Mr Mermaid | LK Adaptation

Chapter 34

Chapter 34

After paying off the bill, J-Hope was very subdued. When Lisa thanked him, he merely responded with a soft 'hmm'. He looked at her, lips moving slightly, but said nothing in the end.

Now wasn't the right time and place. His younger cousin was still staring watchfully from the side ...

When he went to retrieve the car, Jungkook said, "Cousin, let me send Lisa back. You still have work tomorrow. Have an early rest."

"It's fine." J-Hope shook his head and looked towards Lisa, a glimmer of anticipation in his gaze.

However, Lisa also shook her head. "You don't have to trouble yourself, big brother J-Hope. We'll take a taxi back."

We.

J-Hope wanted to say something more, but Jungkook had already begun shepherding Lisa away by her shoulders. As they walked away, he said, "Okay, that's all. Bye, Cousin!"

In a comparison of strength, Lisa was just like a little wooden puppet before Jungkook. She could only go where he wanted her to go, and so she had no choice but to move towards the road. As she walked away, she waved back at J-Hope in farewell.

J-Hope was left standing where he stood. Looking at their overlapping silhouettes, he could only sigh helplessly.

If a girl did not want to trouble a man, it was not always a good thing.

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As the saying goes, 'as one goes through life, it is impossible to avoid all danger'. If one hails many taxies, it was inevitable to meet one or two unreliable drivers. The driver Lisa encountered today was one such unreliable driver. Most frighteningly, he had a facade of being reliable; it was only at the end, after he had twisted and turned to god-knows-where, that he smacked his palm onto his steering wheel helplessly and admitted, "Sorry, I'm lost."

Jungkook had been talking with Lisa and had not been paying attention to the driver's route. Now, hearing the driver's words, he asked, "Why didn't you say anything earlier?"

Lisa was equally taken aback. "Don't you have a GPS?"

"No."

He did not know the way, and he had no GPS, yet he remained so calm. This gentleman's confidence was truly indestructible ... Lisa cast a helpless glance at Jungkook.

Jungkook looked out the window and said, "Forget it. We're not too far off. Let's just get off here."

Just like that, they randomly got out of the taxi about 1 kilometre away from home. Jungkook was very familiar with the nearby surroundings. He led Lisa into an alley.

After walking for a while, Lisa felt that something wasn't right. There was no one in the alley, and there were no lights in the houses around. The entire alleyway was empty, dark and gloomy, and eerily silent. Walking through the alley, any sound whatsoever was amplified — it was as if they would soon startle awake the spirits lying dormant in the area.

The street lamps were completely busted; the only illumination was the natural moonlight. The moon was very round tonight, with fuzzy edges, and it stared at them like a giant eye.

Lisa's mind was gradually winding up, becoming tenser and tenser, even her breathing had become fainter and shallower. She tugged gently on the corner of Jungkook's sleeve. "You aren't doing this on purpose, right?"

"Doing what?"

Lisa looked around and grumbled, "It's so dark here."

Jungkook was amused. "You're afraid of the dark?"