Rosé couldn’t very well talk her out of it. But the moment Lisa gulped the beer, she shoved it away with a bitter expression. “Tastes awful!”
It tasted so weird to her.
Rosé burst into laughter.
“Since you’ve never drunk it before, you’re naturally not used to it. But I don’t drink this either.”
The two girls were quite eye-catching as they sat eating in the restaurant.
When Lisa came out, she changed into a set of Rosé’s casual clothes, because she couldn’t very well come out in her military garments.
Their pretty faces attracted the attention of many other male patrons.
But this was a proper restaurant and not some roadside stall.
And these men merely stared and didn’t have the guts to come up to them.
Since both Lisa and Rosé didn’t drink alcohol, they were extremely sober.
Eating the crayfish, Lisa realised that it tasted pretty good.
The emotions suppressed in her heart seemed to dispel a little after eating this good food, and Lisa rather relished in eating it.
Rosé heaved out a sigh of relief internally.
“How’s training in military school these days?”
Rosé asked Lisa about some happenings in the military school.
“Pretty good. Sufficient training and shooting practice in preparation for the competition in October.”
Rosé had heard Lisa mention the October competition before this. Her eyes lit up at the mention of this. “Lisa, are outsiders allowed to buy tickets to view a competition like this? I want to watch you compete in a shooting.”
Lisa laughed as she shelled the crayfish. “I’m not sure. I don’t think the October competition is open for viewing to outsiders. Probably only those from military schools are allowed in. But I can see if I can get you a ticket.”
“Alright, alright, you’re my good Lili. Love you lots!”
If it weren’t for the fact that they were outside, Rosé would have pounced onto Lisa and kissed her on the face.
The duo had an excellent time chatting, and Lisa’s gloominess faded quite a bit.
Just then, someone at the adjacent table stumbled to his feet and came to Lisa, delight in his voice. “It’s… you?”
Lisa and Rosé looked up upon hearing this. One of them stiffened her expression, and the other seemed clearly confused.
Rosé asked, “Handsome, who are you?”
Staring at the man before her, Lisa crushed the crayfish in her hands into a ball.
The pitiful crayfish’s shell and flesh got squashed together.
Ever since she came to military school, Lisa nearly forgot about this person.
Surprisingly, he appeared in front of her once more!
Su Mingyu!
However, Mingyu simply looked delighted at the sight of Lisa.
This girl had previously left a profound impression on him at North City.
But subsequently, he didn’t have any means of contacting her, and they never ran into each other again.
He felt an emptiness in his heart. He had only seen this girl once, yet why did he have such a deep impression of her?
That was why, when he suddenly saw Lisa’s face, he didn’t quite dare to believe his eyes at first.
He only came up to say hello after he had worked up the courage.
But Lisa’s countenance was too obvious.
No delight, only a dark expression on her face.
So dark that Mingyu felt kind of scared.
He wasn’t here by himself. He came with friends, both male and female, dressed rather trendily.
At the moment, they wore an ambiguous smile as they looked in Lisa and Mingyu’s direction.
In the noisy and crowded restaurant, Lisa, who had had a minor headache, to begin with, felt her head aching even more now.
After all these blissful days, she nearly forgot that in her previous lifetime, other than Eunha, this Mingyu was also one of those who had caused her to live a wretched life.
But who could she blame?
She could only blame herself for being blind.
Mingyu had always been a meek man who didn’t even dare to speak up in the Yu family.
He would hide behind Eunha and act as that invisible hand.
On the surface, it might seem like Lisa’s greatest tragedy stemmed from the Yu family.
But this Mingyu had left an unforgettable scar in Lisa’s life.
So much so that even as she recalled the past now, that tolerant Chief Instructor who treated her gently would surface in her mind.
Compared to this Mingyu, the difference was like heaven and earth.
The Chief Instructor treated her well, not just in speech, but more so in actions.
As for Mingyu, he used to coax the ignorant Lisa with sugar-coated bullets in the past.
Thinking back, it was a huge irony.
The sight of this person made Lisa’s longing for the Chief Instructor, which she managed to suppress with great effort, to flood out in an unstoppable manner.
She stroked her forehead and got to her feet, completely ignoring Mingyu. “Rosé, let’s go back. I’m a little tired.”
She treated Mingyu as though he was invisible, making him stand there awkwardly.
Rosé threw Mingyu a curious gaze. Since she could see that Lisa didn’t wish to bother with him, she said nothing and merely nodded. “Okay.”
What a pity! There was so much unfinished crayfish, and yet already they were leaving.
Rosé asked the waiter to help them take away the remaining crayfish.
Seeing that Lisa and her friend were about to leave, Mingyu’s face turned a notch paler. He hurriedly waved a hand and explained, “Don’t be offended. I just didn’t expect I would run into you here, so I came over to say hello.”
Lisa finally spared Mingyu a gaze. “Who are you? Do we know each other?”
“…”
Mingyu’s face turned utterly stiff.
He never expected Lisa not to spare him any face at all.
Most importantly, he had always taken pride in his looks. Most girls would cast a few more glances at him.
Lisa should at least have given him some face.
But she ultimately did not.
“Shh” sounds came from the adjacent table, making Mingyu even more awkward.
After their food was packed up, Rosé asked for a few disposable gloves, then hooked her arm around Lisa. As she held the pack, she chirped, “Let’s go.”
Lisa nodded. Without even sparing another glance at Mingyu, she left directly.
She didn’t wish to be entangled with this man in this lifetime again. Not even in the least bit.
Her main target was the Yu family and not Mingyu.
Mingyu was merely proof of her being blind in love previously. In this lifetime, they had nothing to do with each other, so Lisa had no interest in seeking any actual revenge on Mingyu.
However, Mingyu failed to enter the Yu family and enter Eunha in this lifetime.
As such, he wouldn’t enter the Yu Corporation the way he did in the previous lifetime.
That meant he might live out the rest of his days as a mediocre man.
This was the biggest revenge to an arrogant person like Mingyu.
At the thought of this, Lisa cast a brief glance in his direction as she left, her lips curled in an icy smile.
Watching them leave without turning their heads, Mingyu couldn’t help but clench his fists tightly with a look of fury in his eyes.
...
After they left the restaurant, Lisa and Rosé returned to Rosé’s home.
They continued eating their unfinished crayfish, and Rosé also brought back those two bottles of beer.
Lisa was in an unpleasant mood having run into that man who had brought bad luck.
Add to the fact that she missed the Chief Instructor even more dearly now, she gulped down a large mouthful of beer.
“Hey, hey, hey, drink slower. Didn’t you complain it tasted horrid?”
Rosé went up and took the beer from her. Lisa set it down and wiped her mouth casually.
Rosé couldn’t hold herself back seeing her acting like this. “Do you know that guy we met earlier?”
Although Lisa didn’t admit to it, Rosé could tell that Lisa knew the other party.
Lisa took two gulps of the beer and her face flushed. She shook her head and said, “Yes, but that was a very long time ago. I don’t wish to talk about it.”
To her, that indeed happened very long ago.
“I see.”
Rosé couldn’t very well press her for more details after hearing this. She merely smacked her lips and sighed. “From the looks of it I think he came up to try and chat you up. What a joke. If he had seen the Chief Instructor, he would probably be too ashamed to come up to you.”
At the mention of the words ‘Chief Instructor’, it stirred Lisa’s sensitive nerves once more.
No idea if it was because of the influence of the alcohol, she couldn’t resist asking, “What if, what if he really doesn’t come back?”
Although she spoke in a normal tone of voice, Rosé could detect the crying tone in her voice.
She was taken aback.
She had never seen Lisa behaving in this manner.
After Lisa had said that, she gulped down the entire can of beer.
Rosé was speechless.
Although one doesn’t quickly get drunk on beer, it wasn’t for sure…
With the low alcohol content in beer, Lili wouldn’t…
But a few seconds later, Rosé saw Lisa’s cheeks turn even more flushed.
Hugging the can of beer, Lisa let out a burp. “Do you have more? I want to drink more!”
Rosé could sense something wasn’t quite right. “Lisa, have you drunk alcohol before?”
Although a little giddy, Lisa hadn’t lost consciousness, so she replied very quickly.
“Nope. Not even a drip…”
Rosé was speechless.
Damn, what should I do if Lisa was the sort of person who got drunk with one sip of alcohol?
“I want to drink some more!”
Lisa shouted. Rosé hurriedly opened another can for her. “Sure, sure, sure. Here.”
“But after I drink this, there’ll be no more.”
Rosé knew that Lisa must be feeling upset, so she didn’t stop her from drinking.
Lisa took the beer from her and gulped it down in a few mouthfuls.
After finishing both bottles, Lisa let out a loud burp.
Burp…
Rosé was speechless.
This scene indeed destroyed Lili’s image as a goddess.
Although Lisa felt that this beer tasted terrible, its effects were too significant.
Just these two bottles alone, and she could clearly feel her head spinning, and her cheeks heated up.
Clearly, she felt normal. Yet when she propped up her body to stand up, she shook violently.
She even nearly fell.
“Damn, Lili. Surely not? Two bottles of beer and you’re knocked out? This is only beer!”
Rosé didn’t dare to believe this. She immediately went up to help support Lisa.
Just then, her doorbell rang.
Rosé gazed at Lisa, then at the door.
“Hmm who would be here to visit me at this late hour? Is it my older brother?…”
Seeing Lisa stand unsteadily, Rosé said worriedly, “Lisa, sit down first. I’ll go open the door and see who it is.”
“Alright, alright, go…”
Lisa waved a hand, and her head spun madly.
When Rosé went to open the door, Lisa suddenly felt hotness in her lower body.
Her countenance changed, and she immediately went to the toilet.
On Rosé’s side, as she opened the door, a horrified expression appeared on her face.
“Chief… Chief Instructor? Com-Commander Huo?”
Two familiar figures stood outside the door.
Jungkook and Jimin!
With a solemn expression, Jungkook asked in a direct and aloof manner, “Is Lisa at your place?”
“Yes.”
The shocked Rosé replied.
This was her first time seeing the Chief Instructor and Commander Huo in casual clothes.
Jungkook was smartly dressed in a black smart casual attire—a black low-collared shirt coupled with a pair of long casual pants of the same colour, exuding an intense air of abstinence.
As always, his eyes were gorgeous as a magnificent painting, so perfect that there weren’t words that could adequately describe them.
Even though the lighting was dim, his appearance remained so outstanding that one couldn’t tear their eyes away from him.
On his right wrist, he wore a watch whose brand Rosé couldn’t see. But the emerald gems encrusted at the bezel were enough to dazzle her eyes. The design was extravagant and perfectly put together.
The man wearing that watch had a noble disposition.
It was a special design of a luxury brand.
Jungkook’s aura was as powerful as ever, making Rosé’s legs tremble. At the same time, she couldn’t help but marvel about how handsome this man was in her heart!
Jimin, on the other hand, wore a low-key grey suit. Although he wasn’t quite as striking standing next to Jungkook, he wasn’t exactly inconspicuous.
When Rosé turned her body sideways for Jungkook to enter the house, Jimin grinned at Rosé. “Rosé, it’s been a long time since we last met.”
After all, she was Lisa’s number one bestie, so Jimin did have some impression of this Rosé.
“Yes, yes, Commander Huo, long time no see.”
Rosé didn’t feel as stressed facing Jimin.
She responded with a vibrant smile.
Jimin waved a hand. “No need to address me so formally now. I’m no longer your Commander Huo. Just call me Brother Huo.”
How could she not take advantage of this?
Greeting Jimin as Brother Huo felt more useful than addressing him as Commander Huo. Rosé instantly greeted him accordingly, “Hello, Brother Huo!”
While they chatted at the door, Jungkook who had just entered the house, swept his gaze around.
Lisa was nowhere to be seen.
After Joker had sent Jungkook that message, he rushed over here. It was impossible that she wasn’t around.
Since he heard some sounds behind a door, Jungkook furrowed his brows slightly and moved in that direction.
“… Ro, Rosé, my period is here. Will it…”
Sensing the arrival of someone, Lisa had thought it was Rosé. With one hand gripping her top, she pressed the other hand upon her abdomen and rubbed in circles, afraid the consumption of alcohol would affect her period.
As she spoke, she turned around. But then, she saw the person whom she had been missing day and night standing at the door, staring at her with a somewhat odd expression.
Lisa froze.
“Chief… Chief Instructor…”
Lisa’s voice quivered, not daring to believe that the person whom she had been missing so dearly, appeared in front of her just like that.
Jungkook felt his throat tighten.
Even though Lisa had already lowered her hand right after she saw him.
Despite his surprise, Jungkook walked over and pulled Lisa into his embrace. He was pressing a hand against the back of her head, as though he was trying to rub her into his body. As he stroke her hair, he said gently in his deep voice, “I’m back, sorry.”
He, who had always been a proud one, willingly set aside all his arrogance in front of the woman in his arms.
With how apologetic his ‘sorry’ sounded like, it conveyed how much he had missed Lisa.
When the person she had been missing day and night appeared before her and said something like that, Lisa instantly couldn’t hold back her aggrieved feelings.
“You left in such a hurry. Couldn’t you at least have given me a call?”
Now that her persistence came to fruition, it was like there was a spot for her to vent out the resentment in her heart.
Lisa couldn’t hold herself back.
Having drunk some alcohol, the effects of the alcohol made her all the more overwhelmed with emotions.
As he hugged Jungkook, she punched him on his back twice.
That little bit of force she exerted into those punches were like relieving an itch to Jungkook. He wasn’t mad, and he simply grabbed Lisa’s wrist and kissed her on the corner of her eye. He could sense the moisture in her eyes.
“Some accident that I hadn’t foreseen coming cropped up at the last minute. That’s why I had to go back to my country to take care of those matters.
“It was my fault. I know you’re upset.”
He was in no hurry to explain too much. He knew Lisa very well, so he knew pretty much what she was thinking.
He didn’t deny he had a problem.
Although Lisa felt aggrieved, she felt much more at ease now that she was in his arms.
Feeling a churning sensation in her stomach all od a sudden, Lisa froze.
The Chief Instructor was still hugging her, but her period was flowing quite severely down there…
Lisa was quite angry and shy at the same time.
It was her first day of period, so the blood flow shouldn’t be that heavy. She had no idea if it was because she had drunk alcohol earlier on.
Had she known her period was coming, she wouldn’t have a drunk beer.
Lisa was afraid her health, which improved after a great deal of effort, would go back to what it used to be like.
But she couldn’t control the onset of emotions. She was angry!
Hearing no response from her for half a day, Jungkook lowered his head and loosened his grip on her slightly. Just then, an intense alcohol odour entered his nostrils.
His face darkened instantly. “Did you drink alcohol?”
When he came in, he heard Lisa say her period was here.
She even dared to drink alcohol while she was on her period?
Lisa felt that this topic was incredibly awkward. Because the Chief Instructor must have heard her say her period was here. She replied awkwardly, “I… I didn’t know. I only drank two bottles of beer.”
She rebutted, as though she wasn’t in the wrong.
When she spoke, the odour of the alcohol lingered in the air.
“Come and stay with me at a hotel.”
When he pulled Lisa with him, she didn’t put up any resistance. When she got to the door, a strange sight greeted her—Jimin and Rosé standing in the living room.
Lisa was speechless.
She was pretty sure Rosé’s house wasn’t soundproof.
When she spoke with the Chief Instructor earlier, neither of them bothered to lower their voice.
Just then, Jimin said in an earnest tone, “Girls ought to cherish themselves!”
“…”