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A Quick Lesson

Late night, in the Manoban residence.

After catching up with some entertainment news online, Jennie was preparing to sleep when a bunch of messages popped up on her chatbox.

The messages were from Kai.

Kai: [Jen, where are you right now? I saw someone at Krystal's hospital today, was it you?]

Kai: [You really went overboard with this matter. You can't keep using the guilt that we feel towards you to act without any restraint. Our tolerance is wearing thin!]

Kai: [Escaping from your problems doesn't solve anything, you owe Krystal an apology!]

......

Jennie scoffed lightly before mashing out a reply: [I bought a watch last year!]

At that moment, three knocks sounded from the door.

"Come in~"

Lisa pushed the door open and walked in holding a mug of warm milk. Seeing that she was still sprawled out and using her laptop, he immediately frowned, "Why are you still surfing the web? You need to rest."

"I was about to sleep, but I got disgusted with something right before bed." Jennie complained.

Lisa walked over and passed the mug to her, "What happened?"

Jennie received the mug of milk with thanks. Without any thought of hiding what had happened, she then moved the laptop over to show him the chat logs on screen.

Lisa's expression turned slightly darker after he glanced at the screen. He showed a doubtful expression, "I bought a watch last year, what does that mean?"

"Pfft..." After hearing Lisa read out that phrase in such an upright manner, Jennie almost spat the milk out. She explained awkwardly while coughing, "Uh, it's some internet slang, it's a... it's a classic phrase used to openly scold someone else!"

"Is it? What does it mean?" Lisa modestly requested her explanation.

Jennie had no other choice but to start teaching him earnestly: "The abbreviation for 'I bought a watch last year' is 'WQNMLGB'... Uh, do you understand?"

Lisa nodded after understanding the meaning in just seconds.

Jennie heaved a sigh of relief. Luckily the great demon king had a high IQ. Otherwise, she would really have been a little embarrassed if she had to say a curse like '**** your mum' out loud.

Over at Kai's side, upon seeing Jennie's reply, he immediately sent over another wave of messages, mostly along the lines of 'it's not too late to repent'. Without even bothering with the messages, Jennie signed out and turned off her laptop.

Seeing how Jennie had neatly ignored the messages, Lisa's mood seemed to lift, "I've already contacted Krystal for you."

"Really? What did you say?" Jennie immediately asked.

Lisa pulled out his phone, opened an email and showed it to her.

Jennie hurriedly moved closer to him to look at it. When she finished reading it, she turned completely speechless, "..."

In Lisa's email to Krystal, other than the evidence and an account number, there were only a few words and there wasn't even any punctuation: 8 million in 24 hours.

It was extremely like Lisa's way of doing things.

"Not bad, not bad. The simpler it is, the easier it is to cause panic. This is pretty good." Jennie made a show of taking things seriously, nodding as she praised him.

"You can terminate your contract with Starlight when the money comes in. I'll send a lawyer to accompany you there when the time comes, so they can't cause any trouble for you."

"I've already gotten Jisoo to prepare your contract with Golden Age and I'll show it to you tomorrow morning. If there's anything you want to change, we can discuss it later. After signing with Golden Age, the company will arrange for a press conference at an appropriate time and reveal the evidence. From there, we'll start on the legal proceedings..." Lisa's low voice resounded like a cello as he spoke calmly of the upcoming plans and arrangements.

Jennie was in a daze while listening to him. She could only nod and nod, before finally asking, "Is there anything you need me to do?"

"Eat, sleep and rest."

"Okay..."

Note:

'I bought a watch last year' is Chinese Internet slang for... ahem, '**** your mum'.

The original Chinese words for '**** your mum' sound almost the same as 'I bought a watch last year' in Chinese, so 'I bought a watch last year' ended up becoming an alternate form for this curse. The pinyin is 'Wǒ qù nián mǎi le gè biǎo', so the abbreviation for this phrase is: WQNMLGB.