Chapter 132 - 132: Defending Her Title
Chapter 132 - 132: Defending Her Title
Kim Eunji woke up and she saw herself lying on a big bed. She could feel it was big as she could stretch her arms fully without reaching the end. She got up on a sitting position and checked herself. She heaved a sigh when she realized that her clothes were still the same. The only thing was that her bag and her eye glasses were missing. She raised her guard as soon as she realized what was happening. She was abducted by someone.
She could see the outline of the window frame and the door. She knew that she was alone inside the room. However, she didn't drop her guard down.
Kim Eunji decided to leave the bed and followed her instinct to twist the knob and leave the room.
Her foot lead her to another room which was relatively bigger than the other one she came from.
There, she could see a silhouette of a man sitting on the center couch while someone who seemed to be his assistant was patiently standing beside him. Before Kim Eunji could even say something, the man spoke and turned his body towards her.
Though she could not see the man's face clearly, she could feel him pause for a while.
'Is my appearance really bad when I woke up?' Kim Eunji thought.
"Oh you're awake Miss Kim. I thought it would take you days to wake up." She could her sarcasm in his senior voice.
"What do you want from me, mister?" Kim Eunji didn't beat around the bush and immediately asked him of what he wanted from her.
"I like it that you're straightforward. Do take a seat. We have something important to talk about." The man said as he gestured his assistant to bring him something.
His assistant handed her a folder which contained a document slipped inside.
"What's this?" Kim Eunji said as soon as she saw a silhouette of a white folder in front of her.
"Open and read it." The man commanded. However Kim Eunji didn't move her body to pick it up.
"What are you doing?" The man spoke once again with impatience evident on his tone.
"I don't know if you wanted to be funny here or not but how can I read what's inside when I can't even read the contents. Give me my eyeglasses back." Kim Eunji said in frustration.
"Aren't you wearing any contact lenses right now? Why are you even wearing that ugly eye glasses when you have contacts with you?" He mocked her.
"They're not contact lenses. These are my real eyes." She explained and continued, "Now if you really wanted me to read the document inside that folder, bring my eye glasses back."
Then, the man's assistant gave her what she needed.
When she could clearly see everything, Kim Eunji then focused her attention to the folder in front of her.
When she flipped the folder and saw what was inside, she frowned when she saw the bold word on top of the document which read 'DIVORCE'.
"Who are you?" Kim Eunji immediately asked them.
All she could get was a laughter from the senior man.
"You don't have to know who I am. The important thing is you should sign that paper right now!" The man overbearingly said.
"I'm sorry mister but why should I obey you? This is clearly the first time we met and I'm sure my husband won't be happy if he would find out that I'm divorcing him for no valid reason. Just because a stranger kidnapped me and brought me here just to sign this divorce agreement." She reasoned.
"You and your greediness had put my grandnephew's life in danger!" The man finally blurted out his relationship with Nathan.
"He should have married someone capable. Someone of equal footing as he is. Someone who could help him in strengthening his influence in the business world and in other areas. Unlike you! I admit, you are indeed beautiful but your background is questionable. You'll only be a burden for my grandnephew!" He added.
Though Kim Eunji didn't like the tone he used when talking to her, after she found out who he was, Kim Eunji's approach remained the same. In order to gain her respect, he should respect who she was in Nathan's life first.
"Are you sure about what you're saying Mr. Johnson?" Kim Eunji already had a clue who he was. Though Nathan never mentioned him to her, she already had a gut feeling on who the senior man was. Kim Eunji's tone also became serious this time. His confident response on her question confirmed his identity. He's Andrew Johnson, Nathan's granduncle.
"Oh, so my dear grandnephew have told you about me. It's a pleasure to meet the infamous Miss Kim. If we happened to meet on another occasion, I might like you but not enough to be Nathan's wife." His words were full of disgust towards her.
"Yes. I'm sure of what I said earlier. How are you going to introduce yourself during functions? You're still a student. You haven't proven your worth yet. Your identity as a Jin could never help Nathan, too. The elders don't favor you. You're totally a nobody." Just because his men can't find anything about her except from what was known, he immediately assumed that she's a nobody.
"He might have married you now but he will divorce you sooner or later. As far as I could remember, he was so against with the idea of getting married because he's still not over with that woman whom he loved so dearly." Andrew Johnson said which made Kim Eunji to pause for a while.
"So, you're implying that Nathan is only playing with me?" Kim Eunji's tone was dead serious.
"Exactly! How many girls had he fucked just to forget about that woman! You're nothing compared to her in his heart." Mr. Johnson confidently said which made her to become silent. However, her aura changed and it became terrifying.
Andrew Johnson subconsciously gulped down a mouthful of saliva as he looked at her.
He thought that something was not right with the atmosphere but he didn't expect that the oppression came from Kim Eunji herself.
"Come again?" Though Kim Eunji was boiling in anger, she somehow managed to not let the rage inside her to show.
"I said what I said. There's no point repeating it now." Andrew Johnson somehow managed to say that. He thought that by telling her this, she would decided to leave Nathan. Seeing that Kim Eunji was still silent, his displeasure towards her grew even more.
"Is it the money? How much do you want to actually leave Nathan?" He arrogantly asked her.
Poor him, he didn't realize that Kim Eunji would slap him in the face later on and he would regret doing that to her.
Kim Eunji inwardly scoffed as she heard that.
"Sir, do I look like someone who is desperately in need of money?" She couldn't help but ask him.
"Of course! Given your beauty, you should be of high maintenance. I couldn't help but wonder how much Nathan had spent on your beauty products. And besides, you would never stay with Nathan in the first place if not for that reason." He continued.
Kim Eunji then stood up and walked towards her bag which was resting on top of the cabinet across her.
After a short while she returned on her seat with her wallet on her hands. Andrew Johnson could only curiously look at what she was trying to do.
She then opened her wallet and then she pulled out a black card from it and placed it on the coffee table.
Andrew thought that the card was given by Nathan to her therefore his initial reaction was like disdain.
He wanted to insult her but he was taken aback when Kim Eunji pulled out nine more black cards inside her wallet.
One was already shocking enough but nine more? This was totally mind-blowing. How did she manage to gather all of these in her wallet?
She then leisurely arranged them on the coffee table across her.
'What's the meaning of this?' He asked himself.
'Did Nathan gave her this many bankcards?' He continued asking himself. He already ruled out that she owned them all. He was completely in denial.
"Choose one." Kim Eunji said which made Andrew to be pulled back from his thoughts.
"Choose one. I'll call my bank to inform them that you now owned the card you choose." Kim Eunji spoke in all seriousness.
"What?! Are you trying to insult me by giving me back the money that Nathan gave you?! Don't be ridiculous!" He spat!
"Relax Mr. Johnson, I don't want Nathan to blame me if you'd suffer from heart attack or high blood pressure." She said but with a bit of playfulness in her tone.
"I could give one of these to Nathan as well. But he declined saying that he also have one. He even wanted me to keep his cards but I refuse as my wallet had ran out of space for another one." Kim Eunji was clearly flexing her wealth.
Andrew Johnson didn't like where this conversation was heading. Therefore he angrily asked her, "What are you implying?!"
However, Kim Eunji remained calm as she continued teasing the old man. Oh! How she loved watching his face right now.
"Nothing. I'm just giving you a gift. I haven't given your Johnson Family a dowry. So, I am thinking to give one of 'MY BANK CARDS' to you. I hope this cards are acceptable for you Sir."
Andrew Johnson was so angry at the moment that he wanted to vomit blood. He could feel every ounce of his body was trembling and his veins wanting to explode.
"You!" He furiously said as he pointed his index finger towards her.
"Master!" The assistant called out in distress. Andrew Johnson might suffer from heart attack if this conversation would continue.
He then looked at Kim Eunji who was sitting there enjoying what was happening to Andrew Johnson.
Kim Eunji could not hold back and chuckled. She then shook her head because the scene was very ridiculous.
Sensing that everything was done, Kim Eunji picked up all of her cards and slid them back inside her wallet's compartments. She then took the divorce agreement that was resting on the table and also the fountain pen beside it.
Is she going to sign the paper?
"You're right, someone like me doesn't deserve Nathan in my life. He's the most perfect and loving husband that every woman in the world dreamed to have. All he cared was for my happiness and I'm pretty sure it would break his heart if I would sign this therefore..." Kim Eunji's voice trailed off as she torn the paper into pieces in front of them.
"If you would excuse me, I still have to go back to the dorm. I don't know how long I was out but I'm pretty sure they're all looking for me now. Don't worry, I won't tell Nathan about what happened tonight. After all, he still cared about you as his family...his mentor. But this would be the last time you're allowed to do this." Kim Eunji's voice was serious as she wanted him to remember what she was saying.
"I won't let anyone to meddle between Nathan and I's marriage. It was me and him who bound ourselves in marriage. Therefore, it's only up to the both of us to decide if we would end this or not."
Kim Eunji then stood up and patted her lap as if patting the imaginary dust that was on her jeans.
"I don't need your approval as Nathan's wife. The important thing to me is Mom and Grandma approved me as their daughter-in-law."
She then walked towards her bag and opened it. She took a small red pouch and handed it to his troubled assistant.
"Let him drink this after I'm gone. He needed this to calm his nerves."
"But..." he hesitated to accept it.
"Don't worry, this is not a poison. I don't mean any harm. After all, what happened today was all a misunderstanding." She softly said.
"Who are you?!" Andrew Johnson asked her out of the blue.
"I am Missus Bai. Bai Eunji." Kim Eunji simply replied as she completely walked out of the door with her bag on her back.
When Kim Eunji was gone, Andrew angrily flipped the coffee table.
"How dare her humiliate me like this!" Then he turned his attention towards his assistant and bit him with his cane.
"This is your fault! The man you paid to investigate about her background was useless! Go and find another one! I want a very detailed report in my email first thing in the morning!" He then angrily stood up and walked away leaving the poor assistant with bruises.