Chapter 7: Call Me Jung Soo Yeon From Now On
“Do we really have to do this?”
“Don’t worry, don’t I know myself? Just do as I say, and there definitely won’t be any problems.”
Lin Xiuyuan listened to Jessica in front of him and looked strangely at the suit on his body. The size of that suit was really too big, so even with his height of 182 cm, it looked like he had stolen and worn family clothes.
He patted a few wisps of dust from his pocket and couldn’t help laughing, “Do you really have that many doubts? If so, how could you have come over to this side with me on the first day we met?”
“No matter how suspicious one’s personality is, encountering a situation like yours with God’s Perspective would still be wasted.”
Lifting her gaze and rolling her eyes at this guy, Jessica didn’t want to waste more words with him. She lowered her head to put on the wireless earphones in her hand and helped him hide the ones in his ears even deeper, “Don’t say anything random in a bit. Follow the steps we discussed, communicate with the other person step by step.”
“Ah ah ah, one two, one two.”
Lin Xiuyuan nodded, then curiously tested the ear mic a few times, leaving Jessica across from him speechless, “Hey, I’m standing right in front of you, I can hear you.”
The teased Lin Xiuyuan continued, “Actually, I’m still a bit worried. Do you think 2013 you can handle 2025 you?”
“Your plan, don’t you have confidence in it?” Jessica looked at him.
However, Lin Xiuyuan shook his head, “No confidence at all. I just act on impulse without any plan whatsoever, just feeling like it should work… probably.”
Hearing this, clenching her fist, Jessica had never felt such an impulse to punch someone.
After a long silence, she sighed deeply, “Then why were you so confident last night?”
“I just thought that owing debt and paying it back shouldn’t be a problem.”
“Can’t you think things through clearly next time before speaking? Can’t you have a little planning?”
Facing Jessica’s complaints, Lin Xiuyuan just smiled faintly, his tone carrying a bit of self-mockery, “That probably won’t work. I’m not some seasoned reborn expert; I just got a time-space door. A young person in their twenties relies on reckless actions.”
Looking at this guy in front of her who had once again ‘spoken shockingly’, Jessica suddenly understood why he had pulled her into this without hesitation.
Looking deeply at the other person, “Then can you discuss it with me next time?”
“I’ll try.”
Patting his face in front of the mirror to sober himself up, Lin Xiuyuan turned back with a smile.
Half an hour later.
Still that coffee shop, still that seat.
The nearly 36-year-old Jessica and 31-year-old Krystal looked at the young man who appeared before them, their first reaction was to exchange a glance, both seeing the astonishment and shock in each other’s gaze.
At the same time, another Jessica’s trembling voice came through Lin Xiuyuan’s ear mic, faint but clear, “Now I really believe in parallel dimensions.”
Lin Xiuyuan smiled slightly, his gaze turning outside the window, tilting his head to look at the SUV parked roadside.
Because 2013 Jessica was sitting in the car right now, trembling all over as she watched another version of herself and her own little sister in the coffee shop.
Inside the coffee shop, after exchanging glances, Krystal and Jessica had Jessica turn to Lin Xiuyuan, asking with a somewhat odd expression, “Hello, may I ask where you got this IOU in your hand?”
“On the evening of April 1, 2013, when your 《Gee》 MV surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, becoming the first K-POP idol group’s MV to break 100 million views on YouTube, that’s when I got it.”
The answer he had just discussed on the road with the other one was spoken by Lin Xiuyuan at this moment.
And his answer made Jessica across from him furrow her brows, “Hm?”
If it were other things, she might not remember clearly anymore, but she still had some impression of this matter.
Next, Lin Xiuyuan helped her fill in the memory.
“That early morning, you went to my uncle’s bar to drink with two friends but forgot your wallet. Originally, my uncle wanted to comp the bill, but you, a bit drunk, wouldn’t accept the kindness, so you signed this IOU.”
“Unnie, really?”
As Lin Xiuyuan’s words fell, the previously quiet Krystal across from him quietly poked Jessica.
“Yes, I remember that. I was so happy back then that I called you, Eunhee unnie, to go drinking together.”
But she forgot what happened afterward. That night, in her excitement, she drank a bit too much—not enough to be stumbling drunk, but definitely buzzed.
So what happened next, she might have remembered at the time.
But now, over a dozen years later, it’s a blank.
However… that one outside the car remembers it crystal clear.
Having just experienced it not long ago, she clearly remembered that she indeed forgot her wallet that night and ran a tab on credit.
It was only after a few days that she suddenly remembered and went back to pay.
Now, what she and Lin Xiuyuan were betting on was that this 2025 version wouldn’t remember this detail—after all, even 2013 her had forgotten for several days.
And indeed it was so. Jessica sitting in the coffee shop racked her brains for a while but still couldn’t recall the specifics of that night, only remembering that it happened.
So she stopped thinking about it and turned to Lin Xiuyuan, “Then why didn’t your uncle come to me for repayment before?”
“Hadn’t fallen on hard times yet, thought this alcoholic beverages bill wasn’t worth mentioning, plus the IOU amount was higher than the actual consumption, so it wasn’t brought up again.”
Lin Xiuyuan answered very naturally.
This also made the two sisters across from him nod lightly—after all, 20 million in alcoholic beverages money back then was simply impossible.
They wouldn’t spend money that recklessly even if they had it; at most a few million like that.
Matching the information, Jessica continued asking, “Then why isn’t it your uncle coming to find me?”
“Oh, him? He’s dead.”
One sentence killed any follow-up questions and instantly silenced the two sisters across from him, the awkwardness on their faces deepening uncontrollably.
Their gazes shifted away from Lin Xiuyuan, with less scrutiny and more apology.
And Jessica quickly apologized a few times, “Sorry, my condolences. I’m not clear on the situation.”
“It’s fine. Because of this situation, when cleaning up his things later, I found this IOU.”
While speaking, Lin Xiuyuan took out the IOU from his pocket.
Taking the IOU, Jessica’s gaze flickered with the glow of memories, a smile rising at the corners of her mouth as she said, “The interest from over a dozen years preserved until now does indeed amount to this much.”
After saying this, she looked at Lin Xiuyuan, then at Krystal beside her. Her hesitant expression made Lin Xiuyuan understand, and he made an excuse to get up and head to the bathroom.
At the same time, the voice from the one in the car came through the ear mic.
“What a rotten excuse. I actually believed it too—looks like I really was stupid beyond measure.”
“The more flaws, the more real it seems.”
“Still stupid.”
“Is it really okay for you to insult yourself like this? Jessica.”
“Distinguish it. From now on, call me Jung Soo Yeon. Jessica goes to her.”
Outside the car, 2013 Jessica—oh no, Jung Soo Yeon—looked with complex gaze toward 2025 Jessica inside the coffee shop.
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