Chapter 190

Not long ago.

Lin Xiuyuan sent Dalongzai and the others to the location where Jessica's car was parked, then waved his hand and left alone.

And Li Juli watched his departing back, just about to turn around, but heard Dalongzai beside her suggest again, "Almost noon, right? Although Xiuyuan isn't coming... how about we go eat a meal ourselves? I recently discovered a Japanese small restaurant that is not bad, recommend it for you to try."

Facing Dalongzai's suggestion, Sunny immediately echoed, "I agree, I didn't even eat the plane meal this morning, hungry to death."

"Now?"

Li Juli also nodded, but looked a bit hesitant, "I want to go home and take a shower first, relax, sitting on the plane made my bones stiff, is it okay later?"

Then, Jessica also smiled on the side, walked lightly to Dalongzai's side, "It doesn't matter, you go back and take a shower first, change into comfortable clothes. Zhiyan and I will go play tennis for a while to warm up, it's just right to gather after you finish."

"Good, then it's settled." Sunny also smiled and responded, "I'll also go home to put down the luggage, by the way, send you off, it just happens to be able to drive Xiuyan's car."

Just like this, several people quickly discussed and settled, Sunny drove to send Li Juli home first, and also went back by the way.

And Jessica and Dalongzai went directly to the indoor ball hall upstairs, played tennis for a while, and after exercising, the whole person was refreshed.

After Sunny and Li Juli arrived one after another, several people went to the restaurant they agreed on together.

That is a Japanese light meal shop located at the corner of the street, the second floor position is a bit hidden, but the environment is quiet and elegant.

The booth by the window is obliquely illuminated by the sun, warm and warm, just right to overlook the whole street.

Several people ordered a few light staple foods and snacks, chatting while eating, topics chatting from old news in the entertainment industry to dramas watched recently, and occasionally bursting into a few bursts of laughter.

During the period, Jessica, while eating things, occasionally turned to look out the window.

Suddenly, her expression froze slightly.

On the pedestrian street downstairs, a familiar figure walked past the corner slowly... it was Lin Xiuyuan.

Beside the other party was a woman, her figure as tall as herself.

The black suspender vest outlined her exquisite curves, beige high-waisted shorts revealed straight and slender beautiful legs, the long hair just scattered on her fragrant shoulders, casual but not messy.

The other party leaned against Lin Xiuyuan, the two seemed to be chatting while walking carelessly, occasionally turning their heads to talk, their expressions natural, not like meeting for the first time.

Jessica frowned slightly, chopsticks stopped in her hand, and the whole person was quiet for two seconds.

She is not a person who thinks too much, but the scene in front of her still made her heart feel a bit strange.

Dog man, just said to us a few people that he had something to do, but in the blink of an eye, he went out on a date with another girl.

"Xiuyan, eat, what are you looking at?"

Sunny noticed Jessica's absence, looked out the window along her gaze, and suddenly said "Eh", "Eh, isn't that Xiuyuan?"

After instinctively saying the name, Sunny regretted it a bit, because she also noticed the girl beside Lin Xiuyuan.

Finished, seems to have caused trouble for her little apprentice.

Sure enough, the next second, Dalongzai leaned over, "Xiuyuan? Where where?"

Li Juli also leaned over, looking out the window together.

And at this time, as if noticing something, Lin Xiuyuan on the street paused slightly, suddenly looked up, his gaze just met the few people behind the glass window on the second floor.

Then the girl beside him also raised her head.

Not long ago.

Zheng Xiuyan, who came to 2025 from 2013, looked at this villa living room that hadn't changed at all, in her impression, the last time she came over was a long time ago.

But there is no way, who let these two years be the peak period of Girls' Generation, the schedule is really continuous, being able to squeeze out a little time to come out is already very rare.

At this time, Lin Xiuyuan, who was walking in front, suddenly turned his head and glanced at her, his gaze falling on the straw hat with quite a sense of existence on her head, and a smile rose on his lips instantly.

"What are you doing, want to come over and be the Pirate King Luffy? Or do you plan to explode directly with Jessica, open to the world, and tell those people that Jessica is a fake and shoddy product?"

"No." Zheng Xiuyan curled her lips, "I just think it looks good when matched."

"Good-looking your head, you go out with me in a while, don't even think about wearing the hat, come with a mask."

Zheng Xiuyan, who had her straw hat taken off, frowned her nose sullenly, and asked, "Mask and hat don't conflict, can't I just wear both."

"That's fine, then I have no opinion." Lin Xiuyuan nodded.

Then stuffed that hat into Zheng Xiuyan's head again, making her gnash her teeth with anger, and raised her hand to smash a few small fists on his arm, "Are you looking for a beating?"

Lin Xiuyuan dodged while laughing, and teased, "Yo, the strength is quite big, then don't need to eat in a while, I also wanted to say let's eat a meal before going out."

"Eat, why not eat, I haven't eaten breakfast yet." Zheng Xiuyan, who withdrew her small fists, snorted coldly.

Lin Xiuyuan didn't say much, and ordered takeout directly on his phone.

He didn't dare to take risks to take her out to eat here, now is not 2013, at that time sneaking photos still relied on paparazzi following.

Seoul in 2025... those sneak shot lenses are simply like the casual defecation of the A3, everywhere, he didn't want to bet on this kind of risk.

In the gap of waiting for the takeout to be delivered, he took Zheng Xiuyan to his apartment in 2013 to pick a suitable mask.

Dazzling anime masks covered the whole wall, but Zheng Xiuyan happened to pull out a classic style of "V for Vendetta" from it.

Lin Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, "You like this?"

"No." Zheng Xiuyan answered crisply, "Just picked it up casually."

Lin Xiuyuan couldn't help but look at the mask in her hand, and looked around, from Hatsune to Pikachu, from Disney Princess to Gundam Warrior, what mask is not there?

You happened to pick up a "terrorist" wearing a cold smile, this is called picking it up casually?

However, he didn't ask further, let her go, and the two brought the mask back to the villa in '25.

In the following time, Zheng Xiuyan, like Sulli and Park Jiyeon who had been here before, brushed short videos on the sofa, occasionally bursting into one or two light laughs.

Until the takeout was delivered, Lin Xiuyuan urged three times, only then did she reluctantly put down her phone, walked to the dining table, and ate slowly while continuing to stare at the screen.

As lunch ended, the two finally officially went out, and this was also Zheng Xiuyan's second "long trip" besides the first time driving with Lin Xiuyuan to dig a hole for Jessica.

The moment she walked out of the villa, the sun shone brightly on the street.

Zheng Xiuyan lowered that V for Vendetta mask, her long hair scattered on both sides of her shoulders, dressed simply and neatly, walking beside Lin Xiuyuan, not looking too abrupt, instead because of the mask, making people unable to see the expression in her eyes at the moment.

"Your mask... the more I look at it, the more it looks like a terrorist."

Lin Xiuyuan complained in a low voice, while pulling her arm, letting her get closer to himself, "Don't blame me for throwing you away and running if you meet a reporter later."

"If you dare to throw me away, you won't want to sleep well in this life, and don't want to come over again."

Zheng Xiuyan glanced at him sideways, although her tone was strong, her footsteps subconsciously got closer.

Crossing the street corner, the two turned into a commercial street area where the flow of people was not dense.

Different from those modern business districts with high-rise buildings, this area has many detached designer small shops, the outer walls are painted with graffiti of different styles, the doors hang all kinds of handwritten signs, emitting a unique life atmosphere.

"Where are we going?" Zheng Xiuyan looked around curiously.

"Walk around, go shopping."

Lin Xiuyuan's tone was relaxed, "Anyway, you don't come to '25 often, have to let you see more, what this side has become."

The two soon walked into a clothing store full of design sense.

The wall hangs many ready-to-wear clothes with simple tailoring and stiff fabrics, the colors are mainly rice white and dark blue, a minimalist style biased toward Japanese style.

Lin Xiuyuan picked up a dark blue long windbreaker, opened the inner label, and raised it directly in front of Zheng Xiuyan.

"Look."

He curled his lips and smiled, "Made in China."

"This is just the first piece."

Lin Xiuyuan smiled and hung the clothes back, then took down a metal earring from a row of accessory racks, the label also wrote the familiar four characters.

"Still Made in China."

Then there are shoes, leather bags, and even in a stationery store that looks full of wooden structure decoration, the ceramic pen holder and illustration book on the table also have no exception.

Then they went to the jewelry store next door.

Lin Xiuyuan picked a pair of metal tassel earrings, and again familiarly opened the small back label.

"Made in Shenzhen, China."

Zheng Xiuyan was stunned for a moment, didn't speak, and followed him out the door again.

The third store is a hardware grocery store. Lin Xiuyuan directly picked up a folding small scissors and showed the label again.

"Manufactured in Zhejiang".

Walking all the way, more than a dozen shops of different categories and styles, from clothing and accessories to ceramic cups, from mobile phone cases to handbags.

Lin Xiuyuan seemed to have planned the route long ago, not slowly taking Zheng Xiuyan to "patrol the street", and every time he entered a store, he turned out a "Made in China."

Finally, standing at the door of a bookstore, Lin Xiuyuan turned around and looked at Zheng Xiuyan with a smile.

"How about it, Xiuyan, are you still worried about your idea now?"

Zheng Xiuyan has been stunned looking at that label for the nth time.

"These commodities mostly appear in the consumption places that young people go to most often, the street windows most easily recorded by the lens, and are also most likely to guide the trend."

Lin Xiuyuan standing beside her, his voice low and determined, "They have penetrated into every gap of life here, but most people don't know where these objects come from, who made them, and how they came."

Then, he looked at the light that gradually ignited in Zheng Xiuyan's eyes, and his tone gradually became softer.

"So I support you going to the domestic entertainment industry to develop. The Huaxia market is not just a concept of 'more than a billion people', but real productivity and consumption power, this is not the future, this is now."

Zheng Xiuyan didn't speak, just looked at her shadow under her feet.

The sun cast her slender figure very long, sticking beside Lin Xiuyuan's shadow, overlapping together without bias.

After a while, she smiled and said softly, "You are right."

The sun is now becoming more and more bright, the streets of Seoul are bustling, the street trees are swaying in the wind of early summer, Lin Xiuyuan took Zheng Xiuyan all the way from the west side of the city to the cultural block.

The streets after lunch have already started to become lively, small art exhibitions, street performances, handmade markets...

Small shops on the second floor of the street are scattered on both sides of the road.

And Lin Xiuyuan also gradually slowed down, suddenly turned his head to look at Zheng Xiuyan, and asked, "Tired?"

"No."

Zheng Xiuyan shook her head, compared to being tired, it is true that this mask makes her a bit uncomfortable, "But can find a place to sit for a while."

"There is a milk tea shop I have been to in front, the taste is okay." Lin Xiuyuan said, reaching out and pointing to a place not far away.

Zheng Xiuyan looked in the direction he pointed, the glass of the building not far away was shining with sunlight, and there were a few figures sitting in the second floor, just because of the backlight, couldn't see clearly.

"Then go to that side." She nodded.

The two continued to walk forward, just bypassing a street corner, just preparing to cross the road, Lin Xiuyuan suddenly stopped his steps.

"Mm?"

"What's wrong?"

Zheng Xiuyan was just about to lower her head to look at her phone, was stunned by Lin Xiuyuan's pause, and also stopped.

Lin Xiuyuan didn't speak, but slightly turned his head, his gaze sweeping over the few figures and gazes behind the window on the second floor.

He narrowed his eyes, looking at one of the figures sitting by the window, that slightly side face was still clearly identifiable under the interlaced light and shadow.

It was Jessica.

At the same time, Zheng Xiuyan also looked over along his gaze.

(End of chapter)