This bathroom is totally incomparable to the narrow and small washroom in uncle's house. The clean white bathtub, with a water temperature controlling system, gave Lisa a sudden impulse to have a shower.
She set down a change of clothes. Switched on the shower and sweetly felt the warm water flow down her body.
Her mood was so good she started humming a tuneless melody.
But the moment she turned around, she let out a sharp shriek, and almost fell onto her butt.
Because Jungkook with a look of indifference, had his arm leaning against the bathroom door, and who know how long he had been watching.
Lisa hugged herself tightly, and stepped backwards, the shampoo and body wash was hit down, making pilipala sounds.
"You...... how can you come in! Don't you know I'm showering!"
Lisa was so angry her brain was about to explode! She hurriedly pulled a towel to wrap herself up.
Only two seconds later, did Lisa realise, that Jungkook actually could not see.
The bathroom's steam came in contact with Jungkook's face, then one after another bounced off and dispersed. At that moment, the originally cold and solemn face seemed gentler.
But why was it that she had an illusion that Jungkook's point of view was focused on her body, tracing her face, her neck, and even across the towel, like it was hugging her tightly.
Her heart started beating furiously.
The air that was breathed into her lungs was jumping and could not be restrained.
"Do you know what time it is now?" Jungkook asked slowly.
The slight parting of the lips, was the source of Lisa's impulses.
Like a flash of inspiration, she wanted to grab onto him tightly.
"Nine...... forty?" she looked past the opened bathroom door, and looked at the clock on the wall.
"Mayer should have told you before, that you were not allowed to shower after nine ba."
"......"
Mayer did indeed tell her that, it's just that she couldn't remember it......
"You hear me in the shower?" Lisa asked him unsurely.
After all, her room was quite a distance from Jungkook's.
"Yes, I can hear you clearly. So, you have disturbed my rest time, Lalisa."
She didn't know why, when he called her "Lalisa", she felt an emotion of disappointment at the bottom of her heart.
"Your ears are so sharp......" Lisa curled her mouth.
"My ears are indeed sharp. I can hear the sounds of your breathing when you lie, could hear the words you said in the bathroom in the shopping mall, and could hear the sounds of water flowing down in this villa. Even if I don't want to hear, I will still be able to hear. Do you understand what I've said?"
"Understood." Lisa pursed her mouth.
You can't talk loudly in this room, have to put on a headset when you watch movies or listen to music, and can't shower after nine...... in other words, you can't do anything that produces sound!
Such a pity, I'm not a dead person.
The dead will not have any movement, and will be able to satisfy your extreme requirements of "absolute silence".
Jungkook turned around and left. Lisa then started to clear the bottles and jars on the floor.
There's no way she can live like this ah!
But when she squatted on the ground, she felt great pity towards Jungkook. The reason why he was able to enter her bathroom, was because she had forgotten to lock the door.
Imagine if the one in the bathroom wasn't Lisa, but a beautiful sexy lady!
Other men who see the sight, will have their noses ejecting blood.
But he Jungkook is unable to see!
How sad ah!
Lisa started to laugh muffled.
Then she rubbed the back of her head, why was it that she had a melancholy feeling that she had been looked at in all her nakedness?
Jungkook left Lisa's room, went along the secluded long corridor, and returned to his room.
There, Dr Xie was waiting very patiently on the sofa for him.
"Jungkook, what's wrong?"
"Lisa was in the shower." Jungkook Fan sat down.
Dr Xie lowered his head, and lightly flipped through a file containing Lisa's data, "Oh, did the shower sounds interrupt our conversation?"
Although according to Dr Xie's hearing, he couldn't hear anything.
"Yes."
Dr Xie gently twitched the corners of his lips, and slowly without rushing said: "I heard that last night, you let Lisa sleep on your sofa?"
Jungkook turned his head slightly to the side, the light leaving sorrowful traces on his face. He did not actually open his mouth to speak.
Because to him this was a question that did not need answering.
"Why did she go into your room?" Dr Xie continued to ask.
"She was drunk, walked into the wrong room."
"So you could smell alcohol from her body." Dr Xie looked at Jungkook thoughtfully, "You've lost that flavour, Jungkook."
"What are you trying to say?"
"And today, you were supposed to wait in the car for her, but you realised that she hadn't come back after ten minutes, so you went to the shopping mall to look for her."
"Did Mayer tell you this?"
"This is what he was supposed to tell me, so don't blame Mayer. But, have you ever thought about why you went to find her, and waited for her outside the restroom?"
"I've never thought about it." Jungkook's voice was ice cold.
Dr Xie smiled, and changed the sitting posture: "Maybe...... just saying "Maybe". You know that you yourself are very strict, you know that you live a life where your sense of hearing, smell, taste and touch is magnified ten times more than an average person's, and you also know your pursuit for perfection will make people stay away from you. So you are worried, she will be like others, turn around, and leave without even a 'bye'."
"You're too sensitive, Dr Xie." It was like Jungkook's facial expression was solid, there wasn't any movement.
"You just went to remind her, to not shower after nine, to follow the rule of absolute silence after nine of this villa. But her shower sounds, did it make this villa not quiet, or did it make your heart unable to quieten down? " Dr Xie's voice carried a hint of a smile.
"My heart is very quiet."
Dr Xie let out a laugh, "Jungkook, are you sure when the shower sounds started up, the image you were thinking of was not the water flowing past her neck, her shoulder, her fingertips?"
His voice was calm and warm, but it had an inexplicable strength, like it was drumming the depths of the mind.
"Wasn't."
But Jungkook's answer was concise and sure.
"Are you sure when you went over, it wasn't because you wanted to see?"
"She has nothing that I want to see."
"Are you sure that what you wanted to say to her was not 'Leave my mind' but 'no showering after nine'?"
"Dr Xie, the questions you've asked have already exceeded the questions a psychologist should ask. And I'm sure I still belong to the category of the mentally healthy. No depressive tendencies, no antisocial personality, and no self-isolation characteristics. I don't know where the value of your questions lies."
"You are not only full of defence towards me, but you also have aggression." Dr Xie touched his chin, and used a deep tone to say, "This means, I have asked the right questions. I've only asked the questions you've asked yourself out loud. Some philosopher, can see the essence of the world from a grain of sand. It's the same for you. A grain of sand may be very small, a slight misstep and it will be gone, never to be found again."
"Thank you for your reminder."
"Ah, I have a photograph of Lisa here, do you need me to describe what kind of girl she is to you?"
"No need." Jungkook stood up, making a gesture of pointing the guest out.
But Dr Xie seemed like he hadn't seen anything at all, and continued saying: "she has very fair skin, her eyes are big."
"Dr Xie, today's consultation hours have ended already."
"A small nose, when she smiles, it looks like she has a dimple on the left."
"Dr Xie." Jungkook said in a low voice.
"Short hair, but full of spirit."
Jungkook's faced towards the door.
The corners of Dr Xie's lips lifted, and he finally stood up and left.
When he reached the door, he stopped his steps, "Jungkook, compare to the average person, you know even more that understanding a person is not only about 'seeing'."
The room was quiet again. Jungkook sat in front of the sofa in silence for a long time.
After Lisa sorted out the bathroom properly, she started wiping her hair.
She didn't dare use the hairdryer, afraid that the noise will attract Jungkook over again, and could only send a message to Song Yi Ran while letting her hair dry.
Lisa: Have you returned to New York yet?
Song Yi Ran: This weekend's flight. Are you missing me already? Memeda
(Chinese ver. of xoxo/sound of flying kisses)!
Lisa : Memeda your butt ah!
She actually wanted to rant at Song Yi Ran about the exotic rule of not being able to use the bathroom after nine, but when she thought about it, once she rants, wouldn't it mean that she would have to reveal that she was totally "seen" naked by Jungkook?
Song Yi Ran will definitely go insane!
Lisa looked at the "memeda" on her screen, her ears heated up a little.
This stupid swine, definitely doesn't know what "memeda" means!
Song Yi Ran sent another message: After I come back, let's have a meal together ah?
Lisa thought: Got to ask if my mentor is willing to give me some time to rest.
On the other end of the line in San Francisco, Song Yi Ran stood in front of the large full length window, looking at the lights of Silicon Valley, his eyes narrowed.
With her headphones on, listening to that song《》, Lisa started thinking about home. After giving her parents a call, and greeting her uncle, she rubbed her tummy...... hungry.
Lisa regretted, why hadn't she prepared a huge container of snacks before?
Abruptly, she remembered the kitchen that she had seen before.
She definitely won't be able to cook anything to eat in that kitchen, Jungkook will definitely discover it.
But there were so many ingredients there, including all sorts of fruits.
Anyway, Mayer has never said to her before that she couldn't go to the kitchen to get the fruits to eat ah!
Lisa suddenly became very happy.
She left her own room, tracing the way to that kitchen using the memory in her mind of when Mayer led her that day.
The corridors were pitch black, with only the lights of the stars and the moon.
Lisa annoyingly chattered in her heart, totally don't understand the reasoning behind Jungkook buying such a large villa!
The shadows swayed, moving around on the grounds like ghosts.
Lisa finally felt her way to that kitchen, then only remembered that it seemed like Mayer had keyed in some code, how would she know what the code was ah!
It seemed like she'd made a wasted trip!
Just as Lisa was about to turn back, she realised that the kitchen door seemed to be unlatched.
Did Mayer forget to lock the door?
Or was Jungkook still inside?
Lisa's finger hooked onto the edge of the door, and slowly opened it.
In the darkness, she could faintly make out a silhouette of a person in the corner.
Lisa felt the wall for the light, and the moment she pressed the switch down, the whole kitchen lighted up.
And that person had the back facing Lisa, standing on top of the shelves, in the corner don't know doing what.
The moment the lights lit up, he pulled down his hat, suddenly turned around, knocked past Lisa and rushed out.
Lisa pressed her shoulder, it hurt so much it felt like the bones were going to split.
But the next second, she realised.
That was a thief ah!
Jungkook's house was so huge and so empty, it was totally a ghost town!
Lisa suddenly thought of Jungkook, he couldn't see, what if the thief had bad intentions towards him?
That man had already run out, about to make a turn, that was Jungkook's room!
At that moment, a voice of pain sounded, followed by the sound of a fall.
Lisa was shocked, and immediately ran.
"Jungkook! Jungkook!"
Her voice echoed in the corridors, but there was no reply from Jungkook.
Her heart was about to burn up.
Lisa swore, that she didn't even sprint this fast for the 100m dash in secondary school!
Jungkook's room door opened, the light flooding the corridors.
A figure with the back turned towards Lisa was fallen on the ground, Lisa hurried to help the other party up.
"Jungkook —— are you al......."
Lisa came in contact with the other party's arm, and knew that this person was not Jungkook.
And without a word, the other party lifted a fist aiming for Lisa's face.
Lisa was shocked, and couldn't avoid.
At that moment, someone grabbed the back of her shirt collar, and directly hoisted her away with a great strength,
That punch pretty much brushed past Lisa's cheek, her heart almost popping out of the heart of her vocal cords.
The hand grabbing her collar let go.
Lisa staggered a step back due to inertia, and crashed into the other party's arms.
The familiar smell blossomed.
A hand pressed her back, and got her stabilised.
Lisa inhaled, lifted her head, and just happened to see Jungkook's chin.
"Li Yan, what are you doing here?"
The cold voice sounded, like all feelings had no meaning in his world.
The man sitting on the floor took off his hat, only then did Lisa realise, he was in the entourage that followed Jungkook when Lisa first saw him.
What was the matter?
Li Yan smiled, and got up from the floor. His left thigh was a little crippled, probably stumbled from the hit of Jungkook's cane.
"What am I doing here? Mr Jeon! I was your assistant for a year, even if there's no credit, there's hard work! But how have you treated me?"
"Precisely because there was no credit but there was hard work that I gave you a chance to voluntarily resign."
"Voluntarily resign? This is the recognition you give to my work? Is this how you repay my cautious work?"
Li Yan crooked his face, his eyes having a paranoid twist to them.
Lisa had a bad hunch.
In this world, she, Lisa is not afraid of gangsters and is not afraid of cultured gangsters. But in front of a lunatic, she has always been helpless.
She stood in front of Jungkook, thinking about when she would the right time be to grab Jungkook and run?
"Isn't it because you took a bribe from Langhua Hotel's Chairman Zhao, so you classified them as Jeon Co.'s partner? Not only that, to make Langhua hotel's merits seem more outstanding, you even purposely hid the merits of the other hotels. Li Yan, you made use of the trust I had in you."
Jungkook's voice was overly calm, in this calmness, the emotion of "disappointment" couldn't even be seen.
Li Yan hmphed lightly, pointed at Jungkook and said loudly: "Isn't Langhua hotel the most powerful amongst the potential partners? Apart from them, who else can you choose? All I did was make the merits of Langhua hotel more outstanding only!"
"I don't need someone else to make the decisions for me."
"But I have no more future in the industry of Chinese catering in America! Because you are Jungkook, the people that you don't use are the people who are defective, are not perfect! You have ruined my everything!"
Li Yan got agitated.
Lisa had never thought that such an originally gentle man could show such rage.
If he used his fist, neither of them would be able to block it!
Jungkook ah Jungkook, why didn't you make Nina stay! At least there'd be someone to give the police a call!
With a house so big, and with so much money, would it cost you a piece of your flesh to hire a night security guard!
"I did not ruin you, it's you who ruined everything that you once had. You said that there is no future for you in the Chinese food catering industry anymore, but I don't think so. There are so many zero star restaurants, you could obviously start from the basics up, but you're not willing to. You are unable to forget superiority of being a manager of a recognised restaurant, you look down on the commonest, most simple job, your heart has not quietened yet, this is the reason you are unable to find a job, and it is not because of me."
Lisa poked Jungkook in his chest with her elbow, to hint to him to stop speaking, to stop provoking Li Yan.
"So in the whole world, you are the noblest! Your standards set the boundaries for everyone, including the pursuits of our lives! I worked so hard in this country for 10 years, to get what I have today! But you easily deny my everything! Since it's like that, why don't you also try the feeling of being denied by others?"
After finishing, Li Yan suddenly took out a knife from his pocket, and aimed towards Jungkook's shoulder.
Lisa lifted her thigh without explanation, and gave a kick to Li Yan in the abdomen.
"Ooh......" Li Yan clutched his stomach and stumbled backwards, starring daggers at Lisa, then lifted his dagger and raised it towards her.
She had learned taekwondo before, but she didn't see the need to fight to the end with a lunatic.
She dodged Li Yan's attack, turned around and ran.
After running a couple of steps, she realised that Li Yan hadn't chased after her, but had rushed towards Jungkook to stab his chest.
"Jungkook!"
Lisa was stunned, and hurriedly ran back.
Jungkook lifted his hand to block, waving his cane over, and just happened to hit Li Yan in the face.
Li Yan clutched his face and fell to the side.
Lisa was surprised, and thought that this Li Yan was really useless, he couldn't even stab a blind!
Wait, this isn't what she should be wondering about.
She rushed forward, Li Yan rushed up again, and she grabbed Jungkook's cane, and harshly hit Li Yan in a flurry.
"Stupid girl! Die together with Jungkook ba!"
"You keep asking people to die all day long! Why don't you die yourself ah!" Lisa hit even more harshly.
In her heart, this Li Yan was sick in the mind!
When Li Yan grabbed the can over, Lisa did not fight over it with him, and turned around, grabbing Jungkook's wrist and ran.
"What are you still standing here for! Run ah!"
Jungkook did not say anything, letting Lisa grab him anyhow, until they ran into the kitchen, and whatever Jungkook pressed, the kitchen door was locked.
Li Yan was outside keying in the passcode frantically, but the door had no reaction. He suddenly lost his patience, and kick the door with all his might.
"Jungkook, you coward! Come out now! Come out!"
"Jungkook —— you selfish self-centred bastard! Come out! Or I will burn you to death!"
Lisa listened to his roar, and couldn't help getting scared.
"He said he was going to burn us to death ah!"
Jungkook leaned on the counter, his expression a little down, and calm.
"Hey...... will that lunatic really do that?"
"The house has smoke sensors. If he really started a fire, the sprinklers will automatically start sprinkling."
Lisa was speechless.
"On your right, there is a police button. After pressing it, the community's security will rush over."
"Oh!" Lisa then remembered that this was a fancy residential area, security is advanced and well thought out.
But how did Li Yan get in? He obviously knew the password to Jungkook's villa, but what did he enter the kitchen for?
Li Yan saw that they refused to come out, and started smashing and throwing the things in the house.
Sounds after sounds, *pili pala*(crashing sounds), Lisa listened till her brains started to hurt.
"He...... wasn't he by your side previously? And he was very concerned about you......"
Lisa remembered, at that time she brought Jungkook to try out the dishes, Li Yan had even taken a photo of her identification, just to ensure the safety of Jungkook. In Lisa's heart, Li Yan was very serious about his job ah, diligent, and prepared everything for Jungkook.
"Because he did something wrong."
Jungkook did not continue to explain, Lisa understood, to not ask any more about what she was not supposed to ask about.
Quickly, the security guards rushed over, and subdued Li Yan, to hand to the police to handle.
Lisa received the call from the security guard, and only then unlocked the kitchen, and followed Jungkook out.
The main door of the villa was wide open, the flashing lights of the police cars swept over Lisa's face again and again.
Li Yan was still struggling, the police couldn't help but press him against the hood of the car.
The moment he saw Jv walk over, his eyes seemed to be staring till they were about to be popped out: "Jungkook! Jungkook! I will not let you go! I will not let you go!"
Jungkook's face was calm, the police came over to him, to let him sign some documents to confirm.
"Sir, please sign over here."
When the other party realised that his eyes couldn't see, he tried to touch Jungkook's hand.
But Jungkook moved slightly to avoid.
"Lisa."
When she heard him call her name, Lisa rushed forward, "What's the matter ah, Mr Jeon?"