Chapter 472: Lin Xiaolu: I want to film some short videos too~ (Seeking subscriptions and monthly tickets)

In the blink of an eye, more than a week passed by without anyone noticing.

Once life becomes comfortable and fulfilling, one gets a sense of being in a different world, and only upon looking back does one realize that several pages have already been turned on the calendar.

During these days, Lin Xiuyuan, Xueli, and Goo Hara had their fill of playing around the Los Angeles area.

Saying they had their fill, they actually didn't run to many places, didn't go to check in at any landmarks, and didn't have any plans.

They basically just wandered aimlessly around the Malibu area, whiling away each day in a very Buddhist, very relaxed manner.

Every morning, before the sun became too scorching, they would drive, listen to music, and find a new place nearby to take a spin.

When the sun was high at noon, they would retreat back to the Villa by the sea, play in the backyard pool, and when tired, sprawl out on the beach chairs to bask in the sun and doze for a while.

At dusk, they would step into their flip-flops and stroll leisurely down to the beach below.

They would step on the sand that had been baking all day and was still a bit warm, and kick at the waves washing up.

Although it was a plain and simple life, these small, flavorful daily routines were actually much more relaxing than those densely packed surprise travel check-ins.

When they had played enough, Goo Hara was finally dragged back from her vacation mode by a phone call.

Because her schedule in Tokyo simply could not be delayed any longer, her manager and team had already urged her several times over the phone, and even helped her change her flight.

Their attitude was very clear: if she delayed any further, there would really be trouble.

Although Goo Hara grumbled a bunch about not wanting to leave after the call, she eventually resigned herself to getting up to pack her luggage and had Lin Xiuyuan drive her to the airport.

After Goo Hara left, the remaining two, Lin Xiuyuan and Xueli, stayed in the Villa for another two days.

But after the two of them spent two days in the Villa as a lone man and woman teasing each other, Xueli discovered a fact that left her a bit frustrated.

That was, before she could take their relationship any further, it was just hanging there, and it seemed there was no substantive progress.

Most importantly, this worry-inducing oppa actually snuck back out at night to eat on the side.

Although he made sure to return before dawn, she wasn't stupid, so she silently added another entry to the little ledger in her heart.

Under these circumstances, after pouting for half a day, Xueli, having played enough, waved her little hand and ended this vacation trip early.

Saying it was early, in reality, adding it all up, they had solidly played for ten days.

Ten days is already a quite luxurious long vacation for a member of a popular girl group.

Many artists have to thank the heavens if they can scrape together three or four consecutive days of rest throughout the year.

Moreover, after ending the vacation, Xueli did not choose to return to Seoul for work, but instead planned to go find Victoria, who was filming in Hengdian.

Anyway, their group had a performance scheduled in Huaxia in a few days, so they would have to fly over sooner or later.

Rather than returning to Seoul for two days only to fly away again, it was better to go early and play for a few more days, and she could also keep Victoria company—killing two birds with one stone.

Originally, Lin Xiuyuan had also thought about whether to follow along to see, as it would be on the way home.

But after flipping through the calendar in his mind and calculating the time, he discovered that there weren't many days left until the Lunar New Year.

If he went back now, he wouldn't be able to stay for many days before having to leave, and he would have to come back for the New Year.

Rather than that, it was better to wait until the New Year to go back.

Thus, he did not fly with Xueli, and after seeing her off, he embarked on the flight back to Seoul alone.

So, on a late night in mid-January 2014.

Lin Xiuyuan, having sat on a plane for over ten hours, finally landed in Seoul.

Walking out from the jet bridge, he saw the rain outside the window that was pouring down as if it were being dumped from the sky.

A torrential downpour.

The rain could no longer be called "falling," but rather it was pouring down in sheets.

This caused the distant tarmac to turn into an abstract painting washed by water in the curtain of rain, with lights of various colors blurring into patches of hazy light clusters in the moisture.

Lin Xiuyuan, having walked out of the jet bridge, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the arrival hall looking outside, and muttered somewhat gloomily, "No, does this weather think I didn't get enough sun in California, so I have to come back to Seoul and be stifled for a few days to get the flavor out?"

After muttering these few sentences, Lin Xiuyuan did not linger in the arrival hall and headed straight for the parking lot.

Rainwater was pouring down outside the railings on both sides of the walkway, and occasionally a few drops were blown in and splashed onto his sneakers, leaving a few dark watermarks.

In the parking lot, he quickly found that familiar car.

He also saw that back that had been waiting for him for a long time.

The other person was dressed very simply today, in a pair of light blue straight-leg jeans, wearing a pair of flat shoes, and draped in a long black down jacket over her upper body.

A white hood was pulled over her head, overlapping with the collar of the black down jacket outside, distinct in black and white.

The other person wasn't sitting in the car with the heater on waiting for someone, but was standing next to the car, leaning her body against the door, quietly watching the overwhelming rain outside the railing not far away.

The sound of the rain was amplified several times in the semi-open space of the parking lot, echoing with a splash, but she seemed completely indifferent, just standing there quietly waiting.

And only after Lin Xiuyuan walked closer did he see clearly that this silly girl was actually wearing two coats.

Outside was that black down jacket, and inside there was a lamb's wool coat.

Beneath the fluffy white lamb's wool hood was that beautiful little face, and under the few stray hairs pressed down by the hat was the tip of her nose, which had been frozen slightly red by the cold air.

"Why did you run out of the car if you knew it was cold? Isn't it comfortable to keep the heater on in the car and take a nap?"

Lin Xiuyuan, who had walked up to her, looked at Lin Xiaolu's nose tip that was slightly red from the cold; although his tone was one of blame, the bit of concern in his eyes couldn't be faked.

Hearing the voice, Lin Xiaolu turned her head to look at Lin Xiuyuan, her eyes brightening significantly the moment she saw him, and she pouted and said, "I came to pick you up and you still talk to me like this; I won't come next time."

But her body had already honestly moved a little closer to Lin Xiuyuan.

"Am I blaming you? I'm showing concern for you." Lin Xiuyuan smiled, reached out his arm to wrap it around her shoulders, and pulled her toward him.

The fabric of her down jacket was slick and felt a bit cool to the touch.

So, he immediately handed the coffee he was holding—the latte he had bought on a whim when passing by the coffee shop in the arrival hall—into Lin Xiaolu's hands.

The coffee was warm, and it felt especially comfortable to touch in such a cold, wet, rainy night.

After taking the coffee, Lin Xiaolu glanced at him and held the cup with both hands, letting the warmth spread from her palms to her whole body.

Then she looked up at Lin Xiuyuan, the corners of her mouth curling into a small arc as she asked, "Why didn't you buy an iced one?"

"What is our relationship? Whether you can drink iced coffee or not, you won't be able to escape tonight's homework," Lin Xiuyuan stated very calmly.

"In your dreams." Lin Xiaolu snorted through her nose, then freed one hand to lightly slap Lin Xiuyuan on the chest.

Lin Xiuyuan didn't dodge; he just stood there smiling as he took the slap.

He then reached out to pull open the passenger door, "Alright, hurry up and get in. I'll drive; I slept the whole way here, so my head is perfectly clear."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaolu said nothing, just sat into the passenger seat with a grin, clutching the cup of coffee.

Once seated, the first thing she did was turn the seat heating to the highest setting, then she took off both coats, leaving only a very thin white long-sleeved base layer.

Only then did she lift the coffee cup and begin to take small, dainty sips.

When Lin Xiuyuan had finished settling the suitcase in the trunk, walked around the front of the car, pulled open the driver's door, and sat in, Lin Xiaolu handed the coffee to him.

He took it, drank a small sip, and then handed it back to Lin Xiaolu.

The warm air in the cabin blew with a hum, and Lin Xiaolu looked at the coffee in her hands, "If I drink this cup, I probably won't need to sleep tonight."

"I don't believe it. When it's time to sleep, you can sleep better than anyone." As Lin Xiuyuan spoke, he drove the car, sliding out of the parking space in a flash.

The car drove out of the parking lot and merged onto the empty late-night highway.

Lin Xiaolu, holding the coffee cup in her palms, tilted her head to look at the raindrops sliding down the car window. She suddenly remembered something, so she turned her head and asked curiously about Xueli's situation.

Lin Xiuyuan, gripping the steering wheel, glanced at her quickly from the road before turning his gaze back to the front, "Zhenli? She went to find Victoria, saying she wanted to keep her company and find some good food over there."

"Oh, that's good too, saves her from being cooped up in Seoul every day." Lin Xiaolu nodded upon hearing this and placed the coffee cup into the center console cup holder.

After saying that, Lin Xiaolu turned her head back to look at Lin Xiuyuan, who was driving, "But Xiuyuan, when will you film some nice videos and photos for me too? That short beach video of Xueqiu caused quite a stir and attracted a lot of fans."

The video Lin Xiaolu was talking about was the short video Lin Xiuyuan had filmed for Xueli on the beach in Malibu, where she turned around, took off her shirt, and changed her outfit.

In the video, Xueli stood by the waves with her back to the camera, wearing an oversized T-shirt, then turned around and took off the shirt, revealing the swimsuit and waistline underneath.

Although that shot only lasted for a very brief moment, it was enough to take a screenshot, and it was truly beautiful.

It was so beautiful that after the video was released, it blew up Xueli's fan base.

The click and play counts were climbing higher and higher.

It had only been released for two days, and the view count had already surged to several hundred thousand.

You have to know that in a timeline where a million views was still considered rare, several hundred thousand views was already a very impressive figure, so Xueli leaped to become the topic queen of January.

Various discussion threads and screenshots emerged one after another, and the popularity was so high that even she herself hadn't expected it.

So, her reluctance to run back to Seoul now actually had a little bit to do with this video; she didn't want to be surrounded for interviews and would rather wait for the hype to die down before returning.

Moreover, this video also brought about an unexpected chain reaction.

That was that many casual fans, after watching the video, instantly became "body fans" and joined Xueli's fan group one after another.

A wave of imitation also broke out on major social media platforms, with many girls mimicking Xueli's situation and posting similar transformation videos filmed at the beach.

Allowing the onlookers to see even more wonderful figures.

So, in a sense, the short video Lin Xiuyuan filmed not only gained fans for Xueli but also indirectly benefited the aesthetic ecology of the entire internet; it could be called a work of immeasurable merit.

"If you want to film one, why don't you film that video of you wearing a red hoodie in a few years? It would definitely attract a lot of fans too."

Lin Xiuyuan glanced at her while driving and casually offered a suggestion.

The red hoodie video he mentioned was a lifestyle clip Lin Yun'er filmed around 2018.

In that video, the way she pulled the hood of the red hoodie up to cover her head and smiled at the camera made countless people redefine what "youthful spirit" and "fresh-style beauty" meant.

It also drew many people who hadn't paid much attention to Girls' Generation before directly into the pit.

From the old materials of 2007 all the way to 2014, being repeatedly "archaeologized" and "slashed" in the ocean of various videos and Variety Shows, finally filtering down, concentrating all their affection onto Lin Yun'er alone.

"No, I don't want to learn from that woman." Lin Xiaolu decisively refused.

Although the twins Lin Xiaolu and Lin Yun'er didn't have styles as explosive as Park Jiyeon and Zheng Xiuyan, and there was much less gunpowder in their competition.

But they also started off on the path of not seeing eye-to-eye with each other.

The trash-talking phase at the time hadn't been missed out on at all.

However, in the trash-talking exchanges with Lin Yun'er, Lin Xiaolu basically lost more than she won.

Occasionally, she would even be severely lectured by Lin Yun'er under the guise of "taking a class" or "giving guidance."

Every time she was lectured, Lin Xiaolu would be both angry and helpless; she wanted to retort but couldn't find an angle, and she wanted to admit defeat but felt it was too embarrassing.

So, regarding her future mature self, she held more or less a bit of resentment in her heart.

Seeing Lin Xiaolu refuse so decisively, Lin Xiuyuan didn't try to persuade her on this topic anymore, but instead expressed with great attitude, "Then you see what you want to film, I'm ready at any time."

"Why do I have to think? You help me think." Lin Xiaolu kicked the ball back.

Hearing this, Lin Xiuyuan, who was driving, couldn't help but turn his head to take a serious look at the little Bambi beside him.

After this look, his gaze turned back to the road ahead, and then the corners of his mouth slowly curved into an arc, revealing a slightly wicked smile.

"YoonA, if you want to make a man film some kind of video with his woman, then there's really nothing to think about; it's definitely the kind that records a beautiful life."

When saying this, although Lin Xiuyuan's tone was very calm, the bit of mischief hidden between the lines was already about to overflow.

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So much so that Lin Xiaolu, looking at his mischievous expression, blinked her eyes several times in a row, having a flavor of 'old man on the subway looking at his phone. jpg'.

Intuition told her that this sentence of Lin Xiuyuan's was definitely nothing proper.

But as for what exactly it was, she couldn't quite wrap her head around it for a moment.

She was young after all, and didn't immediately grasp the implication of Lin Xiuyuan's words.

Seeing that she still hadn't reacted, Lin Xiuyuan simply smiled and gave an English name.

"Edison."

Once this name came out, as long as one was someone who understood the major events in the entertainment industry after the millennium, almost everyone could react to what he was referring to within a second.

Then, if it weren't for the fact that Lin Xiuyuan was driving and both his hands were on the steering wheel, he would have really been hit again this time.

I saw Lin Xiaolu beside him, upon hearing the name "Edison," have her brain complete the information matching in a very short time, and her little face flushed red in an instant.

That blush started burning from her earlobes, spread rapidly to her cheeks, and even her neck turned slightly pink.

Her gaze also shifted from the previous confusion to shy annoyance, her eyes widened into circles, and finally, she used all her strength to shout, "Hey, you pervert."

After shouting, she even clenched her fists and struggled a bit within the seatbelt of the passenger seat, waving her fists in the air to express her intense dissatisfaction.

"You were the one who said to let me think about it first, and now that I've said it, you're like this—women, really," Lin Xiuyuan sighed in a very innocent tone, the expression on his face one of being wronged and aggrieved.

It was just that the smile at the corners of his mouth, which he couldn't suppress, completely betrayed his true thoughts.

"Get lost, don't even think about it," Lin Xiaolu scolded with a laugh once again.

After saying these words, Lin Xiaolu suddenly seemed to think of something and stopped her voice, "Wait a second, Xiuyuan, you having this thought—it wouldn't be that woman Lin Yun'er who led you astray, would it?"

"Ah..." Lin Xiuyuan's hand gripping the steering wheel paused slightly.

He truly hadn't expected Lin Xiaolu's train of thought to veer into such a tricky angle at this moment, actually managing to attribute the culprit of this matter directly to Lin Yun'er.

The span of this logical leap was so great that even Lin Xiuyuan, who usually had a very fast reaction speed, was stunned for a moment.

Subsequently, he quickly weighed things in his heart.

Should he clarify?

Or should he let YoonA take the blame for him?

It took about a fraction of a second, and then he sold Lin Yun'er out without the slightest hesitation.

So, after a moment of surprise, that wicked smile reappeared on his face, and he expressed his "agreement" by nodding very forcefully, even responding repeatedly with his mouth.

"Mm-hmm, it's her, it's definitely her."

After Lin Xiuyuan finished speaking, he laughed silently in his heart, his mind already rapidly rehearsing whether the two would start a verbal war on the spot the next time Lin Xiaolu and Lin Yun'er met.

For the entire remainder of the return journey, Lin Xiaolu stayed curled up in the passenger seat, starting a mode of crazily bad-mouthing Lin Yun'er.

She counted Lin Yun'er's various "crimes" on her fingers, her tone at times indignant, at times aggrieved, and at times unwilling to let it go.

And Lin Xiuyuan listened from the side while driving, nodding in cooperation from time to time, or interjecting with a timely "Mm," "Indeed," or "That's too much" in response.

His attitude was very proper.

I am on your side, Xiaolu.

At the same time, he felt extremely regretful in his heart.

He regretted why he hadn't brought a voice recorder with him in advance, or why he hadn't turned on his phone's recording function beforehand.

If he could have recorded the entire process of Lin Xiaolu going full-throttle to bad-mouth Lin Yun'er for this whole trip.

Then the value of this incriminating evidence would be simply immeasurable.

He could take this recording to the 26-year side and use it as a bargaining chip to exchange for some invisible benefits from Lin Yun'er.

For example, a set of black suspender stockings paired with a JK uniform? And wearing glasses?

For example, unlocking some moves and positions he had been looking forward to for a long time, but which Lin Yun'er had always kept him hanging on and only occasionally granted?

Or even more exaggerated, like opening up some brand-new teaching scenarios?

Just listing these possibilities in his mind made Lin Xiuyuan feel that his imagination was still too barren.

However, all these wonderful possibilities had vanished into thin air because he hadn't brought a voice recorder.

What a pity, what a pity.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyuan's hand gripping the steering wheel tightened a bit due to the annoyance of missing such a golden opportunity.

Soon, the car traveled through the night rain for about half an hour and finally returned to the downstairs of the Xiaolu Apartment.

He was too lazy to drive back to his own place tonight; at this time of night and with it raining, there was really no need to go through the trouble of another trip.

And that very night, Lin Xiaolu used practical actions to clearly demonstrate that she could indeed drink cold things.

The two tossed and turned from the Living Room to the bedroom, from serious chatting to unserious interactions, remaining entangled until the middle of the night.

In the end, battered by the double assault of the caffeine from that large cup of latte and Lin Xiuyuan, Lin Xiaolu finally couldn't hold on, and her whole person fell into the encirclement of sleepiness, dazed and confused.

Before she completely fell asleep, she still propped up her eyelids and muttered to Lin Xiuyuan beside her.

"One cup of coffee has been tossing me around until now... Xiuyuan, you're going a bit too far... no wonder she kicked you out of bed..."

This time, when Lin Xiaolu mentioned Lin Yun'er, her tone already carried a sense of relief and shared hatred; it could only be said that when facing a common "enemy," people are indeed very easily on the same side.

After saying this, Lin Xiaolu, in her daze, sensed danger, so she immediately used the last bit of remaining strength to roll over several times, wrapped up in the quilt like a round ball.

She wrapped herself into an airtight rice dumpling with the quilt, revealing only the tip of her nose and a few strands of hair scattered on the pillow.

After wrapping herself up, she then felt relieved and issued an ultimatum, "Not allowed to come again, I want to sleep, I have work to do tomorrow afternoon."

This voice came out muffled from the gap in the quilt, carrying a seriousness that was both solemn and funny.

Then she truly fell asleep.

Her breathing became steady and long within a few seconds, her body curled into a comfortable arc inside the quilt, and a faint flush remained on the small face wrapped by the quilt, revealing only half of it, after that round of tossing and turning.

A faint arc hung at the corners of her mouth; it was unknown whether she was having a good dream or if her mood before falling asleep was indeed good.

Leaving Lin Xiuyuan sitting alone on the side, looking sideways at Lin Xiaolu's pretty face that had already fallen into a deep sleep, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Then he reached out to help her tuck in the corner of the quilt, gently hugged that soft rice dumpling from behind, rested his chin on the top of her head, closed his eyes, and soon fell into a dream.

On the other side.

After landing in Shanghai, Sulli and Victoria first made an appointment to eat a late-night snack at a hot pot restaurant that was still open late at night.

After finishing the snack and chatting enough, they returned to the Jiudian, laid the suitcase flat on the ground to open it, and rummaged through it for pajamas and a toiletry bag, preparing to wash up.

As a result, she received a phone call.

Picking up the phone and glancing at the caller ID, the name jumping on it made her smile involuntarily, so she answered, "Hello, IU unnie, it's so late, haven't you slept yet?"

Then a female voice with a hint of coquettishness and playfulness came from the other end of the phone.

"Sulli, didn't you say you were back? Why did you run off to Huaxia? I still wanted to find you to hang out."

"Unnie, haven't you been filming a drama? Do you have time now?" Sulli sat on the edge of the bed, crossed her legs, and asked with a smile.

"It's already finished, didn't you know, Xueli?" Li Zhien raised her volume slightly on the other end of the phone.

"It's finished? Congratulations." Xueli's tone carried a hint of realization and sincere well-wishes.

She truly hadn't noticed this.

During this period between the end of the year and the beginning of the new one, her attention was either focused on various year-end stages and events, or her brain's remaining memory was entirely occupied by matters concerning Lin Xiuyuan.

So much so that she really hadn't been paying as much constant attention to the specific schedules of her friends as she used to.

"What a perfunctory voice, Xueli, my heart is hurt." Li Zhien issued a complaint on the other end of the phone, habitually acting spoiled.

Facing Li Zhien's complaint, Xueli thought about it seriously, "How about this, after I finish up here, I'll come back to hang out with you, okay?"

"How long are you going to stay there?" Li Zhien pressed on the phone.

"About a week, I suppose." Xueli roughly calculated the time in her head.

First resting for a few days, then adding the subsequent performance rehearsals, and the time for the official performance all together, she gave an approximate figure.

"Ah, that long?" A clear sense of disappointment seeped into Li Zhien's voice; she had originally thought Xueli would be able to return to Seoul in these next two days.

Xueli heard the something off in the tone on the other end of the phone, so she asked directly: "What's wrong? You're in such a rush to find me, it definitely isn't just because you want to see me, right?"

Li Zhien on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment, but still decided to voice her thoughts, her tone carrying a hint of embarrassment but also an irrepressible sense of anticipation.

"Well, it's to also meet that oppa you often talk about, Xueli. Didn't you promise me before that once I was done with my work, we'd meet up together? I've been looking forward to it."

As she said this, the first thing that came to the young girl's mind on the other end of the phone was that short video Xueli had recently stirred up a wave with in Seoul.

According to her close friend, that video was actually filmed by that person.

So Li Zhien really did want to meet that "oppa" she had never met before.

"Oppa, huh."

After hearing Li Zhien's words, Lin Xiuyuan's face immediately surfaced in Xueli's mind, and she couldn't help but smile.

Afterwards, almost without any hesitation, she gave her response: "Sure, then I'll head back tomorrow, take you to meet him, and then come back here."

"Huh? Is that too much trouble?"

Li Zhien was startled on the other end of the phone by Xueli's efficiency in deciding to leave just like that; she felt a bit embarrassed, but also a bit flattered.

Trouble?

Xueli rolled these two words around on the tip of her tongue, then laughed out loud.

It was just taking a good sister to meet someone, how could it be trouble?

It wasn't trouble.

She silently repeated these two words in her heart, and the curve of her lips bent a few degrees further.