Peninsula: My cheat code is unscientific

Chapter 37 Heart palpitations
A few seconds later, Taeyeon's voice came again, her tone noticeably weaker, carrying a soft, almost pleading quality:

"Then...then you must remember to take good care of me...Yoona..."

"Mmm, don't worry, unnie."

"Please, please remember to take care of me."

"Okay, okay, unnie, I've got your back."

"You absolutely, positively, must remember!"

"Alas, alas, unnie, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of you," Yoona said sincerely, almost as if she were swearing an oath to the heavens.

After a few more words, the call finally ended. Yoona put down her phone, patting her chest with lingering fear: "Phew...that scared me to death..."

At that moment, Jiang Che, who had been listening to the whole thing from the floor, asked, "Yoona, so what is the content of the project?"

Yoona, still holding the hand that had been patting her chest, slowly turned her head upon hearing this: "Don't worry, don't worry, it's your forte. I definitely won't let you down, don't you trust me!"

Jiang Che twitched the corners of his mouth and only gave her a meaningful monosyllabic reply: "Heh."

Meanwhile, on the other end of the phone.

The moment Kim Tae-yeon pressed the hang-up button, the soft, coquettish expression on her face vanished instantly. She gently raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a meaningful smile.

Fast forward a few days, and "Running Man" really pulled it together quickly, coordinating the schedule so that today is the recording day.

Early in the morning, Jiang Che stood in front of the mirror in the entryway, looking at her bare face with worry. The thought of being showered with compliments again if she didn't wear makeup this time gave her a headache.

But he didn't know how to do makeup, so he asked Yoona for help? The thought was immediately killed by him—what girl doesn't know how to do makeup? That would be self-destructive.

Fine, let's just go with the praise mode then. He gritted his teeth, grabbed the suitcase Yoona had packed for him, and was about to open the door.

"stop!"

Yoona, who had just finished washing up and had a bare face, rushed over and grabbed him.

"You're really planning to go out like this?" Yoona's voice rose eight octaves as she pointed at her face in the mirror, heartbroken. "Going out without makeup? Doesn't Yoona have any dignity? Do you want tomorrow's trending topic to be 'Yoona appears at the airport looking haggard, suspected of heartbreak'?"

Jiang Che blinked, trying to play dumb and get away with it: "Huh? Oh... I forgot."

Yoona rolled her eyes at his self-righteous "forgot," and impatiently pushed him onto the sofa next to her, pinning his bangs back with a hair clip: "Sit still! Close your eyes! Don't move!"

After saying that, she turned and rushed into the bedroom, then rushed out again with a delicate makeup bag in her arms.

Jiang Che closed his eyes tightly on the sofa. He could feel Yoona very close to him, carrying a faint fragrance.

"Foundation...a thin layer is fine...blush...here..." Yoona muttered to herself as she applied the product. Because his eyes were closed, Jiang Che's senses were amplified, allowing him to clearly feel Yoona's breath brushing against his forehead and temples, her scent, and the rustling of her clothes as she adjusted her position.
The slight coolness of her fingertips touching her face caused Jiang Che's eyelashes to tremble slightly, almost uncontrollably.

"Hey, open your eyes... don't move... it's time to curl your eyelashes!" Yoona's voice was also a little tense. She gently supported Jiang Che's chin with one hand to keep it still, and brought the small eyelash curler closer with the other hand, making the two of them even closer.

Looking at this legendary, divine face, Jiang Che felt his heart pounding uncontrollably. He tried to clear his mind and silently recited the core socialist values.

Yoona's gaze inevitably fell upon Jiang Che's open eyes. Although they were her own doe eyes, they now seemed to hold the shimmering light of the entire Milky Way.

Yoona's heart skipped a beat. She quickly fixed her eyelashes, grabbed the lipstick, and shoved it into Jiang Che's hand. "Put it on yourself! Just the last step!" Without waiting for Jiang Che's reaction, she turned and hurried towards her bedroom.

"Hurry up, don't dawdle. Your manager should be here soon!" With a bang, she slammed the bedroom door shut from the inside, cutting off everything outside.

Jiang Che held the lipstick, still warm from Yoona's fingertips, and stared blankly at the closed door, his ears belatedly starting to burn.

He shook his head, as if trying to shake off those messy feelings, and stiffly applied that bright red lipstick to his lips in front of the mirror.

Looking at his face in the mirror, he muttered to himself, "Truly a scourge to the country..." After finishing, he picked up his lipstick and hair clip, grabbed his backpack, and immediately went out.

Hearing the apartment door close, Yoona came out of the bedroom and sat down at the dining table. However, her attention was clearly not on breakfast, and her cheeks were flushed, so it was hard to tell what she was thinking.

The black van drove smoothly towards Incheon Airport. The manager glanced at Yoona sitting quietly in the back seat through the rearview mirror and smiled, saying, "Our Yoona looks great today, and her makeup is perfect, it's just..."

Her gaze fell on Yoona's lips, which were full of color but seemed a little too bold at the edges, and she smiled gently, "It's just that the lipstick seems to be a little bit lacking?"

Jiang Che's heart skipped a beat, but she maintained her obedient expression: "Yes, unnie, I'll fix it right away." As she spoke, she took out her lipstick to repair it.

After watching the video, her manager asked another question that had been lingering in her mind for a long time: "Yoona, why did you take this episode of 'Running Man'? Didn't I tell you before that the planning for this episode was terrifying?"

Jiang Che froze as he applied the ointment. "What kind of plan is this? Yoona didn't tell me! She only said she wouldn't trick me, but judging from my manager's attitude, I think I've really been tricked?"

Seeing that her manager was still waiting for her answer, she had no choice but to start making things up again, "Oh, haha, well, I just wanted to challenge myself, haha."

Seeing the "you're so brave" look on his manager's face, Jiang Che chuckled dryly, his voice growing softer and softer.

The car fell silent again. Jiang Che stared at the street scene rushing past the window. The distraction he had been having while putting on makeup had long been buried by what seemed to be a trap set by Yoona.

At the VIP entrance of Incheon Airport, the "Running Man" program's logo was clearly visible. Kang Cheol had just stepped out of the car, and before he could even adjust his Yoona-style smile, he felt a gust of wind sweep past him!

"Yoona!"

A cheerful voice rang out, and immediately a slender yet strong arm tightly wrapped around his arm.

Jiang Che looked closely and saw it was Sunny. The girl who used to be the tallest member of the group was dressed in simple sportswear today, clearly having just arrived. Her usually crescent-shaped eyes on her clean face had turned into full moons due to anxiety. She clung tightly to Jiang Che's arm, as if grasping at a lifeline.

(End of this chapter)