Contract Lover - L.K Adaptation

68

Chapter 68 - "I know. It wasn't you who said it." (1)

Mu Sehun stood up as well and, with a cold voice,
he said, "I'll pass on dinner.... I don't want to die from
poison."

He gave Mu Jungkook a meaningful look as he said that, turned around, and returned to his room.

Xu Lisa watched him left, lifted her head up, looked
straight into Mu Jungkook's eyes and said to him, "Mr. Mu, that recording earlier, I......"

Mu Jungkook spoke before her and interrupted her
effort to explain herself. "I know, that wasn't you who said it." His lips curved upward and he said, "Don't worry too much, Lili."

Xu Lisa's body froze for a second. She was a
little stunned. He did fake drunk the other night and
tricked her into telling him the truth.

It seemed he had figured out a while back that she
was no longer the original Xu Lisa.

Seeing that she had remained silent, he carried on,
"And, I think Mu Jungkook had suffered enough and you can let him off the hook now. Why don't you find a chance and cure him? He is still of use to me."

Xu Lisa was no longer surprised by his
mightiness. She nodded and said softly, "Okay, I will."

Mu Jiyong wasn't home tonight but that was expected.

At the dinner table was the old madam, Aunt Hu, Mu
Jungkook's stepmother / Mu Sehun birth mother
Wang Lia, and Mu Jungkook's second aunt Mu Dara.

Wang Lia was Mu Jiyong's second wife. In the
novel, every move that she made was made with
personal gain in mind. She would have "taking over
all of the Mu's fortune" carved onto her forehead if only she could.

At the dinner table, she maintained a smile that was
neither too friendly nor too distant but, for the most
part, she was watching Mu Jungkook and Xu Lisa
the entire time.

Mu Jungkook took a look at her out of the corner of his eye and put a piece of sparerib into Xu Lisa's
bowl in a very poised manner. Xu Lisa understood
that he was doing it for show so she, too, picked up a piece of shrimp with her chopsticks and fed it to him.

Mu Jungkook smiled at her and ate it with no hesitation.

He even purposefully bit down on the chopsticks so
she couldn't retrieve her chopsticks right away. And
the two of them just went back and forth like that
throughout the entire meal. Their acting successfully
ruined both the old madam and Aunt Hu's appetite.
Aunt Hu rolled her eyes the entire time and was just
short of making a loud retching noise.

Xu Lisa purposefully avoided looking in her
direction and simply played along with Mu Jungkook the entire time.

Over the entire table, Mu Jungkook's second aunt was the only one who didn't have any problems with them and she even kept putting food into Xu Lisa's bowl.

After a long while, Wang Lia finally said to the old
madam. "Aiya, I wonder when our Sehun will shape
up and find me a daughter-in-law. Mom, he's the
youngest in the family. You must help set him up."

The old madam gave her a look and said while looking into her bowl, "Set him up? I have been looking this last couple of years. There are quite a few girls whose families rival ours. Take the daughter of Jinwei Corporation as an example. She is candid and cheerful and has a strong family background. And then there's the daughter of Zhengging Corporation. She was very cute too. But, both of them are of Jungkook's age and a bit too old for Sehun."

Everybody at the table knew what the old madam
meant after she had said that. The old madam still
favored Jungkook more and, one way or another, she disapproved of Xu Lisa and insisted of splitting up the two of them.

Wang Lia was not an easy one to dismiss. She
looped back to the same topic again. "Age is not an
issue. As the saying goes, a girl that is three years
older than the boy will bring about good luck. Instead of dwelling on the age, it's more important to find a good, supportive wife. His dad's business is going to him in the end anyway. It's more important to find him a wife from a good family who would be helpful to him in business."