After Jennie left, everyone in the Manoban family gathered around and kept their distance so as to keep Lisa feel comfortable, carefully inquiring what happened in the Kim family tonight.
"Lisa, what did Jennie's parents say?" Gong Yo wasn't even this nervous when Manoban's company was listed in the market.
"Did they agree with your marriage with Jennie?" Go Eun asked more specifically.
What she wanted to ask had all been asked by the Manoban father and mother, so Jisoo just stayed silent and waited for her brother's answer.
Lisa kept walking as she passed through the living room, stepped up the stairs and went up the second floor only to respond with three words: "They didn't agree." After saying this, she continued and walked forward, locking herself up inside her bedroom.
"Didn't agree?" The three people of Manoban family formed a circle at the bottom of the stairs.
"Well, in fact, it's understandable." Gong Yo was more rational than his wife, although his heart was a little bit sour, but he can still think from the viewpoint of Jennie's parents. If he was her parents instead, he wouldn't want his daughter to marry a mentally abnormal person.
"I already said that we shouldn't let Lisa go there alone." Jisoo has a bit of regret.
Lisa was a taciturn person, and her cognitive brain was different from that of a normal person. Even if someone scold her, she wouldn't necessarily react with anything, Jisoo also didn't know if her brother had received any grievances in the Kim family this night or not. Usually, when she was in the Manoban company, she wished that she could place Lisa's office right before her own eyes.
"Jisoo, arrange someone to prepare appropriate gifts. Me and your mother will personally visit Kim family." Gong Yo thought for a moment and decided to go there himself.
"Then, what if they still don't agree?" Jisoo asked.
"Then we could only give up. We can't force people to marry their daughter to our family." This possibility wasn't without reason.
"Then what about Lisa? Lisa really love Jennie, didn't you see how she looked so frustrated when she came back just then?" Thinking about this possibility, Go Eun couldn't help but be worried.
"Lisa felt frustrated?" Gong Yo was surprised. Wasn't his son looked as stiff as usual?
"Of course she was, you men are just careless and can't see it clearly."
Jisoo who also didn't see this, looked away silently.
"In short, whatever the Kim family thinks, we have to give our utmost sincerity." Gong Yo made a decision.
Jennie returned home and foud that her parents were no longer inside the living room. She paused slightly and went to her father's study in the first floor.
Raising her hand, she knocked twice on the door before entering it.
"Just ask if you have something to ask." calmly walking to the front of her father's desk, Jennie knew that during the time she sent Lisa away, her parent's messy thoughts has already been sorted out.
"Is it true that you married Lisa?" Until now, Ji Hyun still couldn't believe the fact that her daughter was married.
"It's true." Jennie said earnestly, "Me and Lisa received our marriage certificate on the day when Grandma Manoban died. That day was too busy, you guys also had to supervise a test at school, so I didn't have the time to tell you until now."
"The day when Teacher Nam died? Then it was in these past few days right? When we went to Teacher Nam's memorial service, the Manoban family said nothing." Min Ho frowned.
"Perhaps they thought that it was so sudden."
"What do you mean?" Ji Hyun was puzzled.
"There have been too many things that happened in these past few days. They also only knew that I was married to Lisa abruptly, furthermore, Grandma Manoban died that day, they probably haven't had the time to sort things up." Jennie explained.
"Then, what do the Manoban family think of your marriage?" Min Ho asked. If they were also caught off guard like them, then what would be their reaction towards this then?
"Actually..." Jennie smiled bitterly. "When I was at the graveyard, Lisa's mother also asked me whether I planned to continue this marriage or not."
"What did she mean?" Ji Hyun asked sensitively.
"Lisa's mother said, although she hoped that Lisa can have a partner in her life, but she wouldn't impose it on anyone who's not willing."
"..." After hearing their daughter's recount, Kim family's father and mother's heart felt even heavier. This statement showed that they didn't persuaded her when she married Lisa, it was entirely their daughter's willingness.
"Why do you want to marry Lisa?" Ji Hyun can't understand it, "Was it because of Teacher Nam's last wish?"
As a neighbor for many years, Ji Hyun's relationship with Grandma Manoban has always been good and she naturally knew what Grandma Manoban was thinking. In the past, when Grandma Manoban talked to her about Lisa's future, Ji Hyun even optimistically persuaded Grandma Manoban, saying that there will be a girl that could appreciate Lisa regardless of her defects.
But human nature is always like this. Being a bystander and being someone involved, of course there would be differences in attitude. She would admired the girl who would take care of Lisa's life regardless of her special circumstances, but she didn't want this girl to be her own daughter.
Like the heroine with a beautiful heart in the movies, everyone appreciates the heroine's dedication and tolerance towards John Nash (American mathematician who has mental illness ), but not everyone has the courage to experience the sufferings she went through.
"I love Lisa." this was the answer Jennie gave to her parents.
She knew, for her parents, there was nothing that could surpass this reason. In order to convince her parents further, Jennie continued and added, "Actually, I already liked her a long time ago. You also know that I used to go to Lisa's house the most. So when Lisa ran here and proposed to me a few days ago, I was so happy that I agreed to it without thinking."
"Lisa suddenly proposed to you, have you ever thought that it might only be for her grandma?" Min Ho reminded her
"I thought about it, and I already asked her."
"Then what was her answer?"
"Lisa said, Grandma Manoban asked her to marry someone she liked, then she came to me." Jennie answered.
The Kim's husband and wife became silent again. Lisa was an autistic child, and the major characteristic of autistic children was that they were unwilling to communicate with others, but they won't lie and won't find reasons for excuses. What they said was the truest feeling they felt inside. Lisa said that she liked Jennie, then it must be her true heart.
"Jennieya, have you ever thought that you would have a hard time with Lisa?" Min Ho can't help but remind her again.
"That's right, although Lisa is a good and smart child, but at the end of the day, he's still someone with autism. she can't express her feelings like a normal person. Your so called like, it's possible that it would be worn down by reality after just a few days. At that time, won't it hurt both of you?" Ji Hyun added to her husband's words.
"Dad, mom, I already thought about these things, but I still want to try." Jennie said, "I'm only telling you this after careful consideration."
Jennie can understand the so called worry of her parents, but as she had already went through rebirth, Jennie felt that her and Lisa's ending would be the same as the last time, with her dying of illness and Lisa becoming a widow. No, it have to be better, at least in this life, Lisa can avoid her fate of being disfigured so she can still be a good-looking widower.
"Then what about studying abroad?" Ji Hyun asked again.
"I won't go." Jennie didn't plan to study abroad from the beginning anyway.
"Won't go? Isn't it your dream to go to SG to learn design?" Ji Hyun couldn't believe it.
"Mom, I'll explain this to you later."
Jennie knew that her change was too abrupt and it would just be difficult for her parents to accept if she give them one attack after another. But she couldn't tell the truth. Her genetic disease that would break out after four years was undetectable at this moment. The only thing that she could do was to spend more time with them.
"Mom, I really want to marry Lisa, just like you when you wanted to marry dad, just agree ah." The reason was almost the same, Jennie started to strike with 'selling her cuteness' strategy.
"You already have your certificate issued, do you still need us to agree?" Ji Hyun pushed away her daughter in a bad mood.
"I didn't do this in the right way. It was because it wasn't urgent at that time, and later I really forgot about it. Sorry~." Jennie ignored her mother's bad mood and pasted herself shamelessly.
Ji Hyun glanced at her husband helplessly, but Min Ho's eyes were also full of helplessness. As his wife said just now, his daughter and Lisa already received their marriage certificate, even if they opposed it, they couldn't change the fact that their daughter was married. Moreover, they have been teachers for more than 20 years already, and they knew very well that there were certain things that the children had to experience themselves, or else, if the teachers kept on forcing to teach them, they wouldn't even hear an ounce of what the teachers said.
But as a parent to know that his daughter has been married under this circumstance, their heart still felt a bit of bitterness, "Me and your mom want to ponder about this matter for a while more."
"How long do you have to think about it?" Jennie asked.
"We'll tell you when we already think about it properly." After saying this, Min Ho stood up indifferently and left the room.
After seeing her husband leave, Ji Hyun gave her daughter a smile and followed to leave.
Facing the empty study room, Jennie scratched her forehead silently and suddenly burst out laughing. Her parents ah, they had been teachers for their entire lifetime. They would always use reasons and would never force their children to do or not to do something. The only thing in their minds was whether she was willing or not, or just judge something according to their standard.
They thought about it all night and asked her so many questions, but they had never let out any sentence that forced her to leave Lisa. They just analyzed the advantages and disadvantages over and over again and asked her if she had really thought about it.
In fact, if she think about it carefully, in the 26 years of her past life, except for a short time to live, having no good relationship and lacking the time to spend with her parents, she thought that her life was actually not bad.
A gust of evening wind blew from the window, and the paper on the table case rattled. Jennie pressed her father's paper with a paperweight, then closed the window tightly. The window of the study was facing Grandma Manoban's courtyard next door. Now that Grandma Manoban was gone, there's no light lit up in the courtyard anymore.
If she leave after four years, will her parents looked at her bedroom as if she was looking at Grandma Manoban's courtyard?