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Chapter 46 Taeyeon's Wild Imagination

Sunny was also speechless, raising her hand to her forehead:

"Yoona, I wanted to get through this easily, but you did it way too easily! It's looser than my grandma's belt!"

A sly smile appeared on Jiang Che's face as he lowered his voice:
"Relax, relax~ Don't panic."

He slowly pulled a folded card from his pants pocket and waved it in front of the two of them:
"Look what this is."

Taeyeon and Sunny took the cards with a puzzled look. The cover of the card was RM, and the contents read: This card is the pass for the second level, Fisherman's Wharf. With this card, you can enter the third level, Macau Tower.

The pupils of the two people instantly trembled.
"Huh?! What... what's going on?" Taeyeon felt like her CPU was overheating.

Sunny, true to her variety show background, reacted quickly, glancing sharply in the direction Yoo Jae-suk had disappeared, then at the card in Kang Cheol's hand, and instantly understood:
"Hey! You! You opened the box a long time ago?!"

Jiang Che raised an eyebrow smugly: "On the way here, I was just killing time, so I used a hair clip to fiddle with the lock and opened it."

He shrugged again, his tone tinged with schadenfreude:

"So, what Seok-oppa took away was an empty box. Let him go find a locksmith."

Upon hearing this, Taeyeon instinctively patted Kang Cheol's arm, her eyes filled with amazement: "Wow! Yoona! You're amazing! Is there anything you can't do!"

As soon as the words left her mouth, an idea suddenly popped into her mind. Taeyeon immediately stood on tiptoe, trying to pull Kang Cheol's head down a little, and mysteriously leaned close to Kang Cheol's ear to whisper in his ear. The warm breath made Kang Cheol's ear feel tingly and numb.
"Are all those alternate personalities this powerful? Yoona, do you think... it's possible for me to awaken one too? Like, the kind that's exceptionally good at making money or exceptionally good at fighting?"

Jiang Che was still feeling a bit itchy from the faint breaths near his ear, wondering what this girl was up to, when he heard this nonsense and was completely dumbfounded.

He slowly turned his head and looked at Taeyeon's serious expression, finally realizing with absolute clarity that this world, or at least the short, powerful man beside him, might really be being fooled into a state of utter delusion.

"Holy crap! This woman isn't actually believing in some kind of alternate personality disorder, is she planning to practice some kind of split personality cultivation method at home?!"
Then he shouts, "Master Jin, I've succeeded?" And finally debuts as a solo artist from a mental hospital? Just thinking about it is terrifying.

He quickly lowered his voice, his expression more serious than ever before:
"Unnie! You can't just try this randomly! It requires the right timing, location, and people; it's all about chance and serendipity. You can't force it! And what if you don't end up with a strong fighter, but instead accidentally create an antisocial, destructive, and slipper-chewing alternate personality? Then nobody can control them, and everything will be over!"

He tried his best to make the consequences sound extremely serious, as if he wanted to dig the idea out of Taeyeon's head.

Taeyeon thought the first half of the argument made sense, but after hearing the second half, she immediately realized what was going on and her face fell.

"Oh, you mean the alternate personality is a dog, right?"

Jiang Che continued, "Ahem, anyway, that's the gist of it. Unnie, please don't try it recklessly."

Taeyeon rolled her eyes at Kang Cheol's serious expression and muttered under her breath, "Alas, alas."

Seeing the two of them huddled together whispering, Sunny immediately became displeased and asked with her hands on her hips:

"Hey! You two! What secrets are you telling me behind my back?"

Upon hearing Sunny's question, Jiang Che quickly laughed and changed the subject:

"Ani ani! Sunny unnie, we were just discussing... uh... discussing where to go in Macau after 'Running Man'!" Sunny didn't believe him, but didn't press further, instead looking at Kang Cheol with curiosity:

"Yoona, when did you learn how to pick locks? This skill is a bit too advanced for an idol!"

Jiang Che's eyes darted around, and he blurted out:

"Ah, this? I learned it in China too! The old master who taught me martial arts before had a closed-door disciple who was said to be a descendant of the Thief Saint for many generations... I thought it was pretty cool, so I learned a couple of moves from him."

Sunny's expression froze slightly after hearing this, and her lips twitched slightly. She opened her mouth, wanting to tell Yoona not to make things up so far, but Yoona had indeed opened the box again, and she couldn't find any evidence to refute it for the time being.

Finally, he sighed helplessly and decided to temporarily abandon the pursuit and observe the situation further.

Taeyeon, who was standing next to her, initially kept her head down and tried hard to suppress her laughter, her shoulders trembling slightly. She thought it was absurd that Sunny could believe such nonsense made up by Yoona's personality.

But then she immediately remembered that this guy had used the Chinese he learned in China to fool her before, and she seemed to have believed him at the time? If it hadn't been exposed in the car later, she probably wouldn't have thought that Yoona actually had two personalities!

The smile vanished instantly at the thought, and she grew angrier the more she thought about it. Suddenly, she raised her head, and without saying a word, she slapped Jiang Che's buttocks hard, making a crisp, light sound. After hitting him, she groaned and turned her head away.

Jiang Che was a little dazed from being hit, and subconsciously rubbed his butt, looking at Taeyeon with an innocent expression:

"Why? Unnie, why did you suddenly hit me?"

Taeyeon didn't explain, but just glared at him again.

Jiang Che blinked as he looked at Taeyeon's sullen face, secretly pondering to himself:
"Could it be... that this is a rich woman's special hobby?" Thinking about it this way, it suddenly seemed much more reasonable.

Then Jiang Che waved the task card in his hand and shouted to the VJ and PD of the production team who were still a bit confused, "PD nim! Does this mean we've passed the level directly? We don't need to find that lock-picking guest anymore, right?"

Upon hearing Jiang Che's words, the assistant PD snapped out of his daze and quickly called the main PD:

"PD-nim! Something's...something's wrong! Yoona and the others...it seems they've already gotten the second mission card!"

The main PD's voice came through the phone, filled with doubt:
"What? Im Yoon-ah? How did she get it? The locksmith isn't here with me." As he spoke, he looked up again at the locksmith being chased by Yoo Jae-suk in the distance.

The project manager swallowed hard and explained with difficulty:
“Ani yo… she didn’t call a locksmith… she… she pried open the lock on the box.”

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the headset, then the main producer's voice was filled with disbelief:

"...Lock picking? Which lock picking? The one I'm thinking of? Oh my! Im Yoona? How could she, the main visual of the group, have such a weird skill?!"

He subconsciously touched his chin, a string of social news headlines flashing through his mind: "But wait, isn't her suitcase with Yoo Jae-suk?"

The production manager (PD) on set added a brief explanation:
"It seems she was on the way here, and out of boredom, she used a hairpin to unlock the box. So... what Shi Xi is holding now... is an empty box."

"An empty box?!"

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