✓𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 | 𝟏

13

Jungkook came out the shower and changed into a clean set of clothes. He turned around to see Lisa in bed.

She lay curled up. Her white, porcelain skin had patches of blue and purple, and the bite marks had hardened into scabs. He had given her those a few days ago. Perhaps because of the pain, her body still trembled.

Seeing Lisa like this, Jungkook felt the urge to go over and hug her in his arms. But in the end, he only balled up his fists and forcefully pushed the thought to the back of his mind.

As he made his way to the bedroom door, he stopped and stood there for a while before turning to the bedside.

Lisa felt Jungkook nearing closer and held her breath.

Jungkook reached his hand to touch Lisa's face. Her face seemed to be in pain, revealing a mild paleness in colour.

Jungkook pushed down the pain in his heart and enunciated every word in an abnormally frightening tone, "Lisa, I am warning you. The deal that we have between us, I say when we start and when we end. It's not up to you to decide!" He forcibly pursed his lips and continued, "And don't you worry about spending your whole life with me. Once I'm done playing with you, I won't let you stay even if you beg me. When that happens, you'll have to rely on yourself to work in the entertainment industry!"

Lisa's eyes were pitch black. The light in her eyes had darkened and her complexion grew pale, as though she had been drained of blood.

Jungkook glared straight at her lifeless face, then turned to leave with a look of indifference.

Lisa didn't stay in Jungkook's room for long. Ten minutes after he left, she pushed herself off the bed and went back to her room, enduring the aching pain in her body.

Jisoo hadn't gone to sleep yet. She sat in bed playing games. Seeing that Lisa came back, she excitedly dropped her phone, but then, she fell silent. When she saw how roughed up her friend looked, her smile disappeared.

After a long while, she asked, "Jungkook, that bastard. Did he hit you again?"

Exhausted, Lisa laid down in the bed. Her pale white expression stared up at the ceiling for a long while. Then, she broke into a smile and intentionally said in a chilling tone, "Jisoo, did you know... I got the leading female role in Big Hit Entertainment's upcoming historical drama. Leading-female-role! I'm going to be a star!"

Jisoo didn't say anything. She only gazed at Lisa. Under her gaze, Lisa finally stopped laughing. She slowly turned around, facing away from Jisoo, and closed her eyes.

The room stayed silent for quite a while until Jisoo said, "Lisa, half a year ago, when you suddenly made such a fuss about joining the entertainment industry, as the daughter of an influential family, what was your real reason for getting in the entertainment industry?"

Lisa didn't make a sound.

This question, uncle and auntie had also asked it at the start. Even though her parents passed away when she was young, uncle and auntie looked after her like her biological parents. They couldn't bear to let her suffer even a little bit, so they didn't want her to endure the hardships of the entertainment business. In the end, she had did her best to convince them by saying she was just doing it for fun. Only then did they allow her to go.