Chapter 320

In the villa's living room, Jessica looked at the second floor above her head, her complexion instantly becoming extremely colorful, turning red then white.

It was mainly because she had just used this trick of the cold shoulder to provoke Zheng Xiuyan in the morning, but she really hadn't expected that this retribution and boomerang would come so quickly.

It had only been one afternoon, and it had been returned to her exactly as it was by the other party!!

Thinking of this, Jessica rushed up the stairs in a few quick steps and arrived in front of the guest room door from which the sound was coming.

She saw the door was tightly closed, but the soundproofing here seemed better than the one in Magic City. Because Jessica, standing at the door, discovered that the person inside was leaning against the door shouting, which was enough to let the person outside hear the movement inside.

"Zheng Xiuyan!!! Lin Xiuyuan!!! Open the door for me!!!"

Listening to the shouting right behind the door, Jessica, with a complex expression, pounded on the door hard, her voice somewhat sharp due to being flustered and exasperated.

While pounding the door, she cursed angrily, "Open the door! If you have the ability, don't hide inside!!! Zheng Xiuyan, you learn quite fast, huh!!"

However, the person inside was the same as she had been in the morning, and the situation was exactly the same.

It couldn't be said that there was no reaction to this pounding and shouting, but it could only be said that there was not the slightest thought of opening the door, leaving only those sounds that made one blush, which became more high-pitched and lingering along with the cursing.

Full of provocative meaning.

It also made Jessica so angry that she raised her foot and kicked the door hard.

"Bang!" With a muffled sound, the door didn't move, but instead, her foot was shaken until it felt somewhat numb.

After trying a few times like Zheng Xiuyan had in the morning, Jessica finally gave up on physically breaking the door, and while her chest heaved violently, she also glared fiercely at the tightly closed door.

Then she turned around and went downstairs angrily, returning to the living room area.

The movie inside the TV was still playing, but those soothing soundtracks and lines sounded like annoying noise to Jessica at this moment.

Just because the shouting that kept coming from above her head was like magic sounds filling her ears, making her sit and stand uneasily, so angry that she couldn't even see the movie screen clearly.

So she simply picked up the remote control and turned off the TV fiercely.

But although the world was quiet for an instant, the annoying sound from upstairs became even clearer.

After a while, a shout broke through the roof.

"Ah, Zheng Xiuyan!!!!"

Another period of time passed.

Nine o'clock in the evening, the takeout that had been delivered earlier had already been eaten, and the trash had been cleaned up properly.

Zheng Xiuyan, who had come out after taking a shower, was wiping her wet hair while coming down from upstairs, returning to the living room, but found that neither Lin Xiuyuan nor Jessica were there.

"Where are the people?"

Feeling a bit uneasy, she looked around in confusion.

Suddenly, her gaze fixed on a corner of the living room.

There, that Time Gate was quietly open, and from the scene at the open doorway, it made her feel a bit familiar.

Guessing something, Zheng Xiuyan walked over slowly; the closer she got, and the more she saw the decor behind the door, the more her inner unease began to surge.

When she was completely standing at the doorway, she finally recognized where the location behind the door was.

"My house?"

Along with this murmur, she finally heard some imaginative sounds vaguely in her ears, as well as the movement of a door closing.

The light laughter or whispers, full of repression yet indulgence, made Zheng Xiuyan instantly understand what had happened.

Thinking of something, Zheng Xiuyan felt a rush of hot blood surge from her chest to her brain, and the flushed face she had just after showering became even redder.

"Good! Good! Good!"

However, she didn't immediately start cursing, but instead laughed out of extreme anger, saying the word "good" three times in a row.

Then, gritting her teeth, she added a sentence, "Crazy woman!!! Playing this trick on me, huh?? Treating others as they treat you isn't enough, you even ran over here to demonstrate, huh?!"

Then, without the slightest hesitation, she stepped across the Time Gate and returned to her own familiar 13-year Seoul apartment.

Within a few breaths, she was standing at the doorway of that tightly closed bedroom, "Jessica!!! You crazy woman!!!"

After standing there listening for a while, Zheng Xiuyan's roar resounded through the entire apartment in the next second.

And following her angry cursing, there was Jessica's laughter from inside the bedroom door, which carried gasps but was full of triumph and provocation, plus undisguised laughter.

"Don't shout, you were the one who started it, Zheng Xiuyan. Come on, let's kill each other! Let's see who can't take it first!! Hahaha—"

A new round of tug-of-war and confrontation was staged again this night.

Time continued to pass, and this strange, circular tug-of-war between Jessica, Lin Xiuyuan, and Zheng Xiuyan was still continuing.

The next morning.

The battlefield shifted back to 2025, in that apartment of Jessica's in Seoul.

Zheng Xiuyan pulled Lin Xiuyuan in, the reason being "to change the environment and get some air."

—

Noon.

In the 13-year tavern apartment.

Jessica brought Lin Xiuyuan in, returning to the bedroom where the two had their "first time," once again openly staging a novel scene of handcuffs and belts meeting.

Afternoon.

In the afternoon, the sunlight was lazy.

Beside a quiet street in the Gangnam District of Seoul in the year 25, a private small tavern with a not-very-conspicuous sign, which hadn't been open for business for a long time, had its doors opened by someone again today, which was rare.

The tavern's lighting was soft, and the atmosphere was quiet.

At the bar counter, a figure was already sitting there.

It was Lin Chongji, who had come early; she was dressed very casually today, wearing a baseball cap and looking down at her phone.

Upon hearing the sound of the wind chime at the door, she looked up toward the person who walked in, and upon seeing the other party, a bright smile appeared on her face, and she raised her hand to signal, "Unnie, over here."

The person who walked in was none other than her leader, Kim Taeyeon.

The other party was also in casual clothes, bare-faced, but her complexion looked very good, and those cheeks that had originally been sunken had been filled back up by collagen.

After entering, she nodded at Lin Chong'er, walked over, and then sat down beside her.

Then, a few minutes later, the tavern door was pushed open again, and Krystal's tall figure appeared.

Compared to the makeup of the previous two, Krystal seemed to have just finished her schedule, so her makeup was a more exquisite full face, her outfit was fashionable, and there was a hint of exhaustion on her face, but her eyes were still lively.

Seeing the two people at the bar, she smiled slightly to greet them, and then very naturally sat on the other side of Lin Yun'er.

The gathering of these three women this afternoon was not just for a simple party or to drink a little wine.

Kim Taeyeon's gaze lingered on Krystal's face for a moment; she wasn't too surprised by this person's arrival, then she cast her gaze toward the wall behind her, or rather, her gaze had already passed through this wall and seen the villa in the alley outside.

After hesitating for a moment, she pointed her chin toward the wall direction and asked.

"What's going on in there now? Xiujing~"

Her tone carried three parts curiosity, three parts worry, and four parts amusement of watching a show, "Last night Jessica—"

"was shouting so much in the group, she almost called us to come over together to catch them in the act."

Lin Yun'er, upon hearing this, laughed almost simultaneously, "Coming to catch Xiuyan Unnie's affair, huh, it's truly rare in the world, catching herself."

And Krystal, when asked by Kim Taeyeon, shrugged, her expression even more subtle, mixed with the excitement of watching the fun without fear of it being too big, and a hint of an attitude of having expected it long ago.

"Unnie, don't ask me, I don't know anything either. The night before last, I originally came to help Xiuyuan, but I was driven out by Unnie and the others together; I can only say Xiuyuan deserves it, why did he have to go and provoke the two of them so early, I don't even dare to eat with the two of them alone, yet he went and joined them."

Hearing this explanation, Kim Taeyeon and Lin Yun'er both laughed, but after laughing, their brows also furrowed slightly.

They were probably a bit worried about Lin Xiuyuan, after all, this was a precious treasure.

Especially for Kim Taeyeon, Lin Xiuyuan, whether physically or mentally, was someone who could not have anything happen to him.

So after hesitating for a moment, she simply turned her head to look at the wall behind her, her gaze somewhat worried.

Then she spoke softly to herself, "So are we going to continue to stare blankly here now, or—"

""

Saying this, Kim Taeyeon turned back to look at the two people beside her, "Or should we go in and see the situation?"

This question made Lin Yun'er and Krystal also fall into a brief silence.

Go in?

And then face Zheng Xiuyan and Jessica, who were "fighting each other"?

Just the thought and idea popping up, and just thinking of that scene, they felt their scalps go numb.

The degree of that Shura Field would probably explode off the charts.

But if they didn't go in?

Then why did they come over? They had agreed before coming to go in and see the situation; they couldn't just let those two play Lin Xiuyuan until he was broken.

It's just that the problem now is, when to go in, and who goes in first.

Thinking of this, the three women looked at each other, and for a time, none of them wanted to face that tragic sight.

Just like that, the small tavern inexplicably fell into another kind of subtle silence.

Finally, the pressure slowly concentrated on Krystal, who had the most special relationship; Kim Taeyeon and Lin Chongji's gazes, intentionally or unintentionally, carried a certain tacit understanding and fell together on her face.

And Krystal felt her scalp go numb from being stared at by these two Unnies, as if ants were crawling on her back.

But soon she sighed helplessly, her exquisite face wrinkled into a ball, and she protested gloomily, "Unnies, you can't treat me like this."

Trying to struggle, she began to complain, "This is going to the center of the battlefield, it's not like going to some convenience store to buy snacks when we were little."

Kim Taeyeon blinked and said in a tone that took it for granted, "You are Xiuyan and the others' own younger sister, Xiujing~ no matter which Xiuyan is inside, they won't really do anything to you."

Then she added a very reasonable reason, "Anyway, they definitely won't hit you."

This should be the only risk the few needed to worry about.

"But they will curse!"

Regarding this, Krystal immediately retorted, remembering the two "get lost"s with extremely high synchronization on the phone the night before last, and replied with lingering fear, "They curse very nastily, and mental attacks are even more terrifying, okay!"

"It's okay, Xiujing~ cursing a few times won't make you lose a piece of meat."

Lin Yun'er took over the conversation at the right time from the side, with her usual bright smile on her face, and the instigation in her words was very obvious.

"And Xiuyuan is so good to you, Xiujing, can you bear to let Xiuyuan be inside alone, being tossed back and forth by the two Unnies like this? What if he gets played until he's broken?"

Facing Lin Yun'er's moral kidnapping, Krystal was really a bit between laughter and tears.

So she turned her head to look at Lin Yun'er, her eyes carrying an envious gaze, "Yun'er Unnie, don't say it as if Xiuyuan isn't good to you."

Then she curled her lips, "On the matter of that door, Xiuyuan was so forthcoming to you, or rather, he didn't need any conditions from you at all. He wasn't like that to me, he even tested me a little."

Muffled smoke, Lin Yun'er's smile became even brighter, and she said with clear and frank eyes, "That's why I gave myself to him."

""

"Don't say it as if I'm self-respecting." Krystal was choked by her straightforwardness, then she couldn't help but laugh, pouting her lips with a bit of frankness.

Then she thought in her heart that the relationships among the women surrounding Lin Xiuyuan had long been too complex to sort out, and no one had the qualification to talk about anyone else.

However, after this joke-like mutual exposure, the tension in Krystal's heart dissipated quite a bit.

So she took a deep breath and made up her mind.

"Alright, alright—"

She jumped down lightly from the high stool and clapped her hands, "Let's not keep babbling here."

Then she looked at Kim Taeyeon and Lin Chongji, "Let's all go in together, anyway, we're already here, and I really don't dare to go in alone. You don't know how scary the tone was when those two Unnies told me to 'get lost' the night before last, I still get goosebumps thinking about it now."

Kim Taeyeon and Lin Yun'er looked at each other and nodded almost simultaneously.

"Fine, then together." Kim Taeyeon also stood up from her seat, tidied her clothes, and tried hard to make herself look calmer.

"Hmm, there's strength in numbers, maybe we can even persuade them to stop fighting?" Lin Yun'er also stood up, although her tone sounded like she didn't believe it herself.

Thus, the three formed a small expedition team, left the quiet small tavern, and walked into the quiet alley where the afternoon sun was shining.

After walking a few steps, they arrived in front of the familiar villa.

The dark door was tightly closed, as if isolating another world, and the exquisite electronic lock panel on the door was shining with cold light in the sun.

The three standing at the door looked at each other again.

Kim Taeyeon signaled the door lock with her eyes, while Lin Yun'er tilted her head slightly to look at Krystal.

Regarding this, Krystal could only sigh silently and walk forward as if resigned to her fate.

Who told her to be the younger sister~

"Beep—click."

A crisp electronic sound rang out, followed by the slight mechanical sound of the door lock unlocking.

The door opened inward quietly, leaving a crack.

Following the opening of the door, the three peered inside one after another.

Their gaze passed through the space of the small courtyard, and through that floor-to-ceiling window, they saw the spacious living room, where the scene was somewhat—disheveled.

Several cushions were scattered on the carpet, and an invisible tension permeated the air.

And the central figure of the storm was clearly in sight.

A familiar figure stood in front of the living room sofa, her beautiful face flushed red with anger, her beautiful eyes almost spitting fire, glaring fiercely at another person sitting on the single sofa opposite.

A person who looked exactly the same as the other party.

But with Krystal and the three peering in, the other three inside the floor-to-ceiling window also noticed the sound and looked up at the door one after another.

Multiple pairs of eyes met.

There were angry ones, confused ones, relieved ones, and even more headache-inducing ones.

Krystal, who was walking at the very back and closing the door, after seeing the situation in the living room, swallowed her saliva and said in a low voice, "It's over, Unnies, we seem to have walked right into the line of fire!!!"

Beside her, Lin Yun'er and Kim Taeyeon had already frozen there.