The Wife Is A Superstar 6

Chapter 1115 - Friendship

Jae injected a livelier energy into the group. He was going to attend tonight's event as Jennie's representative. Technically speaking, he had the highest standing among them as the proxy of Orchidia Beauty's President-CEO and owner, Jennie Kim. He didn't care about that, though. Neither did Chaeng nor Jisoo. Even Jennie wouldn't care about it.

About ten minutes later, Alice arrived. She was wearing a rather cute pouf dress in eye-catching pink and purple ombré colour. Her makeup and hair were already done before coming to the hotel. She should've looked fresh and youthful but bore a striking resemblance to a dressed-up corpse instead.

"Eeek! Twin sis!" Jae was aghast at his friend's appearance. He immediately ran to Alice and gave her a once-over from head to toe and back up again. "What happened to you?! Tell me the truth! Are you still sleeping?"

Alice released a weak laugh, sounding like it was a dying breath. "What is sleep?"

Jae gasped and threw her a stern look. "This has gone on for too long! You need an intervention! If you don't sleep properly, you're going to be heading to eternal sleep sooner rather than later!"

"Oh, Alice." Jisoo pulled their friend and sat her on the couch. "Jae is right. What you're doing is abusing your body. It's not good. You're paying for your successful career with your health."

Chaeng harrumphed. "Let her collapse! That'll teach her a lesson. If she's sent to the hospital, she'll have no choice but to take a break from her webtoon."

"Chaeng!" Jisoo sent her best friend a meaningful look, silently telling her to be nice.

Chaeng snorted, refusing to say any words of comfort. "That girl and Ruby are the same. They're both hardheaded workaholics! At least Ruby has her husband and Jae to monitor her and tell her to take a break whenever she's working for too long. What about Alice? I bet she works until her body can't take it anymore and she has no choice but to sleep!"

She might look like she was disdaining Alice for not caring enough about her health and wellbeing from her too-blunt words and rude tone, but her eyes still revealed her worry for her friend. She was just not the type of person who would give encouraging, positive words to others. She was more of the type to use reverse psychology.

A pouting Alice sighed and took all of her friends' concern and scolding. "I know."

Hearing her defeated tone, her three friends plus the makeup artist and hairstylist couldn't help but sigh as well.

Jae clapped his hands to break the low-spirited atmosphere. "Let's talk about twin sis' matter later. This is not the time to focus on depressing stuff. I made myself more gorgeous tonight to stand in for Boss at Prince's launch! At least for tonight, we should all be celebrating! Too much drama already happened. No need to add to our collective stress levels. I gained too much weight from all the stress-eating! Ugh! I'm still gorgeous, though."

Everyone agreed to put Alice's matter aside until tonight's event was over.

Jae's phone rang. It was a video call request from Jennie. Everyone crowded around Jae during the group video call. Hoyeon was with Jennie. Clover also joined all the way from France.

Now the girl squad is complete.

There wasn't much time before Jae and the others had to go downstairs for the red carpet and interview. However, they wouldn't miss this video call for the world. There hadn't been many opportunities for all of them to chat as a whole group since Jennie and Lisa's wedding. In addition, they needed each other's support especially after all the worrying things that happened in quick succession during the past few days.

"I'm sorry that I couldn't be there with you tonight," Jennie told them. "It's my company and yet I'm not able to attend such an important event. That's why I'm so thankful to all of you for ensuring that Orchidia Beauty is running properly despite my limited presence."

"Little Sister—President Kim, you're the one who pulled V to sign a contract for an exclusive men's line with Orchidia Beauty," Jisoo said. "If it weren't for you, then we wouldn't have this high-profile event tonight. So don't belittle the time and effort you put into this project. We all know that even if you aren't personally in the company, you're still putting in the work at home."

"That's a workaholic for you," Chaeng muttered.

Jennie smiled. "Tonight, it's the country. Next time, we'll go international."

"Kyaaaaah! Boss, so cool!" Jae fanned himself with both his manicured hands.

They were already all aware of Jennie's ambitions to make Orchidia Beauty an international brand. Chaeng and Jisoo hadn't felt too sure about it at first but they weren't a match for the headstrong Jennie.

Whenever Jennie said that she wanted to do something, she would do it. They had gotten used to it by now.

Chaeng, her hair and makeup finally done, stood up and pumped her fist in the air. "Go, Orchidia Beauty!"

Jae jumped up and did the same. "Go go go Orchidia Beauty to the highest level!"

His younger sister Clover echoed him. They could see her doing a silly dance inside her French apartment.

"G-go..." Jisoo felt shy at first but felt braver after seeing her friends' enthusiastic cheers. Even the zombie Alice managed to do a couple of fist pumps and a loud cheer before falling back to the couch in exhaustion. Jisoo took a deep breath and shouted, "Go, Orchidia Beauty!!!"

"Wohoho! Atta girl, Jisoo!" Jae gave her two thumbs up and a wink.

Feeling more daring, Jisoo shouted even louder. "Orchidia Beauty, WE ARE THE BE-ESHT!"

Unfortunately, not only did her voice crack near the end of her sentence but her tongue also lost strength and she ended up mispronouncing the last word.

"Pft! Be-esht!" Jae doubled over and started laughing.

The others followed suit.

Jisoo felt her face and neck heat up. Ah, so embarrassing! But she also couldn't stop herself from laughing.

Beneath the laughter was a reassuring feeling of their strong friendship. That no matter what happened to any of them, whether good or bad, they would be there for each other.