Peninsula: It’s just a dream, are you serious?

Chapter 193 An unexpected invitation

The next night.

“Welcome~”

Chen Yan pushed open the door of the coffee shop, smiled politely at the clerk who came forward to greet him, and gave him a private room number.

The shop assistant understood and led Chen Yan towards the private room area.

Upon reaching the door of a private room, Chen Yan politely thanked them and then pushed open the door.

Inside the private room, a petite figure sat scrolling through her phone. Hearing the noise at the door, she looked up and a smile appeared on her face.

"Here you are, Xiaoyan~"

“sunny noona”.

Chen Yan smiled and greeted her, then sat down opposite the woman.

"I heard from Taeyeon that you don't drink coffee at night, so I ordered you a glass of lemonade."

"Okay, thank you, Noona."

With a smile, Chen Yan picked up his lemonade and took a small sip, but his eyes were secretly observing Lee Soon-kyu across from him.

Because this older sister's invitation really came very suddenly.

He received a message from this woman while he was having lunch at the company. She asked if he had time to meet up that evening, saying she had something she wanted to talk to him about.

Although the invitation came suddenly, Chen Yan thought about it and then accepted.

Since meeting Lee Soon-kyu, this older sister has mostly chatted with him on her phone and has never asked him to meet in person before. This is the first time.

As the saying goes, something unusual is bound to happen.

Therefore, Chen Yan even changed the time of his dinner with Park In-jae to tomorrow night, just to see what Lee Soon-kyu wanted to talk to him about.

Park In-jae: Pah! Scumbag! It's all just an excuse for prioritizing women over friends!

Little did they know that while Lee Soon-kyu was seemingly sipping his coffee, his eyes were actually fixed on Chen Yan.

Her decision to meet her younger brother that evening was not a spur-of-the-moment thing, but a well-thought-out one.

She discovered that the reason the eldest and second youngest members of the group were arguing seemed to be because of this younger brother in front of her.

Lee Soon-kyu has been thinking carefully about the events that started the day she discovered Kim Tae-yeon and Im Yoon-ah had argued, and suddenly realized something was amiss.

That day in the nanny van, after failing to get an answer from her own inquiry, Choi Soo-young tried to bring up a topic to break the ice between the two of them.

Instead of breaking the ice, Choi Soo-young was tricked by Im Yoon-ah.

But that's precisely where things go wrong.

Looking back, Lee Soon-kyu realized that the topic Choi Soo-young brought up that day wasn't actually problematic.

Talking about romance novels with Taeyeon, then casually chatting about gossip between the two of them, and then getting Yoona involved to break the ice—there's no problem with that at all.

But what's strange is that Taeyeon didn't say anything that day. Instead, Yoona, who seemed to have little to do with Chen Yan, spoke first and then launched into a little revenge.

This is totally against common sense.

The more Lee Soon-kyu thought about it, the more something seemed off, so he delved deeper into the matter.

Finally, she came up with a possibility that startled even herself:
Is Yoona into romance novels like Taeyeon?
But she hadn't noticed any signs that Yoona liked Xiaoyan before.

Lee Soon-kyu thought it over and over again, but in the end, he found that this possibility was the most plausible.

Because although she didn't find anything wrong with Yoona, what if the problem wasn't with Yoona, but with Chen Yan in front of her?
Others might not know, but she did: Chen Yan had a girlfriend, Choi Sulli.

Although Taeyeon allowed this, if it happens twice, who knows what might happen three times?

It's not easy to learn well, but it's easy to learn bad things.

What if this younger brother tries to make a move on Yoona again?

Although we don't know exactly why Yoona did it, her conflict with Taeyeon speaks volumes.

Lee Soon-kyu felt that things couldn't continue like this, otherwise Girls' Generation would soon fall apart.

That's why she suggested meeting with Chen Yan—to test the truth and also as a warning.

After gathering her thoughts, Lee Soon-kyu put down her coffee and looked at Chen Yan across from her, smiling, "Xiao Yan, how are things between you and Taeyeon lately?" "Noona and I are doing great."

Chen Yan replied with a smile, while secretly thinking, "Could it be that this older sister invited me to gossip about me and Taeyeon noona?"

Now Yoona isn't gossiping anymore, it's Lee Soon-kyu who's done it, right?

And when he thought of Lim Yoon-ah, he subconsciously recalled the dream he had last night.

Ugh, I dare not think about it any further.

Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, Chen Yan looked at Li Shungui and waited for him to continue.

Across from her, Lee Soon-kyu nodded; she knew Chen Yan was telling the truth.

As Kim Tae-yeon's roommate, she was arguably the person who could most directly perceive Kim Tae-yeon's emotional changes.

Aside from the previous issues with Sulli and the current issues with Yoona, Kim Tae-yeon has been much happier than before, and she basically has a smile on her face every day.

This is also the main reason why, even after she learned about Choi Sulli's situation, she did not rush to intervene and persuade her, but instead chose to observe silently from the sidelines.

The three of them were having a great time, and you, as an outsider, thought it wasn't right and insisted on intervening to persuade them. What kind of behavior is that?

"What about Shirley?"

"cough cough"

Chen Yan, who had just taken a sip of lemonade, choked and stared at Lee Soon-kyu with wide eyes.

Lee Soon-kyu smiled, pulled out a tissue and handed it to him, winking, "What? Xiaoyan is surprised."

Chen Yan took the tissue, wiped his mouth, and nodded.

He was genuinely surprised. He had thought that the first person to discover this would be Lee Ji-eun, or even Jung Soo-jung, who shared a room with Choi Sulli.

But I never imagined that this person would be Lee Soon-kyu.

"Nuna, how did you know?"

"Oh, I overheard Taeyeon and Sulli chatting once."

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Chen Yan almost choked on his own saliva, and his lips twitched involuntarily.

He thought the older sister had deduced it from some clues.

I never expected it to be eavesdropping.

This was the first time he had ever seen someone describe eavesdropping in such a profound and mysterious way.

"Now that Nanu knows about this, what are his thoughts?"

Chen Yan considered his words for a moment, then tentatively asked.

This was the first time that someone outside of the three of them knew about this, and that after finding out, they were able to sit here and chat peacefully without immediately attacking him.

So he also wanted to ask Lee Soon-kyu what she thought about the three of them.

After all, this was Chen Yan's first time doing something like this, and he had no experience at all.

"idea?"

Lee Soon-kyu picked up her coffee and took a sip: "I don't have any thoughts on this. Taeyeon agreed to it herself, and she seems pretty happy usually."

She paused, put down her coffee, glanced at Chen Yan, and said meaningfully:
“If Taeyeon is unhappy, then I might have a different opinion.”

Chen Yan nodded thoughtfully.

"So, Xiaoyan, you can't do anything that will make Taeyeon unhappy."

"Okay, I understand, Sunny."

"That's good."

Seeing the perfectly natural smile on Chen Yan's face, Lee Soon-kyu smiled and nodded, but secretly he was starting to have doubts.

Could it be that I'm mistaken? Did Xiaoyan not do anything to Yun'er?

(End of this chapter)