Chapter 477: 499

499 "As long as you handle her, I'm ready anytime~" (Seeking subscriptions and monthly votes)

Approaching nightfall.

Lin Xiuyuan and Lin Yun'er, who had been making a scene from the sofa all the way to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and then stumbling and swaying from the floor-to-ceiling windows to the dining table in the Living Room, having also lingered for quite a while beside the kitchen island in the open-concept Kitchen, finally came to a pause at this moment, having thoroughly had their fill of being clingy.

Those faint traces of movement also left behind marks belonging to the two of them in these places.

Only then did they each slip into the bathroom to take another shower.

By the time Lin Yun'er finished showering and walked out with her hair wrapped in a loose bun on top of her head with a towel, Lin Xiuyuan was already standing in the Living Room.

However, this time the two of them did not return to that wide sofa.

After all, the state of that sofa at this moment was truly a bit unsightly; the seat cushion was sliding out halfway, crooked and askew, the throw pillows were scattered here and there on the carpet, and the camisole nightdress that had flown off Lin Yun'er was still draped over the armrest.

Instead, they sat on that small sofa by the floor-to-ceiling windows.

One sitting and holding the other, they just squeezed together in this small, soft space, leaning on each other.

Outside the window, the City beneath their feet had quietly switched to the night's initial mode.

Some streetlights and neon lights gradually lit up; looking down from the high-rise floor-to-ceiling windows, it was like a shimmering net, redrawing the outline of the entire City in the twilight.

"What do you say now? Shall we go out to eat or order takeout at home?"

Lin Xiuyuan withdrew his gaze from the night view outside the window and lowered his head to look at Lin Yun'er, who was leaning in his arms.

One hand was wrapped around her slender waist; through the bath towel, he could feel the soft yet firm curve of her waist, his fingers unconsciously pinching gently at her side.

Lin Yun'er buried her face deeper into his chest, her voice soft, carrying that unique laziness and stickiness after finishing, and she replied in a low voice, "Either is fine, it's up to you. Whatever you want to eat, I'll go with you."

"You saying that is the same as not saying anything." Lin Xiuyuan felt a bit of a headache from this "whatever."

In order to advance this decision-making process, he switched to a more specific way of asking, "Then, Yun'er, if you say we go out to eat, should we go to a restaurant for a fancy meal, or find a hot pot place to eat something hot and spicy?"

Since giving a suggestion was "whatever," then let's switch to a multiple-choice question.

And facts proved that this multiple-choice question was very effective.

Just as Lin Yun'er heard the two words "hot pot," that little head lifted her face from Lin Xiuyuan's chest and looked up at him.

A smile with a clear sense of anticipation bloomed on her face, "I don't want to eat a fancy meal anymore, let's go eat hot pot. I haven't eaten it in a long time."

That face itself, because they had just finished, had not yet fully calmed down from the blood circulation; both cheeks and lips were covered in a layer of natural moisture, red and tender to the extreme.

Coupled with the little glint in her eyes when she looked up, and the beautiful curve of her upturned mouth corners.

The lethality of this entire scene was truly not small.

Even Lin Xiuyuan, who had just been full and satisfied with her, saw this smile and the hand wrapped around her waist uncontrollably began to move around.

It slid up a few inches along the curve of her side, his fingertips gently rubbing against the boundary between the edge of the bath towel and her skin, just as he wanted to go a step further...

Then it was slapped on the back of the hand by Lin Yun'er.

With a look of feigned anger and amusement on her face, she pulled the atmosphere back from the edge of danger, "Enough! If we do it a few more times, do we still need to go out to eat tonight?"

Lin Yun'er laughed and pulled Lin Xiuyuan's hand down from her waist, then held it in her palm, not letting him move around anymore.

However, very quickly, her expression suddenly changed.

It switched from feigned anger to a kind of sharpness from thinking of something, so she tilted her head at an angle and stared into Lin Xiuyuan's eyes for two seconds.

She spoke with a teasing tone, "Wait, Xiuyuan, it wouldn't be that you were teased into a fire by that silly girl Lin Xiaolu over there, couldn't vent the fire, and then came to find me, would it?"

Lin Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment by this suddenly swerving deduction.

Before he could answer, Lin Yun'er frowned herself and overturned half of her own words, "That's not right either, you just said you slept at her place last night, it's impossible for such a thing to happen, right?"

"Oh, I guessed it, are you trying to put me and her on the bed together?"

Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she stretched out an index finger, pointing back and forth between herself and Lin Xiuyuan.

Lin Xiuyuan, who had originally wanted to explain something, felt the muscles on his face stiffen very honestly after this sentence.

Although this reaction was only a flash, in front of someone like Lin Yun'er who had long since mastered micro-expressions, it really couldn't escape her eyes.

So she immediately laughed out loud.

Afterwards, she pressed her body even tighter against Lin Xiuyuan, leaned her lips to his ear, and whispered a few words with full lethality.

"Hahaha, Xiuyuan, didn't I tell you? As long as you handle her, I'm ready anytime, good daddy."

When those very last words were spat out from Lin Yun'er's lips, the moment Lin Xiuyuan heard them, he felt a hot current in his body, rushing all the way down from his earlobes along his spine.

And then it was rock hard.

Fortunately, after Lin Yun'er finished saying this, she immediately jumped down from his arms with an agility that was not inferior to Lin Xiuyuan's reaction speed.

Barefoot, she stepped on the wooden floor, making two crisp *pat-pat* sounds, the hem of the bath towel fluttering as she ran towards the bedroom.

She didn't stop until she ran to the hallway, turned her head to look at Lin Xiuyuan, and laughed in a light and provocative tone, "Hahaha, I won't tease you anymore. I'm going to change clothes and tidy up, and by the way, get yours ready. You wait until your temper cools down before you come in to change clothes."

Lin Xiuyuan looked down at the unsightly status of a certain part of his body, and then looked up at Lin Yun'er's back as she disappeared in a flash.

He took a deep breath, and then said to the empty Living Room in a tone of near resignation.

"Just wait, you all just wait for me."

Half an hour later.

The two people who had finished changing clothes finally walked out of the Apartment one after the other.

Although they were going out, Lin Yun'er still didn't wear makeup; she just chose a beige turtleneck sweater and a pair of dark blue slim-fit jeans with a completely bare face, and finally draped a long black coat over the outside.

Her long hair was scattered casually, and the whole person looked fresh and gentle.

And Lin Xiuyuan, under her pressure, abandoned his short-sleeved T-shirt, changed into a crew-neck sweatshirt and a jacket, and finally added a down jacket.

A clean and sunny boy.

After getting in the car, Lin Xiuyuan drove the car slowly out of the Apartment's underground garage, merged into the traffic that was not congested but not empty either, and headed straight for a nearby Haidilao.

Yes, Haidilao.

Originally, Lin Xiuyuan's first choice was to go to a hot pot restaurant near Seoul University.

He had discovered that shop by chance before; the storefront was small, hidden in a small alley, and the taste was very authentic.

As it turned out, Lin Yun'er thought about it and decided against it, after all, in that area near Seoul University, this time of day was exactly the peak period for students to get out of class and come out to forage for food.

The density of people coming and going on the street was too high, and the risk of being recognized if she ran to such a place to eat was really too high.

Who let Lin Yun'er's face have such a high degree of recognizability, even if it were placed in any corner of downtown Seoul, it wouldn't be considered low.

If she were accidentally filmed and posted online, tomorrow would be another not-so-small trending search.

So, after weighing the pros and cons, she decided to just eat at the nearby Haidilao; although the taste was not as unique as that small shop, it won out in convenience, safety, and having private rooms.

There was no need to look around in fear and trepidation.

And in order not to make the two people's dinner look like some secret date, the two of them also tacitly called out Kim Taeyeon, who had been squatting at home for many days and was about to turn herself into a "husband-gazing" (father-gazing) stone.

And the moment this little leader got into the car, before her butt was even settled, she couldn't wait to lean forward half her body, squeezing her head into the gap between the two front seats.

She pursued a matter with Lin Xiuyuan in a very serious tone, "Xiuyuan, did you give Hela a birthday gift?"

You must know, a few days ago was exactly Hela's birthday.

Kim Taeyeon and the others originally had a plan, thinking of letting Lin Xiuyuan bring Hela over, and the sisters from both sides would gather together to properly celebrate a lively birthday for Hela.

The style of the cake had already been chosen in advance, and even the gift had been bought.

As a result, after Hela learned about this matter on her end, she thought about it and very directly expressed that she wanted to postpone her birthday, planning to spend every future birthday with Sulli.

The general meaning of what she said at the time was that she wanted to share weal and woe with Sulli.

Not asking to be born on the same year, month, and day, but asking to spend every birthday in the future with the other person, after all, they had already died together for love...

When she said these words, her tone was especially relaxed, as if she were talking about a spur-of-the-moment little idea, sending a string of messages in the chat box.

The wording was also very casual, completely without any feeling of deliberate sensationalism.

It was just that the content of those words, placed in the time and space of '26, contrasted with the reality that the two of them had experienced together, would make people feel suffocated after reading them.

And it almost made Kim Taeyeon, Dalongzai, and Krystal and others depressed.

So much so that Lin Xiuyuan, who was holding the steering wheel, laughed after hearing this question.

He glanced at Kim Taeyeon's face, which was full of nervousness and anticipation, in the rearview mirror, and nodded gently, "I sent it, I sent it. Why are you the same as YoonA? She also asked me this question before."

"It is something that needs to be commemorated." Lin Yun'er, sitting in the passenger seat, said these three words softly.

She didn't turn her head when she spoke, her gaze was still looking at the street scene outside the windshield in front, but the gentleness in her voice was real.

And after hearing Lin Xiuyuan say that he had indeed sent a gift, Kim Taeyeon finally let out a sigh of relief.

Then, following up on Lin Yun'er's previous sentence, she added, "According to what you said before, Xiuyuan, it feels like Hela and Xueqiu and the others also need an Anchor Point here, so I thought that giving a gift for their birthday could also be considered a commemoration."

Anchor Point...

Lin Xiuyuan listened to this term and tapped the steering wheel lightly.

In the back seat, Kim Taeyeon, having finished her emotional reflection, had her curiosity urge her to ask about a more specific detail, "By the way, what did you give her, Xiuyuan?"

"A string of Prayer Beads." Lin Xiuyuan answered while driving.

"What kind of Prayer Beads? Be specific, don't brush me off." Kim Taeyeon's curiosity was clearly not satisfied with such a general answer as "Prayer Beads," so she continued to press.

At this moment, the red light at the intersection ahead happened to turn on, and the flow of traffic slowly came to a stop.

Lin Xiuyuan stepped firmly on the brake, and taking advantage of this gap while waiting for the red light, he turned his head to look at the little leader in the back seat, "It's nothing, just a string of Prayer Beads that I had someone mail over from the Taihe Palace at Wudang Mountain back in my country, the Consecrated kind."

"Consecrated?" *2

These two words popped out of Lin Yun'er and Kim Taeyeon's mouths almost at the same time.

One turned her head from the passenger seat, the other leaned her head forward another half an inch from the back seat, the expressions on their faces were the same kind of confusion.

Looking at the blankness of these two people, Lin Xiuyuan realized that this term might be a bit unfamiliar to them.

So he thought about it, then changed to a metaphor, "It's the kind that has been sprinkled with holy water, enchanted, similar to the magic tools of the Daoist priests in those zombie movies, the kind that can protect people, understand now?"

He mixed concepts from three different cultural systems all together.

The result was that as soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of the two women beside him lit up almost simultaneously.

Almost in unison, they issued follow-up questions filled with exclamation and anticipation.

"Daebak, does such a thing really exist?"

"Can it really protect people?"

Looking at those two faces filled with seriousness and anticipation, Lin Xiuyuan couldn't help but laugh.

First he looked left at Lin Yun'er, then right at Kim Taeyeon's eyes in the rearview mirror.

Then he leaned his head back against the seat back and retorted in a helpless tone, "Are you crazy? These things are definitely just psychological comfort. Why ask such a simple question? You wouldn't actually believe it, would you? Where is your brain?"

Seeing that Lin Xiuyuan had stated the answer so bluntly, Lin Yun'er then leaned back against the passenger seat back, muttering, "After meeting you, my worldview has changed, where would I still have a brain?"

Before knowing Lin Xiuyuan, her understanding of this world was based on science, common sense, and the stable cognition accumulated over twenty-some years.

But after knowing Lin Xiuyuan, things like the Anywhere Door, dual time-spaces, and the Immortal Medicine Constitution.

Every one of these things shattered her worldview into pieces.

So now that this guy was telling her that Consecrated Prayer Beads could protect people, Lin Yun'er's first reaction was to actually believe it, without a shred of hesitation.

"Exactly, exactly." Kim Taeyeon nodded several times in the back seat in total agreement.

After seeing so many things that couldn't be explained by common sense with Lin Xiuyuan, she now held a sense of awe for anything supernatural.

What if it were true?

Isn't this very reasonable???

Following that, the two of them had their chatterboxes opened by this topic and began to talk over each other in the car about how to give the gift for Sulli's birthday, discussing it across the air between the back seat and the passenger seat, one sentence after another.

Lin Xiuyuan just drove the car quietly in the driver's seat, listening while occasionally chiming in a few words.

The heater in the car was on full blast, the twilight outside the window had completely sunk, and in its place was that entire stretch of brilliant lights of the Seoul night.

The direction of the car was heading all the way west.