#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM_S3
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 17
Seeing the confusion on the saleslady’s face, the Manager immediately came to her rescue but the lady stopped him.
“I’m famous, so this riffraff cannot tell me she doesn’t know who I am.” She argued.
The Manager knew when the lady came in with her husband, Davis. When they came, the two, plus the few guards they brought along were directly brought into the fourth store by him, through the back door, so none of the staff saw them.
Also, this woman claiming to be Davis Xu’s wife isn’t famous like she’s making herself out to be, which is also why the staff does not recognize her status but knows her as their regular customer. But as the Manager, he has to put the fire out, else he suffers.
“Mrs. Xu, please ease your rage. It is my staff’s fault for not being able to distinguish mount tai. Show mercy, Mrs. Xu!” The Manager begged on his salesperson’s behalf.
Hearing that, the saleslady was stunned. Mrs. Xu? Asin the Xu family?! She immediately went to her knees and started kowtowing, “Forgive me, Mrs. Xu, I was blind for a moment!” She doesn’t have a death wish, nor would she be so brave as to lay her life down to be slaughtered by the Xu for blindly offending one of them.
Mrs. Xu smirked when she heard that but had no intention to let the salesperson go.
However, before she could speak further, the Manager barked at the saleslady. He knew she wasn’t at fault but an egoistic woman like Mrs. Xu should be allowed to have her way.
“Why did you barge in so impudently?!”
“S–sir, I came to inform you that the Lu brothers and their family have been on the third floor–”
“Wh–what Lu brothers?” The Manager stuttered in alarm. The two people who are mostly addressed as the ‘Lu brothers’ are Maverick and Rex. But he might be mistaken, which was why he questioned, not daring to believe his intuition. After all, Maverick or Rex wouldn’t come here to shop.
“Rex and–”
“You goddamned woman!!” The Manager yelled at the saleslady before he sped out without caring about Mrs. Xu and her husband who was in the changing cabin of the VIP room.
He didn’t entirely abandon them though, almost half of the staff were lined with their heads bowed to attend to the spoiled woman but she insisted that the Manager roam around with her.
The saleslady didn’t wait around, she also ran after her Manager.
Mrs. Xu was astonished. How dare that Manager abandon her because of Rex? Isn’t her husband, Davis, more important than Rex?
Mrs. Xu left what she bought and left the room, hoping to go cause some drama. Moreover, Davis told her a few days ago that the Organisation is unstable, so now, they can cause trouble for the Lu brothers and if possible, ki|| them.
…
Meanwhile, on the third floor, the Manager was seen bowing in front of Maverick with his body dripping sweat. No one told him the god of Country M had been waiting for so long. If he had known, he would have run here sooner.
While the Manager was praying for Alpha Chaos to not get mad, Maverick, on the other hand, didn’t care about the Manager and staff all lined in front of them with their heads bowed.
His eyes were closed as he rested his head on the headrest of his couch, same as Valen who was sitting close to him.
But troublesome Rex wanted to have fun.
“Manager, do you not want us in your store? We’ve been here for almost two hours and didn’t see you. That’s not too good, you know.”
“S–sorry Mr. Lu, I, I wasted ti–”
Rex didn’t let him finish and cut him off. “And what do you think you’re doing right now, Mr. Manager? Aren’t you wasting more time? Instead of you giving my sister-in-law the things she asked for, you ran down here without anything? Are you serious?” Rex raised a brow.
Jeslyn who was sitting beside him on a single sofa sighed. “Brother-in-law, please don’t be upset. He must have had another customer to attend to.”
Hearing the woman speaking up for him, the Manager felt like crying. She’s so nice, he thought.
“R–right away, you, hurry to the storeroom and bring out the new belt.” The Manager ordered one of the senior salesladies before he hurried to his office to get the cufflinks that were recently brought in.
Upstairs, Mrs. Xu saw everything but the only people she failed to see were Maverick and Valen.
She didn’t believe that Maverick would have the time to come shopping with Rex and Jeslyn regarding the chaos happening in the Dark Age Organization.
She believed that the back of the head she was seeing might likely be Rex’s friend or one of Rex or Jeslyn’s guards.
When the Manager returned, Xu smirked and slowly started to walk down the stairs from the fourth floor.
“So, because of Rex Lu, you abandoned me, Davis Xu’s wife, with a bunch of worthless salesladies? Impressive. The people of this Country never cease to amaze me,” She said.
Her words caught everyone else except Valen and Maverick’s attention.
Everyone looked back to see a pretty Young Lady walking down the stairs.
Jeslyn shook her head and returned her gaze to the new cufflinks that were brought.
“Manager, these two look good. And that belt too. Pack those for me,” she said.
“Y–yes, Ma’am.” Just as the Manager was about to pack them, Xu Davis’ so-called wife stopped him with her words.
“Why did you not tell me there are such dashing cufflinks? I’ve been thinking of buying my man something elegant and classy but couldn’t think of anything as gorgeous as this. Let me have them. That should be your payment to me for ignoring me.” She was still walking over and hadn’t seen the ‘lion’ who was sitting quietly on the couch with one leg over the other.
Valen finally got interested in the woman who dared to intentionally go against his mother in his presence. He got up and looked behind him. Seeing that his mother was prettier and classier, he snorted before sitting back down and closing his eyes to sleep with his head on his father’s arm.
The Manager was lost for a moment before he set his priorities straight.
Davis is wicked but Alpha Chaos is evil. Among the two families, he wouldn’t dare to offend any, but in a case like this, it was better to offend the less powerful. But before he could put himself in danger, Jeslyn came to his rescue.
“When it comes to causing trouble, you’re not fit. When it comes to power, your Xu family doesn’t hold a candle to my Lu family. When it comes to who got the goods first, I did. When it comes to handsomeness, your husband isn’t up to mine, so what makes you think you have the right to have eyes on my things?” Jeslyn raised a brow.
Perfect! Mrs. Xu thought.
“Oh ho, look who’s talking. The duck who wants to become a phoenix. Aren’t you the who*e that was accidentally slept with but kept the child just so Maverick would marry you? But when he didn’t, you abandoned the child and ran after other men? Hahaha… So, you think because you’re married to Maverick now, no one would know your story? I bet that when this rumor gets out, the ones flying around will be swept under the carpet for this is more interesting. Hahahaha…” She laughed mockingly.
Jeslyn smiled without denying anything. “Since you know my story so well, you should also know what I’ve done along the line, to people like you whose mouths are too wide that it can’t be covered with decent words. So, I won’t argue words with you… But let me tell you something, Catherine Kang.”
Isn’t it about formulating lies and deceiving the little audience that was slowly gathering? Isn’t it about whose lies are the best? Then Catherine has dug her own grave because Jeslyn, the Queen of Lies, was about to shred her to pieces.
“…You think that no one knows your story? Then you’re wrong. Does your boyfriend… oops, you said you both were married. Does he know about the trending video of you? There’s a video recently posted on the internet where I saw someone who looks like you, uttering Mõ@ɲing sounds under one of the Xu brothers…”
Jeslyn smiled when she saw Catherine’s widened eyes. About two of the people standing around already grabbed their phones to confirm but Jeslyn immediately said this;
“I won’t be surprised that the video can’t be found anymore. After all, you’re Davis’ woman and the teenager involved is his cousin.”
“Jeslyn! You–” Jeslyn cut her off and continued.
“Did no one tell you that sleeping with your man’s 16-year-old cousin is wrong? What will happen if Davis Xu finds out?
“…How about the rumor that says, you’ve been doing it for a very long time with your ex-boyfriends’ underaged siblings or Cousins.” Before Catherine could speak, Jeslyn beat her to it.
“That hobby is very bad and demonic, however, I won’t blame you much because sometimes it’s not the children’s fault. There’s a group that does much worse and normalizes it. They steal children from a young age and teach them forbidden stuff. It might be that you’re one of them–”
“Jeslyn!!! How dare you!” Catherine thundered. She was extremely angry, frustrated, and ashamed.
Everyone in the room, including Rex, was giving her dirty looks and it was making her uncomfortable.
She cannot refute the lie nor accept it as her brain was still in shock at how bad Jeslyn is. She never thought Jeslyn was this cunny and wicked. Jeslyn has no problem making people believe that she was from an occultic organization. So evil!
Well, if only she knew the next words Jeslyn was about to say, she wouldn’t call her evil so soon.
“Hehe, what? I wasn’t agitated when you said all those obvious lies about me just now. They say ‘a clean conscience fears no accusation’. I wasn’t mad when you lied and that was because I’m innocent but you, your agitation proves I’ve been right all along. You are a member of the Half–”
“Jeslyn, I’ll rip your mouth!!” Catherine couldn’t bear it anymore. Everyone was starting to point fingers at her. Some were even nodding to Jeslyn’s words like idiots.
Catherine felt humiliated which drove her to run towards Jeslyn who was all smiles, waiting for the b!tch to come closer.
But unfortunately, Davis didn’t let Jeslyn’s plans come to pass. He rushed down the stairs and grabbed his woman by the waist, stopping her from going forward.
“Jeslyn, I swear, I’ll ki|| you!!”
“You will? Since that’s the case, why don’t I just let you die before me?” Jeslyn looked around the store that had gathered quite several wealthy people and announced.
“Catherine, who parades herself as Davis Xu’s wife is a member of the Half-heart organization, known for their atrocious deed–”
“Jeslyn! How dare you!!?” Davis roared and pulled out a gun and pointed it at Jeslyn, ready to pull the trigger.
That one lie was enough to ruin his woman. The h@ťě for the people from the Half-Heart organization was no joke. People won’t care if Catherine was his woman before they will launch at her. But with a gun pointed at Jeslyn right now, nobody will move.
At that moment, Maverick finally opened his eyes and stood up with one hand in his pocket. He walked towards his wife, shocking everyone in the room that had no idea that he was sitting there all along.
Seeing Maverick, Davis and Catherine’s pupils dilated for a fleeting seconds before Davis put his gun away and said;
“So, you’re here and your wife is trying to put my woman in trouble? I’ll let this misunderstanding slide but next time, I won’t tolerate it if your wife runs her mouth like a broken record.” Davis tried to smoothen things over but Maverick had no time for him right now.
“Tsk, the women of the Xu family have indeed eaten a leopard’s guts.” Rex clicked his tongue.
Catherine saw him, yet dared to bully Jeslyn right in front of him. Wonderful. Even though Maverick wasn’t here, he would have person ally gunned Catherine down for blatantly disrespecting him.
Maverick ignored that statement and stood in front of his wife. He looked at her from head to toe before asking, “Are you hurt anywhere?”
Jeslyn smiled and shook her head, “I’m fine.”
He kissed his wife’s forehead before stretching his hand towards the direction of the door. In seconds, Code 2 walked in and handed Maverick a gun.