Mr Mermaid | LK Adaptation

Chapter 72

Chapter 72

While waiting for dinner, Jungkook wanted to go see Lisa's room. He did not have any indecent intentions — he just wanted to see the place where she had grown up.

After all, she had already seen his.

The layout of Lisa's room was very cosy. Her things were arranged neatly, and there were many books on the wooden shelves. He randomly picked one of the books and Jungkook saw the underlines marking the page he had turned to. There was even a bookmark made from flower petals inside the book.

He smiled. "You must have been a good student since you were little."

Lisa was a little proud. "I wasn't bad. I was already wearing a red scarf in first grade."

"Me too."

"Actually, you're better," said Lisa, "I didn't have the ability to win first prize at the Math Olympiads when I was a kid. Speaking of which, do you have any regrets? After all, according to the collective Chinese mentality, studying is number one. Many people only become sports students because they aren't good at studying. I don't mean any disrespect, ok? It's just fact." As she spoke, her occupational habits intruded and she ended up using cautious interview lingo. And then she posited a tempting scenario: "If you had studied like everyone else and attended a college exam, you might have even been able to make it into Tsinghua University."

Jungkook returned the book to the bookshelf and said with a smile, "Tsinghua produces several thousand graduates each year, while there are only around 300 Olympic champions every four years. I've always thought that my ambitions are quite lofty."

Lisa smiled. She liked this determined composure of his, wise and open-minded.

She found a large storage box. Inside it were the various things she had collected as she grew up — Black Cat Detective's little motorbike, Doraemon and Sailormoon stickers, postcards of 'My Fair Princess' and 'The Return of The Condor Heroes', a Cardcaptor Sakura pencil box, a cartoon pig ink stamp, soft toys from KFC, miscellaneous children's books, some game consoles, idol booklets, a cassette tape of Jay Chou, a half-sewn coin purse, and so on.

It was like a great treasure chest, full of precious memories.

Girls were more sentimental and liked to have concrete representations of their memories. Compared with hers, Jungkook's childhood collection was rather sparse, his toys constantly discarded when they no longer suited him. Right now, faced with such a large box of memorabilia, he found it particularly fun and interesting. He touched one thing and picked at another, imagining a bun-like little Lili playing with these items. He could not help but smile, his eyes curving into half-moons and his gaze shining with a gentle light.

Even as he smiled, he felt a little regretful. It was a loss that he had not known her earlier...

Lisa brought out two photo albums from a cabinet and the two flipped through them as they leaned against one another. The photo album recorded her development even more clearly. The very first chapter was a full-scale nude shot of her at 100 days old.

Jungkook: "Ha."

She initially thought nothing of it, but when he laughed, she suddenly felt a little awkward and blushed. She quickly turned the page.

Jungkook smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll take responsibility."

Lisa scoffed lightly. "Who needs you to take responsibility?"

"Don't be angry. At most, I can let you see me in return."

Lisa's face turned even redder out of embarrassment and some restlessness. "Who wants to see you?!"