Something Beautiful
Chapter - 43

"How much longer?" Minghao whispered to Mingyu in the darkness.

"An hour, then we can run away from here." Mingyu replied tensely, as stiff as her cramped muscles, forcing blood to flow into her muscles in order to briefly vigorously run.

"You sure you heard them say your troops are fighting eighty kilometers south of this place? I don't like to go in the wrong direction for eighty kilometers, I have a prosthetic leg and you have a hole in your body."

"It's just a small wound" Mingyu replied, speaking of the wounds he received from the guards they had taken yesterday.

The cave in the forest where they had been hiding since yesterday from this French pasuka was so small that they almost had to fold the body in half. The pain pierced Mingyu's leg which was cramping, he stopped moving, breathing violently. He automatically remembered Lisa's figure and focused all his nerves on the shadow. He tried to imagine what Lisa would look like now, but today all he could see was a girl standing on a meadow in the middle of a forest, staring at him while holding a puppy with eyes full of love.

With her eyes tightly clenched, Mingyu slowly walked through every curve on Lisa's face with her mind. The pain in his legs began to shrink to the threshold of his mind, still there but it was already tolerable. It was a technique he used in his detention, and that technique worked as well today.

While initially imprisoned, as he is tortured and locked up for weeks to the point of going insane, he focuses his mind on Lisa to escape the pain that rips through her body and wipes out her consciousness. In her imagination, she recalls, slowly, every second she spent with Lisa, trying hard to concentrate on every detail around them, remembering every word, every gesture. Recalling while making love to Lisa at the inn, over and over, hugging her, considering how sweet Lisa is and also how it feels to have Lisa in her arms.

But as the week turns to the moon, his memory of their brief togetherness is no longer enough to fight the pain. He needed another weapon to silence the misleading voices telling him to give up and stop fighting to stay alive. To let him give in to death so as to be free from all that pain. So Mingyu began to create other scenes with Lisa, using them to boost her spirit of life because from her experience in Spain she knew that if despair had lingered on her chest, death would soon be nearing.

In her mind she created all sorts of fun scenes, as Lisa ran towards her, laughed in a melodious voice, then turned around, reached out to her, waiting for her to come over, even the gruesome scene when she sees Lisa being driven out into the street by her grandmother and Yugyeom, is forced to live in a slum in a corner of London, but Lisa still waits for Mingyu to come home and save her.

So, in the worm-infested prison cell and the torments he continues to endure, he closes his eyes and devises a plan to escape, so he can go home to see Lisa. So that he could meet the girl again, someone who is now the only reason to stay in his life, for he still struggled and did not give up until he managed to return to his wife.

Now, after reflecting back on her dark years in her former world, she is ready to let Lisa show even bring her to Lisa's world to her, the world she's long been about, the world that made him not want to enter. A world where everything is fresh, alive and unpolluted. The place Lisa often referred to as 'something beautiful' was waiting for her. What a romanticism he had always avoided. But now he will do everything if he can go back in time, and will allow himself to be influenced by Lisa with all forms of world romance.

Mingyu drifted away in Lisa's tenderness and allowed herself to be enveloped in the laughter and joy attached to the woman. He wanted to clean himself of all the filth in the prison and get rid of all the dirt from his perverted life. Ah, yes, if you think about it, could it be God's penance for her to be worthy of the still very pure Lisa? Mingyu asked in her heart, however her former world was indeed too dark, it was very unsuitable for Lisa who was still very white and bright.

Above all, he had one more goal, and it was not very noble, but it was very insignificant to him. He wanted to find out the identity of two people who had twice wanted to take his life. And after that he will not retaliate. Mingyu knew that Yugyeom had the most benefit from his death, but he did not want to think about it now. Not in here. When all the pain is always suffering, those thoughts will only add to his head getting dizzy. He also has no evidence. Yugyeom has always considered her like her own sister.

"Why aren't you going to repay her?" minghao asked one day when Mingyu said that he wanted to find the person who wanted to harm him.

"It's nothing. I really don't want to care too much about that. To me, I know enough who has secretly betrayed me. Then, I will happily change our relationship earlier." replied Mingyu curiously. Basically, he was just curious, just curious. It doesn't feel strange if someone hates them. But this time, the hatred has made him tired, so he will find out, only to that extent.

"I don't think you're the kind of person who's generous enough" Minghao told Mingyu who had become close to him during their exile.

Mingyu chuckled softly, it is true that he is indeed not a generous person. However, there are times when he does not want to be too dizzy with the affairs that he considers trivial. For him many other things need and should get his attention, considering who and what his position was first. So, Mingyu was also used to making priorities, and this business was not his priority because he was curious, and he also had to know.