Peninsula: I'm being supported by a top idol.

Chapter 144 That was your past life, Naya

Cui Shi'an took a deep breath, trying to make his voice sound normal, before pressing the answer button: "Is Na there? What's wrong? Are you in danger?"

His first reaction was to worry that the JYP president might be up to something.

"Ani-ah, Oppa~" Shin Yuna's cheerful voice came from the other end of the phone, with a hint of complaint: "I was just curious because Oppa hasn't been doing any live streams lately. Wonyoung is still waiting too, and she just called to ask me when Oppa will start streaming."

"Yuan Ying? Zhang Yuan Ying from IVE?" Cui Shi'an was taken aback.

"Yes!" The girl's voice was bright and clear: "She's been feeling really bad about splashing water at the music festival last time, and she wanted to find a chance to apologize to you, Oppa. So I told her that it would be better to send her gifts in the live stream when you're doing a live stream to express her apology. That way, she can express her feelings without it being too awkward—what do you think, Oppa? Isn't my idea good?"

Hearing her whimsical yet inexplicably smug tone, Cui Shi'an instinctively wanted to laugh, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a sharp pain suddenly struck his chest!

"Cough cough! Cough cough cough—!"

He couldn't stop coughing violently, each cough aggravating his injury, causing him to feel dizzy and his forehead veins to throb.

"Oh my god! Oppa?! What's wrong?!" Shin Yuna immediately became anxious: "Your voice sounds so uncomfortable? Are you sick??"

Cui Shi'an clutched his chest, and after a while, he managed to suppress his cough and said in a voice as calm as possible, "Kenchana—just now, near the Holy Water Cave, had a fight with—well, a very troublesome bastard. He suffered a minor injury, but it's nothing serious."

"Huh?" Shin Yuna knew, of course, that the "dead ghost" he was referring to wasn't just an adjective, but a real dead ghost, which made her even more uneasy.

After all, in her heart, Choi Si-an was a mysterious "oppa" who could turn off the lights remotely and dared to challenge evil gods; he was her powerful "talisman".

How could such an oppa get injured, and sound so weak?

Without thinking, she quickly called out, "Oppa, are you still in Seongsu Cave? Tell me your exact location, I'm coming right away!"

"No need, I just need to rest for a bit."

"I live in Yushui Cave, which is very close to Shengshui Cave!" Shen Youna interrupted him directly, her tone urgent, "Just tell me where you are! I'll be right there!"

Unable to resist her insistence, and having no energy left to look for another place, Cui Shi'an had no choice but to tell her the location of the alley where he was.

After hanging up the phone, he leaned against the wall with a wry smile, thinking that now the image of "weak version of the Goblin" was probably going to be firmly established in Shin Yoo-na's mind.

Not long after, a series of slightly hurried footsteps approached from afar.

Cui Shi'an looked up and saw a tall figure jogging into the alley.

It was Shin Yoo-na.

She seemed to have left in a hurry, only wearing a loose and comfortable loungewear outfit.

But the style of these loungewear pieces made Cui Shi'an's eye twitch even in his pain.

It was a light pink, fluffy cartoon onesie pajama with a hood shaped like a rabbit's head and two cute rabbit ears standing up on top.

This outfit, along with those clear, round eyes above the mask, instantly dispelled the oppression in Cui Shi'an's heart. Was this girl out there trying to be cute?

"Oppa!" The girl immediately spotted Choi Si-an, who was sitting against the wall, pale-faced. Her heart clenched, and she rushed to his side, crouching down. She reached out to help him but dared not touch him, and could only anxiously ask, "Oppa! Kenchana? Where are you hurt? Is it serious?"

Cui Shi'an looked at the rabbit ears on her hat swaying gently with her movements, and at her eyes filled with worry, and felt a warmth in his heart for no reason. He forced a smile and said, "Yeah, it's nothing, just a minor injury."

"He doesn't look okay at all!" Shin Yuna was both anxious and worried when she saw him still putting on a brave face. She immediately took out her phone: "I'll call Jimin unnie!"

"No!" Cui Shi'an quickly pressed her hand down, the movement aggravating his wound, causing him to gasp again. "She—she's been busy with her new album lately, practicing until very late every day, she's very tired, so don't tell her, so she won't worry and it will be even more tiring for her to run around."

His words were meant to be considerate of Liu Zhimin, but to Shen Youna, they left her with a strange feeling.

The girl lowered her eyelashes, and the bunny ears on her hat drooped a little. She muttered softly, "Our ITZY is about to start preparing for a new album—it's tiring too—"

Choi Si-an was taken aback, then apologized with a wry smile, "Mi-ah, Oppa didn't know you guys were so busy—"

Shen You-na shook her head and stopped worrying about it.

Looking at Choi Si-an's weak appearance, and recalling her incredibly vivid dream, her brows furrowed even more. She couldn't help but voice her doubts: "What's wrong with Oppa lately? It's one thing to look sickly in my dream, but why is he like this in real life too—was I having a precognitive dream?"

"Huh??" Cui Shi'an was stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked up at her: "You dreamed about me??"

"I dreamt that Oppa was injured."

She looked down at her toes, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, Cui Shi'an was someone else's boyfriend, yet she had dreamt about him—

"You were probably unconscious on a boat—and then my companion and I went down into the river to rescue you—"

Cui Shi'an's breathing was almost imperceptible, and his fingers, which were gripping the wall, tightened slightly.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil churning within him, but his voice remained steady as he tried to remain calm: "And then you brought me to your medicine hut, right?"

"Huh??" Shin Yuna's eyes widened in surprise. "How did Oppa know??"

"Later, Silla soldiers came looking for me, and you hid me in the cellar, right?"

"Huh—" The girl was too surprised to speak. How could this oppa know exactly what she was dreaming about?

Ignoring the shock in her eyes, Choi Si-an asked again, "In your dream, you were called Lotus, and you're a descendant of the Hae clan, one of the eight great noble families of Baekje, right?"

Upon hearing this, the red-haired girl shivered inexplicably, as if cold fragments of memory were brushing against her soul.

She instinctively hugged her arms, her voice trembling without her realizing it: "Oppa, is he a ghost or god?"

It can even—predict other people's dreams?!

Cui Shi'an shook his head, looked up at the surprised girl in front of him, and then said to her very seriously and solemnly, "Thank you for saving me, Lotus."

"Huh?" Shin Yuna's mind went blank. She subconsciously took a half step back, confused and a little nervous. "Oppa—what does Oppa mean by that??"

The girl had no patience to wait for Choi Si-an's answer and had already started speculating: "Oppa means—those things in the dream—were—did happen before?? Is that what you mean??"

"Hey~ Oppa, don't joke with me—" She gave a dry laugh, but her gaze never left Choi Si-an's face, fixed on his changing expressions: "If it really happened—how could I not remember??"

Cui Shi'an smiled gently: "Of course I don't remember things from my past life, Kenchana."

A past life? A previous existence?

At that moment, Shin Yuna's mouth was so wide open that it could fit a whole egg!

"I'll tell you the specifics later—" Cui Shi'an knew how difficult it would be for someone hearing this for the first time to understand, after all, he had spent a lot of time trying to convince Liu Zhimin.

Shen Youna was still immersed in the huge shock of her past life, and her eyes were somewhat glazed over.

Seeing her absent-minded look, Choi Si-an suddenly spoke, his tone carrying a hint of reproach: "Yoo-na, can you do Oppa a favor?"

"Yes—" Shin Yuna nodded subconsciously.

"Could you lend me 50,000 won?"

"————Huh?" Shin Yuna blinked twice, as if she didn't understand this extremely realistic request that suddenly popped up from the topic of "past lives and present lives".

She paused for two seconds, then almost burst out laughing, quickly covering her mouth and frantically pulling out her wallet: "N-N-N!"

"Ah—yes—" She quickly pulled out a wad of banknotes from her pocket, found a 50,000 won note, and handed it over.

"Thank you." Cui Shi'an took the money and said sincerely to her, "I know you have a lot of questions right now, but Oppa got a little injured today and needs to go to a sauna to treat it. Let's do it another day. Oppa will tell you everything another day, okay?"

"Yes—" The girl nodded slightly, but seemed not to have fully recovered from the shock of her past life.

When she saw Choi Si-an get up to leave, she quickly took two steps forward and grabbed his sleeve: "Oppa, are you going to the sauna alone? If not, I'll come with you?"

Cui Shi'an turned around and looked at the concern in her eyes, and smiled gently: "You are an artist, there are so many people in the sauna, you can't wear a mask the whole time, right? Be careful not to get heat rash on your face."

"Oh—" Shin Yuna let go, but then grabbed her hand again.

Cui Shi'an turned around again, looking at her with a puzzled expression.

The girl bit her lip and said with a slightly apprehensive expression, "Will Oppa recover from his injuries if we go to the sauna?"

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"Hmm." Cui Shi'an felt that with the pure energy in his body and the help of external physical therapy, he could completely dispel that cold and dampness.

"Then let's go to my house!" The words came out so easily that even Shin Yuna herself was taken aback.

But looking at Cui Shi'an's pale and tired profile, the impulse to protect something that emanated from the depths of his dream overwhelmed all his concerns.

She steadied herself, her gaze growing increasingly resolute: "I have a sauna at home too, and I wouldn't feel comfortable letting Oppa go to the sauna alone in his current state!"

"You said you'd take me to your dorm? — Won't the rest of you in ITzY find that strange?"

"It's not a dorm, it's my own apartment, and I live there alone! So, Oppa, why don't you come to my place, okay?"

Looking into her sincere eyes, Cui Shi'an suddenly remembered the lotus flower in his dream who had persuaded him to stay and recover. Finally, he nodded gently: "Then—okay."