Chapter 50 – Damn vagabond
After Chen Yang left, Lisa poked at her phone while walking and had Jisoo print out the script they had received.
Today, Jungkook had brought a driver and wasn't riding the Rover but a Benz limousine. She got into the backseat, the guy put down his file and asked, "Done chatting?"
The heater was turned on. As she took off the suit jacket Lisa said, "Yeah."
Taking the jacket from her, Jungkook put it over her knees.
"Ma-shu*, you can drive."
[*Ma-shu: the way one would address an 'uncle']
"好。"
"Got it." The driver looked forward and slowly started the car.
Lisa leant on the man's arm and Jungkook didn't hide from her, continuing to read through his documents.
Soon Jisoo got back to her.
[Jisoo: The script is in your room. Where are you now? If you're free, go on Weibo and post an apology.]
[Goddess Lisa: What apology?]
[Jisoo: That 'none of my business', the PR guys want you to apologise. They've sent me several versions of the content, do you want to do it yourself or do you want me to post it for you?]
[Goddess Lisa: I'll do it myself.]
She opened Weibo, frowned, and considered for a moment. After writing and deleting and writing and deleting, she still hadn't managed to come up with a few lines. She sighed gently.
Jungkook raised a hand and flicked her fringe. "What's it?"
"Nothing," Lisa said lowly. "I get a bit dizzy when looking at my phone while in the car."
The speed immediately slowed and the driver said, worriedly, "Is it that I'm driving too jerkily?"
"No," Lisa explained. "I'm like this in the car regardless of who's driving."
The driver then relaxed, though the speed was still a lot slower.
Jungkook eyed the content and then looked away soon after. "Then write after you go back."
Lisa said, "I'm almost done." After checking it three times, she hit send.
The phone on the person beside her 'ding'ed once. Jungkook then took out his phone and slowly began reading.
[Lisa v: Hi everyone, I am Lisa. Here, I apologise for the inappropriate comment I made on the 27th of August. As a public figure, I didn't properly control my emotions, I'm sorry! In the future, I will be mindful of my speech and conduct, please help watch me. However, I also hope that the media would be able to take things as is, please don't drag me into things I'm not involved in at all! I'm focused on filming diligently at the moment, and I really have no energy to spare for these extracurriculars. Thank you very much for your care, thanks!]
He liked it, then tilting his head found the person beside him smiling at the phone in a silly manner.
"You're going to be on your phone even though you're dizzy?"
"No ... look." Lisa was still smiling when she showed him the phone.
It's a Weibo comment.
[Jungkook liked it in a second ... Really, open up Jungkook's Weibo and it's like a Lisa information reblogging station, it's all likes of Lisa's Weibo posts or reblogs, he definitely pays extra special attention to her, I now believe that it's true love.]
Done perusing, Jungkook raised an eyebrow. "All right, stop looking at it."
"Okay." She put the phone back into her bag. "You shouldn't read the documents either, it's dark in the car, that's bad for your eyesight."
The two kept the things in their hands and Lisa snaked her arms around his before interlacing their fingers.
Back at home, the moment she closed the door she was hugged from behind by the guy.
She put her hand on his and smiled. "What's it? It's ticklish."
Small kisses landed on the tip of her ear.
"You're going back tomorrow?"
"Yeah." Lisa couldn't stand him talking softly by her ear. "Let go first ... I haven't showered."
"Let's shower together."
Lisa was a little tempted. Her cheeks flushed, she tried to strike a bargain. "Not against the wall, all right?"
Jungkook lightly bit her neck. "Weren't you comfortable last time?"
"..." Why is this guy so naughty?
"I'm against it." She came up with a random excuse. "I ... I'm afraid of heights."
The excuse was so bad Jungkook Jeon chuckled lowly and said, "Okay."
In the end ... A red-faced Lisa, her hands on the edge of the bathtub, was shattered by the impact, some sounds escaped her lips every now and then. The echoing effect in the bathroom was actually quite good, her voice was crystal clear, awash with embarrassment she bit her lips and tried her best to stop.
But the person behind was trying to encourage her with- "I like hearing you."
The water was stirred, 'di-di-da-da' sounds mixed with sounds of smacking into other things, slowly picking up the pace before returning to stillness.
She lay in the guy's embrace, head buried against his neck, so exhausted she didn't want to move. The water was changed once and the warm water encompassed her very comfortably.
Jungkook had an arm around her waist keeping her from sliding down, his other hand lightly rubbing her cheeks.
"Tomorrow I'll send you to the airport."
"No need." Lisa didn't open her eyes and mumbled. "It's not a rest day tomorrow."
"Then I'll have Ma-shu send you." He lowered his eyes and asked, "Very tired?"
Rubbish! It's always a few times for her before he'd come once, it's so unequal ... it's unfair!
"After finishing filming I'm going to go to the gym every day." Hearing the joy in his words, she tried to threaten him. "I'll wring you dry."
Jungkook smiled. "Ah, there's no need to go to the gym, I can take you elsewhere."
"Where?"
"My place.
"..."
"......"
"Not the family house, I have a few places here and there's one I live in more frequently," Jungkook said. "There's everything you'd want."
???
... Damned vagabond.
After showering Lisa was carried back to the bed. But not because she couldn't walk, just because Captain Jungkook picked her up princess style without giving her the chance to argue and made it to the bed in a couple of strides. After putting her down properly he went to go clean up the bathroom.
Lisa lazed on the bed, covering her eyes with her hands but not closing them (her eyes). Once the guy returned, he moved her hand aside and met her gaze.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"Captain Jungkook." Lisa caught his hand and rubbed against it a few times. "We've only been together for how long and I'm already spoilt by you." She pouted. "A few days ago I weighed myself, am a kilo heavier, it almost angered Jisoo to death."
"I'll want you even if you're fat." He looked straight into her eyes as he spoke.
"All the guys say so."
Jungkook bent over and kissed her. "If you exercise every day, you won't get fat."
Lisa was confused. "What exercise?"
"You forgot?" he said hoarsely. "We just finished it."
That ...
Red-faced, she got up and started rubbing his cheeks. "Who taught you to talk so dirty!"
"After meeting you, I learnt without a teacher."
Lisa daren't speak anymore.
The next morning saw her perched on the bathroom counter, seriously and carefully helping the guy in front of her shave.
"You-you-you don't move." She was really nervous, reaching out to fix his face. "I'm afraid of nicking you."
Jungkook tried not to laugh. "Okay, when did you buy the razor?"
"When I went to the airport, don't speak ... ah!"
She was suddenly picked up by the guy, forcefully hung over him.
... A familiar position.
The guy had his arm under her, holding her very steadily, saying, "Help me shave."
When Jisoo came to pick her up, she stared at her face and asked, confused, "You've put on make-up?"
Lisa sipped her milk and shook her head messily.
Jisoo said, "Then why is your face so red—"
Just when she finished speaking she heard footsteps and turning around saw Jungkook returning to the living room from the balcony in a tidy suit.
Jisoo shut up.
Seeing her here, Jungkook said lightly, "The driver is waiting downstairs."
No wonder the company refused to send a nanny car out for her today. Jisoo nodded. "Thanks, Director Jeon."
The guy continued. "In the future be more careful when picking assistants."
Knowing what he meant, Jisoo hurriedly said, "Understood, I'll pick carefully and make sure nothing like this ever happens again."
"Okay." Jungkook looked away from her, his tone at once dropping a few octaves. "I'm going to the office, when you reach call me."
Lisa was still thinking about the morning and said, just to be contrary, "No."
"Hey." The guy pinched her ear. "Be good."
Lisa said, "— Got it."
Jisoo regretted coming this early. Only after the guy left did the room's temperature return to normal.
Jisoo coughed lightly. "Have you read the script?"
"Not yet." Lisa then remembered the script. Gulping down the milk she said, "Let's take it to the set."
"Weren't you 'not interested' in it previously?" Jisoo was surprised at her change in mood.
"Yesterday, I had a chat with Chen Yang."
"What did you talk about? Oh right, where's yesterday's trophy? Take a photo with it later, someone from that side notified me to have you post a Weibo."
The moment they brought up that trophy Lisa felt a headache coming on. "Can we not?"
"Why?" Jisoo demanded.
"First off, that award didn't belong to me, the organisers switched mine with Chen Yang's last minute."
Jisoo was silent for half a minute. "It's not your first few days in this industry, there's nothing much to it. It's not a very important award and Senior Chen wouldn't care as much either. There aren't that many fair things in the world to start with anyway, don't be so sentimental."
Lisa propped up her chin and said, "I'm not being sentimental, I just look down upon the organisers and don't want to help them advertise."
Jisoo helped her clean up the plates. "No, go get your trophy, film, and head to the airport."
Back in Shanghai, Lisa was like a fish out of water – she couldn't bring herself to feel excited however hard she tried.
'Undercurrents' was almost done filming and the number of times they held discussions began increasing. Sometimes, even for a single detail in a scene, they would have to hold a discussion to carefully study it.
Lisa actually quite liked this working environment, only that it was a little too tiring. Every time they filmed and held meetings, it would be almost midnight or later by the time they returned to the hotel.
Today, there was yet another last-minute meeting. The venue was Sunmi's make-up room.
The scriptwriter waved the script about and said loudly, "I don't agree with this change, see, in the beginning, I'd already put down some foreshadowing— "
"We're filming a show, not writing a story." Jimin cut him off. "A reader can go back to look for foreshadowing, can they do that for a TV show? The audience would just find it hard to understand!"
The two of them went back and forth for a while, then Jimin asked, "Sunmi, it's your part, how do you think we should change it?"
Sunmi had never seen something like this before and was at once too scared to speak. After being suddenly pulled in like this, she stammered for a long while and couldn't come up with a decision.
"It's your character, have you no understanding of it?" The scriptwriter was frowning.
Seeing that they're not going to get anything from Sunmi, Jimin changed her direction. "Little Lisa, what do you think?"
Lisa said, "— I feel."
They all looked at her hopefully.
"I feel that they're both pretty good."
Once she said that she received two eye-rolls. Lisa curved the corner of her lips and laughed a few times, then the topic turned away from her. It's not her part, so she daren't randomly suggest. She curved her eyes and continued daydreaming while staring at the black phone screen.
The screen suddenly lit up. Jisoo had sent over an URL.
[Jisoo: [url] watch immediately if you have the time.]
Lisa quickly borrowed earphones from Sunmi and, putting the phone under the table, opened the link.
Once the video opened, she could hear a voice that had been transformed reading off the news.
"September 12, 8 p.m., a journalist under our Phoenix's World saw a tall, well-built guy with a good aura. Hmm ... Why does this guy seem so familiar? 'Cos it's the new director of Jeon Corporation! Speaking of which, this director kept flashing his relationship to the world recently, it's making everyone jealous, even the editor! Unexpectedly, just when our journalist was about to leave, a woman suddenly walked over to him and the two seemed to be conversing quite happily, seemingly their relationship is very close. This mysterious lady's background was soon uncovered. It's the treasured daughter of the Yang Corporation ... Yang Eunha."
Following which was a very long, boring introduction of Yang Eunha, praising her to the point where she's something that could only exist in the sky and not the earth. In the video, there was only a blurry image of two people's side profile and nothing else.
But Lisa recognised at a glance the man in the video – it really was Jungkook.
The video was only a few minutes long, she finished it very soon. She was silent for a moment before taking out the earphones and returning them to Sunmi. "Thanks."
When taking it back, Sunmi accidentally saw the big headline on the URL.
She paused, then asked, "— Lisa, are you all right?"
"Yeah." Her face was calm, it's hard to see any emotions. Casually putting the phone back in her bag, she looked up and asked, "Which scene have we gotten to?"