Chapter 121: Kim Tae Yeon: “how Do I Look?”
2025, noon.
In a restaurant near Namsan Tower in Seoul, Sunny, who has been a missing member of Girls’ Generation on this side, made a rare appearance here today, and she was sitting together with Girls’ Generation’s leader Kim Tae Yeon.
If this scene were captured by reporters, it would probably immediately become several news stories, with headlines like “Girls’ Generation Reunites” or “Missing Member Returns,” which is amusing just thinking about it.
“Sunny, it’s been a long time since we last met, hasn’t it?”
In the private room, Kim Tae Yeon held a cup, her tone carrying some emotion and familiarity.
Sunny chuckled lightly and rolled her eyes. “Where has it been long? It’s only been a little over a month. Does that count as long?”
“With your appearance frequency, even a year wouldn’t feel long.” Kim Tae Yeon replied half-teasingly.
“You’re not much different either. Didn’t you go into hiding right after the concert ended? You’ve only shown up now because you’re about to go on tour again.” Sunny countered without holding back.
The two looked at each other and smiled, their laughter instantly filling the air.
Suddenly, Kim Tae Yeon looked Sunny up and down and said, “You’ve really got that complete retiree style now.”
Then she reached out and tugged at her clothes. “But this striped shirt suits you pretty well—laziness just right.”
“This is called sensory commute style. What do you know? I’m not like you, still an idol who has to dress so meticulously just to go out.”
As soon as “What do you know?” left her mouth, Sunny’s lips curved into a mischievous smile.
Her gaze drifted, and then she reached out without hesitation, lifting Kim Tae Yeon’s denim jacket and slipping her hand inside, touching toward her abdomen.
“Ah~”
Kim Tae Yeon jolted, nearly spilling the lemonade in her hand. She looked down and saw Sunny’s hand firmly pressed against her lower abdomen.
“Tsk, not a bit of excess fat.”
Sunny sighed in admiration while mischievously rubbing it a couple of times. “This is ridiculous. You’re this old and still maintain your figure like this. God is so biased.”
“Stop that!”
Kim Tae Yeon dodged while laughing, reaching to pull her hand away. “What are you doing? You got away with groping my chest before, and now you’re not sparing my belly? And I do exercise. You think I’m like you, just eating and drinking?”
“I’m familiar with your chest. Time for a change of place.”
Sunny said it righteously, but her hand still wouldn’t leave.
Then the two started fooling around like that, and their laughter appropriately filled the private room.
But this laughter came to an abrupt halt as the door lock suddenly turned.
Before Sunny could even withdraw her little hand, Lin Xiuyuan had already pushed open the room door and saw the two figures messing around inside.
He first nodded politely, then very courteously closed the door.
Inside the room.
Seeing this, Kim Tae Yeon quickly patted Sunny who was pressing down on her. “Get up. This is embarrassing, Sunny.”
“What’s embarrassing about it? The other person is probably super envious.”
After straightening her collar, Sunny muttered that, then looked at Kim Tae Yeon with great curiosity. “But you’re treating me to lunch today—why did you proactively invite an outsider? I don’t get it, Taeyeon.”
“I originally wanted to invite Yoona. She’s been resting lately too, but she said she had something to do today and asked me to take Xiuyuan out so he wouldn’t stay cooped up at home alone, so that’s why I invited him.”
Normally for this kind of private gathering, Kim Tae Yeon wouldn’t invite outsiders, but Yoona’s request gave her a bit of a headache.
After thinking about it, she still invited Lin Xiuyuan in the end.
After hearing this explanation, which mentioned Yoona inside, Sunny was startled. “Yoona invited him? Is he a relative, or…”
“Godson.”
After responding, Kim Tae Yeon got up and walked to the doorway, opened the room door, and called Lin Xiuyuan standing outside in. “Come in, Xiuyuan.”
On the corridor outside the door, Lin Xiuyuan turned back upon hearing the voice. “Ah, I won’t be disturbing you, right? Maybe…”
“No disturbance at all. Just having a meal together. Come in.”
Kim Tae Yeon smiled as she finished speaking and directly pulled Lin Xiuyuan inside.
This little action made Sunny’s eyes light up inside the room, her lips curving into a big smile, and after Lin Xiuyuan entered, she proactively stood up to greet him.
“Hello.”
“Hello.”
Kim Tae Yeon beside her helped with the introduction. “This is our Girls’ Generation member, Sunny. Sunny, this is Xiuyuan, Lin Xiuyuan, the boss of a small tavern.”
Sunny laughed as soon as she heard it. “Small tavern? I like that.”
But right after saying it, Kim Tae Yeon shot her down.
“You like it but you can’t get in. It’s a membership system tavern. Even Hyo Min, Qiu Li, and the others can’t get in.”
However, Sunny’s gaze toward Lin Xiuyuan became even more curious and surprised, her eyes showing astonishment.
Lin Xiuyuan quickly explained, startled. “The place is too small and not good for hosting too many people, so I made it membership-only. It’s not that I won’t let you in. Besides, Taeyeon, didn’t you just go in the day before yesterday?”
Kim Tae Yeon rolled her eyes at him. “I always feel like it was only because Yoona was there that you let me in.”
At this moment, watching the two teasing each other, and connecting it to some names Kim Tae Yeon had mentioned before, a thought suddenly surged in Sunny’s mind.
This young boy seems a bit extraordinary.
So she laughed repeatedly. “Sit down first. Let’s sit and chat.”
Soon, the three were seated.
After sitting, Kim Tae Yeon immediately handed Lin Xiuyuan a menu. “See what you want to eat. Sunny’s treating today, no need to worry about her.”
“Ah, anything’s fine for me. I’m not picky.”
In front of someone he was meeting for the first time, Lin Xiuyuan was still a bit reserved.
Who knew Kim Tae Yeon would burst out laughing. “You’re not picky? Ji-yeon tried to feed you Tom Yum Goong Soup and you refused her. Doesn’t that count as picky?”
Ji-yeon?
Sunny got another huge piece of news: a recently divorced married woman proactively feeding soup to a young boy?
Holy crap. How many interesting stories happened while I wasn’t in Seoul?
She vaguely felt like she had missed a lot of big news.
In the end, though, after glancing at the menu, Lin Xiuyuan casually ordered a beef dish, handed the things back, and then looked curiously at Sunny beside him.
He had seen her in videos before, and her face shape had indeed changed somewhat.
But seeing her in person now, it didn’t seem that exaggerated. The slight plumpness on her face softened her former gauntness.
Across from him, Kim Tae Yeon noticed this and immediately laughed. “What? You think Sunny looks different from what you saw online?”
“Much better looking.” Lin Xiuyuan answered honestly.
Then Kim Tae Yeon got interested too. “What about me? What about me? How do I look? You never said anything about me before.”
“You…”
As Lin Xiuyuan was about to say something, suddenly, the image of Kim Tae Yeon from 2013 leaped into his mind.
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