Rock Sugar And Pear Stew | L.K Adaptation

Chapter 71

The assembly of the ice hockey team was prepare for the upcoming Korean Ice Hockey Championship. As Bright club's youth talent team, the RCU men's ice hockey team would be participating in the competition as a full-fledged team.

The host city of the Championship was Rain City.

The day Lisa was to return to school happened to be the day that the RCU ice hockey team was going to have their fist match.

She originally wanted to buy tickets online. When she searched it up five days in advance, the tickets were already sold out....sold out....?

Isn't ice hockey supposed to be niche sport? When did its tickets become so highly sought-after? It's only Group B of the group stage and the tickets are sold out? Am I missing something here?

Lisa began to question life.

As she spaced out while clutching her phone, Jungkook sent her an electronic ticket as if he had sensed her thoughts.

Lisa send him a string of ellipses.

Jungkook replied her with a similar string of ellipses.

Lisa felt that their conversation was going in a peculiar direction. Thus, she sent him a sticker of a cheerful Lolita gesturing a heart with her hands. This was a sticker pack that she had asked for from Chaeyoung.

After Jungkook received the sticker, he sent her an even longer string of ellipses.

Lisa: "What?"

Jungkook: "Not used to how adorable you're being".

Even though she knew that he was referring to the sticker, Lisa still blushed like an idiot. Her lips quietly curved as she held her phone and looked at his message.

When Papa Monoban passed by with a cup of wolfberry tea and saw how Lisa was staring at her phone with a blush, he let out a grumpy "Humph".

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In order to avoid being late on the day of return to school, Lisa changed her ticket to an earlier train. After putting down her stuff in her dorm, she did not stop to rest before bustling over to the ice stadium despite being worn out from travel.

When she saw the filled venue at the ice stadium, she finally believed that the tickets had indeed been purchased by actually people instead of being a marketing strategy by the organizer.

As for why so many people purchased tickets, the answer was quickly revealed.

When Jungkook appeared, everyone broke into cheers and applause. The entire stadium whipped into a frenzy and girls on Lisa's two side let out wild shrieks. She felt her ears ringing from the noise.

A whom am I, Where am I, What am I doing here expression appeared on Lisa's face, displaying her stunned amazement as she gazed blankly at Jungkook.

Jungkook raised his head and look towards where she was. This was the first time that the two of them met face-to-face after almost ten days of separation. As there were too many people around, Lisa felt that it was unlikely that he saw her,

However, he waved in her direction.

The girls next to Lisa started shrieking manically again. Terribly intimidated, Lisa stayed in her seat meekly and did not dare to move an inch.

Under this oddly enthusiastic atmosphere, the competition began.

For this match, RCU's opponent was an Ice hockey team from City Z. It was clear that the skills of both teams were on par. However, they had every different styles. City Z's ice hockey players were a bit older and their playstyle was stable. As for the RCU team, they were a bit more dynamic, flashy and aggressive. Of course, this also meant that they had more openings and mistakes.

When the RCU team scored, the girls next to Lisa broke into applause. When Jungkook scored, they not applauded but cheered as well. When City Z players scored, they dully observed a moment of silence to show their strong allegiance.

Lisa felt that Jungkook had executed several excellent passes that the girls might not have noticed. She was no expert but she observed that the playstyle of City Z's ice hockey team counteracted the youthful playstyle of RCU's ice hockey team. The tempo of the competition was always in the former's hands. Though RCU seemed to be carrying out a strong offence, their pace was actually a little messy.

Right now, Jungkook had to pull the tempo back into their hands.

He is trying to control the tempo.

When Lisa realized this, admiration flooded her heart

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Ultimately, RCU's Ice hockey team managed to obtain a narrow victory, kicking off to a good start.

When the competition was over, Lisa exited the stadium and planned to head over to the west wing. To her surprise, she numerous people gathered outside the ice stadium. More than half were girls. Lisa was puzzled. Why was there still a bunch of people gathered when the competition was already over?

She dodged behind a small shrub nearby to surreptitiously observe what they were up to.

After a while, Jungkook came out.

From how he immediately headed towards the girls, it was plain to see that he was intentionally seeking them out. When they saw him, the girls cheered in unison and surrounded him like he was royalty.

Humph.

Lisa was so mad that she began grinding her teeth. Tightening her grip, she accidentally broke off a branch.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...." Lisa patted the shrub's wound and felt extremely apologetic.

When she turned to look at Jungkook again, he had fished out a pen and was currently giving his signature to the girls in a practiced manner.

Lisa did not know what she was angry over. She crept over and stood at the outer edge of the crowd, her arms crossed as she glared at Jungkook.

After signing yet another signature, Jungkook lifted his eyes and happened to see her.

Though she was angry, Lisa still felt her heart raced when their eyes met. It had been so long since last saw him.

There was a barely discernible smile in Jungkook's eyes. He tossed her a meaningful glance and gestured towards the west wing his eyes, indicating her to wait for him there.

Lisa rolled her eyes at him, turned around and went back to her dorm.

I think someone is jealous~~~~