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I said I'd sleep for a few hours and completely knocked out. My bad. Here it is! lol

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Gong-Yoo finally called Jennie and told her Lisa was safe in Syria— as safe as she could be in Syria considering she was traveling along the edges of the war zone.

Lisa was finally free from her father's clutches and now Jennie was free to mess with him however she wanted.

The charity event was barely a week away before her incompetent father finally realized his name was the only one credited as heading the event. She had sent him the invitations for approval beforehand on purpose, knowing he wouldn't even look at them.

He'd sent the approval through his secretary and had even scolded Jennie for bothering him with such minor details. To say Jennie felt smug when he scolded her was an understatement because he had literally just set himself up for failure and he wouldn't even be able to deny it later once he realized he fucked himself over by not being more thorough.

Incoming Call.

Sperm Donor

Jennie rolled her eyes and answered the call.

"Yes President Kim?"

"What is this invitation? President Kim Presents a Charity Gala for Underprivileged Children. Sponsored by an anonymous donor? What foolery is this!"

"Exactly what you read. You're hosting a charity event for kids all by yourself, sponsored by an anonymous donor. You approved it yourself."

"Jennie Kim! We're supposed to be cohosting!" He barked into the phone. "And what is this about an anonymous donor! That makes me look weak!"

"Isn't this better President?" Jennie taunted. "Your very own cause organized all by yourself. Also, I won't be attending, I wouldn't want to steal your spotlight."

She could hear him sputtering. Jennie could finally feel some happiness from this whole thing. From him trying to take advantage of her foundation and her hard work after so many months of putting up with him. She had finally gotten him back.

He needed her. He needed her charity's notoriety and she just threw him to the wolves by sending those invitations to all of those deep pockets and suggesting he had done all of this all on his own even though he had no clue what the cause was even about or who exactly they were raising money for or how much they needed, how it was being distributed. Those were at the very least the major points he should know yet he had no clue over even that.

She was absolutely planning on not being there to help him or explain any of it like he had assumed she would do. It's what he did. Tack his name to charities and brag about them and make them do all the talking when it came down to the details by feigning humility and letting the "minor players" talk because in his words—"even they deserve attention."

She had set everything up so the money went where it needed to go so the event wasn't a waste, she still felt the need to help, but her father would have to mingle and explain what the cause was about and how much money they needed to raise and overall details he couldn't possibly know considering he wasn't involved at all.

Jennie knew he was going to crash and burn. She had thought about attending so she could watch him fall but she didn't want to accidentally associate her charity with him just for revenge.

"Fix this invitation now!"

"It's too late President Kim, they were sent out as soon as you approved them." Jennie smirked.

"You will be attending this event, or I'll pull her fellowship." He threatened. Jennie could tell he thought he had pulled out his trump card.

"Go ahead. While you're at it, go embarrass yourself with that Chaebol family and tell them your disobedient daughter doesn't want to marry their grown ass son and you've been greedily begging them and sucking up for no reason. Goodbye!" Jennie smirked and then hung up.

Her father kept calling and calling back. Jennie let him suffer enough until she finally answered.

"The event is taken care of. I emailed your secretary all the info for you to take care of any arising problems, if you're capable of at least that, all the numbers for caterers and the like are there. I hired you a manager. Don't fuck it up because you've pledged quite a bit of money to several places. The manager will send you the details. You can coordinate with him.

I hope your first solo event that I organized for you and practically babied you through goes off without a hitch. For the children. It should, considering I thought of everything. You on the other hand, will probably humiliate yourself so I suggest you study everything you can right now about how to make one of these things happen and about the cause you're sponsoring because it's only a week away. Don't ever call me again."

"But Lisa—"

"Lisa is safe. I've taken care of that too. Who do you think you are? You might have won a major battle by using Lisa against me, I almost gave up but guess what President Kim, you lost the war. Don't ever contact me again or I'll get you thrown in jail."

"Excuse me?"

"Oh right, another mistake you made is letting me have access to your so called non profit because you're too lazy to do anything yourself. Guess what I found? You know what, I'll just tell you. A shit ton of tax fraud and embezzlement. Surpriseeee!" Jennie cheered mockingly into the phone as if she was actually giving him a present.

"Jennie Kim! That's not true!" He growled. "Shut your mouth."

"You wouldn't know about it though would you, that's to be expected though because you don't take care of your own nonprofit yourself and you hire incompetent greedy people just like you to help run it and you probably only hire them based on their connections. Which is also illegal by the way. What else did you expect from them? To actually be honest?" Jennie snorted.

"Look at it yourself, though I doubt you'll understand it. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you knew about it or not, you're implicated because it's your organization. Fix it. Though I still have the records so no amount of fixing it in the future will erase the past. Stay out of my life, do you understand?"

"Jennie." He said sternly again and Jennie really couldn't believe the audacity of this man. Lisa was right, entitled people were the worst.

"I asked if you understand!" Jennie demanded. "They're already in a folder ready to be mailed off and don't think I don't have copies and several back ups."

He didn't answer.

"I'll take your silence as a yes. I never want to see you again. Stay away from me, and absolutely stay away from Lisa or you'll be sporting a different suit behind bars."

Jennie hung up.

She felt partially relieved, at least she got her charity back. The cost had still been too great.

Her Auntie Kim video called her a few days later.

"Is this your doing?" She asked amused, looking at the invitation.

"Just wanted to give you a front row seat to the shit show that will be my father."

"You're the anonymous sponsor?"

"He blackmailed me."

"Why didn't you say anything! I could have helped!"

"Not this time auntie. He was blackmailing me with something way too precious."

"You're too grown. I'll send you videos of him sputtering when he tries to explain how he pulled it off. Does he even know who he's raising money for?"

Jennie snorted, "No. Underprivileged children is the extent of his knowledge."

"This is going to be so good." Auntie Kim said. "You gave me an early birthday present! This is why you're my favorite niece!"

Jennie giggled. "Have fun at the party auntie."

"Oh I will. Oh I have a surprise for you! Well Jisoo has a surprise for you! I think you guys are going to love it!"

Jennie looked at her curiously.

"I'll let her tell you!"

Jennie spent the night of the charity event laughing as her aunt sent her video after video she would capture discreetly of her father humiliating himself in front of his colleagues and his guests.

As predicted, they raised just enough money to cover what was promised but it wasn't anything extraordinary and her father finally exposed himself as a fraud.

Revenge was sweet.

But love was sweeter.

She missed Lisa.

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It turns out Jisoo's surprise was that she was starting to become some kind of real estate mogul.

They were moving. Jisoo had made it big buying some land with the inheritance her mom had given her and she bought a beautiful loft house that was still close to the university. Just a few blocks away from their current apartment.

Jisoo was going to put their old apartment up for rent.

"I'll just rent it out from you Jisoo. I can afford it now, so you and Rosie can have privacy. I'm sure you get tired of me third wheeling."

"Oh please Jendukie," Jisoo said, rolling her eyes. "You hardly leave the office. Besides, you'll have the whole bottom floor to yourself and we can take the top."

"Are you sure Jisoo? Rosie?" Jennie asked.

"I'm a little too attached to you." Chaeyoung said. "You can't leave us."

"Besides, I'm still charging you rent. Still gotta make a living." Jisoo joked.

She didn't want to charge Jennie anything but her cousin was too damn stubborn and proud for her own good. Jisoo was stubborn too though. Jennie didn't know that the rent she would give Jisoo from the apartment, Jisoo would turn around and donate it to her foundation.

Jisoo varied the amounts every month and made the donations erratic so Jennie wouldn't catch on because her baby cousin was way too smart to not catch on to that.

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After Yemen, Lisa ended up having to cut her Syria and Thailand trips short to one month each. She wanted to spend the last leg in Korea, traveling around for three months. It was a photo book sponsored by Korea after all and she needed to add as much content as possible to urge people to buy it. Not to mention the journals would be more likely to buy pictures from local places rather than foreign ones.

She started in Jeju. She deserved a vacation after the last nine months she'd had. It was tough, living like that. It broke her heart that people lived like that all over the world. Especially the children.

She had been there a week already. Now that there were no tents to sleep out of or villages to find or miles of desert to cover, Lisa had a lot more free time.

Gong-Yoo had found her a place so she could stay there for a month. She spent that first week editing, and cataloguing nine month's worth of photos. Now that she had access to a computer with professional editing software. She went through the last nine months of her life.

She stepped out and shot photos of the locals too along with some scenery, Jeju island was beautiful, especially that time of year.

On Saturday she gave herself a break. She needed a drink. She hadn't drank in nine months. She deserved a break.

She went to a local gay bar. She had full intentions on maybe finding a pretty girl and taking her home but within five minutes of being there she was plagued with glaring beautiful cat eyes any time she even so much as looked at a girl and she just couldn't. Even though she knew Jennie had long moved on from her.

Lisa on the other hand, definitely hadn't moved on. She couldn't. So she sat at the bar and drank and chatted with the bartender. She had an interesting story so she ended up getting a few shots of her with the smaller camera she carried everywhere for her photography book.

She went to the restroom eventually and when she came out she realized she wasn't feeling it anymore, choosing to go home instead. She'd grab a few bottles of soju on the way and catch up on all the shows she's missed in the last nine months, maybe call Rosie.

She smirked as she walked by an alley and saw two guys fiercely making out, leaning against the outer wall of the gay club.

She kind of missed seeing that. The countries she went through executed people like her for their preferences. She kept walking until she heard a shatter of glass and a yell.

"Fuckin faggots." A man slurred.

Lisa turned around only to watch the guy that had been pinned to the wall bolt, leaving the guy that had been all over him as they made out behind without a second glance despite him being hurt. The guy that was left behind fell with a grunt, holding his head and looking at his hand covered in blood because he had just been hit.

Lisa noticed that the angry drunk guy had a broken bottle in his hand and was apparently going in for more.

If anything her trip had taught her, it was that she did not go through nine months of hell, watching people suffer in war torn countries just to come and witness the same kind of violence and discrimination in her adoptive country without doing anything about it.

"Hey!"

The drunk guy turned towards Lisa and raised the half broken bottle with a smile.

"Oh look, another lady. Just like this lady boy. Mind your business little girl. I'm fixing it." He spat.

The drunk man tried to swing at the guy on the ground with the broken bottle, almost grazing his cheek but by then Lisa had made it to him and hit him square in the jaw and he stumbled back from the blow several paces before finally falling to the ground.

Lisa ran over to him and kicked him in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him so she could rip the broken bottle from his hands. He struggled with her and Lisa cut her hand in the process but she wriggled it out of him.

They were right outside of the club so the bouncer noticed the commotion and rushed over.

"Are you okay? What happened?"

"This asshole just assaulted someone." Lisa said, throwing the glass and shaking her bleeding hand out.

"Go get that checked, I'll take care of him." The bouncer said, putting the guy in an arm lock and dragging him up.

"I'm a faggot too!" Lisa shouted to him mockingly. "You just got your ass kicked by one!"

The bouncer chuckled as he took him away and called the cops.

Lisa turned around, taking her phone out to call an ambulance for the guy groaning on the ground.

"Hey are you okay? I'll call an ambulance for you."

"No need, I just need to clean it up."

The guy looked up and Lisa froze.

"Kai?!"

"Lisa!" Kai said just as perplexed.

Lisa's blood started boiling, thinking about seeing those pictures of Kai with her girl after Jennie had broken up with her on her last night in Korea. They had been the last straw and she had chosen to run away early. She was about to insult him and tell him it served him right to take a bottle to the head until she realized what she had just witnessed. The kiss finally registered.

"Oh. Shit." Lisa said in shock. She shook her head to make sure she wasn't hallucinating. Did she really just see what she had just seen?

"Oh shit is right." Kai said, picking himself up from the ground shakily.

"Sit down you idiot, you probably have a concussion."

"I'm fine. Just gotta get to the convenience store to clean it up. This isn't the first time something like that has happened. I'm a pro now."

"What the hell are you doing here? Are you on vacation with your posh squad?" Lisa asked, her curiosity spiked, despite resenting the guy and borderline hating him, she was still a little concerned. She couldn't really leave him by himself in this state. "Why aren't you in Seoul, it's literally the middle of the semester. Where are your friends?"

"I'm alone. Ran away."

Kai stumbled and Lisa reached out to steady him.

"Dude, go to the hospital."

"I'm fine."

Kai started walking, there was a convenience store at the corner and Lisa didn't know why she was doing it but she followed him.

"Of all the people to run into first when I get back to Korea after nine months, it had to be you." Lisa said grumpily. "The universe has a twisted sense of humor." Lisa grumbled, considering he was part of the reason she left in the first place.

Kai actually laughed.

"I'm sorry. I expect I'm probably the last person you wanted to see." He commented.

"That is the understatement of the century pretty boy."

Kai stumbled again. He knew Lisa was about to try to take him to the hospital but before she could speak he cut her off.

"It's not my head. I swear. I just drank a little too much. I was sobering up when that guy hit me with the bottle."

"You call that sobering up?" Lisa smirked.

Kai turned red.

"You saw me?"

Lisa nodded.

"I guess you know my secret now."

"I have to say, of all the things I could expect from you, that was probably at the bottom of the list."

"I did well then." Kai said proudly. "I guess the movies were right. Being a womanizing asshole does help you hide after all."

They got to the convenience store.

"Sit down." Lisa said, making him sit on the tables outside.

"I got it."

"Sit down asshole." Lisa said, shoving his shoulder down and making him sit.

She went inside and got hydrogen peroxide and ointment and gauze.

Kai had blood running down the side of his temple and down to his neck and Lisa unwrapped all the things she bought and started cleaning him up.

He winced when she poured the peroxide on him.

"Oh you're such a baby. I thought you were a pro." Lisa taunted.

"It stings!"

"Good." Lisa commented. She probably cleaned up the blood a little harshly because Kai kept wincing but he didn't say anything after that, probably trying to protect his pride.

"I can't believe I'm helping my mortal enemy right now." Lisa groaned. "I'm a fucking saint!"

Kai laughed again, heartily, from deep within his chest this time and it was a bit contagious and Lisa started laughing too.

"Sit still." Lisa said once they finally calmed down. "This is probably my karma for punching you."

Kai shrugged. "I deserved it."

Lisa stopped cleaning off the blood and looked at him for a second, noticing the sincerity in his voice. She shook her head and reached for the ointment.

"I'm sorry Lisa."

"For kissing my girl? You should be."

"For that and for hurting her."

"If you weren't already messed up I would punch you again right now. I'll give you a few days so get your jaw ready."

Lisa finished cleaning him up.

"There, sworn enemy fixed." She looked up to the sky, "If I don't get reincarnated as someone super rich and famous during my next life for this then its all rigged!"

Kai laughed again.

Lisa tried to get up.

"Hold on, your hand." Kai pointed to the blood caked on Lisa's hand from the bottle.

"I'm fine."

"Sit, homewrecker." Kai said smirking and Lisa rolled her eyes.

Kai helped clean her hand too and wrapped it up.

"There. If I don't reincarnate as a straight person in my next life then it's all rigged." Kai joked.

For some reason that made Lisa sad. He might have been a pretentious asshole but Lisa hated when people didn't feel comfortable in their own skin, in being who they were.

Kai knew Lisa was about to leave again and he really wanted to apologize, since he couldn't apologize to Jennie so he took a chance.

"Hey Lisa?"

"What?" Lisa said, already gathering the trash and standing up.

"Do you wanna have a drink with me, maybe some ramen?"

"Dude I thought you were gay? And just because I helped fix you doesn't mean I suddenly stopped hating you. I know you hate me too." Lisa said perplexed because in Korea having ramen together insinuated something very, very different. She'd learned that the hard way when some guy tried to have sex with her during her sophomore year after he invited her over for some ramen.

"Not like that!" Kai laughed. "I meant here. My treat. Just to thank you for saving me. That guy would have probably stabbed me and it would have been way more serious if you hadn't come to the rescue."

"If I had known it was you I would have let him." Lisa deadpanned but Kai only laughed again.

"I'm serious, I'm just grateful. No ulterior motives from your sworn enemy. This is Switzerland." Kai said, raising his arms in surrender.

Lisa looked at him dubiously.

"Come on. Free soju?"

Lisa pursed her lips but sat back down, she was planning on grabbing some soju anyway. It couldn't hurt. It's not like she couldn't take him down if he did try something like fight her.

Kai shot her a boyish grin.

"Okay! Be right back!" He ran into the store excitedly.

Lisa had never seen this side of him. Gone were the signs of the conceited 'I'm so rich and handsome no one is better than me' campus whore.

Kai came back out with several different bottles of soju and three different kinds of ramen that he had already cooked. Then ran back inside and Lisa was perplexed.

He came back with two more.

"I didn't know which one you liked." He said shrugging. Sitting down. "You pick first." He said, indicating to the ramen.

Lisa picked the spiciest one and Kai poured them both a drink.

Lisa took it.

"This is weird." Lisa said. "I thought the last nine months were crazy but this, this takes the cake."

"What do you mean?"

"I almost got kidnapped by drug lords once before getting rescued by a twelve year old kid named Santos with a rifle at the last minute. I almost got killed in several bomb attacks, I was saved by a nine year old kid named Omar one of those times. I almost starved to death giving away rations to kids that weighed twenty pounds because they were that skinny. I almost got stranded in a country I don't even know the language of that was bombed nearly every single day and had insurgents shoot at anyone and anything yet none of that comes close to how crazy it is that I'm sitting here drinking and eating ramen with you."

Kai poured them another shot.

"You still hate me?" Kai asked before they both took it.

"I don't like you, that's for sure. Though I guess I'm not as bitter anymore."

"I'm sorry Lisa. It's no excuse. I was scared. I hated you because you took my only chance to pretend to be normal. Not to mention I was envious, you've always been out and proud and I was jealous of you."

"Why? What chance?" Lisa asked, pouring them both shots this time.

"Jennie. You stole her away from me."

"First of all she wasn't ever yours to begin with and second of all you didn't even want her!"

"She was my best chance. She didn't care what I did. She didn't love me. I wanted to get married to her and then confess. I know she wouldn't have cared who I slept with or who I loved because she didn't love me. I only cheated on her constantly so no one could figure me out. I'd rather them think me a cheater than a fa—a faggot." Kai managed out, pouring them both shots and downing his quickly, not waiting for Lisa that time.

Lisa took hers slowly.

"You wanted her to be your beard? What about her?"

"She had never shown interest in anyone else until you. All she focused on was how to get out of her father's clutches. In the beginning, I thought we were helping each other. I'm not in love with her but I do care about her, I love her as a person. I thought marrying her would get her away from him. I would have let her live her life the way she wanted. I would have supported her. I just needed her to pretend. Then you came along and ruined it all and I panicked."

"Why didn't you just tell her? If you cared so much why didn't you man up and fight like she did." Lisa said pouring them both another one. They both took it and she watched Kai gulp.

"I was afraid." He said meekly.

"Of what? Getting cut off?" Lisa almost scoffed.

"At first yeah. When I was in private school, that's all that mattered. Money. Jennie and I were royalty because of how rich we were. Even Jisoo, despite her mom leaving her family. The fact she was related to Jennie and her mom had still made a fortune made kids respect her. Though I'm sure she would have kicked their ass if they didn't."

Lisa chuckled. That was absolutely true. Lisa poured another one in honor of that crackhead.

"There were only a couple of Chaebols in there that were more wealthy than us." Kai continued. "No one touched us. I could tell Jennie hated it. I didn't mind it because I was ignorant. I didn't see what Jennie saw. I didn't see the way they treated the people who weren't us. Then one of those Chaebol kids got beaten to an inch of death when the media found out he was illegitimate. It scared me. He was one of the most popular kids, no one would have dared touched him before and one day later he's in the hospital because he's no longer an heir and the other rich kids jumped him for being an impostor."

"Tough crowd." Lisa joked.

"You're telling me." Kai said as he poured her another shot.

"Okay so that was high school but once you were out what? You were scared they'd beat you up still?"

"No. My villain origin story started in high school." Kai joked.

"Oh god, don't tell me deep down you're a dork?" Lisa giggled, feeling a little tipsy now.

Kai shrugged, smiling too because he sort of was. He'd built an image completely the opposite of who he really was.

"My villain origin story starts the summer of my junior year when I was sent to America by my father, to my uncle. He thought I needed to learn English, he thought I could do it in a summer. As if he didn't know I'm a little lacking in school."

Lisa snorted. "A little?"

"You're just as bad!"

"Not anymore." Lisa said, her heart panging because the reason she wasn't lacking anymore was because Jennie had made sure of it.

"Not even gonna ask."

"Wasn't gonna tell you anyway." Lisa said. "Continue." Lisa waved at him impatiently, suddenly hungry and remembering the Ramen in front of her. She started eating as she listened.

"He sent me to my very, very gay uncle."

"Oh this is going to be interesting." Lisa said slurping in her noodles.

"He hid it at first. Then I found out. I wanted to be angry at first, like I was taught. I was going to call my father to tell him to get me out of there. Then I met a boy."

"A boy?" Lisa said smirking.

"A boy." Kai rolled his eyes. "I had never kissed a girl yet, but he kissed me. Then suddenly I realized I might not be so normal after all."

"Aww that's kind of cute." Lisa said, definitely tipsy now.

"Did you just call me cute Manoban?"

"Absolutely not. The first kiss was cute. Pour me a shot for your insulting mouth pretty boy!" Lisa demanded.

Kai obliged then continued with his story.

"I had the best summer. He was my first and only boyfriend. I didn't want to come back to Korea but of course the summer came to an end. I didn't want to go, I missed my flight on purpose and of course my father came to collect me."

Kai choked up now and Lisa stopped eating. She poured him a shot and they both took it.

"No one knows this part. I can't believe I'm telling you of all people." Kai paused and Lisa listened intently.

"I was in my room, with him. Doing things. Two young boys like that, things escalate quickly." Kai paused again. "I can't really get through this by explaining it in detail so I'll just give you the short version. My father showed up at my uncle's doorstep. My uncle warned us. I had enough time to get out. I was terrified of my father so I put on my boxers and jumped out the window and climbed onto the roof but my boyfriend didn't get out in time. He was too busy getting dressed.

My father found him half naked, clothes thrown everywhere and he put two and two together. My uncle took the blame to save me, knowing my father he probably would have almost beaten me to death and then done worse. My uncle was charged in court for sleeping with a minor. The media destroyed him, exposing affairs with ex lovers who were all men so everyone believed it. He killed himself, unable to take the hate and I was shipped back to Korea. He was my favorite person. I hadn't known him until that summer and then he was just gone, because of me, because of my preferences."

"Shit Kai." Lisa reached out a hand, grabbing his in comfort.

"That's when I became an asshole. Jennie and I used to be friends, but after that I started acting like I was the best thing to have ever happened to women. I tried to hide so that what happened to my uncle wouldn't happen to me or someone else I loved because of me. After that Jennie avoided me like the plague unless our parents forced us to be around each other. I didn't blame her. I would have too. I fell into the act though. I think I traumatized myself and started buying into it eventually."

Lisa didn't know what to say so she poured him another one.

"To your uncle."

"To my uncle." Kai downed it, wiping away the tears that had escaped because he had never told anyone about him. About how good of a man he really was and how he was only gone because Kai had killed him by being afraid. "I'm sorry Lisa. I finally got the courage to run away when they tried to force us to get engaged."

"They what!" Lisa said sharply.

"They set it all up, an engagement dinner and then sprung it on us. I had never seen Jennie give up once in her whole life until that night and it confused me. She was always the fighter. I thought she would break it off but she went along with it and it confused me.

She said her father had you so she had to go through with it and I couldn't take the look of devastation on her face. I killed my uncle by being afraid, I guess I thought of him and I couldn't ruin someone else's life too. Especially not Jennie's after all she's done for me so I cut myself off. I left them a note and ran. I owed her that much, for being the only one to stand up to them for so long."

"How long ago was that?"

"Almost three months."

Lisa wanted to curse. Jennie had been dealing with all of that this whole time. She thought once she was gone Jennie would go back to having her freedom.

"What have you been doing here?" Lisa asked, because now that she really looked at him she realized he looked haggard and lonely. It sort of explained his excitement that Lisa of all people would agree to actually have a drink with him.

"Not much."

"You've been hooking up and partying in Jeju for three months Kai?" Lisa asked, guessing the answer.

He shrugged. "What else is there to do?"

"Go back to school, find a job, make friends, have a life. Be yourself and that doesn't mean hooking up with every hot guy you see. Maybe find love."

"I don't know how to do that. I'm pretty useless you know. I almost went broke. I'm not Jennie. She's smart and knows how to invest. Thankfully my mother still loves me and managed to convince my dad to give me an eighth of my inheritance so I can live the rest of my life but what else is there to do. I'm better off doing what I do best."

"Which is?"

"Being useless." He grinned, though the smile didn't reach his eyes.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." Lisa groaned. She picked up an empty bottle of soju and glared at it. "This is probably your fault."

"Doing what?" Kai asked, looking at her weirdly when she talked to the bottle.

"I need an assistant." Lisa said. "For three months. I'll be traveling Korea and I need help. I'll hire you."

"I don't know how to take pictures." Kai said sadly.

"That's not what I need you for. I need you approach people and talk to them, try to get their stories. I need you to find people interesting enough for me to interview and photograph. Two people are better than one, it'll help a lot. It's tedious work and you could help cover more ground."

"Are you serious?" He said, perking up.

"Yeah. I guess." Lisa grumbled. "You have a decent enough face that you won't scare off strangers. I'm leaving for Busan tomorrow so you'd have to be ready to leave by then."

In what was probably the strangest most unexpected plot twist in Lisa's life, Kai ran around the table and hugged her. Lisa left her arms limp and made a face as he squeezed her.

"What the hell did I just get myself into." Lisa mumbled.

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A/N

Need to know if any expected that haha because you guys are too smart sometimes