Chapter 136: Four Before, Three After, Safety Zone (Seeking subscriptions and monthly votes)

"Huh, it seems you're the fourth one."

"Seems?"

Ham Eunjung, in the passenger seat, looked at Lin Xiuyuan with a wry smile, "Why don't you think about it carefully? The way you say it, it feels like there are a dozen or twenty more waiting to pop out, pushing my 'seems' position further and further back."

Lin Xiuyuan had already driven the car out about a hundred meters. Hearing her say this, he thought about it seriously again.

Then he suddenly said "Ah," "Oh right, I forgot there's one more, so you're the fifth one."

Once these words were out, Ham Eunjung laughed hysterically on the spot, "Wow, just a moment ago it was fourth, now it's fifth? Xiuyuan, do you want to think about it carefully again?"

"No need to think, it's the fifth one, definitely correct."

Just now, Lin Xiuyuan had forgotten about Liu Zhimin, that "DuangDuang" love-struck girl. But he couldn't be blamed for that; he had just attended Tara's swimsuit party a few days ago, where there was Lee Juli and Sunny, and there was too much "Duang," so he forgot all at once.

Ham Eunjung stroked the leather interior by the seat and teased with a smile, "That's quite few, then. A new car?"

"Hmm, I suppose so."

How would Lin Xiuyuan know if this car was new? Anyway, just like that villa, he just took it and used it.

Then the two chatted about cars, from new energy vehicles to sports cars, then to RVs. The topic drifted along, and the car drove steadily toward the destination.

And during the conversation, the car was also moving toward the destination at a constant speed, and soon arrived at the nearby streets.

While they were chatting, a bakery that flashed past outside the car window made Ham Eunjung suddenly speak up, "Xiuyuan, stop for a second. I'll go down and buy some bread for a midnight snack or breakfast. Do you want some?"

"Ah, I—"

He originally wanted to say no, but Lin Xiuyuan thought of something, and his tone changed, "Then bring me two. I'm a bit afraid that Zhiyan will drag me to eat some Thai food later."

Ham Eunjung was about to push the door open, and hearing this, she turned back and smiled, "Tom Yum Goong soup is quite delicious."

"Refused. Next time I'll take you back to our side to drink something even better."

She smiled lightly at this, pushed the door open, got out of the car, and entered the bakery, leaving Lin Xiuyuan alone in the car to scroll through his phone.

Only then did he discover that Little Dragon Cub had sent him a text message about picking up Ham Eunjung, but he hadn't noticed it because he was driving at the time.

After replying "On the way" to the other party, he glanced at other people's messages.

A few minutes later, Ham Eunjung quickly finished buying and returned to the car. Seeing him replying to messages, she asked casually, "Who is it?"

"Zhiyan, asking where we are."

Lin Xiuyuan looked up and saw the large bag of bread in her hand, stunned for a moment, "Ah, Eunjung, are you using bread as a meal? You bought a bit too much, right? It has an expiration date."

"Not much. I'll take it to the practice room tomorrow to eat together; Zhiyan and the others want some too."

"So you don't go out to eat during rehearsals, just eat bread?"

"There's also ramen and instant noodles."

Lin Xiuyuan, who restarted the car, was a bit surprised, "Eating like this, no wonder you guys can't get fat. You're too cruel to yourselves."

"We can't be fat when performing on stage, and we don't eat like this every day, just occasionally."

At this moment, she suddenly turned her head and glanced at him, "By the way, I heard from Zhiyan that you are going back to your country recently?"

"Hmm, have some business, need to go back for a trip." Lin Xiuyuan responded, while lightly stepping on the brake, "We're here."

Ham Eunjung looked out the window; the car was parked downstairs at a hotel.

Tonight's dinner location was the landscape restaurant on the top floor booked by Little Dragon Cub.

The two took the elevator straight to the top floor together. As the elevator door opened, Little Dragon Cub and Lee Juli were already sitting at the window seat.

Seeing Lin Xiuyuan and the other, they also raised their hands and called out softly.

"Eunjung, over here."

"Xiuyuan, here."

Hearing the call, Lin Xiuyuan brought Ham Eunjung over, and almost without any hesitation, he sat straight down beside Little Dragon Cub.

This action fell into the eyes of Lee Juli and Ham Eunjung. The two looked at each other, curled their lips tacitly, and then looked away as if nothing had happened.

However, seeing Little Dragon Cub tonight, Lin Xiuyuan's eyes still couldn't help but be amazed for a moment.

She had clearly dressed up specifically. A black spaghetti-strap dress exposed her fair shoulders and neck completely, and her exquisite collarbones seemed to have been lightly outlined by moonlight under the soft lighting, emitting a charming luster.

That head of beautiful hair had also changed from the previous neat style to voluminous, soft, long, curly waves, draped over her shoulders and chest, outlining a lazy and sexy atmosphere.

Coupled with a touch of bright but not vulgar crimson lip color, and the faintly visible tattoo, the whole person was like a rose blooming in the dark night, so bright it was almost glowing, full of charm.

At this moment, she was looking down at the menu, her eyelashes thick and long, her nose bridge high and curved, her lips slightly pursed, her expression focused and quiet.

Sensing Lin Xiuyuan sitting down, she turned her head and smiled at him lightly, handing the menu over, "See what you want to eat."

Lin Xiuyuan's mouth curled up slightly, and he took the menu, "In this kind of restaurant, isn't the main course just steak or pasta? You know, I'm a standard carnivore."

As soon as the words fell, he noticed Little Dragon Cub beside him quietly leaning over. That faint warmth gradually approached, and the familiar perfume scent also took the opportunity to drill into the tip of his nose.

That was the scent deep in his memory, the scent he had been close to all night long.

And tonight, this scent on her outfit was even more soul-stirring.

Unconsciously, he secretly glanced at the faintly visible curves on her chest, but quickly looked away in a panic, afraid that if he looked for one more second, his "misconduct" would be discovered by Lee Juli or Ham Eunjung.

However, Little Dragon Cub keenly sensed his small movements, smiled quietly, reached out under the table, and pinched him lightly at the root of his thigh.

Now Lin Xiuyuan couldn't handle it anymore, so he had to pretend to flip through the menu to relieve the embarrassment, but his heartbeat was a mess.

And the two "seniors" opposite had long since captured this little ambiguity tacitly. They looked at each other and read a bit of amusement and helplessness in each other's eyes.

As dinner officially began, Lin Xiuyuan, sitting in the flower cluster, could only deal with the food while enduring "mental torture."

Especially Lee Juli; after learning about the relationship between Lin Xiuyuan and Little Dragon Cub, her speech was obviously much closer, and she would lead the topic to him from time to time, and tease him together with Little Dragon Cub.

Even though Lin Xiuyuan had grown a lot now, he really couldn't handle this kind of "double attack."

Fortunately, Little Dragon Cub helped stop Lee Juli's teasing in time, and then Ham Eunjung also talked about the need to cut her hair short for her new drama, which made Lin Xiuyuan look at her in surprise immediately, "Ah, is Sweet Eunjung going to turn back into Ham Eunjung again?"

"Hahaha, I know this nickname, it was given to me by Huaxia fans, it's quite fitting."

Ham Eunjung said with a smile, reaching out to brush her long hair, "But there's no way, filming requires it, hair has to be cut if it has to be cut. Honestly, if a short haircut could take me back to the 'Ham Eunjung' era in the fans' mouths, I'd actually be quite willing."

"Why?" Lin Xiuyuan asked.

Ham Eunjung didn't answer immediately, just turned her head slightly, glanced at Little Dragon Cub sitting beside her with her peripheral vision, a flash of complex emotion in her eyes, and then sighed quietly.

Lin Xiuyuan saw her concerns, raised his eyebrows slightly, but sensibly didn't continue to ask.

He just took the opportunity to lead the topic to Lee Juli, "Qri, if you were given a chance to choose, would you want to cut your hair and go back to the past?"

Lee Juli, while looking down at her salad, smiled faintly, "Going back to the past doesn't necessarily mean I can do anything. If it's to make money, isn't that just restarting it all over again? If you're talking about changing fate, I don't have that ability. So, it's quite good as it is now."

Lin Xiuyuan nodded and turned his gaze to Little Dragon Cub.

The other party's response was even more direct; she took out a room card from her bag and stuffed it into Lin Xiuyuan's pocket under the table.

Then her mouth curled up, and she leaned close to his ear, whispering softly, "This is my answer. If life could come again,

perhaps you wouldn't be able to get this idol of mine."

Lin Xiuyuan felt the card in his pocket, and his whole person was like being acupunctured; how could he care about asking questions? He could only bury his head and eat fiercely.

And Little Dragon Cub beside him added with a smile, "Eat more, eat until you're full."

Lee Juli and Ham Eunjung opposite couldn't hold back their laughter anymore, looked at each other quietly, shook their heads, and then found an excuse to leave the restaurant early, leaving the space to these men and women, friends and friends, whose atmosphere was already ambiguous to the extreme.

Seeing that only he and Little Dragon Cub were left at the dining table in the blink of an eye, Lin Xiuyuan asked, "Ah, they are—"

"Can't you tell?" Little Dragon Cub asked back with a smile, "They are making space for us."

She leaned closer, her voice low and soft, "Are you full? Xiuyuan."

"Hmm?"

"Then, it's my turn to eat, right."

"Ah?"

After nine o'clock in the evening, inside a hotel guest room somewhere in Seoul, a low sound echoed in the dim yellow light, accompanied by the sound of the door closing.

Little Dragon Cub, who had just returned from the restaurant downstairs, turned around as soon as she entered the door and pushed Lin Xiuyuan against the wall behind him without hesitation.

Her movements were decisive and sharp, but her eyes were hot and burning, carrying an emotion that had been suppressed for too long.

"Were you, just now, looking at me the whole time?"

Little Dragon Cub's voice was low and soft, her tone sticky, like a drunkard, even though she hadn't drunk at all tonight.

However, before Lin Xiuyuan had time to reply, she hugged his head again and kissed him.

This was an unprovoked aggressive kiss.

Passionate, forceful, almost leaving no room for the other party to breathe.

In the entanglement of lips and teeth, Little Dragon Cub supported herself on the wall with one hand, while the other had already climbed onto his shoulder, feeling his muscles tighten due to the sudden intimacy through his shirt.

Although all this came very suddenly, Lin Xiuyuan still reacted quickly, buckled her waist with his backhand, and almost subconsciously responded to that heat.

The two's movements became more and more intense, as if they wanted to ignite all the careful restraint of before at this moment,

After their bodies crossed for a moment by the wall, the two stumbled to the bedside, almost never separating along the way.

Lin Xiuyuan supported Little Dragon Cub's back with one hand, and the other slid unconsciously toward her cunning shoulder, the skin under his palm was shockingly hot.

The other party bit his lower lip, teasing with a smile, and then pushed him onto the bed, covering him completely.

After the two paused briefly at the edge of the bed due to unstable centers of gravity, they stood up almost at the same time, hugging and kissing again toward the floor-to-ceiling window of the guest room.

Outside the window was the brilliant night scene, and inside the glass, they were an ambiguous silhouette wrapped in the night.

Inside the window, Little Dragon Cub's fingertips slid lightly across Lin Xiuyuan's neck, then all the way down. When she unbuttoned the first button of his collar, Lin Xiuyuan suddenly kissed her back and pulled her closer with his backhand.

The two foreheads touched, breathing rapidly, bodies pressed tightly together.

"Isn't it a bit too urgent, Zhiyan?" Lin Xiuyuan swallowed saliva with a low, hoarse throat, and asked while panting.

Little Dragon Cub chuckled, her voice like the night wind, "If you weren't busy, I would have wanted to find you yesterday. You tell me if it's urgent."

The night grew deeper, and the neon outside the window was blurred into a halo of light by the heat.

In the car, it was still that familiar car.

Only the positions had changed; Ham Eunjung was sitting in the passenger seat, Lee Juli was holding the steering wheel, driving the car slowly through the neon-intertwined night of Seoul.

Outside the window, it was colorful, and the city flowed in silence.

Suddenly, Ham Eunjung turned her head, looked at Lee Juli beside her, and said in a low voice, "Juli, do you think Zhiyan has been holding it in for too long?"

Lee Juli raised her eyebrows slightly, turned her head to look at her, and laughed, "Rare, it's rare that you, Eunjung, would be curious about this stuff. But maybe, she couldn't find anyone to release it before, so she could only rely on tattoos to vent her inner emotions."

"According to what you say, I suddenly feel, would it be better if Xiuyuan appeared earlier?" Ham Eunjung sighed slightly, "Honestly, I can understand those tattoos of Zhiyan, but every time I see them, I feel a bit sad."

"Hard to say, some things and people are only correct when they appear at the right time."

Looking at the colorful neon car lights outside the car, Lee Juli groaned, "If Xiuyuan had appeared earlier, Zhiyan hadn't recovered even a little bit of spirit at that time, maybe she wouldn't have wanted to pay attention to the other party at all."

"That's true, just happened to have a buffer period." Ham Eunjung nodded lightly after hearing the answer.

A moment of silence, then Lee Juli suddenly laughed, "Forget it, let's not talk about these heavy things. What do you think Xiuyuan and Zhiyan are doing now?"

Ham Eunjung curled her lips and smiled, her tone a bit mischievous, "What else, full and warm, thinking of XX~"

"Wow! You actually say things like this too!" Lee Juli laughed loudly, "Daebak, the title of Sweet Eunjung won't be kept tonight."

The night scene in front of the window was like a silent audience, starlight and city neon intertwined into a flowing background, and the two figures in front of the glass were almost about to ignite the entire guest room.

Little Dragon Cub was pushed against the glass by Lin Xiuyuan, the coldness behind her transmitted to her skin through the gauze dress, but it set off the temperature of every inch of their contact, so hot it was suffocating.

She looked up at him, her lips remaining red and moist after the deep kiss, her breathing slightly chaotic, carrying a bit of provocation, "Is kissing enough? Xiuyuan."

Lin Xiuyuan's Adam's apple moved slightly, his eyes as deep as a pool of ink.

The next second, he leaned over and kissed her again, no longer as urgent or tentative as before, but deeper, fiercer, as if he wanted to swallow her whole into his chest.

In the entanglement of lips and teeth, he pressed one hand behind her waist to lock her tightly, while the other slid down along the curve of her back, swept across her side waist, and then explored all the way to the edge of the skirt.

Little Dragon Cub trembled slightly, but didn't retreat, instead hugging his neck back, holding him tighter.

The light outside the window shone in, her head tilted slightly, revealing her long neck, delicate and fragile.

Lin Xiuyuan lowered his head and kissed that piece of skin, first touching it lightly, then staring at that area, suddenly increasing the force.

Little Dragon Cub let out a soft cry, her hands climbed onto his back, her nails almost sinking into his clothes.

The next instant, Lin Xiuyuan's laughter spilled behind Little Dragon Cub's ear, low and hoarse, "Louder, anyway, you can't hear it outside the window."

Little Dragon Cub bit her lip without nonsense, just stubbornly reached out and lifted her long hair, letting that fair neck be completely displayed in front of him, "Then bite."

Seeing this scene, Lin Xiuyuan no longer restrained himself, his lips and teeth went all the way down along the neck line below her collarbone, from the earlobe to the shoulder, covered with kiss marks, lips and teeth entangled.

His hands didn't stop either, wandering along her side waist, his fingertips crossing the edge of her suspenders again and again, drawing tiny tremors on that soft skin.

Little Dragon Cub, leaning against the glass, tilted her head slightly, her hair scattered, thin sweat appearing on her forehead, the corners of her eyes red, her lip color bright as if ignited.

"Xiuyuan," she called him softly, her voice as soft as melted sugar, "I'm in my safe period today."

Lin Xiuyuan's eyes tightened, the heat inside even more intense, and at the same time, he whispered in her ear, "Are you sure? It's still not too late to regret it now."

She just bit his shoulder and smiled, "Too late, I never thought of retreating. I opened this room for three days."

As this sentence was spat out from Little Dragon Cub's lips, the knowledge point of four before and three after almost melted Lin Xiuyuan's reason instantly.

Thus, the two hugging and sticking to the window, their movements gradually accelerated and lost control, like two people speeding in the night, crashing into each other's world.

Regardless of consequences, without limits, only seeking this moment.

Hot, real, hard to separate.

Three days later.

In that old tavern in 2013, Lin Xiuyuan was lying on the bar counter for a nap, his face still a bit weak, his eyes drifting.

These past few days, except for occasionally returning to 2013 to check messages during the day, he almost "stayed" in the hotel room in 2025 all night, squeezed dry by the limited experience card.

Krystal and Lin Yun'er were busy with work and had no time to manage him, which gave Lin Xiuyuan an unparalleled three-day experience card.

However, just as he was savoring the excitement of these past few days, the tavern door was unlocked and pushed open from the outside, and someone walked in.

The cheerful voice entered the tavern before the person, "Oppa, we're here, are you ready?"

Sulli, who entered the door, saw Lin Xiuyuan lying on the table, blinked, and ran over with a smile, "Wake up, oppa, we have to rush to the airport, it'll be late if we're any later."

Lin Xiuyuan just wanted to get up and stretch, but froze when he saw the familiar figure behind Sulli.

"Wait a second, Lin Xiaolu, you're going too?"

Lin Xiaolu raised her eyebrows at him with a smile, "Didn't you know?"