Chapter 93

The year 2025.

Early morning, Lin Xiuyuan, who was called up in a daze, opened his eyes and looked at Krystal standing at the foot of the bed. After a long groan, he asked, "What time is it?"

"Past 9 o'clock, get up quickly, Sulli made breakfast, don't let it get cold."

Krystal was wearing a light purple nightgown, her eyes scanning a certain "high-spirited" part of Lin Xiuyuan with a hint of playfulness, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but lift into a meaningful arc.

The memories of the previous two times seemed to still linger on her lips, making her unable to help but reveal a smile.

However, seeing Lin Xiuyuan turn over and actually want to continue sleeping, her eyes flashed, and her smile grew even wider, as if she suddenly thought of something.

"Get up quickly, I still have to change clothes after breakfast. Xiuyuan, do you think I should wear an A-line skirt with black silk stockings later, or a denim skirt with fishnet stockings?"

Hmm?

The low, soft teasing fell into his ears, and Lin Xiuyuan's original intention to continue sleeping vanished instantly. He sat up abruptly. "Stockings? Where are you going?"

"There's a brand red carpet I need to walk, how about dressing sexier to give everyone a surprise?"

Looking at the heat in the boy's eyes, Krystal looked at him with a smile, her lips lifted slightly, and she hooked her fingers at him again. "Get up quickly, I can— not change clothes when I come back tonight."

"Up."

As soon as the words fell, Lin Xiuyuan sat up from the bed.

For a young man, the combination of a mature woman and black silk stockings was simply a dream lover-level temptation, and he couldn't resist it at all.

Just as Krystal wanted to tease him a few more times, Sulli's voice came from downstairs. "Xiujing, haven't you called oppa yet? I'm almost done."

"Okay, coming, coming."

After responding to Sulli downstairs, Krystal looked at Lin Xiuyuan again. She originally wanted to urge him to hurry, but seeing the "state" of his body, she had to smile helplessly.

"Go take a shower first."

As the words fell, she turned and left the bedroom, walking lightly downstairs.

Lin Xiuyuan was left looking at his "morning sign," shaking his head and laughing helplessly, then walked into the bathroom.

After a while, when Lin Xiuyuan came down from upstairs wiping his hair, he happened to see Krystal and Sulli bringing breakfast out of the kitchen.

Seeing Lin Xiuyuan, Sulli also greeted him happily. "Morning, oppa."

"Morning, thank you for your hard work, Sulli. Actually, you don't have to be busy, just order takeout."

Sitting at the dining table, Lin Xiuyuan looked at the rich Western-style breakfast on the table.

Toast, bacon, fried eggs, plus milk and coffee, very foreign, and he couldn't help but marvel.

"Sulli, where did you learn this skill? If it were Victoria, shouldn't it be a Chinese breakfast?"

Sulli, who was pouring milk, looked up and smiled cutely. "Pani unnie taught me. When I was a trainee in the early years, I was in the same dormitory as Pani unnie and Taeyeon unnie, so I learned a lot of things, hee hee."

"Oh, Tiffany."

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Lin Xiuyuan repeated the name and turned to look at Krystal, who had come out with baguette bread and purple sweet potatoes. "There's more."

"Sulli was afraid you wouldn't be full." The other party replied.

As the last breakfast dish was served, the three sat around and started a new day's breakfast.

Lin Xiuyuan took a bite of the fragrant fried toast, raised his eyebrows, and immediately gave a thumbs up. "Delicious, much more fragrant than what I eat at restaurants outside. What's the reason?"

"Honey, this is wild honey Xiujing brought, much sweeter and more fragrant than the outside." Sulli smiled.

"No wonder."

After muttering a few words, Lin Xiuyuan asked about their arrangements for the day.

Sulli thought for a while. "After I told the company about my idea, the company also agreed, so the workload started to decrease, and there's nothing busy, just rehearsing with everyone occasionally."

Her illness had actually been seen at the hospital long ago, and SM and the manager both knew about it.

So when Sulli wanted to rest for this reason, although there were some twists and turns, she was eventually allowed.

"I have a red carpet announcement, didn't I tell you?"

Krystal, who was peeling purple sweet potatoes, said, while handing the peeled purple sweet potatoes to Sulli next to her, her tone carrying a bit of inadvertent rhetorical questioning.

"What about you, do you have any dates today? I heard from Sulli about YoonA unnie looking for you yesterday, don't let this kind of thing happen here."

"Yesterday was an accident, I'll go check my phone in a while."

Lin Xiuyuan, who was teased, smiled a bit awkwardly. "But I do have an appointment today, I have lunch with YoonA here, so Sulli, are you going back to 2013 with me in a while, or are you resting here?"

Krystal heard this, glanced at him sideways, and took back the purple sweet potato she was originally going to hand to him.

She took a bite herself; it was better to eat it herself than give it to him.

"I'll go back, otherwise it will be troublesome if others can't find me."

Sulli, who was eating purple sweet potatoes, replied. She wasn't a civilian like Lin Xiuyuan; if there were some temporary schedules that needed her to fill in, she still had to go.

And so, after breakfast, the three began to get busy with their own things.

Krystal said goodbye and went back to the apartment to change clothes, but before leaving, she complained that she must move the wardrobe over next time.

And Lin Xiuyuan and Sulli, after cleaning up the kitchen, also crossed the time gate and returned to 2013.

Sulli, who returned here again, looked at the neighbor's house for the first time. "Oppa, has there been a response from the house next door?"

"Asked, negotiating, the other party's asking price is higher than mine, let's talk first, no rush."

Lin Xiuyuan's reply was met with Sulli's laughter. "Oppa, didn't you say yours is a haunted house? Isn't it normal for the neighbor's asking price to be higher?"

"Isn't a house next to a haunted house also a haunted house?"

He replied lazily.

Sulli didn't argue with this oppa of hers, but after helping him clean up the trash here,

she left the house with it.

She had to go back to the dormitory, copy and paste the 'script' on the hard drive in her hand, and transfer it to her own computer.

If she really had to write it herself, she didn't have that ability, and it would likely be a mess.

But if she copied it all at once, it would be too fake, like keeping fake accounts.

So she decided to take it slow, copy a little bit, paste a little bit, and "create" this script under the eyes of the members.

By the way, she could also take this time to seriously learn screenwriting knowledge; she couldn't be asked about it and know nothing. Lin Xiuyuan was left sitting on the sofa, taking out the phone here to check messages and calls.

Although only one night had passed, there were quite a lot of messages.

Mainly in the group chat, it was Park Jiyeon and Zheng Xiuyan discussing venture capital, and the two chatted until the early morning.

Lin Xiuyuan flipped through the chat history, fingers rubbing his chin, and suddenly remembered an emerging industry project in Seoul in 2025 he saw when scrolling through short videos a few days ago, which was much more reliable than opening a barbecue restaurant.

However, he didn't plan to mention this now; it would be better to talk in person when Park Jiyeon returned to Seoul.

Besides that, there was a text message from Lin Xiaolu.

This time she wasn't anxious, and her tone was much calmer, just simply asking when he would be free.

Lin Xiuyuan thought for a while, originally preparing to reply "tomorrow."

But finally deleted the words and re-entered: 【The video is here, 9:00 PM, see you at the tavern.】

Finally, he put the phone back on the table and turned back to 2025.

The year 2025.

Noon, cloudy and rainy day.

Lin Xiuyuan sat in the driver's seat, looked at the sky outside the window, and always felt something was wrong.

It was clearly sunny in the morning, but after a few hours, it became a torrential rain.

"This damn weather—"

He muttered a complaint.

The green light turned on, he lifted his right foot from the brake and tapped the accelerator, driving the car straight to the restaurant he had agreed on with Lin Dajun last night.

By the time he arrived near the restaurant, the rain overhead was getting heavier and heavier, and there were basically no pedestrians on the road, only cars coming and going, splashing water everywhere.

After parking the car, Lin Xiuyuan looked at the empty interior; let alone an umbrella, there wasn't even a bag.

So he had to get out of the car and run quickly into the restaurant next door.

But even if it was just for a moment, his shoulders and hair were already wet.

So when he entered the restaurant's private room and saw Lin Dajun, the other party immediately laughed out loud. "What's wrong, didn't you drive, did you come over in the rain?"

While teasing, she didn't forget to pull out a few tissues and hand them to Lin Xiuyuan, letting him wipe off the water stains.

"There's no umbrella in the car, just running these few steps made me a drowned rat." Lin Xiuyuan complained helplessly while taking the tissues to wipe his hair and shoulders.

"Call me to come out and pick you up."

Lin Dajun was still smiling, but didn't help him wipe it herself, just reminded him casually, "You haven't wiped this part dry yet."

"Forget it, if you come out to pick me up, videos will be flying everywhere in a few minutes."

After a simple wipe, Lin Xiuyuan looked at the other party. "Why did you choose this place? It's a bit far, is there anything delicious?"

"This is a Sichuan restaurant, didn't you notice?"

Lin Yun'er smiled and raised her chin, signaling him to look at the menu.

Lin Xiuyuan, who finally reacted, looked down and saw that the menu was indeed printed with familiar Chinese characters; boiled beef,

Mao Xue Wang, spicy chicken, rows of dish names made him a bit nostalgic.

Lin Xiuyuan, who hadn't eaten Sichuan food for a while, asked a stupid question. "Is it authentic?"

Then Lin Yun'er chuckled. "You're asking me? I don't know much either, but the taste is not bad, although it's not as good as what I ate when I worked in Chengdu before, it's considered okay."

"Okay, let's order first."

Lin Xiuyuan, having received the answer, picked up the menu.

Lin Yun'er left this choice to Lin Xiuyuan. "You order, I just want a portion of boiled beef."

Lin Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows, nodded, ordered a few dishes he wanted to eat, and then ordered a pitcher of sour plum juice, before closing the menu.

As the waiter came in and went out, the two could finally talk about the purpose of this meal.

Lin Yun'er, who spoke first, looked to the side. "Xiuyuan, you asked me if I had any regrets last night, right?"

"Mm."

This question was suddenly raised by Lin Xiuyuan to the other party after hearing "charge."

Later, Lin Yun'er didn't answer, just remained silent for a moment, then ended the call by saying it was a bit late and they would meet for a meal tomorrow to talk, and then it was now.

"Although I don't know why you asked that, I do have quite a few regrets, but I don't want to tell you."

Compared to Lin Yun'er's friends, the time they had known each other was extremely short, like a fleeting glance.

And Lin Yun'er hadn't even talked about these things with them, so how could she tell Lin Xiuyuan?

That the two could become familiar in this short time already made Lin Yun'er herself feel very surprised.

So she quickly resolved this issue and changed to another topic. "However, I am a bit interested in the 'acting guidance' you mentioned. After recording that video for you last time, I thought about it later and actually gained something."

"Review the old and learn the new." Lin Xiuyuan threw out a sentence.

"Yes, that's it." Lin Yun'er smiled.

Then she looked at him. "So the offline guidance you mentioned, I thought about it last night, and I can accept it, consider it waking myself up."

However, she wasn't without conditions.

"However, the premise is that you first introduce that girl to me."

"The one who looks like Jessica."

Lin Xiuyuan, playing with the bowl and chopsticks, said softly.

This time Lin Yun'er didn't hide anything and directly stated her thoughts. "Mm, after seeing the other person that night, it gave me the illusion of traveling through time, so I want to see the other person."

Straight to the point, she didn't want to nag with Lin Xiuyuan anymore.

Because she thought about it last night and felt that she had been too close to this boy recently, and needed to keep some distance.

Although that figure did make ripples in her heart, it wasn't a must-see; although that emotion was annoying, it would be fine after a while.

After hearing the change in Lin Yun'er's tone, Lin Xiuyuan laughed abnormally.

Hey, he was originally a bit hesitant, after all, this person in front of him had no problems with her career or life, and was very fulfilled, so it was useless to pull her into the sect.

As a result, she actually spoke like this.

Alright, that won't do.

Lin Xiuyuan, a young man's temper, suddenly flared up.

"Sure, by the way, let's meet your student together."

Since your life is beautiful, then I'll add some chaos to your life. I originally just wanted to come over to get the video, but now it's good, direct real-life offline teaching, I guess Lin Xiaolu will be very happy.

The year 2013.

Evening.

Lin Xiaolu, who had finished her commercial performance, sat in the nanny car returning to the dormitory, looking down at the reply Lin Xiuyuan sent.

A familiar figure suddenly leaned over beside her; it was Sunny.

"YoonA, can I go together?"

As the sect leader of the Gossip Sect, Sunny felt that she couldn't get the gossip of the members around her, which was really a bit shameful.

"This time I'm asking for help, unnie, don't add to the chaos."

Lin Yun'er smiled bitterly, pressed the phone screen off, pouted, and didn't dare to agree.

Just like the fact that she passed Jin Enshu's preliminary review, she didn't tell the members, just told Lin Xiuyuan, and then Zheng Xiuyan and Sulli knew.

Even the company only learned of this tentative result and didn't know Jin Enshu's words at all.

Some things need to be low-key.

Lin Yun'er still understood the principle that things are achieved through secrecy.

After returning to the dormitory, she hurriedly took a shower, changed into a set of casual clothes, waved goodbye to Kim Taeyeon and others, and went out straight to the tavern.

Although there was still some time before the agreed 9 o'clock, she couldn't wait anymore.

And when she arrived at the tavern door after 8 o'clock, she found that the tavern lights were already on, so she made a turn and turned into the complex.

Turned off the engine, got out of the car, and quickly arrived at the tavern door.

Just before knocking on the door, she suddenly looked up at the sign overhead.

【Jieyou】

Can it really relieve worries for oneself?