Mr Mermaid | LK Adaptation

Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Teased Again!

Lisa had not expected that she would see Jungkook again so soon.

Entering November, the autumn winds suddenly turned cold. Lisa caught a cold once, and had a nosebleed twice. Applying random cures to herself, her condition finally took a turn for the better. On this day, she received another interview assignment. This time, she would not have to travel far — the assignment would just be at the Sports University campus within the city. A 'National Sports Employees Communications Exchange' was to be held there.

This news value of this kind of conference was relatively limited, often just a brief existence in the newspapers — the page-space it took would be no larger than half a block of tofu. That's why the agency had only sent Lisa alone to conduct interviews.

Compared to the actual contents of the conference, Lisa was much more interested in the Sports University itself. This school was known to be the one of the prestigious elite among the sports schools in the country. Even in City-B where universities were as common as clouds, the school's presence was considerable, because Sports University was one of the four schools in City-B with a high production rate of good-looking men. The other three schools were respectively the Film Academy, the Theatre Academy, and the University of Media and Communication.

Actually, among all of the schools in City-B, Tsinghua University was the university with the greatest number of men. However, the boys in that school were more concerned with the internal aspects of their development, treating their external selves like passing clouds, and thus the results were tragic ...

Lisa was a graduate from the University of Media and Communication, and she had also visited the Film Academy and Theatre Academy before. The good-looking men from these three campuses were good-looking in different ways, but they also shared some similarities: Cultured and refined, but not physically strong or domineering enough; exceedingly exquisite in their features, but not masculine enough.

In contrast, the Sports University was a completely different world ...

Here, many of the men had tall statures and robust bodies. Alright, although there were some who may be a tad too robust ... in any case, the men were all suffused with positive energy and masculinity, like golden ears of wheat basking in the the light of the midday sun in summer — healthy, thriving, bright, and full of warmth.

When Lisa passed by the gymnasium, she had seen the boys playing basketball on the court. They were shirtless, sweat flowing freely over their defined muscles, glittering with reflected sunlight.

She could hear the sound of male hormones exploding in the air. This was how men should be like! Real men!

It was truly a world that could correct the aesthetic values of human beings! Lisa mused, in awe.

She was in a daze within the mushroom cloud in the aftermath of the hormonal explosion when, unexpectedly, one of the basketball players used too much force, accidentally sending the basketball flying up high. The ball flew swiftly over the fence of wire mesh, hurtling towards Lisa.

Lisa saw the ball coming, but her reflexes were just too feeble in the face of such an unexpected occurrence. And so, she stood there dumbly as the dark, red spherical object came flying straight at her face. By the time she wanted to dodge, it was already too late ...

Was she about to be disfigured by a basketball? She closed her eyes in fright, unable to look directly at the upcoming tragedy.

After waiting for a long beat, she did not feel the pain of the basketball hitting her face. Lisa wondered if she had been dreaming — she cautiously cracked her eyes open.