Healing Sunshine

Chapter 11.1 - The Reason to be Strong

She opened the door. The lights in the living room shone brilliantly.

The television was shut off. Inside, it had still been noisy when Lalisa unlocked the door with the key, but when she actually stepped inside, quiet instantly fell. The living room was filled completely with people—people from the Wang family, Grandfather, Second [Paternal] Uncle and Second Aunt as well as her younger cousin-brother, Third [Paternal] Uncle and Third Aunt, and also Kim Jennie and her mother. Everyone. Countless eyes looked towards her.

She set down her schoolbag and walked over. Seeing Yoongi's mother, she was about to say something, but Yoongi's mother was already charging over, shoving her into the couch and raising an arm to strike her.

Lalisa fell into the couch seat, utterly stunned.

"Hey, how can you just go and start hitting someone?" Third Aunt wanted to stop her, but Third Uncle grabbed her by the arm. "What? No matter what, she's still a child of the Manobal family..."

"No one is allowed to help her!"

The person with the highest authority in the Manobal family had spoken.

Grandfather turned around, walked into the study, and slammed the door shut with a bang.
With those words, truly, no one dared to intervene anymore.

It was actually Yoongi's father who stopped his wife of his own accord. "Things are already as they are. There's no use hitting her!"

With swollen eyes, Yoongi's mother glared hatefully at Lalisa. "What did my child do to you? And then you dared to find a bunch of hooligans to try to beat him to death?!" As she spat out these words, she hurled a crumpled ball of paper into Lalisa's face. It was the medical report.

Lalisa slowly rose to her feet, her legs pressed tightly against the couch behind her, not daring to pick up the wad of paper that was on the floor.

Jennie was in her mother's embrace, and it was apparent that prior to Lalisa's return, she had already received a berating. She stared, pale-faced, at Lalisa. With great difficulty, she mustered her courage and said in a small voice, "It's Yoongi who wanted to hit me. Lalisa was helping me..."

Her mother pinched her arm viciously and snapped in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense! Do those hooligans have anything to do with you? Huh? How can you dare to just say anything?"

Lalisa had originally thought there was still at least room for her to provide an explanation, but little had she known that what she faced was simply a one-sided denouncement.

Jennie had her mother to protect her. Yoongi's parents were demanding justice for their child. Even Second Aunt was afraid that her son would be frightened and had brought Lalisa's little cousin-brother into the study to stay away from everything. Only Lalisa stood alone by the couch, without anyone to aid her.

She wanted to clarify how everything had begun and the development of the entire incident, but no one would give her the chance to do so.

Yoongi's father already jumped in and gained the advantage by speaking first, using the stern tone of a soldier to harshly reproach Lalisa in front of everyone. His words were plain and clear. Yoongi had been beaten very severely. He had even needed to undergo emergency resuscitation and nearly died on the operating table. Even now, though he had been saved, he still needed to temporarily suspend his studies to heal up and recuperate.

It was not even certain whether he would be able to take part in the college entrance examinations.

In a severe voice that spoke from the standpoint and authority of justice and fairness, Yoongi's father emphasized over and over, "This matter must be pursued to the very end, especially against the perpetrator who gathered the group and initiated this fight!"