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Chapter 32 Taeyeon? Confession?
"I guess it's her." Yoona's tone was flat.

"You guessed right?" Jiang Che asked curiously.

Yoona shook her head: "I don't know. When I finished speaking, she just said 'oh,' and her expression didn't change. I couldn't tell if she guessed correctly or not, but then..."

Yoona paused, her eyes instantly sharpening like two small knives: "Her next question was: 'When did you start learning martial arts? I didn't know you could do that?'"

Jiang Che was clearly excited and continued to ask, "What was your answer?"

Yoona was almost amused by Kang Cheol's curious face, her voice filled with anger, "What do you care how I answer? The point is, Kang Cheol, how did Taeyeon unnie know you know how to fight?"

"Damn it!!" Jiang Che suddenly snapped out of his daze.

She stared intently at Jiang Che, as if trying to see through his face to discern what kind of troublemaker he was. "Confess to me! What else did you do that day!"

Jiang Che felt a chill run down his spine under that gaze, and his toes dug into the ground in guilt. His eyes began to dart around, and his voice grew increasingly weak: "Um... maybe... it was in the parking lot..."

"Parking lot?" Yoona frowned.

"Hmm..." Jiang Che's voice became even softer, "Back then... uh... I just... flipped Byun Baekhyun over..."

Yoona asked in confusion, "Overturned?"

"Yeah, it was a physical flip, he flew really high!" Jiang Che flashed his signature Yoong smile, trying to ease the tension.

The air fell silent. Yoona just stared at him without saying a word, but Kang Cheol felt the temperature around him plummeting.

He quickly added, "It was... just like that... really! It's mainly because he rushed at me, and I instinctively..."

"Anything else?" Yoona interrupted him, her voice as cold as ice. "I filmed action movies in China before. Taeyeon unnie should at most have suspicions, not ask me about something from eight years ago, right? Kang Cheol, you'd better explain yourself clearly all at once!"

Jiang Che shrank back, feeling he couldn't hide it any longer, and his gaze drifted to the ceiling: "Ahem...maybe...maybe they're still in the car..."

Yoona asked again, "In the car?"

"Hmm..." Jiang Che's voice trailed off again: "Well... after all that happened back then, Taeyeon kept staring at me in the car, her gaze was kind of scary... I... I panicked a little and wanted to change the subject..."

Yoona crossed her arms and waited coldly for him to continue.

Jiang Che continued, "Then... I asked her... what happened between her and Byun Baekhyun..."

"What?!" Yoona's voice suddenly rose, her eyes widening into doe-like bulges: "Why are you asking her this?! Jiang Che! Has your brain been turned upside down by eight hundred soldiers?!"

Jiang Che shuddered in fright and quickly sped up his speech: "I was just trying to play the role of a close teammate! Who knew that while I was still pretending to be a loyal subject, she would reveal her true identity!"

He said with a mournful face, "The look in her eyes then was even more terrifying! And then she said, 'You know...'"

Yoona gasped and clutched her forehead.

"She also said..." Jiang Che's voice trailed off, "that you... had tried to persuade her back then..."

After hearing this, Yoona's heart finally settled, and she remained silent for a moment. Suddenly, she looked up, and without a word, grabbed a cushion from the sofa with lightning speed.

"I should have used this! To shut your lousy mouth up!"

"Ouch! Yoona! Calm down! Calm down!" Jiang Che covered his head and scurried away, trying to avoid the whistling pillow attack.

"Calm down?! I told you to change the subject! I told you to ask! I told you to play the loyal subject!" Yoona transformed into a human pile driver Plus, waving the cushion in her hand with tremendous force, each strike accompanied by a dull "thud" and Jiang Che's groan. The living room instantly erupted into chaos.

Jiang Che, beaten and huddled in the corner of the sofa, still weakly tried to explain, "I...I was just a little curious...what exactly happened between them..." "None of your business!" Yoona was even more furious when she heard this nonsense.

After fighting for a while, Yoona finally stopped, panting. She threw the cushion aside and slumped onto the sofa, her chest heaving, her cheeks flushed from the exertion and anger, and beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.

She glared at Jiang Che; if looks could kill, Jiang Che would probably have been reincarnated several times over by now.

Jiang Che cautiously raised his head and asked in a low voice, "Then... what do we do now?"

Yoona, panting heavily, glared at him irritably: "What are we going to do? Just let it be! Taeyeon unnie is clearly very suspicious now!"

She scratched her hair in frustration: "It's all your fault! What are you so curious about? Why do you ask such gossipy questions? Do you live in a gossip formation?!"

"Then...then how about...just confess?" Jiang Che's confidence was clearly lacking.

Upon hearing this, Yoona frowned and fell into deep thought: Confess?

After 930, there's still that mess with Byun Baekhyun. Taeyeon unnie was already under a lot of pressure, and then she was told about this and asked him to keep it a secret.

The reason a secret is a secret is because the fewer people who know it, the better. Otherwise, if it gets out later, they might actually take this guy out and dissect him.

Yoona glanced at Jiang Che's pitiful appearance, thought long and hard, and made a decision: "No! We can't be honest!"

"Huh?" Jiang Che was a little dumbfounded: "Taeyeon seems... not so easy to fool."

"It's nothing," Yoona said firmly. "I checked later, and it turns out that both she and I dropped the lollipop she asked about! I'm really speechless. I thought it was a single choice, but she gave me a multiple choice test!"
But at least she guessed one right. Anyway, she doesn't have any evidence now. As long as she doesn't catch two Yoonas appearing at the same time, it's fine.

Seeing that Yoona had already said that, Jiang Che had no choice but to nod vigorously, then his eyes darted around and he immediately said, "Um, um... my manager unnie's gaze towards me is also a bit strange."

Upon hearing this, Yoona immediately recalled the hesitant tone of her manager on the phone earlier, and rubbed her temples. "Manager unnie should be fine. She hasn't been here long; she was probably just curious."

After saying that, he slumped onto the sofa and waved his hand to indicate that Jiang Che could leave.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Che felt as if he had been granted a pardon and immediately slipped back to his room.

Time flies. After the radio incident, Yoona's popularity began to soar. She was so busy that she was rarely home. Kang Cheol started to get bored at home again.

In the early morning, Jiang Che sprawled on the sofa like a forgotten piece of rice cake. His gaze wandered aimlessly across the living room, finally settling on the electronic calendar hanging on the wall. He'd been here for two months already. He unconsciously pursed his lips, a complex, indescribable emotion flickering through his mind.

He quickly shook his head. "What are you thinking? We can't go back."

My gaze returned to the calendar, and a thought suddenly popped into my head: "Instead of thinking about useless things, I should think about how to get that song 'I' out."

That way, if things come to light someday, Taeyeon might go easy on Yoona out of consideration for the song.

Jiang Che was instantly ignited by the thought of sacrificing himself for Yoona. He jumped up, cleared his throat, and tried to sing the opening melody of "I" with Yoona's stunning face.

Jiang Che sang two lines, then paused to savor the moment.

"Hmm...it's alright, isn't it? It's not that it's unlistenable...but compared to Taeyeon in her past life, Yoona really seems to only have her face left..." He sighed deeply.

The next second, he focused his mind. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Taeyeon.

"Hoo..." He cleared his throat again, starting with the same words, but this time...

(End of this chapter)