Kisa somehow had climbed onto a large boulder, still holding the half stalk of green foxtail which she had bent into a ring."Gilbert, look at the ring."She waved the ring made from the green foxtail at him, smiling with her eyes looking like a crescent moon, just as she had when he first saw her.He liked her smile best when she was young; those clean eyes looked wonderful as a crescent moon. But it had been a long time since he last saw her smile like that. Under the dim streetlight, that clean smile seemed to overlap with the one in his memory, causing his heart to pound involuntarily."This is the ring I made. Is it beautiful?" Kisa put the straw ring on her ring finger, and then spread her fingers to show him.Gilbert pursed his lips and only spoke after a long while. "It is beautiful.""Yeah, it is beautiful." Kisa seemed happy. She rubbed the straw ring on her finger and said, as if to herself, "I made one for you at that time, but you threw it away."Gilbert frowned and
"Aaaaah!" Before Gilbert could rush over to catch her, Kisa missed a step and fell off the boulder. "That hurts..." She got up, rubbed her ankle, and cried at him with great anguish. "My foot hurts so much."Gilbert walked up to her and did not know what to say upon seeing her face. After a long while of fighting back his anger, he gritted his teeth and snapped, "You deserve it."Kisa' felt even more aggrieved. She lowered her head, kneaded her ankle, and said nothing for a long time.Gilbert looked up at the sky and asked, holding back his temper, "Can you still stand up?" 'I was wrong. I shouldn't have brought her here and should not have allowed her to fool around. I should have driven her back, or to Jensen's place, instead of inviting trouble for myself.' But no matter how much he regretted it, he had already brought her here. So he could not bring himself to leave her here alone. Gilbert was getting irritated. He smashed his cigarette on the ground, stubbed it out with his foo
'She isn't pretending, is she? She really sprained her ankle?' He lifted her foot while thinking.Kisa, still angry, made a move to pull back her foot, but Gilbert held her calf tightly, not letting her escape."Don't move!" He barked.Kisa felt more and more aggrieved, and cried out. "I don't need you to care about me. Let go of me. Who are you? I don't need you to take care of me."Gilbert's face darkened. He really disliked Kisa when she was drunk. She was a nuisance when she got drunk. It would be better if she slept after getting drunk. Instead, she behaved like a child, so unreasonably. He ignored her cries and just took off her shoes and socks. When he rolled up a small part of her pants, he gasped at the sight of her swollen ankle. 'No wonder she screamed in pain. I thought she was faking it. In that case, she has been holding back the pain when she walked over just now. She did not make a sound, even if she broke out in a cold sweat in pain. Heh, she is really stubborn.'
He pushed open the bathroom door, only to see Kisa lying on the floor in tears. It angered him to see this. "What are you doing again? Can't you just sit on the couch?" He was clearly impatient and reproachful.Feeling wronged, Kisa just bit her lip and said nothing.Neither Gilbert said anything more. He walked in to carry her. The moment he turned around, he got a glimpse of the urine in the toilet bowl. He was stunned and subconsciously looked at the woman in his arms. "Y-You came in here because you needed to release yourself, and that was why..."Kisa bit her lip, not saying anything and not looking at him.He pursed his lips and then asked, "Did the fall hurt?" He was asking a stupid question; if it did not hurt, she would not have cried.The woman still bit her lip and said nothing.Gilbert let out a light sigh and carried her out. Once again, he placed her on the couch, but this time, his actions were much gentler than before."Luckily, I always have all kinds of medicat
"Mr. Kooper, you are still awake? H-Have I disturbed you?" Davian let out a servile at the other end of the phone.Gilbert rolled his eyes. "Of course you have disturbed me. You are becoming worse and worse as an assistant."Davian's smile froze. "T-Then I will leave you to it and will report back to you tomorrow."Gilbert stopped teasing him and said in a deep voice, "Get down to business."Davian stopped laughing and said with a serious face, "Didn't you ask me to investigate Adrien Tanner? I have found something.""Say it.""Adrien is the Tanner family's eldest son, grew up smart with good business acumen. He graduated from a prestigious university and as soon as he graduated, he started his own business to prove his ability. Later, he took over all the business of the Tanner family with his own merit. He is very influential in the circle, and is the best in the business world. As for his relationship history, I found nothing. He doesn't seem to be interested in women. He is n
Kisa swallowed in fear. She half hid her face in his arms and pointed at the curtain that danced with the wind."That was where it crawled in. It is so scary, so scary..."Gilbert would not believe it. He pulled her toward the window, and she hid behind him in fear, only peeking out from behind him. Gilbert lifted the curtain and searched around, but there was no ghost, not even a cat."Where is the ghost?" He dragged her out from behind him and pointed to the white curtain. "Tell me, where is the ghost?""Huh?" Kisa bit her finger and wove her way behind the curtain, asking with a puzzled face, "Where is the ghost? Where is it hiding? Huh?"Seeing her childish actions, Gilbert put his hand to his forehead, speechless. "You must have a nightmare. Okay, go to sleep." He fought back his anger and spun around to leave.But she tugged on his arm again and yelled, "There it goes! The ghost has gone there!" Kisa pointed at the bathroom with a frightened face.Gilbert was annoyed, but
"You are wearing makeup in the middle of the night. Who is it for?"Kisa looked at him. "For you."Gilbert stared at her face, which looked slightly funny, and said nothing."I heard someone say that men like beautiful women. After I put on makeup, I will become beautiful, and you will like me."It tugged at his heartstring. He looked into her clear eyes and asked faintly, "Why do you want me to like you? So you can use it to toy with me?"Kisa shook her head. "I just want you to like me," she said, cupping her face that had a thick layer of foundation, and asked expectantly, "Do you think I look good like this?"Seeing her expectant eyes, Gilbert lied through his teeth by saying, "Yes."Kisa broke into a smile happily and leaned her face with an exaggerated makeup close to him. "Do you like me then?"Gilbert pursed his lips and could no longer fudge. He said expressionlessly, "No."Kisa's smile instantly collapsed, and she muttered, not too happy, "I knew it. You like those h
It reminded him of that day when he saw her angry and resistant expression. The wound in his chest from her stab hurt again. He suddenly smiled in a self-deprecating way. 'I have to use force every time I want to get intimate with her. How ridiculous! How ironic!' He got up abruptly and looked out the window with his arms akimbo, feeling bitter.Kisa propped herself up and tilted her head to look at him. When he did not turn around even after a long while, she could not resist tugging at his clothes. "Gilbert...""Get lost!" He growled in disgust and swatted away her hand in repulsion.Kisa flinched back at his yell. She bit her lip and hugged her knees as she looked at him with a touch of aggrievement mixed with stubbornness on her face.Gilbert took a deep breath and turned to look at her. "Don't make such a face like I have bullied you. If you don't like me, why are you sticking to me? Why bother wooing and tempting me? Do you think this kind of relationship game is fun? I'm tel