Sour Grapes ! ★ [Adaptation]

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Chapter 1 : A Terrible Nightmare

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"Young Miss, that's—"

The old butler, Mr. Lee, suddenly pointed to the front and stammered, his voice filled with horror.

Lisa raised her head and saw a figure rapidly falling from the roof of the seven-story villa in the faint morning light, crashing heavily onto the ground.

As blood splattered everywhere, Lisa's footsteps froze, and her vision turned dark.

Her world collapsed in an instant.

"Dad!"

A heart-wrenching cry resounded through the morning's quiet manor, causing the garden crows to fly up in alarm.

Lisa stumbled over. Her legs turned to jelly as she knelt before her father, Park Seo-joon. She cried bitterly as her eyes swept over his corpse.

"Young Miss, I'm afraid the Master had no choice but to take this path. The capital chain has been broken, and now the group is in huge debt."

Mr. Lee's tears streamed down his face. "Yesterday, Master kept calling until his throat became hoarse. However, not a single bank or company was willing to lend him money to help him out..."

Lisa's tears gushed out like a broken string of pearls. Her heart was in excruciating pain, and she almost fainted.

Yesterday, her father had suddenly called her. He told her he'd transferred her some money and asked her to live a good life abroad. Over the call, she knew that her father was hiding something from her.

To ease her worries, she bought a plane ticket back home overnight. But, alas, she was a step too late.

Lisa sobbed and choked, "The Group has always been running well, so how did the capital chain suddenly break?"

"It's all Jeon Jungkook's fault. He was the one who deliberately targeted the Park family and put us in this terrible state!"

Mr. Lee's voice became angry. "All of this was caused by Jeon Jungkook. He returned to Incheon City to take revenge on the Park family!"

Jeon Jungkook, Jeon Jungkook...

Those two words awakened the depths of her distant memories. It was him. He returned?

Lisa could vaguely make out the sound of footsteps slowly walking toward her.

She raised her head. Through her teary eyes, she saw a man.

The man was wearing a well-cut black suit. He was unusually handsome, but his eyes were cold as ice. He looked down at her quietly.

She knew this person, but she couldn't recognize him anymore.