MY UNKNOWN HUSBAND, VOLUME 2 - Season 4 Episode 77

Nina’s phone buzzed.

Through droopy eyes, Nina looked up and reached out to answer it. In her sleepy state, she couldn’t see the phone number clearly.

“Hello?”

“Nina, good evening.” Vivian’s sprightly voice sounded in the phone as if she was talking to a long lost friend.

“Vivian?” Nina sat bolt upright in her bed, with shock in her heavy eyes.

Nina could only receive calls form numbers she had saved. How did Vivian manage to call her then?

Before Nina could even try to investigate, Vivian asked,

“Do you want to know how I am able to call you? Nina, you’ve really hidden yourself well. You are both the renowned artist Elk and the high-level hacker Elk. You must really like elks. No wonder Brother John has an elk pendant hung from his phone.”

Nina was stunned. She never thought that Vivian would find out her true identity. Nina always used the same alias because she was too lazy to come up with a bunch of different names.

Besides, Elk was such a common name that it only added to her protection. Over the years not a single person was suspicious of Elk, the hacker, and Elk, the artist, being the same person. Well, nobody suspected it until Vivian came around anyway.

She had underestimated Vivian.

With the breeze blowing, Vivian looked at the sea and sighed, “I really envy you. I envy you for having Brother John’s love. I envy that he has done a lot of things for you which he would have never done before.”

Nina frowned at Vivian’s downtrodden tone. Knowing how Vivian behaved, she knew that there was no way that she was calling for no reason.

“What’s the matter?” Nina said frankly. She had no energy to beat around the bush anymore.

Vivian smiled again. Instead of just answering Nina’s question, she started her games again. “Guess where I am.”

Vivian turned her phone to the sea breeze, letting it blow against her, wafting her hair and dress in the wind.

“Go ahead.” Hearing the sound of the sea wind, Nina frowned and got out of bed to draw the curtains. She looked at the desolate beach and the boundless sea. The sky looked a little gloomy as if it were about to rain.

Nina opened the window and the sea wind blew in, messing her hair up.

It seemed far too similar to what she heard from Vivian. Nina frowned and asked, “Are you in Spring City?”

“Yes, you are right. Congratulations!” Vivian smiled. “I’m not the only one here though, Brother John is as well.”

“Are you trying to tell me that he is with you?” With a sneer, Nina recalled what happened last night. She was so obviously disgusted that it sounded through the phone. “Don’t try your luck.

You were only lying together for a short while and he was so disgusted that he had to scrub his skin clean. There’s no way he would be around the likes of you.”

Vivian’s face turned pale. ‘Did John think I was dirty or something? I didn’t do anything or even get very close to him. I was just lying in the bed. Does he hate me that much?’

Vivian gritted her teeth and her face turned pale. She was squeezing her phone so tightly that at this rate, she was going to crush it in her hand

The soothing sea breeze calmed her down. She composed herself and gently said, “Nina, you are angry. You can believe him, but there’s no reason to try and upset me. You know that I love John very much, but he only has eyes for you,”
She initially called to taunt Nina, but she was the one who got mocked.

“Nina, Brother John didn’t come with me. He doesn’t know I’m here, but I have something to tell you. I followed you here. I happened to luckily get the same flight that he did though.” Actually, it wasn’t she was lucky that she got the same flight as John. She didn’t believe in luck.

She wanted to be on the plane with John so she had to make it happen. She knew others believed in fate but she only believed in herself.

Nina was stunned. ‘Has John really come to Spring City?

Why though?

Why didn’t he tell me?’

Nina kept her doubts to herself and turned her attention to Vivian. She calmly asked, “What do you want?”

“Brother John came to surprise you.”

Vivian didn’t care if she was spoiling anything. “He’s planning on proposing to you here, in Spring City. He’s been planning it for a while. When he wasn’t working, all he did was make calls to Spring City to arrange this whole affair for you. Surely you’ve noticed some difference in him lately, right?”

“Hmm.” Nina could only muster up a little snort. Her emotions were all over the place. One second she was happy and the next she was hit with a wave of sadness. She was sick of this emotional roller-coaster.

She was so excited to hear about this surprise but she couldn’t help wanting to go back in time so she could actually be surprised.

She should’ve ended the call when Vivian mentioned the word “surprise.”

She couldn’t help but feel like Vivian was constantly trying to vex her.

“Just get to the point. What do you want from me?” There was a hint of impatience in Nina’s cold voice.

She just wanted to see what John had in store for her now.

Although she knew he was going to propose, she still didn’t know how. Nina was still holding onto this glimmer of joy.

Vivian ignored her eagerness. She was just toying with Nina to carry out her plan at this point.

She stuck to her guns and said, “I concede. He’s clearly willing to do anything for you so there’s no point in me trying anymore. I’m never going to win his love. Forcing the issue won’t help me. There’s no point trying to achieve the impossible.”

“You’re giving up?” Nina was astonished.

What surprised her was not that Vivian said she wanted to give up, but rather that Vivian told her that she wanted to give up. Usually when a person has lost all their will, they prefer suffering in silence.

Nina just couldn’t trust her. Vivian had to have some tricks up her sleeve.

“Yes, I’m giving up. But before that, I have to do one last thing,” Vivian said seriously.

“Go ahead.” Obviously, Nina knew she wasn’t going to give up without a fight. She raised her eyebrows and rolled her eyes.

Vivian finally got to the point. “After Brother John proposes, come to the seaside. I’ll wait for you by the massive reef. I won’t hurt you. If you don’t trust me, you can bring him as well.”

Nina asked suspiciously, “You’re going to allow me to bring him?”

She thought, ‘This isn’t like her. Is she actually going to give up? Is that why she’s so calm?’

“Yes. I have a little condition though. Don’t let Brother John know that I’m here. Just tell him that you want to go to the beach for a while and ask him to come with you.” Vivian’s eyes beamed cunningly but she managed to keep composed over the phone.

“Just ask him to come with you. If he doesn’t want to, you have to come alone.”

Nina was too curious to see her plot to turn it down, so she responded, “I know.”
“See you then. Even though I hope he comes, I don’t think he will.” Vivian hung up the phone without saying another word.

Nina was a little confused.

‘How does she know that john won’t go with me’.