Pill Maker Bullies The Boss

Figure Out Who Your Biological Family Is

Jungkook was unsurprised by Lisa’s question, knowing how incredibly sharp the girl was.

“Yes, I did,” admitted Jungkook without withholding the truth.

The tension in Lisa’s heart seemed to slacken finally. Although she was not worried about her grandmother doing something rash, she at least needed to know where the lady was.

“Your Granny called me yesterday. She probably doesn’t want you stuck in between her and the Lu family, so she asked me to send her home,” explained Jungkook concisely.

“I get it,” said Lisa as she sighed gently.

She certainly appreciated the old lady’s intentions. After a few seconds of silence, she composed herself and asked him. “Where is she now?”

Jungkook raised his hand to check his watch and said, “She ought to be home by now.”

Then he added as if he knew that Lisa might worry. “Don’t fret. I especially got someone to send your grandmother home. Nothing will happen to her.”

Lisa first went, “Mhm,” but then suddenly looked up at Jungkook solemnly and said, “Thanks.”

Jungkook raised his brow and spoke in an unbridled tone. “Do you have to be so formal, my savior?”

Lisa glanced at him and vaguely smiled and replied. “Oh by the way, Mr. Jeon, since when did I have you as my tuition teacher?”

Jungkook shrugged and explained in a lazy manner. “It was a pure misunderstanding.”

Lisa chuckled. She placed the old lady’s letter into her pocket before she turned to head out of the hospital.

“Then please continue to keep it that way.”

Her voice drifted as she waved her hand and walked away.

Jungkook thoughtfully smiled before he turned to trail behind her.

After leaving the hospital, Lisa took out her phone to check the time and discovered it was dead.

She placed it back in her pocket and contemplated for a couple of seconds before raising her head and asking Jungkook. “Did you drive to this place?”

“Hmm,” said Jungkook as he glanced at her quizzically.

“My phone’s battery has died and I don’t have any cash. Why don’t you help me one more time by giving me a lift home?” asked Lisa bluntly.

Jungkook raised his brow and said, “I thought you were going to buy me dinner.”

“How can you let a penniless middle school student buy you dinner? Is it-okay-for-a-tuition-teacher-to-do-that?” asked Lisa as she enunciated her last few words distinctly.

Jungkook’s lips twitched. He replied with a tiny smile on his face. “Shall I buy you dinner instead?”

But Lisa rejected him lazily. “Forget it. My folks are going to get worried if they can’t get hold of me.”

“Let’s go then,” replied Jungkook as he rubbed his forehead without teasing her further.

They got into the car quickly.

Jungkook sat with a hand on the steering wheel while he leaned his elbow against the window. He kept his head tilted as he pressed his temples non-stop. His face was abnormally pale with a trace of fatigue visible on his features.

Lisa glanced at him calmly before she casually asked. “Not getting enough rest?”

“Is it that obvious?” asked Jungkook with a relatively deep voice as he looked sideways at her.

Lisa narrowed her eyes. She hastily connected the dots about him going to the capital a few days ago and her grandmother’s matter. She suddenly said in astonishment, “Don’t tell me that you rushed back in the middle of the night to help Granny?”

Jungkook kept rubbing his temples but avoided the subject and said, “I finished my work, so I naturally had to come back.”

Lisa immediately turned silent.

Moments later, she looked at Jungkook and calmly said as though it was not a big deal, “The nerve-soothing incense, which I bought online for Granny, worked quite well. Come by the school, post the classes in a couple of days, and I’ll pass some to you.”

Jungkook recalled the incense online shop whose link she had shared with him previously. He shook his head and laughed.

After a moment, he said, “It’s fine. I’ll be alright after resting for a few days.”

Lisa touched her nose tip and nodded. “Okay…”

But she paused and added as an afterthought. “If you change your mind, let me know.”

“Mhm,” said Jungkook gently without taking it to heart.

**

Twenty minutes later, Lisa thanked Jungkook before heading into her estate.

The sky was already dark. Lisa went upstairs and opened the front door to enter the apartment and spotted Jin, who had not been home in a long time. He was sitting on the couch with his arms crossed. His face was livid.

A light gun powder scent floated in the air.

Lisa narrowed her eyes and put her sling bag on the cabinet.

Jin looked at Lisa and hastily stood up. He looked at her angrily and said, “Can’t you just cut it out?”

“Son, calm down before you talk,” said Huo Jiyong deeply with a frown on his face.

Though Lisa was completely unruffled by Jin’s blatant line of questioning, there was no warmth in her eyes.

“This is odd. What outrageous act have I committed this time to piss you off so badly?”

The moment Jin saw Lisa’s indifference, he seethed with even more anger. “How can you have the cheek to ask this question? Where have you sent Eunha’s grandmother?”

Lisa recalled the numerous calls which He Seohyung made to her and roughly guessed the reason for his anger.

Since Old Madam Yang did not go back to the Lu family and Lisa had visited her apartment the same day, the Lu family conveniently surmised that Lisa had hidden her away after getting her discharged from the hospital.

After all, Lisa seemed the most likely suspect.

Jin inhaled deeply in the face of his sister’s silence. He did his utmost to control his emotions before he said, “I know you are close to Eunha’s grandmother, but you can’t take her away without saying a word.”

Lisa smiled playfully and said, “I’m curious as to who told you that I was the one who took Old Madam Yang out of the hospital. Was it Eunha? Hmm?”

Jin frowned and retorted haltingly. “She just called me…”

But before he could finish, Lisa interrupted, “You were so certain I was the one who took off with her the moment she called you. What if I said I wasn’t the one who took her?”

Namjoon raised his brow slightly when he heard Lisa. His baby sister was undoubtedly good at rhetorical debate.

Although Jin was stunned by her question, he swiftly regained composure and said, “Fine. Since you insist that you didn’t take her away, why didn’t you answer the Lu family’s phone calls and even turned off your phone? Aren’t you inviting the Lu family’s suspicion by doing this?”

Lisa found this even more hilarious. She calmly retrieved her phone from her pocket and pressed its power button several times. A low battery icon appeared on its screen before it automatically powered off.

“See that? It’s out of battery,” replied Lisa airily.

Then she handed her phone to Jin and continued somewhat sarcastically. “If you don’t believe me, why don’t you check it yourself?”

Jin’s eyes landed on Lisa’s phone, but he did not take it. Moments later, he looked sideways and said deeply, “If you truly didn’t take her grandmother away, then why did you keep disconnecting Lu family’s calls?”

“Isn’t it normal to hang up on them? Lili’s foster mother always ill-treated her. Why should she answer just because they called her? This logic is crazy,” said Namjoon calmly from the side.

“Yes, exactly. Namjoon is right. If it were me, I wouldn’t have merely cut her call. I would have blacklisted her minutes ago,” said Song Chaerin. She did not like the Lu family at all.

Jin looked at Namjoon with a rather complicated expression on his face. It was one thing if their parents pampered their little sister blindly, but even his sharp second brother was…

Moments later, Jin shook his head and said disappointedly, “I don’t care if you indulge her, but she has to answer for what happened to Eunha’s grandmother, no matter what.”

Jin’s gaze landed on Lisa once more as he said, “Come with me to the Lu family. Since you didn’t have anything to do with the matter, then you can explain…”

Before he finished his sentence, his phone rang. He paused and instinctively glanced at the caller ID.

It was Eunha. Jin did not go on. He picked up the phone and answered it. “Hello, Eunha…”

“Brother Jin, we found Granny. She went back to her hometown in Fuxian County. Sorry, my mother misunderstood Lili. It was my fault for overreacting. I shouldn’t have called you because I couldn’t get a hold of Lili. I hope I didn’t cause you any trouble…”

Eunha’s delicate voice came through the phone. She sounded apologetic, on the brink of tears, and filled with remorse.

Jin recalled how he furiously grilled and accused Lisa a few moments ago and his mind instantly went blank.

Did Jin misjudge her again?

“… Brother Jin, are you there?” asked Eunha cautiously and somewhat pitifully when she failed to hear Jin respond after a long time.

Jin closed his eyes and replied. “Okay.”

Then he hung up without speaking further.

Eunha could not help feeling vexed when she heard Jin’s cold answer. She held onto her phone tightly for a long time before she let go.

Jin was no longer as aggressive when he turned his eyes towards Lisa again. His lips parted, but it felt as though something had blocked his throat. It felt unbearable. After a long time, he did not manage to squeeze even a word through his teeth.

Lisa calmly looked at the complicated expression on his face and said indifferently, “It appears you found out what truly happened.”

“I…”

“I’m heading upstairs,” said Lisa without giving Jin the chance to speak any further. She glanced at her parents and second older brother in the living room before heading up the stairs unhurriedly.

“Brother Jin, we all know you have always been close to Eunha. But let me remind you that you have to figure out who your biological family is,” said Namjoon indifferently before he went upstairs too.

Jin’s face burned in shame the moment he heard his brother. He felt sapped of all energy. His phone slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

Huo Jiyong stood up to pick up the phone and placed it on the coffee table. Then he patted his son’s shoulder and left the room without saying a word.

Song Chaerin sighed rather disappointedly. “You’re too biased against Lili. She’s your biological sister and not an outsider, but you refuse to trust her. If you were sensible and more rational, things like this wouldn’t have happened.”

Jin clenched his fists and a slight look of shame emerged on his face.

Since Eunha had called him to complain tearfully, Jin blamed Lisa almost without any hesitation. He subconsciously thought his younger sister was a huge troublemaker. No matter how close Lisa was to her grandmother, how could she take her away without saying a word to anyone?

But what happened in the end?

Jin’s lips curved up in self-deprecation. He questioned her aggressively, but it turned out to be a misunderstanding.

In comparison to his foster sister, other than leaving him repeatedly speechless, Jin had nothing good to say about his pretentious biological sister.

Even though his opinion improved after she got full marks in the quiz, he was yet again disappointed by her indifference and refusal to explain.

Although the events that transpired today were a dead ringer for the previous episode… he was the one who refused to admit that even if she offered an explanation, he would not have believed her.

Disbelief was still the first thing that surfaced in his mind when she had asked him whether he would believe her if she said that she wasn’t the one who took her grandmother away.

Yes, it was futile to explain since he refused to believe her. If it were him, he would not have bothered explaining either.

Jin wiped his face and smiled bitterly.


Lisa walked out of the shower with her hair still dripping wet. She picked up her phone while it was charging as she blow-dried her hair with a hairdryer. She pressed the power button, and the phone came back to life in a few seconds.

Many notifications for messages and missed calls bounced on the screen. Among them were texts and calls from Jin and some unknown numbers.

Lisa checked them all. Then she turned off the hairdryer and decided to call her grandmother again. This time, her phone was not unreachable.

The call went through very quickly.

Lisa held the phone without saying a word. Her grandmother did not speak either. Other than the slight noise of breathing, it was very quiet.

After a while, Lisa said gently, “Granny.”

“Mhm, I… I’m here,” replied the old lady. She seemed to have dropped something, and there was a loud noise that almost completely drowned out her voice.

Lisa rubbed her forehead helplessly. She pulled up a chair to sit down and sighed. “Are you going to keep letting me listen to you tip things over?”

The noise suddenly disappeared from the phone.

Two seconds later, the old lady meekly explained. “Cough… I was just about to pour myself some water and dropped it accidentally.”

Lisa’s brows quirked up. She languidly leaned back into the chair and the warm light in the room scattered on her face.

Then she said in a warm and unrestrained manner, “Mhm, I get it. Say no more.”

Old Madam Yang, “…”

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