MR. Jeon, The Heart Bandit | L.K Adaptation

Chapter 165

It was six in the morning when Lisa woke up.

She turned her eyes the room was all-white and a little dizzying.

Thick curtains blocked out sunlight which was doing all it could to enter filling the room in warmth.

She shifted her body but only felt a great pain in her head, and a retching nausea.

She tired to sit up with much difficulty when her hand was suddenly covered by something cool.

A voice at once cold and warm cautioned her worriedly. "Don't move"

Lisa pause. The voice was both familiar and unfamiliar, and she had to search her mind.

Turning her head with some effort, she found a man sitting at her bedside whose upper body was bandaged heavily. His face was melancholic beneath his loose silver hair, and there was indescribable worry and cherishing in his eyes as he watched her.

He sighed softly, "You're finally awake"

Lisa's brain drew a blank for several second before she hesitantly asked, "A-are you Mister Cha?"

There was unfamiliarity and wariness as she addressed him_ a sense of distance she deliberately maintained.

A pained looked flashed past his eyes, but he mustered a smile. "Yes, it's me"

"You saved me?"

"It's nothing" Cha Eunwoo pursed his pale lips apologetically. "Sorry if I've shocked you"

Lisa shook her head. "No, you don't have to apologize....you're hurt too"

She turned her eyes to the bandages wrapped around his body.

Eunwoo smiled, "I've accidentally got a little wounded"

Seconds of silence followed his words, but afraid that she would think too much, he quickly added, "It's not from saving you....don't worry too much...."

Lisa smiled at him. "Thank you for saving me"

Eunwoo had to avert his eyes from her smile, his fingers clenching at a spot where she can't see. "You're welcome"

Lisa sat up then, even if it took a lot of strength out of her. Eunwoo tried to help, but eventually withdrew his outstretched hand quietly.

Leaning on the bed, Lisa panted for a while, her voice showing her worry, "Where's Jungkook?"

She remembered that he had fainted and stayed unconscious before she fainted too.

She was very worried. She wanted to see him!

On the other hand, Eunwoo's eyes which had just regained a little luster darkened at the mention of Jungkook.

His face was pale and his voice flat. "Are you talking about....the man who fainted beside you?"

Lisa quickly nodded, anxiety showing in her eyes. 'How is he? Where is he? I have to see him!'

Eunwoo lowered his gaze, and his breath seemed to become choppy, "He was taken by a woman"

Lisa froze. "A woman?"

"Yeah. A women who looks almost the same age as you, but I don't know her"

"Do you not know where he is, Mr. Cha?"

"I'm not sure. Sorry, it had been a dire situation, so I didn't have the time...."

Lisa's breath left her lungs while her heart raced mysteriously. She suddenly had a foreboding feeling, but shook her head and forced a grin. "Don't apologize, Mr. Cha. It's not your fault, and you were the one who saved me".

Eunwoo was about to say something when someone knocked on the sickroom door it opened, and his assistant entered. He nodded at Lisa before talking to Eunwoo with care and concern beside his ear. "Master, it's time to switch your meds".

Lisa nodded, and watched as he left.

It was only after the doctor closed behind Eunwoo that her smiled faded.

Jungkook....

A Woman....

What was actually happening? Where was he?

****

A luxury ward in another River Town Hospital.

The man on the sickbed had his eyes peacefully closed. His long brow kept a faint shadow over his eyes.

There was a coil of bandage over his head. His thin lips were rather pale beneath his flawlessly handsome face, like a prince in slumber.

Be that as it may, his left hand was most conspicuous: despite coils upon coils of bandages over it, fresh blood was still seeping out.

"Lady Ahn, you have been here for the whole night. Come out for a while, have something to eat".

A middle-aged man advised as he entered, and he was speaking to lady with black eyes sitting beside.

Her face was a mix of the western and orient ancestry: high-brow, sunken eyes, and loose double eyelids. Her gaze that was as beautiful as a painting never left the man on the sickbed.

However, the man's advice left her frowning and she shot a fierce look at him. "I'm saying it again: I'm not hungry, and get lost!"

Clearly taken back, the middle-aged man quickly arched his back in a respectful bow, "Lady Ahn, I'll leave right now".

The sick room was closed softly.

That was when the eyes of the man on bed shifted.

He slowly opened his eyes. There was only darkness in his eyes_empty and without a sense of distance.

The woman promptly got to his feet and cried, "Jungkook! You finally woke up!"

Agitated, she quickly pressed the buzzer for a doctor, but she stopped and quickly tried to stop the man, who had sat up despite much difficulty and pulled out his oxygen tube.

"Jungkook, what are you doing! You're still very weak!"

Jungkook leaned on his bed, with one of his long legs curling up.

Even when dressed in a blue-white patient gown, the thick air around him that kept people away that could not be dispelled.

He still looked like a kind even though all he did was sit there, full of killing intent even if he wasn't moving and saying a thing.

"Why are you here?" He asked coldly.

"I saved you, Jungkook!" The woman blinked hurtfully, reaching out to touch his face only to be ruthlessly slapped off by Jungkook.

"Jungkook, I am your savior for better or worse you should be gentle with me" The woman said.

Jungkook sneered. "Ahn Hyejin. You really don't know when to die".

****

The woman was before him was Ahn Hyejin also calls her Hwasa.

A quarter European, she lived in River Town as a child before leaving for Europe with her father when she was eleven. The third child and only daughter of her family with two elder brothers, she had always been the pearl in her family's eye, a young lady who always got what she wanted.

Although her father was Korean national, her paternal grandmother was a princess from a European royal family, which led to her mixed ancestry.

Mr. Ahn's own paternal grandmother was very trusting of him, and had handed him the entire family's estate before she passed away. That was how the Ahn family became a European royal family with Asian ancestry.

It also meant that Hwasa became a princess of her family's seventh generation.

Her position was only too obvious.

Even so....

"Don't call me that" Jungkook was extremely disgusted by how she kept calling his name.

Nonetheless, Hwasa quickly tried to stop him as he attempted to get off his bed.

Then, as she was about to say something, she suddenly felt a large hand abruptly clenching her throat.