Chapter 194

2013.

After returning to the apartment, Zheng Xiuyan quickly took out a notebook from the bedroom, sat on the carpet in the living room, and frantically listed the suggestions and ideas Lin Xiuyuan had just told her one by one.

A good memory is not as good as a bad pen; Zheng Xiuyan felt this sentence was more and more reasonable.

Time passed minute by minute. I don't know how long it had been, Zheng Xiuyan finally stopped the pen in her hand, slowly raised her head, and looked at the dense pages in the notebook.

Besides Lin Xiuyuan's suggestions, there were also some ideas she had suddenly thought of while watching videos, all of which were written down one by one.

It would have been fastest to type on a computer, but she was afraid that idle hackers were lurking on the network, potentially peeking at her computer information at any time, so she had to choose to write by hand.

Writing word by word, trying her best to keep herself and Lin Xiuyuan from being exposed to unnecessary risks.

Just as she finished writing, the phone rang suddenly.

Then Zheng Xiuyan glanced at the caller ID, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, and she answered the phone, "Hello, Taeyeon, what's wrong?"

"Where are you, Xiuyan?" On the other end of the phone was Kim Taeyeon's voice.

"Resting at home. Taeyeon, with your tone, is there something to be busy with?"

Zheng Xiuyan's tone carried a bit of confusion.

"No, just notifying you. The rehearsal tonight is gone. It seems the variety show of Youli and the youngest ones was postponed to the evening."

Kim Taeyeon on the other end of the phone was holding the phone, gesturing with sign language to the recording teacher while writing and drawing on the lyric book in front of her.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Xiuyan, who had just been smiling, immediately couldn't smile anymore, "Huh?"

No, I abandoned someone for the rehearsal, and now you tell me to rest tonight.

"What's wrong?" Kim Taeyeon didn't know Zheng Xiuyan's situation and asked again.

"Nothing, is there anything else besides this?"

Things had reached this point, and Zheng Xiuyan had nothing to say. She just sighed in her heart and asked casually, to avoid any extra arrangements later.

Kim Taeyeon thought for a while and replied, "No, and then there's the schedule for tomorrow morning. Just don't be late."

"OK~"

Zheng Xiuyan nodded gently, originally prepared to say a few more words.

But suddenly, the sound of the door opening behind her made her heart tremble, and she quickly turned back to look.

She saw the boy she had been thinking about just now walking slowly from the 2025 villa, and at the same time, he said with a smile, "Yo, so diligent. What are you doing?"

The next second, Zheng Xiuyan hung up the phone abruptly.

On the other side, Kim Taeyeon in the recording studio widened her eyes suddenly.

Lin Xiuyuan * 2.

Kim Taeyeon, stunned in place, also realized what she had just heard.

Inside the apartment.

Zheng Xiuyan, sitting on the floor, stood up quickly and looked at Lin Xiuyuan who was walking over, "Why are you back? What about Taeyeon and Jessica? Don't you care?"

"Let them chat by themselves. I'm too lazy to daze over there. I came over to visit your house."

Lin Xiuyuan, walking and smiling, indicated, "Last time I came over with Sulli to locate it, I only took one look and left. I haven't visited yet."

Zheng Xiuyan, after hearing Lin Xiuyuan's answer, smiled first, then said, "What's there to see? It's a very simple apartment. I didn't change the layout after buying it. It can't compare to the one in 2025."

"It's different. Curiosity, you know. Actually, I'd rather go visit your Girls' Generation dormitory. That should be the ultimate holy land for the vast majority of male fans in Korean entertainment, right?"

Facing Lin Xiuyuan's statement, Zheng Xiuyan pursed her lips and smiled, then tilted her head, "If you want to go, it's not impossible."

"Really?" Lin Xiuyuan's eyes lit up, clearly a bit excited.

"I can take you to see the dormitory when we debuted, haha. The current one is definitely not possible. What are you thinking?"

Zheng Xiuyan smiled slightly, her eyes carrying a bit of playfulness, "Actually, I don't care, but if I really brought you in, I would definitely be chattered at by Choi Sooyoung and the others. If you really want to see, I'll take a video for you later, you can watch it whenever you want."

After teasing Lin Xiuyuan a little, Zheng Xiuyan followed his thoughts and gave the best answer.

Lin Xiuyuan, upon hearing this, thought of another situation, his eyes shining a bit as he looked at the phone on the coffee table.

"Oh, speaking of videos. By the way, Xiuyan, is it true that there are quite a few cool landscape photos of Girls' Generation members in this phone of yours?"

Zheng Xiuyan reacted instantly, grabbed the phone suddenly, and held it tightly in her arms, "Don't mess around. Those photos really can't be shown to you. The scale is a bit over the limit."

Seeing her protecting her phone so much, Lin Xiuyuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, arms crossed, his tone carrying teasing, "Tsk, I just wanted to know if there were any, you didn't have to say that. Now that you say it, I really want to see it."

"Then I'll show you," Zheng Xiuyan gave Lin Xiuyuan a light glare, the corners of her mouth smiling.

She turned and walked toward the bedroom, with her back to him, "Let's go, I'll take you to visit the house."

However, in a place Lin Xiuyuan couldn't see, her eyes carried a hint of shyness, a soft light flickering in her eyes, and she smiled gently as she introduced.

"There's nothing to say about my house. Three rooms and one living room, simple and practical, nothing special."

With a faint smile, Zheng Xiuyan walked in front, followed by Lin Xiuyuan, her pace light.

"First, this is the cloakroom."

Zheng Xiuyan, while speaking, opened the door to the cloakroom next to it.

Inside, it was neatly filled with various clothes, and clothes and shoes of different styles were arranged on hangers full of design sense.

Lin Xiuyuan, a bit curious, walked in, reached out and pulled one of the clothes casually, and smiled, "As expected of an idol, you have everything you should have."

Zheng Xiuyan, hearing him say this, looked at Lin Xiuyuan with a smile, her face carrying a bit of teasing, "It sounds like you're short of clothes. Xiaolu and I both bought you some, right? On the 2025 side, Xiujing and Yun'er also have some, right?"

After speaking, she swept around the cloakroom, a hint of relaxed smile on her face, "Actually, I plan to donate these clothes and prepare to replace them with the ones I designed myself."

Just as Zheng Xiuyan finished speaking, Lin Xiuyuan's voice sounded at the right time.

"Ah, donate them? Then your clothes will travel across the ocean and, in the near future, become products in someone else's shopping cart. Imagine, the original clothes of Girls' Generation member Jessica, hiss, that's really a big profit."

"Shut up, you're so disgusting."

Facing Lin Xiuyuan's statement, Zheng Xiuyan frowned immediately, so angry that she wanted to kick him. Fortunately, Lin Xiuyuan dodged it skillfully with a smile.

Seeing Lin Xiuyuan dodge, Zheng Xiuyan asked again, "Will it really be like this?"

"Of course," Lin Xiuyuan nodded, picked up a piece of clothing casually, and joked, "Otherwise, who will these clothes you donate be given to? Who can wear these clothes of yours? Don't you really have a brain to think about it?"

Zheng Xiuyan frowned again, her eyes narrowed slightly, as if a bit unhappy, but she still led Lin Xiuyuan out of the cloakroom, "Forget it, then I'll throw them away."

Then she pointed to the door Lin Xiuyuan had just opened, "This is the guest bedroom."

Then she opened it. Everything in the room was clean and tidy. Besides the bed and a desk, there was no extra furniture.

After visiting the guest bedroom and the cloakroom, Zheng Xiuyan smiled and said, "Okay, that's the house."

"What about the others?" Lin Xiuyuan looked curiously at the master bedroom.

Zheng Xiuyan glanced at him, "Didn't you already see the kitchen and the living room? They are right in front of you."

"I'm talking about this side," Lin Xiuyuan signaled to the master bedroom.

But he was glared at by Zheng Xiuyan in shame and anger, "Are you crazy? Can a girl's master bedroom be entered casually?"

Lin Xiuyuan smiled and waved his hand, "Didn't I say hello?"

"No, let's go," Zheng Xiuyan smiled, stepped out, "Taeyeon called just now to tell me there's no rehearsal tonight, we can go to the villa for a while."

Lin Xiuyuan, upon hearing this, revealed a smile, "Just right, Taeyeon over there will probably come over in a while, you can chat with her then."

SM Company, recording studio.

Kim Taeyeon, who finished the recording work, walked out of the recording studio, but the sound from the last few seconds of the phone call when she called Zheng Xiuyan just now still echoed in her mind.

If she hadn't heard it wrong, if there were no accidents, that voice was definitely Lin Xiuyuan's.

But the problem was, why was Lin Xiuyuan at Zheng Xiuyan's house? What exactly was the relationship between these two?

Cohabitation? A couple? A one-night stand?

Various thoughts swept through Kim Taeyeon's mind like a storm, making her both shocked and full of curiosity, unable to help but want to get to the bottom of it.

Suddenly, Kim Taeyeon's thoughts were interrupted by a detail.

That was the scene where Lin Xiuyuan was caught by her in front of her own glasses shop in Jeonju last time. That figure lying on the other party's crotch, wouldn't it be Zheng Xiuyan's?

She didn't see it very clearly that day, just glanced at it in a hurry and stepped back, so she didn't notice the other party's specific appearance.

But now thinking back, that figure seemed to be somewhat similar to Zheng Xiuyan...

Kim Taeyeon's heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and she almost subconsciously took a cold breath.

No way...

It wouldn't really be her, would it?

At the same time.

Zheng Xiuyan, who had already arrived at the villa in 2025, threw herself onto that soft sofa again, happily brushing short videos.

Compared with 2013, the network in 2025 was simply dazzling, and the convenience and entertainment level far exceeded her imagination.

Even if Zheng Xiuyan wasn't a homebody, she still felt that she could stay at home for a week or half a month, it didn't matter. This life and takeout were simply too comfortable.

And Lin Xiuyuan smiled and walked to the refrigerator. This time it was his turn to ask Zheng Xiuyan what she wanted to drink.

"Ice water, thank you."

Zheng Xiuyan looked up at him and responded with a smile.

At the same time, just when Lin Xiuyuan picked up Zheng Xiuyan from 2013.

Kim Taeyeon outside the bistro was also putting Jessica in the car, and after watching the other party drive away, she turned and walked into the alley, walking toward Lin Xiuyuan's villa.

However, Kim Taeyeon didn't notice that the car that left suddenly made a U-turn at the intersection not far away and parked on the side of the road opposite the alley entrance.

A pair of eyes stared tightly at Kim Taeyeon's back like a hawk, until she disappeared at the entrance of the villa that, in her view, absolutely could not belong to Lin Xiuyuan.

The person in the car also immediately opened her mouth, her mood unable to calm down for a long time, as if stimulated by something.

"No, is that guy Lin Xiuyuan this rich?"

(End of chapter)