Chapter 455: 477 Victoria with the Super Thick Blunt Bangs!!

477 Victoria with the Super Thick Blunt Bangs!!! (Seeking subscriptions and monthly votes)

Backstage, although Lin Xiuyuan encountered Pei Xiuzhi from the 2013 side, he did not greet her.

After all, at this time, she still exuded the greenness and reserve of someone who had only debuted for a few years and was still cautiously following all the rules.

Compared to the Pei Xiuzhi in his memories from the 2025 side, who had already shed her baby fat and gained a bit more composure and relaxation between her brows, the little rabbit before him was clearly younger, and her emotions were more introverted.

At the same time, his reason for not greeting her was also very simple.

Because the Pei Xiuzhi he knew was the one from over there, not this one from 2013.

So, after taking a few curious extra looks, Lin Xiuyuan withdrew his gaze, followed the footsteps of Lin Xiaolu and the others, walked past the members of miss A, and continued along the corridor toward the waiting rooms further inside.

The waiting room door signs on both sides of the corridor slid past the edge of his vision one after another, each door labeled with a different group name or program title.

Some doors were left ajar, with makeup artists inside quickly touching up the artists' faces.

Some doors were tightly shut, with only a sliver of light and the faint sound of laughter leaking out from under the door cracks.

And just as he passed a certain room, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

It was only because his peripheral vision swept across the group name posted on the door next to him; the handwriting was not very neat, likely written by a staff member on the fly.

But the meaning of those letters combined together was very clear: f(x).

Zheng Xiuyan, who noticed him stop suddenly, also followed his gaze to look at the group name on that door, then said in an indifferent tone, "Oh, right, Xueli and the others are in there too. Do you want to go in and say hello?"

"That works, since I'm already here." Lin Xiuyuan nodded, then thinking of something, he added, "Then I won't go over to your side; it feels like there are a bit too many people. I'll just chat with Zhenli for a bit and then go back to catch up on sleep."

While saying this, he specifically turned his head to look around the surroundings.

Everywhere were figures coming and going, plus the sizzling sound of electric currents in the walkie-talkies; this noisy atmosphere made his desire to go back and catch up on sleep even stronger.

Facing this answer from Lin Xiuyuan, Zheng Xiuyan naturally had no thoughts on it, just nodded slightly and said in a tone similar to an exhortation.

"Whatever works for me, it's up to you. But we won't see you off; you'll be fine walking out by yourself, right?"

"It's fine, I still remember the way." Lin Xiuyuan smiled.

He had just come through the back door of the cafe, and it was a straight path with only a handful of turns; he wasn't directionally challenged, so he wouldn't get lost in a single corridor.

Besides, even if he really couldn't find the exit, it wasn't like he wouldn't know how to ask for directions.

Little Sun, who had been listening to this conversation between the two, although not quite understanding why Lin Xiuyuan wanted to leave after having come all this way.

Still, she didn't try to persuade him otherwise, so when facing the apologetic gaze cast by the other party, she just shrugged her shoulders.

Then, her gaze swept casually to the other side of the corridor, and she happened to see an acquaintance, so she reached out and stopped Zheng Ronghe, who was just passing by.

Zheng Ronghe stumbled slightly when he was suddenly intercepted. After raising his face, he instantly recognized that the person who stopped him was Sunny from Girls' Generation, and his expression became a bit complicated for a moment.

And under that gaze from Zheng Ronghe, which was slightly cautious and mixed with polite hesitation, Little Sun almost unceremoniously reached out and pointed at the staff ID badge hanging around his neck, then borrowed it in a righteous manner.

Regarding this, Zheng Ronghe could only smile helplessly while in a half-dazed state.

However, after Little Sun took the badge, she didn't even look at it, turned around, and stuffed the badge into Lin Xiuyuan's arms.

Lin Xiuyuan, who caught the badge, smiled apologetically at Zheng Ronghe, who was still standing nearby.

The latter also nodded politely, his lips curving into a proper, courteous arc, and just as he wanted to say something, he was pulled away by Little Sun in the blink of an eye, and they walked inside along the corridor one after the other.

Seeing this, Zheng Xiuyan and the others, after saying "Goodbye" to Lin Xiuyuan, also followed along.

In the blink of an eye, only Lin Xiuyuan was left on the spot, still standing at the door of the f(x) waiting room, knocking on the door lightly.

After about two seconds, a vague response came from inside the door.

"Please come in."

Hearing the voice, Lin Xiuyuan turned the doorknob, pushed the door open, and poked his head in.

This waiting room wasn't very large; one wall had a row of vanity mirrors and matching swivel chairs, with a circle of bright light bulbs embedded around the mirrors, making the light several times stronger than in the corridor.

The air was filled with the powdery scent of face powder, the chemical fragrance of setting spray, and the mixed scent of various perfumes that the members had likely bought themselves.

And Zheng Xiujing, who had just casually responded "Please come in," clearly had no expectation that the person pushing the door open would be Lin Xiuyuan, so she didn't even turn her head toward the door.

It wasn't until her peripheral vision swept over the appearance of the head poking in at the door, which seemed a bit familiar, that she lifted her gaze from the mineral water bottle in her hand and focused on the head at the edge of the door frame.

Then she sat up straight in her chair, "What's the situation, Lin Xiuyuan??? Why are you here?"

Upon hearing the name "Lin Xiuyuan," the figure who was getting makeup done with her back to the door had an almost instinctive reaction; she immediately avoided the makeup artist's touch-up motion and turned her head to look at the door.

After seeing clearly who had walked into the waiting room, a crisp shout suddenly rang out in the room, "Oh, oppa! Why did you come over! Haha, come in first."

After both popular youngest members in the group showed such an intimate and unmasked natural reaction to the boy who had entered, everyone in the entire waiting room...

Whether it was the staff members who had been silently organizing costumes on the side, or the rest of the members of the group, they all seemed to receive a silent command at the same instant.

They all cast their gazes toward Lin Xiuyuan, who had already stepped across the threshold and into the room.

Among them, Victoria's gaze was the brightest.

She herself was sitting in a seat toward the back of the room, originally looking through the rehearsal schedule for the day on her phone, her expression calm and focused.

But when her ears caught that exclamation from Xueli, which carried a strong sense of joy, she also raised her head at the same time, her eyes carrying a unique observational power, precisely locking onto this young man who was pushing the door and entering.

Her gaze was not like looking at a stranger she was meeting for the first time, but rather like looking at someone she had waited quite a while to see, carrying a sense of confirmation and inspection, as if to say, "So it was you."

Mainly because she had been curious about this person, Lin Xiuyuan, for a long time since the beginning of the year.

At that time, Xueli had been in a bad state for a period, and as the leader, she saw it in her eyes and felt anxious in her heart, but couldn't get anything out of her even when she asked.

She only felt that this child wrapped herself up extremely tightly and was unwilling to communicate much with others, always using silence or fake smiles to brush things off.

But she didn't know from when it started, Xueli's entire state began to loosen up bit by bit, as if someone had straightened out, one by one, those little knots in her that she, as a leader and older sister, hadn't been able to untie.

She saw that change in her eyes, and in her heart, she felt both gratified and curious.

She really wanted to know what kind of external force could directly twist her own Xueqiu's somewhat distorted and twisted personality back to normal.

Turning her into a Xueli who was more relaxed, more prone to smiling, and more like what someone her age should be.

Later, after learning of the existence of this "oppa" from Xueli's mouth one after another, Victoria's ears had been passively receiving a large amount of information.

Xueli had spoken to her countless times about how good, how handsome, how doting, and how caring this oppa of hers was.

These fragmented descriptions slowly pieced together a vague silhouette of a person in Victoria's mind, but a silhouette was ultimately just a silhouette, so she hoped even more to see the person himself with her own eyes to see if he was the same as what Xueli described.

Moreover, there was an additional reason that made her pay extra attention to this person.

That was, having heard from Xueqiu that the person was also a fellow countryman, having come from Huaxia.

Struggling in a foreign land, being able to meet someone from the same place naturally brings an extra layer of inherent closeness and scrutiny compared to other acquaintances.

So much so that Victoria had thought about finding a suitable opportunity to have Xueli formally introduce the other party to her, or rather, to examine them a bit in the capacity of an older sister.

But this thought was swallowed back every time it reached her lips, because firstly, she felt this matter was a bit too private, and taking the initiative to bring it up would make Xueli feel she was interfering in her social circle;

Secondly, in the event that after meeting, she discovered it wasn't at all what she had imagined, the scene would be quite awkward.

Thinking it over, she ultimately felt that rather than having Xueli deliberately play matchmaker, it was better to let things take their natural course and see what fate had in store.

As it turned out, she really hadn't expected that on an afternoon like this, in this somewhat crowded waiting room backstage at the television station.

The two of them would run into each other in such an entirely unplanned way.

However, since they had bumped into each other right before her eyes, she would have to take a good look at whether the other party was truly as perfect and outstanding as Xueli had said.

And Lin Xiuyuan, having entered the door, did not yet realize that in the corner, a scrutinizing gaze was scanning his entire body like a radar.

Because after stepping through the door, he had already sensed that there were many different gazes in the room, all landing on him at the same time.

So, as he walked inside, he naturally raised his head, made brief contact with the various eyes looking at him, and gave a polite nod.

The corners of his mouth curved into an arc that was neither overly enthusiastic nor cold, and he softly said, "Hello."

No bowing, no bending at the waist, none of the social bad habits of the Peninsula.

A few staff members in the room were slightly stunned when they saw his posture, but after glancing at the reactions of Xueli and Zheng Xiujing, they didn't say anything.

Then his gaze naturally turned toward Zheng Xiujing, who had already stood up from her chair, and he said "Hi" as if it were no different from their usual meetings.

Then he looked at Xueli and grinned.

"How did you get into the backstage? No, how did you come over here?" Zheng Xiujing asked before Xueli could speak again.

And Xueli, who had already walked over, was even more surprised than Zheng Xiujing, blurting out, "That's right, oppa, weren't you sleeping? How did you get up, and even run over here to hang out?"

Neither of their voices was quiet, and in the not-so-large waiting room, they reached everyone's ears almost simultaneously.

Among them, Xueli's sentence carried the most information, because it directly exposed a fact that was more intimate, and perhaps even a bit affectionate.

The extended implications of this news caused several staff members present to automatically conjure up many mental images, shocking many of them.

"YoonA woke me up and told me to come over for afternoon tea," Lin Xiuyuan explained.

After explaining, he looked at Xueli again, or rather, looked at the stage outfit she was wearing at the moment.

A JK uniform outfit is very perfect no matter when it's worn, let alone when worn on this peach in front of him.

Especially since the other party had a plaid bowtie in the same color as the skirt pinned to her collar, her medium-length hair was simply tied into a low ponytail, and it was finished off with a pair of faux over-the-knee socks that covered her legs up to the thighs.

The whole look maintained her usual pure foundation, while also bringing out a bit of playful, sexy charm from the skin faintly visible between that small section of socks and the hem of the skirt.

Noticing Lin Xiuyuan's gaze scanning her from head to toe, Xueli, without any concealment in front of everyone, stretched out her arms and spun around on the spot.

Her ponytail whipped out an arc in mid-air as she spun, and the hem of her skirt also lifted slightly with her rotation.

Then she stopped, brought her knees slightly together, put her hands behind her back, and asked with a light laugh, "How is it, oppa, does it look good?"

A thumbs-up rose directly from Lin Xiuyuan's right hand, "Perfect."

And this response Xueli received, along with the gazes of everyone nearby who had looked over here involuntarily when she asked the question, made many people's jaws drop instantly.

This was nowhere near the interaction between an idol and a friend of the opposite sex; this was clearly the dialogue and communication format used by ambiguous men and women, or even couples.

Victoria, who had been watching this scene from beginning to end without missing a beat, knew it was time for her to step in; if she dragged it out any longer, she didn't know if the two people over there would start acting out some love drama right on the spot.

So she took a step, moved from the innermost side of the waiting room, bypassed the back of Amber's chair, passed through the small gap between the two makeup artists who were whispering about makeup plans, and walked to stand behind Xueli.

After standing still, Victoria first pulled the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a smile that slowly transformed from captain mode to that of a neighborhood older sister, and then her gaze fell on Lin Xiuyuan.

"Xueqiu, who is this? Aren't you going to introduce us?"

However, just as she said these words, Lin Xiuyuan, standing opposite her, really couldn't help it and laughed out loud.

There was no helping it; although the mature woman in front of him was truly beautiful, and her facial features clearly showed she was indeed a stunning beauty.

But that hairstyle was really a bit hard to keep a straight face about.

Who in their right mind would add thick, straight-across bangs to this face?

And it wasn't the light, airy kind of bangs, but the extremely thick, blunt-cut kind that covered the entire forehead airtight.

Clearly a great beauty with the figure and temperament of a mature woman, yet the hairstyle instantly switched the style to cute and dorky.

It was simply absurd, anti-glamorous to the extreme.

Even though Lin Xiuyuan knew very well that he shouldn't laugh.

Especially since this was his first time meeting the other party.

But Victoria's hairstyle was truly beyond his endurance; he absolutely couldn't hold it in!!!!