The Way I Loved You | LK ADAPTATION

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The new year was over in a blink. High school students have tight study schedules. There are not many vacations. Haiyi’s high school classes for the third-year students started on the seventh day of the new year, and the second-year high school were no better. They had only three more days, their classes started on the tenth day of the new year.

Hanbin only started to rush through his homework on the eighth day. He was crying and begging his sister to help write his math papers.

Lisa was so soft-hearted that she could not resist his pleading. In these last two days, she had promised to go to the library with Jungkook to read books. In the end, she could only break the appointment and accompany Hanbin to work at home. After Jungkook heard of this, he put Hanbin on the list of “must be dealt with” this semester.

After the tenth day of the new year, the beginning part of the large-scale disaster film “School starts!”, and the latter part of the film “Make up work! Make up homework!” started.

Lisa didn’t have this trouble. She liked to go to school and did her homework very well.

In the first days of the spring season, the weather was still chilly, but the branches on the street had sprouts, with a little green in the withered yellow, and people’s mood had started improving.

After arriving at school, each subject teacher arranged class representatives to collect homework. Lisa had a good personality. Those classmates who were still rushing to finish the history homework asked her to give her a little more grace period, and she agreed.

Eunha shared the special products she brought back from her grandparents’ home in the countryside with the classmates around her seat. Lisa liked the bag of candied apricots she gave her. It was made by Grandma Jung herself. She prepared it over the whole winter. It was sour, sweet, crispy and delicious, and it tasted many times better than those sold outside.

She ate half of it, but reluctant to finish it, she sealed the opening, rolled it up and put it in her school uniform pocket.

Eunha ate too well and had a lot of greasy food during the Chinese New Year, so she now had acne on her forehead. She lay on the table with a mirror in front of her, while squeezing the acne she asked Lisa, “Lisa, you could hear it last semester, then this semester can you speak? I really want to hear your voice; it must be very nice!”

Lisa's bright eyes darkened.

During the Chinese New Year, her uncle took her to the psychology clinic three times. The psychologist who had been treating her reported good results on her tests, but she still couldn’t make a sound.

When she came out of the clinic, she went to the bathroom. When she came back, she heard the voice of the psychologist telling her uncle in a heavy voice that she was such a rare case that it could not be guaranteed that she would be able to speak anymore.

Uncle didn’t tell her this, after coming out, he smiled and comforted her that she would get better soon. He did not say, and Lisa pretended not to hear.

Only after going back, she stood in front of the full-length mirror every night before going to bed, practicing vocalization over and over again.

But it didn’t work.

Lisa knew it was a physical problem.

Just as this body resisted recalling everything about its parents, it also resisted speaking.

She didn’t know what to do.

Seeing her dejected look, Eunha quickly put away the small mirror, and pressed the paper on the place where the acne was bleeding on her forehead, and leaned in to comfort her, “It’s okay, Lisa, even if this semester you can’t say anything, there is next semester and the semester after that! I believe you can definitely recover before graduation!”