Hancheng: There is a door between me and the future

Chapter 9 Krystal's Carpe Diem
2013 was a year of great changes on the world stage, with many major events happening one after another.

Girls' Generation's ascent to the top seems insignificant in comparison.

But some things, even if they are just a trivial matter to the whole world, can be a turning point in someone's life, a glory and opportunity that cannot be ignored.

For example, at this moment, the members of Girls' Generation are waiting to go on stage in the temporary backstage set up in the shopping mall.

The thunderous cheers outside were all for them.

This is the enthusiasm of the fans, and it is also the best annotation of their current position at the top.

The members, who are at the peak of their popularity at this time, are casually chatting about recent interesting events, or lowering their heads to handle their own affairs, looking confident and calm.

Among them, a figure suddenly leaned close to Jessica's ear and asked in an excited gossipy tone, "Jessica, how are things going with Ning Yi Oppa recently? I heard that Oppa seems to have broken up with that actress from Hong Kong Island. Is this related to you?"

Hearing the voice, Jessica turned her head to look at Kim Hyoyeon who spoke, and a picture involuntarily emerged in her mind -

……

At noon on the day when the IOU incident was resolved, she returned to the old time and space and prepared to say goodbye to Lin Xiuyuan and go home.

But before leaving, I couldn't help but ask a few more questions.

"Lin Xiuyuan, I've taken care of things for you. Now we can be considered partners."

"What do you want to say?"

"I want to know when you will open the other side of the door completely to me."

"Let me think about it."

Jessica Jung could understand Lin Xiuyuan's answer.

Because if it were her, she would even take this secret into the coffin alone, so after getting this answer, she did not continue to ask.

He was also very generous and left Lin Xiuyuan a check for the same amount as the IOU.

She was ready before he even opened his mouth.

I don't know if it was because of the check or for some other reason.

Just as Jessica Jung opened the door and prepared to leave, Lin Xiuyuan stopped her, his tone joking but with a hint of meaning, "By the way, your future boyfriend who is pulling you into this is named Quan Ningyi. I heard that the member who introduced you to the group later became a domestic violence victim."

……

Recalling this, Jessica Jung looked at Kim Hyoyeon and asked abruptly, "Hyoyeon, do you think you will commit domestic violence in the future?"

"Me? Domestic violence? Hey, Xika, what crazy things are you talking about?"

Kim Hyoyeon, who had come here to get some gossip, was left in tears and laughter by this remark. "I wouldn't do that, but I won't let anyone abuse me either. Oh, why are you saying this now? I don't even know where your boyfriend is. Unlike you, you and Oppa are already..."

"No, I have nothing to do with him."

Jessica interrupted her calmly.

"Ah, weren't you having a happy chat with Oppa before? Why did it suddenly become like this?"

"No, we've always been just friends. You're just mistaking it for something else."

Her tone was calm, yet it carried a sense of distance that was difficult to conceal.

After saying this, he lowered his head, unlocked the screen, and looked at the dialog box inside.

In the dialog box, she sent many messages to another person, but the other person never replied.

So he couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly and muttered a few words softly.

Kim Hyoyeon on the side originally wanted to ask more questions, but finally stopped talking.

Because the other person's expression had already told her that this topic was over. Meanwhile, Lin Xiuyuan, who had never replied to Jessica Jung's letter, was in a time and space more than ten years away from her, staying with her older sister Krystal.

"So this is the job you told me to do."

Lin Xiuyuan was holding takeout and fruit in his hands, and looked suspiciously at the bustling staff around the crew. No one noticed them.

A week has passed since the day I met the other party.

Lin Xiuyuan, who had not received a call, was not in a hurry. He went back and forth between the apartment and the villa to familiarize himself with the situation in the new time and space.

Until this morning, he didn't receive a call from Jessica, but he received a call from Krystal.

She said she had a job for him, and asked him to go to a designated restaurant to pack up some fast food, and also to buy some fruit and come to see her.

After arriving, Krystal directly told Lin Xiuyuan that this would be his future job.

This made Lin Xiuyuan a little confused and even more difficult to understand.

Krystal, who accepted the food and fruit, smiled. "Isn't it great? A delivery job with flexible hours. You only need to take care of my lunch and dinner, and the occasional afternoon tea. The rest of the time you can arrange yourself. How relaxing."

"This is a part-time job." Lin Xiuyuan said.

"It doesn't matter if it's part-time or full-time, I'll pay you enough anyway."

After saying this, Krystal looked up at the boy, her eyes flickering with an ambiguous expression. "Besides, you want this job just to be close to me or unnie, right? As long as I give you this opportunity, it doesn't matter whether you have a job or not."

"what?"

Lin Xiuyuan was stunned. He didn't expect that the other party would reveal what happened a few days ago in one sentence.

Seeing the uneasy reaction of the young boy, Krystal smiled even more happily.

"Who can't see through your little tricks? I don't know what you're thinking, but the IOU that's been kept for over a decade shows that you and your uncle are both good people. So you don't have any bad intentions, so why not give you a chance?"

Lin Xiuyuan, who was in his early 20s, didn't have such a calm mindset, so when he found out he had been exposed, his first thought was to ask, "How did you know that?"

He never considered the possibility that the other party was trying to cheat him.

"Is it difficult? I wasn't paying much attention at the cafe and was fooled by you. But when I got home and thought about it carefully, I realized that whether it was your clothes or your little trick that got from me to you, it wasn't hard to see through at all. I just don't know what you're trying to do."

As she opened her lunch box, she looked at him and asked, "If I ask, will you tell me?"

Lin Xiuyuan shook his head.

"Is it a bad thing?"

Shake his head again.

Krystal smiled and lowered her head to eat. "So I didn't bother to ask. I'm glad it's not a bad thing."

After the short Q&A session, Lin Xiuyuan, who was standing next to Krystal, watched her concentrate on eating, and couldn't help but think of the old times when Jessica Jung vowed "absolutely no problem".

I couldn't help but complain in my heart: Is this what you said was okay? Jessica Jung, I really believed your nonsense.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyuan looked at Krystal curiously, "Since you have seen through it, why are you still looking for me?"

"I'm just bored. You don't know, filming is so boring. It's nice to have someone to cheer me up and exercise my brain. And I really need someone to bring me food. My assistant has always been busy with this job, but he's on vacation recently. You just happened to show up, so it wouldn't be bad to fill in for him."

"Don't the crew have lunch boxes?" Lin Xiuyuan was still puzzled.

Krystal, who was poking at the fruit, had a slight twinkle in her eyes when she heard this. "Life is meant to be lived happily. Whatever you want to eat, drink, or play, you have to enjoy it in time. But you can't delay work, so I need someone to help me run errands."

Next to him, Lin Xiuyuan, who had been controlled by Krystal since they met, suddenly found a way to turn the tables.

Because of what the other party had just said, he could hear some of her flaws.

(End of this chapter)