Peninsula's Life Begins in 2016

Chapter 107 You're Still the Same as When You Were a Child

Choi Sulli stared at him for two seconds, then picked up the bottle and took a big gulp.

The spicy liquid slid down her throat, and she coughed lightly, but quickly raised her head and held up her second finger.

"Secondly, did you regret being fired?"

"no."

Choi Sulli took another swig of wine.

This time, even more was poured in, and the amount of wine in the bottle visibly decreased.

"The third thing," she put down the bottle, looking directly into Jiang Yan's eyes, "Don't you feel like I've dragged you down with me?"

Jiang Yan did not answer immediately.

He unscrewed his bottle of wine, tilted his head back and took a sip, then put the bottle on the coffee table and turned to look at Choi Sulli.

"Truth, I have a question for you."

"Um?"

"If someone held a knife to my throat and forced me to take that movie role, would I accept?"

Sulli's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she blurted out, "Yes."

"Will you regret it?"

"Won't."

Jiang Yan picked up the wine bottle and gently tapped it against the bottle in her hand, producing a crisp clinking sound.

So the answer is the same.

He looked at her, a slight smile playing on his lips: "You and I are the same kind of people. We'd do anything for the people we care about. If you asked me the same questions you just asked, your answers would be the same as mine."

"So there's no need to ask anymore, let's drink."

Choi Sulli stared at him blankly.

The tears welled up in her almond-shaped eyes and eventually slid silently down her cheeks.

But she didn't cry out loud. She just wiped away her tears and then picked up the bottle and took another big gulp.

"Oh, Jiang Yan."

"Um?

'

"You baboon."

Jiang Yan shrugged, picked up the bottle, and took another sip.

"Do you know how long I've been waiting for this call from you?" Choi Sulli put the bottle on her lap, head down, her voice muffled. "From the moment I heard the news until now, I haven't been able to sleep a wink every night. I keep tossing and turning, wondering what you're doing right now, whether you're sending out resumes everywhere, whether you're humbly apologizing to people, whether it's because of me—"

As she spoke, her voice choked for a moment. She took a deep breath and continued, "But I can't call you because I'm afraid that if I call and hear your voice, I won't be able to stop crying. If you hear me crying, you'll definitely be distracted, so I'm holding back, just holding back."

She looked up at him, her eyes blurry with tears: "Do you know how painful it is to hold back tears? Your eyes will swell, your nose will get stuffy, your throat will hurt, and even breathing will be difficult."

Jiang Yan looked at her red nose and swollen eyelids, reached out and pulled two tissues from the coffee table and handed them to her.

Choi Sulli took the tissue, covered her nose, sullenly sighed, then crumpled the tissue into a ball and threw it into the trash can. She then picked up the bottle and took a sip.

"But it doesn't matter now."

She put down the bottle, turned to look at him, tears still streaming down her face, but a smile curved her lips. "Have you taken care of everything?"

"Um""

Which company is it?

"THEBLACKLABEL, Teddy's studio."

Sulli's eyes widened suddenly. "Teddy? The one who wrote 'I Am The Best' and 'BANG BANG'?"

Teddy from BANG?

"Inside."

"Daibak—" Choi Sulli murmured, then suddenly picked up the bottle, took a big gulp, and slammed the bottle down on the coffee table. "What are we waiting for? We have to celebrate tonight! We won't leave until we're drunk!"

Jiang Yan was both amused and exasperated by her complete 180-degree change in attitude.

"Truth, you were just crying."

"Can't you be happy after you've cried?" Choi Sulli unscrewed the second bottle of wine. "Life is all about crying and laughing. After crying, you have to laugh, and after laughing, you might cry again. Anyway, you're not going anywhere today, you're just going to drink with me."

Jiang Yan rubbed his forehead and sighed helplessly.

Lin Xiaolu looked at Cui Xueli and then at Jiang Yan, feeling that something was amiss.

Over the next hour and a half, two more empty wine bottles appeared on the coffee table.

Half of the seaweed rice rolls were eaten, and the stir-fried rice cakes became hard because they had cooled down. Choi Sulli poked them several times with her chopsticks in disgust, but in the end, Kang Yeon took them to the microwave and heated them up for two minutes.

Sulli's alcohol tolerance is not bad, but it's not great either.

After three bottles of wine, her cheeks were flushed a light pink, and her eyes were a little dazed.

She leaned against the sofa armrest, holding a cushion in her arms, and tilted her head to look at Jiang Yan.

"Jiang Yan".

"Um?

'

"Did you contact Teddy yourself?"

Jiang Yan paused slightly.

He thought of Yoona, IU, the two USB drives, and the road that had been paved so smoothly.

But Jiang Yan didn't want to tell anyone about it, especially Cui Xueli.

If Sulli knew that Yoona had helped her so much, given her personality, she would definitely feel that she owed Yoona a huge favor.

In that case, Sulli will behave differently when facing Yoona in the future.

Moreover, the real reason why Lim Yoona helped him was never just because of Choi Sulli.

This relationship is too complicated, so complicated that Jiang Yan doesn't want anyone to get involved.

Jiang Yan picked up his drink, took a sip, and after clearing his mind, said, "It wasn't me who contacted him. It was Teddy who heard about my situation and knew that I had done a few songs at SM, so he took the initiative to contact me. After listening to the two new songs I made, he told me directly, 'Come to my place.'"

Choi Sulli blinked, as if trying to discern whether his words were true or false.

After a while, she nodded with a smile and then reached for the fourth bottle of liquor.

Jiang Yan grabbed her hand and said, "Zhenli, that's enough."

"You're still far from it." Choi Sulli pushed his hand away, unscrewed the bottle cap, poured him a small half-glass, and poured herself a small half-glass as well. "I know you can hold your liquor well, and I'm not trying to get you drunk. I just want to—"

She paused in pouring the wine, then put down the bottle and looked up at him.

"I just want to spend more time with you."

The living room fell silent.

When Lin Xiaolu saw this scene, she finally realized where her uneasy feeling came from. Just as she was about to jump onto the table to block Jiang Yan's view...

Choi Sulli suddenly spoke, breaking the somewhat awkward atmosphere, "Jiang Yan, those years in the orphanage were the happiest days of my life. Although we had nothing back then, I wasn't afraid at all, because I knew that no matter what happened, you would stand in front of me."

She paused, then continued, "After you moved away, I thought I would never see you again in this lifetime. But then you came to SM, and just like when we were kids, you stood silently in front of me."

"So?" Jiang Yan looked at her.

"So—" Choi Sulli looked up and met his gaze, "I want to ask you a question."

"Go ahead and ask."

"Jiang Yan, do you like me?"

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