To Our Pure Little Beauty

Newlyweds

This was the first Spring Festival after Jungkook and Lisa had gotten marriage, the issue of where to celebrate the New Year had begun to bother Lisa since two months prior. According to reason, since she married Jungkook, naturally they had to spend it at the Jeon house, but the two parents of the Jeon family had always adopted a “if we keep on treating you as if you don’t exist, perhaps there might be a day when you really won’t exist” attitude that left things to chance towards having her as a daughter-in-law, and Lisa felt that they were trusting in luck and embracing delusions that would never come true, because she boasted of herself being a cockroach that couldn’t be struck to death, even if Jungkook died, she would be a cockroach that crawled back and forth on his corpse!

Lisa received a stern rebuking from Jungkook after she told him such a train of thought, “Idiot, burying beetles are the ones that will crawl all over a corpse, not cockroaches.”

Lisa praised his learnedness and line of thought, “Jungkook, why do you know everything? Plus you didn’t place your main focus when scolding me on you dying and becoming a corpse, I sincerely like your unusual way of thinking, youngster, I admire you!”

Lisa patted Jungkook’s shoulder, and beamingly made eyes at him.

Jungkook brushed away Lisa’s hand that was placed on his shoulder as if he was brushing off dust, “If I die, you’ll become a widow.”

Lisa didn’t think so, she hugged his arm, looked up and smiled fawningly, “If you die, I’ll sacrifice myself in the name of love.”

Jungkook patted her head, “I’m already dead, just spare me.”

“I won’t.” Lisa was still smiling in a fawning manner, “But I’ll spare you for a few days, let’s do it this way, for the new year, you return to your home, I’ll return to my home…” She paused for a moment to glance at his expression before continuing, “Then after the new year, we’ll both return to our home. You say, is this okay?”

Jungkook looked at her smiling till her eyes had bent into crescents, and suddenly felt a burst of guilt in his heart. His own family was giving her trouble, yet she wasn’t making any noise or causing any disturbances, just carefully trying to please him as she put forward her request.

“Spend the new year wherever you like, let me handle the rest, you don’t have to worry too much,” Jungkook leaned over to peck her on the upturned corner of her mouth. “This fawning smile of yours, you really are practising it to the point of perfection.” 

Lisa jumped three feet into the air, and while embracing Jungkook’s neck, kissed him once each on both the left and right side of his face, “You’re the best! I love you the most!”

But Lisa’s happy little flames only lasted till the night, when upon making a call back home was doused by her mother so quickly till only smoke was left. When she had excitedly related her intention to return home to celebrate the new year, her mother’s lecturing rained down on her.

Lisa’s mother advised her daughter with great persuasion and patience on the typical social customs and practice, and on the principle of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relations. She didn’t think that her own daughter wouldn’t buy it, and kept on insisting noisily that she wanted to return home for the new year. Lisa’s mother was anxious that her daughter not knowing the ways of the world would cause people to gossip, plus she herself was not a very patient person, so after speaking a few more sentences began to scold, “Lisa, how did I bring up such an idiot daughter like you, in any case, you’re not allowed to come back, if you come back, I’ll take the broom and sweep you out of the house.”

Lisa, thoroughly unimpressed, bit back glibly, “My volume is great, you won’t be able to make me budge by sweeping.”

Lisa’s mother upon seeing that her daughter was still so glib and talking so smoothly, could only resort to extreme measures, “If you return, your dad and I will go out to travel, if you can bear seeing us two elderly being forced by you to stay outside despite having a house to return to, then you can come back and spend the new year here.”