Strike Back, Proud Goddess || LK Adaptation

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Looking at the girl who was talking to him like a stranger, Jinhwan felt his heart ache. As his biological sister, she was supposed to take his hand intimately and affectionately call him brother, but now she stood beside others and called him cousin aloofly.

A touch of sarcasm flickered across Taehyung’s eyes when he saw Jinhwan’s reaction. Even though Jinhwan wanted Lisa to return to their family, his attitude had not been firm, as if the matter had nothing to do with him and Lisa was not that important to him, so why did he appear as if hurt now?

At this thought, Taehyung couldn’t help but remind Jinhwan, “Cousin, Lili is talking to you.”

Knowing what Taehyung was thinking, Lalisa was speechless at his guilty pleasure. It was impossible for her to call Jinhwan as brother, however, because she was not Min Lisa; she had no special feelings for him. She was only good to whomever was good to her. Since she was Soohyun’s daughter now, she would of course call Hyunbin’s son as cousin.

Therefore… Lalisa smiled and looked at Jinhwan. “Did you come to see Grandpa, Cousin?”

Upon hearing Lalisa call Jinhwan as cousin without any difficulty, Grandpa Min felt slightly uncomfortable, but that was the fault of his eldest son and his family—he wouldn’t do anything for them.

Jinhwan froze for a minute before he nodded and said, “Yes, I have something to attend to in a place nearby, so I came by to see Grandpa. How about you?”

Before Lalisa could speak, Jimin rushed to say, “Well, Lili has been changing so greatly recently. She changes her face almost every minute. We were afraid that Grandpa wouldn’t be able to recognize her if we came by later, so we brought Lili here to see Grandpa.”

Lalisa was speechless. Changed a face every minute? Was she a monster?

Despite her face changing very quickly due to 008, to a frightening degree even, it was impossible for them to be unable to recognize her.

Jinhwan turned his eyes to Lalisa’s face. Indeed, just as Jimin said, each time he saw her, she seemed to have become more beautiful, and she seemed to possess a natural noble temperament which no one could ignore.

Even ten Tzuyu would be no match for her.

He wondered what kind of spell Tzuyu had cast over his parents. Why did they abandon their biological daughter and instead put beside them a girl who had no blood ties with them?

Lalisa didn’t know what Jinhwan was thinking. She glared Jimin and said cutely, “Jimin, you made fun of me again. I’m gonna tell Mom tonight and ask her to avenge me!”

“All right, my little princess, don’t tell Mom. Look, Yoongi is going to devour me alive.” Jimin reached out a finger and scratched Lalisa’s nose. “You little cutie, I surrender!”

Lalisa gave him a dark look. Taehyung laughed and said, “Oh boy, serves you right!”

Grandpa Min laughed watching them frolicking about. Even Yoongi, who was always poker-faced, showed a smile.

Jinhwan was greatly upset upon seeing them being as intimate as a family. He should be the one frolicking with Lisa. Why did the little girl who dared not say a word in his family become so lively and adorable when she stayed with the Min brothers? And she was even becoming increasingly beautiful with each passing day.

Jinhwan knew that Lisa didn’t take plastic surgery because there was no difference to her facial features; only her skin had changed. Moreover, her skin color was very natural, so she didn’t seem have to received an injection of a beauty needle. Was it true that environment changed everything?