Yuna met Jangmi on the night of her first party as a member of the Ahn family. Jangmi stood behind a mountain of champagne glasses in a long black dress and told her without hesitation.
"You are an illegitimate daughter too, aren't you?"
Was it to mock her? Yuna has received so many mocking eyes since she arrived, she was not the only illegitimate daughter but was the only one found when she was already so big. She was always known as her village flower, but here she felt like cow dung. She lacked class, she lacked attitude, she lacked accent, and she knows nothing. She was sick of being called dumb, dumb and dumb? She was sick of all of it.
"Why are you looking so stupid?" Jangmi asked her, those words broke her out of her malicious thoughts. "Are you coming in or not?"
She looked at her like she expected her to back out. Yuna has gone through many things these past few months. Getting naked in front of a girl seems mild compared to that.
She pulled her dress and got naked. Tiger gasped loudly, closing his eyes.
"What are you doing noona!! Was Master not enough for you? Why are you getting another girl naked when you kissed master?"
Jangmi tsked and muted him, unable to bear his angry words. Her eyes were on Yuna's curvaceous body. Even though Yuna looked very thin and innocent looking, her hips don't lie.
Why was I not placed in a body like this? Why!! Why!!
Her eyes fell on Yuna's perfectly arched eyebrows and she scoffed angrily. "What products do you use to make your eyebrow grow?"
Yuna stepped into the water, a small sigh escaping her lips. "Nothing. My eyebrows have always been like this."
Jangmi refrained her murderous self from scrapping Yuna's eyebrow and turned away. The younger girl met her and was quiet. Jangmi liked how obedient she was, it made her happy, unlike a certain fool.
"How has your stay been? "
"Truthfully?" Most times, Yuna felt that Jangmi was against her but then Jangmi foes things that made her feel protected and she gets confused about her feelings. Is she an enemy or a friend?
"Ahn house have been shitty. Everyone is convinced that I have Gonorrhea and I slept with my teacher to graduate, even after I went for testing and prove myself clean. The elders hate me, the youngsters hate me. And I have to fight against getting raped by a particular cousin of mine every single day…" she felt comfortable in Jangmi's presence so she could talk and yapped about all the things that have been hurting her feelings for the past few months. Jangmi did not interrupt and watched her talk till she was out of breath.
"I feel shitty. "
"Do you want to leave there? "
Yuna's neck snapped so hard, it made a cracking noise. "Owwww…" she rubbed her sore neck and asked, "Are you asking me to move in with you? "
"Of course not," Jangmi denied, pushing her wet hair out of her face. Yuna was a little breathless at the action. It was not that she liked girls, it was just that she liked beautiful things and Jangmi was messing up her radar. Like how was it possible to look this good with shaved eyebrows? She is not human, definitely not human.
"I was wondering if you wanted to make money. "
"I don't have any money to invest, " Yuna interrupted, before Jangmi could finish her sentence, "I can barely go to school as it is. "
"You don't need money to invest, " Jangmi explained, with a small smile. "You only need your face and your voice. "
"What?"
"Singing and dancing, you are good at that right?"
Yuna felt confused, how did Jangmi know she was good at singing and dancing? Even her new family never knew that part of her. Her brow furrowed at the thought of Jangmi stalking her.
"You were singing and dancing that night when you were drunk at Jimin's party. "
Her words made all of Yuna's doubt evaporate, an embarrassed blush spreading across her face instead. That night, she wasn't sure who did it, but her water became wine and she got drunk and misbehave at a big shot party. That earned her a scolding from her dad as she turned into a joke in their social circle.
"The Ahn family probably think you are in it for the inheritance and are trying to eliminate you from the competition," Jangmi explained, the water was getting cold now, she contemplated coming out, goosebumps were already forming on her skin "If you prove that you don't want their wealth and want to work by yourself, you can reduce the number of your enemies, or…"
"Or what?"
"Or you cut off yourself from the family since you are not really in the household's genealogy register…"
Yuna didn't answer immediately, though she grew up in a little village, she was still street smart. Someone hates her in that house, her guess, Wonyoung.
If she puts herself in Wonyoung's position also, she will hate herself. This is why Yuna try to reduce her existence in the house. Wonyoung was on top of the food chain, and the remaining people in the house treats her like a goddess, it would be dumb to go against that kind of person, but still…
"Why did you say I should cut myself from the family?" Jangmi's thoughts were never so clear, Yuna needed to understand why that was an option when Jangmi herself is still with her family.
"I'm different from you," Jangmi told her with a bewitching smile."My brothers tolerate me because I am the only girl in the last five generations, plus they have their own lives and children, we have no problem."
She shifted so close to her, Yuna could smell her breath, for some weird reason, her heart started beating faster. Tiger watching them tried to push their face apart but unfortunately, his hands kept passing through. Jangmi noticed Yuna's eyes turn misty, her long lashes seem to tremble faster. She laughed and shifted away. The cold water swished at her movement.
"You are very beautiful, one day some rich old man may want you as a wife and your family will give you to him since you have no use to them," she explained, "breaking away from them will prevent that,"
Yuna seem dazed for a split second before she scowled at Jangmi, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
That referred to the ambiguous stare Jangmi gave her just now, Jangmi didn't reply but her laugh filled the room as she came out of the bath.
"If you can't handle me, how do you expect to handle the entertainment world?"
Jangmi did this on purpose, if she did not go against Wonyoung, her mind won't be at peace. Wonyoung was against her and she won't care if this life Jangmi has not offended her. Instead of sitting dumbly, it was better to remove her claws. Isn't it just her millions of fans and the one called Chanyeol that gave her power? Jangmi was convinced that she could take care of them. But she was not the kind of person that do weird things like singing and dancing for a living.
Her eyes once again went to Yuna who looked deep in thought, it was better to let her do this type of thing. Anyway, we are both fighting a common enemy, I can't do everything for you.
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"Wang Jangmi, Wang Jangmi…" Jiho muttered this name like a madman as he went through the mountain of files in front of him. Once he was done crying, he took it upon himself to dress up as a fireman, to find the girl that dare to slap and kiss him without his permission and right now, he had over…
"3,000 people? What the fuck!! How can so many people bear this name!! Why was she even in creepy make up!! I can't even remember her face," Jiho felt tired and frustrated, he had been doing this for the last two hours.
"Wang Jangmi," he came across a file with the symbol of house wang. Thinking about it, the girl was decked in luxury pieces, but since when did house Wang gives birth to a daughter?
He opened the file nevertheless and was shocked to see the demonic girl from that night. How was he so sure it was her, well she had no eyebrows. Jiho has never met someone crazy enough to shave off their eyebrows but looking at the girl, it was possible she had a mental illness.
"Only crazy people go about kissing and slapping people in the bathroom," He said, forgetting that he was also not sane to be wearing clothes that he does not even kike that much just to attract a certain person's attention.
"Wang Jangmi," he read aloud, standing up. His study looked messy, arranging this was not among today's plans, he looked at the messy room apathetically and left the room before his conscience started judging him.
"Wang Jangmi," he read aloud, "17 years old, just about to sit for her college exam, no friends," he sat on a chair in the kitchen as he dived into her life story.
"Fond of drinking coffee in Jerry Brown's coffee house," Jiho slammed the book together, his beautiful face twisted into a devilish smile. "Oh, hello there, Wang Jangmi…"