Rock Sugar And Pear Stew | L.K Adaptation

Chapter 13

During dinner, Lisa recounted to Jimin and Chaeyoung how she met her primary school classmate at the ice rink.

In the past, she was the one who was bossing him around. Now that they had met again, the great disparity between his numerous achievements and her mundane existence was a direct mockery to her from life.

What's more, the mediocre her was now subjected to the beck and call of the accomplished him. This was simply adding insult to injury.

Jimin used his phone to browse the school ice hockey team's website. "Boss, We need to lay our groundwork properly. This Jungkook is headlining the ice hockey team's official website".

Lisa propped her head on one hand and stirred her egg drop soup with the other. She listlessly replied, "It's too late too say this now".

Chaeyoung looked at Jungkook's photo on the website and exclaimed in admiration, "This person looks really hot".

Jimin sternly looked at her. "Girl, please get your priorities straight. Right now, he is my boss's enemy".

"Right, right. This Jungkook looks really ugly!" Chaeyoung enthusiastically nodded and changed her opinion.

At this moment, a person walked past their table with a lunch tray in hand. On hearing Chaeyoung's words, the person snorted, "Blind ass".

Lisa lightly rapped the table and steered the conversation back to the main point. "Guys, come up with a plan....Jungkook being petty and wants to take revenge on me".

Jimin: "Boss, there's no need to fear. We're all medical students. After we've studied medicine, we can poison him".

Chaeyoung: "Study anatomy and make him bleed".

Jimin: "Study clinical science and break his leg".

Chaeyoung: "Study surgery and castrate him".

Jimin: "Study internal medicine and dupe him into buying health supplements".

Chaeyoung: "Park Jimin, I don't know how to continue with this new train of though of yours...."

Her face still propped on her hand, Lisa's expression was stony. "Great. After you guys come back from mastering all that, my bones would have long chilled. During Tomb Sweeping Day, just bring me some food. Don't burn me paper offerings. It pollutes the environment. Also, please write this one my epitaph: I had two friends. One was an idiot. So was the others".

Jimin rubbed his face and lowered his head to look at Jimin's photo again, he said. "Why not we get physical and solve this in a crude but simple way. With just one look, anyone can tell that this person is just pretty boy. What do you think are the chances of success if I get into a fight with him?"

Lisa did not know whether to laugh or cry. She tilted her head and looked at him. "Dude! Don't you know what kind of sport ice hockey is?"

Chaeyoung raised her hand. "I know Ice Hockey is a sport that involves fighting".

"It's not a simple as simply fighting. Ice hokey competitions involve intense collisions between the players bodies. To participate, your physical condition has to be like this" Lisa said and raised her thumb. "Don't be fooled by his pretty boy looks. That rascal has hidden depths. The school specially arranged an assistant for him it's absolutely a privilege only enjoyed by an important core player. If you get into a fight with him, on next year's Tomb Sweeping Day, I'll bring you eight treasure congee and takoyaki".

"What should we do then? Boss, it can't be that I can only look on helplessly while you fall into the pits of hell".

"It's still too early to talk about falling into the pits of hell. I'll take everything as it comes first". Lisa gave a long sigh. "I just can't completely resign myself to this from happily being an emperor to suddenly becoming a eunuch". The more she thought about it, the more indignant she felt.

....

Lisa officially assumed her duties the next day. Her work started in the morning with a 6:30 am phone call.

At 6:30 am, Jungkook's deep voice sounded especially energized and provocative. He said. "Every morning, I take breakfast at 7 am sharp".

"Oh, what does this have to do with me?"

"Help me to get breakfast".

"Piss off".

"My assistant". There was a hint of smile in his voice, making it all the more irksome. "Being disobedient on her first day".

"Jungkook, you're doing this deliberately aren't you?"

"I eat rice for breakfast in the morning. By helping me to buy breakfast, you save me at least 15 mins. That's the school's purpose in hiring you".

Lisa clenched her teeth. "Jungkook, I'm going to tolerate you for a month. After that, I'll let you know who's daddy".

Jungkook was completely unmoved by this threat. He said, "I want to eat a boiled egg, beef patty, steamed bun stuffed with pork and vermicelli, steamed bun stuffed with spinach and shrimp, congee with pork and century egg...."

Lisa was enraged. "Do you think you're ordering take out from a restaurant?"

"And also fresh milk. Two servings. Hurry, if not it'll be sold out".

"Just you wait".

"I'll be waiting for you at the north exit of the east sports filed".

"...."

Lisa got out bed with much difficulty. Earlier, she was too groggy to register Jungkook's breakfast orders and only remembered the fresh milk he listed at the end. Therefore, she casually bought some random food at the canteen.

Afterwards, she carried Jungkook's breakfast to the north exit of the east sports field. She found Jungkook with one glance. That fellow wore a white tracksuit and track shoes, and had on a cyan blue sweat headband. It was a typical outfit of a sporty youth. At this moment, his arms were folded while he leaned leisurely against the popular tree growing at the entrance to the sports filed. His head was lowered with an unreadable expression and the rays of the morning sun shone on his body. With the image of a bright, shinning youth leaning against the mottled tree bark, and the backdrop of a green football field surrounded by a brick red track behind a blue seemed to be straight out of a  professionally arranged studio shot.

Honestly speaking, even though Jungkook excelled at making her angry, she had to admit that his skills at being pretentious were....second to none. This was an indisputable fact.

Lisa went over, her mood still extremely cranky from having just woken she let out a "Hey".

Jungkook raised his head and looked at her.

His face was flushed and looked as if he just finished exercising. When he saw that it was Lisa, he said, "You're 5 mins late".

"Jungkook, I'm warning you. As a human you need to know when to stop before going too far. Otherwise, I'm going to be delivering chrysanthemums to you a years from now" After saying this, she hefted the stuff in her hand towards him. "Your dog food".

Jungkook did not get angry at her words and took his breakfast from her. He was a little thirsty after finishing his run and drank a large mouthful milk.

Looking at him drink, Lisa suddenly gave an evil smirk. "Drink it quickly while it's warm. I milked it myself".

Pffff____

Jungkook spat out his mouthful of milk.

He wiped off the white liquid at the corners of his mouth and looked at her expressionlessly before grinding his teeth.

Lisa straightened her neck and glared at him. She lightly raised her eyebrows, her eyes somewhat provocative.

The two were locked in this standoff for goodness knew how long. Jungkook was the first to open his mouth.

"Tanned freak".

"Dog face".