When a snail falls in love | Liskook

Chapter 21

The fuzzy night and its soft light,

Jaehyun acted like nothing happened, held up his hand towards Lisa's direction, "Hello, Ms.Lisa, We've met before. My name is Jaehyun."

Lisa furrows her brows and is about to say that he's truly rubbish/dull when she met her brother's gentle and encouraging eyes. She suddenly remembers Jungkook's words: "Lisa, understanding and knowing how to treat people is necessary." She also remembers her brother's words a few minutes ago: "Since you are already here, show some respect and at least have a meal with him."

There was silence for two seconds, Lisa also holds up her hand: "Hello."

Jaehyun's pretty eyes flashed with satisfaction. Holding her tiny hand, he is a bit stunned. Her hand is soft and colder than he could ever imagined. For the next second, Lisa uses force to pull her hand back.

The three of them sat down. Mingyu looks over the menu while Lisa intently stares at the table.

"Do you have anything you like to do?" Jaehyun asked.

Lisa didn't think of talking to him so she just answers without much thought, "Other than my job, I don't like anything else."

Jaehyun smiles, "What a coincidence, I'm also like that."

Lisa remained silent.

Mingyu glances over the two of them, the corners of his mouth turns up.

Jaehyun asks again, "I heard you studied criminal psychology, what does that field researches on? Is it like those American shows?"

Lisa calmly replied, "In college, I've researched on three areas. First is to build storage of data and the types of criminals in China. Second, it is about the effects of family situation on crimes when matured. Third is.." then she starts to explain using complex criminal psychology terms.

Jaehyun attentively listens while nodding continuously; a smile intently shows on the corners of his mouth. His eyes are sparkling.

"Why are you explaining it in such a complex way, I can't comprehend anything." Mingyu speaks up.

Jaehyun immediately responded, "I also can't comprehend but I feel Lisa speaks really well."

After that, whenever Jaehyun asks anything, Lisa always answered with, "Yeah", "right", and "I don't know".

Mingyu goes to the bathroom for a moment while they are eating.

There is only the two of them left; Jaehyun looks at Lisa and smiles. Lisa bluntly said, "This meeting doesn't mean anything, I won't accept you."

Out of Lisa's expectation, Jaehyun shows no sign of shock or anger. He nods, still maintaining a tender image.

Then, he said, "Lisa, I understand my past behavior was too abrupt and it left a bad impression on you. I bugged you while you were working. I apologize."

Jaehyun sincerely admits his mistakes like that and she isn't a stern person. So she nods, "It's alright, I don't mind and you shouldn't either."

The smile on Jaehyun is even deeper thus it showed his sparkling white teeth, "None of us mind what happened in the past, that means I'm your meeting partner today. I hope you can give me a chance. You should get to know me before you decide whether to accept being my girlfriend. I'm 25 years old with a healthy body.

I don't have any bad habit or a felony record. Other than that, I have enough money; you don't ever have to worry about money in the future. I graduated in the top 10 when I studied abroad. I also got a high IQ result that is beneficial in the future. If we were to date, I will maintain a serious conduct being in the relationship. Therefore, reconsider it."

Lisa was stunned.

This is the first time in her life that someone said a whole list while confessing feelings for her. Moreover, everything he said is logical.

Honestly, Jaehyun prepared beforehand. He already asked Mingyu about Lisa's hobby. Mingyu isn't going to help an outsider but he still could give him pointers. Mingyu told Jaehyun, Lisa likes to analyze everything. He shouldn't treat her like those realistic girls. He has touse his sincerity in order to convince her.

Jaehyun decided to say those words after careful considerations. It suits Lisa with the way she decides everything with logical reasoning.

Seeing Lisa's stunned manner, Jaehyun quietly celebrates on the inside. He asks again, "Can I consider your silence that you have accepted it?"

Lisa rubbed her forehead, "I'm sorry, I'm a bit tired. My mind is not clear enough so it affects my ability to analyze. Give me a couple of minutes in order to concentrate. After that, I will give you my answer." Finished speaking, she looks at the time on her wristwatch then silently ponders.

It's quite unbelievable for Jaehyun, feeling funny. She is really focused on pondering about it.

If it were someone else, Jaehyun would lightly smile then leave. Even if he is pursuing them, how could he become the fish on the cutting board waiting for the women to declare the result? And to do so in front of him.

However, this person is Lisa, He knows that she doesn't mean to belittle him, while she is not being arrogant. She is earnestly pondering about it.

While she says her mind isn't clear, she needs to focus to consider it. Jaehyun knows, he has convinced her. She is hesitating. Why is she hesitating? Is he not good enough?

Despite thinking that, when he saw that Lisa furrows her brows, Jaehyun felt nervous.

Around a minute later, Lisa looks down looking especially relaxed, "I'm done. I'm very sorry, I can't accept you."

Jaehyun turns pale, immediately asks, "Why?"

Lisa stops for a moment before she softly speaks, "I'm thankful for your feeling, your conditions is very good but you are not my type. While your conditions can be changed however taste is very hard to control. I apologize."

When Mingyu came back, Jaehyun is leaning back on his seat while looking outside the window with a bad expression. Lisa is playing with her phone with a slight blush on her face.

Mingyu doesn't ask about the situation but sits down and talked about business.

Jaehyun doesn't talk to Lisa once for the remaining time. Lisa puts away her phone and listens to the their discussion.

After the meal, Mingyu says, "Lisa, go to the car first. Jaehyun and I are going to smoke a cigarette."

Lisa said, "Okay" then went out. The two of them are smoking, Mingyu smiles, "My sister is really straightforward and isn't good at socializing. It's because I pampered her too much; let's have a meal without her next time."

Jaehyun immediately understands. His words are meant to comfort him about today's defeat while helping him hold on to his pride.

He eyes looks after Lisa's figure from afar; he replied, smiling: "Even if you didn't do it, I would still will it myself. If I persist, I'm determined that there will be result, you are not going to interfere, right?"

Mingyu a bit shocked, smiles, "Alright, I won't."

Honestly, when he got rejected by Lisa he was really angry about it. She is being too stubborn while not giving any face.

But Jaehyun can't take it. He tells himself there is no way he can't pursue this little girl.

Her rejection made him more determined to make her accept him, made him want to conquer her. However, he thinks it is only natural for a man to be determined to get a woman.

In Lisa's eyes, Jaehyun's business is taken care of. She doesn't have any idea that Jaehyun is not planning to give up. While she still needed to wake up early for the next two days even if it's weekend, Lisa was still able to rest at home thus she quite recovered.

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