A/N: I skipped 2 weeks so, let's have another chapter😏💜 but it doesn't mean you guys read the first update in the speed of light and forget to comment on it. 🤨

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"如果你在看这个，我现在可能已经死了(If you are watching this, I am probably dead by now)" Lixue managed to sobbed out the words, sitting down on a floor in a dim light as Jungkook was watching the video on his phone.

Being on Jimin's small dining table, still in his cottage while one of the sd card was inserted in his phone and the other was laying on the table infront of him.

"我韩语不好 (I am not good at Korean) 他们把我和我最好的朋友带到了这个地方，我不知道这是什么地方 (They have taken my best friend and I in this place, I don't know what place is this)"

Jungkook watched her sobbing, she was looking a lot young, probably a teenager and she diverted her camera outside a broken window and Jungkook abruptly recognized the place she just showed with weird lights. It was Wacko.

他们对一切都撒谎。他们为孩子们提供他们一直想要的东西并绑架他们，让他们在孤儿院抚养并告诉他们他们出生在这里。奴隶。由一个已经是他们奴隶的母亲。(They lie about everything. They offer kids thing they have always wanted and kidnap them, they make them raise in their orphanage and tell them that they were born in here. A slave. By a mother that is already their slave)"

She whispered as she walked out of that room and Jungkook could tell her camera was hidden as the footage was getting blurry time to time but Jungkook could tell she was trying to show those young girls wearing sparkling traditional clothes crying and screaming as those people pushed them in a room and locked the door.

She abruptly hid behind the wall and face the camera to her face as she began crying, a lot of fear in her eyes.

"我们是学生，他们告诉我们他们会雇用我们表演，但他们确实对我的朋友做了错事。我知道拥有这个地方的人的名字。我有他们所有的名字 (We were students and they told us they would hire us to perform, but they really did something wrong to my friend. I know the name of the person who owns this place. I have all their names)"

She whispered.

The audio plugged out on its own and whatever she was saying ahead Jungkook couldn't listen until the camera was hit by something and began showing the floor until the video ended.

Jungkook panted as if he had been holding his breath for so long as he let go of his phone on the table and gulped.

He abruptly took off that sd card off his phone and picked the other sd card, trying to stow it in the card tray as fast as possible with his shaky hands.

We managed to go to his card reading files and opened the unkown unamed vide clip. It was really weird that the second video was just a few seconds long.

Jungkook hit the play with a concern frown.

They video started as Lixue appeared on the screen again, she was a little older now than from her teenage self.

Jungkook could see an audio recorder and a table she was at, she was looking badly beaten as her nose and lips were all soaked with blood.

"对不起，对不起，我要说了。我会说的。 (I am sorry, I am sorry, I'm going to say it. i will say it)

She begged as if she was saying this to the person behind the camera, until whoever the man behind the camer clutched onto her hair.

"Be quick" The voice of that man ordered, yanking her hair roughly, stowing her face on the voice recorder. He was speaking Korean unlike Lixue. Very fine Korean actually. That man wasn't visible in the video, just his hand on Lixue's hair was. He probably was wearing a black dress shirt, Jungkook could tell by the end of his sleeve.

我在那段视频中所说的一切都是为了赚钱和宣传的谎言 whatever I said in that footage was a lie to earn money and publicity)

She abruptly confessed while sobbing hard and the video ended. She probably made the video without getting caught as that man clearly was just recording her audio by the audio recorder.

Jungkook just stared at the now blank black screen until he all of the sudden sit up straight as if something just caught his attention. He rewind the video a little where that man was clutched onto Lixue hair roughly. Jungkook zoomed the screen at his hand.

Jungkook's eyes couldn't blink for a second when he looked at that familiar black diamond watch that man was wearing. Jungkook's eyes slowly diverted to his own hand holding the phone, having that exact same watch on his own hand.

*Flashback*

"It's custom made only for you, nobody in the world have this watch that only my son is going to wear from now on" Jungkook's dad said while making Jungkook wear the watch as Jungkook stepped into his CEO office for the first time with his parents.

He had a brown long coat on over his white turtleneck and blue jeans, unlike the CEO Jeon Jungkook from the present. He just smirked while looking down at his new watch.

"I finally did it" Jungkook whispered to himself.

"Our New CEO" His mother happily smiled at him and Jungkook held her hand to peck the back of it. "I won't let you go to Beijing anymore" She emphasized with a pout.

"He can't run away now. He is getting married soon" Mr. Jeon snickered.

*End of the flashback*

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Jungkook's mother was walking into a hallway with her sister (Jihyun's mother) when they heard some quarreling striking up from a corridor.

They frowned and looked at each other as they abruptly chose to march ahead.

Discerning Jimin and a maid arguing over something while Jae-Hwa was wearing her pink baby bath robe and her hair were all wet.

"I don't care. You won't do this from now on" Jimin demandedly ordered.

"I am their babysitter sitter since she is born. You can't change the rules" The maid argued in an irritated manner.

"What's happening here?" Mrs. Jeon broke in all loud while abruptly taking off her coat and wrapping it around Jae-Hwa. "The child will get sick, what's wrong?" She asked Jimin.

"Mrs. Jeon, he is accusing me..." The maid started instead.

"Who are you talking about like this?" Mrs. Jeon cut her off. "Who were you even arguing with? Don't you know who he is?" Mrs. Jeon scolded her.

"I know it very much, Mrs. Jeon" The maid uttured in a low voice with a hint of disgust as she eyed Jimin. "Definitely know from where he is" She muttured.

"Tell me, who he is" She demanded while crossing her arms.

"CEO Jeon's spouse" The maid replied in a low voice.

"Exactly, he is Jeon Jungkook's spouse, you were talking back with. I don't care what happened, he is my son's significant one. Apologize to him" She ordered the maid.

"I am really sorry for my behavior, Mr. Jeon" She bowed to Jimin who just picked Jae-Hwa up and began ruffling her hair with a towel he had.

"No one in this house has enough authority to disrespect him until I am alive. You are dismissed" Mrs. Jeon ordered further and the maid just bowed to leave.

"If you will keep fighting with the servants like a person from the next street, they will never treat you like a Jeon. What is your problem? What had happened?" Mrs. Jeon asked Jimin.

"Nothing is my problem, I just told the maid to not give Jae-Hwa a bath soon when she came back from school but the maid didn't listen to me, when I came back with Jae-Hwa's clothes she was giving her a bath" Jimin explained.

"So? What's wrong with that? I have told her to" She questioned with a frown.

"You can tell me from now own. Tell me all the schedules you have set up for my daughters and I will follow it. My girls never take baths with anybody's presence. Even not with Mr. Jeon and I without their swimwears on" Jimin replied, hugging Jae-Hwa dearly.

"I don't get what your problem is. Things doesn't work like this in this mansion, Jungkook already changed my grand-daughters bedroom next to yours instead of letting them sleep with their cousins. Your focus should..."

"Should be at the reception party tonight, I know" Jimin cut her off. "I am really sorry but from today I am not allowing anybody to disrobe my daughters neither they are allowed to give them a bath, change their clothes or diapers. I am not going to tell you the reason either. My daughters are precious to me enough to care about this mansion's rules, I don't want them to face anything I did growing up without even realizing it being an innocent child" Jimin talked back.

"What are you talking about?" Jihyun's mother questioned with a dumbfounded frown until Jungkook's mother held her hand as a signal to be quiet.

"Okay" Jungkook's mother agreed in a soft voice and her sister just looked at her with a confused face.

Jimin just bowed and carried Jae-Hwa away.

"What's so serious about it? He was suddenly all raged up with his eyes turning glassy" Jihyun's mother mumbled.

"It felt like there were so many unspoken stories in his glassy eyes" Mrs. Jeon stated as she watched Jimin go. "He acts all childish and non-serious but he is actually really... deep" She whisperedly added, watching how Jimin talked to Jae-Hwa as he carried the child away.

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"Did you call me, father?" Jungkook's mother questioned while walking into a sitting lounge as she bowed to Jungkook's grandfather.

"Pass this to Jungkook's spouse" Grandfather Woo raised a folded paper to her and she walked closer to take it gently.

"What?!" She seemed surprised as soon as she read it and Grandfather Woo just looked at her, making her to control her reaction. "Father, I don't think Jimin can talk this whole thing out infront of the media tonight"

"Why not?" The old man asked.

"The moment he opens his mouth to say something anyone can tell that he is from the..."

"From the?" He demanded an answer and she just sighed.

"Nowhere... I just think that it is better if he stays quiet throughout the event. You may think I have issues with him because Jungkook married him without anyone of our's permission but Jimin is really innocent, he is naive to our culture. He still has to learn to act like his surname. A few hours ago he was found fighting with the maid and the maid actually talked back to him" She explained.

"Since when the maids began talking back to the family members?" Grandfather Woo raised his eyebrow at her.

"I restricted her to..."

"Fire her. Before Jungkook find it out, he will be here at any time for lunch" He insisted, cutting her off.

"But father, she is the kids' babysitter since seven years. They will be disturbed at her disappearance" She tried.

"You can leave" He cut her off again and she just bowed abruptly and turned to leave. "Hei-Ran" Grandfather Woo mentioned and she paused from leaving.

"Jimin has to fit into our family's reputation. All the work is now on your shoulders. Make him the disciplined man of the family in a day before the reception party starts. Send him here" He ordered further and she gulped but nodded before leaving the room.

She walked down the staircase to find Jimin, Jae-Hwa and Melody gathered on the kitchen counter, actually sitting on the kitchen counter while Jimin was laying over his stomach, wiggling his legs. He was in his red velvet cropped top with long sleeves and black pants, having his red boots that had heels.

Munching from a huge box of pizza. Jae-Hwa was also on her stomach laying on the counter top like Jimin while Melody was sitting on it surrounded by Jimin's arm for safety.

"What are you all doing here?" Mrs. Jeon asked with wide eyes. "Get down from there" She picked Jae-Hwa up in her arms. "No food is allowed before and after meal times" She stated. "It's about lunch time..."

"But there is always room for Pizza" Jimin and Jae-Hwa complained together. Mrs. Jeon just glared at the both of them.

"Who got it here?" She demanded an answer and Jimin pointed at Jae-Hwa who pointed at Jimin and then they both pointed at Melody who ignored everyone and resume to munch on the soft cheese.

"I can't deal with this..." Mrs. Jeon sighed. "How? How can I make you the way they want in a single day?!" She frustratedly yelled and Jae-Hwa cupped her ears.

"Well, it was true she got it and we didn't have to pay" Jimin pointed at Jae-Hwa. "She said it was magic, all she did was to write Mr. Jeon's name with some other words and we got it in fifteen minutes" Jimin shrugged and Jae-Hwa nervously giggled, showing Jimin's new phone to her grandma with Jungkook's account and card balance showing on the food delivery app. Obviously they didn't have to pay, physically.

"All of this food is bad for health... positively, throw this in the trash" She ordered and they all gasped, including Melody. "Why do you care? Bet you can't even eat it" Mrs. Jeon pointed Melody out, concerned and Melody abruptly hid under Jimin's chest. "God, she is such a drama queen" Mrs. Jeon rested his hands on the waist.

"I don't want it but now I am assigned to make you a gentleman for tonight's event. So, your these long hair will be trimmed nicely, no nail paint on the nails, remove it, no bracelets filled with rings, just a wrist watch, no eyeliner, no lipsticks. No heels. No glitter. No sparkle. And this cheap feminine fragrance, a big no. We are going to start it soon after you will come back from the meeting" Mrs. Jeon announced.

"What meeting?" Jimin asked.

"Father Woo has called you in the lounge for a humble meeting with you"

"What's that for?" He asked while jumping off from the counter.

"I don't know. Probably you will know once you will go" She rolled her eyes.

"Okay" Jimin geared up to leave.

"No! You can't show up to him in these clothes. Nobody wears clothes like these in our house, especially not infront of father Woo" Mrs. Jeon paused Jimin's way.

"Really? Then let him see the fire" Jimin shrugged and ran away, making Mrs. Jeon to made a stunned open mouth. "Don't worry about me, mommy. I am his favorite grandson's favorite," Jimin announced from a far and Mrs. Jeon just looked at Jae-Hwa and Melody still eating the pizza.

Until Jiwoon caught her attention, walking steadily by the kitchen.

"Oh, you began walking on your own?" Mrs. Jeon asked as the latter didn't have his supporting sticks with him.

"Doctor said my leg is perfect to walk again, aunt Hei-Ran" He replied after a bow.

It is good that you have started to stand up on your feet" Jungkook's mother happily added.

"Yes, It is good that I am finally back on my feet" Jiwoon stated as he walked closer to Jae-Hwa and Melody and looked at the younger baby with his sharp gaze. "There are many things left undone for me to finish" Jiwoon added while caressing Melody's hair.

"I have heard Jihyun is staying home" He all of the sudden asked, patting Melody's head.

"Taehyung asked him to work late tonight and nothing is important than work so, I let him be" She replied.

"And what about Mr. Kim himself? Will he be there with him?" He questioned.

"He is invited to the party as well" Mrs. Jeon replied.

"Then Jihyun will be at the company all alone while everyone will be at the cruise party in the middle of the ocean..." Jiwoon smirked to himself.

"He is not a kid anymore. Let him grow up" She told him.

"I will be such a waste of time tonight, I am still recovering and if I will show up with my walking sticks there will be a huge queue of questions from reporters. I think I might stay home too, I also have some important work from all of this time to finish" He asked for the permission.

"Fine. That will be better, I will let father Woo know it" She approved and Jiwoon just bowed to leave.

"Okay, girls" Mrs. Jeon addressed Melody and Jae-Hwa while resting her hands on her waist and they both froze, having their mouth stuffed. "Finish this before somebody else see you" She whispered to them adoringly with a smile.

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There was an awkward silence in the sitting lounge where Jimin was sitting infront of Grandfather Woo.

Well, according to Jimin there wasn't enough silence because of the way the old man was slurping his tea, making Jimin to have a disgusted frown.

"How is everything inside the house for you, Jimin?" He finally said something.

"It's good" Jimin replied, dismissing the male servant offering him a cup of tea from the tray he was holding.

"Tonight is a very important night for us. All the royal families of the city are invited to attend your reception" Grandfather Woo started. "It is no lie that you know nothing about etiquettes, Jimin. Talking back to a lowlife maid won't lead you to somewhere nice"

"What if the maid talks back to me?" Jimin asked.

"Fire her but never repeat yourself neither try to convince your point nor should look for an approval. You should know your place, you should know how to act while carrying the title of Jeon Jungkook's spouse. If a maid can feel like to talk back to you, someday somebody would too" The old man shrugged.

"I don't get how it is my fault" Jimin talked back and the old man stood up with a sigh as he marched up to Jimin and sat down beside him.

"Jimin..." He mentioned while situating his arm around Jimin's shoulder and Jimin looked at his hand. "Your whole existence in here, being infront of me at this time of my life, is a fault. A huge fault I committed years ago and it feels like the universe is trying to get back to me on it" He whispered to Jimin who just felt his hand rubbing Jimin's arm down.

"I don't think I get it" Jimin abruptly stated while standing up from his place.

"Jimin, we don't need you. We don't want you but Jungkook..." He sighed. "Jungkook is really dear to me since he was born. I never let him have any unfulfilled wishes since he was a kid. I even let him change the whole concept of Luna Jeon from family vehicles to supercars because he loved them a lot. Now, he loves you, you are just a piece of candy I let him have to enjoy. Your worth is nothing than just a sweet candy, a tiny mouth sweetener. So, act like one" He gently added further and Jimin just looked at his creepy smile.

"Tonight the whole world will know that Jungkook married you and all you have to do is to stay quiet. Do nothing, no talking back, no smiles, no gestures, just exist. Like this, see..." He demonstrated while taking out a red wrapped candy from his pocket. "I always keep them for my grandchildren" He explained as he tossed the candy on the table.

"See, how it is being on the table, is it moving? No, it is just being there like it should" He stated as Jimin looked down at the lifeless candy.

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"He is sus" Jimin emphasized, being seated on the grass by the pond, feeding treats to the fancy orange fish in the pond, having Melody and Jae-Hwa's company along. Melody was sitting in Jimin's lap, throwing the treat at all the fish while Jae-Hwa was busy coloring a big drawing she had drawn.

"Don't eat it yourself, it's for these fish, they will cry if you will eat up all of their food" Jimin instructed Melody, holding her small hand that was about to lead that small treat to her own mouth.

The baby got emotional at Jimin's words and gave up on eating them, letting the fish have the treat she was clutched onto.

A maid walked up to them and bowed."Mr. Jeon, you should have ordered to have some chairs here" She sounded surprised.

"No. We are fine" He replied. "Definitely, rich people don't sit on grass" He muttured to himself. "They just call other people a lifeless candy"

"Whatever suits you. Your mother-in-law had told me to call you back inside to her, your event's attire is here" She added the real thing she was there for.

"It must be thrilling" Jimin rolled his eyes while standing up and dusting his hands. "Girls, sit this away from the water" Jimin dragged both of them away a little one by one. "I will be back in a minute" He told them and Jae-Hwa nodded while dragging her drawing book away too.

"Don't worry, Mr. Jeon. I am here to take care of them" The maid told him and Jimin nodded.

"I will be back without cutting my hair" Jimin decided to himself.

"Fighting, papa!" Jae-Hwa announced while raising her fist and Jimin nodded, taking a deep breath as he jogged inside the mainsion, he found Jiwoon walking out.

Jimin just ignored his eye contact while the latter smiled at him, watching Jimin walking away as he himself approached the frontyard pond. He was about to walk ahead until Melody caught his attention, sitting by the pond playing with fish treats, scattering them all over the grass and then picking them back up to fill the jar.

"Whenever I see this child, it reminds me of that day my own cousins betrayed me because of this tiny little pig" Jiwoon talked to himself.

"Uncle Jiwoon?!" Jae-Hwa called him. "Look what I have drawn!" She excited gestured him to come to them. Jiwoon rolled his eyes but chose to walk up to them.

"What are you doing, Jae-Hwa?" Jiwoon asked her.

"Uncle Jiwoon, look, I have drawn a cat" She excited showed the book to him and he smiled, almost fake as he looked at Melody.

"You can leave, I am here with my nieces" He ordered the maid and she bowed to leave.

"How about you make its collar blue?" He suggested while crouching down behind Melody, pointing the collar surrounding the drawn cat's neck.

Suddenly, the floating water caught Jiwoon's eyes and he kept staring it. He stared at the water for some good minute as if he was spaced out and then glanced at Melody sitting right a few inches away from the water.

He watched Jae-Hwa picking up the blue crayon, doing her work and then he just eyed the cctv security camera rotating left to right, attached to the mansion's roof infront of them.

"Were you both feeding these fish?" Jiwoon asked, noticing the treats Melody was playing with. "Why not doing it anymore?" He caressed Melody's hair while grabbing her arms, making her to stand up on her feet harshly.

"Let me help you" Jiwoon stated, making Melody hold the small treat and guiding her to the pond, making Jae-Hwa to grab Melody's skirt.

"Papa told us to stay away from the water" Jae-Hwa abruptly told him, pulling Melody by the skirt.

"He said that because there wasn't any adult with you, now that I am here, baby Jae doesn't have to worry about it, right?" He asked. "Don't make the ears pink" He diverted Jae-Hwa's attention to the drawing.

"Then it should be purple" Jae-Hwa announced while switching the crayon, letting go of Melody's skirt and Jiwoon just raised the treats in his palm infront of Melody who took it.

"It's okay, little one, I can't forget what your father did to me because of you and your sultry papa" Jiwoon mumbled.

"Another kid, means more chances for my son to never be the CEO after Jungkook..." Jiwoon talked to himself. "I would have ended this matter long time ago" Jiwoon slowly guided Melody forward, making the baby to stand on the edge of the pond.

"It's okay, kid. It takes less than 10 seconds for a tiny human like you to drown and die" He mumbled to Melody in a low voice as he eyed the cctv camera rotating above. And the baby seemed to enjoy throwing treats to the fish.

Until, soon as the camera rotated to the other direction, Jiwoon harshly pushed Melody forward.

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Jungkook's driver pulled up the car in the driveway of the family mansion and before he could open the door for him, Jungkook harshly did it by himself and chose to walk ahead in a power walk, fixing his coat.

Looking too eager to reach somewhere until a loud shriek of a kid suddenly echoed the whole mansion.

He abruptly recognized the voice.

"Jae-Hwa?!" Jungkook panicked while abruptly running to the pond's bridge as the screams and cry were coming from really near to him, making his driver to run along as the watchmen guarding the gates also got alerted and rushed after Jungkook.

It took Jungkook a second to reach the frontyard to find Jiwoon grabbing a screaming Jae-Hwa as he ran upto the scene.

"Baby sister!!" Jae-Hwa screamed and Jiwoon abruptly let go of Jae-Hwa as soon as his eyes landed on Jungkook.

"Jeona fell into the water" Jiwoon stated in the speed of light, faking to look all panicked.

"And what the fuck are you doing here like a statue?!" Jungkook pushed him aside while taking off his coat as he abruptly stowed himself into the pond, the water was reaching his chest.

There were hustling bubbles, indicating that the baby just fell into the water.

"Melody?!" Jungkook yelled while finding the small baby with teary eyes, his hands shaking as he fought the water where the bubbles were gushing from, while the family members also rushed out to the front yard, concerned. Including Jimin and Mrs. Jeon.

"5... 6..." Jiwoon counted until Jungkook pulled out the passed out baby from the water and kneeled up back to the ground. "Shit..." Jiwoon sighed.

"Jeona?! What happened to her?" Mrs. Jeon asked as she rushed to the scene.

"Take out the car?!" Jungkook yelled at those bodyguards, making them to ran to the car while he wrapped his coat around Melody.

Jimin was just watching as if nothing was registering his brain as Jae-Hwa ran up to him and hugged his waist.

"Melody?!" Jungkook tried to get a response from her as he clutched her close to his chest and ran towards the car, carrying her. Though, the baby looked lifeless as Jimin just watched her being carried away.

"She fell into the pond" Jiwoon told everyone, though Jungkook's father chose to abruptly follow Jungkook. "Because of my leg, I couldn't help her on time" Jiwoon added.

"Jimin!?" Mrs. Jeon called as the latter kneeled down with an expressionless face.

"I made them play by the pond..." Jimin mumbled as his eyes began escaping tears. Mrs. Jeon abruptly kneeled down to him and took the crying Jae-Hwa from Jimin, hugging her, trying to calm her down until Jimin's vision gave in and he passed out on the grassy ground.

"Jimin?!" He heard his name being called by a few voices. "We have to take him to the hospital!"

After that everything was pitched black.

"Papa?" He heard Melody's voice and abruptly opened his eyes to hiss at the bright white light of the hospital room.

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