Peninsula: I run a bed and breakfast on Jeju Island

"Looking forward to your new song. I'll definitely support you when it comes out," Li Ran said with a smile, scratching Brin's chin.

"Kamsamida." Lee Ji-eun nodded.

"Did you go out to get a haircut?"

Lee Ji-eun then noticed his hairstyle.

She was so focused on whether Li Ran noticed her overly relaxed behavior that she didn't really pay much attention to his hairstyle.

"Yes." He nodded. "I got it cut at a barbershop nearby."

"How does it look?"

Lee Ji-eun glanced at it again, then nodded. "Pretty good."

"Right!" Li Ran tilted her head slightly. "At first, the hairstylist wanted to give me a natural birth hairstyle, but I didn't agree. In the end, they gave me this split top."

"What?!" Lee Ji-eun blinked, thinking she had misheard.

"Oh, I forgot you don't call it that here." Li Ran realized that "natural birth head" seemed to be a nickname given by netizens.

"It's the kind of hairstyle where the bangs hang straight down and the hair is soft and flat against the scalp."

He held it up to his head.

"Don't you think it looks a bit like the baby hair that comes out of a newborn baby after a natural birth?"

Lee Ji-eun pursed her lips and began to imagine the hairstyle Lee Ran had described, then she thought of people with that hairstyle she had met in real life.

emmmmm

She tried hard to suppress her laughter.

"Cough cough cough..." She seemed to have choked on her saliva.

After a while, she gave Li Ran a light, disdainful look.

"That's called a 'perm'."

"And you'd better not say that in public. It doesn't look good."

Li Ran shrugged.

This "straight perm" is one of the common hairstyles for men in the peninsula.

Many male protagonists in Korean comics also have this hairstyle.

Their aesthetic here favors "double-door refrigerators," with a small top and wide shoulders.

They want this hairstyle to make their head look smaller and their shoulders look wider, but the actual effect is often that their head and neck are the same size.

Li Ran casually picked up an orange from the coffee table and peeled it.

The orange peel stained his fingernails yellow.

He roughly picked out the white pith from the orange, then swallowed it in one gulp.

He chewed, and orange juice burst out in his mouth.

Lee Ji-eun raised an eyebrow. "You just stuff it in one bite? Don't you eat it segment by segment?"

"Isn't this something you can eat however you like? You can eat it segment by segment or swallow it whole." He threw the orange peel into the trash can next to him.

Lee Ji-eun glanced at him and then took an orange from the coffee table.

She peeled the orange open, popping each segment into her mouth one by one. "Wouldn't it be easy to choke if you swallowed it whole?"

"No way!" He shook his head. "It's so much more satisfying to swallow it whole! The juice of the whole orange bursts out."

He picked up an orange from the coffee table and popped it into his mouth in the same manner.

"See! I'm not choking now..."

"Cough cough..."

Li Ran felt a seed slide down her throat.

Lee Ji-eun raised an eyebrow, rested her chin on her hand, and stared at him quietly, a slight smile playing on her lips.

He covered his mouth with his hand, coughed a few times, and then felt that his hands were a little wet, so he took out a tissue and wiped them.

Noticing her gaze, Li Ran blushed.

"That was purely accidental. I'm not like this before."

His tone now sounds like he's saying "I'm too tired today, I'm not feeling well" while in bed.

"Tsk." Lee Ji-eun switched hands and rested her chin on her hand, saying nothing but as if she had said everything.

"I don't usually do this! This is a very low-probability event." Li Ran took another orange, peeled it, and put it in her mouth.

His cheeks puffed out, and his speech became somewhat unclear.

Then came some incomprehensible statements, such as that this method is more efficient and tastes better.

The air was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Lee Ji-eun smiled slightly, lowered her head to finish the remaining segments of the orange, and then threw the seeds and peel into the trash can.

Brin jumped onto the coffee table, sat down next to the orange peel, and sniffed it.

"Brin, come down. Why did you climb up there?" Li Ran noticed it and pulled it off the coffee table.

"So, what are your plans for this afternoon? I've noticed you spend most of your time at the guesthouse, except for getting a haircut today," Lee Ji-eun asked.

He put Brin on the ground, gently stroked its head, and said, "Maybe it'll keep writing."

"Typing?" She blinked.

"It's an online novel that's currently being serialized, and it needs to be updated daily."

Lee Ji-eun raised an eyebrow. "You also write web novels?"

"A side business," he shrugged. "The bed and breakfast business isn't doing too well, so we have to think of other ways to make a living."

She looked around and nodded; indeed.

She had heard from Zhenli that the guesthouse was pretty good, but not many people booked it.

However, this is actually a plus for these artists.

She turned to look at Li Ran and saw him teasing Brin, twirling his finger in front of it.

The next second, she saw that Brin was fast asleep.

"How did you do that?" She opened her mouth slightly, looking at him with some surprise.

"You drugged me?"

"How could that be!" Li Ran rolled her eyes.

"I guess that's one of my abilities. I can calm them down," he said, smacking his lips.

"I don't know the specific principle behind it either."

Lee Ji-eun squinted at him, and after a while asked, "You can't possibly do that to people, can you?"

Li Ran was slightly taken aback. "I've never actually tried it with a human before. But I feel like it should be even more difficult."

"After all, human minds are too complicated, unlike the simple minds of animals."

"If we were to test it on people, I feel like it might just be to let them relax?" he said uncertainly.

He glanced at Lee Ji-eun beside him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I definitely won't suddenly hypnotize you."

He regretted it as soon as he said it.

Okay, okay, here comes the moment when someone with mediocre emotional intelligence realizes they've said the wrong thing.

Sometimes he even wants to slap himself.

How should this be understood?

Will I hypnotize you suddenly, but gradually? Or do I have the ability to hypnotize you, so you should be careful?

Lee Ji-eun is a celebrity and a woman, so she takes safety quite seriously.

What does it mean for a man he's only known for a short time to say such a thing?

Are you plotting something?

A jumble of random thoughts burst into his mind.

But he couldn't think of any remedy, and he opened his mouth for a long time without thinking of what to say.

Lee Ji-eun breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Lee Ran say those words.

Based on what she had learned over the past few days and Choi Jin-ri's assessment of him, she knew that Li Ran was definitely not someone with ulterior motives.

Lee Ji-eun's overall impression of him was that he was a rather lazy young man with a kind heart.

However, upon suddenly hearing that he possessed this ability, she still felt a bit uneasy.

Li Ran's directness actually made people think he had no bad intentions.

If he really had such intentions and said such things, and I became wary, wouldn't it be more difficult for him to succeed?