"Hey, Mochi, Happy New Year! Have you seen the red packet that I've sent you?"

"Boss, it's a two cents red packet. Can you not sound so proud of it?"

"Isn't two cents money as well? You're not grateful at all".

"Boss". Jimin's voice suddenly became a little mysterious.

"Mm? What?"

"If you're willing to give me three pairs of limited edition sneakers, I'll tell you a shockingly secret!"

"Sure, bring Grand writing brush here. I'll draw it for you. What brand do you want? Adidas or Celine?"

"...."

The third was Jeon Jungkook.

"Hey, Ice Dog, Happy New Year! Have you seen the red packet that I've sent you?"

"Mm". Jungkook was laughing.

From his laughter, Lisa visualized an image in her mind. In it, Jungkook's lashes were lowered as he laughed lightly, looking gentle, intoxicating and absolutely delicious. Lisa's face immediately reddened. She aske him, "What are you doing?"

"Lazing about at home. Visiting relatives tomorrow. You?"

"I'm at my grandparent's house. Waiting to collect money later, hehe".

Jungkook laughed again. Even though they only chatting about mundane things as plain as water, neither of them felt bored.

After hanging up her call with Jungkook, Lisa flipped through her missed call list again. The rest were from people like Yeonjun and Jaehyun. She did not feel like speaking to them and returned messages filled with sincere New Year's wishes instead.

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On the fourth day of Chinese New Year, Lisa went to visit Teacher Lee who recently gave birth.

As it was the New Year, numerous people had family activities while some of them did not even live in Lake City. Therefore the number of students who went to visit Teacher Lee was only slightly more than ten.

Teacher Lee used to be a slender beauty. Now, she was plumper by a round like blown balloon. However, she was smiling a lot more and quite spirited after giving birth. Teacher Lee wanted to ask her students to stay for lunch but she was still in the midst of postpartum confinement and it was inconvenient for her. As everyone did not want to trouble  Teacher Lee, they planned to have lunch outside instead.

Before bidding farewell to Teacher Lee, everyone took a group photo with her and the baby.

After they left, they discussed where to have lunch. Eunha was one of those who came down today and Lisa did not hide their hostility towards each other. She saw Eunha interacting closely with the other classmates and did not want to participate in their conversation. She waved her hand and said, "I still have something going on at home. You guys go ahead".

"Don't". Eunha tugged her arm, making it seem like the two of them were close. "We're all scattered over the country after going to university. It's rare for us to gather so let's have this meal together?"

"My uncle is coming to my house today and his red packet is always over a thousand yuan. How about compensate me for it?"

Eunha released her silently.

Since Lisa was not eating, Jimin felt that he would be a traitor if he stayed. Thus, he followed Lisa and left.

On the way back, Lisa saw Eunha updated her moments with the photo that they took at teacher Lee's place earlier. Eunha photoshopped everyone to look better except for Lisa. In fact, Lisa felt that Eunha might have done the opposite and photoshopped her to look uglier.

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