Spending the Villain's Money to Stay Alive
ChuChu¹
The cell phone next to Taehyung vibrated.
It vibrated two more consecutive times and finally Taehyung was woken up from his deep, pitch-black sleep.
He opened up his eyes groggily. The room was pitch black except for a sliver of light shining in through a crack in front of him.
Taehyung rotated his sore neck a little bit and slightly moved his legs that were still crossed.
Did he dozed off while he was reading again?
Picking up his cell phone that was next to his thigh, he squinted his eyes and looked at the screen.
After the strong light from the screen hit his eyes, his face darkened.
He distinctly remembered dying in a multiple-car accident.
Recalling the gruesome scene from the accident, painful memories flooded back to him, he turned pale and broke up into a cold sweat.
While he frowned and sorting out his memories, his cell phone buzzed a couple more times.
[Young Master Hyunwoo is on his way up!]
Taehyung paused for a second.
And what were they talking about?
Before he could figure out what was going on, he felt a cold breeze on him. He looked down at himself. Under the dim light of the screen, he saw that the only thing he had on was a spaghetti-strap chemise.
He was stunned. A slight movement of his arm, and he hit the wooden board in front of him!
It made a small banging noise and he was even more confused.
Kim Taehyung
“What… is this? A closet?”
Taehyung felt up and down, then left and right around himself. This was getting more bizarre.
He was sitting inside a small and narrow wooden chest and on both sides of him were rows and rows of man’s suits.
Which was to say that right now he was sitting inside a man’s closet with its doors closed.
He was just about to open up the closet door when he suddenly heard a man’s voice from outside the room.
Taehyung froze in mid-action.
The next moment, with a creaking sound, the room door outside of the closet was opened.
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“Mmm, Lixue , I need to talk to my brother about something and I will be downstairs shortly,”
Came a male voice that was gentle like jade.
Taehyung's groggy brain finally had it all strung together from that line.
Young Master Hyunwoo…. Brother…. Lixue ….. closet…..
BOOM! And all the memories flooded his brain.
That was the cliché novel that he was reading in the taxi.
Kim Taehyung , the cannon fodder in the story, was born into wealth, but was accidentally switched at birth with the fake young mistress Kim Lixue, the daughter of a peasant family.
The Kim's and the Jeon's were to form an alliance through marriage and the Kim's didn’t want the fake young mistress with heart disease to live a hard life. So, after a few days of Taehyung returning to the Kim's, it was decided that he was to marry the boss villain Jeon Jungkook, the very unfortunate, lonely, wife-cursing First Young Master of the Jeon's.
Further, he was sent to live in Jeon Jungkook's mansion after the engagement ceremony.
The one he was fond of, however, was the Jeon's second young master Jeon Hyunwoo.
Abruptly, Taehyung reached up and covered his face with his palms.
No way! Did he really transmigrated to become a cannon fodder character who has the same name as him?
Jeon Hyunwoo
“ Ge , you asked me to come over to discuss the Kim's, but where are you?”
Again came Jeon Hyunwoo's gentle voice from the other side of the closet.
( Ge – how one addresses one’s older brother.)
Taehyung opened his mouth.
As the story would go, the cannon fodder character really wanted to become a couple with Jeon Hyunwoo, which was why he bribed the servant to help trick Jeon Hyunwoo into the room when he came to visit while he hid in the closet and jump into his arms when the time was right.
How in the hell did he end up transmigrated into such a cliché novel?
He definitely couldn’t go out right now, but….
Taehyung touched his spaghetti strap on himself and was a bit lost. Should he get out after Jeon Hyunwoo was gone?
Jeon Hyunwoo
“Ge? Was that you in the bathroom?”
He then heard the rustling sound of the shower curtain being pulled open.
The sound of Jeon Hyunwoo's footsteps continued throughout the room; obviously, he was still looking for the missing person.
Author✨
It's a Chinese novel which I'm converting in Taekook au...
Author✨
I only read taekook stories that's why ( if anyone's asked? idk)
Author✨
But my friend recommended it and I read it just lil and liked it alot
Author✨
so for me to read it completely it should be taekook story....that's how it is
Author✨
Original Name : sᴘᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠɪʟʟᴀɪɴ's ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴛᴏ ᴇxᴛᴇɴᴅ ᴍʏ ʟɪғᴇ.
Author✨
Anything else? I've to say? idk
Author✨
but it's a funny story with system....
Author✨
And chuchu doesn't mean anything it's just I'm tired of writing episode
Author✨
Also, I'll use Chinese words only....let's learn some Chinese words too....
ChuChu²
Squinting his eyes, Taehyung thought about the rest of the story in the book.
Kim Taehyung , the cannon fodder, was betrayed by the servant and his plan was discovered by Jeon Hyunwoo. He, on the other hand, wasn’t interested in him at all. Worst so, he was a vicious one – he had the servant waited outside the room and go get Jeon Jungkook as soon as Kim Taehyung jumped out.
Which was how his fiancé was right there when he professed his love for his brother. And, the servant who pretended to be serving tea also witnessed the scene. His poor reputation spread among the upper class overnight.
The cannon fodder support character’s engagement was called off, and he was booted out of the Kim's and he ended up killing himself at the start of the story.
So…. he became the cannon fodder who didn’t make it through three days?!
Jeon Hyunwoo
“Ge? Are you not in the room?”
Hyunwoo’s voice was getting closer. He was slowly but steadily getting closer and closer to where the closet was.
With a softer voice, Hyunwoo suddenly switched to calling out for him,
Taehyung felt goosebumps instantly.
He held his breath right away and didn’t dare to move a muscle. He worried that any small noise from him would give away his whereabouts.
As soon as he opened up the closet doors, he would come face to face with this asshole hidden under the appearance of a morally upstanding man!
How would he explain why he was hiding inside the closet?
Hyunwoo stopped in front of the largest closet in the room within a fraction of a second.
With only the closet door between the two of them, Taehyung thought he could even heard the steady breathing sound coming from him.
The distance between the two was less than the span of an arm.
Taehyung's heart was about to stop.
Through the very narrow crack between the closet doors, the light that seemed to have come from outside the window flicked quickly and a shadow casted down on him.
Hyunwoo's hand was on top of the handle of the closet door!
With a slight creaking noise, the door opened up a little bit.
The stream of light widened by two folds!
He clutched his chest. Pale and ready to accept his fate, he closed his eyes. Suddenly, he then heard a cold and impatient voice,
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“What are you doing in my room?”
Contrary to the tender voice of Hyunwoo, this coarse voice immediately gave people the creeps, and a feeling of impending danger that should not be taken lightly.
Every single hair on Taehyung's skin stood up. Was he so nervous earlier that he missed his footstep?
This was the original owner’s fiancé, Jeon Jungkook?
He never jumped out of the closet, so theoretically the maid never reported him to Jeon Jungkook , so would the storyline continue on like it should?
The tragic ending of the original owner made his body freez, and all his blood rushed into his brain!
As though he was shocked by electricity, Jeon Hyunwoo immediately pulled his hand back from the closet door.
Taehyung's heart was about to bounce out of his throat. He worried that he would tell on him.
Jeon Hyunwoo
“Ge, I heard that you were looking for me,”
Explained Jeon Hyunwoo quickly.
Jeon Jungkook
“That was not true.”
The voice was still cold and the impatience in the voice more so than before,
Jeon Jungkook
“Get out, and send people in to disinfect.”
Whatever Jeon Hyunwoo was going to say, he swallowed the rest of his words.
Taehyung listened as attentively as he could and finally heard footsteps getting farther and farther away. He gathered that Hyunwoo was finally gone and let out a big sigh.
His possibly wife-cursing fiancée was a severe germaphobe and that had just worked to his advantage.
The disinfecting team probably wouldn’t pull open the closet door right away? He should be safe then.
But, right before he could relax himself, his left eye started twitching like mad.
( It’s a bad omen when your left eye twitches.)
Immediately he squatted there motionlessly like a quail.
Sure enough, almost a whole minute had passed before he heard noises from inside the room again. He could smell cologne, the scent of sandalwood, in his nose.
His legs, which had been crossed this entire time, were already starting to get numb, yet he still didn’t dare to move a muscle.
His instant fiancé seemed to have stopped right in front of the closet, like he was observing the closet?
Author✨
it has comedy! like i laughed alot when I read...
ChuChu³
Feeling extremely nervous, Taehyung grabbed the sleeves of the suits closest to him and balled them up in his palms.
Holding his breath, he listened intently to any noises from the outside.
It sounded like his fiancé was now flipping through a book on the outside, the sound it made was crisp and clear. It seemed like he’d be here for a while.
Taehyung bit down on his lips. He had no choice but to continue to kneel inside the closet and tried to remember more about this man.
In the story, Jeon Jungkook seemed to have cursed his father and his grandfather to death.
( “Curse” in this context was not that he voluntarily putting a spell on anyway, but that his “luck” was so bad that people die around him. Same meaning when referencing to him cursing his wives earlier in the story.)
He had been treated like a virus and isolated by his birth mother since he was a child. He was a cold and proud individual whose personal net worth had well exceeded that of the entire Jeon's Corporation a long time ago.
In the novel, his only role was to facilitate the relationship between the male and female leads. It wasn’t a big role, and he also died quite early on.
Taehyung wrapped his arms around his knees. He, too, was someone who was supposed to die….
While he was thinking, Taehyung carefully remove a man’s jacket from the hanger under the cover of the sound of pages being turned and put it over his own shoulder that was getting cold.
And, what should his next move be?
Taehyung bit down on his lips and clenched his fists. To live!
Now that he was able to have a second chance in life, he would do anything within his power to stay alive for as long as he could!
Death was too painful. It made him shudder just from thinking about it. He didn’t want to experience that again casually.
Taehyung made up his mind from inside the closet.
Yet, from the stuffiness of the closet, the lack of food, and from being tense the entire time, he started passing out shortly thereafter…
The sun was starting to set, and the room was getting dark quickly.
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“Young Master, we will take off now.”
A coarse voice and a simple but powerful response.
Jeon Jungkook waved his hand and dismissed the butler and the maid that was following behind him.
His cold, dark eyes swept passed the guest room at the end of the hallway, and a sliver of impatience flashed through his eyes. Another fiancée that was pushed onto him; did these people really think he has unlimited patience?
Jeon Jungkook
“Throw that boy out tomorrow!”
Neither the butler nor the maids dare to argue with him. All they could do was to lower their heads and bowed.
After he had taken a cold bath and wrapped a towel around himself, Jeon Jungkook walked in front of the closet and opened its doors.
When the doors were just half opened, a big ball with a hint of sweet fruit fragrance rolled out with a loud noise and fell right into his chest!
Jeon Jungkook reflexively reached out to block this object that was coming at him. When he pushed forward, what he felt was a boy as soft as snow. His face darkened and his action froze!
He looked down and saw a boy with black hair down to his shoulder, a small face elegant like in a painting, wrapped up in one of his custom suits.
His clothes were so much bigger and darker than his delicate body that, when wrapped around him, made him look even more petite and white.
Taehyung's red lips were opened slightly. He was dreaming about happy days when he was counting money and he thought he was sleeping with a big, yellow dog in his chest. Happily, he reached out to pat the dog’s fuzzy head and drooled.
Jeon Jungkook, about to explode and with his eyes filled with the calmness before the storm, didn’t expect to be patted by that small hand of him. Immediately, he froze.
Taehyung, on the other hand, was jerked awake from the fall. He focused his limpid eyes and saw the close up of the cold man’s handsome face.
At this very moment, he heard an electrical chime:[Orange alert!]
[Life remaining: 9 minutes and 1 second!]
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