Chapter 15: “welcome Back To The Past, Krystal”
【New timeline 2025】
In the evening, inside the villa, the lights were just coming on.
“Come on, let me treat you to dinner back in the past?”
When Krystal heard that sentence, she thought Lin Xiuyuan had misspoken, and laughed, “You mean dinner in the past.”
However, Lin Xiuyuan shook his head, a faint smile playing on his lips as he looked at her, “I didn’t misspeak. Come on, let’s go in and eat.”
“Is it a restaurant inside?”
The puzzled Krystal walked over from the side of the sofa, and when she reached the doorway, she cautiously poked her head in.
What came into view was neither the kitchen nor the restaurant, but a strange wall, with faint sounds of rain seeping in like background noise from another space.
The unreacting her looked at Lin Xiuyuan, “No way, your villa is so connected everywhere, it’s this big, with this many rooms?”
Lin Xiuyuan smiled, “Come on in.”
Krystal subconsciously glanced back at the empty and quiet villa lobby behind her, hesitated for a few seconds, but eventually stepped through that door into the time behind the door.
Lin Xiuyuan followed closely behind, and the room door closed.
Then he said to Krystal, who had entered and whose gaze immediately passed over the interior, straight to the rainy scene outside the window, standing stunned in place,
“Welcome back to the past, Krystal.”
At this moment, if there was a display screen above their heads, the label originally marked 【New timeline 2025】 would flicker quietly at this instant, gradually blurring, and finally becoming clearly visible as 【Old timeline 2013】.
Hearing that sentence from Lin Xiuyuan, Krystal’s heart suddenly raced, she opened her mouth, but found herself momentarily speechless.
In her perception, time seemed to freeze around her, her originally clear and orderly cognition began to collapse, thoughts chaotic like surging tides, those common senses and logic she once firmly believed in shattered in an instant.
She took a while to recover, then slowly took in the room.
Underfoot was slightly worn wooden floor, the wall clock ticked away, intertwining with the pattering rain outside the window into a melody both strange and familiar, invading her ears.
So she subconsciously walked to the window, her finger lightly brushing the fine layer of dust on the windowsill, her gaze then looking down at the scene on the street outside downstairs,
The vehicles passing on the road had a much stronger sense of the era than her own time, some young people dressed in fashions from over a decade ago walked by holding umbrellas, old model mobile phones in their hands, wired earphones on their ears, rainwater glistening pale yellow under the streetlights.
Even the air carried an indescribable familiarity, like the laundry detergent scent she often smelled in her girlhood.
“This doesn’t feel right, it shouldn’t be…”
Krystal murmured to herself, her voice so soft it was almost swallowed by the rain outside the window.
Suddenly, she turned sharply to Lin Xiuyuan, who had been following her, her eyes full of disbelief, “Right, what did you just say, back to the past?”
Lin Xiuyuan didn’t explain much, just reached for the remote control on the coffee table, turned on the television, and switched to the news channel.
Soon, seeing the content on the television, Krystal’s mind buzzed, almost immediately denying it, “Impossible, how could there be anything like that in this world…”
Her words cut off abruptly, as if realizing something, she suddenly turned and rushed to the door they had just come through, pulling it open.
The result was only a tiny storage room.
When she wanted to question Lin Xiuyuan, he was already at her side, gently closing the door, then reopening it immediately.
The scene changed instantly, no longer the storage room, but the villa they had just come from.
If before Krystal was still suspecting this was some setup by Lin Xiuyuan, then after this scene happened right before her eyes.
That door like a magic trick… no, magic, couldn’t help but make Krystal start breathing rapidly.
And the unease and unknown right now made her instinctively step back, then bump into Lin Xiuyuan’s chest.
This bump didn’t create any ripples, nor did any affection arise.
Only Krystal, turning back to look at Lin Xiuyuan, “So this really is another time-space?”
“The real deal.”
“When.”
“2013.”
“2013, raining, 2013, 2013……20…”
Muttering it over and over, Krystal seemed to think this could make everything before her normal again, suddenly she thought of something, her gaze sharpened, pupils dilated sharply, a tremor starting in her voice.
When she looked up again at Lin Xiuyuan’s expression of everything under control, “Is it because of that sentence I said yesterday?”
Lin Xiuyuan didn’t answer, just glanced at the rainy weather outside the window, “What now, it’s raining, this weather was unexpected, still going out to eat?”
Listening to his voice, Krystal stood in place, her heart shaken endlessly.
She couldn’t understand if she had stepped into a fantastical adventure or been drawn into a puzzle fate had already arranged.
She just instinctively realized that from this moment on, the world was no longer the way she knew it.
But she was surprised to find that she wasn’t afraid.
Because when she realized this was 2013, that heartfelt nostalgia from the bottom of her heart overpowered all the fear and unease of the unknown.
So when Krystal heard Lin Xiuyuan say this, she immediately replied, “Yes, let’s go out to eat, I want to go to a restaurant for a meal.”
“Then we’ll have to use an umbrella.”
Lin Xiuyuan didn’t ask why or where, turned back to the entryway and pulled out an old umbrella, looking at Krystal, “Only one, you don’t mind, right.”
“No.” Krystal shook her head, her eyes anxious, “Let’s go quickly.”
“Mm.”
Soon, the two who left the apartment arrived downstairs.
And when Krystal saw Lin Xiuyuan standing at the apartment entrance looking both ways, she grew curious, “What are you doing.”
“Looking for a taxi, I’m a broke newbie here, no GLS, just this bus route 11 under my feet.”
This slightly self-mocking yet humorous answer inexplicably relaxed the always tense Krystal, and she chuckled.
Then she looked seriously at the young man beside her, “So are you from 2013 or from 2025.”
“I’m from here, that door was an accident.”
As Lin Xiuyuan gave the answer, Krystal’s clever little head quickly pieced together everything from not long ago, but she was still a bit puzzled, “Then why did you find us, and that IOU, what’s the deal.”
“We’ll talk about that later, a car’s coming, come on, come on, gotta flag it down.”
Lin Xiuyuan, who had been watching the road outside, suddenly shouted, then quickly opened the umbrella, pulled Krystal under it, and ran straight into the rain.
The unreacting Krystal just instinctively pressed close to him, under that narrow umbrella, shoulders touching, stepping into this rain curtain from the past time-space, from 2013.
Thirty thousand words speedrun JK sisters, confetti, complete… Then the newbie says they don’t dare touch others’ works, just weakly begging for some votes, seeking patronage from big shots~
