To Our Pure Little Beauty

Chapter 9

After a few days, Chou Tzuyu who had returned from her business trip made a phone call to express her gratitude, the general idea being that she had come to know that Jungkook did not properly express his thankfulness towards me, and she felt that her family’s Jungkook was too unthoughtful. Her original words were, “You know this, our family’s Jungkook doesn’t really care for the ways of the world, but this is also his strong point, I kinda like it, hehe.” 

Tzuyu graduated majoring in English, she always liked to intersperse her speech with English, in the past, she also loved to mix English in when she chatted online, for example, “I’m going for a business trip this weekend, we’ll have a meeting when I’m back”, she will type, “I’m going for a business trip this weekend, we’ll have a meeting when I’m back.”

Later on there was once when Nayeon said that she simply could not stand it any longer, so she innocently and guiltlessly asked Tzuyu, “You are always switching between input methods, are you not tired?” Tzuyu readily accepted good advice and corrected this foible of input methods, Nayeon was deeply gratified about this.

Tzuyu suggested that to express their gratitude and to make amends, they would like to treat me to a meal. I rebuffed the offer tactfully, but perhaps I was too tactful, to such an extent that she was totally unable to understand my unwillingness. In short, she self-involvedly announced the time and place and then hung up the phone at once.

As I was going to be forced into being treated a meal, I was therefore in a very bad mood. Hence Suga and Nayeon being my colleagues were unfathomably insulted by me quite a few times, causing Nayeon to be so angry that she said that she wanted to resign and go home and have her husband support her. I keyed in to this matter of her moving out her husband as a backer and reviled her once again, and finally forced her to admit that she herself was unworthy of the cultivation/training/education that our motherland gave her, and that she was a parasite utterly devoid of a heart and a conscience. Only then did my mood grudgingly improve.

Before I got off work, I received a phone call from Taehyung. After the banquet, we somehow inconceivably became friends.

I had thrown the dress for that banquet into the washing machine, and after it came out, no matter how I looked, I felt that it looked like a mass of rotten vegetable leaves, hence I carried the dress to go and find Taehyung. He used a machine that looked like a vacuum cleaner to iron the dress back into its original light-green floaty appearance. He told me that that machine was called a garment steamer, I told him that in my mind that was a vacuum cleaner. After that, we then got into an argument, he said I wasn’t respecting him, I said he was making a mountain out of a molehill. We argued till it was time to eat, and as such he then brought me out to eat. After we finished eating I paid the cash, he then announced that we had now become friends through fighting. 

Taehyung said that he was running errands near our office, and asked if I wanted to eat together after I got off work. I told him that I was going to have a meal with Jungkook and Jungkook’s girlfriend. He expressed his sympathy towards me, and volunteered to accompany me there. He said that he wanted to go to help me boost my courage, I felt that he wanted to go to scrounge a free meal.

I considered it for a while, and thought that it was really a little desolate to go and meet the ‘husband and wife’ pair of my ex-boyfriend all alone by myself, so I brought Taehyung along.

When the two of us reached the restaurant, they had not yet arrived. We chatted for a while till we discovered that we couldn’t see eye to eye and nearly ended up in a fight. Hence Taehyung then borrowed two pens from the waiter, we both separately unfolded paper napkins to draw designs, he drew costume designs, I drew illustrations. After we finished drawing, Jungkook and co still hadn’t arrived, therefore as such we then exchanged our drawings for evaluation. Taehyung said my illustrations were childish, and were for little children to see; I said his clothes were ugly, and weren’t for mankind to wear…… Thankfully Jungkook and Tzuyu arrived before we broke out into a terrible fight.