Had she bought Dacheng Communications?
Jinhee’s head went blank from shock, feeling dizzy as he tried to process the information that Lisa told him. Even though Dacheng was just a medium scale enterprise, but it had already started to build itself up as a renowned company in N City… Was it bought by her just like that?
Siwon was stunned by this revelation too, and while he hadn’t the slightest idea how this sort of thing worked, he was certain that it wasn’t as easy as Lisa made it sound.
Seeing their reaction, Lisa knocked at the table and told them the reason why she came to them, “Make it so that the Manoban Enterprise knows about this software, I don’t care how. I’ll give you the phone number for a manager with the surname Xu, he’s someone we can use to our advantage.”
This manager was quite well respected in Manoban Enterprise but had always had been vying for the spot at the top of Manoban Enterprise. In the past life, Byunghun was quite troubled by this man, but Lisa had ultimately dealt with him along with all of the problems the Manoban family had faced.
If the software were sent to this man, he would use it to his advantage, and by extension cause the Manoban family quite a lot of trouble.
She had never thought of causing the Manoban family any trouble because Byunghun was her biological father, but since he didn’t seem to think so, then all the bets were off the table!
If she so wished, she would even be able to help another person onto the position of the head of the Manoban family!
Of course, she didn’t want to ruin the entire Manoban family. She couldn’t well destroy the efforts of many generations of the Manoban family with a good conscience, and cause many families that worked in the company to go without a job. Now that she had been reborn, she started to have more hopes for her life.
The Manoban family barely caused a ripple in her plans!
The three of them talked for a little more before Lisa glanced at her phone, realizing that it was already close to dinnertime. Although she wasn’t on a curfew, Mrs. Zhang would wait for her if she went back late, and Jungkook would probably do so too.
“Let me send you home, it’s inconvenient for a girl to go home this late,” Jinhee volunteered.
Lisa didn’t refuse, and Jinhee sent her back to the mansion that was quite nearby. Jinhee parked the car and waited for Lisa to enter the gates before Siwon finally broke out of his stupor. “How much money would she need to buy a mansion here? No wonder she could give you all that money!”
“Do you know the Manoban family?” Jinhee started up the car and drove away.
“I don’t live under a rock, you know…” Siwon trailed off, before a spark connected in his brain. “She’s from the Manoban family?”
Jinhee didn’t reply, only driving towards the hospital without a word. When they arrived, he finally breathed a sigh, before speaking, “Something happened to Manoban Enterprise lately, you can go check out the news… All I can say is that I feel stressed.”
The Manoban family was renowned in N City, and he only had an understanding of it due to the recent events that were broadcast on the news.
So Lisa was the illegitimate daughter of the Manoban family? What if the Manoban family tried to get into trouble with them too?
“Say…Do you think that rich kid from earlier today can measure up to the Manoban family?” Siwon searched up the news on her phone, before speaking up.
Jinhee shook his head, not sure what to think. “No idea. I’ve heard of the Manoban family before, but I’ve never heard of that young man from today…”
What the two of them didn’t know was that while the Manoban Family was indeed considered a decent family in N City, but couldn’t even compare to the Yin family in the slightest. The only reason why they didn’t know about the Yin family was that it was far too much out of their league.
As the national finals came closer, all of the students in First City High started developing a sense of urgency and stress that inevitably came with the exams, and even the students in Lisa’s class were anxious.
These days, Lisa always made her classmates run laps around the school fields, making them relax and unwind after a day of hard work before they all went their separate ways, some of them leaving behind to accompany Lisa.
While everyone was running, Jimin’s gaze was attracted to Lisa, and in those moments he felt as if he didn’t care about anything else.
He had always thought that he had decent grades, but his grades were still quite far away from Lisa. At this rate, could he get into the same university as her? He had been quite stressed lately because of the impending exams, and it felt as if there was an invisible weight on his chest.
“If I knew that it came down to this, I would have been more hardworking.” He sighed regretfully.
Rosé scoffed. “You wouldn’t be able to do it even if you had ten years.”
Jimin was understandably quite offended by this, but the other students that heard this all expressed their approval and were regretting not studying well in the past two years.
Lisa pushed a strand of hair to the back of her ear. “You can’t bring back the past, so you should grasp the present and not let the past define your future.”
After a few moments of collective silence, one of the boys in the class acted as if he was going to puke. “I’ve already been fed enough chicken soup of the soul from the teachers…”
Another boy immediately clasped a hand over his mouth, grinning cheekily. “Don’t puke, you have to drink all of Beauty Lisa’s chicken soup even if it’s spoiled!”
“Stop that!” Jimin shoved both of them playfully, before looking at Lisa with a smile. “We know, but these days are coming to an end.”
There was only a week left until the national exams would come around.
The students were quite perplexed by the complex emotions that they felt—They were both excited yet scared, and regretful and confused about how they should go about the future. Did their final year of high school end just like that?
And so, everyone was plunged into deep thought, before they all separated at the school gates.
The trio walked to the milk tea shop as they always did, and Rosé bought them all drinks before Lisa could.
While they were waiting for the drinks to be served, Rosé took out her phone and asked Lisa, “I had someone create a securities account for me and I deposited all of my pocket money into it, do you have any recommendations on what I should do?”
She noticed that Lisa would check on stocks whenever she had free time, and it seemed that she knew what she was doing.
“What, has your brother reduced your pocket money?” Jimin joked.
Rosé ignored him completely, taking the milk tea from the counter and handing it to Lisa.
Lisa stuck a straw into the cup, sipping a mouthful before looking at her. “I’ll go make a list of stocks that hold potential for you when I get home, so you better remember to bring your phone tomorrow.”
She thought about a few stocks that would go up in value after the stocks of an electronics company would go down, and these would be good for Rosé to accumulate some experience.
Jimin frowned and crossed his arms. “I’ll make an account when I get back home too!”
“Yes, yes, I didn’t forget you.” Lisa glanced at him, and Jimin squinted slightly at her tone which seemed as if it were a teacher that was placating a child.
After the three of them got their drinks, they walked out of the shop before a red open-hood race car stopped next to them.
Lisa looked over, seeing a young man in a clean, checkered shirt that had three of its buttons unbuttoned, showing his neck and collarbones. Taking off his sunglasses, he smirked at Lisa, eliciting squeals from some of the girls that were passing by.
“Come on, Lalisa.”
“I know this guy… He’s a rich kid that does things regardless of how it affects everyone else, you better not get involved with him.” Jimin leaned over and advised Lisa in a soft voice because even he didn’t want to directly start a conflict with Taehyung. He didn’t know about the other man quite well, but his elders had reminded him time and time again that the only person that he couldn’t get into trouble with in N City was him!
Jimin had never expected Lisa to get entangled with him of all people, and was worrying over what ulterior motives Taehyung had.
Taehyung wasn’t a regular person, so he naturally heard all of Jimin’s words. Raising an eyebrow, he spoke, “I haven’t been in N City for so many years, and you people start spreading all these bad rumors about me?”
“That’s not what the point of what I said. Is there any reason why you’re looking for my classmate?” Jimin moved and stood protectively in front of Lisa, and at that moment he seemed like the protagonist of a romance novel.
“What, do I need a reason to see her?” Taehyung replied, jeering as he did.
Jimin opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.
Lisa finished her milk tea and threw the empty plastic cup to a rubbish bin before looking at Taehyung. “What do you need?”
Taehyung turned around and opened the door for the passenger seat, seeing Lisa finally respond to him. “Finally not treating me like air? I’m just here on your Young Master Jeon’s orders, are you going to stand around and let everyone gawk at you, or are you gonna come with me?”
Since it was Jungkook, she didn’t have any more reservations and got onto the car.
This was a ways away from where Jungkook would always wait for her, and because it was already a while after school ended, so there weren’t a lot of students passing by.
Jimin frowned as he saw Lisa get onto the car, and looked over at Rosé. “Are you going to let her get on just like that? He isn’t a good person…”
“It’s fine.” Rosé remembered Taehyung’s attitude the last time she saw him with the Young Master Jeon in question, so she wasn’t all that worried.
“You believe in that guy that he mentioned so much?” Jimin’s brows were still furrowed as he drank his milk tea that he had never had a habit of drinking, before he met Lisa.
Rosé finished her milk tea and threw it into a nearby trashcan, looking at the white car that slowly pulled up by the sidewalk in front of her. “I saw them at the mall before, and he treats her like a treasure.”
Both of them used to directly get fetched at the school gates, but ever since they had their after school strolls with Lisa, they had always had their chauffeurs fetch them near the crossroads.
The white car drove away, leaving Jimin pondering over what Rosé had said.
The red race car stopped by a private club, and Taehyung got off the car and threw the car keys to the doorman before leading Lisa inside, telling her where this was as he did.
He pushed open a door and let Lisa inside first, and there was a gentle and graceful woman inside whose gaze went up and down Lisa as they came in, before smiling. “I heard that Young Master Yin got a new girlfriend, but I hadn’t guessed that his tastes would have changed completely to an underage girl.”
This gaze on her made Lisa quite uncomfortable, and she furrowed her brows slightly.
Taehyung stopped smiling and looked at the woman seriously. “Miss Kim, just because you are free to say whatever you want, doesn’t always mean you should, you know. I treat her as the biological sister that I never had.”
It was the first time that she saw Taehyung so serious, and Kim Zilan’s expression froze on her face. Even though she had only been loosely acquainted with him before this, she had never expected him to talk like this with her because she had always been given special treatment because of her pretty face. Now that she was treated so coldly, she couldn’t keep up her calm and gentle facade well. Was Young Master Yin being serious?
And so, she glanced at that young girl again to see if she could recognize who it was.
The girl’s features were delicate and pretty, and her dress that reached her knees further amplified her pure aura, but what Kim Zilan was focused on was how her face seemed familiar…
Before Kim Zilan could react, Taehyung shoved her to a side and led Lisa in, not giving her any courtesy.
At this moment, Kim Zilan remembered who it was and froze by the door. She had seen Lisa’s picture before, and back then she had never paid any notice to the illegitimate daughter. Only when those events transpired that she finally started noticing this girl, and realized how much she had changed in a mere month.
Not only did she change her gloomy and timid demeanor, she even caused all that trouble for the Manoban family and got onto the good graces of Yin Taehyung at the same time?
Kim Zilan made her way into the toilet deep in thought.
There were several billiard tables set up in the room, and a bunch of young people were playing while some were sitting and chatting at the rest area. Taehyung glanced at everyone and led Lisa to the rest area.
The membership fee of this private club started from around two million yuan, and the people that converged here were mostly from families that were involved in finance. This club was connected with many others of its kind all over the country and was quite renowned for having prestigious members.
Jungkook sat in the center of the sofas, and while some sat nearby him, none dared to sit next to him.
Seeing Taehyung and Lisa come over, he got up and took over Lisa’s bag. He had told Taehyung to bring her back to the mansion first, but this unreliable guy brought her here directly.
Taehyung shrugged upon being met with Jungkook’s condemning gaze. “I didn’t bring her here on purpose, Mrs. Zhang went back to her home today so she wouldn’t have anything to eat if she went back anyway…”
Jungkook didn’t linger on the topic anymore and was about to tell him to order some food before he thought for a bit and turned over to Lisa. “What do you want to eat? Should I bring you out later?”
“No need, there’s everything you could want to eat here!” Taehyung walked out and ordered food before Jungkook could take the chance to leave—He wasn’t about to let this young master that he had painstakingly convinced to come to the club in the first place.
Lisa kept getting glances from the people that sat across her, and so she took out the painting album from her bag and focused on that instead.
The onlookers were quite surprised that Jungkook didn’t tell Lisa to retreat even though he was talking business with someone else, and because many of them were from rich families in N City too, they recognized Lisa. One of them even almost spilled their cup of wine in shock, but then sipped as if nothing had happened, hiding their astonished gaze.
After a while, some of the people that were playing billiards came over and glanced at the girl that was flipping through the painting album in surprise before asking the others in a hushed tone, but all that they had in reply was silence.
Lisa eavesdropped on some of the conversations in the room as she flipped through the pages of the painting album, and realized that the main topic of the room was about the National Base that was going to be built in N City. She had only heard about the matter when Byunghun mentioned it in passing, and back then the Yin family was completely in charge of it. It was at that time that the Yin family planned to move the center of politics to Jing Capital.
After that, the National Base turned into the most important research facility in the country, and the Yin Family became the highest authority in the matter of national defense.
In other words, if any of the families in N City could get their fingers into this lucrative pie, their families would thereby be connected to the country itself, and in her past life, the Manoban family couldn’t get into this even if they poured all of their resources and connections into it.
She glanced at Jungkook, seeing his cleanly shaved chin and sculpted jaw, and from the looks of it, he was the one that was in charge of the project as a whole.
No wonder the Yin family could become so influential in her past life.