Love By Soup • LK Adaptation

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Love By Soups - Part 1: How it Began
Right after Lisa spilled a bowl of soup, she became public enemy number one at the Tech University.  This was how it happened.

Male students at the engineering and technology universities all enjoy playing soccer.  Tech U's soccer team is ranked second in the city.  Sometimes the Engineering U would surpass the Tech U, if they happened to have a genius forward that year.

But for the past two years, Tech U didn't give the Engineering U any chance to win. It's all because they had a genius center, Jeon Jungkook.  That's right, not a forward, but a center.  Just like how a car cannot run without its engine, the team couldn’t hope to win without Jungkook.

Jungkook's specialty was his banana shaped free kick, which sent the ball straight toward the blind spot of the goal.

People always say that if only he wasn’t ..., he could be in the National Team already.

No, no, no, not that kind of level of the Chinese National Team.[1]  Anyway, Jungkook's skills could rival Beckham!

But this year, Tech U lost, badly.  They were shaved bald.  All because Jungkook was a no-show; Yaonan couldn't play.  Why?  Because Jungkook got hurt!

He was injured by that damned Sui Lisa! A bowl of piping hot veggie soup of hers spilled all over Jungkook's left hand!

Four days later, during the final match, the coach had no other choice but send someone else to replace him.  And the result was as expected.

Wasn't it strange though, Jungkook only burned his left hand, his feet were without a scratch.  Why couldn't he play?

As for this question, Sui Lisa actually pondered over for quite some time.  But, why?

Sui Lisa is an easy going girl, though sometimes oblivious of her surroundings.  She has no interest in sports whatsoever; and never went to any school sporting events.  Her only interest is her burgeoning literary writing career.

Why is a female technology student  interested in literature?  She got confused and checked the wrong box while filling out her school selections.[2] (-Me ರ_ರ)

Well, never mind that. Let's find out what happened that fateful day.  Lisa and her good friend Minnie went to the cafeteria after class.  They talked about the article Lisa had posted online two months ago, which had just reached 200 hits.

Lisa was excited as usual, "You know, the hit rate increased rapidly these last two days! Two days ago it only increased by 1 hit, yesterday 5 hits, and today 20 more hits! Maybe my article will be popular soon, hahahaha......"

She's always so optimistic, but Minnie's having difficulty navigating.  Since this bowl of veggie soup was thick, simmering with white smoke, filled up to the rim of the bowl, Minnie was holding it extra carefully for fear of spilling it.  At the same while, she tried to make sense what Lisa was talking about.  She was in a awkward posture, stretching her ears while holding her body back.

Lo isa was holding a bowl of hot veggie soup, too.  Minnie walked slower, Lisa unknowingly moved ahead of her, turning her head to talk to Minnie.

Everything went on innocently.  Finally, Lisa concluded, "My writing will be more than hot!"

After uttering those words, Lisa turned her head around energetically, ready to go forward. Right at that instance, she bumped head on into --- Jeon Jungkook.

Lisa had been turning sideways to talk to Minnie while Jungkook was laughingly chatting with his teammates. If they just brushed by each other, nothing would have happened.  But it so happened that when Lisa turned around, that bowl of hot veggie soup came right in front of Jungkook. He couldn't stop himself in time.

So the inevitable result, a whole bowl of hot veggie soup spilled all over his left hand.

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A very short novel with very short chapters ಠ∀ಠ

[1]: The Chinese national team has a bad reputation. Aside from not being able to play soccer that well (compared to other nations), a lot of the Chinese professional teams are plagued by corruption and controlled by gamblers. (i.e. they will lose on purpose because people are betting on the opposite team). So somewhat good players don't want to be associated with the professional teams.

[2]: In China, students take a nation wide test to enter college.  They select which universities they wish to enter and are admitted if they score high enough on their test.  Sui Lisa in this case marked the wrong schools while selecting.