Who Are You| LK |

Chapter 38

Jungkook woke up at 4:45 pm.

He hadn't had a good sleep since he had seen the video. Due to the medicine he had been given, he'd had a long and deep sleep this time. However, when he woke up, his brain was a little bit blank.

It was quiet. The sunset's last light brightened the wall in front of him. The breeze rustled through the trees and blew in through the open windows.

He felt relaxed after having laid there for a while. His eyes opened and slowly roamed around the room until he saw the needle. He stared at it for a few seconds before starting to gain consciousness.

I had agreed to meet little troublemaker at Shanghai Pudong Airport. And there was an accident... Trying to save two drowning boys. And then I heard the voice of little troublemaker. She was comforting me as I was grabbing her hand...

While recalling what had happened, he moved his hand but nothing was in it. He reached for little troublemaker's delicate wrist, but it was not there. He frowned and then suddenly, anxiously, he sprang up in the bed yelling, "Little troublemaker!"

Lu Bancheng had been playing with his cell phone on the sofa. His hand shook when Jungkook yelled out. The phone slipped and crashed loudly on the floor.

He immediately turned around. He thought it was little troublemaker, but he frowned again with disappointment when it was only Lu Bancheng.

"You woke up?" Lu Bancheng bent down to pick up his phone, looked at the screen, and walked to him while waiting for his second life in the game. He pressed the alarm to call the nurse and doctor and then turned around to ask Jungkook, "How do you feel?"

He hid his disappointment and slowly leaned back on the headboard. He didn't answer Lu Bancheng's question but instead asked his own. "Where's little troublemaker?"

"Xiaoyan?" Before he could add that "Li Yan" had texted him, Jungkook interrupted. "It's little troublemaker, not Li Yan, I'm talking about."

Was there any difference? Wasn't Li Yan the little troublemaker?

Lu Bancheng knew better than to argue with him. Instead, he responded, "She texted me this morning that she had an urgent job to do. She asked me to come to A city to take care of you."

"Texted you?" Ordinarily, he would not have been alarmed, but this time was different.

"Yeah, look, the text message is here," Lu Bancheng said as he passed his phone to him. "I called her back, but she said she couldn't pick up the call just then."

Jungkook studied the screen without saying anything. He read the conversation between "Li Yan" and Lu Bancheng, handed the phone back, and stared out the window.

Lu Bancheng put his phone away and asked, "What's wrong? What's the problem?"

Jungkook shook his head without answering Bancheng's question. He searched around his pillow for his cell phone. He texted "Li Yan,""Are you done?"

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Lisa's cell phone rang on the table right after she left room 201 at the Ladies Club.

Li Yan picked it up and looked at the screen, while Zhou Jing cast a doubtful look at her. "Jungkook texted and asked me if I'm done."

Li Yan texted back, "Not yet."

After sending her out, Li Yan thought of what Lisa had just said to her, so she typed a line of words and sent it. "Are you awake? Are you all right?"

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Upon seeing this message, Jungkook felt relieved from the bottom of his heart.

It seemed like when he woke up, nothing had changed, and little troublemaker was still his little troublemaker.