Chapter 108: The “trouble” Of The 2013 Time-space Little Team
Just as Lin Xiuyuan was being teased as a male model by several “big sisters” over there in 2025, on the other end of the time-space in 2013, Jung Soo Yeon also gathered the small team from this side and quietly came to that familiar small tavern.
“Older sister, what exactly is going on today?”
Lin Xiaolu, who originally had dance practice scheduled for the afternoon, didn’t expect that she had just warmed up when Jung Soo Yeon suddenly raided the practice room and forcibly dragged her here.
Then, as soon as she pushed open the door of the tavern, she realized that Sulli and Park Ji-yeon were already sitting inside, and she couldn’t help but look at Jung Soo Yeon even more confusedly, wanting to figure out the situation.
The watched Sulli unconsciously smiled slightly, “Yoona older sister, I don’t know either. Soo Yeon older sister just told us there was something to discuss and asked us all to come over.”
The nearby Park Ji-yeon nodded along, as she was also one of those notified.
After everyone had gathered at the small tavern, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet for a moment.
Jung Soo Yeon didn’t rush to speak, but first looked around and asked what everyone wanted to drink.
But since it was just noon now, no one dared to drink alcohol, and they all just ordered a glass of ice water or juice.
Before long, the three of them were sitting on high stools by the bar counter, watching Jung Soo Yeon behind them properly mixing juice or knocking ice cubes.
At the same time, she slowly opened her mouth, “Actually, I called you all here today because there’s a problem I want to discuss with you.”
“What problem?”
Lin Xiaolu, who was personally brought here by her, naturally had the strongest curiosity.
In contrast, Sulli and Park Ji-yeon, who arrived early, probably guessed some clues.
“Don’t you think that guy has been ‘away from home’ more and more lately?”
Jung Soo Yeon scooped ice cubes while narrowing her eyes slightly, her tone carrying a bit of chill.
But Lin Xiaolu seemed not to understand and asked, “Who?”
Fortunately, Sulli quickly explained, “Older sister, it’s oppa.”
After saying that, she even pointed to a certain spot in the tavern, afraid that Lin Xiaolu would misunderstand the direction.
Now Lin Xiaolu finally understood, nodding as if suddenly realizing, “Oh, that guy Lin Xiuyuan.”
However, since she had just joined the cult recently, she didn’t have much resonance with what Jung Soo Yeon said.
Until…
“Yoona, didn’t you have something to find him for a few days ago? That time, didn’t you experience that anxiety of not being able to contact him, the impatience?”
Jung Soo Yeon spoke faintly, her tone unhurried yet every word sharp.
“Sometimes we suddenly need some information about the future and want to inquire about the situation, but that guy disappears like a ghost. Tell me, doesn’t that count as a problem?”
After this speech, Lin Yoona, who originally didn’t have much emotional fluctuation, instantly became the one with the most resonance and the most resentment.
“Exactly, older sister is absolutely right.”
Nodding in agreement, Lin Xiaolu’s tone was full of helplessness, “Doesn’t answer the phone, doesn’t reply to messages, then makes you wait bitterly for a day. That feeling is exactly the same as when I was waiting for my debut notice back then.”
However, there was something Lin Xiaolu didn’t mention, which was that when waiting for the debut notice back then, she actually wasn’t that nervous.
Because she knew very well that she would definitely debut, after all, SM Entertainment’s three face geniuses back then weren’t just a joke.
Hyoyeol directly debuted as an actor, Lee Yunhi transferred to the acting department due to movie reputation, only she was left in Girls’ Generation because of lacking acting skills.
If time rewound to 2007, if that 《Sebi》 really became popular, there might not even be a “Girls’ Generation’s Im Yoon-ah” today.
Looking at the faint chill emerging on Jung Soo Yeon, Park Ji-yeon cautiously spoke, “So older sister, what you mean is…”
“We have to keep his ‘daily routine’ on this side.”
Jung Soo Yeon’s tone remained calm yet sharp, “He’s not from 2025 anyway, he’s a guy from 2013, yet he always stays over there and doesn’t come back.”
After saying this, she turned her gaze to the three opposite her, “So I wanted to call everyone over to chat about this situation. We can’t let the person who opens the lock for us be snatched away by that side in 2025, right? Ji-yeon, what do you think, and Yoona you too.”
As soon as these words came out, the two named ones had one with an exciting expression, and the other immediately “rebelled”.
“Older sister, if you didn’t say it, I would have to say it myself.”
Park Ji-yeon, who already had ideas, spoke while frowning, “I heard from Soo Jung over there that oppa has been playing golf with those old women every day recently. If he stays like this, I’m afraid it’ll be my turn to be settled later.”
That won’t do, Park Ji-yeon wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen.
As for Lin Xiaolu, although she did need Im Yoon-ah’s acting guidance.
But after watching a few episodes of the original female lead’s performance in 《The Heirs》 last night, she suddenly felt confident in her heart, needing only some time to polish details and figure out emotions.
But the biggest problem in this process of “carving details” was time.
And time relied on Lin Xiuyuan who could open the time-space door.
Without him, she couldn’t go to that side in 2025 to learn at all.
As for copying the materials over?
Forget it, the risk is too high.
This was the consensus everyone had privately reached: never casually bring things from 2025 back.
In comparison, although Sulli didn’t have such urgent needs, if Lin Xiuyuan stayed on this side, she could at least chat with him when free and talk about those things regarding Goo Hara.
It could be said their goals were basically aligned.
So the next question was very clear: how to keep this boy ‘here’.
Unknowingly, this seemed to become a ‘secret battle’ between the two time-spaces.
And as the problem was clarified, the next step was to find a solution.
In this regard, the first option that came to Park Ji-yeon’s mind was.
“How about seduction?”
As the little clever one who could “pit the future old women to the bottom”, thinking of this step was already her limit operation.
“Ah, going so big right away? Who would do it.”
Lin Yoona was stunned and subconsciously glanced at her.
Park Ji-yeon immediately shrank her neck a bit and stopped talking.
She didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t to that extent either.
The nearby Sulli smiled, then rarely seriously said, “Yoona older sister, don’t listen to her nonsense. This kind of thing is better left to take its natural course. If you really go in with scheming thoughts, if something goes wrong later, we’ll be completely done for.”
“Yeah, Jinjin is right.” Jung Soo Yeon nodded, then got straight to the point, “If you want to sleep with that guy, Ji-yeon, then just sleep with him, don’t scheme too much.”
“Ah, I…”
Park Ji-yeon pouted, realizing that continuing would lead to more mistakes, so she decisively shut up.
“Next, Yoona, do you have any ideas?”
The asked Lin Xiaolu slightly furrowed her brows; as a recent joiner to the cult, she really hadn’t thought about these for the moment.
But she still pinpointed the key point, “I think the most important thing in life is socializing.”
“So you think Lin Xiuyuan has too few friends on this side?” Jung Soo Yeon followed up.
“I’m not too sure, older sister, you’re much more familiar with him than I am.”
Lin Xiaolu, playing with her water cup, continued.
“But didn’t you say he plays almost every day over there with future Ji-yeon and the others? That’s a social circle, right? But on this side, besides us few, he usually just gathers at the tavern, basically no socializing.”
After hearing this, everyone felt it made sense, so they had another round of discussion around this issue.
The result, however, led to a quite embarrassing reality.
That was that they on this side were in the rising phase of their careers, in the golden work stage.
Unlike their selves over there in 2025, who had financial freedom and could arrange time freely, even playing and resting “like spring all year round”.
They now, when busy, wanted to split every minute into two to use, where would they have the leisure to accompany someone for socializing and playing?
So this “socializing gap” immediately exposed the biggest shortcoming of their time-space.
Until Sulli made a new suggestion, “We don’t have time, but we can introduce some friends to oppa, let him play with everyone.”
As soon as the words fell, Jung Soo Yeon helplessly held her forehead, “Jinjin, you should know that guy is a face control, right.”
“I know, hahaha.”
Sulli laughed as if grasping some secret, “Oppa’s XP is very subjective and mainstream, about the type young boys like, he’s similar too.”
In fact, Sulli even knew more about some of Lin Xiuyuan’s “special preferences” than Jung Soo Yeon.
After all, this “gossip intel” was something Krystal said during pillow talk when bored.
For Krystal, the fact that she slept with Lin Xiuyuan, though she wouldn’t proactively spread it, she had no intention of hiding it either.
After all, in the matter of sex, it wasn’t necessarily always the man taking initiative or the woman at a loss.
Anyway, she was quite comfortable.
Lin Xiaolu gulped some ice water and smiled as she teased, “According to what you and Sulli said, older sister, our civilian friend Lin Xiuyuan that guy wouldn’t look at them, it always feels like we’re introducing girlfriends to him, it’s weird.”
“Yoona, you need to change your mindset quickly.”
This time Jung Soo Yeon put away the joke, her tone rarely serious.
“Whether he has appeal to people over there in 2025 is hard to say, but for us, he is a ‘future perspective’ and ‘God’s perspective’ bug. If we don’t want to repeat the mistakes of that time-space, grabbing him is the smartest way.”
These words made Lin Xiaolu instantly put away her smile, her expression suddenly serious.
The voice didn’t stop and continued to speak sharply.
“Think carefully about 《The Heirs》 drama, without him, without this info from the future, that video, that real hypothetical scenario. Forget about meeting Kim Eun Sook the writer and passing her test, you’d probably only know about this drama at the press conference.”
“And besides this TV series, don’t you want other resources? He might not be able to directly hand you a contract, but he can tell you where the opportunities are, where the pitfalls are; that’s already an advantage we wouldn’t even dare to dream of.”
She turned the topic, her tone low yet firm, “Don’t you want to become the Best Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards? Don’t you want to win the Film Empress at the Blue Dragon Awards? Don’t you want to stand on the red carpets of those overseas film festivals and see how big the real world is?”
As these words landed, Lin Xiaolu’s expression visibly changed.
Her originally relaxed and smiling face suddenly tightened, her gaze sharpening like a blade.
That ruthless and murderous aura from killing her way through the music industry, gritting her teeth desperately, seemed to be reawakened at this moment, never truly dissipated.
It could be said that Jung Soo Yeon’s words thoroughly reignited the beliefs and ambitions on her acting path that had been nearly extinguished.
Using Lin Xiuyuan as this bundle of “human firewood”, relighting them into blazing flames.
As Lin Xiaolu fell into silence, Jung Soo Yeon also gently sighed.
Seeing this, the nearby Sulli couldn’t help but quietly exchange a glance with Park Ji-yeon.
Park Ji-yeon smacked her lips, pouted and lightly hummed, “Looks like only I and older sister and them have time then.”
At the same time.
In the T-ara dormitory, Ham Eun-jung and Park Hyomin inexplicably felt a chill on their backs, as if suddenly targeted by some uneasy thought, the coldness rushing straight to their heads along the spine.
As if someone was quietly scheming them into some plan.
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2025.
In the golf practice area.
After glancing at the time on his wristwatch, Lin Xiuyuan looked toward Im Yoon-ah and Big Dragon Cub who were still swinging clubs, and said, “It’s almost 1 p.m., how about we eat first?”
“So soon?”
Im Yoon-ah, who casually hit a shot, turned back to look at him, seeing Lin Xiuyuan raise his wrist to signal her to check the time.
Not far away, Lee Ji-eun, who was chatting with Kim Tae Yeon, also heard the noise, got up and walked over, “Yeah, let’s eat first. After eating, the time will be just right to play a round outside before going home.”
Big Dragon Cub, stepping down from the tee, put away her club and took off her gloves while looking at Im Yoon-ah, “Let’s go then, older sister, just leave the things here, it’s fine.”
“Okay.”
Im Yoon-ah also nodded in agreement and followed the group out.
But when passing by Lin Xiuyuan, she suddenly slowed her steps, her gaze sweeping over the watch on his wrist, “From Soo Jung?”
“Why can’t it be one I bought myself?” Lin Xiuyuan smiled and asked back.
“Omega, the latest 2025 Moon landing series, probably not many on the Seoul market.”
She pursed her lips, “How could you buy it?”
Lin Xiuyuan didn’t expect her to recognize it at a glance and was somewhat surprised, “Your eyesight is too sharp.”
Facing Lin Xiuyuan’s praise, Im Yoon-ah just grumbled a bit, “Because I originally wanted to give you this one too. Looks like Soo Jung’s taste is faster and more accurate than mine.”
“Ah, haha, then forget it, no need to give a watch, I have a pile at home I haven’t even worn yet.”
Hearing Im Yoon-ah’s answer, Lin Xiuyuan quickly said.
After all, there were still many wristwatches in the wardrobe he hadn’t tried, and any new ones would just gather dust.
“She gave you a lot?”
Her steps paused, Im Yoon-ah turned back to look at him.
Seeing him nod, before he could answer, Im Yoon-ah softly said, “Can I go see them?”
Ahead, Big Dragon Cub had already turned back and shouted, “You two hurry up!”
Seeing this, Lin Xiuyuan quickly nodded, “Sure, anytime.”
“Then tonight.”
“Ah.”
Lin Xiuyuan was stunned and turned to look at Im Yoon-ah.
You pulling this again?
One more chapter tonight, seeking monthly tickets, seeking monthly tickets
