‘I didn’t expect Mina to be a second generation of a government official.’ Lisa followed behind Mina as she chatted with Jiji in her mind.
Jiji glanced around, it was the special section of the First Hospital. You wouldn’t be able to come in here if you didn’t have the money. [You didn’t want to check Xu Mina’s background previously, and it’s only obvious you didn’t know. But now that you know, do you have anything to say about it?]
‘The position of that official is quite high too.’ Lisa sighed. ‘Do you think I should pretend to be angry then? After all, she deceived my poor, small, fragile mind.’
She had already checked, and it seemed like something had happened to Mina’s relative. However, it was more of a scare than anything, and they were fine, so she wasn’t worried in the least.
[You’re just so full of s*t.] If Jiji could, it really wanted to roll its eyes all the way back in its mechanical body. [But since we don’t know what her grandfather was shocked by, it’s a bit strange.]
‘I also find that weird,’ Lisa replied, touching her chin. ‘Oh, we’re here.’
Mina, who was walking in front, stopped in front of a ward with soldiers standing outside. When she went in, she didn’t forget to instruct them, “The person behind me is my roommate, don’t stop her from following.”
‘Ah, she really has so much love for me.’ Lisa touched her chin again. ‘For her not to forget about me in this situation.’
Jiji no longer has any desire to talk to Lisa at this moment.
What Lisa didn’t expect was for those soldiers to be familiar to her, it was Sungjae’s group of subordinates. They all looked at Lisa, and for a moment, none of them reacted. In the end it was Liu Zi that managed to recover first. He called out in surprise, “Miss Lalisa!”
“Yeah,” Lisa glanced at them, naturally remembering their faces due to her powerful memory. The last time she went to the Peng family residence to treat the old commander, the only one who spoke, Liu Zi, was the only one who knew IT and also wanted to dig into the wall of the medical world. “Are you guys guarding the door?”
“Yes, Miss Lalisa. Please go on in.” Liu Zi said quickly.
If it was anyone else, they might have stopped the person. But Lisa was another matter.
She hadn’t planned on going in, but then she suddenly felt a familiar fluctuation from the room inside. Looking through the door, she pushed it open and leaned against the doorway, watching the group of people inside.
“What?!” Mina was looking at the powder in the boy’s hand. She was naturally happy to hear that her grandfather and cousin were fine, but she couldn’t help the incredulous tone when she heard how it happened. “Grandpa, are you saying that the paper crane inside this saved you?”
Xu Zheng glanced at Mina, before silently taking back the silk bag, not saying another word.
The tall man standing beside the bed also felt that it was nonsense, but he didn’t say much since the two were fine. He planned to have someone look into the matter without delay, and was going to do so when he turned and noticed the girl leaning on the door, and his brows furrowed.
The girl leaning on the door was holding a white dog in her arms, while her other hand was in her pocket. Her delicate chin was raised slightly, her attention on the occupants in the hospital bed. Her clear, bright eyes were gleaming thoughtfully.
“Who are you?” The man’s low, deep voice came.
The voice attracted the eyes of everyone else in the room, and they turned towards the door. Seeing that it was Lisa, Mina stood up immediately. She wanted to introduce her to her grandfather and cousin, now that she had confirmed they were fine. But she didn’t expect for Xu Zheng to climb out of bed at this moment, running towards Lisa in hurried steps, reaching out to hand her the silk bag in his hands.
Mina was also surprised at the turn of events.
“It shattered?” Lisa knelt down slightly to look at him, a gentle smile on her face.
Xu Zheng nodded his head, saying, “It saved me and grandpa.”
“It was your good blessings.” Lisa rubbed his head gently. “Go and lie down on the bed to rest.”
Xu Zheng turned around at that, heading towards the bed and climbing into it obediently. However, his gaze never left Lisa.
The gray-haired old man looked at Lisa, his eyes squinting slightly as he thought for a while, before recognizing her and was pleasantly surprised, “It’s you, that girl! The one who made that move to break out of the deadlock chess game!”
Lisa merely smiled at him politely.
The entire time, Mina and the man just looked at Lisa with a surprised expression on their faces.
[I was just saying how is it possible that you can’t calculate how they got out of danger. Of course you wouldn’t have been able to, it was something that you did by your own hands after all.] Jiji said from Lisa’s mind at this time.
Lisa touched her nose, slightly embarrassed. She had almost forgotten, but it wasn’t like she expected them to have any relation to Mina in the first place.
“Mina, you know this lady?” The old man turned his eyes to his granddaughter.
Mina finally collected herself, and said excitedly, “Grandpa, this is my roommate that I told you about, Lalisa.”
“Miss Lalisa.” The tall man was still frowning, his eyes full of scrutiny as he looked at her. “How did you get in?” He knew that Sungjae’s most trusted subordinates were standing guard outside, how could they just allow some stranger in?
There was also the matter of that paper crane in Xu Zheng’s hands, which made him feel more agitated. Lisa’s appearance was just too coincidental, and strange.
“Cousin!” Mina frowned, wanting to say something.
“Miss Lalisa?” A young man with a shaved head came in, astonishment on his usually cold face, followed by surprise when he saw her.
Lisa raised her head, seeing that it was Sungjae, who had yet to change out of his military uniform. She nodded her head in greeting, then said to Mina in a low voice, “I have something to do, Mina. I’ll take my leave first.”
Mina turned to Lisa, then dully said, “I’ll send you off.”
“Beauty Lisa, was the paper crane in my cousin’s hands real?” When they reached the elevator, Mina finally couldn’t hold back anymore, and asked her. She hadn’t taken it seriously in the beginning, but if it was something that Lisa had done, she actually would believe it a little.
She must be going out of her mind for thinking that.
Lisa merely smiled at her. “Why don’t you take a guess?”
Saying that, the elevator door slid shut.
Mina, who had been left outside the elevator: “…” Guess? Guess your head?!
***
“Sungjae, you know that girl?” The cold, tall man turned to Sungjae, his brows still in the same furrowed state. Not only did Sungjae look like he knew her, there was also a hint of respect in his eyes when he had caught sight of her. He had never seen Sungjae like that before.
And also those subordinates of Sungjae standing guard outside the door, they usually only listened to Sungjae’s words, and this was also the first time he saw them being so respectful to another person.
Sungjae first asked about the old man’s condition, before standing up slowly to look at him. “Xu Ming, in the entire capital, there are only a few people who don’t recognize her.”
“What do you mean?” Xu Ming’s heart thumped in his chest.
Seeing that Xu Ming really wasn’t aware of anything, Sungjae looked him in the eyes. “You should be keeping up with the news, right?”
Xu Ming was silent.
“Your aunt is a news anchor, and you don’t even watch the news.” Sungjae pursed his lips. “How about I put it this way for you? Weren’t you looking for someone from Nine Heavens recently, intending to ask them to make a batch of sophisticated detectors for you?”
Xu Ming nodded his head, this matter was something that was well known, and for Sungjae to know was not something surprising. “But those people didn’t agree, and I’m still thinking of how to proceed.”
“I’m telling you now, you messed up.” Sungjae shook his head. “I’m guessing that you won’t even be able to talk to the person in charge from Nine Heavens from tomorrow on.”
“How would you know that?” Xu Ming said, narrowing his eyes.
Sungjae didn’t reply, patting him on the shoulder instead. “You know about Nine Heavens, but did you know that the boss of Nine Heavens was that Miss Lalisa just now? Do you know about the mysterious lab where countless doctors clamored to appear in the capital suddenly? Do you know why the company that Ying Youngjae led, how did it suddenly become godlike? Let me tell you, everything is connected to Miss Lalisa. Were you thinking that Miss Lalisa had some ulterior motives just now?”
Although he wasn’t from the ancient martial arts world, the bodyguard next to him was, and he naturally knew of Lisa’s feats in that world, as well as the various worships of the higher-ups in the various power worlds. Especially after he heard that the recent political changes in the United States were also linked to Lisa.
When he had first heard about it, Sungjae couldn’t believe it. He then recalled suddenly about how she had been playing around in the Imperial Capital, and he naturally didn’t doubt her strength after that.
Sungjae had said a lot, and it was all in a tone of admiration, which made Xu Ming stunned.
At this time, Mina came back from outside. She had heard Sungjae’s words. She didn’t really know the man, and it was more accurate to say that apart from her grandfather and Xu Zheng, she rarely even saw Xu Ming. She glanced at her cousin and said, “You did mess up. You even drove away Grandpa and Ah Zheng’s savior.”
“Ah Zheng, tell me, was Beauty Lisa the one who gave you the paper crane?” Mina asked gently after she walked up to her younger cousin.
Xu Zheng finally looked up at her, nodding his head. “Yeah.”
“I already thought that she wasn’t some ordinary girl.” The old man who had been pretending to sleep finally opened his eyes, a bright smile on his face. “With such great chess skills, she obviously wasn’t some common girl.”
“You actually believe that?” Xu Ming raised an eyebrow, looking at the people in the room. It was just a paper crane, wasn’t that a bit too far fetched?
Sungjae looked to Xu Ming again. “Don’t underestimate her.” What kind of ordinary person would be able to garner the worship of the entire ancient martial arts world?
***
At this time, Lisa had already arrived in the ancient martial arts world in her little pink car.
“Miss Lalisa,” Butler Jeon greeted her, reaching out for her keys to take her car and driving it to the garage. “Madam is waiting for you to have dinner inside.”
Lisa handed over the keys, taking Haha into her arms and heading inside.
“Lili, tell me, the things that happen in America and Japan, are they related to you?” The moment she stepped in, Taehee couldn’t help the question that she had been bursting to ask, a face that was interested in gossip on her face.
Lisa: “…” What should she say?
Joowon coughed into his hands, placing down his phone with an indifferent expression on his face. “Let’s eat.”
Taehee shot him a look, then silently turned on her phone to check the WeChat chat group.
Madam Gao: [Link] Look at what she did in America, and Yi Donghyuk also posted a video. Miss Lalisa is amazing, even a Buddhist like me, my blood is boiling with passion!
Tang Jihyun: My daughter, awesome and cool!
Jeon Joowon: If my future daughter-in-law isn’t great, then who else would be ╮（╯▽╰）╭
Madam Gao: It’s my fault for not having a son to pair with Miss Lalisa.
Jeon Joowon: Even if you had one, she still wouldn’t be yours!
Taehee raised her head, looking at Joowon with a serious look on her face. “…”
However, the last sentence that Madam Gao had sent caught her attention. Alarms rang in her heart as she took a screenshot of it, and forwarded it to Jungkook— [JPEG]
[Son, don’t you have any opinion on this?]
Jungkook had just reached a tall mountain at this time, watching the malicious auras pour out from the bottom. “Has someone taken this mission?”
“One of the younger disciples from the ancient martial arts world has taken it.” Donghyuk said at a glance, letting out a sigh.
If it were in the past, where would any of those youngsters from the ancient martial arts world dare to take on these missions? But now, all of those youngsters have taken on the difficult missions, which was something that couldn’t be imagined before this.
As expected, Miss Lalisa was really awesome!
Jungkook pursed his lips, his expression growing colder than ever, as though engraved into his very skin. “Let’s go back.”
At the same time, he pulled out his phone and replied to his mother’s message—[Soon.]
Taking one last glance at the place, Donghyuk marked something the location down, sending it to the team that had taken on the task, and left the place with Jungkook.
Taehee smiled broadly after receiving Jungkook’s message. Come to think of it, it was easier to dupe her son ever since he got amnesia, huh?
Lisa looked at Taehee, who was smiling strangely and suddenly felt a chill coming up her back. She rubbed her arms, slightly puzzled as she made her way towards Peace Manor.
At Peace Manor, Alang was sitting by the gate, patching his wounds up. The first day, five people had come to challenge him, and he was completely beaten up in just the first round.
“How do you feel?” A cool, clear voice came.
Alang raised his head, seeing Lisa. He stood up and said, “Miss Lalisa, I will work hard!”
“Good luck.” Lisa flashed him a smile, then walked towards Kihyun on the other side.
After Lisa had left, only did Alang let out a hiss of pain.
Jiji shot him a sympathetic look. “Who are you acting tough for?”
“Master Jiji!” Alang looked at Jiji, sitting down back on the ground, feeling the tears sting at the corner of his eyes. “Why is everyone in the ancient martial arts world so… great?” He struggled to find an appropriate world. They weren’t only great, compared to the power worlds in America and Japan, these youngsters from the ancient martial arts world were simply at an impossible level, okay?
“Are you saying they’re very aggressive?” Jiji grinned.
Alang nodded silently. Ah, that was exactly what he was trying to express.
Jiji patted his shoulder, once again a sympathetic look on his face. “Beauty Lisa was the one who trained them, how can they not turn out the same?”
Alang: “…” He was just thinking why was it that these people fought in such a familiar way?!
“Alang,” Lisa said as she came back to him after exchanging a few words with Kihyun, Cecily and a few others. “Take out the ancient book that I gave you last time.”
Alang immediately took out the tattered strange book and handed it to her.
Lisa opened it, flipping through it for a few seconds, then took out a sword that was in her other hand as she narrowed her eyes, looking at him. “Look properly, I will only demonstrate this once today.”
Alang watched intently as Lisa performed the sword dance with flawless perfection.
Clang!
Finally, the sword was plunged into the muddy ground.
“Wake up.” Jiji poked Alang, who was still staring at her in shock.
Alang immediately shook himself out of his daze. Then he took the sword to the entrance of Peace Manor, accepting the challenges from the people waiting for him. He had been brought into the ancient martial arts world by Lisa, he was envied and even hated by countless people. There were many who came to challenge him, and also many onlookers.
In the first day of the challenges, he had been completely abused by the people from the ancient martial arts world.
An ordinary person with no special powers.
“Second Elder, how long do you think Alang can last?” The great elder and everyone else were placing their bets once again.
“Seeing that Alang was just an ordinary person before this, and with Miss Lalisa’s speed, he should be able to face off the group from the ancient martial arts world in about half a month.” The second elder said, stroking his beard.
An ordinary person, to face the youngsters of the ancient martial arts world who had great strength, it was something that was unimaginable in the past. The elders felt that they were completely in high regard for Lisa.
However…
Alang continued to be abused the next day, and he didn’t back down, but continued to inherit the glorious tradition of being under Lisa, getting more courageous after facing many obstacles.
Until the third day, when Alang finally managed to draw with that bunch of youngsters, and the group of elders was rendered speechless.
The fifth day, it was Alang’s turn to abuse his opponents!
Seeing those youngsters from the ancient martial arts world who had been improving leaps and bounds get slapped to the side one by one just by a palm, the great elder heaved a long sigh. “As expected from someone that she had handpicked. Fifteen days, five days. As expected, we really underestimated her.”
The second elder hadn’t been the only one to say fifteen days, but now he didn’t want to say anything at all. He merely wiped the cold sweat that had broken out, and said, “They’re crazy.”
When Alang first came to the ancient martial arts world, he probably had a little better physique than most ordinary people did. Everyone knew that he was an ordinary person who had never practiced martial arts before. It was unexpected that in just a short few days, he would already be able to completely abuse the people from the ancient martial arts world.
Knowing that this person had been handpicked by Lisa to enter the Peace Squad, everyone knew that this person must be something special, just the same as Wei Dino, who had been shoved in by her previously. But no one would expect that his improvement wouldn’t lose to Dino, and even far exceeded him instead!
Forget about the current ancient martial arts world, you couldn’t even find such a person in the entire history of the ancient martial arts world!
But when you think of it, how many normal people were there by Lisa’s side and Peace Manor?
The person that had been beaten down by Alang’s palm was lying on the ground, trying to shake himself out of his daze.
Fifteen days, he was thinking silently. Five days? The elders had really underestimated Miss Lalisa once again, the young man thought as he slowly peeled himself off the ground, looking at Alang with envy and hatred in his eyes once again.
“Who else?” Alang was still standing on the stage, his blood-red eyes glancing around the area, his Chinese spoken in a rough manner.
Seeing the young man that had been beaten, those people scattered immediately.
It had already reached this state, who else would dare to challenge him!
“I say Alang, what have you been doing recently?” The second elder couldn’t help but ask. Even if you were learning to read, it would take ten to fifteen days, right?
“Second Elder, I really believe that you’d rather not know.” Alang wasn’t the one who replied, but Jimin, who was looking at the second elder with a deep, knowing look.
He’d rather not know? The second elder had not been as curious before his words, but now that Jimin had said that, his interest was piqued higher.
“Come on, Lili is calling for you,” Wu Hongwen said as he patted Alang’s shoulder.
The elders who were left behind outside, were feeling a little complicated inside.
In Peace Manor, Jimin brought Alang in to see Lisa sitting on one of the chairs, reading a book.
“The second elder wanted to know how Alang suddenly became so powerful.” Jimin plopped himself down on one of the chairs, a wide grin stretching on his face when he thought about it.
Yoongi was initially chatting with Lisa, but he wasn’t annoyed at being interrupted by Jimin, but turned his gaze towards Alang instead.
When Lisa heard Jimin’s words, she raised an eyebrow. “You didn’t tell him?”
“Would I dare to?” Jimin shot back, leaning back against the chair. “If I were to tell them that Peace Manor and the cave outside there isn’t any normal place, that one day in here equals to seven days outside, and more importantly, the training field we have is an exact replica of the Trial Tower that they have, wait no, the upgraded version, I mean, and everything was made by you, don’t you think they’d go out of their minds?”
Yoongi turned away, smiling. Think? You mean, they’d for sure go nuts.
The Trial Tower was the treasure of the ancient martial arts world, if the elders were to find out this little detail, that Lisa could replicate the most treasured item of the ancient martial arts world with the use of talismans, how could they not go crazy?
“They can accept you guys the way you are, it’s just a cave after all,” Lisa replied calmly, flipping another page on her book.
“Is that the same thing?” Jimin retorted. “How can we perform such an impossible feat, compared to that cave?”
Lisa glanced at him from the corner of her eyes, her mouth twitching slightly. “You underestimate yourself.”
Every single person in the Peace Squad had started out as an ordinary person and had grown to what they were today, how could any of them be considered ordinary?
“Miss Lalisa!” Cecil and the rest who had just had a round with Xixi came in with a face flushed with excitement, seeing this group sitting leisurely in the room.
Lisa squinted her eyes, looking in their direction. Her mental powers swept out to probe at them, knowing that these people have worked hard in the past few days. “Not bad.”
Getting her acknowledgment and praise, the group from America was bursting with excitement.
“Where’s your sister?” Lisa glanced around, and noticed that there was less than one person in the group of ten.
Cecil tried his best to contain the excitement in his heart as he replied, “My sister is still fighting with Xixi, she said that she’d pull off one of Xixi’s feathers today.”
“Then she’ll have to pay a big price for that,” Lisa said, rubbing her chin thoughtfully. “Xixi’s feathers are not that easy to pull.”
Cecil and the others were impressed. When Lisa had led the Peace Team in America, he had already known that Xixi was amazing. But after he had the chance to come into contact and fight against it, only did he comprehend just how amazing the bird was. His body was made of flames, water and fire didn’t work against him, and it was as hard as iron. Basically, this bird did not have a single weakness.
“By the way, my sister also asked when she’d be able to fight against you.” Cecil suddenly recalled his sister’s bold words, mainly because she had been improving quickly recently, and felt like her strength had grown to another level, and wanted to test where Lisa’s power level was at.
Hearing Cecil’s words, Yoongi and Jimin couldn’t help but look in his direction.
After such a long time, there was actually still someone who wanted to challenge Lisa. Thinking back to their own Peace Squad, where everyone wanted to challenge her every one to two days, and was thoroughly beaten to the ground every single time.
From that time till now, no one dared to say they wanted to challenge Lisa anymore, and now they were hearing those words again?
It seems that there’s going to be a great show to watch.
Jimin chuckled lowly.
“Fight me?” Lisa was smiling softly, the corners of her lips lifting up into a more sinister one. “These days I’ve only been watching the Peace Squad fight, it’s really hard to be an ordinary person. It just happens that I’ve been idle for quite a while, and bored. Tell your sister, I’ll be waiting for her.”
F*ck! That was a little cool, okay?! Everyone present, including those from America felt their hearts beating faster than before!
Lisa shoved the book into her pocket, looking at the people around her who were in a daze. “Alright, Little Jimin, take them into the cave today. It’s getting late, so I’m going back first.”
After saying that, she walked out towards the door.
It was difficult to see Lisa in person, and obviously everyone here wanted her to stay longer, but they couldn’t form the words at this time, and just moved to the side, making way for her to walk out.
When the thin, slender figure disappeared from their sight, Cecil and the others finally came back to themselves.
“Sh*t, I haven’t even asked her a single question!”
“Miss Lalisa left just like that?!”
Jimin watched Lisa leave, then turned to Cecil and the others. A malicious grin stretched across his face, and he said, “Come on, I’ll bring you guys to the caves.”
Cecil naturally knew that Peace Manor had a cave, but none of them had ever been in it. Now that he had heard Lisa talking about the cave, he knew that it definitely wasn’t some ordinary cave. Lisa had always been springing surprises on them, and so everyone was full of anticipation as they moved.
They also called Cecily, who had still been fighting Xixi, before heading into the caves.
On the way there, Cecily kept shooting glances at Alang.
“Sis, why do you keep looking at him?” Cecil asked in a teasing tone, after noticing what she was doing.
Cecily rolled her eyes, before saying in a low voice, “Can’t you feel the terrifying aura rolling off him?”
He hadn’t noticed it at all, but now that she mentioned it, he too turned his gaze towards Alang. With that one look, he nearly slipped and fell on his butt.
“… Wasn’t he just an ordinary person a few days ago?” Cecil could feel his voice breaking, what the heck had Alang been eating the past few days?
Cecily glanced at him. “Have you forgotten what Lili said last time?”
“What?” Cecil asked, still in a state of shock.
“Asking Alang to beat you in a few days.” Cecily shoved her hands into her pockets. “I think Alang’s strength is already there. Bro, I have faith in you.”
As though he had heard their words, Alang looked at Cecil. Under the light, his blood-red eyes glinted coldly.
Cecil: “…” It seems like I’m going to die.
But before he went down, he’d pull his sister down with him. “Sis, I told Miss Lalisa that you wanted to have a fight with her.”
Having said that, he ran forward to Jimin’s side before she could react, and started asking him about the cave.
Jimin had brought them to the side of the cave, exchanging a few words with Kihyun. He then turned to Cecil, chuckling lightly. “Miss Cecily, please come into our cyberspace.”
WTF? Cyberspace?!
The words were enough to shock everyone present.
The group walked into the cave with unknown feelings, and after entering, it was unknown what they were feeling as they personally experienced the training ground that had been built by Lisa that was not any less than the Trial Tower of the ancient martial arts world.
The ancient martial arts world had the Trial Tower, it was something that everyone in the power worlds knew. It was because of this that the people from the ancient martial arts world had strength levels that were slightly higher than the others in the power world. However, you’re telling them that, Lisa, she… she actually managed to replicate that Trial Tower?!
“Mr. Yao, let me ask,” After a long while, Cecil finally found his tongue again, and struggled to speak. “Your elders, do they know that this thing exists?”
“Nope.” Kihyun shook his head. “They’d go nuts if they did.”
They’d definitely go nuts, if even these people from America were going crazy, forget about those elders in the ancient martial arts world who had always regarded the Trial Tower as the most sacred treasure. If they knew that Lisa was even able to make such a thing, how could they not go out of their mind?
“Miss Lalisa is really just… too crazy,” Cecil had gradually calmed down, and could finally only say that.
To be able to replicate the Trial Tower, you had to have some crazy bones in your body, right? After all, it’s something that not just anyone could do?!
Was she crazy? It was crazy among the crazy. Yoongi, who had been following behind everyone a bit further off, went to his table after hearing Cecil’s words. He flashed him a smile. “Miss Lalisa said it once in the interview, you’re not living right if you’re not crazy.”
You’re not living right if you’re not crazy. Those from America weren’t really well versed Chinese, but even they could feel the craziness behind the words that Yoongi had just said. (T/N: The author says, 不疯魔,不成活, which can basically mean ‘nothing short of obsession will bring you success’. The other elaboration on it is, if you don’t practice like an obsessive person before you go on stage and walk through the fires of hell, don’t dream of going up on stage to perform. It’s also similar to the phrase: To be successful in politics you need three things: The first is money. The second is money. The third is money.)
Yoongi picked up a bunch of documents and walked out, but not after a few steps, his phone rang and he pulled it out to answer.
Namjoon’s voice came from the other side. “Why didn’t you pick up earlier? I thought you also put me on your blacklist.”
“You’re quite self aware at least.” Yoongi’s expression remained unchanged, knowing that it was because there was no signal in the cave just now, and not because of the reason Namjoon mentioned. “Why are you looking for me?”
“Not much, really. It’s just the Xu family from the capital is looking for Miss Lalisa, help me pass on the message.” Namjoon said. “Ah, that’s right, also help me ask her about the product in Nine Heavens. This arm-flinging of a shopkeeper that she’s been doing has gone on long enough, don’t ya think?” (T/N: Arm-flinging shopkeeper would mean that she has asked others to work but does nothing herself.)
“The Xu family from the capital?” Yoongi repeated, before frowning. “Why, you want another decoding route again? You might as well just hand over the world’s number one hacker title to Miss Lalisa and be done.”
“Yoongi, are you sure you want to do this?” Namjoon said calmly. “I’ll make it so that you won’t be able to use your computer for the next few days.”
Yoongi didn’t bother to reply, hanging up the call immediately.
Namjoon, who was currently in Nine Heavens: “…”
***
After Lisa left Peace Manor, she headed towards the Jeon family residence.
At this moment, the cold mechanical sound that hadn’t rung in her mind for a long time suddenly sounded, [Random Mission activated: Rescue Baili Hyekyo. Mission completion reward: 100 points! Penalty for mission failure, first-level punishment!]
Her footsteps halted.
Jiji obviously heard this voice too, and it raised its head, looking at Lisa in concern.
Lisa didn’t move, and about two minutes later, the air distorted and she disappeared.
Not far away from where she once stood, a group of youngsters had been trying to gather up the courage to approach her, and when they finally did and started walking towards her, they saw her entire person disappearing from the spot.
“…”
***
Hyekyo had not been back in the ancient martial arts world for a long time, though she knew that Lisa was there. After the last meeting between them, she hadn’t had the courage to face her once again. Not only her, she seldom even met up with the people from the Baili family since then.
She looked up to see a man dressed in black appearing in front of her suddenly, his hand reaching out to grab her neck just as sudden as he had appeared. Her vision blurred slightly at the lack of air as the grip on her next tightened.
As a person from the ancient martial arts world, the reason she had gone into the secular world and the entertainment industry was because she didn’t have an ounce of chi in her body. She didn’t have the formation talents from the Baili family side either, and so when she was faced with such a strong opponent, she had no way of defending herself at all.
Her eyes slid close slowly.
Clack!
The white smart phone fell to the ground.
Joongki’s anxious voice came from the phone, “Hyekyo? What’s the matter? Why did you stop talking suddenly?”
The next moment, the grip on her neck loosened and she fell to the ground. Gasping for breath, Hyekyo thanked her savior, “Cough, cough… thank… thank you.”
Raising her head slightly as she heaved another breath, she caught sight of the person who had just saved her.
Then she was stunned speechless.
A white, slender hand was holding the neck of the man who had just held hers, and the dim street light reflected on her delicate silhouette. She was wearing a white ox fur coat, and you couldn’t tell whether her face or her coat was whiter.
Even without looking at her face, Hyekyo could recognize who it was by the fur coat the girl wore. Her fingers trembled a little, turning to look at the disbelief eyes of the man. This was the first time that she could study Lisa up close and in an open manner.
What caught her eyes were those icy, coal eyes. It was like there was a layer of frost in them, and the cold glint in them made it hard for others to look directly into them.
In all the pictures that she had of Lisa, she always had a gentle expression on her face. But tonight, there was no smile on her face, a hard and cold expression was visible instead, and even her eyebrows seemed sharper than usual, and you could practically feel the chill radiating from her body.
Lisa wasn’t looking at Hyekyo, but at the man in black who she held by the neck. He looked to be around his thirties, and was looking at her with eyes filled with horror and panic. How could you not panic in this situation?
He had thought that he would be able to complete this task easily tonight, but he didn’t expect for this little girl to suddenly make an appearance in the middle. Though he said it was a little girl, she had easily picked him up with one hand! More importantly, he couldn’t muster any strength in his body at all!
Lisa continued looking at the man she held in her hand, her gaze still icy. Even though she wasn’t as tall as this man, her eyes seemed to hold a hint of condescending aura.
Bang!
She loosened her hold and threw the man onto the ground.
Then she pulled out a tissue from her pocket, using it to slowly and carefully wipe her hands.
The man who was tossed to the ground struggled to pick himself up, and was just about to run away, when a voice suddenly came from behind him. The voice was clear and calm, but it made his back stiffen, and his body froze in place.
Lisa, who was standing next to the man, parted her lips slightly to speak, “I advise you not to run, at least you’ll still have your life if you don’t.”
After wiping her hands, she balled up the tissue and threw it into the trash can that was ten meters away.
Only after she was done did she pull out her phone, making a call to Donghyuk and rattling off the address she was at. “There’s someone here that you need to take back to the ancient martial arts world.”
Donghyuk hung up the phone, gesturing with his hands. “Go, go, go! Miss Lalisa has something for us to do!”
“Say, how do you think MIss Lalisa knows that we’re nearby?” Jeno scratched his head, puzzled when he had heard the address that Lisa had given Donghyuk.
Donghyuk had already gotten used to it, and smiled. “Nothing can escape her eyes if she wants to know something.”
The remaining other members of the Tong team had another level of understanding towards Lisa, and their faces were full of shock.
Donghyuk was indeed not too far from where Lisa was, and she was leaning against a street lamp, playing her phone as she waited for them. Her head was lowered, her hair covering the expression in her eyes. Hyekyo had already picked herself up from the ground, and was watching her from the side. She didn’t dare to approach Lisa to speak, and could only watch her from where she was.
“Miss Lalisa!” Donghyuk and the others arrived five minutes after the call.
“Yeah.” Lisa kept her phone away, raising her head to look at Donghyuk. Her mouth curved up slightly into a flat smile, then she gestured with her fingers towards the man in black. “Bring this person back. Also, have someone escort Madam Baili back.”
It was then that Donghyuk noticed Hyekuo standing at the side, and he was taken aback for a moment, before bowing. “Yes, Miss Lalisa!”
Lisa nodded, then turned around, her figure blending into the night.
Hyekyo watched the slender figure disappear and smiled bitterly. Up till the end, she hadn’t said anything.
“I say, of all the people you have to provoke, it had to be Miss Lalisa.” Donghyuk glanced at the man in black on the ground, his gaze full of sympathy. “And a Fleet Foot level too, such a pity… Jeno, take two people with you and escort Madam Baili back.”
After Jeno had left, Donghyuk took out his phone, thinking about sending a message to Jungkook.
—[Big boss, Miss Lalisa just asked us to take a person back, I feel there’s something strange about him.]
—[Oh, right, Miss Lalisa was with Madam Baili just now.]
After sending it out, he suddenly recalled that Jungkook had amnesia, and wouldn’t remember who Hyekyo was, so he sent another follow up—[It’s Miss Lalisa’s biological mother, the one who didn’t want her since she was a child. You didn’t like her from the beginning.]
***
In the Jeon family residence, Butler Jeon was cleaning the entire house with a group of servants. At this moment, a tall figure suddenly came in from the outside.
Butler Jeon put down his tools, standing to the side immediately. “Young Master.”
“Hm.” Jungkook paused in his steps, the cold aura excluding from his figure. His face looked dignified as ever as his onyx eyes swept across the entire living room.
Butler Jeon, who has received unanimous praise from the Jeon family, immediately understood what Jungkook wanted. “Young Master, Miss Lalisa has gone to Peace Manor. She’ll probably be back a bit later.”
Jungkook pursed his lips, after acknowledging the butler’s words, he walked upstairs without another word.
Instead of heading into the room to change out of his clothes, he headed to the study instead.
The study was set up according to his minimalistic style, a wicker chair near the window, light blue curtains that were pulled back, and the windows were also half-open. There were few people who would enter his study, even his parents wouldn’t come in here on usual days.
Jungkook’s eyes swept through the room. He was unfamiliar with everything in the Jeon family, and that included this room.
His cold gaze finally settled on a box made of unknown material. Walking towards it, he took out a silver key from his chest pocket, inserting the key and opening the box with a ‘click’.
For a box that he had placed in such a solemn manner, it should contain some important things in it.
When he opened it however, he discovered that there were some documents, as well as two certificates inside it. When he saw it, his eyes darkened. As he reached out to take them out, Butler Jeon’s voice came from downstairs.
“Miss Lalisa.”
Jungkook’s hands paused, then he closed the box immediately, putting the box back into place.
***
Downstairs, Haha ran and hugged Lisa’s legs as soon as it saw her return. She bent down to pick him up, then turned to the butler. “Butler Jeon, where’s Aunt Taehee?”
“Madam has gone out to play fight with the landlord,” Butler Jeon smiled as he replied. (T/N: Fight The Landlord is a card game)
Fight The Landlord? Since when did she have such a hobby? Lisa raised an eyebrow in surprise at the butler’s reply.
Originally, Taehee didn’t have these hobbies, Butler Jeon thought to himself. In the beginning, Taehee, the madam of the Jeon family, was a cold, indifferent woman. Most of the people wouldn’t even dare to approach her to strike up any form of conversation, and the number of people who would speak to Taehee could be counted on one hand.
But it was different now. Since Miss Lalisa’s appearance, the Jeon family had gotten livelier. The young master who used to hold everyone at arm’s length had also changed to be more human.
And Taehee had become a crazy demon that was obsessed and dazzled with her daughter-in-law.
As the two were speaking, a tall figure came down the stairs. Wasn’t that Jungkook?
Lisa turned and gave him a smile, her eyes a little clouded. “You’re back, Brother Jungkook.”
“Yeah.” Jungkook responded faintly, but the corners of his mouth curled up slightly at the sight of her.
“Dinner is also about to begin. I’ll call for Madam to return.” Seeing that everyone was more or less home, Butler Jeon hurried off to call Taehee.
Lisa nodded, putting Haha down onto the ground. She smiled at Jungkook again. “I’ll go and shower first.”
He nodded, watching her head upstairs.
The expression on her face had been calm, and no different than usual, but Jungkook’s brows furrowed the moment she was out of sight. He stood beside the sofa, looking down at Haha who had been left on the ground. Reaching up to pinch his nose, he spoke in a cold, low voice. “Did you offend her?”
Haha raised its head, its round, beady eyes looking straight at Jungkook. “Woof.”
Jungkook looked at it, then ignored it. He turned to head upstairs too, when the phone rang twice.
As he continued to walk, he pulled out the phone to look at the screen. It was two messages, and the moment he read it, he stopped in his steps, his cold eyes turning as deep as an unending abyss. Thin lips pressed together tightly, and his eyes narrowed dangerously.
“Young Master?” Butler Jeon, who had just put down the phone, felt a chill from behind him, and couldn’t help but turn around to look at the man who was halfway up the stairs.