However, although Lalisa’s face changed fast, it was still possible for people to recognize her. Her facial features remained the same, but those who saw her would feel that she was even more beautiful and attractive. Everyone would think that she looked more beautiful because her skin became better…
But it was actually not because of this…
Only Lalisa knew it was because of 008.
Yoongi felt nothing wrong with the fact that Lalisa had become more beautiful. He asked Yeji to attract the attention of the press and took Lalisa to her school from the underground garage. Lalisa stared at him along the way, wondering whether she should ask Yoongi about his work, but he reached out his hand to turn her head forward, saying, “Watch the road.”
Lalisa curled her lip and replied, “I’m not driving, so I don’t need to watch the road.”
Yoongi smiled and shook his head. “Is there anything you want to ask me?”
“Yoongi, are you…”
Before Lalisa finished, however, Yoongi’s phone rang. Hearing the ring tone, Lalisa knew this wasn’t Yoongi’s personal phone, but his phone for work. Yoongi turned solemn when he heard the ring. He picked up the phone, and kept silent for a while before saying in a low voice, “Come and pick me up. I will send you my coordinates.”
He hung up. Before he said anything, Lalisa said, “I can go by myself. Yoongi, if you have something to do, please go about your business.”
“I’ll send you to school. It will take them some time to come and pick me up.” Yoongi took a deep look at Lalisa and said seriously, “Lili, I know what you want to ask me, but I want to tell you that everything in the world can be dangerous. It just depends on your choice. I think what I’ve been doing is very meaningful.”
Lalisa didn’t expect that Yoongi had seen through her mind. She nodded and smiled at Yoongi, replying, “I know, Yoongi, but you must keep yourself safe.”
She couldn’t make decisions for others. If this was Yoongi’s own choice, she would choose to respect him. She thought Yoongi made a good point in that everything in the world could be dangerous. For example, she had simply got on a plane yet experienced a fatal crash. In fact, people shouldn’t be overcautious, as long as they thought what they were doing was meaningful.
Yoongi rubbed Lalisa’s hair and said with a smile, “Don’t worry, your brother will be fine.”
Lalisa nodded, but she was still worried.
For some reason, she felt a bit uneasy today.
She hoped he would be really fine.
They soon arrived at the school. Yoongi stopped his car at the roadside and gave Lalisa the car key. After seeing Lalisa enter the school, he called Taehyung and asked him to drive the car home and pick up Lisa in the afternoon. Knowing Yoongi’s job was special, Taehyung didn’t ask much but merely hung up after expressing his understanding.
Taehyung hung up the call and murmured, “Are CIA agents really so busy? Didn’t he just come back yesterday? Why was he called away so soon? Did something happen?”
Hearing him talking to himself, Jimin went over, poked him in the waist and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Taehyung took a look at Jimin and replied, “Yoongi was called away again. Do you think Yoongi is really an agent?”
Why did he have the feeling that Yoongi was hiding something from them?
Jimin frowned. “He was called away again?”
Jimin remembered he had just read news about a drug lord of Golden Triangle sneaking into China and about the anti-terrorist organizations of several countries having a meeting, discussing how to catch this drug lord…
He frowned and said, “I don’t feel right this time!”
Taehyung took a breath, looking pale. “I also feel a bit uneasy.”
At this time, sitting in the classroom, Lalisa was distracted. She knew that this was not because of what had happened last night, but because of the phone call Yoongi had just received. After breathing in deeply for several times, she forced herself to calm down and concentrate on the class.
Haruto had been paying attention to Lalisa ever since she helped him solve the math problem on Friday. Today, he had been looking at Lalisa. As soon as she entered the classroom, he had noticed that Lisa had become more beautiful. Every single move she made looked so attractive to him…
What should he do? He was still a thirteen-year-old teenager. The most important thing for him right now was to study. He had always thought girls were a nuisance, but why was he suddenly paying attention to a girl?
Yeji accidentally knocked over the glass cup on the table while she was cleaning Lalisa’s room. She reached out to pick it up only to cut her hand. Seeing that his mother’s hand was covered in blood, Jimin, who had happened to pass by, rushed to fetch the medicine cabinet, and as he set about bandaging the cut for her, he asked with a frown, “Mom, take a rest. Taehyung and I will do the cleaning for you. How come you cut your hand so badly?”
Yeji felt warm in her heart when she saw her son’s worried look. “Maybe I didn’t have a good breakfast, so my heart was beating a bit fast. I accidentally knocked over Lili’s cup and got myself cut while trying to pick it up.”
Hearing the noise, Taehyung also came out of the room. When he saw Yeji was injured, he hurried to check his mom’s injury and then cleaned up the broken glass after making sure she was alright. He sighed and said, “Why do all of us feel uneasy today?”
“What’s the matter?”
Taehyung and Jimin looked at each other, and the two brothers said tacitly, “Look, we beat each other into this, and Mom, you cut your hand, so… ”
“What are you talking about!” Yeji said angrily before Jimin finished. “Breaking a cup is a good omen! What are you talking about?”
“Where’s your eldest brother?” Yeji looked at the time and frowned. “He should have sent Lili to school and come back by now.”
Jimin pretended that he didn’t hear anything and continued bandaging Yeji, lowering his head. In any case, Yoongi had called Taehyung, not him, so Taehyung should tell Mom about this—he wouldn’t get himself into this trouble.
Knowing what Jimin was thinking, Taehyung glared at him and said, “Yoongi just called me and said he would be away from City A for a few days because he had something to attend to. His car is parked at the gate of Lili’s school, and he asked me to drive it home when picking up Lili in the afternoon.”
Yeji only knew that her eldest son often went out. Although her son never talked about his work, she knew he had a job, though no one told her about it, because her eldest son had never asked her for money all these years.
Her eldest son had always been the most reliable one, so she nodded and didn’t say anything more, no longer worrying about him.
Shortly after Yoongi delivered Lalisa to school, a helicopter appeared on a park lawn near the school. As it was Monday, there were few people in the park, except for some old people who were practicing Tai Chi. After the helicopter landed, Yoongi climbed quickly into the helicopter.
“Major!” As soon as Yoongi got on the helicopter, a soldier in a combat uniform saluted him. Yoongi responded with a military salute, asking, “What’s the matter?”
“The chief commanded us to go straight to the border of Province Y. The counter-terrorism forces of several other countries have arrived there right now,” the man said, handing some files to Yoongi.
Yoongi took the files and closed the cabin door. The helicopter then left the lawn with a whirring sound, by which time Yoongi had finished reading the files.
“What does the chief want us to do?” Yoongi asked in a low voice, putting on his headphones.
“Major, this is the letter of appointment.” The man passed the letter to Yoongi.
Yoongi took it over, looked at it and said, “Head for City J, Province Y.” Then he said, “Contact the combat troops and ask them to wait for orders in City J.”
Hearing the buzzing noise of the helicopter, Lalisa looked out from the classroom window. She thought it had to be the helicopter that came to pick up Yoongi for work. A helicopter came to pick him for work? What on earth was Yoongi’s identity?
The more Lalisa thought about it, the more she felt uneasy. She activated 008, and asked, ‘008, give me all the data on my eldest brother, and tell me what his mission is this time.’
[System: My cute little princess, I’m very glad to serve you.]
Lalisa: ‘Oh, stop it. Come on, give me his data! And tell me what his job is!’
[System: Name: Min Yoongi; Gender: Male; Personality: Unknown; Age: 29; Position: Captain of a special department of national special forces; Military Rank: Major; Martial Points: High; Mission this time: To catch the drug lord of Golden Triangle—Kloss; Danger Factor: High!]
Lalisa’s heart sank. She had always thought Yoongi was just an intelligence officer or a captain of the CIA like Jimin and Taehyung had told her. Now it seemed that her guess was wrong. A captain of a special department of national special forces? How special was the department? Besides, Yoongi had attained the military rank of major at such a young age, which meant that he must have risked his life to achieve this! And since 008 said it was highly risky, it had to be really dangerous!
Lalisa: ‘Show me the data on that Kloss!’
[System: …]
“Student Lisa, you are thinking so hard about this question. Have you got the answer?” This lesson was a French class. The teacher was lecturing on the podium and the students were listening to him carefully. Only Lalisa had her head lowered with a frown as if she was thinking of something. The teacher was a very demanding teacher, and no one dared to zone out in his class; otherwise, you would be asked to answer a question, and if you couldn’t answer it correctly, you would be doomed.
Lalisa was about to read the data given by 008 when she was suddenly called by the teacher. She looked up only to see the teacher write some French on the blackboard: Je pense que nous devons être amoureux.
Lalisa pursed her lips and answered, “I think we need love.”
The teacher obviously didn’t expect Lalisa could answer this question, so he raised his eyebrows and asked, “How do you know what this sentence means?”
Lalisa was so eager to know the details of Yoongi’s mission that she didn’t want to waste time with the teacher, so she said in French, “Professeur, le Fran? Ais, je devrais être plus fort que vous.”
The French teacher smiled and said, “You think you’re better than me at French?”
Lalisa replied with a nod, “Yes. I can speak twenty languages. I believe I am better than you, sir, at language, so can I sit down now?”
The French teacher, who had never been provoked like this by a student before, got angry upon hearing Lalisa’s words. “B*llshit! If you are really that good, why are you here?”
“Teacher, although I can speak so many languages, I am illiterate in terms of academic qualifications,” Lalisa replied calmly. She was the kind of person who would be calmer when she was anxious. She knew that if she wasted time here, what really mattered would be delayed.
The teacher sneered and was about to refute her when the Director of Foreign Language Studies suddenly entered the classroom. When he glimpsed Lalisa, his eyes lit up and he said, “Oh, girl, I went back to research the languages you spoke that day, and then I found that words from different languages could really be combined into a single sentence! You are the most gifted student I’ve ever seen!”
The teacher stared in astonishment at the director who had suddenly burst in, and then reminded him sullenly, “Director, we are in class.”
The director nodded with a smile and waved his hand, saying, “Go ahead. I want to have a chat with Student Lisa alone. The Arabic language you spoke last time is what I am studying now. May I ask you for some advice?”
Haruto was stunned. He looked at that dazzling girl. He didn’t know that she was not only good at math, but also talented in language! When she was speaking French just now, she had sounded exactly like the people he met in Paris! Her French was way more standard than what the French teacher taught them!
Lalisa was thinking about how to leave the classroom and communicate with 008, so she was very happy to see the Director of Foreign Language Studies. This class still had half an hour until it finished, but she couldn’t wait for half an hour. However, if she went to the director’s office, she could read Kloss’ data on the way.
She nodded and said, “But I don’t think I’m good enough to give advice to you, Director.”
The director laughed. “Haha, Student Min, you are being modest. Who now doesn’t know that you are capable?”
Now she was not only capable, but also had a powerful family background! He already knew what had happened online last night, and he believed that many teachers and students of the school also had found out about it. No one expected that Tzuyu was not the Min Family’s daughter, but a fake who had occupied Lisa’s position. Min Lisa, with her great talent and being the beloved daughter of both Min Hyunbin and Min Soohyun’s families, was bound to be a real princess in the future. He had observed from outside for quite a while only to find that she had looked distracted since she arrived at school, so there had to be something happening to her. And she had looked even more absent-minded during class. If he could rescue her from the classroom, Student Min would certainly appreciate him!
At this thought, the director laughed even more happily. With a smile, he took Lalisa out of the classroom. The French teacher looked angry, but he dared not go against his boss, so he could only watch Lalisa being taken away.
Seeing Lalisa being taken away, Haruto also wanted to go out with her; however, although he had good grades, his French was not so good…
As soon as Lalisa and the Director of Foreign Language Studies walked out the teaching building, the director stopped, looked back at Lalisa and said with a smile, “Student Lisa, if you have something to attend to, just go about your business. Come to me when you’re done.”
Staring at the director who was smiling at her affably, Lalisa asked incredulously, “How do you know I have something to deal with?”
Glad that he had guessed right, the director replied with a smile, “Look at your face. You must have something urgent to deal with, so just go, but right now there are a lot of journalists waiting at the school gate. You’d better not go through there.”
Lalisa nodded. The journalists must have find out that she was studying here, so they came here to wait for her. With this thought in mind, Lalisa thanked the director, “Director, thank you. If it weren’t for you, I couldn’t have left so successfully today.”
The director waved his hand with a smile. “It’s nothing. Besides, I know you’re a good student. Next month I will arrange a test for you. If you pass it, you can skip to the third grade. I know, with your ability, you could even be admitted to a university, but it’s not yet the time for university recruitment.”
Lalisa thanked him again with a smile and walked quickly towards the outside of the school. As expected, she saw many journalists waiting at the gate. She frowned, looked at the school uniform she was wearing and turned around with a sigh. At this time, she suddenly glimpsed her head teacher, and her eyes lit up as she quickly ran over to greet him. “Mr. He!”
He Mu’an frowned when he saw Lalisa and he inquired, “Min Lisa, shouldn’t you be in class now?”
Lalisa replied, “I’m not feeling well. Could you take me out of the school? My brother is waiting for me outside to take me to the hospital, but there are too many journalists at the gate now. If my brother picks me up now, he may become surrounded by the journalists, so could you please do it instead?”
Hearing Lalisa say she was not feeling well, He Mu’an immediately asked nervously, “What’s the matter? Did you get sunstroke because of the hot weather?”
Lalisa sighed. Mr. He, that’s not the point, okay?
“No, my brother will take me to check it out,” Lalisa said. “Many journalists are looking for me now because of what happened last night, so I would like to ask you not to tell those journalists my identity and cover for me, Mr. He.”
He Mu’an, of course, had also seen the news. While he sympathized with the experience Lisa went through, he also appreciated her approach on the matter. She was not agitated and neither was she complaining, which was an attitude very few young people could manage to adopt nowadays.
So he nodded and said, “Okay, leave it to me. I’ll help you get those journalists away. You can go to the doctor with your brother and you don’t have to come back to school today. I will help you ask for leave.”
Lalisa smiled and thanked him, and Mr. He walked toward the school gate.
He Mu’an couldn’t help raising his eyebrows when he saw a dense mass of journalists over there. The journalists were truly dedicated nowadays. The sun was scorching hot and yet they were still waiting in the sun, not even hiding under a tree. Mr. He walked past them silently and walked to a crossing nearby, where there was a luxury car parked there, Mr. He shouted out loud, “Student Lisa, why don’t you go into the school since you’re already here? Why are you staying in the car?”
That car was a Rolls-Royce Phantom and Jungkook happened to own one. Taehyung had once driven a car of that model to pick up Jungkook from the airport, which was photographed by a journalist. At that time, a lot of journalists had reported that Taehyung, owning a Rolls-Royce Phantom, was an “invisible rich man”. Now, seeing the car, the journalists all rushed forward without any hesitation, running to the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Seeing the journalists being led away by Mr. He, Lalisa gave him a thumbs-up in her heart, and then she quickly rushed out of the school, got into the car, started the engine and drove away.
Although she didn’t have a driver’s license right now, she wouldn’t be caught by the traffic police as long as she drove safely!
After passing two fork roads, Lalisa pulled over, took the mask and hat from the car, and ran into the nearby central park. She found a big tree and sat down under it. Then she turned on the system and called for 008. ‘008, come on, tell me more about Kloss!’
[System: My cute little princess, please wait a moment.]
Lalisa was not happy to hear 008 call her that, because she was really worried about Yoongi.
She now truly took the Min Family members as her own family, so she cared about them. She had never had this kind of feeling before. Unexpectedly, in just two or three months, she had changed from that calm, indifferent and even a little cold Kwon Lalisa to this Min Lisa who would care about a lot of things…
Thinking of this, Lalisa took a deep breath. Maybe the living environment could really change a person.
Covering her slightly aching heart with her hands, Lalisa suddenly thought that she hadn’t treated Jungkook well before… She had never really cared about his situation but only cared about her happiness when she was with him…
Trying to suppress the thoughts in her mind, Lalisa read the data provided by 008.
[System: Name: Kloss•Leicester; Gender: Male; Personality: Vicious, malicious and capricious; Age: 35; Identity: Drug lord of Golden Triangle, the fifth most wanted man in the world.]
Lalisa frowned and asked, ‘What else?’
[008: Little Lali, I know you are worried about your brother, but your current Martial Points are really low. Don’t worry about your brother. Worry about yourself…]
008 rarely talked to her like this. Lalisa’s heart sank and her anxiety reached a climax. She reached out to her headset and put it on, pretending to be on the phone. She asked in a deep voice, “Is my brother in danger?”
[008: Of course he is. Your brother is in danger every time he carries out a mission.]
Lalisa said coldly, “I mean this time! Is there danger this time?”
[008: I’m sorry. I don’t have the foresight to know what’s going to happen in the future.]
“Send me there,” Lalisa said coldly. “I’m going to help my brother!”
[008: How can you help? How are you going to help?]
“Didn’t you give me two hours a day?” Lalisa looked resolute. “I must stay with my brother. Maybe I can save his life with those two hours! I’m really worried about him this time!”
[008: Are you so sure that something bad will happen to him? Maybe you are worrying too much. Maybe he’ll be alright.]
Lalisa leaned back against the tree with a frown, looked up at the lake not far away and asked softly, “008, do you know that my intuition never fails? I had a strong sense of uneasiness before the airplane crash, and it turned out that I did have an accident.”
[008: I’ll keep an eye on Min Yoongi for you. If anything happens to him, I’ll immediately let you know, and then you can go over and bring Min Yoongi back. But if you go there now, how will you explain things to him?]
Lalisa calmed down. What 008 said was right; if she went there now, she might make trouble for Yoongi, so she could only pray he would be alright, but if there was really something bad happening to him, she would use the all-purpose skill to save him.
As for whether Yoongi would ask her why she was there, she couldn’t bring herself to care much about that.
For now, Yoongi’s safety was more important than anything else.
Making up her mind, Lalisa was no longer flustered. She took a look at her watch. If she went back to school now, the second class would be about to begin, but a large crowd of journalists was waiting at the school gate. How could she get into the school?
Just then, Jimin called her. Lalisa picked up the phone and heard Jimin’s voice say, “Lili, Uncle and Aunt are here. They want to see you. Are you gonna come back?”
Hearing Jimin’s reluctant voice, Lalisa giggled and then said, “Jimin, if you don’t want me to go back, just tell me. Why are you asking me this?”
Jimin grumbled, “Uncle and Aunt said if you didn’t come back, they would pick you up from school.”
The Min Family members all knew that Lisa was studying in the First High School of City A, including Hyunbin and Jiwon, so they would indeed probably come to the school… and right now there were so many journalists at the school gate. If they were photographed by them, what would happen?
Thinking for a moment, Lalisa could only nod and say, “Then I’ll come back. Can you pick me up by the school? I’m in the park nearby.”
Although she could drive, she didn’t have a driving license right now, so it was better for her to wait here for her brothers to pick her up, in case she was caught on the road by the traffic police.
Jimin said okay, glanced back at Jiwon and Hyunbin, and then called over Taehyung to pick up Lalisa with him.
On Jiwon’s side of things, in the villa of Soohyun’s family, she was feeling greatly abashed for the first time ever. To be honest, she truly felt ashamed to come here, but Lisa was her daughter. She had wronged her and almost had her killed. She knew it wouldn’t be easy to get Lisa’s forgiveness, but she wanted to apologize to her in person. If she was willing to return to her side, that would be best, and she would do anything to make it up to her, but if she didn’t want to, she wouldn’t force her. After all, she, Lisa’s mother, was the one who hurt her most.
At this thought, Jiwon looked at Yeji and said in a low voice, “Yeji, I’m so sorry for disturbing you and causing you to be targeted by so many journalists because of our mistakes. Today I came here to…”
Yeji raised her hand to interrupt Jiwon and said with a smile, “I know you feel guilty, but I won’t give Lili to you, because you didn’t want her in the first place.”
You gave her up because you were too competitive. Now it’s impossible for you to take her back. Although she had never intended to snatch away anyone’s daughter, Lisa was her daughter now. They were the ones who had come to snatch her daughter, so she wouldn’t back down a single step. She finally had another daughter, who helped her recover from the pain of losing her first daughter—she didn’t want to lose Lili.
Looking at the Yeji, Jiwon didn’t know what to say. Yeji was always quiet and inoffensive but was very strong-minded. Once she made up her mind, no one could make her change it.
Yeji was thinking to herself: no wonder she had felt so uneasy today. It turned out that someone had been coming to take her daughter from her. Taking a look at her silent mobile phone, she couldn’t help grumbling at Soohyun in her mind—why hadn’t he replied to her message?!
Hyunbin was determined to take his daughter back. No matter what, he wanted to keep his daughter by his side. Firstly, Grandpa Min would be happy, secondly, his wife would be happy, and thirdly, his son would be happy. When they were happy, he would be happy.
Most importantly, Mingyu had shown clearly that he liked Lisa. If Lisa came back, he would still be able to gain the support of the Liu Family by marrying Lisa to Mingyu!
So he had to take his daughter back. His brother could help Lisa to study in the First High School of City A, and so could he. He could give her whatever they had given her. He wanted Lisa to come back to him and call him Dad.
With this thought in mind, Hyunbin couldn’t help saying, “What do you mean, Yeji? Lili is our daughter. What’s wrong with her coming back to our house?”
Jiwon frowned upon hearing Hyunbin’s words, and was about to speak when she was interrupted by the cold voice of Yeji. Yeji stared at Hyunbin with a sneer and said, “Brother, that’s funny. You mean that you did nothing wrong to abandon your daughter, while we were wrong to accept the daughter abandoned by you?”
“You know I don’t mean that!” Hyunbin said coldly. “We didn’t acknowledge Lili for a reason. You know we were fooled by Min Tzuyu. Since all the facts have come to light, shouldn’t we take our daughter back?”
“Brother, it’s not our fault that you were blind,” Yeji said coldly. “Besides, it was not that we lied to you, but that you were too gullible. Can you blame us for this? And you can’t use Min Tzuyu as the excuse for abandoning Lili.”
Hyunbin still wanted to say something, but Jiwon stopped him. Jiwon gave Yeji an apologetic smile and said, “Sorry, Yeji, you know he is not good at expressing himself. I apologize to you on his behalf. I know it won’t be easy to gain forgiveness from you and Lili. Of course, I’m not here to take Lili from you. I just want to ask for her forgiveness.”
Yeji finally looked a little better and she nodded and said, “What you said makes sense. Regardless of how Lili was doing in our house in the last two months, she was hurt in your house, which you can’t deny and forget.”
Jiwon sighed and replied with a nod, “We know that. We’ve driven Min… Yao Tzuyu out of our house and Shengda is terminating the contract with her. You can rest assured. Yao Tzuyu won’t be able to hurt Lili anymore.”
Yeji smiled. “Are you really willing to do this?”
Jiwon sensed a touch of irony in Yeji’s tone, but she didn’t say anything. If it was before, she would have retorted against her. She had never liked this celebrity sister-in-law of hers because she always felt Yeji behaved in a condescending manner in front of her, so she never yielded to Yeji. However, she couldn’t behave like that today. She knew that if she wanted to get his daughter’s forgiveness, she must not quarrel with Yeji.
With this thought in mind, Jiwon forced a smile and said, “I was really blind. I didn’t know my daughter suffered so much while I was keeping a viper by my side. I deserved to be bitten back at. But now I just want to see Lisa and tell her that I know the truth and I know I was wrong.”
“In that case, you can wait for Lili here. Taehyung has gone to pick her up,” Yeji said, and then added, “Her brothers have been sending her to and back from school every day since Lili started attending.”
Jiwon smiled. “We know that you take care of Lili well.”
She had been mocked by Taehyung and Jimin every time they saw her, and she knew they had always picked on Tzuyu. She knew it was because of Lisa, but she didn’t like how they were aware of the truth yet didn’t tell her.
But she couldn’t say that now, and knew that she had no reason to either, because she knew that even if they had come to her and told her the truth about Tzuyu, she would not have believed them but would have thought that they were trying to sow discord between her and Tzuyu for Lisa. Fortunately, it wasn’t too late for her to find out the truth now. She still had a chance to make up for it…
The Min’s Group President’s office.
The secretary knocked on the door and went in. He looked at Jinhwan hesitantly and said softly, “President, your sister… Miss Min Tzuyu wants to see you.”
Jinhwan frowned and clenched the pen in his hand. He had been on a business trip to City C yesterday and hadn’t paid attention to the news. He hadn’t read the news about the Min Family until he returned to City A this morning. How dare she still come to him?
It seemed that she had nowhere else to go?
Jinhwan was silent for two seconds before nodding and saying, “Let her in.”
Tzuyu couldn’t return to the Min Family last night, so she had bought a suit outside to change into. She wore a mask, a hat and a pair of big sunglasses that could almost cover half of her face. Wrapped up well, she wasn’t as ostentatious as usual.
She walked in and took off everything covering her face. The moment she saw Jinhwan, she cried out in an aggrieved manner and called out softly, “Jinhwan…”
Yeji’s sons had never been close to her since their childhood, and only Jinhwan would protect her. Now she had no support in the whole Min Family, so Jinhwan who had grown up with her was her only hope.
Looking at her, Jinhwan suddenly felt the urge to find out how the woman was going to defend herself. He frowned and asked, “Why are you dressed like this? What happened?”
Tzuyu was a bit surprised when she heard Jinhwan’s words. Looking carefully at Jinhwan’s face, she asked softly, “Brother, you don’t know?”
Jinhwan raised his eyebrow, got up from his chair, went to the black leather sofa in the middle of the office and sat down. Then he asked Tzuyu to sit down too and asked softly, “What happened? I went to City C on business yesterday and just got off the plane.”
Tzuyu’s eyes lit up and then quickly went dim. She said softly, “Our cousins think I took Lili’s place, so they slandered me in front of Mingyu, Mom and Dad. They all misunderstood me and have driven me out of home. Only you can help me now.”
Jinhwan raised his eyebrows. As he had expected, she put the blame on the Min brothers. This woman was really… shameless!
Jinhwan asked, “Was it wrong?”
As Jinhwan’s reaction was not what she expected, Tzuyu didn’t know what to say. She looked at Jinhwan doubtfully and made a puzzled sound. “Hmm?”
Jinhwan leaned back, looked into Tzuyu’s eyes and once again asked coldly, “Was it wrong for them to drive you out of home?”
Tzuyu became flustered and replied earnestly, “Jinhwan, I don’t understand what you are talking about! I’m your sister. I belong to the Min Family.”
“You’re not.” Jinhwan chuckled and looked at Tzuyu, saying, “Did you forget it? You are not the biological daughter of Mom and Dad.”
His words seemed to have dealt a big blow to her; she gawked at Jinhwan, asking, “Jinhwan, why are you saying this…”
“Did I say anything wrong?” Jinhwan gave a mocking smile before continuing, “If I were you, I would have left after finding out my true identity, returned to Lisa what belongs to her, and held a press conference to tell the truth to the world. That way, you would not only have gotten a reputation for being generous, but you would have also gained the support of your fans. Besides that, you would have gotten my mother’s help because she would have felt guilty towards you, and then your career would have scaled to new heights.”
Tzuyu finally understood Jinhwan was trying to say, and there was a twinge of hatred in her eyes as she said, “It turns out that you wanted me to leave the Min Family as soon as Lisa came back, right?”
Jinhwan sneered, “You finally get it. Good for you.”
“Why should I leave?” Unconvinced, Tzuyu glared at Jinhwan who was sitting opposite idly and with a faintly mocking smile on his face. “I have been the daughter of the Min Family since I was born. Why do you want me to leave?”
“I don’t care.” Jinhwan smiled. “What I want is a sister with blood relations to me, not a scheming girl who is not related to me by blood. Do you understand?”
Tzuyu stood up abruptly, crying out, “You already knew about it!”
Jinhwan replied with a smile, “So what?”
“You’re just making fun of me!” Tzuyu glared at Jinhwan viciously and shouted, “You’re all waiting to see how miserable I will become, but I won’t let you win!”