"Stop wasting time, okay? Are we drinking or not?" Jennie glared at Taehyung.
"It's not a problem, I don't care since I'm not going to lose anyway." Taehyung had drunk his way through thick and thin; when he was in his early teens, he and Jimin already began stealing their parents' alcohol to drink. He was invincible in the face of alcohol. One liter of Soju was nothing to him.
Plus, Jennie had already drunk so much, so she was bound to crash soon.
Although he wasn't actually going to do anything to Jennie... he still wanted to subdue her arrogance.
Since Jennie was a woman who already had too much to drink, Taehyung announced that he would drink two glasses for every glass she drank.
Jennie was a straightforward person; she instantly picked up a glass of Soju and downed it...
Then, she waved the empty glass in her hand, as if she were provoking him...
Taehyung didn't hesitate either and immediately drank two glasses.
Jimin took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He clapped for Taehyung ... then, he picked up the lighter on the table and lit up his cigarette...
He might've been sitting close to Lisa, so the cigarettes smoke floated her way...
Lisa's throat tickled, and she began to cough...
At her third cough, Jimin quietly pulled out the cigarette from his mouth, threw it on the ground, and smeared it with his foot.
Taehyung looked at Jimin as he attentively acted as Lisa's knight in shining armor, a faint smile appearing on his face...
Then, Jennie picked up another glass of Soju and drank it all...
Taehyung immediately followed suit with two glasses...
The battle was getting fiercer...
Lisa was worried about Jennie's health; she pulled on her wrist and said quietly, "You can't drink anymore. I know them, they won't actually make you do anything."
"I'm fine, don't worry." Jennie looked at Lisa confidently.
Then, she picked up the third glass of Soju and downed it.
Taehyung wasn't feeling so hot; no one could stand drinking soju like that.
Plus, he had been drinking double that of Jennie.
After a moment of hesitation, he drank two more glasses of soju...
Jennie had three glasses, while Taehyung had six...
Six glasses of soju wasn't a lot, but they were all back-to-back shots and therefore really strong.
The alcohol shot up to his brain, and Taehyung immediately felt a little dizzy...
He thought that 3 glasses of baijiu were more than enough to knock Jennie out...
But to his surprise, Jennie picked up a fourth glass and drank it all...
Taehyung swallowed and felt the taste of alcohol creeping up his throat.
However, he suppressed his nausea and drank two more glasses. The truth was, he was close to throwing up by the time he downed the second glass.
However, he was a man who needed to save face. Therefore, he couldn't help but fight the urge to vomit...
Jimin realized that Taehyung had reached his limit, but Jennie was almost done too.
Her face was red, and her breath reeked of alcohol...
Even so, Jennie was still unwilling to back down and slowly picked up the fifth glass... She then drank it down while everyone stared at her.
Lisa didn't even have the heart to look at her anymore...
Taehyung watched her as she drank that last glass and immediately stood up. "Hey, I admit defeat. Tell me, do you want me to start on the first floor or the top floor?"
Taehyung had obviously given up...
If he kept drinking, not only would he throw up, he would also be hospitalized for alcohol poisoning...
He would rather run in his underwear than risk his life...
Jennie smiled proudly. "Whatever you like, as long as you're wearing nothing but your underwear."
Taehyung then turned around to leave the room; he was not about to take his clothes off in front of two girls...
This bet was preposterous, but he was a man who was true to his words.
Worried, Jimin left the room behind him...
Jennie covered her mouth, shot into the bathroom, and puked her guts out...
"Are you okay? You did well back there, I've never seen anyone drink as much as you did. You're like the goddess of drinking," Lisa patted Jennie's back as she exclaimed.
"I actually cheated, haha. I took sobering pills before I started drinking..." Jennie smiled mysteriously.
"That's why..." Lisa suddenly understood.
Taehyung may be a smartass, but all geniuses were played at least once in their lifetime.
After Jennie threw up, she felt much better. Lisa held onto her as they both headed out the door.
Taehyung was truly a man of his words; he wore white boxers and ran from the top floor all the way down to the first.
All the waiters and customers stared at him...
Thank goodness Jimin was with him so no one dared to say anything, because they didn't dare to piss off the Young Master Park.
Jimin was such a 'good friend'. He recorded a video with his phone as he said, "Haha... when you get married, I'm going to play this video on the day of your wedding, it's going to be awesome."
"Screw you..." Taehyung cursed at him.
After Bang Chan finished his fun with that hot girl in the bathroom, he was shocked speechless by what he saw.
"I was only gone for 30 minutes, what in the world happened?" Bang Chan was dumbfounded.
"Our boy here... made a drinking bet with a pretty girl and said that he would run around in his underwear if he lost. He was a little too confident and ended up losing, and that's why you're seeing what you are currently seeing..." Jimin summarized everything that happened with a few simple sentences.
"Hahahahaha... this is so funny, where's that beautiful lady? I need to thank her for sinking his ship." bang Chan laughed hysterically.
Growing up, no one could defeat Taehyung in drinking...
Not even Jimin was a match for his tolerance...
But today, destiny had it that he lost to a girl...
"She's over there." Jimin pointed at Lisa and Jennie.
Bang Chan glanced at her and questioned, "Huh, why does she look so familiar?"
"Oh, oh... I remember now, it's that girl with the killer profile view...Haha, so she's Lisa's friend, no wonder she was at South Side." Bang Chan was more excited than ever.
"Killer profile view?" Jimin was confused.
Then, Bang Chan told Jimin everything that happened that day...
Jimin smiled, "You guys are geniuses... see what happens when you're overly arrogant? An opponent is bound to show up."
"Can't you quiet down? Would it kill you guys to be quiet?" Taehyung jogged as he cursed at the two of them with a grim expression on his face.
Lisa held onto Jennie as they watched him...
Jennie was originally depressed, but Taehyung certainly made her day.
She suddenly exclaimed at Lisa, "Lisa, did you know? Ever since I got back to Korea, all my relatives have been trying to convince me to lower my standards and stop being picky, since I'm not so young anymore. They told me to marry someone who's 'not-so-bad'. While they droned on and on, I would usually say, 'If I'm getting married, then it's either going to be for money or for love. I never hoped that I'll get both, since life isn't perfect, but if he's a bad person who also happens to be poor, then I'm sorry, am I playing a game by marrying him and popping out babies for him? I'm not Robinhood. If someone needs a dick that bad, then go ahead, I wish them a long and happy life together'."
"Haha... that's a great answer." Lisa burst out in laughter.
"Yeah, back then I thought that I'd be able to keep my foot down, but now, I think I might become one of them... maybe in one week, I'll really be engaged," Jennie said, her tone filled with loneliness and sorrow.
"Jennie... have you ever been in love before?" curious, Lisa asked.
"The class leader in my kindergarten and I used to share lollipops, and we would each take a lick. Does that count as love?"
After Jennie finished, she and Lisa looked at each other and smiled... as if they both understood each other.
"I envy you. You have your husband, your childhood sweetheart, with whom you can still be stubborn. But not everyone is as fortunate as you are. There are a lot of people in this world... who don't get to be with who they love."
"I believe that people who persist will find happiness, as long as they don't give up," Lisa said in all seriousness.
Just then, Taehyung ran up to Jennie with sweat on his forehead. "I've done my part, can I have your WeChat?"
"You want my WeChat? Sure... not a problem." Jennie smiled, baring her canine teeth.
Taehyung was comforted that he didn't act like an idiot all night for no reason...
"But you have to have two more glasses of Soju." Jennie only just finished her sentence when Taehyung immediately ran into the bathroom and... puked his guts out...
He completely fell apart as soon as he heard the word 'Soju'...
The people around him burst out in hysterical laughter...
Then, Jennie pulled Lisa's arm. "Let's go, time for bed."
Lisa quietly followed behind her...
"Wait." Jimin ran up to them.
"What?" Lisa turned around.
"Are you leaving, just like that? Aren't you going to say goodbye?" Jimin asked contentiously.
"Goodbye." Then, Lisa continued following Jennie.
Jimin sent them off with the saddest of expressions...
"You can be a wimp sometimes, she's just a girl, you should be more straightforward. Look at me, when I wanted to have sex with that girl, I just told her that and she obediently followed me to the bathroom." Bang Chan tried to convince Jimin.
Then, Jimin shot him a murderous look...
"Do you think I'm you? You're like a teddy bear dog, fucking everything you see." Then, Jimin looked at Bang Chan with disdain before leaving.
"Um..." Bang Chan was rendered speechless by what Jimin said.
But Jimin had a point – not only does his own teddy bear dog have separation anxiety, but it also tries to... get with...everything it sees. Gosh, how dirty...
How were people supposed to buy teddy bear dogs now that Jimin made the breed sound so horny?
Taehyung went back to the private room to put on his pants and left Seductive Fox calmly with Jimin.
The thing was, he didn't care about how other people looked at him...
"No one can speak of this today, or else you're screwed." Jimin was a good friend, banning the others from talking about the events of tonight.
None of the wait staff or customers dared to say another word...
They all knew that the upper-class people were just playing around; if they took it too seriously, they might get in trouble.
Lisa helped Jennie down, but she suddenly stopped in her footsteps.
"Jennie, my husband is right there. Let me drive you home first, it's safer that way."
"No, it's okay, I can drive."
"No, drunk driving is dangerous." Lisa's expression immediately changed; she was not okay with Jennie driving.
"Then I'll call my driver and ask him to pick me up." Jennie smiled helplessly.
"Fine, I'll wait with you until your driver gets here, and then I'll leave."
"Um... then I'll take a cab." Jennie would feel bad if Lisa waited with her.
Therefore, she decided to take a taxi...
Upon seeing how determined Jennie was, Lisa didn't insist...
After they said goodbye, Lisa got into the passenger seat of Jungkook's Maybach.
"Kook... follow that cab, I need to make sure that she's home safe." Lisa pointed at the cab in front of her.
Jungkook nodded, put down the laptop in his hand and started the car...
Jennie was a really cute girl, so men often hit on her...
Jennie got onto the back seat of a cab...
The driver was a middle-aged man, a little plump, and had small eyes.
He glanced at her through the rearview mirror and saw that she was a beautiful woman. He immediately became restless.
"Hey, pretty lady, how old are you?"
"38," Jennie answered calmly.
"I don't believe you, you look like you're 18, haha," the driver complimented her.
"Yeah, I died when I was 18, and it's been twenty years, so I'm 38 years old. I plan to haunt the intersections to find myself some money to spend."
The driver's face turned horrifically white at what she said...
He thought that she was a ghost...
Jennie laughed out loud, giving the driver goosebumps all over...
He began sweating on his forehead and stepped on the breaks. Then, terrified, he ran out of his car, probably about to pee himself.
Jennie sneered, "How can he hit on me when he's such a chicken? This asshole might as well be scared to death."
Then, Jennie got off the cab...
"What's happening? Kook, stop the car." lisa saw the cab stopping and Jennie getting off the car, so she was worried that something happened to her. She immediately got out of the Maybach.
"He was a dumbass driver, and I scared him off. I guess I have no choice but to ride with you guys."
"Get on." Lisa pulled Jennie into their Maybach.
As soon as they got on the car, Lisa immediately introduced her to Jungkook, "This is Jungkook, my husband. Kook, this is my friend, Kim Jennie."
"Nice to meet you, President Jeon."
"Hi." Jungkook faintly nodded in response.
They didn't speak much on their way back to Jennie's home.
"Go home, I'll call you later." Jennie pinched Lisa's face before heading into her house.
"Since when did you guys become friends?"
Jungkook slowly asked her on their way home...
"Um... not too long ago. I met her because I was trying to treat Soobin's depression. She's a renowned psychiatrist."
"I know."
"You know her?" Lisa was surprised.
"I don't know her, but I know of her. You know she's getting engaged soon, right?" Jungkook suddenly added.
"How in the world do you know about this?" Lisa was in disbelief – her husband sure knew everything.
"Because the man she's about to get engaged to is Bambam's cousin."
"What?" Lisa was confused.
"Bambam's aunt's son. He's in the environmental sector and is a really smart man. Bambam just complained to me yesterday that his cousin was about to quickly get engaged to a really pretty and rich girl."
"What a coincidence... I see." Lisa understood.
"Jennie is a low-key socialite who hasn't been involved in any scandals... She's really eccentric, so there must be something she admires about you if she wants to be friends with you," Jungkook analyzed.
Lisa smiled embarrassedly. "She said that we're alike, both have weird tempers and doesn't like to play by the rules. Soobin's depression was hard to cure, but I thought outside of the box and tried something else while her hypnotherapy attempt failed. Maybe that's why she wants to be friends with me."
"Yeah." Jungkook nodded and didn't say much else.
When they got home, Lisa couldn't help but sneeze three times in a row...
Heartbroken, Jungkook placed a thick blanket on her.
"You went out in such a hurry and didn't even put on a jacket. I think you might've caught a cold."
"Yeah, it's so cold." Lisa hugged the blanket and sat down on the couch.
Jungkook quietly went into the kitchen...
A few minutes later, he came out with a bowl of brown sugar ginger water.
"Drink it while it's hot, it'll warm up your body."
"Thanks." Lisa smiled happily and began slowly sipping on it.
Jungkook was arrogant, indifferent, and didn't care about anything. But when he was with Lisa, he would give her all the love and gentleness in the world.
He was willing to wait for her in the car for an hour...
He calmly decided to trust her when he heard that Jimin went looking for her.
He didn't say anything when she asked him to follow Jennie's cab.
He went into the kitchen to make her brown sugar water when he realized that she might've caught a cold.
He always did as much as he could for her... just because he didn't want her to endure any grievances.
– The next morning –
They each went off to work, and Lisa sent Jennie a WeChat message.
However, she didn't reply until much later.
At noon, Jennie replied her via WeChat voice message, "I think I drank too much, and don't remember anything from last night."
"Haha, then what do you remember?"
"I only remember that you came looking for me, but I don't remember how I got home." jennie placed a hand on her head. What a hangover.
"Don't you remember the bet you made with Taehyung?"
"Who's Taehyung?" Jennie had no idea who Lisa was talking about.
Lisa was speechless; if Taehyung found out, he would cry his heart out. Thanks to her, Taehyung threw up and was forced to run around half-naked.
However, Jennie didn't even remember that he existed.
"Haha, forget it, talk to you later, I need to go to work now."
"Sounds good."
After Lisa finished with work and was about to head to the cafeteria for lunch, she saw Taehyung outside her office.
To her surprise, Taehyung wasn't with Jimin; he was here alone...
"Lisa, I bought you some lunch." Taehyung smiled as he passed her a food container.
"Um... are we close?" Lisa wasn't even remotely connected to Taehyung. Jimin bringing her lunch was understandable, but Taehyung bringing her lunch? What's going on?
"Crab buns are really good, eat it while it's hot."
"First, tell me what you want from me. Then, I'll decide if I want to eat this." Lisa knew more than anyone that there was no such thing as a free lunch. Even Jungkook occasionally tried to dupe her.
"Um... ahem." Taehyung coughed lightly and lowered his voice. "Do you have Jennie's WeChat?"
"You want to hook up with her?"
Taehyung was embarrassed by how straightforward Lisa was being...
"Haha... can't we beat around the bushes a little bit?" Taehyung chuckled.
"I have her WeChat, but..."
"But what?" Taehyung asked timidly when he saw Lisa's hesitation.
"But she might be getting engaged in a week."
"Engaged?" This news was like a blow to Taehyung's head.
It's been years since he met a woman that he was interested in. He thought that he would be able to say goodbye to his single life, but...
Taehyung almost lost control when Lisa said that Jennie was getting engaged soon.
He felt like his heart was pushed over a cliff, shattering to a million pieces...
"So... I don't think adding her WeChat will do you any good," Lisa added.
"Still, maybe we can be friends."
"Okay, you'll have to see if she adds you." Lsia thought, since Jennie didn't want to get engaged anyway, she might as well give Taehyung a chance.
What if she falls for him? Anything was possible in this world.
Taehyung scanned a QR code and added Jennie...
He waited for a while, but she didn't accept her friend request...
"She didn't add me, maybe she's not on WeChat," Taehyung mumbled to himself.
The truth was, Lisa wanted to tell him that she was just WeChatting Jennie... but she didn't have the heart to break his heart a second time.
"Thanks, Lisa... enjoy lunch, I'll be going."
After he got Jennie's WeChat, Taehyung left in his sports car...
Lisa sat in her office and enjoyed the delicious meal Taehyung brought her. She thought back at what happened last night and still found it funny.
Jennie was sure fierce, making a bet with Taehyung like that and making him run around basically naked, with nothing left but a pair of boxers.
After thoroughly enjoying her meal, Lisa missed Jungkook, so she sent him a WeChat message.
"Kook, have you eaten?"
Lisa waited, but he didn't reply. She looked at the time; Jungkook was supposed to be on lunch break.
Finally, Lisa couldn't take it anymore and called him...
The line kept ringing but no one picked up, and just as Lisa was about to hang up, a woman's voice sounded from Jungkook's phone, "Hello?"
"Um... isn't this Jungkook's cellphone?" Lisa was dumbfounded; how could a woman have picked up his phone?
Even she never picked up Jungkook's phone, because she didn't want to intervene with his work stuff.
"He's having lunch and left his phone with me." The woman's voice was crisp.
The voice sounded familiar to Lisa...
Then, she suddenly remembered, and asked, "Kim Yerim?"
"May I ask who's calling?" Yerim asked on purpose.
The truth was, Lisa didn't intend to remember Yerim's name, but when she went to JC to help with its crisis, that woman, Yerim, kept objecting to all her propositions during the executive meeting.
She didn't calm down until Lisa signed Irene and Soobin, slapping her across the face.
She knew that the female employees at JC all liked Jungkook...
After all, Jungkook was their boss and he was handsome and rich; of course, women liked him.
However, Lisa was annoyed at the fact that Yerim was able to pick up Jungkook's phone.
Plus, that woman asked her who she was on purpose.
Jungkook never saved anyone's number in his phone; he memorized hundreds of clients' phone numbers in his head.
But, Lisa's number was the first contact on Jungkook's phone, under the name, 'my lovely wife'.
She didn't believe that Yerim was blind enough not to see it; she was purposely playing with her.
"Don't you know who I am?" Lisa refuted coldly.
"Haha... you're funny, how would I know if you didn't tell me?" Yerim showed obvious animosity.
"Why would you pick up Jungkook's phone?" Lisa asked impolitely.
"He's busy... and can't answer his phone, so of course, I answered it for him." Yerim's voice sounded coquettish.
Lisa chuckled and suddenly asked, "Are you aware that there's a really popular phrase on the internet these days?"
"What phrase?" Not sure of where Lisa was getting at, Yerim asked cautiously.
"Karma's a bitch. Don't be retarded, or you won't even know how you die," Lisa said, word for word.
Yerim's expression darkened immediately; Lisa always looked so gentle and weak, but her words wielded much power. 'Don't be retarded', Lisa's warning was clear.
However, Yerim was no longer in her right mind to listen to Lisa's warning; she wanted to take every chance she had to break Lisa and Jungkook's relationships.
"Haha... really?" Yerim laughed like a bitch, testing Lisa's patience out provocatively.
Just then, Yerim heard footsteps outside the door...
Before Lisa had the chance to speak, she immediately hung up the phone, deleted their call history, and turned off his phone...
Jungkook opened the door and walked in as soon as she placed his phone back onto the table.
Just now, they were meeting about the announcement of the new winter jewelry line. During this time, the finance director asked to speak to Jungkook, and they talked in private.
Her other colleagues either went to drink water or rest...
Just as Yerim was about to leave the room, she heard Jungkook's phone ring.
She originally planned to give it to Jungkook, but then she saw the words, 'My Lovely Wife'.
Unable to control her jealousy and hate, she picked up as if she were in a trance, and brawled with Lisa over the phone.
Upon seeing Jungkook walk in, Yerim immediately passed him his cellphone. "President Jeon, perfect timing, I was just about to give your phone to you. It's off, I think you ran out of battery."
Jungkook didn't say anything; he took his phone and glanced at it before turning around to leave...
Yerim sighed in relief when she realized that Jungkook didn't suspect a thing.
Lisa didn't plan on calling him again, because she knew what was going on.
That little biitch, Yerim, probably picked up Jungkook's phone while he was away.
Why did she have to pretend to be so close to Jungkook? Was she an idiot?
Who was Lisa? Would she misunderstand Jungkook and hold a grudge against him? Of course not.
She trusted Jungkook, just as he trusted her...
She wasn't going to call Jungkook to demand what just happened. Instead, she planned to teach that little calculating bitch, Yerim, a lesson.
She didn't teach her a lesson during the open ceremony because she thought that Yerim would tone it down.
However, it only got worse...
Therefore, some people were just shameless.
Lisa knew of a phenomenon: when married couples fight, the one thing to avoid is spouting off at the mouth. For example, if a wife says to her husband, "Why do you always come home so late? You never tell me where you are! Are you having an affair with certain someone?" so on and so forth... Definitely avoid that, even if you're not saying it on purpose.
This is because, after a while, these words will have a subtle influence on the husband, making him wonder if he was having an affair with certain someone . Therefore, when he sees that certain someone, he might develop subtle feelings for her.
In the end, something that's not supposed to happen would happen...
Therefore, Lisa didn't even want to mention Yerim to Jungkook, because to her, Yerim was just a clown that didn't deserve to stand between her and her husband.
On the other side of town, Taehyung added Jennie. He waited for a long time, but she never added him. He soon got anxious and sent her two more friend requests...
He noted on the friend request, "Hi, I'm Taehyung."
Finally, Jennie replied, but she still didn't add him.
All she said was, "Who's Taehyung?"
"The guy who placed a drinking bet with you last night." Taehyung was speechless but still explained to her patiently.
"I drank with my good friend Lisa last night, don't try to dupe me."
Taehyung was speechless...
"Are you pretending not to know me just because you're sober?" Taehyung was outraged.
"So... did I do something to you?" Jennie returned his question with one of her own, immediately silencing Taehyung.