That boy’s seat was right in front of her, and Lisa finally reacted that this was the thief that she had caught back at the mall!
Yao Kihyun walked over to his seat holding his sandals in hand, and he seemed to be quite relaxed given that he was originally from Third City High anyway. As his eyes flitted around, they centered on the girl that sat behind him, and it seemed as if his world snapped into focus.
He stopped in place with his eyes wide in shock!
Lisa looked up at him, her eyes glinting with warmth as she gestured encouragingly before looking back down towards the desk and preparing herself to take the exams.
The Chinese paper started at nine o’clock, and she wasn’t all that pressured by it as she took up her fountain pen and started writing down on the paper swiftly and steadily.
The three examiners were patrolling the exam hall, and whenever they passed by her they would slow down their steps to look at her handwriting. If they were the ones that were in charge of marking their papers, they would have probably been hesitant about deducting her marks purely based on her handwriting.
The theme of the essay this time around was ‘Home is where the heart is’, and Lisa looked at these words again and again before closing her eyes in thought and raising her pen.
The Chinese paper wasn’t all that hard, and most of the students could do as well as they usually did, and after the bell rang she took her pencil case and walked out the door.
As she reached the stairway, she raised her hand and intercepted Kihyun’s hand.
“What in the- Do you have eyes on the back of your head?”
He was used to fighting after all, and while he wasn’t unparalleled, he had already been famous in the streets for being able to fight multiple people at once ever since he was young. Now, she could block his hand with a single pencil case?
“Huh, your pencil case is really sturdy!” Kihyun reached over and pinched the pencil case that was as hard as steel at that moment and had impacted his arm so hard that it went numb…That was really strange.
Lisa side-eyed him and retracted her pencil case calmly. “If you have anything to say just say it, don’t get all handsy with me.”
Kihyun saw that she was about to leave, so he quickly followed behind her. “You’re taking your finals here too? And you’re even sitting behind me!”
“Duh!”
Kihyun didn’t really mind that she acted so coldly towards him, and was instead thankful towards her. He had looked at the phone number that she gave him many times but didn’t call, making a promise to himself to not call that number until he had the achievements to show for it.
Who knew that this coincidence would happen…
“What’s your name? Which school are you from? You’re definitely not from Third City High!” The students in Third City High were mostly a bunch of students that were there to spend their days and not study properly, and Kihyun was certain that Lisa wasn’t that sort of student from a single glance. Besides, most of the students in Third City High knew him as the little king of the school that was handsome and good at fighting, and he even had his gaggle of fangirls…
Lisa didn’t stop walking, but she replied, “Lalisa Manoban, First City High.”
His eyes brightened slightly upon finding a common topic with her. “First City High…You must know my friend Luo Yoongi then!”
“Yeah.” This statement attracted a bit of her attention, and she turned around to look at this boy that had been chattering nonstop.
As they talked, they arrived at the school gates, and Lisa found the familiar car parked across the road immediately and her expression lit up. “Alright I have to go now, goodbye.”
Kihyun stopped walking before shouting at her: “My name is Yao Kihyun!”
She waved her hand in the air, gesturing that she heard him.
Rosé had already come out of the exam hall and had been waiting for Lisa at the gates. Upon seeing the girl in question, she immediately grabbed her arm and asked, “How did you do?”
“…Hey, aren’t I the one who should be asking you that question?” Lisa scrunched her nose slightly. Thank goodness she had good reflexes, or else her arm might have been twisted by Rosé on the spot.
“I did quite well, actually, and that essay theme…It was the same as the one that you gave us before! You haven’t looked at our class group chat have you? Those idiots all spammed messages in happiness about this! Hey, how did you guess?” Rosé seemed to have been very nervous about the exam, so all her thoughts flooded out as soon as she opened her mouth.
Lisa pressed a finger to Rosé’s head. “If you don’t get good results, don’t ever come and see me…I see your brother and your grandfather, bye now.”
She saw Rosé off before she continued walking towards Jungkook’s car.
“Was that person your classmate too?” As soon as she got onto the car, Jungkook asked.
“No, he’s just someone that sat in front of me in the exam hall.” Lisa realized that he was asking about Kihyun and answered with a calm tone.
Jungkook put down his book and told the chauffeur which he had gotten temporarily as he had his hands full dealing with the matters of the National Base.
The exam period had always been hard on students, so Jungkook didn’t give her any more pressure by asking her about the exams, giving her some space to relax.
In the afternoon, Jungkook waited outside the gates as the students had their Mathematics exams, and he saw many students come out of the exam hall depressed and gloomy as if they had lost their souls, and some even hugged their relatives and cried.
He couldn’t understand how that felt, but he concluded that the papers this time around must have been hard so he was still quite worried. Thankfully, none of the students that came out early and broke down were Lisa, so he breathed a sigh and relief.
But then again, what use would it be even if she came out early?
There was no one waiting for her outside…
Jungkook suddenly felt as if it were hard to breathe in the car, so he got down and lit up a cigarette, but before he could even start smoking, he saw a familiar silhouette come out from the exam hall, prompting him to snuff out the cigarette and walk over.
Lisa was expressionless as she walked out, and upon spotting Jungkook, she smiled brightly. “You were waiting for me!”
This sort of pure and bright smile was rare for her, and it was so innocent and beautiful that it would make the viewer want to give the owner of the smile all the good things in life. Jungkook’s steps paused as the weight on his chest disappeared, seeing that she probably did quite well on the exam.
Other than maths, the other papers weren’t all that hard.
Lisa quickly finished her English papers and handed the answer sheet to the examiner before she left the exam hall along with the surprised gazes of the other examinees.
It was as if she didn’t have any doubt that she did well on the exams!
Kihyun chuckled lowly as he looked at the figure that was leaving the exam hall, before looking down and reading the papers carefully. He had already gotten news of this girl named Lalisa from Yoongi, and he was quite surprised that she even had better grades then Yoongi.
In that case, he couldn’t do badly either.
The sunlight was bright outside the exam hall, and the air was fresh and crisp. Lisa inhaled deeply before exhaling, all of her pent up stress releasing from her.
Then, she walked towards the gates with light steps, but before she could get to Jungkook’s car, she was blocked by a girl that stepped right in front of her.
The one that blocked her way had a beaten expression, giving a gloomy and somewhat sinister aura to the face that would have been considered gentle and pretty. Her eyes were filled with a murky glow and was a clear contrast from her gaze that had been bright in the past. While her overall aura changed, Lisa recognized the girl in front of her immediately.
It was Eunha Manoban.
“You’re here for the national finals…” Eunha smiled at her as if the two of them never had any bad blood with each other.
Lisa ignored her completely and took out her phone to check the time, thinking that Eunha was being strange for some reason, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.
Eunha seemed to not mind that Lisa ignored her, and continued to ramble on, “Why can you still come here? You should have come with me to America, mother has already found us a good school, you’re coming right? Little sis?”
She looked at Lisa, the haze in her eyes becoming clearer as she spoke.
Now, she couldn’t even go out in public because of all the mocking gazes that she would get, and these gazes further twisted her psyche. As she was being looked at with those judging eyes, she kept telling herself that this all should have been Lisa’s fate, not hers!
But the person that was supposed to have been dealing with these problems now had come to take the exams as if nothing had happened!
Eunha’s gaze became colder and darker, but her mouth was still twisted in a smile. “Little sis, come to America with me please? The education system there is better by ours by leaps and bounds, you’ll definitely love it!”
“Eunha…Are you alright in the head?” Lisa glanced at her in disdain.
The moment Lisa said this, it seemed to have broken the gentle facade that Eunha was putting on and her expression twisted fully into one of hatred. “What do you have to be so arrogant about? You’re just a piece of trash from a backwater place that no one knows about, and no matter how you hide it you can’t hide your lowly blood! If it weren’t for Grandfather, would you have your achievements today?”
“I somehow remember you saying something similar in the past…Something about me being expelled and losing all my reputation, right?” Lisa smiled, and a glow radiated from her as she did. “Look at yourself! You’re the one that can’t attend the exams, and you’re the one that lost all of your prestige. Eunha Manoban!”
After she spoke, she turned around and left.
Eunha glared at Lisa’s silhouette, her teeth biting so hard into her lower lip that it bled, but that seemed to be the last of her problems at the moment.
She knew that what Lisa had said was true, but it exactly because of it that she hated her even more.
Ever since the entire fiasco happened, she dropped down from being a well-known beauty and a genius into a pile of mud and proved all of her arrogance and pride to be of naught as all the people she knew threw disdainful gazes onto her.
Meanwhile, that b*tch got all the attention and the spotlight instead of her!
What she couldn’t accept the most was how Mingyu had never contacted her again after the entire event happened, and while she knew that Mingyu was one that kept his word and wouldn’t go back on their engagement, the Kim family was extremely dissatisfied with her, and even Kim Zilan hadn’t contacted her for a while now!
Her grandfather was about to send her to America, and while she knew that he had been developing talented young people, she was definitely going to inherit the Manoban family. The only way she could change her fate was by holding power in her own hands so that she wouldn’t be controlled by other people.
Once she inherited the family and the enterprise, she would have the ability to look down on everyone!
Eunha stood there for a while before a creepy smile made it onto her face, sending chills up the spines of the people that walked around her. Meanwhile, she walked aimlessly and unfeelingly, as if she were a ghost.
Lisa walked to the car, and Jungkook had already opened the door. He saw Eunha too, but he didn’t ask any further and changed the topic. “Taehyung’s inviting you to eat in celebration, do you want to?”
“…” Lisa hadn’t expected Jungkook to talk about that all of a sudden. “Nope, I want to go back home and rest. Tell him to come over tomorrow, I’ll cook for us.”
“You?” The traffic lights turned red, and Jungkook stopped the car, his gaze painted with shock.
He didn’t want Lisa to go eat with Taehyung in those indecent places that he always brought people to, but she said that she would cook?
Without a word, he glanced over dubiously at the pair of hands that didn’t have any callouses…Could she even tell salt and sugar apart?
“Yeah, and I’ll call two of my classmates too.” The more Lisa spoke, she felt that it was a good idea. She hadn’t stepped in the kitchen ever since she was reborn, so she hoped her skills hadn’t gone rusty.
Jungkook raised his chin slightly. “You really know how to cook?”
“Hey, don’t underestimate me!” Lisa straightened her back and furrowed her brows slightly, her tone painted with pride. “It’s fine, I’ll remind them to hold it in even if it’s disgusting.”
Lisa glanced at him again, her black orbs shimmering. “…Don’t talk while you drive.”
“Alright, alright.” Jungkook replied, his tone filled with mirth.
Lisa had to make do on her own promises, so she started to plan on what she was going to cook the next day.
The system spirit flitted around in the air and as Lisa wrote down the last word, it spoke, “Beauty Lisa, you finished your exams today huh…”
“And? What about it?” Lisa that had finished her daily missions and her cooking plans exited the virtual space, before walking over to the art studio corner.
“And…Uhm…Did you forget?” The system sniffled as if it were about to cry.
Lisa got everything prepared before she smiled and took out her phone. “Right right, upgrade you yes? I remember.”
Then, she contacted Jimin and Rosé.
Rosé accepted the invitation without much thought and asked her about the address.
When it came to Jimin, he started grumbling as soon as the call went through, “I wanted to call you right after I came out of the exam hall, but I was dragged to a family dinner and my cousin kept on showing off and bragging that I didn’t even have a chance to react. Thank goodness you saved me… F*ck, my dad’s coming, talk later!”
Then, he hung up and sent her a message after a minute.
“I forgot to ask you the address!”
Lisa sent him the address, and at the same time a mechanical voice rang out in her head. [A hundred points have been deducted from your balance to upgrade the system, and during the time the system is upgrading you will not be able to enter the virtual space. All missions have been put on hold.]
Then, the system spirit’s voice rang out again. [I’ll need three days to upgrade, Beauty Lisa! You won’t be able to use the virtual space and the system shop while I’m gone, so protect yourself and wait for me to come back, and you’ll be able to have a ten space inventory!]
After that, Lisa’s connection to the system was forcibly cut off and judging from the mechanical voice that rang out, it seemed that the system wasn’t as simple as it looked.