Peninsula: Starting with the nation's first love, the white moonlight

Chapter 85 The Hardcore "Meeting the Parents"

The car was still warm and cozy, but the atmosphere had become very subtle.

Li Luran sat silently in front, not daring to make a sound.

Just from Kim Tae-yeon's familiar tone and the resemblance between the two, he could guess that the girl named Xia Yan in the back seat was probably Kim Tae-yeon's younger sister.

Kim Tae-yeon was pondering what kind of explanation to come up with to deal with the current situation.

To avoid suspicion, she had deliberately parked her car on a street corner, a block away from the glasses shop.

Despite all my careful planning, I still managed to get caught red-handed by that little devil, Kim Ha-yeon.

"That—Xia Yan, actually he—"

Before Kim Tae-yeon could even utter her prepared excuse, Kim Ha-yeon's questioning voice rang out: "Unnie, tell me honestly, is he your boyfriend?"

"What?! That can't be right!" Kim Tae-yeon was so shocked she almost jumped out of the driver's seat.

However, after denying it, she quietly added in her heart: At least not yet.

"If he's not a male relative, then why is he, a grown man, sitting in the passenger seat?" Kim Ha-yeon crossed her arms, clearly not so easily fooled. "Besides, you drove all the way from Seoul to Jeonju, and instead of parking in front of your house, you secretly parked on this back street. How do you explain that?"

"Xia Yan, you've really misunderstood. His name is Li Luran, and we're just ordinary friends."

"Just friends? Unnie, you're kidding me!"

Kim Ha-yeon scrutinized the two "suspects" like a little detective. "Think about it yourself, what ordinary friend would sit in your passenger seat? Even Ji-yong oppa wanted to sit there last time, but you wouldn't let him."

Kim Tae-yeon was rendered speechless by her own younger sister's words.

Li Luran sat quietly in front, listening to the two sisters exchanging witty banter, and found the scene rather amusing.

However, he couldn't interrupt, so he could only try his best to minimize his presence.

"Hey! Kim Ha-yeon, you don't even believe what your unnie says anymore?" Kim Tae-yeon was at her wit's end, so she forced herself to maintain her unnie authority, putting on a serious face and saying, "He's an exchange student from China, and he's just taking advantage of his vacation to visit Jeonju. I was on my way home anyway, so I gave him a ride. It's that simple. Understand?"

After twenty minutes of repeated explanations, and with Captain Kim swearing oaths repeatedly, Kim Ha-yeon finally reluctantly accepted the premise that they were just ordinary friends.

Just when Kim Tae-yeon thought the crisis was temporarily over, someone suddenly knocked lightly on the passenger side window from the outside.

Immediately afterward, before the people inside the car could react, the passenger door was yanked open from the outside.

"Taeyeon, the car's been parked here for ages, why aren't you at the store yet? Dad was just nagging about it—"

Jin Zhiyong's hand was still gripping the car door handle, but he was frozen in place.

He stared wide-eyed at the strange man sitting in the passenger seat with suspicion.

"Who are you?"

"Oppa?"

"Oppa!"

The two sisters in the car recognized who it was at the same time and shouted out in unison.

Hearing the noise from the back seat, Jin Zhiyong peeked out and discovered that his younger sister, Jin Xiayan, was also in the car. His face darkened completely! He also became increasingly hostile towards the motionless stranger sitting in the passenger seat.

It's one thing to have an ambiguous relationship with his own younger sister, but now he's even got his younger sister in the car! Is this guy planning to take them all down with him? Does he really think the men of the Jin family are just for show?

Li Luran was completely numb at that moment!

I was just interrogated by a young girl for twenty minutes, as if I were a criminal.

Although Kim Tae-yeon did all the explaining, he was already exhausted just listening to her.

Now, things are really messed up. One problem after another has arisen out of nowhere: a menacing "brother-in-law." Who can he turn to for justice?

"Xia Yan, and Tae Yan, you two go to the store first."

Jin Zhiyong looked at his two younger sisters and forced a smile.

Then he slowly turned his head to look at Li Luran, his eyes icy cold, "You come over here too!"

After saying that, he slammed the car door shut.

Li Luran could only cast a pleading look at Kim Tae-yeon.

Kim Tae-yeon is now in a precarious situation, barely able to save herself.

She clasped her hands together and gave him an apologetic smile.

Li Luran's heart sank, while Jin Xiayan looked on with a gloating expression.

She patted Kim Tae-yeon on the shoulder, then peeked at Lee Lu-ran in front of her.

"Let's go, unnie, and this oppa whose name we don't know yet. I bet Jiyong oppa and dad have a lot of questions for you right now."

"You two are on your own, hehe."

Kim Ha-yeon, like a gust of wind, pushed open the car door and ran away, leaving the two people in the car awkwardly staring at each other.

"Li Luran, I'm so sorry." Kim Tae-yeon slumped dejectedly onto the steering wheel. "The two who ran away just now, the one who ran away was my younger sister Kim Ha-yeon, and the one who knocked on the door was my dear oppa Kim Ji-yong."

"They've definitely misunderstood our relationship. But don't worry, I'll explain everything to Dad when we get inside."

Li Luran leaned back in his seat, utterly dejected, and looked up at the car roof: "Taeyeon, how are you going to explain things now that things have come to this?"

"They've probably already imagined everything that's going on between us, so no matter what you say now, they'll probably think we're making up stories together."

"Let's go. Whether we stick our necks out or not, we'll get stabbed anyway." Li Luran sighed and decisively pushed open the door and got out of the car.

"Anyway, we're both upright and have nothing to hide."

Li Luran walked confidently ahead, her back ramrod straight.

Looking guilty, Kim Tae-yeon followed closely behind him like a timid wife, her head bowed.

Li Luran pushed open the glass door and walked into the shop called EyeBis.

He glanced around briefly and found that the store's layout and furnishings were not much different from those of a typical traditional eyewear store.

Various styles of eyeglass frames and sunglasses are displayed in the glass cabinet.

But the only and most special thing about this place is the four walls inside the store.

Almost every corner of the store was filled with Girls' Generation merchandise.

To be precise, it's all individual posters and album inserts of Kim Tae-yeon, as well as commemorative photos from various periods since her debut. It's practically a mini Kim Tae-yeon personal museum.

There were still quite a few young tourists in the store, taking photos and checking in with their phones.

As soon as Kim Tae-yeon entered the room, Kim Ji-yong, who was guarding the door, pulled her into the back room.

Li Luran was left standing there, so he simply acted like an ordinary tourist, taking pictures around with his phone, which also fulfilled the task Zhang Kai had given him.

As he was taking pictures, a composed middle-aged man walked up to him. He stared at Li Luran for a while, and finally asked in a deep voice, "You must be Li Luran?"