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Chapter 41 - Scars ("Xu Lisa, are you afraid of
me?") (1)

The pressure coming from Mu Jungkook made Xu Lisa very much want to do whatever was within
her power to survive. She snickered into the phone
and said, "You didn't do that for me. You only did all
that because you want my fox. Stop trying to earn
yourself brownie points. I won't fall for it."

The other end quieted down awkwardly.

A little while later, Jiang Taehyung found his courage again and asked in a quiet voice, "I have tried so hard already, Lisa. Just lend your little foxy to me for a few days, please?"

Before Xu Lisa could answer him, her phone was
taken away by Mu Jungkook.

He looked down on her from above before he said
into the phone, "No."

His slender finger cleanly hung up the phone, and he casually put her phone into his own pocket. His shorts, already loose, fell even lower from the weight of the phone.

His two mermaid lines looked even hotter.

The males of the species.... could be so possessive.

Xu Lisa understood that he wanted to make the
point that he didn't want her to walk away, so she
stood there and waited for his lecture.

After a while, to her surprise, he asked her, "Xu Lisa, are you afraid of me?"

Unlike his usual teasing tone, he was very sincere.

Before she could respond, he added, "It has nothing
to do with what had happened at the Bai's last
time. You have been afraid of me from the very
beginning. Why is that?"

He was much taller than her. With her head bowed,
her sight landed perfectly at the ugly scars on his
waist.

Truth be told, she was a little afraid of him. not
only because of his pure Yang property that would
render all of her magic useless, but more because he had tortured and killed her in the original novel.

As that was her intended fate, as much as things
were going quite differently than the book for the
time being, thinking about what had happened to the
original owner still made her frantic.

She would not let her guard down around him.

He reached out his calloused hand and ran it over the back of her hand before he brought her jade-white hand over to his waist. He then guided her soft fingertips over each of his scars one by one.

The dark red scars contrasted greatly with his
wheat-colored skin, making them seem even more
ghastly.

Her fingertips moved a little before they were
stretched out, and she touched his scars with the tip
of her finger.

"When I was young, the Mu's was run by my
grandfather. His words were the absolute commands. His draconian way of running things was what solidified the Mu's status as the head family. When I was 14 years old, my grandfather was very ill and was hospitalized. I was kidnapped, and the Mu's received a random request for an ungodly amount." keeping her hand on his waist with his, he nonchalantly told her the story of how these scars came about.

The sensation of the tensed muscle turned into some
indescribable feeling that spread out of her heart
and her guard came down a little.

"My grandfather had always looked down on my
dad and always had control of the family treasure.
But the night before he was hospitalized, my dad
somehow scammed all the money from him and went
overseas. All of the Mu's combined were not able to
come up with the ransom. The ransom payment was
delayed time and again. The group of kidnappers,
seeing that their well thought out plan had tanked,
decided to take it out on me. They locked me up in an
abandoned factory and beat me up. That's how I got
these scars."

Now Xu Lisa got it - so these weren't scars from
some crazy fight that he was engaged in in the past.

And that was probably also the beginning of his
hatred toward his father.

Looking at her eyesight that was softening, he casually pointed at where she had stroked and asked, "Xu Lisa, did you overthink about this?"

Xu Lisa's lips tightened up a bit awkwardly after
he saw through her. She was finally able to look up
into his eyes and asked, "What happened after that?
How did you escape?"

"I was able to struggle free when they weren't
paying attention." His mouth curved upward, and he
lifted up his arms and gestured. "The factory was
very remote. There was nothing around it and no
transportation. I hid in a garbage dump for over ten
days before I was discovered by a farmer and was able to escape."

Having heard that, a sad look flashed passed Xu Lisa's eyes.

Mu Jungkook knew that he had told her as much as she needed to know for now.

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