Hancheng: There is a door between me and the future

Chapter 265 "Welcome, Jessica~" (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)

A few days ago, Jessica, who had a little spat with Lin Xiuyuan and Krystal, went to China to carry out activities.

My schedule has been packed these past few days, from walking the red carpet to brand dinners and dinners with friends, I haven't had a moment to stop.

Even so, she didn't get much attention from cameras or the media; instead, the non-stop schedule left her somewhat exhausted.

This left Jessica feeling somewhat disappointed, and then she received a call from a longtime friend, prompting her to return to Seoul.

The main reason was that it was the birthday of a friend she had known since they were trainees. This was her first birthday in Seoul since she had just returned from LA, and since they lived not far apart, she felt bad about missing the party.

Meanwhile, during her work and rest breaks over the past few days, Jessica has repeatedly thought about the "little test" she had given in front of Lin Xiuyuan and Krystal.

At the time, she was somewhat defiant, so her words had a hint of feigned ignorance.

But these days, when the night is quiet, she thinks more and more that such behavior is a bit inappropriate.

After these past few months, Jessica has a clear understanding of Krystal's personality and can see the special emotion hidden in Krystal's eyes when she looks at Lin Xiuyuan.

So Jessica thought that this time, while she was celebrating her birthday with her friends, she would go and talk to Lin Xiuyuan again and clear things up about what happened that day.

Or, to put it another way, bow your head, admit your mistake, and apologize.

It wasn't about trying to salvage anything; I just wanted to resolve this small conflict.

This indirectly shows that Jessica has really matured and aged a lot at this point, after all, if it were her younger self...

Apologize??
I'm not even thinking about it anymore. At worst, I'll just give up on this relationship.

As a key member who stubbornly left Girls' Generation, she was undeniably stubborn in her youth, even more so than Krystal.

Thinking of this, Jessica drove back to Lin Xiuyuan's villa area after finishing her lunch with her friends.

Just as I drove to the intersection, I saw a food delivery driver riding his bike toward Lin Xiuyuan's direction.

Intuition spurred her on, and she quickly opened the door and followed.

Sure enough, the deliveryman quickly stopped in front of Lin Xiuyuan's villa while comparing the house numbers.

Jessica hesitated for a few seconds, then gently rolled down the car window and called out to the other person.

"Hello, is this delivery to XX Street, XX Number?" she asked in a low voice.

The deliveryman was stunned when he heard the voice and recognized Jessica. He almost froze, nearly dropping the food bag in his hand.

However, he also nodded in acknowledgment of the question.

Upon seeing this, Jessica smiled gently and got out of the car.

Sunlight shone on her long hair, and the slightly curled ends swayed gently in the wind.

While taking the food bag from the other person, she took out a pen and a small card from the car, signed her name neatly, and handed it to the deliveryman who was still in shock.

Then he said, "The person inside is my friend. I want to give them a surprise. I wonder if you could help me make a phone call and ask them to come out?"

She blinked as she said this, her tone carrying a hint of coquettish pleading.

The deliveryman paused for two seconds, then looked down at the autographed note in his hand, and immediately burst into laughter, nodding repeatedly, "Of course, I'll call 'her' right now."

Upon hearing this, Jessica readily gave the other party a tip again, and also thanked them softly, saying, "Thank you, I'm counting on you for today."

Although this behavior violates the platform's rules, it is clearly a rare encounter for a random food delivery driver, and there is absolutely no reason to refuse.

Besides, it's unlikely that a famous celebrity like Jessica would so openly poison someone; there are surveillance cameras outside the intersection.

And so, the scene described earlier came about.

When Lin Xiuyuan opened the gate to the outside, he didn't see a deliveryman, but Jessica standing at the gate with a takeout order in her hand.

And when he reached out to take the outside from her hand, Jessica's action of withdrawing her small hand forced Lin Xiuyuan to look up, giving her a deep look, his tone carrying a hint of doubt and speculation.

"So, Jessica, what exactly are you trying to do?"

"Can't you invite me in for a cup of coffee?"

Seeing that Lin Xiuyuan's gaze was still somewhat cold, Jessica pursed her lips and, as if in resignation, stuffed the takeout into his hands, her tone unusually serious.

"Never mind, I actually came here specifically to apologize to you. I was indeed a little inappropriate about what happened with Soojung last time. I hope you don't think it was Soojung's fault; it was just my personal opinion."

Lin Xiuyuan was surprised that Jessica would come in person for this reason. He paused for a moment before chuckling and scanning the bright and beautiful woman in front of him.

She said with some surprise, "The way you suddenly appear at someone's doorstep, this door-blocking apology method, is honestly the first time I've ever seen it."

“I was planning to call you after I got here,” Jessica replied.

"What if I'm not here?" Lin Xiuyuan raised an eyebrow.

"If it's not there, we'll talk about it later. Anyway, it's on our way." She shrugged, as if she were talking about something trivial.

Jessica wasn't exaggerating this time; her trip was indeed on her way to a friend's birthday dinner, so it was just a side trip. That's why she risked being turned away to make the trip.

The two stood facing each other at the doorway, a gentle breeze blowing by, and the atmosphere began to become somewhat awkward.

Just then, two more screams and playful laughter came from upstairs, the clear echoes reverberating through the villa's courtyard.

Jessica's gaze immediately moved past Lin Xiuyuan's shoulder and landed on the roof of the villa inside.

He glanced at it with interest for a moment, a faint smile playing at the corners of his eyes, before slowly turning his gaze back to Lin Xiuyuan, or more accurately, to the steaming hot takeout in his hand.

"No wonder you said it wasn't convenient for me to come in. Could it be that my arrival has disturbed your visit?"

Then, as if remembering something, her eyes flashed, "Or perhaps my guess last time has come true~ Xiu Yuan... xi~"

Lin Xiuyuan, carrying the takeout, stared at Jessica in silence for a long time. He wasn't angered by her teasing words, but rather by the unsettling sense of crisis he felt from her two unannounced "door-blocking" incidents.

Jessica, however, did not flinch or avoid him, but stared straight at him with a calm and determined look, as if waiting for a clear response from him.

Faced with this standoff, Lin Xiuyuan took a deep breath and asked, "Jessica, how many days of rest do you have coming up?"

"Ok?"

Although she didn't know why Lin Xiuyuan suddenly asked this question, Jessica still subconsciously replied, "About a week. A lot of events have been canceled, and I'm thinking about whether to start a live stream."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiuyuan took out his phone and, under Jessica's watchful gaze, called Krystal again. At first, Jessica didn't realize Lin Xiuyuan was calling Krystal until she heard a noisy background noise on the other end of the line and a familiar voice, "Hello, Xiuyuan~"

She panicked a little and reached out to stop him, "Wait, wait, Lin Xiuyuan, I just came to apologize, why did you have to tell Xiujing on me?"

Krystal also heard Jessica's voice. The familiar timing and the call reminded her of the previous conflict, so she called out anxiously, "Jessica? Why are you looking for Xiu Yuan again? Hey, I told you to stop messing around, okay?"

After calling out to Jessica twice, Krystal called out Lin Xiuyuan's name again, "Xiuyuan, don't worry about her, really, just leave."

The next second, she heard Lin Xiuyuan's reply, "I would like to leave, but this guy is blocking the fountain, what should I do?"

In the past, Krystal might not have understood what "spring water" meant.

However, after watching many matches while lying in Lin Xiuyuan's arms and watching him play many games while sitting on his lap, he also learned a lot of gaming knowledge and terminology, so he immediately understood what the other party meant.

The person at the promotional event immediately became flustered, asking, "What? What's going on here?"

At the same time, Jessica was also completely captivated, staring intently at the phone in Lin Xiuyuan's hand that was playing music on speakerphone.

She could clearly hear that overly calm male voice speaking slowly and deliberately, "Soojung, do you still remember the process of the plan you told me about back then?"

On the other end of the phone, Krystal was first taken aback, then surprised, her expression a mixture of astonishment, strangeness, and complexity.

The male voice on the other end continued, "If it's convenient, could you find a quiet place and tell Jessica the same thing?"

Jessica, who had been completely baffled, began to feel uneasy and couldn't help but interrupt, "What process, what plan? Krystal, what kind of riddle are you and this person playing with me?"

Her tone was tinged with anxiety, even a hint of panic, as if she had a premonition of some unpleasant outcome.

Krystal gritted her teeth on the other end of the phone, her gaze quickly sweeping over the staff who were still filming busily behind her. In the end, she retreated to a corner, leaned against the wall, took a few deep breaths, and then slowly spoke.

"This is what I told Xiuyuan at the time..."

She paused for a moment, her voice noticeably lower, "If you're still so difficult, Jessica, let him kidnap you and take you somewhere no one knows where you are. Use a horror movie plot... torture you severely to make you give up all those messy thoughts, so you won't keep bothering him like this."

Even though she had toned it down a bit compared to what she had said before, her words still exploded like a bomb in the yard.

After hearing these words, Jessica froze on the spot, as if struck by lightning.

His pupils dilated suddenly, his eyes fixed on the phone, and he even held his breath.

She could hardly believe it; she couldn't believe that the voice she had heard was actually spoken by her dearest sister.

For a moment, Jessica almost suspected that Lin Xiuyuan had hired someone to imitate Krystal's voice as a malicious joke, but reason told her that it was impossible...

The timbre, the breathing, the vocabulary used in that sentence—all of these were things she knew Krystal all too well.

But then, she uttered some devilish words, which made Jessica, who had just come to her senses, suddenly raise her voice, almost cracking, and shout, "Hey, Krystal Jung, do you know what you're saying?"

Krystal on the other end of the phone seemed startled as well, and was about to explain, "I..."

"Beep beep..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Xiuyuan had already hung up the phone.

Then he slowly stepped aside, looking at Jessica with a half-smile, his tone drawn out, serious as if he were formally announcing something very ceremonial.

"Welcome, Jessica!!"

Sunlight streamed in from outside the courtyard wall, casting a gentle golden glow on Lin Xiuyuan's profile, but Jessica felt no warmth whatsoever.

Her heart pounded, her pupils trembled slightly, and even though the smile in front of her seemed friendly, she sensed a faint sense of danger within it.

After the phone call ended, Jessica dared not act recklessly anymore, and her pupils even trembled slightly as she looked at the boy in front of her.

Similarly, the villa behind the other person seemed distorted in her eyes; what was clearly a cozy home appeared as a wild beast lurking in the sunlight.

They'll just have to wait for her to step in before they completely engulf her.

This inexplicable sense of fear made Jessica subconsciously take half a step back, her foot lightly touching the ground with a barely audible sound.

"Tsk tsk." Lin Xiuyuan chuckled, glancing down at her with a playful tone, "Jessica, that half-step you took back was really hurtful. Do I look like someone who would eat people? Why are you so cowardly?"

Using reverse psychology!!!

Jessica realized his intentions almost immediately, but the more she realized it, the more frightened she felt.

The villa that stood quietly behind him seemed like a bottomless abyss to her, causing her to involuntarily bite her lip and mutter, "You guys really are a cult."

Hearing this, Lin Xiuyuan laughed even more heartily, making a "please" gesture, his posture lazy yet with a hint of coercion, "Welcome to come in and have a look. Whether it's a cult or not, you'll know once you come in and see for yourself, so you won't have to come and block the door every time."

But Jessica didn't dare to move.

She was genuinely terrified by Krystal's "horror movie-style threat" and stood frozen in place, unwilling to take that step.

But she was reluctant to leave, her eyes fixed on the villa behind Lin Xiuyuan, as if trying to see through the walls and find out what was happening inside.

Unfortunately, her eyes were not the Sharingan of Naruto, nor the Evil King's True Eye, nor the omniscient and omnipotent vision of a god.

Therefore, all she could see was a slightly luxurious, yet excessively quiet villa and a peaceful courtyard, where even the sound of the wind was exceptionally clear.

"Since you're not going in, then don't let it happen again. If it does, I won't be so polite."

Seeing Jessica frozen in place, Lin Xiuyuan gave her a final warning: if there was a next time, he would really test his various ideas about whether he could get a woman pregnant on her.

After speaking, Lin Xiuyuan turned to close the door, but at that moment, Jessica gritted her teeth, pushed off with her toes, and took a step forward, almost shouting as she broke the oppressive atmosphere.

"Are you trying to scare me? Don't think I'm really fooled by you!"

Her eyes gleamed with a stubborn light, as if she were fighting against her own heartbeat, "What's there to be afraid of!"

Before he finished speaking, he simply walked past Lin Xiuyuan, almost with an air of defiance, and swaggered into the threshold of the villa.

At that moment, Jessica seemed to have trampled all her fear and anxiety underfoot, leaving only her back as she forcefully entered that unknown territory.

　I've been feeling really unwell these past few days, with a cold and a strained rib.

　　I strained a muscle while moving bricks this afternoon, and now my rib area hurts whenever I breathe heavily, sneeze, or even make large movements!
　　So I'm sorry, that's all for today. Whether I can write more tomorrow depends on the situation. I'll try my best...

　　If I'm not better by tomorrow, I'll probably have to go to the hospital again.

　　P.S.: This is no excuse, I really didn't want this shitty thing to happen, it's just bad luck!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)