20. Why are you coming now?
The full name of sm coex is "smtown coex artium". There are six floors in the building, of which the fifth to sixth floors are the smtown theater, which has a variable performance venue.
Hart Advertising was shooting a promotional video for SM COEX, and they had plans to enter the fifth and sixth floors to shoot scenes during the performance.
However, Lin Yoona's birthday party was held privately, and Hart's film crew had no intention of recording it, so now only Lin Shenshi came to the fifth floor alone.
He didn't want to alert others, so after putting on the pass with the word "staff" printed on it, he quietly entered the staff area on the fifth floor.
[Miss Ma Lu (Ma Lu): Sorry... My family seems to have discovered the connection between you and me recently. I think our future contact may have to be switched to my usual kakao software. I will switch to text messages to contact you later.
.There is no need to reply to this message...so as not to be seen by others]
This is the entire content of the message Lin Yuner sent to Lin Shenshi before.
Lin Shenshi stood in the corridor with few staff, looking down at the message on the screen of his mobile phone.
After a moment, he smiled inexplicably and murmured: "Have you been discovered by your agent?"
Lin Yoona's words may seem correct at first glance, but she has basically been rushing back and forth between the two countries in the past few months. Judging from her daily chat records with Lin Shenshi, Lin Shenshi also knew that she had moved out.
Now we can live independently.
So how can family members who often don't see her sensitively discover her "strange things"?
Lin Shenshi quickly thought of another situation, which might be the real reason.
"Looking at the time when she sent the message, she should have been working at that time. It seems that she might have been discovered..."
The man's muttering to himself sounded inaudibly, and his gentle tone seemed to contain a faint smile.
Not long after, Lin Shenshi finished thinking, put away her phone and prepared to go to Lin Yoona's waiting room.
He had a general understanding of what happened, and it was time to go find him to confirm.
Lin Shenshi walked in a certain direction, but after taking a few steps, he stopped again.
He took out his phone again with a thoughtful expression on his face, raised it to his eyes, thought for a moment, then operated the interface and deleted the friend named "Ms. Ma Lu" from his line account.
Lin Shenshi had heard that some agencies in the entertainment industry would snoop into artists' personal privacy. Although Lin Yoona didn't say it explicitly, he could feel her inner worries through the messages she sent.
To be on the safe side, he simply eliminated these hidden dangers.
Anyway, they will meet again soon. After processing the friends and chat records, the only handle they have is cleared up.
Lin Shenshi put the phone back into the inner pocket of his suit jacket and started looking for it.
He didn't ask the SM staff beforehand, so he didn't know that Lin Yoona was currently rehearsing at the performance venue.
Now he was more worried about another thing.
That is, how will he explain why he went there?
"How about keeping it simple?"
Lin Shenshi took out a folded piece of paper, the signature on it was still quite new, then he crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the trash can next to him.
Well, now I have a good excuse.
Lin Shenshi seemed to have completely forgotten Lin Yinxi's ardent and pitiful request to him on the phone a few days ago, and turned away from the trash can without changing his expression.
Another minute or so passed, and he finally found his destination.
The waiting room behind the sm coex performance venue is a public area, but today SM's staff also thoughtfully put a "YoonA" logo on the waiting room door, providing certain convenience for Lin Shenshi.
He stopped, considered his words, and then walked to the door of the waiting room, raising his hand to knock on the door.
But at this moment, an unexpected change happened.
The moment he raised his hand, Lin Shenshi's face showed a slight hint of nervousness. The next second, his whole body froze.
Those dark eyes opened slightly wider unconsciously.
Because... before his eyes, a blurry scene that seemed both an illusion and reality appeared!
A dim and conspicuous light lit up above the mirror of the dressing table. In a small room, a figure whose face could not be seen clearly was sitting on the sofa, talking in a low voice on a mobile phone.
'Mom, um, it's me...'
Lin Shenshi couldn't help but stepped back slightly, looking at the scene that appeared in front of him out of thin air like looking through a door with a puzzled expression.
'I know the renewal fee for my store is not enough...don't worry, I will help find a way.'
'Mom, you don't have to worry about me, I'm living a good life in Seoul.'
'Didn't you and your sister see me on TV before? So don't worry about my situation...'
There's a familiar voice, who is it? It doesn't sound like Seoul, it's a dialect from somewhere... Oh, by the way, Daegu? It's very much like Gaki's accent.
Lin Shenshi's thoughts were spinning rapidly, and he saw the figure on the screen making another call.
'Ah, it's...it's me, the room chief...'
'Um, I'm sorry, but the income from previous overseas activities...'
After a few seconds, the screen disappeared without any warning.
Lin Shenshi turned around and looked at the deserted corridor as if he had just woken up from a dream. He frowned suddenly, his expression slightly unbelievable.
He didn't think that he had just experienced some kind of hallucination.
"Click."
At this moment, the door of the waiting room not far in front of him opened unexpectedly, and a figure was about to walk out with a mobile phone. When he saw him, he was also stunned.
"you……"
Pei Zhuxuan covered the phone receiver at a loss, and was about to bow to Lin Shenshi, when suddenly her eyes widened.
The intertwined light and shadow were shaking, and blurry images appeared before my eyes without warning.
Gradually, the image became clearer, and she clearly saw a face that was exactly the same as the person in front of her.
The only difference was that in the picture, he was wearing less formal casual clothes. When he saw her, a very gentle smile appeared on his calm face that never liked to smile.
He came over, opened his arms to her, and then... seemed to hug her, and smiled softly in her ear and asked:
'Why did you come now?'
"Crack!"
The phone fell to the ground, and Pei Zhuhyun leaned back uncontrollably.
She stared blankly at the air in front of her, her breathing speeding up, her chest rising and falling slightly but rapidly, and her whole body feeling unusually tight.
At that moment, she seemed to really feel the man in the picture coming over and hugging him.
She could even feel his itchy and shy breath in her ear.
Gulu...
Pei Zhuhyun swallowed cutely subconsciously.
Immediately afterwards, before she could come to her senses, a situation happened that made her even more dazed——
After seeing her come out, Lin Shenshi stared at her in surprise and uncertainty.
After a while, his nose moved, as if he smelled something, and his expression immediately relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face instead.
Immediately, he straightened his expression, extended a hand to Pei Zhuxuan with a smile, and said calmly:
"Hello, Miss Yoona."
Um?!
Suddenly, Pei Zhuxuan looked up at the man blankly.
…
"Speaking of which, I still remember that when I was in China, the impression Shen Shi had on me was that he was an iceberg man who stayed away from strangers."
On the other side, the drinking session between the two of them in the bar was still going on.
"Every time I met him in the company, I never saw him take the initiative to talk to me. The most egregious thing is that there were several times when I said hello to him, and the guy seemed to notice me."
As he spoke, a hint of resentment emerged from Liang Encai's tone.
Unexpectedly, Li Zhengyao chuckled when he heard her words, waved his hand to her and said, "You really can't blame Lao Lin for this... He has his own hidden agenda."
"Hidden secret?" Liang Encai raised her eyebrows upon hearing this.
Li Zhengyao looked around at the guests in the bar, waved to Liang Encai, and lowered his voice:
"Originally, I shouldn't have told you about this in the past, but Lao Lin has turned around now anyway, so it doesn't matter if I reveal it to you... Lao Lin didn't intentionally ignore you or others, he has prosopagnosia!
"
"Prosopagnosia?" Liang Encai was startled.
"Yes, face blindness!" Li Zhengyao leaned against the bar with a wry smile, "It's not the kind of face blindness that doesn't recognize the beauty of your wife, but real face blindness, also called face recognition disorder."
Under Liang Encai's surprised gaze, Li Zhengyao even stretched out his hand to make gestures on his face.
"In his eyes, everyone's faces are the same. To use a simple metaphor, if you go to observe a group of ants under a big tree, can you easily tell who is who? In Shen Shi's eyes,
It’s those ants!”
"Fortunately, he has been suffering from this disease since he was a child and it did not happen suddenly in recent years, so he has long been accustomed to such a life."
"Of course, for this reason, Shen Shi has had facial paralysis since he was a child. He doesn't like to make expressions, and his face that is already difficult to recognize becomes even more difficult to recognize when he makes expressions."
"In addition, he doesn't like to socialize very much. If you think about it carefully, considering his family background and being such a good person, why has he never been in love once since he was a child? The reason is that he doesn't want to have a relationship."
The news told by Li Zhengyao was a huge shock to Liang Encai, and it took her a long time to recover.
Suddenly, Liang Encai thought of a strange question: "What if he mistakes someone else for his girlfriend in the future? Didn't he just find a girlfriend now?"
Li Zhengyao picked up the wine glass and smiled meaningfully: "If that's the case... I guess it will be a very tragic Shura field then, right?"
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Chapter completed!