𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗗 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 (a TAELICE adaptation)

CHAPTER 9

Time passed in a flash. The Spring Festival would soon be upon them.

When Taehyung gave her the photograph of the passport to book the plane ticket, he had not provided many details and only stated that it was not convenient at the moment to get the boy's residential booklet and birth certificate. Therefore, Lalisa also only vaguely brushed over this part when she was talking to her younger cousin's wife, the person who was helping her out with this. These last few years, this cousin's wife had gotten quite a bit of charitable donations from Lalisa to provide financial aid to remote areas. Hence, had a good relationship with many of the key schools that provided volunteer teachers and teaching support to poorer areas.

Helping Lalisa to get an admission spot to a school could be considered her repayment to Lalisa and was utterly an act of kindness that cost her nothing.

The only thing was that this gave Lalisa's cousin a chance at her, saying she had gone to Goseong to relax and rest but had ended up bringing back a non-resident kid. Not only had she helped the kid to solve the problem of finding a place to go to school, but even the spot on the forms for the boy's permanent address had been filled with the address of her own home. He said with a grin, " Big Cuz, were it not for the fact that you're a girl and don't fit the criteria, I really would have thought that this was your illegitimate son whom you had left in Goseong. "

Now that he mentioned it, it really did seem that way.

Her cousin's wife had solved the matter of using proper channels to get the boy into a school as an out-of-region student, but she still stressed the point that the household registration certificate was essential. It could be provided later, but they could not go without it.

Lalisa reasoned that since it could be provided later, it was not urgent at this moment, so they could let the Lunar New Year period pass first and then worry about it.

On the day that everything was taken care of, Lalisa was very happy and took the boy out to eat at the most expensive Western restaurant, even tricking him into taking a couple of sips of red wine. She, on the other hand, needed to drive and had not consumed a single drop of alcohol.

On the way back, the boy whose face was so red it was like rouge had been applied to his cheeks, asked her. " Was it expensive to transfer schools? "

" It didn't cost money. " After paying the parking fee, Lalisa drove out of the parking garage and answered. " It was done through proper procedures. "

The boy appeared as if a load had been lifted from his mind. " When I was coming here, my dad told me if it was expensive, I just wouldn't go to school. He was worried that Uncle Tae would secretly pay for it. "

The child prattled on, his many words coming rapidly. Everything he said was about Kim Taehyung, most of which he had heard from his father.

When their car drove onto the North Second Ting Road, Juno was narrating how Taehyung had crossed districts to catch a person, leading a team in pursuit for two days and two nights and passing over five snow-capped mountains. Even the paws of the military dogs had been covered in blood, but still he had kept chase... When they reached the West Second Ring Road, he was recounting how at an altitude of more than five thousand meters, where life waa basically forbidden, Taehyung had forged his way out on foot for more than ten kilometers while carrying on his back a townsman who had passed out from lack of oxygen... When their car was stuck in traffic on Apu-gong Avenue, the topic transitioned over to how, because his mission was urgent in circumstances with utterly no metrological data or guidance from someone on the ground, when there lacked even a target to aim at, he had executed a parachute jump.

This was the life he had lived for these many years.

At night, after arriving back at home, she arduously carried the child in through the door and all the way through the living room. As she climbed the stairs, she was weighing the idea of whether she should install an elevator in the home. If in the future she hot sick or had some sort of rheumatoid disorder, or had a broken bone, or was drunk, etc. and was unable to climb back up to her room, it could be used in place of walking.