Chapter 270 - 269: The Truth About J
"What's going on? Shouldn't I be the one asking you that question instead?"
"Wh-at do yo-u mean?" Jin Jie stuttered as he nervously asked her.
'Does she already know what I am up to?' He asked himself.
"You know me J. I hate traitors and pretenders. Especially if the people who backstabbed family members." Eunji meaningfully said.
"Tell me J. Why? Why did you dare to do it?" She continued.
"Eunji...what do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about." He tried to deny.
"Really? Where should I start then?" Eunji asked with a scoff.
"Stealing funds from my company and depositing it to an unknown bank account overseas. Using some of the KSA agents for your own benefits. Arranging someone to harm my husband and indirectly participating in my accident. How do you plead?" Eunji asked.
"That's nonsense. Eunji I would never do all of that." He said.
"If you're the original J, I'll believe you." Eunji said.
Then seconds later like on cue, the door of the room opened and someone walked-in inside the room who was wearing a mask.
The man lying on the bed frowned as he saw the person getting inside the room and was wearing the familiar eagle mask.
Angelina wondered why Eagle had come. Maybe he was asked by Eunji to do something for her.
Ignoring everyone's curious gaze, Eagle removed the mask and revealed his face to them.
The man lying on the bed was shocked.
Who wouldn't? You would be shock to see another person having the same face as you did. But was that really the case?
Angelina was also confused. Especially when she saw two Jin Jie inside this room. One that was standing and one was lying on the bed in front of her.
"Eve." J greeted Eunji.
"Mm." Eunji greeted him back and they made their usual handshake. Something that only them was familiar and could do.
"Wait, what's going on?" Angelina asked no one in particular but she was obviously addressing it to the person who could gave her an answer.
Eunji only gave her an apologetic look and mouthed 'I'm sorry' to her before she continued interrogating the man.
"And, how about pretending to be J all this time? I salute you for your handwork and dedication." Eunji chuckled as she looked at him with a taunting gaze.
"Ling Bao, how long do you plan to deceive me and everyone?" Eunji asked the man lying in bed coldly.
Hearing his cover was already blown up, the man lying on the bed felt fear deep inside and it was obvious on the surface.
***Flashback***
Almost Two years ago....
Three days before the accident happened, Eunji received a message from J that someone was closely following and monitoring his every actions.
That's why he warned Eunji to be extra careful especially when J had this feeling that it might affect Eunji as well.
On the day of the accident, J was going to the location where the woman who sent that email to Eunji was staying.
When he was going near, an armed van stopped them mid-way and J was forced out of the van. All of their men were killed on the spot. Then that man who looked exactly like him replaced him and his men.
So the person who arrived in the hospital was not actually J but the impostor.
And J on the other hand was brought in this unknown place and was held captive there for a month.
He was left there to starve to death.
J soon found out that the people behind these were actually his family and the Ling. And the impostor who was exploiting his identity was actually Ling Bao who had undergone plastic surgery to look like him.
They had exhausted all of their remaining resources for this plan to succeed together with the backing of a mysterious person from overseas whom they had convinced to have a business deal with should they succeed.
After all, QPRC Inc was like a hot pie for everyone given it's newly established reputation in the field of hotel and accommodation.
They wanted to kill Eunji so they could take over both KSA and QPRC, Inc.
They wanted to replace J's position as the manager of QPRC, Inc. and that of KSA. They somehow managed to find out his connection to KSA. He blamed himself for not being careful enough.
Well, that was the plan. But unfortunate for them, Eunji was actually alive.
So Ling Bao rushed to South Korea to be with her in J's place.
Everything was sailing smoothly according to their plan but then J happened to free himself from being a captive a week after he was told that Eunji had contacted him and told him that she was alive and was on Seoul and needed his help.
He was fuming in anger after he knew that Ling Bao had already flown to Seoul to replace him. So he looked for ways to escape and he successfully did. He then faked his own death just like what Eunji did to fool everyone.
No news of his death was announce or it would spoilt their scheme.
And J used that as his advantage.
The original J immediately went to look for Eunji and when he successfully did he warned her of what was going on exactly. And told her of what he had known and what was their plan all along.
Good thing Eunji learned all of these earlier making her and J to formulate their strategy on how to handle their current situation.
After coming up with a detailed plan, she then started to limit the fake J's movement inside ELEK and KSA.
***End of Flashback***
She felt sorry for Angelina for not knowing this beforehand. Well, she had reminded her that J should not be trusted really.
It was already late when she found out that the two was involved in this no strings attached arrangement.
But then, Angelina was clearly falling for the guy and she was in denial of her feelings.
And that's when Eunji knew all of these nonsense should stop.
As for the Ling and the Jin, she had them closely monitored and made them think that they had succeeded on their plan.
That also means losing almost a billion dollars in the process.
But would she really let them off the hook considering what they had schemed behind her back?
Of course not!
As for J. He had been hiding on the shadows. Keeping in tabs with what the fake J was doing and his family.
He would sometimes intercept their operations and they didn't know it was actually the real J whom they thought was actually dead.
Eunji and him made this very detailed plan.
Eunji used the memory transfer method that she and Ana had undergone back then.
It would usually be Eunji who would intercept Ling Bao and knocked him off with sedatives. The moment he passed out, J would then go into that meeting place.
After the meeting, J would then come back to Eunji and they would do the same method again.
So Ling Bao would know what had happened as if it was actually him who met them.
And all of these happened at this very place. In one of the rooms here, that machine that made everything possible was resting. And no one else knew about it except from her, J and Master Liu.
Thanks to the drug paired with hypnotism, their plan went well. Unfortunately, this should come to a stop.
The continuous recopying and transferring of memory from one person to another had side effects when they had reached a certain number of sessions though.
And they had already reached that limit so they decided to stop.
Going back to the present, Eunji smiled in gratitude as she looked at J.
She was thankful of his help even if it would make him turn his backs against his own family.
J was never a selfish person and knew of his limits. He also respected and had been genuinely happy with Eunji's decision to marry Nathan which was contrast to his current behavior. A proof that it was not actually him.
You may copy someone's face but you could never imitate a person's genuine attitude and behavior.
They also underestimated J and Eunji's bonding that was more than that of being siblings.
Good thing they didn't know of her true background as an ex-assassin as J, Alora and Eunji had made sure to sensor that information from unimportant people.
And the Jin and the Ling didn't knew what she had been doing when they were not watching her.
"No! Eunji! Don't be fooled by that person. This is the real me! He's an impostor!" He insisted to continue on his lie.
"Oh?" She raised her brew a little in amusement.
"Ling Bao, don't you have any shame at all?" She asked him.
"Do you really think you could fool me completely?" She continued.
"The first time I met you in Seoul I knew that something was off about you. Alas! A month later, J, my brother showed up and told me everything proving that you were actually an impostor!" Eunji spat coldly at him.
"No! That's not true!" He yelled as he tried his best to deny it.
But then Eunji smiled at him coldly.
"You're lying! Why? Why do you insist that I'm a fake? I have been with you since--"
"Since when?" Eunji asked him but obviously he didn't have an answer.
Eunji and J never talked to others aside from those trusted people when and how they got acquainted from the very beginning.
"Since..."
"If I were you, I would just stop pretending." Eunji rolled her eyes as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Eunji, you knew all of these yet you didn't tell me?" Angelina asked Eunji in a betrayed tone.
"I did tell you a couple of times that I no longer trusted him. It might not be explicitly done but I sure did. I didn't ask you to get involved with him, did I?" Eunji stated in a matter-of-fact tone hoping that Angelina's judgment won't be clouded and judged her wrongly for what she had done.
Of course Eunji had to be careful. Even to her. There were things that should be left unsaid even to the person you trusted the most.
"I understand." Angelina said softly.
She's not someone who didn't realize and recognize her mistake.
Well, she could not blame no one but herself for what she ended up now.