Chapter 95: Adding Some Chaos To Your Life
2025.
In the early morning, Lin Xiuyuan, who was groggily woken up, opened his eyes and looked at Soo Jung standing at the foot of the bed. After letting out a long sigh, he asked, “What time is it?”
“It’s past 9 o’clock. Get up quickly. Sulli made breakfast. Don’t let it get cold later.”
Soo Jung was wearing a light purple pajama, her gaze carrying a hint of teasing as she glanced at a certain “raised” part of Lin Xiuyuan’s body. The corners of her mouth involuntarily curved into a meaningful arc.
The memories of the previous two indulgences seemed to still linger between her lips and teeth, making her unable to resist revealing a smile.
However, when she saw Lin Xiuyuan roll over as if he wanted to keep sleeping, her eyes flashed, and her smile grew even wider, as if she had suddenly thought of something.
“Get up quickly. I still need to change clothes after breakfast. Xiuyuan, what do you think—should I wear an A-line skirt with black silk stockings later, or a denim skirt with fishnet stockings?”
Hmm?
The soft teasing by his ear entered his mind, and Lin Xiuyuan’s previous thought of staying in bed instantly vanished. He sat up abruptly. “Stockings? Where are you going?”
“There’s a brand red carpet I need to walk. How about dressing a bit sexy to give everyone a surprise?”
Looking at the heat in the eyes of the boy in front of her, Soo Jung smiled at him, lightly lifted the corner of her mouth, and beckoned him with her finger. “Get up quickly. Tonight, I can… come back without changing clothes.”
“I’m up.”
As soon as the words fell, Lin Xiuyuan rolled out of bed and sat up.
For a young man, the combination of an older sister type and black silk stockings was simply dream girl level temptation—impossible to resist.
Just as Soo Jung wanted to tease him a bit more, Sulli’s voice came from downstairs. “Soo Jung, haven’t you called oppa yet? I’m almost done.”
“Okay, coming, coming.”
After responding to Sulli downstairs, Soo Jung looked back at Lin Xiuyuan. She originally wanted to urge him to hurry, but seeing the “state” of his body, she could only smile helplessly.
“Go take a shower first.”
As soon as the words fell, she turned and left the bedroom, going lightly downstairs.
Left alone, Lin Xiuyuan looked at his “morning salute” and shook his head with a helpless chuckle. Then he stepped into the bathroom.
A while later, when Lin Xiuyuan came downstairs wiping his hair, he happened to see Soo Jung and Sulli coming out of the kitchen carrying breakfast.
Upon seeing Lin Xiuyuan, Sulli happily greeted him. “Morning, oppa~”
“Morning. Thanks for the hard work, Sulli. You didn’t have to go through the trouble. Just ordering takeout would have been fine.”
Sitting down at the dining table, Lin Xiuyuan looked at the table full of rich Western-style breakfast.
Toast, bacon, fried eggs, plus milk and coffee—very stylish. He couldn’t help but click his tongue in amazement.
“Sulli, where did you learn this skill? If it were Victoria, it should be Chinese breakfast, right?”
Sulli, who was pouring milk, looked up with a cute smile. “Tiffany unnie taught me. Back in trainee days, I shared a dormitory with Tiffany unnie and Taeyeon unnie, so I learned quite a few things, hehe~”
“Oh, Tiffany.”
Lin Xiuyuan repeated the name, then turned to look at Soo Jung who came out carrying baguette bread and purple sweet potato. “And more.”
“Sulli was afraid you wouldn’t be full.” The other replied.
With the last dish of breakfast on the table, the three sat around together and started the new day’s breakfast.
Biting into the fragrant pan-fried toast, Lin Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows and immediately gave a thumbs up. “Delicious, way better than at restaurants outside. What’s the secret?”
“Honey. It’s wild honey that Soo Jung brought. Much sweeter and more fragrant than the store-bought stuff.” Sulli laughed.
“No wonder.”
After muttering a couple of times, Lin Xiuyuan asked about the two’s arrangements for the day.
Sulli thought for a moment. “After I told the company about my idea, they agreed, so my workload has started to decrease. Nothing much, just occasional rehearsals with everyone.”
Her condition had actually been checked at the hospital long ago, and SM Entertainment and her agent both knew.
So when Sulli used this reason to request rest, although there were some hiccups, she ultimately got permission.
“I have a red carpet announcement. Didn’t I tell you?”
Soo Jung, peeling purple sweet potato, said while handing the peeled piece to Sulli beside her, her tone carrying a casual counter-question.
“What about you? Do you have any dates today? I heard from Sulli that Yoona unnie came looking for you yesterday. Don’t let that kind of thing happen over here.”
“Yesterday was an accident. I’ll check my phone in a bit.”
Lin Xiuyuan, teased, gave a sheepish smile. “But I do have plans today. I made a lunch date with Yoona here, so Sulli, are you coming back to 2013 with me later, or resting here?”
Hearing this, Soo Jung gave him a sideways glance and took back the purple sweet potato she was about to hand him.
She took a bite herself—better than giving it to him.
“I’ll go back. Otherwise, it’ll be trouble if others can’t find me.”
Sulli, eating purple sweet potato, replied. Unlike Lin Xiuyuan, who was a civilian, she still had to fill in for any sudden schedules.
So, after breakfast, the three went about their own business.
Soo Jung said goodbye and returned to the apartment to change clothes, only complaining before leaving that next time she must bring the wardrobe over.
Lin Xiuyuan and Sulli cleaned up the kitchen, then crossed the time-space door back to 2013.
Upon returning here, Sulli immediately looked next door. “Oppa, any response on the house next door?”
“Asked. They’re negotiating. The other side’s price is higher than mine. Let’s talk it over, no rush.”
Lin Xiuyuan’s reply drew laughter from Sulli. “Oppa, didn’t you say this place is haunted? It’s normal for the neighboring house to ask for a higher price.”
“Isn’t a house next to a haunted one still haunted?”
He replied lazily.
Sulli didn’t argue with her oppa about this. After helping tidy up the trash here, she picked it up and left the house.
She needed to go back to the dormitory and copy-paste the ‘script’ on the hard drive in her hand onto her own computer.
If she had to write it herself, she didn’t have the skill—she’d probably end up with something half-baked.
But copying it all at once would be too fake, like falsified accounts.
So she decided to take it slow, copy a bit at a time, paste a bit at a time, and “create” this script right under the members’ noses.
Plus, she could use this time to seriously learn some screenwriting knowledge. She couldn’t be clueless when asked later.
Left alone, Lin Xiuyuan sat on the sofa, took out his phone from here, and checked messages and calls.
Though only one night had passed, there were quite a few messages.
Mostly from group chats, where Park Ji-yeon and Jung Soo Yeon were discussing entrepreneurship investments, chatting back and forth until the early morning.
As Lin Xiuyuan scrolled through the chat history, rubbing his chin with his finger, he suddenly remembered a 2025 Seoul emerging industry project he saw while browsing short videos a few days ago—way more reliable than opening a barbecue restaurant.
But he didn’t plan to mention it now. Better to talk face-to-face when Park Ji-yeon returned to Seoul.
Besides that, there was a text from Lin Xiaolu.
This time, she wasn’t urgent; her tone was much calmer, simply asking when he had time.
Lin Xiuyuan thought for a moment and was about to reply “tomorrow.”
But he deleted it and retyped: 【Video’s here. 9 PM, small tavern.】
Finally, he put the phone back on the table and turned back to 2025.
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2025.
Noon, rainy day.
Lin Xiuyuan sat in the driver’s seat, glanced at the sky outside the window, and felt something was off.
It was clearly sunny in the morning, but a few hours later, it turned into a downpour.
“This damn weather…” he muttered under his breath.
Green light came on. He lifted his right foot from the brake and lightly pressed the accelerator, driving straight to the restaurant he had agreed on with Lin Dajun last night.
By the time he reached the restaurant area, the rain above was getting heavier, with hardly any pedestrians on the road—just cars passing by, splashing water everywhere.
After parking the car, Lin Xiuyuan looked at the empty interior. No umbrella, not even a bag.
So he had to dash quickly into the nearby restaurant after getting out.
But even in that instant, his shoulders and hair got soaked.
So when he entered the private room and saw Lin Dajun, she immediately burst out laughing. “What happened? Didn’t drive? Got drenched coming over?”
While teasing, she didn’t forget to pull out a few tissues and hand them to Lin Xiuyuan to wipe the water.
“No umbrella in the car. Just a few steps, and I still turned into a drowned rat.” Lin Xiuyuan took the tissues to wipe his hair and shoulders, complaining helplessly.
“You could have called me to come pick you up.”
Lin Dajun was still smiling but didn’t personally help wipe. She just casually reminded him, “You missed a spot.”
“Forget it. If you came out to get me, videos would be all over the internet in minutes.”
After a simple wipe, Lin Xiuyuan looked at her. “Why pick this place? It’s a bit far. Anything good to eat?”
“This is a Sichuan cuisine restaurant. Didn’t you notice?”
Yoona smiled and lifted her chin, gesturing for him to look at the menu.
Only then did Lin Xiuyuan look down and realize the menu was printed with familiar Chinese: boiled beef, spicy blood curd, spicy chicken… rows of dish names making him nostalgic.
Lin Xiuyuan, who hadn’t had Sichuan cuisine in a while, foolishly asked, “Authentic?”
Yoona burst out laughing. “You’re asking me? I don’t know much either, but the taste is pretty good. Not as good as what I had in Chengdu during work back then, but still decent.”
“Alright, let’s order.”
Lin Xiuyuan picked up the menu upon hearing this.
Yoona left the choice to him. “You order. I’ll just have boiled beef.”
Lin Xiuyuan raised an eyebrow, nodded, ordered a few dishes he wanted, added a pitcher of sour plum juice, then closed the menu.
As the server came in and left, the two could finally talk about the purpose of this lunch.
Yoona spoke first, looking aside. “Xiuyuan, last night you asked if I had any regrets, right?”
“Yeah.”
This question came after Lin Xiuyuan heard about the ‘fee’ and suddenly asked her.
Yoona didn’t answer afterward, just stayed silent for a moment before saying it was late and suggesting they meet for lunch tomorrow to talk, ending the call—leading to now.
“I don’t know why you asked, but I have plenty of regrets. But I don’t want to tell you.”
Compared to Yoona’s friends, the time they knew each other was extremely short—fleeting.
These were things Yoona hadn’t even shared with them, so how could she tell Lin Xiuyuan?
That they became familiar in this short time already surprised Yoona herself.
So after quickly brushing off the topic, she switched to another. “But I’m a bit interested in that ‘acting guidance’ you mentioned. After recording that video for you last time, I thought about it and actually gained some insights.”
“Reviewing the old to learn the new.” Lin Xiuyuan tossed out the phrase.
“Right, that’s it.” Yoona laughed.
Then she looked at him. “So about the in-person guidance you mentioned, I thought about it last night and I’m open to it. Consider it a brain refresher for me.”
However, she wasn’t completely without conditions.
“But first, introduce that girl to me.”
“The one who looks like Jessica.”
Lin Xiuyuan said softly, playing with the bowls and chopsticks.
This time, Yoona didn’t hide anything and directly voiced her thoughts. “Yeah, seeing her that night gave me an illusion of crossing time-space, so I want to meet her.”
Straight to the point, she didn’t want to beat around the bush with Lin Xiuyuan anymore.
Because after thinking last night, she felt she’d been getting too close to this guy lately and needed some distance.
Though that figure had stirred ripples in her heart, it wasn’t a must-see. The emotion was annoying but would pass with time.
Hearing the change in Yoona’s tone, Lin Xiuyuan unusually laughed out loud.
Hey, he had been a bit hesitant before. After all, the woman in front of him had a perfect career and life—no need to pull her into the cult.
But she spoke like this.
Fine, that won’t do.
Lin Xiuyuan’s youthful temper flared up.
“Sure. By the way, let’s meet your student too.”
Since your life is so perfect, I’ll stir some chaos into it.
He originally just wanted to pick up the video, but now it was real-life in-person teaching. Lin Xiaolu would probably be thrilled.
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2013.
Evening.
After the commercial performance, Lin Xiaolu sat in the van back to the dormitory, looking down at the reply from Lin Xiuyuan.
Suddenly, a familiar figure leaned over beside her—Sunny.
“Yoona, can I come along?”
As the sect leader of the Bagua Sect, Sunny felt it was embarrassing that she couldn’t get the gossip on her own member.
“This time I need a favor from him. Unnie, don’t make trouble.”
Yoona smiled bitterly, turned off the phone screen, pouted, and didn’t dare agree.
Just like passing Kim Eun Sook’s initial screening—she hadn’t told the members, only mentioning it to Lin Xiuyuan, so only Jung Soo Yeon and Sulli knew.
Even the company only knew the tentative result, not Kim Eun Sook’s words.
Some things need to stay low-key.
Yoona understood the principle that success comes from secrecy.
Back at the dormitory, she quickly showered, changed into casual clothes, waved goodbye to Kim Tae Yeon and the others, and headed straight to the small tavern.
Though it was still some time before the agreed 9 PM, she was already a bit impatient.
When she arrived at the small tavern entrance around 8, she saw the lights were on, so she turned into the residential area.
Turned off the engine, got out, and quickly reached the tavern door.
But before knocking, she suddenly looked up at the signboard above.
【Solve Worries】
Could it really solve her worries?
Hit a million votes. Thanks for the support from all the godfathers. Confetti~~
So, also stir some chaos for Yoona.
More updates coming, bear with me as I write slowly.
Finally, deepest thanks!!!
