Contract Lover - L.K Adaptation

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Chapter 45 - Battlefield (Mu Jungkook casually looked around and finally his gaze stopped at Xu Lisa.) (1)

Surrounding them, under the deafening sound of
the TV, the desire to gossip had been ignited among
many that were there. As loud as the music was, Xu Lisa , that very moment, time seemed to have frozen.

Xu Lisa casually stood up from the couch, but
owing to their height difference, she could still feel
suppressed by the pressure coming from Mu Jungkook.

Several parties all remained silent, and Shen Mingyu was the first to break it. Slightly intoxicated from the
alcohol, he took a sidestep and blocked in front of Xu Lisa as if to antagonize him on purpose, he said,
"Hi, Mr. Mu, it's been a while."

Lisa could hear bits and pieces from those
chattering around her.

"Mr. Mu? He's one of the Mu's?"

"Judging from his age, he is most like Young Master
Mu Jungkook, the oldest of his generation."

"Man, the Mu's sure got some nice genes. Second
Young Master Mu had just turned 20 and was
already incredibly handsome. This First Young
master mu definitely makes it difficult for one to
keep her legs close."

"I have heard rumors that Xu Lisa was backed
by the Mu's. I didn't think it was true."

"But I heard that Mu Jungkook had gone bankrupt. Why is she still with him?"

"True love? Maybe the rumors earlier between her
and Jiang Taehyung were really just rumors."

"Oh, my gosh. This is going to be a battlefield."

"Now that the Mu's are going downhill and Mu Jungkook has gone bankrupt but the Shen's are going up and up. Maybe Lisa is going to be taken away by Shen Mingyu. This is going to be some good drama."

Being surrounded by the melon-eating crowd, all Xu Lisa could do was to snicker.

She has always had a poor reputation and the title
of "Queen of Bad Publicity". Had her relationship
with Mu Jungkook been exposed before he has gone bankrupt, there would doubtless be rumors of
her being a kept woman, hugging the golden thigh,
and having no talent but bought her way into the
production crew, etc. Low and behold, with Mu Jungkook's bankruptcy, her "being a kept woman" had turned into "true love". Of course, as an actress who had gained her popularity through rumors, her "true love" didn't need to be advocated. As such, nobody spread that rumor online.

Not Liang Yeri. Not Chang Yuqi.

Otherwise, everybody would have heard about her
and Mu Jungkook by now.

Right now, she was uncertain whether Shen Mingyu was truly drunk or fake drunk. He acted like he was
intoxicated. Wobbling, he tried to reach out his right
hand to shake hands with Mu Jungkook.

Xu Lisa peeked at Mu Jungkook over Shen Mingyu's
shoulder.

Unlike his usual self, he had no expressions
whatsoever, which all the more gave her the creeps.

Oh no, Old Mu was going to go ballistic again. The
trunk of his car was now reserved by, not her, but
Shen Mingyu.

Unexpectedly, Mu Jungkook merely looked down on
Shen Mingyu's hand before he turned to look elsewhere while asking, "Whose idea was it to play a game like this?"

His words stunned half of the people there -
everyone was expecting to see a fight between two of the male animals, but when Mu Jungkook started to talk, that's what he wanted to ask?

That being said.... What was the point of being petty
with the drunk Shen Mingyu? That'd only make him seem like less of a gentleman. He might as well skip directly to find out whose idea it was.

The question certainly hit the root of the problem.

Shen Mingyu paused too and awkwardly retrieved his hand and rubbed himself on his nose.

The very next moment, everybody turned and looked
at Chang Yuqi at the same time.

Naturally, Chang Yuqi had learned a lot about  Mu Jungkook from her good friend Liang Yeri. As
the instigator, her original intention was to pry about
the past between Xu Lisa and Shen Mingyu. Low and
behold, she had learned nothing about the two of
them, but her plan had backfired on herself. Now she was being targeted by Mu Jungkook, the god of hell.

She couldn't help but became nervous and her palms
started to sweat.

Finally, she decided to give in. She stood up voluntarily and owned up to it. "I was the one who suggested it. Shen Mingyu-ge had only joined our crew recently and isn't yet familiar with the rest of us, so I thought we could work on strengthening our concentration and team work. I hadn't expected it to turn out this way."

"Strengthening concentration and team work, eh?"
Mu Jungkook snickered and said, "Speaking of
strengthening team work, I know of a game.... the trust fall. As far as I could tell, Miss Chang's father was very good at it."

There was subtext in Mu Jungkook's words.

Everybody in the crew was lost except for Xu Lisa.