Chapter 196

Just when Lin Xiuyuan was named in the villa, Jessica, who had buried Kim Taeyeon before, also returned to her apartment.

Then she walked into the bedroom, changed into a comfortable home outfit, walked back to the living room slowly again, and sat on the sofa.

As her body sank into the sofa, her thoughts fell into deep silence.

Her gaze was dull, as if her body and mind had merged with this quiet space, her spirit flying away recalling various things.

And at this moment, what was recalled in her mind was everything that happened today.

From the airport pickup in the early morning, to the amazing transformation of truly seeing Li Juli, to the scene of accidentally bumping into Lin Xiuyuan and that mysterious girl during lunch, and later the impulse she felt when she followed and blocked the entrance of Lin Xiuyuan's house.

All of this, in this short half-day time, had already been played repeatedly in Jessica's mind countless times.

Every detail, every moment, was like a movie playing back in her mind.

But every time the picture stayed on that mysterious masked woman, Jessica's back couldn't help but feel a chill, as if a cold electric current rushed from the tailbone to the back of the head, penetrating every inch of skin, hitting the depths of the soul.

In this scorching hot weather of nearly the dog days, that chill was unusually strong, as if a cold wind of severe winter struck, making her couldn't help but shiver.

Since returning home in the afternoon, Jessica had been immersed in these thoughts until evening, when the lights outside were gradually lit.

Although the night gradually shrouded the entire city, her thoughts still stayed on that mysterious masked girl, unable to extricate herself.

Finally, Jessica, who really couldn't suppress the doubts in her heart, picked up the phone and dialed Krystal's number again.

After the call was connected, she asked directly, "Krystal, do you also know who the member who went out with Lin Xiuyuan today is?"

Krystal, who didn't expect Jessica to be so direct, was silent for a while, then her tone carried a hint of hesitation, and then she said, "I know, but I can't tell you. There is a confidentiality agreement between members."

"You don't say, I don't say, who knows you told this, Zheng Xiujing~" Jessica, who was already a bit obsessed, asked through gritted teeth.

"Jessica, this is a moral bottom line."

Krystal actually knew very clearly what kind of mood Jessica on the other end of the phone was in at this time, nothing more than anxiety, anger, and doubt.

But she couldn't say it. After all, this was no longer her own business, but the business of two time and space, a bunch of people.

Jessica, hearing this, felt her heart tighten, and then didn't press further.

And Krystal's refusal didn't make Jessica give up, but instead made her thinking more active, and doubts circled in her mind.

After several thoughts, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and a bold guess arose in her heart, and she couldn't wait to ask the other party.

"Wait a minute, Lin Xiuyuan said before that I knew the other party, and Taeyeon also knew the other party. Now your reaction is also telling me that you, Yun'er, Zhiyan, and the others all know the other party. In other words, this person must be someone in our circle, or even someone very familiar, or someone around us. So you guys don't dare to tell me? Right?"

As soon as this sentence was spoken, the silence on the other end of the phone became heavier, and Krystal's hesitation became more obvious.

Jessica's heart jumped suddenly. She could almost hear every tiny breath on the other end of the phone, feeling that she had approached the edge of the truth.

However, Krystal didn't answer, just was silent for a while, as if hesitating whether to say something.

And the other party's silence also made Jessica know that her guess was almost verified. She knew she hadn't guessed wrong.

But...

She didn't have young good friends around her, and the social circle was still the kind that spanned between herself and Kim Taeyeon, and Lin Xiuyuan, Dalongzai, and the others.

Before this call, there were still a few uncertain guess objects in her mind, just unable to confirm.

Now it's good, there is more information, and the scope is narrowed.

But in the end, it became even more impossible to start, and even a clear suspect object was gone.

Finally, she sighed, her voice carrying a hint of helplessness, "Okay, if you don't say it, you don't say it, forget it."

Krystal on the other end of the phone, hearing her answer, her tone also became gentle, as if wanting to comfort her, "Jessica, you want to know these things, it's not as simple as you think, so don't worry, the time later will give you the answer."

"Zheng Xiujing, when did you become a godmother?" Jessica directly complained back.

Although Krystal's comfort made her breathe a sigh of relief, she was still unwilling, but forced herself to put down the mystery of the mysterious masked girl, and then asked another question, "Then I won't ask about the other party's identity, I'll ask about your situation."

"Me? What situation do I have?" Krystal's tone carried a hint of confusion.

"What did you, Zhiyan, Juli, and Yun'er go to get? Don't tell me about medical beauty and skincare. It was okay to fool me before, but don't perfunctory me now."

Krystal, hearing Jessica's words, finally laughed. Her silly sister finally asked about this question. She was a bit stupid, but not hopeless.

Thinking of this, Krystal smiled slightly, "Unnie, if you weren't stupid, you should have seen some connection."

"Lin Xiuyuan."

Jessica coldly spat out the name that had appeared frequently in her mind recently.

Every time she read it, her heart was full of suppressed emotions, and they were all annoying things that raised her blood pressure.

"So, Unnie, it's useless for you to ask me. You ask Xiuyuan directly, or observe a few more times."

After saying this, Krystal's tone changed suddenly, and she said with disgust, "But Unnie, don't bother him. Don't end up not getting what you want and then falling out. I really can't help you then."

"Get it? Get what?" Jessica heard the point.

"Ah, I didn't say anything, Unnie, you heard it wrong."

Krystal was secretly holding back laughter, then denied it, and continued, "Okay, Unnie, I have work to be busy with, so I won't chat with you randomly. Let's talk next time."

Jessica was silent for a moment, finally nodded, "Okay, get busy."

"Yeah."

After the call ended, Jessica put down the phone, and the whole person was immersed in the echo of the conversation again.

Her mind was filled with various information, but she still couldn't find a clear clue.

The lights in the apartment were dim, a few auxiliary lights were on weakly, accompanying Jessica into deep thinking and loneliness.

On the other side.

Lin Xiuyuan, who had been "besieged" by Kim Taeyeon and Zheng Xiuyan before, finally escaped from their "siege" with the timely rescue of Sweet Enjing and slipped back to the 2013 apartment.

As soon as he returned to the apartment, Lin Xiuyuan threw himself on the sofa, then let out a huge groan, his head hurting, "Ah, it's over, it's over. Can't be discovered. If I'm really discovered, I feel like my kidneys will be gone."

Lin Xiuyuan likes Cao Pi, but when Cao Pi becomes the fried kind, he doesn't like it anymore.

His head was dizzy, and Lin Xiuyuan, who really couldn't think of any good way, had to call his little helper back first, so he took out his phone and dialed Sulli.

A few seconds later, the call was connected, and Sulli's familiar voice came from the other side, "Hello~ oppa."

"Sulli, where are you?" Lin Xiuyuan asked.

"Back downstairs, I just went to buy groceries. When did you come back?"

Sulli, in front of the elevator downstairs, narrowed her beautiful eyes. She was very happy to receive Lin Xiuyuan's call because the two hadn't eaten together for a while.

Knowing that Sulli was downstairs, Lin Xiuyuan didn't say much, "Then we'll talk when you get home. I'll wait for you at home."

I'll wait for you at home.

These few words made Sulli's eyes light up again and again, and a long-lost warmth rose in her heart.

This feeling, she had longed for, but never truly possessed.

So when the elevator door opened, her pace of walking in couldn't help but become a bit lighter.

Soon, Sulli, who returned to the apartment, pushed the door open and saw Lin Xiuyuan sitting on the sofa. After changing her shoes, she ran in, "oppa~ when did you come over? I was thinking you might not eat tonight."

Lin Xiuyuan stood up, smiled and took the shopping bag from her hand, "Then why did you buy so many vegetables?"

"Prepare them first. In case you come over, I'll quickly stir-fry two small dishes for you."

Sulli, handing the bag to Lin Xiuyuan, felt a thick taste of "home", and her smile was even brighter.

Then, Lin Xiuyuan suddenly spoke, "But it's just right that you bought so many vegetables. Let's go, let's go to the villa to cook and eat. It's just right to have a small gathering today. If Zhiyan and the others hadn't gone to Nihon, I would have wanted to call them together."

"Small gathering? Who is over there?" Sulli asked curiously.

"People over there, everyone is there, and Xiuyan is also there," Lin Xiuyuan replied.

"Xiuyan Unnie? The 2025 one?"

Sulli was stunned for a moment, clearly not reacting.

"Stupid, the 2025 one is Jessica."

After speaking, Lin Xiuyuan had already brought Sulli to the Time Gate, then opened the door, and took her across a step to the villa.

And when the two appeared at the villa in 2025, when Sweet Enjing saw this Sulli who had already died in the 2025 time and space again, the shocked emotion almost made her unable to speak.

Standing there, her gaze was locked tightly on Sulli's face, as if that familiar yet strange face was an insurmountable barrier.

Sweet Enjing, who was stunned for a long time, slowly came back to her senses, then walked up and hugged her gently under Sulli's gaze.

Similarly, Sweet Enjing's inner feelings at this time were also unusually complex.

Originally, her perception of parallel time and space had always been relatively vague and abstract, even if Lin Xiuyuan and Xian Enjing gave her a great shock that night.

And there was no real feedback. The feeling at that time was more like a dream, without a real sense of reality.

Until this moment, when Sweet Enjing saw this living Sulli in front of her, she suddenly had a deep touch.

Her touch, her breath, her warmth...

All of this made Sweet Enjing feel unprecedented shock.

So in her mind, those lost memories began to emerge, like fragments of old movies, clearly presented one by one.

Lost relatives, past events, as if they were all re-awakened at this moment.

Sweet Enjing, trying her best to calm the agitation in her heart, moved her gaze away from Sulli's face and slowly turned to the dishes in Lin Xiuyuan's hand.

Then she smiled slightly and said softly, "Speak of the devil, the dishes for tonight finally have a place to land."

Lin Xiuyuan also smiled easily, then explained, "Sulli is the person I found to help, and I can also help."

But it was a pity that he, who had just pulled Sweet Enjing to be a cushion, was sold by the other party as soon as he turned around.

"No need for you to help, Xiuyuan. Sulli and I can do it. The kitchen doesn't need men to enter. You chat with Taeyeon and the others, they are waiting for you."

After saying that, Sweet Enjing smiled and pulled Sulli's small hand toward the kitchen. Over there, she still had a lot to chat with Sulli about.

For example, Dalongzai's nostalgia for her, various memories when they were active together, and everything she hoped Sulli could live better.

But Lin Xiuyuan didn't know this. At this time, he turned around, but just happened to meet the sharp gazes of Kim Taeyeon and Zheng Xiuyan again.

Those gazes were like sharp blades stabbing straight at him, making him nervous subconsciously, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

So he couldn't help but laugh, trying to ease the atmosphere, "That, why don't you look at your phones, brush videos."

However, facing Lin Xiuyuan's relaxed tone, Kim Taeyeon and Zheng Xiuyan still didn't move their gazes. Their gazes were locked tightly on him, like searchlights without any relaxation, until he was about to feel goosebumps, and only then did they finally have a reaction and slowly retracted their gazes.

Didn't ask anything else, and didn't want to ignore him.

Just at this time, Lin Yun'er, who was watering flowers and watching the show outside the courtyard, saw this and hurriedly waved at Lin Xiuyuan with a smile.

Lin Xiuyuan also hurriedly walked out, then took the water pipe handed over by Lin Yun'er and asked, "What's going on? I thought those two were going to continue asking. Cold sweat almost soaked my clothes."

"You have to ask Enjing Unnie for this. Fortunately, you called Enjing Unnie, otherwise you would really be asked crazy by Taeyeon Unnie and the others."

Lin Yun'er's words made Lin Xiuyuan puzzled, "What's wrong?"

Lin Yun'er smiled and explained, "The situation is like this..."

"Oh, I understand, so you guys were interrogating Xiuyuan just now."

Following Sweet Enjing's smiling words, Zheng Xiuyan and Kim Taeyeon also answered one after another.

"This is not an interrogation."

"Exactly, this is called communication."

After listening to the two's answers, Sweet Enjing smiled again, "So what do you want to know? For example, how Yun'er's little face is getting better and better, right?"

Just as Sweet Enjing's voice fell, Lin Yun'er, standing beside her, instantly felt the embarrassment Lin Xiuyuan felt when he was stared at by those sharp gazes just now.

She couldn't help but swallow her saliva, and smiled at Kim Taeyeon and the others with slight trepidation, "Unnie, this is really not a membership benefit. I think you guys had better not ask. If you ask, I'm worried you won't be able to accept it."

Facing Lin Yun'er's answer, Zheng Xiuyan was silent for a while, but Kim Taeyeon appeared unusually relaxed, smiling and saying, "What else can I not accept?? Yun'er, hurry up and let me hear it."

Having experienced so many life and death separations, compared to these, Kim Taeyeon really didn't think there was anything she couldn't accept.

This wasn't it. Following Kim Taeyeon's opening, the words Lin Yun'er had just said were stuffed back into her throat in the blink of an eye.

Wanting to say it, but not knowing how to say it.

Just at this time, Sweet Enjing smiled and interrupted, "Yun'er, what's there to hide? Just look at everyone's personal choices. Just say it directly and let Taeyeon and the others handle it themselves. Anyway, this initiative is in their own hands."

"What? Enjing, you know too?"

Kim Taeyeon widened her eyes, stunned, her gaze subconsciously looking at Sweet Enjing.

Equally surprised were Zheng Xiuyan and Lin Yun'er.

"Yeah, Zhiyan and Juli have both succeeded in stealing food."

After speaking, Sweet Enjing smiled and looked at Kim Taeyeon and Zheng Xiuyan, "Actually, the situation is also very simple. Yun'er and the others' situation is that they slept with Xiuyuan, the kind of Wu Tao, and then it became like this."

As soon as this sentence came out, Zheng Xiuyan and Kim Taeyeon's eyes almost widened to the limit.

And Lin Yun'er on the side was so shy that she lowered her head and covered her forehead gently.

Although this kind of thing had become common in the circle, it was still very difficult for her "tender" face to bear such direct language when these words were put on the table.

"Just sleeping can be like this? Principle? Superpowered race?"

After a brief shock, Kim Taeyeon first associated it with the TV series she watched last year, "Superpowered Race" starring Han Hyo-joo.

Otherwise, she really couldn't understand how there could be such a situation???

After speaking, her gaze immediately looked at Lin Yun'er, wanting to hear the explanation from this person who had personally experienced it.

Things had reached this point, and Lin Yun'er naturally had nothing to hide. She started to talk about the concepts she had discussed with Krystal before.

Lin Yun'er, seeing this, also had nothing to hide. She started to talk in detail about the theories of time and space factors, constitution, absorption, etc., that she had discussed with Krystal before.

It made sense, the logic was clear, and even Sweet Enjing was stunned. This was the first time she had heard this kind of scientific explanation.

In comparison, the explanations Li Juli had told her before seemed so low.

"What a magical statement, what an outrageous situation, what..."

"Is it more outrageous than the Time Gate, than parallel time and space? Unnie."

When Kim Taeyeon was speechless, Lin Yun'er's rhetorical question instantly made Zheng Xiuyan and Sweet Enjing, who also wanted to open their mouths, silent and closed their mouths.

After listening to this passage, Lin Xiuyuan was completely dumbfounded.

He originally wanted to take the opportunity to fool these two to find some breathing space for himself, but he really didn't expect the situation to develop so fast.

So his body stiffened a bit subconsciously, then he looked sideways and swept a glance at the situation in the living room.

But he found that although the two on the sofa were looking down at short videos, the corners of their eyes occasionally glanced at him, their eyes revealing a kind of strange gaze.

That gaze was as if to eat him whole, making people shudder, as if he had become a "food" being stared at.

Are they crazy? What kind of eyes are these!!!

(End of chapter)