Chapter 268: Seoul version of [Burning Winter] (Please subscribe, please monthly ticket)

As the ending credits of the movie appeared, the lights in the cinema hall also lit up.

And at this time, Lin Xiaolu was almost leaning on Lin Xiuyuan's body.

She held his arm tightly with both hands; after all, it had already become her only support.

Then she lowered her head slightly, her gaze falling on her toes, letting Lin Xiuyuan support her, stepping out of the cinema hall step by step following the other party's rhythm, deep and shallow.

Those long legs that were slightly soft and couldn't exert force, as well as the indescribable, cool and moist touch at the hem of the skirt, all made Lin Xiaolu feel as if her soul had been drawn away, her brain blank.

Only the body instinctively clung to this damn "culprit" beside her, tightly grasping that little bit of safety and reality.

Until she was gently protected by Lin Xiuyuan on the top of her head and sent into the passenger seat.

Until the soft leather seat supported her weak body, and then watching the other party walk around the front of the car and sit in the driver's seat, Lin Xiaolu finally broke free from the red-faced, heart-racing environment before.

She let out a long, deep breath that had been held for a long time.

And as this breath was exhaled from her chest, the shame and the strong shyness that came after the fact swept toward her like a tsunami.

Looking at the man beside her who still had a smug, mischievous smile on his lips, she was instantly angry, screamed "Yah~ Lin Xiuyuan, I'll fight you."

Then the whole person rushed over like a little deer that had been annoyed.

Her small pink fists fell on the other party's solid chest and arms without any rules.

Lin Xiuyuan, who was criticized for rushing over, laughed out loud, didn't block, just let Lin Xiaolu's little cat strength "assault" on his body, instead feeling that the shy and angry face was extremely cute.

Until she was beaten for a while, taking advantage of the other party's slightly panting breath.

Only then did he see the timing, stretched out his arm, and easily clamped the slender Lin Xiaolu.

Then he followed the trend and clamped her under his arm, firmly fixing her by his side.

Then he raised his free right hand, high and low, and fell on the buttocks that were slightly pouted because of the posture.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

Crisp sounds rang out, accompanied by Lin Xiaolu's startled trembling and whimpering.

"Still don't know you're wrong? Still dare to commit following offense?"

Lin Xiuyuan smiled and lowered his head to lean close to the flushed earlobe, his voice carrying the breath of teasing, spraying on it. "YoonA, if you are not obedient again, I will really have to take you to experience what the legendary 'Parking Lot God of War' tastes like?"

Lin Xiaolu, who had just experienced a "thrilling" scene, and whose body was still 100% sensitive at this moment, heard this, and instantly felt the threat coming from somewhere.

Then the whole person was scared out of her wits, shaking her head repeatedly, and her body twisted and struggled in his arm, her voice even carrying a few points of panicked crying.

"No, no, I don't want to. Wrong, wrong, Xiuyuan~ I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, don't."

On that raised little face, the eye sockets were slightly red.

A pair of clear and lively deer eyes were covered with a thin layer of water vapor at this moment, I don't know if she was really scared, or some natural reaction of the body.

Long eyelashes trembled lightly wetly, fair cheeks flushed, and slightly parted lips were moist and tempting.

Looking at Lin Xiaolu's appearance of being both aggrieved and pitiful, as if she had been bullied, it instantly hit the trigger somewhere in Lin Xiuyuan's heart, and also hooked his deeper, evil thought of wanting to continue "bullying" her.

So just when Lin Xiuyuan's eyes darkened, his breathing deepened, and he was considering whether to put the "threat" into practice.

When he was about to "teach" this little demon who was teasing but didn't know it in this square inch...

"Ding ling ling~~"

A crisp mobile phone ringtone rang abruptly, like cold water poured from the top of the head, instantly extinguishing the ambiguous flame that had just risen in someone.

Making Lin Xiuyuan pause, clicked his tongue, and then took out his phone to look at it somewhat depressed.

After finding that the name flashing on the screen was "Sulli," he raised his eyebrows and pressed the answer button quickly.

"Hello, Zhenli, what's wrong?"

He tried to make his voice sound steady.

The voice from the other end of the phone was brisk and carried a different meaning. "Oppa, are you up? Do you want to come out and have lunch with me? There's also a friend I haven't seen for a long time, want to meet together."

Sulli said this very vaguely, playing a riddle.

But Lin Xiuyuan still captured a key piece of information: "a friend I haven't seen for a long time."

Thinking of this, his gaze subconsciously turned to Lin Xiaolu.

Lin Xiaolu at this time was also looking at him, and the two met eyes, both seeing the same doubt in each other's eyes.

Then Lin Xiaolu seemed to have suddenly thought of something, her eyes widened slightly, and she used her lip shape to silently gesture a name: Goo~ Ha~ Ra!!

This time Lin Xiuyuan was finally enlightened.

It turned out to be this one.

So he replied to the microphone. "Okay, Zhenli, you send me the location, I'll go over in a while."

"Okay, I'll send it to your Kakao in a while." Sulli hung up the phone neatly.

As soon as the phone was hung up, Lin Xiaolu had already taken the opportunity to break free from Lin Xiuyuan's arm and quickly moved back to the passenger seat.

While tidying up her clothes and hair that he had messed up, she used the back of her hand to cool her still hot cheeks.

"Goo Hara? When did she come back?" And Lin Xiuyuan also knew there was no chance, so while fastening his seatbelt, he asked.

Lin Xiaolu, who heard the sound, shook her head, but her breath was still unstable. "I don't know, I haven't heard of this situation. But Snowball suddenly called for a meal, and specifically mentioned 'friend', I guess she might have some 'thoughts'."

When she said "thoughts" pointedly, she didn't forget to look at Lin Xiuyuan beside her.

And Lin Xiuyuan naturally understood what she meant by "thoughts."

So he started the car slowly, looking ahead, his tone calm but carrying a hint of consideration. "Meeting is no problem, but other things must be thoroughly solved after the troubles on her are cleaned up, before that, don't rush, anyway, there is still time."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaolu also nodded very approvingly.

She understood very well how Lin Xiuyuan's idea was, mainly if the rights and wrongs on Goo Hara were not properly handled, she would definitely be involved too deeply in the future.

At that time, whether it was for Goo Hara herself, or for Lin Xiuyuan's tavern "church," it was not a good thing.

Following the navigation, Lin Xiuyuan soon drove to the downstairs of a star-rated hotel in Seoul.

The Spanish restaurant chosen by Sulli and Goo Hara was located on the high floor of this hotel, so the two could take the elevator directly from the underground parking lot and arrive at the floor where the restaurant was located.

Eating in the hotel, you don't have to go out to the street, saving a lot of unnecessary contact and trouble.

As the elevator reached the floor, Lin Xiuyuan took Lin Xiaolu and walked into this elegant, dim and quiet restaurant.

Then his gaze swept, and soon he saw those two familiar figures in the booth by the window.

Sulli and Goo Hara, who arrived a few minutes earlier than them, were obviously just seated, and the lemon water in front of them hadn't been moved much.

And when Lin Xiuyuan and the two appeared, Goo Hara, who was sitting facing the door, was the first to discover them.

It's just that when she saw the tall, slender, and smiling figure beside Lin Xiuyuan.

Those big eyes instantly widened, full of undisguised surprise and... burning gossip fire.

The ambiguous messages that were true or false that she heard from Sulli last night seemed to be completely confirmed by this pleasing picture of "handsome man and beautiful woman walking side by side" in front of her.

Lin Xiuyuan was tall and steady, Lin Xiaolu was clear and lively, the height ratio of the two walking together, and the natural closeness.

It was as beautiful as a promotional poster, it couldn't be more matching.

At this time, Sulli, who was sitting opposite her, also noticed that her best friend's gaze was different.

So she turned her head back, and when she saw Lin Xiuyuan and Lin Xiaolu walking together, a hint of surprise flashed on her face.

But soon it turned into a bright smile, raised her hand and waved, and shouted, "Oppa, YoonA Unnie, here."

Lin Xiuyuan and Lin Xiaolu smiled, and walked over quickly.

"When did you arrive?" Lin Xiuyuan, who came to the side of the dining table, pulled out a chair very naturally, letting Lin Xiaolu sit down first.

"We arrived a few minutes earlier than you, Oppa, we just arrived not long ago." Sulli answered with a smile, and at the same time very considerately stood up, sat on Goo Hara's side, and left the

After the four of them were seated, they exchanged a few simple pleasantries.

However, while they were talking, Goo Hara's gaze seemed to be stuck by a magnet, scanning back and forth between Lin Xiuyuan and Lin Xiaolu from time to time, filled with inquiry and intense curiosity.

Later, after the waiter brought the menu and they finished ordering.

During the gap while waiting for the food, Goo Hara's undisguised scrutiny finally made Lin Xiaolu, who was sitting opposite her, burst into laughter.

She tilted her head toward Goo Hara and teased, "Hela, what are you doing? Your eyes are wide open, staring at the two of us constantly. Is there a flower on our faces?"

Thinking that Lin Xiuyuan seemed to be living with Sulli at the moment, yet was acting so intimate with Lin Xiaolu right now, the little soul of gossip and the sense of worry in Goo Hara's heart could no longer be suppressed.

Plus, she wasn't the type to be coy, so she simply threw a small, direct pitch. Her gaze circled the two of them one last time, and she asked with a tone of teasing and verification, "Unnie, what is this... what is going on between you and Xiuyuan...?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaolu immediately curled her signature deer-like eyes, smiling with an "innocent and harmless" expression, waving her hands with a relaxed and natural tone.

"Us? There's nothing between us, we're just friends, just normal, ordinary friends."

Beside her, Lin Xiuyuan was habitually scalding the tableware with the hot water he had just asked the waiter for.

Hearing this, he also chimed in without lifting his head, smiling slightly, "Mm, just friends."

Yet, the subtle, playful, and languid tone at the end of his words made Lin Xiaolu unable to help but glance sideways, glaring at this guy in annoyance.

Unfortunately, an untimely memory flashed through her mind of that large hand causing mischief on her body in the dark corner of the movie theater earlier.

Her cheeks grew hot, the momentum she had just mustered instantly dissipated, and she lowered her eyes with a guilty conscience, subconsciously pressing her legs together.

Goo Hara, sitting opposite, took in all their little actions and expressions—the way they exchanged glances, the "this place has no three hundred taels of silver" (the lady doth protest too much) act, and the "pretending to be calm while actually feeling guilty" demeanor.

She screamed wildly in her heart: Believe you are just ordinary friends?? As if!!!

If she could believe that, she felt she might as well dig out these eyes that had seen too much and just jump off this high-rise restaurant.

She wasn't a fool or blind, and even a blind person could hear that the tone was off.

But thinking about how these two clearly had some special situation, and that Lin Xiuyuan had an even more outrageous "cohabitation" relationship with Sulli on the other side, Goo Hara felt her CPU was about to burn out.

She couldn't help but cast a confused and slightly strange look toward Sulli, who was sitting beside her, watching all of this with a smile.

After receiving Goo Hara's gaze, which was full of thirst for knowledge and shock, Sulli naturally guessed what she was thinking about in her head.

So she picked up her water glass, took a light sip, and then grinned. The smile was pure yet carried an elusive meaning, and she replied softly, "Ah, Unnie, why are you looking at me? It's true that YoonA Unnie and the others are friends with oppa."

But this answer had zero credibility in Goo Hara's heart.

So she immediately leaned into Sulli's ear and muttered in a very low voice, "Are you crazy? How can you call this 'friends' looking like that? Then what are you to him?"

Sulli, whose heart was tickled by Goo Hara's breath, smiled again.

Then she paused, turned her gaze toward Lin Xiuyuan, and replied in a natural and intimate tone, as if stating the simplest fact, "As for me and oppa, we are naturally family."

As the word "family" came out of Sulli's mouth, carrying an unquestionable intimacy and sense of belonging, it instantly cast an even more intriguing color over this already complex and subtle relationship.

It also made Goo Hara completely unable to stay calm.

Looking at the three people in front of her.

One was Sulli, who calmly and composedly declared they were "family."

One was Lin Xiaolu, whose eyes were full of longing but who stubbornly insisted they were "ordinary friends."

And another was Lin Xiuyuan, who had a smile on his lips and was at the center of the storm, yet acted as if nothing had happened.

She only felt that the scene before her was more exciting... and chaotic than any TV show or movie she had ever seen.

Just as Goo Hara wanted to say something more, her peripheral vision seemed to notice something; she quickly shifted her focus away from Lin Xiuyuan and the other girl, and looked up toward the entrance.

Sulli, sitting next to her, did the same.

"Eh, Hyomin??"

"It's Hyomin Unnie."

(End of chapter)