I'm sorry to say this, Father. But I can't accept that you're not doing anything while your son is doing all of these things to hurt the mother of your grandson. Little Jun is caught in the middle of this mess! You didn't hear how your grandson was screaming and crying—he was so scared, poor child—when this jerk barged into their condo unit and fought with Yeon," she told Jihoon.

"You! Stop it! Don't try to influence how Father should think," Donghwi said in a hurry, a slightly panicked look in his eyes as he glanced at his father.

Jennie ignored Donghwi and continued speaking directly to Jihoon. "Father, I know that you prefer to leave us, your children, to decide on how we live our lives. This son of yours is intent on hurting my friend and taking advantage of her weakness and powerlessness. He's using their son, your grandson, to hurt her and validate his mistaken sense of dominance in their relationship. If you're just going to let him do what he wants in this matter, then please don't stop me if I want to simply protect my friend and your grandson from his attacks. Between him and them, I choose my godson and my friend! Little Jun has no future with this jerk! He'll only bring Little Jun into a world of hurt if he successfully gains custody of your grandson!"

"Who are you calling a jerk?! And what do you mean my son has no future with me?! I can give my son a brighter and much better future than Hoyeon! She's only a bodyguard! How can a mere bodyguard compare to me and what I can give to our son?!"

"You fucking asshole! How dare you call Yeon a 'mere bodyguard'?!! How dare you?!!!" Alice yelled at Donghwi, waving a fork in a threatening manner at him. It was as if there was nothing in the world that she wanted to do right now but to stab him with the fork.

"Alice, stop! Don't interfere with their discussion!" Jia reprimanded her niece.

"Auntie, I can't stop! He just insulted my friend! Unforgivable! And you call this a discussion? What part of this is a discussion? This is fighting, that's what this is!"

"You—" Jia closed her eyes, helpless at her niece.

With Alice riled up like this, of course Jennie also felt offended for her friend. If eyes could shoot fire, hers would be like a military-grade flamethrower burning Donghwi alive.

"Yeon might not be able to afford what you can give Little Jun with her own money, but I can! Lisa can! We both can! We'll assist her in every way that we can in raising her son! Little Jun is our godson and what you can give him, Liwei and I can give him many times over!"

"Correct," Lisa said.

Donghwi banged both of his hands on the table and shouted at the couple. "Jun is not your son! He's MY son! I have every right to take him! I'm in a much better position than Hoyeon to raise him!"

"Don't you dare yell at Ruby Jane," Lisa warned him in a low, dangerous voice.

"Stay out of this! You're not even a Kim! You're an outsider of this family!"

"Lisa is my future husband. He's MY family. He has every right to be here," Jennie retorted.

"So you're going to use Lisa's status and influence to suppress me?" Donghwi asked, daring her to answer with his expression.

"So what if I do? I just told you, he's my future husband! His power is my power and my power is his power! This is what a relationship is! You don't understand because you only think about yourself! You know what? I'm glad that you broke up with Yeon! She's better off without a scum like you!"

"That's right! She's so lucky that you showed your true colours before you married! Good riddance to you!" Alice butted in.

"Alice, please..."

Jia pleaded to her niece to stop but Alice was too fired up to listen to her aunt.

Donghwi ignored Alice. He sneered at Jennie. "Hah! So you're admitting that you're using Lisa's power for your own benefit! You're exactly like your mother! That slut—"

"STOP IT!!!" Jihoon roared.

A glass of water crashed to the floor a few metres away from the table after he threw it.

Everyone became silent, even Jennie. They could feel Jihoon's fury.

In the end, the attempt to reconcile Jennie and Hwi during dinner by Jihoon and Jia failed.

It failed miserably.