The Villain's Mother

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Song Jungkook wasn't hungry anymore after eating the bread while Ruan Lisa still felt hungry after snacking on bread.

Watching as night descended, Ruan Lisa felt happy that they would be home soon, so she had a bigger appetite than before. She bought two cups of instant noodles and a cooked ham sausage.

Ruan Lisa had especially loved eating instant noodles when she was a child. During her childhood, when her grandfather had asked her what she wanted to eat on her birthday, she would answer that she wanted to eat instant noodles. In child Ruan Lisa's heart, there was nothing more delicious than instant noodles.

Once she started high school, she moved to the city to live with her parents. She had to study at night because the coursework was heavy. While she ate most of her meals at the cafeteria, eating instant noodles was a regular occurrence too. Later, for a long while, instant noodles became junk food that she had no interest in eating.

Although she wasn't a poster child for healthy living, she really didn't eat many instant noodles as an adult.

But right now, the instant noodles smelled delicious and tasted as good as they smelled.

Little Song Sungwoo took a big sniff. Drooling, he looked at her cup of instant noodles. Children were always full of curiosity about the foods that adults eat. For example, right now, he gulped and asked, "Mom, can I have some?"

Before Ruan Lisa could answer, Song Jungkook strictly and impartially said, "No."

He wouldn't control what Ruan Lisa ate, but their son was different.

Song Jungkook definitely wouldn't allow his three-year-old son to eat this type of junk food. Even for something like ice cream, he would put restrictions on how much ice cream his son could eat.

Ruan Lisa also felt that it wouldn't be good for young children to eat instant noodles, so she lied, "It doesn't taste good at all."

The chubby kid couldn't quite articulate his feelings. "But it smells yummy!"

He had a nose and could smell the instant noodles, so don't try to trick him by lying. Be a little more sincere and honest.

Ruan Lisa thought for a moment before answering, "There are some foods that smell good but don't taste good, and other foods that smell bad, but taste especially good. For example, stinky tofu, snail powder, durian."

The chubby kid obviously wasn't that easily fooled. He stretched out his fat fingers and said, "Let me try a bite and I'll know if it tastes yummy or not."

"Little kids can't eat this food. If you eat it, you'll get diarrhoea and will need to get a shot too." Ruan Lisa said in an exaggerated tone, "The needle is really thick and big, and it'll pierce right through your tender skin."

Perhaps, it was the fear of a nurse giving him a painful shot, the chubby kid shrank back a bit. He stopped asking to eat instant noodles.

Although Song Jungkook was reading emails on his cell phone, he still paid attention to the conversation between Ruan Lisa and their son.

He didn't know what had happened to Ruan Lisa to bring about these strange changes in her behaviour, but it was nonetheless a positive thing that she was willing to be close to their son now.

He had always known that no matter how good of a father he was, he wouldn't be an adequate replacement for a mother.

Little Woo  had an outgoing personality, but when he saw his kindergarten friends with their parents, he would ask him, "Why isn't mom coming?"

Right now, Song Jungkook could only hope that Ruan Lisa wasn't doing this on a whim. After all, it would be better for a child's development to have both of his parents want to spend time with him.

The train would occasionally pass through a tunnel and make rumbling sounds. As Song Jungkook looked at emails on his phone, Ruan Lisa watched cartoons on her phone with the chubby kid. She was really rich right now, so she didn't have to worry about using her phone's wifi.

Song Jungkook was over 1.9 meters tall, so he was very cramped when he lay down on the sleeper bed on the train. Ruan Lisa and the chubby kid squeezed together and fit on the other sleeper bed.