Chapter 279: The

In front of the bedroom door.

When Lin Xiuyuan turned the handle and opened the Time Gate leading to the 2025 villa, Jessica standing beside him stepped over first.

It was already late at night, and earlier when Lin Xiuyuan heard Zheng Xiuyan say she had to crawl out of bed at four or five o'clock to put on makeup and then rush to the airport to go overseas for activities while eating skewers, he didn't plan to disturb her any further.

So after finishing the late-night snack, he let her rest early and got up, preparing to return to Shanghai.

However, just as Jessica's figure stepped into the villa living room, Lin Xiuyuan, who was still holding the door handle and preparing to follow, suddenly felt a force coming from behind.

It was Zheng Xiuyan's pulling force.

The other party suddenly reached out and pulled Lin Xiuyuan's hand out with force.

Relying on this force, she slammed the Time Gate in front of her shut with a "bang."

And this huge door-closing sound was particularly harsh in the quiet early morning, startling Jessica, who had just walked into the villa and hadn't gone far, and she whipped her head back to look.

However, finding that behind her was empty, where was Lin Xiuyuan's figure?

Only that tightly closed door, as if it had cut off two worlds.

Looking at this scene, Jessica guessed directly that someone had been detained on that side, so she hummed with amusement.

Then she shook her head, not worrying too much.

Then she walked to the shelf in front to take back her phone, curled up in the soft sofa in the living room, and started scrolling through news on her phone, as if nothing had happened.

And on the side of Zheng Xiuyan's 2013 apartment.

As the door was slammed shut, cutting off the space with 2025.

Lin Xiuyuan also turned his head somewhat stunned, looking at Zheng Xiuyan behind him whose breath seemed a bit unstable, and curiously wanted to ask, "What's wrong..."

It's just that before he could finish speaking, his whole person was pushed hard by Zheng Xiuyan, and his back hit the cold door panel with a "thud."

Zheng Xiuyan, who had been standing behind him, stepped forward, the two bodies almost sticking together, and those beautiful eyes, now carrying obvious anger, quickly approached, locking onto Lin Xiuyuan's line of sight.

The warm breath carrying her unique scent brushed across his cheeks.

Immediately after, Zheng Xiuyan's accusatory voice sounded, beating on Lin Xiuyuan's eardrums, "Lin Xiuyuan, you promised me, before that, you are not allowed to cross-contaminate with Jessica!!!"

Lin Xiuyuan, who was forcefully pinned to the door, heard this familiar charge, and a trace of small embarrassment flashed on his face first.

Then he immediately tried to use the set of excuses he had used to brush off Krystal and others before, muttering in a low voice, "That, I~ I can say I just had a wet dream..."

"What do you say!!" Zheng Xiuyan shouted immediately, carrying the anger of being brushed off, and her eyes widened even more.

Seeing that the other party seemed really a bit annoyed, Lin Xiuyuan immediately restrained his playful face, but the corners of his mouth hooked into a gentle, and slightly innocent arc.

His gaze stared deeply at this exquisite face close at hand, and suddenly, in an extremely serious tone, he whispered the situation.

"Honestly, Xiuyan, I couldn't help it." His eyes carried a bit of helplessness, and also hid a bit of imperceptible laughter, "You said she wore that face exactly the same as yours, and just threw herself onto me like that. At the time, my brain really didn't react for a second, and also, I really couldn't bear to push her away."

"After all, I can't refuse you."

Afterward. Lin Xiuyuan's voice became lower and lower, carrying a strange magnetism, "And in a sense, isn't that still you."

This sudden, near "love talk" defense was like a weak electric current, instantly darting into Zheng Xiuyan's heart.

Making her immediately feel her cheeks start to heat up uncontrollably, and her heart accelerated its beating "thump, thump, thump."

It also threw a small stone into the atmosphere of accusing each other between the two, rippling with ambiguous ripples, and quickly changed its nature.

However, Zheng Xiuyan suddenly came back to her senses, raised her eyes to look at the smile on this guy's face that carried a bit of badness and a bit of success.

Now her cheeks were even redder.

Then she asked with some annoyance, biting her lower lip, but her voice didn't have the momentum it had before, "You, Lin Xiuyuan, don't play these word games with me; you doing this with Jessica makes me very awkward, do you know that."

As a result, Lin Xiuyuan looked at her appearance, which was both shy and annoyed, but much more vivid.

The smile on his face deepened a lot, and he even deliberately teased her, "Awkward about what? Awkward about finding out you seem a bit unable to grasp me?"

Saying this, he tilted his head slightly, his eyes carrying seriousness, "Seriously, Xiuyan, did you hold a breath from the first night you heard me say I wanted to grasp you hard, and you had to grasp me back to be satisfied?"

After shutting up, he deliberately raised his chin slightly, exposing his slender neck in front of Zheng Xiuyan.

In an attitude almost like a sacrifice, he spoke again in a teasing tone, "If you have to think this way, here~ I'll give you my neck to pinch; they all say pinching the neck is the best action to grasp people."

"Get lost!!"

Zheng Xiuyan was scolded by Lin Xiuyuan's rogue appearance and laughed, then chided angrily, "Am I that petty."

Seeing the other party's cute appearance of saying one thing but meaning another, the smile on Lin Xiuyuan's face became even more brilliant, and he just wanted to take the opportunity to nod and tease her again...

But in the next second, that exquisite face suddenly approached again.

Without warning, Zheng Xiuyan had already opened her small mouth.

Gently, carrying a hint of punishment, and even more like some kind of marking, she bit the side of Lin Xiuyuan's exposed neck.

No, rather than saying it was a bite, it was better to say she used her teeth to close very gently.

Carrying a cool touch and a trace of numbness.

Or perhaps she was really worried about hurting him, and after the short closing of those jade teeth...

A soft, warm, and wet little tongue tip licked across that skin quickly as if to soothe.

Like a feather brushing past, it brought Lin Xiuyuan a burst of indescribable trembling.

And after doing all this, Zheng Xiuyan was like completing some kind of ritual, pushing Lin Xiuyuan away hard, but she herself staggered back two steps.

Afterward, she hummed twice, pretending to be calm, and raised her chin, "That's enough, you go back. Next time wait until I come back from overseas, and we'll settle the account properly. This matter tonight isn't over yet, I'm telling you."

Hearing this, Lin Xiuyuan raised his hand, his fingertips gently touching the skin on his neck that still had a subtle wetness and touch, looking at this woman in front of him who was clearly shy but still had to maintain her momentum.

His brows raised, and he had the heart to tease again, "Then I might as well stay tonight? Save you from having to look for me next time."

Seeing this, Zheng Xiuyan's pink face turned red instantly, and she chided with flickering eyes, "What ghost are you shouting, you still have to send Jessica back to Shanghai."

Lin Xiuyuan, who was in a playful mood, heard this and deliberately laughed in an ambiguous tone, "It's okay, anyway, she was fed full this afternoon, it's no problem to let her keep an empty room alone for one night."

After finishing, he even used that meaningful gaze to scan Zheng Xiuyan's figure, which was fully revealed because she was wearing a small camisole, deliberately.

Without dodging, straightforwardly, openly peeping at the other party.

"Ya!!!"

This situation made Zheng Xiuyan widen her eyes, both shy and angry, clenching her fists and wanting to pounce on him to beat him.

Fortunately, Lin Xiuyuan knew what it meant to stop while ahead, so he immediately smiled and turned to twist the door handle, "Alright, alright, no more jokes, I'm withdrawing first, you still have to get up early, rest early."

Before the words fell, his figure had agilely flashed and quickly disappeared behind the reopened door.

Leaving only a slight "click" sound, and Zheng Xiuyan, who was standing blankly behind the door panel, with flushed cheeks and an unsettled heartbeat.

Standing on the spot, she fell into a long silence.

And on the side of the 2025 villa.

Jessica heard Lin Xiuyuan's slightly proud and relaxed laughter almost the first moment the door was reopened.

Looking up, she happened to see Lin Xiuyuan nimbly closing the door, turning around, and looking at herself with a smile that hadn't faded yet.

The two looked at each other across the air.

Waiting for Jessica to notice the happy smile on the other party's face, and then thinking of the loud noise just now and his clearly happy mood at the moment, she guessed roughly in an instant.

So she put down her phone, the corners of her mouth raised into an arc carrying knowingness and teasing, and asked knowingly, "How is it, have you appeased that child who was throwing a tantrum?"

She said while getting up from the sofa, gracefully greeting Lin Xiuyuan.

When she walked in front of Lin Xiuyuan, the other party shrugged his shoulders, his tone honest to the point of being straightforward.

"She doesn't need me to comfort her, on the contrary, it's you," Lin Xiuyuan's gaze fell on Jessica's face, carrying a bit of scrutiny, "I feel that if I really blew you up, that scene would probably be more exaggerated than her temper."

To this, Jessica not only didn't deny it, but raised her chin slightly, carrying a kind of near-naked frankness.

"That's natural, you don't think about how much inventory is stored in Zheng Xiuyan's gunpowder depot? And on my side..."

She used her finger to gently point at her own temple, "Here, I've stored a full ten more years of gunpowder, and it's mixed with all kinds of broken glass and rusty nails ground out by reality. If it really explodes, of course it will be more exciting, and indeed difficult to clean up."

Speaking to this point, Jessica smiled, "But Xiuyuan, don't worry, no matter how it explodes, it won't explode on you."

Lin Xiuyuan listened while very naturally raising his hand to open the door in front of him again.

Then he signaled Jessica to follow, and the two stepped into the door one after another, returning to the bistro apartment in 2013.

"Then why do you deliberately stimulate her, and let her stimulate you?" Lin Xiuyuan, who returned, casually put the phone he had taken over back in its original place, and didn't forget to complain, "Can't you talk properly? You have to hiss at each other like two cats with their fur standing on end."

Jessica, who followed him, shook her hair, her tone carrying the unfathomable mystery of someone who had been there, "That's why you boys don't understand that we women are just like this; some fights are better to be argued clearly now than to be buried as mines and explode into flesh and blood later."

Hearing this, Lin Xiuyuan nodded noncommittally, got up and returned to the door, answering thoughtfully.

"I don't understand you, but I know I really have to be careful next time, absolutely can't let you two meet alone, at least have to pull Krystal or Xiujing there, at least there's someone who can break up the fight."

After finishing, he skillfully opened the Time Gate again, taking Jessica back to that apartment in White Gold Bay, Shanghai, which could overlook the brilliant river view.

Once again in this private and luxurious space, perhaps it was the emotions stirred up by Lin Xiuyuan's complaints just now, or perhaps it was the fermentation of the night and the various things just now, the nameless fire in Jessica's heart mixed with a strong sense of possessiveness suddenly rose.

Almost the moment she stood firm, she started with a sudden step, imitating Zheng Xiuyan's action from not long ago, pushing Lin Xiuyuan hard, letting his back hit the cold wall with a "thud."

Then she herself stood on tiptoe, her eyes staring straight, carrying an unavoidable strength, staring at the other party and asking.

"I ask you, Lin Xiuyuan. Just now when Zheng Xiuyan said she was cooperating with CJ, what did that look you gave me mean?"

What Jessica was brooding over was the look Lin Xiuyuan had given her earlier, which carried a meaning of stopping and warning, but was very indifferent.

And Lin Xiuyuan, who was pinned to the wall again, looked at this face that was exactly the same as Zheng Xiuyan's but more charming, and couldn't help laughing.

Then he told the truth, "It just meant don't keep stimulating her, sister, I don't want to see you two having a full-blown brawl like Jiyeon and the others, pulling each other's hair; I'm already worried about my hairline receding, this bit of hair can't withstand your tossing."

"Ahhh, Lin Xiuyuan!!!"

Jessica, who was screamed at by Lin Xiuyuan's unreliable answer, bit his neck in shame and anger.

Trying to vent her dissatisfaction in this way and leave her own mark.

However, the coincidence of fate is sometimes so amazing.

Because the direction and angle of her bite were exactly right, as if precisely calculated, covering exactly the position where Zheng Xiuyan had bitten Lin Xiuyuan's neck less than a few minutes ago.

Hiss~

An extremely strange feeling instantly darted up Lin Xiuyuan's spinal cord.

It was two almost identical touches, from the same soul in two space-times, branded on the same piece of skin in a very short time.

Warm, moist, carrying a slight pain and numbness, the stimulation was infinitely magnified and overlapped.

Although Jessica and Zheng Xiuyan were the same, they were ultimately reluctant to use force.

But compared to Zheng Xiuyan's light closing that was more like a mark, she seemed to want to leave some "visible" traces, so she subconsciously used some strength, her lips and teeth slightly pursed.

Grinding, sucking...

Just when someone was focused on the great cause of "planting strawberries," Lin Xiuyuan's voice carrying a bit of strange emotion sounded above her head, his tone carrying a bit of incredulity.

"Jessica, you might not believe it. Xiuyan just bit this position too. The tacit understanding between you two is really scary; is this what it means to be the same person."

!!!

As soon as these words were out, Jessica's whole body stiffened, as if struck by an invisible electric current, a "buzz" in her ears, instantly falling into a brief tinnitus.

An extremely strange and taboo-filled scene floated uncontrollably in her mind.

Two "Zheng Xiuyans" with identical looks and bodies, one green and stubborn, one mature and charming, their faces overlapped together.

Then they opened their mouths at the same time, biting the same spot on Lin Xiuyuan's neck...

This... what is this???

An indescribable, mixed with shame, absurdity, and some unspeakable excitement instantly crawled all over her body, raising a layer of fine goosebumps.

After being dazed for a full few seconds, Jessica suddenly raised her head, detached from Lin Xiuyuan's neck, and looked at the other party in disbelief, her voice even changing, "You... you didn't lie to me?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Lin Xiuyuan looked down at her eyes filled with shock and confusion, and couldn't help laughing again; he really felt this coincidence was a bit too outrageous.

However, he didn't know that his smile in the eyes of Jessica, whose heart was surging at the moment, was no different from a teasing and proud mockery, and provocation.

"Ya!!!"

So a burst of emotions that were unclear whether they were shame, annoyance, embarrassment, or anger erupted, and Jessica was so angry she pounced directly on Lin Xiuyuan, her fists falling like raindrops on his solid chest and arms, beating and patting, "Bastard, don't laugh, don't laugh!!!!"

In this situation, Lin Xiuyuan could only let her vent for a few times, then aimed at the opportunity for a neat backhand, easily grabbing the other party's two restless wrists.

Then he bent down, his shoulder pushing against her lower abdomen with a little force, and easily carried Jessica onto his broad shoulders.

"Alright, alright, the late-night snack is finished, and the anger is vented."

Easily fixing Jessica who was struggling on his shoulder, Lin Xiuyuan walked toward the living room, his tone carrying a bit of expectant laughter, "And it's night, it's time to do some 'exercise' that helps digestion."

"Ya~ Lin Xiuyuan, you bastard, put me down."

Jessica struggled even more violently upon hearing this, her legs kicking wildly.

And when she found that Lin Xiuyuan's direction was not the bedroom, but the huge living room facing the invincible river view outside the window, her voice carried panic and doubled shame and annoyance, "No, not outside, go back to the bedroom, Lin Xiuyuan, do you hear me! I beg you, Xiuyuan, go back to the room, okay~"

Unfortunately, Lin Xiuyuan turned a deaf ear to her protests and pleas.

Instead, he chuckled, his gaze sweeping over the brilliant night view worth millions outside the window, composed of the Oriental Pearl, the Bund architectural complex, and the Huangpu River, and stated as a matter of course.

"How can such a beautiful scenery be wasted, right?"

Then he steadily placed Jessica, who was still struggling in vain, on the soft carpet in the center of the living room, his tall figure shrouded down, blocking part of the flowing light and color outside the window for the beautiful shadow on the carpet, but also bringing another kind of pressure that made the heartbeat accelerate.

"With such expensive rent, no matter what, it should be our background wall a few more times."

Then...

Outside the window, it was the century-old style of the ten-mile foreign market and the ultimate prosperity of the modern city.

Inside the window, a room of spring, quietly permeating.

Reflecting the brilliant lights outside the window, until late at night, early morning, dawn!!!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 280 =====