Chapter 298: “double J” Bitten In The Same Spot
In front of the second bedroom door.
After Lin Xiuyuan turned the handle and opened the Time-Space Door to the villa in 25 years, Jessica, who was standing next to him, was the first to step through.
It was already late at night. Earlier, when Lin Xiuyuan was eating barbecue skewers, he heard Zheng Soo Yeon say that she had to get up at four or five to put on makeup and then catch a plane overseas for an event, so he didn’t plan to bother her any further.
So, after finishing his late-night snack, he told her to rest early and prepared to return to Magic City.
However, just as Jessica’s figure stepped into the villa living room, Lin Xiuyuan, who was still holding the door handle and preparing to follow, suddenly felt a force from behind.
It was Zheng Soo Yeon’s pull.
She suddenly reached out and forcefully pulled Lin Xiuyuan’s hand away.
With this momentum, she slammed the Time-Space Door shut with a “bang.”
The loud noise of the door closing was particularly piercing in the quiet early morning, startling Jessica, who had just entered the villa and hadn’t gone far, causing her to turn back sharply.
However, she found her back to be empty, with no sign of Lin Xiuyuan anywhere.
Only the closed door stood, as if separating two worlds.
Looking at this scene, Jessica immediately guessed that someone had been detained on the other side, so she let out a light, amused snort.
Then she shook her head, not too worried.
She then walked to the shelf in front and retrieved her mobile phone, snuggled into the soft sofa in the living room, and browsed the news, as if nothing had happened.
And at Jung Soo Yeon’s apartment in ’13.
As the room door was slammed shut, separating them from the space of ’25.
Lin Xiuyuan also turned his head back in some bewilderment, looking at Zheng Soo Yeon, whose aura seemed a bit unstable, and curiously started to ask, “What’s wrong…”
However, before he could finish speaking, he was forcefully pushed by Zheng Soo Yeon, his back hitting the cold door panel with a “thud.”
Zheng Soo Yeon, who had been standing behind him, stepped forward, their bodies almost pressed together. Her beautiful eyes, now filled with obvious anger, quickly approached, locking onto Lin Xiuyuan’s gaze.
Her warm breath, carrying her unique aura, brushed across his cheek.
Then Zheng Soo Yeon’s accusatory voice rang out, striking Lin Xiuyuan’s eardrums, “Lin Xiuyuan, you promised me you wouldn’t have any ambiguous interactions with Jessica before then!!!”
Lin Xiuyuan, who was forcefully wall-slammed against the door, felt a flicker of embarrassment on his face upon hearing this familiar accusation.
Then he immediately tried to use the same excuse he had used before to brush off Krystal and the others, muttering softly, “Um, I~ I can say it was just a spring dream…”
“What do you think!!” Zheng Soo Yeon’s voice immediately shouted, filled with the anger of being dismissed, her eyes widening even further.
Seeing that she seemed genuinely annoyed, Lin Xiuyuan immediately stopped his playful demeanor, but a gentle, and slightly innocent, curve formed on his lips.
Gazing deeply at the delicate face so close to him, he suddenly spoke in an extremely serious tone, narrating the situation in a low voice.
“Honestly, Soo Yeon, I couldn’t help it.” His eyes held a hint of helplessness and a trace of barely perceptible amusement. “You see, she had your exact same face and just threw herself at me. My brain didn’t react at all in that moment, and, well, I really couldn’t bring myself to push her away.”
“After all, I can’t refuse you.”
Then, Lin Xiuyuan’s voice grew lower, with a strange magnetism, “And in a way, that’s still you, isn’t it?”
This sudden, almost “love confession” defense, was like a faint electric current, instantly shooting into Zheng Soo Yeon’s heart.
It made her cheeks instantly feel uncontrollably hot, and her heart began to pound faster.
It also threw a small stone into the accusatory atmosphere between them, creating ripples of ambiguity, and quickly changing its nature.
However, Zheng Soo Yeon suddenly came back to her senses and looked up at the guy’s face, which held a hint of mischief and triumph.
Her cheeks turned even redder.
Then, with a hint of annoyance, she bit her lower lip and questioned him, her voice lacking its previous assertiveness, “You, Lin Xiuyuan, don’t play word games with me. You making things awkward like this with Jessica, do you know that?”
As a result, Lin Xiuyuan looked at her, her expression a mix of shyness and annoyance, yet appearing even more lively.
The smile on his face deepened, and he even teased her deliberately, “What’s awkward? Awkward to discover that you might not be able to control me anymore?”
He tilted his head slightly as he said this, his eyes serious, “Seriously though, Soo Yeon, ever since that first night when I said I would thoroughly control you, have you been holding a grudge, determined to control me back before you’re satisfied?”
After closing his mouth, he deliberately lifted his chin slightly, exposing his long neck to Zheng Soo Yeon.
With an almost sacrificial attitude, and a hint of teasing in his tone, he spoke again, “If you must think of it that way, here~ you can have my neck, they say grabbing the neck is the easiest way to control someone.”
“Get lost!!”
Zheng Soo Yeon was so amused by Lin Xiuyuan’s scoundrelly behavior that she laughed and scolded him, then said with feigned anger, “Am I that petty?”
Seeing her cute, outwardly reluctant but inwardly pleased appearance, Lin Xiuyuan’s smile became even brighter, and just as he was about to agree and tease her further…
But in the next second, that delicate face suddenly leaned in again.
Without warning, Zheng Soo Yeon opened her small mouth.
Gently, with a hint of punishment, and even more like a mark, she bit the side of Lin Xiuyuan’s exposed neck.
No, rather than biting, it was more like a very gentle closing of her teeth.
With a slightly cool touch and a tingling sensation.
Or perhaps she was genuinely worried about hurting him, because after her teeth briefly closed…
A soft, warm, and moist little tongue quickly licked the spot on his skin like a caress.
Like a feather brushing past, it sent an indescribable shiver through Lin Xiuyuan.
After doing all this, Zheng Soo Yeon acted as if she had completed some ritual, and abruptly pushed Lin Xiuyuan away, but she herself stumbled back a couple of steps.
Then she put on a brave face, hummed a couple of times, and raised her chin, “That’s enough, you can go back. I’ll find you again properly when I return from overseas. Tonight’s matter isn’t over yet, I’m telling you.”
Hearing this, Lin Xiuyuan raised his hand, his fingertip gently touching the skin on his neck that still retained a subtle moisture and sensation, looking at the woman in front of him who was clearly shy but still trying to maintain her assertiveness.
His eyebrows rose, and a teasing urge arose within him, “Then I’ll just stay tonight? That way you won’t have to look for me next time.”
Seeing this, Zheng Soo Yeon’s face instantly turned bright red, her eyes darting around as she chided, “What nonsense are you spouting, you still have to send Jessica back to Magic City.”
Lin Xiuyuan, feeling playful, heard this and deliberately said with an ambiguous tone, “It’s okay, I already satisfied her this afternoon, she can handle spending the night alone without any problems.”
After saying this, he even deliberately scanned with a meaningful gaze at Zheng Soo Yeon’s figure, whose curves were revealed by her camisole.
Without evasion, directly, and openly, he gazed at her.
“Yah!!!”
This situation made Zheng Soo Yeon’s eyes widen. She was both shy and angry, clenching her fists, ready to pounce and hit him.
Fortunately, Lin Xiuyuan knew when to stop, so he immediately smiled, turned around, and opened the door handle, “Alright, alright, no more joking, I’m leaving. You have to get up early, so get some rest.”
Before his words had even finished, his figure had already agilely flashed, quickly disappearing behind the door that had reopened.
All that remained was a soft “click” and Zheng Soo Yeon, standing stunned behind the door, her cheeks flushed and her heart still racing.
She stood rooted to the spot, falling into a long silence.
And in the villa in 2025.
Jessica heard Lin Xiuyuan’s triumphant and relaxed laughter almost the moment the room door reopened.
Looking up, she saw Lin Xiuyuan efficiently close the door, turn around, and look at her with a smile that hadn’t yet faded.
The two made eye contact across the space.
When Jessica noticed the happy smile on his face, and then recalled the loud noise from earlier and his clearly pleased mood, she instantly guessed what had happened.
So she put down her phone, a knowing and teasing curve forming on her lips, and feigning ignorance, asked, “How did it go? Did you pacify the little kid throwing a tantrum?”
As she spoke, she rose from the sofa and gracefully walked towards Lin Xiuyuan.
When she reached him, he shrugged, his tone honest to the point of being blunt.
“She doesn’t need my comfort, but you,” Lin Xiuyuan’s gaze fell on Jessica’s face, with a hint of scrutiny, “I feel like if I really infuriated you, the scene would probably be more dramatic than her temper.”
Jessica not only didn’t deny this, but raised her chin slightly, with an almost naked frankness.
“That’s natural. Don’t you think about how much inventory Zheng Soo Yeon’s gunpowder barrel has? As for me…”
She lightly tapped her temple with her finger, “This place has over ten years’ worth of gunpowder stored, mixed with all sorts of broken glass and rusty nails ground down by reality. If it really exploded, it would naturally be more spectacular and indeed difficult to handle.”
Having said this, Jessica smiled, “But don’t worry, Xiuyuan, no matter how much it explodes, it won’t explode on you.”
Lin Xiuyuan listened and naturally opened the door in front of him again.
Then he gestured for Jessica to follow, and the two stepped inside, one after the other, returning to the tavern apartment in ’13.
“Then why did you deliberately provoke her, and let her provoke you?” Lin Xiuyuan asked, putting his phone back in its place after they returned, not forgetting to complain, “Can’t you just talk properly? Do you have to be like two puffed-up cats hissing at each other?”
Jessica, following behind him, shook her hair, her tone carrying the profound insight of someone with experience, “That’s why you guys don’t understand us women. It’s better to settle some arguments now than to let them fester and explode later, leaving bloody messes.”
Lin Xiuyuan nodded noncommittally at this, stood up, returned to the door, and answered thoughtfully.
“I don’t understand you guys, but I know next time I really need to take it easy. We absolutely cannot let you two meet alone. At the very least, we need to have Krystal or Soo Jung present, to at least have someone to break up a fight.”
After saying this, he skillfully opened the Time-Space Door again, taking Jessica back to the apartment in Magic City’s Baijingwan, which overlooked the brilliant river view.
Once again in this private and luxurious space, perhaps stirred by Lin Xiuyuan’s earlier comments, or perhaps due to the night and the recent events, an unnamed fire mixed with a strong possessiveness suddenly surged in Jessica’s heart.
Almost the moment she steadied herself, she suddenly took a step, mimicking Zheng Soo Yeon’s actions from not long ago, forcefully pushing Lin Xiuyuan, causing his back to hit the cold wall with a “thud.”
Then she herself stood on tiptoe, her eyes fixed, with an undeniable assertiveness, staring at him and asking.
“I’m asking you, Lin Xiuyuan. When Zheng Soo Yeon said she was cooperating with CJ, what did that look you gave me mean?”
What bothered Jessica was Lin Xiuyuan’s previous look, which had a restraining and warning tone, but was very indifferent.
Lin Xiuyuan, finding himself wall-slammed again, looked at the face in front of him, identical to Zheng Soo Yeon’s but more alluring, and couldn’t help but laugh.
Then he told the truth, “It meant stop provoking her, sis. I don’t want to see you two put on a full martial arts display like Ji-yeon and the others, pulling each other’s hair. I’m already worried about my receding hairline, this hair can’t withstand your torment.”
“Ahhh, Lin Xiuyuan!!!”
After shouting a few times in anger at Lin Xiuyuan’s unreliable answer, Jessica, in her shame and anger, lowered her head and bit the side of his neck.
Trying to vent her dissatisfaction this way and leave her mark.
However, the coincidences of fate are sometimes astonishing.
Because the direction and angle of her bite, precisely and as if meticulously calculated, covered the exact spot where Zheng Soo Yeon had bitten Lin Xiuyuan’s neck less than a few minutes earlier.
Hiss~
A very strange sensation instantly shot up Lin Xiuyuan’s spine.
It was two almost identical sensations, from the same soul in two time-spaces, imprinted on the same spot of skin in such a short period.
The warmth, moisture, and the slight pain and tingling stimulation were infinitely amplified and overlapped.
Although Jessica, like Zheng Soo Yeon, ultimately didn’t dare to exert too much force.
But compared to Zheng Soo Yeon’s gentle closing of her teeth, which was more like a mark, she seemed to want to leave a “visible” trace, so she subconsciously applied a little pressure, her lips and teeth tightening slightly.
She ground and sucked for a bit…
Just as someone was focused on the “hickey” mission, Lin Xiuyuan’s voice, filled with a strange emotion, sounded above her head, with a hint of incredulity.
“Jessica, you might not believe this, but Soo Yeon bit this exact same spot earlier. Your tacit understanding is truly frighteningly high. Is this what it’s like to be the same person?”
!!!
As soon as he said this, Jessica froze, as if struck by an invisible current. A “buzz” sounded in her ears, and she instantly fell into temporary tinnitus.
A highly bizarre and taboo image uncontrollably emerged in her mind.
Two “Zheng Soo Yeons” with identical appearances and figures, one young and stubborn, the other mature and charming, their faces overlapping.
Then they simultaneously opened their mouths and bit the same spot on Lin Xiuyuan’s neck…
This… what is this?
An ineffable feeling, a mixture of shame, absurdity, and a certain unmentionable excitement, instantly spread throughout her body, raising a fine layer of goosebumps.
After being stunned for several seconds, Jessica finally looked up abruptly, breaking away from Lin Xiuyuan’s neck. She looked at him in disbelief, her voice a little strained, “You… you’re not lying to me?”
“Why would I lie to you?” Lin Xiuyuan looked down at her eyes, which were filled with shock and confusion, and couldn’t help but laugh again. He truly found the coincidence to be a bit too outrageous.
However, he didn’t know that his smile, in Jessica’s currently turbulent state, was no different from smug gloating and provocation.
“Yah!!!”
Then, an emotion that was neither shame, anger, embarrassment, nor annoyance erupted. Jessica, furious, pounced on Lin Xiuyuan, her small fists raining down on his firm chest and arms, hitting and patting, “You jerk, don’t laugh, don’t laugh!!!”
In this situation, Lin Xiuyuan could only let her vent for a few moments before seizing the opportunity to make a swift counter-move, easily grabbing her two restless wrists.
Then he bent down, using his shoulder to press against her lower abdomen, and with a slight exertion of force, easily hoisted Jessica onto his broad shoulder.
“Alright, alright, the late-night snack is finished, and you’ve had your outburst.”
With Jessica securely fixed on his shoulder and struggling, Lin Xiuyuan walked towards the living room, a hopeful smile in his voice, “And it’s night time, it’s time to do some ‘exercise’ to aid digestion.”
“Yaa~ Lin Xiuyuan, you scoundrel, put me down.”
Hearing this, Jessica struggled even harder, her legs kicking wildly.
And when she realized that Lin Xiuyuan was not heading towards the bedroom but towards the living room with the magnificent, unbeatable river view, her voice became even more panicked and her shyness and annoyance intensified, “No, no outside. Go back to the bedroom, Lin Xiuyuan, do you hear me! I beg you, Xiuyuan, let’s go back to the room, okay~”
Unfortunately, Lin Xiuyuan turned a deaf ear to her protests and pleas.
Instead, he let out a low chuckle, his gaze sweeping over the dazzling night view outside the window, composed of the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Bund buildings, and the Huangpu River, a view worth tens of millions, and stated matter-of-factly.
“Such a beautiful night, why waste it, right?”
Then he steadily placed the still futilely struggling Jessica onto the soft carpet in the center of the living room. His tall figure cast a shadow, blocking some of the window’s brilliance from the carpeted silhouette, but also bringing a different, heart-pounding sense of oppression.
“With such expensive rent, we should at least use it as our backdrop a few times.”
And then…
Outside the window, the hundred-year splendor of the ten-mile foreign concession and the ultimate prosperity of the modern metropolis.
Inside the room, a spring atmosphere quietly permeated.
Intertwining with the brilliant lights outside, lasting until late night, early morning, and dawn!!!
