Lost Memories | A Liskook Adaptation

Epilogue

Chapter 162: Same Day Last Year

A year later, Jiangcheng.

Lalisa is standing in the office staring out the window at the misty rain. It's already autumn, but the rain has been coming down even more frequently, like a grey screen blanketing Jiangcheng.

Her arms are feeling sore. She rubs them a bit and twitches her mouth into a smile. It hurts.

The pain always makes her recall certain memories. They're like maggots inside her body can't get rid of them or bury them.

She stands there depressingly for a while before an old voice says full of energy, "Lisa.. Hurry and review this new case!"

"Sure!" she answers crisply as she turns to walk over.

She has already regained her true identity a few months ago. It has also been proven that the past incidents were done by the real "Lisa Manoban." She has obtained a new identity card but several old officers, like Old Zhou from Jiangcheng's archives library, are still used to calling her "Lisa." She's also too lazy to correct them. They carry the stack of files to the table together and then start to categorize them. They get busy for a while before Old Zhou can't help but sigh, "The number of cases on missing people has increased recently. Look at these young college girls."

Lalisa lets out a few sighs as well. This young and old pair sigh together and curse these criminals in Jiangcheng dialect.

Old Zhou remembers something suddenly, "Do you remember a long time ago, there was a young fellow who came here in the middle of the night with you?"

Came here to the archives library with her in the middle of the night?

Lalisa understands. He's talking about Jungkook.

It has only been a month since she started working part-time here. During this month, Jungkook has been traveling back and forth between City Lan and Jiangcheng and has never bumped into Old Zhou once. Old Zhou usually stays in the library and doesn't keep up with the news, so it's normal that he doesn't know about her past and present. Although she often boasts about how handsome, capable, considerate, and loyal her boyfriend is in front of Old Zhou...... she never talks too much about the past.

"I remember," she says unhurriedly, "His name is Jungkook, wasn't it? What's the matter?"

Old Zhou sighs, "That night, you silly girl was sleeping like a pig. You didn't know, but he was also searching for someone." He talks about what happened that night and sighs, "At the time, that young fellow had a smoke with me. What did he say again.......Oh, 'no name, don't know what she looks like, and I don't know whether she's dead or alive. But she's my fiancee.' Sigh, it was a little unbearable. I don't even know if he has found her yet."

The image of Jungkook when they first met floats into Lalisa's mind. That face full of arrogance, aloofness, and coldness. She tries to imagine what he looked like smoking and saying these words with her sleeping beside him.

She keeps quiet for a while. She then scrunches up a piece of paper and disrespectfully throws it at Old Zhou, "Old Zhou, do you not have any skills on making inferences? He already found his fiancee!"

"Huh?"

Lalisa laughs. She looks down at her watch; it's almost time for her to meet Jungkook. She picks up her purse swiftly and fixes her long dress, "Bye bye, Old Zhou, Hurry and think. I'll reward you with a pack of cigarettes!"

Old Zhou is shocked, but he seems to understand a little. But she has already left in a rush.

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