"My life motto is to walk on other people's paths and leave them with no path," Lisa jokingly said.

Just then, Haruto secretly tugged on his sister's sleeve...

"Noona, come here for a moment."

"What's up?"

"Did Wonyoung say that she would come? Why isn't she here yet?"

"Oh, right, I'll call her again." After speaking, Lisa took out her phone and dialed Wonyoung's number again.

"Hey, unnie."

"Won, are you here yet?"

"Not yet... unnie, I might not be able to go." Wonyoung's voice was a little hoarse.

"What happened?"

"I... I'm not feeling that well... I am really sorry."

"Oh, that's okay. Since you're not feeling well, you should rest at home. I'll treat you to food some other time."

After hanging up the call, Lisa frowned...

Now, it wasn't only Haruto, even Lisa felt like something was wrong...

This wasn't like the girl who liked to join in on the fun. What on earth happened?

"What did she say, noona?" Haruto anxiously asked.

"She said she couldn't come because she wasn't feeling well."

"I knew it." Haruto was a little disappointed.

She didn't come to JC's thirtieth-year-anniversary party because she said that she was moving and she had to see if she had time.

Today, his sister invited her to dinner, and Wonyoung still didn't come. Something must've happened to her, but she's refusing to tell him.

"Don't think about it too much, I'll go ask her tomorrow."

"Alright." Haruto nodded and returned to the seat with a defeated expression on his face.

Lisa and Jungkook returned to the main seats...

Bambam, Chaeyoung, Jennie, Taehyung, Haruto, Lisa's mother, along with Lisa and Jungkook were present.

There were eight people in total, and they were all pretty close with each other. Of course, Jennie brought over Taehyung, and he belonged to Jimin's social circle.

"Come, let's make a toast to congratulate the graduation of Doctor Lisa."

"Auntie... you've raised a genius daughter," Jennie laughed and said.

"Lisa has been smart since she was a kid... I was wondering and even told her Uncle Watanabe that Lisa wasn't stupid like me or evil like her biological father. She's smart and has a good heart. It's almost like she's not my daughter," Lisa's mother lamented...

After Lisa heard what her mother said, she exchanged a look with Jungkook...

This topic was quite sensitive and important to Lisa, but it looked like her mother still didn't know the truth.

"Perhaps Lisa had a genetic mutation," Bambam added.

"Do you think my girl is a chimpanzee? Genetic mutation...? Look at your wild imagination, why don't you just say that she's an alien?" Chaeyoung argued with Bambam.

"From what I see, you seem to be an alien, one from Planet Poison-Tongue. Is everyone with your horoscope so vile? You have a built-in poisonous tongue..." Bambam jested.

"Screw you cop..."

The two's argument made everybody howl with laughter...

"Everyone, drink up tonight. You can stay here tonight too, we have a lot of guest bedrooms."

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