Second Lead Syndrome: A Second Chance Chapter 120 - Kris' Story - Novel Cool

Second Lead Syndrome: A Second Chance Chapter 120 - Kris' Story

"And then there is Gary. This whole self-realization made me be more aware of those who had always care for me."

Kris refilled Lena's glass for her. "Do you like him?" He was finally able to ask the question that was somehow itching in the back of his brain the last few days.

"Of course!" Kris' heart stopped beating again. "He's my bestest friend! He will be my best man when I get married."

Kris' heart started pumping blood again. Lena has been giving him heart attack all day! Kris needs to ask Tye for some heart medicine.

"And then Hazel can be my bridesmaid. And don't tell me I cannot have a best man and bridesmaid. I am the bride so I can have whatever I want!"

Kris laughed at her comment. Lena started humming and sipping from her glass again. Kris looked at his glass but did not drink from it.

"I was a sick child." Kris finally spoke and Lena stopped humming. She looked at him. This was the first time he was saying something personal about himself.

"Not born sick, but after my mom got into the accident." Kris paused, trying to use the correct words. "The replacement for my mom made me sick."

"So the rumored Li mistress is real?" Tye said yes to her question before but now Kris just confirmed it.

"I wouldn't call her a mistress exactly. My dad did not want her. It was my grandparents that pushed my dad to take her in." Kris grabbed his glass of wine and went to stand by the window. It was dark outside, and the night sky was full of stars. "The Li family is cursed. I don't know the story exactly, but the Li family was cursed to only have one son and no other children. The son must only marry once and his son will carry on the curse. For long generations now, there has only been one son.

My ancestors built an empire to protect the male heir so that he would never die and continue the line. My grandfather forced my father and my mom together because she had royal bloodline. Having connection to the Wang family was important for my grandfather. Not only that, he heard that the Wang family can break their curse. Even though the marriage was arranged, my parents did love each other.

But when my mother was in a coma, my grandfather forced my father to take in another woman. He went with the excuse that I needed a mother. But in his mind, he believed that the curse was already gone. My father had to take care of the empire so for him, she was just a nanny."

Kris sat on the edge of the window and looked back at Lena who has her eyes closed on the soda. "Are you asleep?"

She opened her eyes. "No. I'm listening. Continue."

Kris took a sip of wine. He remembered when Tye told him to get drunk and just tell her everything. He guessed that is what he was doing now but Lena was the one who was getting drunk. He noticed that the bottle was already empty. He went to the cabinet and grabbed two more out for her. Maybe she will forget all of this tomorrow morning. He went back and sat on the window edge.

"For her though, she wanted to get into his bed. She had the support of my grandfather, so she used all kinds of tricks. But my father barely gave her an eye. So she went for me instead, a little boy. She took me to the park that day. I could remember it clearly still. She stabbed me on my stomach and told my father that we got attacked. That made my father took a week off work and stayed with us."

"Why did you not tell your dad the truth?"

"I was little. She told me that if I did she would kill me mother. And I know it was just not a taunt, she had tried before."

"So what happened next?"

"Her trick only worked for awhile before my father went back to work. She knew that using me was working so she continued to keep my wound opened. It got infected many times. Everyone around the house was her people. The doctors, the workers, the guards. She used other things to make me sick even after my wound healed. I don't remember how long it went for, I stopped feeling the pain."

Kris turned around again and looked out the window. "On my eight birthday, I killed her." Kris eyes were dark, like he had no emotions from that at all. "My father was drinking that day and I knew she did something with his drink. When she was going to his room, I hit her with a vase and pushed her down the stairs. She died… along with the bastard child she had with the guard."

Kris tuned around to face Lena and laughed. "Do you think I am a monster? An eight-year old who killed someone with no single remorse?"

Lena giggled. Kris could tell that she was definitely drunk now. The two new bottles he gave her was opened and only one was left half empty.

"No.." She giggled in her high pitch voice. Lena stared at Kris. "You probably went to cry to your mommyyyy." Even in her drunk and unstable state, she could feel that Kris has calmed a bit from before when he was looking out the window. "If you cried, then you can still feel." She spoke and took the bottle and drank directly from it. "NEXT! I want more story time!"

Kris walked to Lena and grabbed the bottle from her. He chugged the rest of it down and slammed the bottle on the table. "My father did not care about the woman but only worried about the son he had neglected to take care because he spent most of his time on the company and caring for his wife. He wanted to send me abroad but my grandfather interfered again. For my grandfather, I was a perfect grandchild. A person who cannot feel pain nor remorse for others. A perfect tool and shield for the Li family and our enemies.

He took me away from my father. Put me into the world that made me who I am mostly today, a cold heartless monster." Kris did not really want to go into more details about what he did in the underworld. "When my mom woke up, she stared at her sweet son who was like a possessed devil, who only know how to kill. I recognized that she was my mom, but I don't even know what that word was anymore. She cried and try to hug me and instead, i pointed a gun to her head."

Kris eyes got watery but he closed his eyes and just took a deep breath. "She used her Wang family power to steal me back from my grandfather. Took me all over the world to help me."

Lena put her legs to the sofa and hugged it. "Did your grand daddy steal you back?"

"Heh..no." Kris raised up his lips. Lena could feel the chill in the room so she cuddled herself in. "I went back to him instead a few years later and pulled a gun to his head instead. By that point, the old man knew that his perfect grandson was not perfect, but a devil. A devil that he personally raised and now can't control. I took his position in the underworld, and left the old man with nothing but his name."

Chapter end

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