Chapter 9: Krystal Seizing The Day
In 2013, the world stage was full of upheavals, with many major events happening one after another.
In comparison, Girls’ Generation reaching the top seemed insignificant.
But some things, even if they are just a light stroke for the entire world, can be a turning point in fate, an unignorable glory and opportunity when they fall into someone’s life.
Like the Girls’ Generation members at this moment, waiting backstage in the temporary setup in the shopping mall to go on stage.
The deafening cheers outside were all for them.
This was the fans’ fervor, and also the best annotation for them standing at the peak at this moment.
And the members who were at the peak of popularity at this time were casually chatting about recent interesting stories, or lowering their heads to handle their own affairs, with confident and calm expressions.
Among them, one figure suddenly leaned to Jung Soo Yeon’s ear, asking in an excited gossipy tone, “Sica, how’s your progress with Young Il oppa lately? I heard oppa broke up with that actress from Hong Kong Island. Is there something to do with you here?”
Hearing the voice, Jung Soo Yeon turned her head to look at the speaker Kim Hyo Yeon, and a scene involuntarily emerged in her mind—
……
On the noon of the day when the IOU incident was handled, after returning to the old timeline, she prepared to say goodbye to Lin Xiuyuan and go home.
But before leaving, she couldn’t help asking a few more questions.
“Lin Xiuyuan, I’ve handled the matter for you. Now we’re partners, right.”
“What do you want to say.”
“I want to know when you can completely open the other side of the door to me.”
“Let me think about it.”
Lin Xiuyuan’s answer, Jung Soo Yeon could understand.
Because if it were her, she might even take this secret to the grave alone, so after getting this answer, she didn’t continue to press for an answer.
And she very generously left him a check of the same amount as that IOU.
He hadn’t even opened his mouth, and she was already prepared.
Not sure if it was because of that check, or some other reason.
Just as Jung Soo Yeon opened the door to leave, Lin Xiuyuan called out to her, his tone carrying a hint of joke, yet seeming to contain some meaning, “By the way, the name of that boyfriend in your future who pulled you into the pit is Kwon Young Il. I heard that the member who introduced him to you later became a domestic violence victim.”
……
Recalling up to here, Jung Soo Yeon looked at Kim Hyo Yeon and suddenly asked, “Hyo Yeon, do you think you’ll commit domestic violence in the future?”
“Me? Domestic violence? Hey, Sica, what crazy talk are you saying?”
Kim Hyo Yeon, who had come to probe some gossip, was left amused and exasperated by this, “I wouldn’t do that, but I also won’t let others commit domestic violence on me. Hey, why talk about this now? I don’t even know where my boyfriend is, unlike you, you’re already with oppa…”
“No, I have nothing to do with him.”
Jung Soo Yeon calmly interrupted her.
“Ah, weren’t you chatting happily with oppa before? How come it’s suddenly like this.”
“No, we’ve always just been friends. You’re the one who thought wrong.”
Her tone was flat, yet carrying an unconcealable alienation.
And after saying this, she even lowered her head, unlocked the screen, and looked at the chat window inside.
In the chat window, she had sent many messages to another person, but the other party hadn’t replied.
So she couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth slightly and mutter lowly a few words.
Kim Hyo Yeon beside her originally wanted to ask more, but in the end held back.
Because the other party’s expression had already told her that this topic ended here.
And at the same time, Lin Xiuyuan, who hadn’t replied to Jung Soo Yeon, was in a time-space more than a decade away from her, staying with her older sister Krystal who was even older than her.
“So this is the job you said you had for me.”
Lin Xiuyuan was holding takeout and fruit in his hand, suspiciously eyeing the bustling staff around the film crew. No one noticed them here.
A week had passed since the day he met the other party.
Lin Xiuyuan, who hadn’t received a phone call, wasn’t anxious. He went back and forth between the apartment and the villa, familiarizing himself with the situation on this side of the new timeline.
Until this morning, he didn’t get Jessica’s call, but received Krystal’s.
She said there was a job for him, then had him go to the designated restaurant to pack fast food and buy some fruit to come find her.
After arriving, Krystal directly told Lin Xiuyuan that this was his job from now on.
Lin Xiuyuan was a bit dazed, even more unable to understand.
On the contrary, Krystal, who took the food and fruit, smiled, “Isn’t it good? A time-flexible delivery person job. You only need to handle my lunch and dinner, occasional afternoon tea, and you can arrange the rest of your time yourself. How relaxing.”
“This counts as part-time, right.” Lin Xiuyuan said.
“Doesn’t matter if part-time or full-time, as long as I pay you enough compensation.”
After saying this, Krystal looked up at this boy, her gaze flickering with an ambiguous expression, “Besides, you want this job to get close to me or unnie, right? As long as I give you this opportunity, whether there’s a job or not doesn’t matter.”
“Ah?”
Lin Xiuyuan was stunned, not expecting the other party to point out the situation from a few days ago.
Seeing this young boy’s uneasy reaction, Krystal laughed even more happily.
“Who can’t see through your little thoughts? Although I don’t know what you’re thinking, that IOU saved for over a decade makes it clear you’re a good person like your uncle. So it shouldn’t be anything malicious. Giving you an opportunity is fine.”
Lin Xiuyuan in his early twenties didn’t have such a calm mentality, so his first thought upon being exposed was to ask back, “How did you know.”
He never considered the possibility that the other party might be bluffing him.
“Is it hard? Although I didn’t pay much attention in the coffee shop at the time and was deceived by you, when I got home and thought about it carefully, whether it was the clothes or that little thought of yours detouring to unnie, it wasn’t hard to see through at all. I just didn’t know what you wanted to do.”
She opened the lunch box while looking at him, “If I ask, will you tell me?”
Lin Xiuyuan shook his head.
“Is it something bad?”
Shook his head again.
Krystal smiled, lowered her head to eat, “So I didn’t bother asking. As long as it’s not bad, it’s fine.”
The brief Q&A ended, and Lin Xiuyuan standing beside watched Krystal eat with her head down, involuntarily thinking of Jung Soo Yeon from the old timeline who had vowed “absolutely no problem.”
He couldn’t help but internally complain: This is the no problem you said? Jung Soo Yeon, I really believed your nonsense.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyuan looked at Krystal with some curiosity, “Since you’ve seen through it, why find me.”
“Bored, that’s all. You don’t know, filming is too dull. Having someone to chat with and get the brain moving is pretty good. And I do need someone to deliver meals. This job was always handled by the assistant before, but she’s on vacation recently. You showed up just in time to fill in, not bad.”
“Doesn’t the film crew have lunch boxes?” Lin Xiuyuan still didn’t understand.
Krystal, poking at the fruit, heard this and her gaze flickered slightly, “In life, you definitely have to live happily. Want to eat what, drink what, play what, all seize the day. But can’t delay work, so I need someone to run errands for me.”
Beside him, Lin Xiuyuan, who had been pinned down by Krystal since they met, suddenly found a point to turn the tables.
Because the words the other party just said let him hear some flaws in her.
