Once Lisa and Jungkook got to the restaurant, it was already nearly nine...
Bambam and Chaeyoung sighed when they saw the two arrive so late, "You two must have had an intense time last night, did you do it until the break of dawn? Is that why you got up so late?"
Of course, Bambam was the only one who would say such shameless things...
Lisa didn't talk back like usual; instead, her face grew red...
Chaeyoung immediately noticed her abnormality, and she carefully pulled Lisa's hand and quietly asked, "What happened last night?"
"Nothing happened."
"That's impossible, did you guys finally do it?" Chaeyoung asked again.
"Do your head, hurry up and eat! Stop talking." Lisa was pissed from embarrassment and refused to go on with Chaeyoung.
Bambam continued to tease Jungkook, "You're in good shape, you're still able to get up today after your intense battle last night."
Jungkook calmly replied, "My kidney has always been decent, unlike you. You have to eat six boxes of supplements to get it up."
"Ha... how is that possible? I'm in great shape; I don't need those so-called supplements. Jungkook, that's a pretty damning joke," Bambam yelled.
Jungkook looked at him, and then his tone changed as he looked at Chaeyoung, "I heard the two of you slept in the same room last night?"
"Ahem, ahem, ahem..." Bambam coughed fiercely.
Chaeyoung immediately explained, "That's because the light in my room broke, and the electrician couldn't come, and there weren't any other rooms, so that's why..."
"Okay, okay, you don't have to explain anymore, we believe you." Lisa laughed as she patted Chaeyoung's hand.
"Ahem, ahem... but your expression says that you don't believe me," Chaeyoung said sadly when she saw Lisa's straight face.
"Jungkook, we should head back today, there are some things we have to take care of," Bambam suddenly interrupted.
"Are you two getting your marriage license at the Civil Bureau?" asked Lisa teasingly.
"Lisa, why do you have to say such scary things? Will I still be alive tomorrow if I marry her today?" Bambam faintly looked at Lisa.
"Whoa, what are you saying? What do you mean by 'will you still be alive'? What did I do? Didn't you personally invite me to your suite? Did you think I wanted to go? I've realized, you're a two-sided rotten cop, who acts like one person in front of some people and another behind others. How hypocritical." Chaeyoung was clearly mad.
"Yo, lady, I'm wrong, I didn't mean it like that. I meant to tell Lisa that the two of us can't compare with the two of them. We've both got work, I've got stuff to do at the police bureau, and even you can't push your things back, so we'll head back early. Although I'll come again once I'm on vacation, it's so pretty here," Bambam sighed.
"Okay, I'll get someone to fill up your car with a tank of gas." Jungkook nodded.
"What about you guys? When are you going back?" asked Bambam.
"Maybe tomorrow, we'll be home tomorrow night."
"Okay, then let's get together once you guys come back."
After breakfast, Jungkook ordered for Bambam's car to be driven over, and then he saw off Bambam and Chaeyoung.
Truth be told, Lisa didn't want to see those two leave, but they had no choice.
They had to go to work, so after they left, Lisa pulled at Jungkook's hand and asked, "Where are we going today?"
"We're going deep into the mountains today."
"Deep into the mountains?" Lisa froze.
She didn't seem to know what sort of new plans Jungkook came up with, but she has always been pleasantly surprised by his plans.
She has liked everything he planned... this was quite clear.
Jungkook drove along the Seoraksan Mountain range with Lisa for about an hour or so.
The road became harder and harder to drive on, and just as Jungkook stopped the car, he pointed towards an averagely sized opening and said, "We can't drive up that road, so we'll have to walk in."
"Uhm... it looks dark, there shouldn't be any ferocious beasts, right?" Lisa felt a bit scared.
"There aren't any, trust me, I'm here."
"That's true, other beasts won't show up with you around, because you're the biggest beast of them all." Lisa covered her mouth as she laughed.
Jungkook, "-_-"
"You're pretty arrogant, just wait to see how I punish you tonight." Jungkook raised his finger and flicked Lisa's head dotingly.
"I'm on my period, you can't..." Lisa was full of pride.
"Huh? Baby, you seemed to be mistaken, when I said punish, I meant tickling you."
"Uhm... that." Lisa felt somewhat awkward.
"What else did you think I was talking about?' Jungkook smiled teasingly.
"Nothing, come, hurry up, what are we waiting for?" Lisa changed her tone and topic when she realized that she couldn't beat Jungkook in this conversation.
Jungkook and Lisa held hands as they walked into the mountains...
The mountain path was very rugged, but it became more interesting when they saw there were wooden steps.
"These steps are beautiful, they must have been pricey to build," Lisa exclaimed as she looked down.
"These finished not long ago. I got them to design it, and it was expensive to build. Normal wood wouldn't do the job since it would corrode over long periods of time and become too dangerous, so I ordered them to carefully craft these stairs with special wood."
"Huh? You ordered someone to design it...? Why?" Lisa was confused.
Lisa thought that Jungkook wasn't such a careless big spender who would use large amounts of money to build stairs inside the depth of the woods.
There must be a reason behind his actions...
"Because... you'll find out when you see it." Jungkook remained mysterious, refusing to tell her why.
"Ever since we came here, you've always been acting all mysterious around me." Lisa looked at Jungkook as she thought it was funny. She had no idea what he planned on doing.
Lisa knew that he was acting all mysterious again, and there might be another surprise that was to come.
After they walked about three miles of the mountain path, Lisa was shocked by the beautiful scenery in front of her eyes...
Yellow tree leafs filled both sides of the path, and because birch trees turned golden in the fall, it was very beautiful.
However, after three miles, the yellow suddenly turned into a sea of deep red...
It was as if a spell was cast upon this area...
"My gosh, it's so gorgeous..." Lisa looked at the red leaves around her as she spun around. She felt like she was inside a fairy-tale.
Jungkook raised his head and said as he looked at those trees, "These are birch trees. Each and every fall, the leaves will turn deep red for half a month. It's very beautiful, and those who work in the hotel also live here, so I thought that it was nice when they told me about this place. I bought this piece of land, and I want to turn it into a maple leaf tourist area. But to maintain the natural beauty of these trees, it would only be open to the public for fifteen days each year and only accept two hundred tourists each day."
Lisa raised her thumb. "Good idea, I'll give you tons of likes."
"Do you like it?"
"I do... it's gorgeous here, I never imagined that a place like this existed. If I walked around this path in the woods during a rainy day, it would be so romantic with the red leaves and small drops of rain...."
Jungkook felt truly happy when he saw Lisa in such joy.
"Kook, when we're old, let's build a wooden mansion here, and live within the depth of these red leaves. We can have a bunch of chickens and ducks and eat naturally-grown, non-polluted greens... Wouldn't that be heavenly?"
"We'll also have a bunch of kids, then it'll be more lively," Jungkook added.
Lisa immediately rolled her eyes at him, "Do you think I'm a pig? A bunch?"
"Let's have enough babies for a whole soccer team. I will definitely want them to try out for the World Cup," teased Jungkook.
Lisa burst out in laughter...
She lowered her head, picked up a red leaf, and placed it on her left eye, covering it. It was extremely beautiful...
Jungkook couldn't help it but take out his phone, and with a 'snap', he captured this alluring moment...
"It's stunning, why aren't you taking photos?" Jungkook reminded her.
Lisa shook her head, "Many beautiful sceneries can't be captured in a photo, you have to personally be in it and actually see it to truly enjoy it. Sometimes your eyes are the best cameras."
"You're always right." Jungkook smiled and placed the phone back into his pockets.
It might be because that Lisa was in such a good mood that she ran a few steps up the stairs...
"Lis, come back, you can't go there," Jungkook warned as his expressions slightly changed.
"Why not? Did you hide a lover of yours in the depth of the woods? Hiding away the beauty in some mansion? Huh? Are you cheating on me already?" Lisa laughed as she ran up two steps at a time, and Jungkook couldn't stop her, so he had no choice but to follow closely behind.
"Hiding some beauty in a mansion? Cheating on you? How could you even think of that, what a tale..." Jungkook felt helpless. He followed her closely worried that something would happen to her.
After all, this mountain region had only been developed recently, so it wasn't very safe yet. Within the first five miles was the shallow mountain region, where small squirrels, monkeys, or other kinds of small wild animals lived. But if one continued onwards, there might be unknown dangers.
Even though he hadn't heard of tigers or black bears appearing nearby, it was better to be careful...
Lisa ran a mile in one breath, and as she grew tired, she stopped and breathed in huge breaths of fresh air.
Suddenly a colorful thing beside a tree on the bottom left corner caught her eye. It was round.
"What a cute little mushroom." She lowered her body and reached out to pick it.
Jungkook, a few steps behind her, saw this. Terrified, he exclaimed, "Lisa, don't!"
Lisa immediately stopped her movements, and just then the round thing spread out, one curve after another...
Then, it spat out a deep red tongue...
"Ahh, a snake!" Lisa screamed out. Perhaps it would've been better if she didn't scream, because when she did, it terrified that little snake, causing it to immediately leap up towards Lisa's arm.
Due to the emergency, Jungkook flew over and protected Lisa. The little snake ended up biting into Jungkook's arm.
Luckily, it was fall and was a bit cold in the morning, so Jungkook wore a light grey long sleeve shirt, and the clothing protected him by quite a bit...
With his other hand, Jungkook carefully pinched the little snake, and then slowly placed it on the ground before suddenly letting go...
The little snake seemed to have been frightened, as it waved its tail, and hid away into the grass with a 'swoosh'.
"You've been bit, let me take a look." Lisa's expression dramatically changed as she pulled up Jungkook's sleeve.
She could clearly two teeth prints with blood slowly flowing out...
"It's all my fault, you were bitten because of me. Let me get the congested blood out first, it might hurt, but it'll be over soon." After Lisa spoke, she forcefully pressed down with both her hands, causing the blood to flow out.
"Are you going to suck out the poison for me? That's what they do in Kdramas," Jungkook said.
"Why would I do that? What if this snake is a deadly poisonous one? I will die for sure," Lisa calmly said.
Jungkook, "-_-"
"So you want to wait until I die, and run off with my tens of millions of assets, Mrs. Jeon?" Jungkook calmly looked at Lisa.
"Okay, both of us have studied medicine. Sure you could trick others, but you can't trick me. This snake is a pine-flower snake, or otherwise called the cauliflower Snake. It's very ferocious but isn't poisonous. Its main attribute is its massive physique, and many are as thick as a bowl opening, so it's also called the pine-flower python. This type of snake can be found in ten or so provinces in our country, and that one we just saw was clearly a recently born little snake, so it's fine. I've done research on this type of snake during a summer internship when I was in medical school."
Jungkook was hopeless at how calm Lisa sounded.
Finally, he calmly sighed, "So, it's no fun marrying such a rational wife."
"I made a mistake, that little guy wrapped itself around, and was all round, so I thought it was a small mushroom before getting a closer look, but why would you run up when you knew what kind of snake it was? It wasn't poisonous." Lisa felt bad, as she took out a water bottle to rinse Jungkook's wounds and a tissue to lightly dab at it.
"I didn't want you to get bit, it would hurt," replied Jungkook as if he was wronged.
Lisa felt very moved; Jungkook didn't want her to suffer even one bit of pain.
Clearly, he had spoiled her rotten to an extreme extent, no wonder Bambam and Chaeyoung often said that it was tormenting to watch how overly protectively Jungkook was to her.
After she took care of his wounds, Lisa held onto Jungkook's arm and they walked down the mountain together...
"Kook, do you know why people are scared to see snakes? Even if they knew it wasn't poisonous, and even if it was only a small snake, they will still be scared when they see it," asked Lisa in all seriousness.
"Gut response maybe," Jungkook replied carelessly.
Lisa shook her head instead, "Gut response means that one would be scared if they often see snakes and are bitten by snakes, but many are scared even if it's the first time they see a snake. This is called genetic influence, something that happens during evolution."
"I've seen my mentor in America especially write essays on this topic, but I wasn't interested, so I never looked into it," Jungkook slowly replied.
Lisa nodded, "I've read that report. The scientist first placed a lab rat into a glass room. Then they placed white smoke, and the rat didn't respond to it. Later, when they put in the white smoke, they would also electrically shock the rat, and then the rat would gradually become terrified of the white smoke. Once the rat produced its third generation, they no longer needed to electrically shock them for them to be scared of the white smoke. This means that humans must have been bitten by snakes hundreds of thousands of times when we were just evolving into humans from apes. Therefore, whenever later generations see snakes, they would be terrified from deep within. This is an evolutionary theory, don't you think it's cool?"
"It is... Mother Nature is too mysterious, human beings only know the tip of the iceberg," Jungkook also exclaimed.
However, it was peculiar that the couple could profoundly discuss an evolutionary theory just because of a tiny snake bite...
If an academically-achieved husband married an academically-achieved wife, their mundane lives would become even more fulfilling and interesting...
Jungkook received a call when the two returned to the hotel, and then his expressions turned ugly.
"What happened?"
"I have to head back now, something happened at JC." Jungkook looked concerned.
"Okay." Lisa nodded; she knew that it was an emergency, or else Jungkook wouldn't be this concerned.
Jungkook sped back to Seoul, only taking four hours for a five-hour trip.
The sun didn't even set when they arrived at seoul...
"I will head to the company now, you should head home first and rest," Jungkook softly said.
Lisa nodded and got off the car at the gates of Imperial Park...
Jungkook drove to the company's headquarters.
"Dad, why did you need me in such a hurry?" Jungkook saw his father sitting on his own office chair as soon as he entered. His father's face was incensed, he was clearly here to deliver bad news of some sort.
"I saw that an amount of money was transferred out of the Financial Department and was used to create a charity at Seoraksan Mountain. The amount was as high as fifty million, is that true?"
"Fifty million is only the initial budget, and we'll have to spend more later on. That region is a big mountain range, and there are plenty of households with water and electrical outages. More so, the kids couldn't afford to go to school, causing the schools to not have the ability to maintain themselves. There is also a shortage of teachers."
"What does that have to do with you? That's the government's problem, you're only a businessman; your job is to earn money, expand JC's market, and increase sales. Why would you put in so much effort into charity work? Each year, JC symbolically donates an amount of money, but there's no need to take charity so seriously. You're a businessman, not a saint, do you understand?"
His father was obviously furious that his son made this decision without consulting him. Even though fifty million wasn't a big amount for them, he was very uncomfortable that his son had spent an amount like this on charity.
"Dad... you're very knowledgeable and talented, so you must know that the money spent will find its way back. There's endless money to be earned, but our life is limited, why can't we do something else that's within our ability? Seoraksan Mountain is a major project of mine, and once it's developed, the money will pour in endlessly. But, we should bring prosperity to the locals, and not a disaster that destroys their homes... We are businessmen, and we are in it for the money, but I think that there's nothing wrong with doing good for the general public while earning money."
"Don't you argue with me, You would never suddenly do something like this for no reason. Truth be told, was it Lisa's idea? Did she push you? Only poor peasants like her would want to do things like this." His father was certain that his son was dating Lisa, and so he blamed everything on her.
Jungkook was upset when he heard his father blame Lisa, "Dad, it's completely my idea, it has nothing to do with Lisa."
"Don't try to trick me, do you think that I don't know? You even named it as Lisa Angel Foundation. What a joke, son... just look at yourself, is this something a businessman like you should be doing?" His slapped the table in anger.
"I admit the charity was named after her, but that only shows how important she is to me," Jungkook uprightly admitted.
"Fool... I've already contacted the Financial Department to pull back the fifty million, the money shouldn't be used on redundant projects."
"Dad, you can't do that. I'm the President, while you're already half-retired, you shouldn't interfere too much," Jungkook stared at his father and warned in all seriousness.
"Kook, I admit that you're a brilliant businessman who is good at making money, but you're still very immature sometimes, and I don't agree with this project. I won't approve of this, that's it."
His father seemed determined to reject the establishment of the Lisa Angel Foundation.
"Then fine, Dad, then I'd like to officially resign."
"What?" His father suddenly turned around and stared at him in fury.
A/N—
Huge drama coming your way!!👀