Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman || LK Adaptation

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝑳

When Jungkook got back to Jeon Manor, Lisa, Hanbin, and the others were seated around the dining table.

“Jungkook!” Taehee was quite surprised upon seeing him, and she had the butler prepare another set of chopsticks. “I thought you weren’t coming back today.”

Jungkook nodded and looked at everyone sitting at the table—Hanbin, Eunwoo, his mother sitting to the left of Lisa, and to Lisa’s right, a colorful blob of… Jiji?

He fixed Jiji with an emotionless stare, and when the latter noticed it, its mechanical hand freezing in place before it jumped off the seat with its bowl.

Jungkook walked over and sat on the seat which Jiji had sat on calmly, before accepting the bowl and chopsticks that the butler gave him and starting to eat slowly.

Eunwoo looked at Jungkook strangely. “Do you bully the robot too?”

What did he do to have emotionally traumatized a robot to the point of having such a reaction to his stare?

“Do you want to try getting bullied too?” Jungkook asked, looking straight into his eyes.

Eunwoo rubbed his arms, feeling a chill coming on. “No, no, I would never challenge you. Please, eat.”

Jungkook looked back gloomily at his bowl. Ever since he was born he had been put under immense amounts of stress, and while he didn’t quite care about the ancient martial arts world in the start, everything changed after he met Lisa. He started to take as much power as he could in the ancient martial arts world so that one day he would have the power to protect her when her secrets were revealed.

He never expected that day to come so quickly, however.

Everything was in the palm of his hand except for Dubhe which had been a variable that was sent by the heavens completely out of the blue. He still wasn’t a match for this monster as of yet, so his plans and actions had to be modified and obstructed at every turn.

Once he thought of this, he seemed to become even more depressed, but it was right at this moment that Lisa put a chicken wing into his bowl and smiled at him reassuringly.

Feeling his dark and dreary state of mind fill up with some color once again, Jungkook curled his lips in a soft smile.

They finished dinner quickly, and after Hanbin talked about the ranking battles with Lisa, Taehee dragged her upstairs to see the newly furnished art studio.

Jungkook saw two of the most important women in his life go upstairs before he retracted his gaze.

“Lili was there but I didn’t mention it, but you know what Dubhe said, right?” Hanbin looked at Jungkook with a serious gaze. He didn’t want to talk about this while the girl was there so as to not affect her mood, though it was probably an inevitability that she would find out.

Jungkook nodded, before getting a cigarette from Eunwoo and lighting it up, before blowing out a puff of smoke. “I know.”

His tone was as calm as always, and Hanbin couldn’t read what he felt about this. “What do we do now?”

In terms of strength, the three of them added together wouldn’t be a match for Dubhe so he made a beeline for the Jeon Manor as soon as he could, while Sungwoong was at his wit’s end at home.

“I don’t have a lot of influence on the Murong family just yet, but I’m completely on your side.” Eunwoo leaned back comfortably on the couch as he sipped on a cup of tea. “Of course, we don’t believe in fate, so Dubhe wouldn’t do anything too radical just yet.”