Peninsula's Life Begins in 2016

Chapter 53 Yoona's Ramblings

Both of them were stunned.

The illusory image of Lim Yoona lowered her head, looked at her semi-transparent hand, then turned to look in the direction where the van had disappeared, a layer of confusion appearing in her doe-like eyes.

"Why...didn't I go back?"

Jiang Yan stood there, looking at the illusory figure floating in mid-air, his brows slowly furrowing.

"You used to automatically go back every time?"

"Nonsense, I follow her wherever she goes. She can't avoid coming back even if she wants to." The illusory image of Lim Yoona landed in front of Jiang Yan from mid-air, looking up at him with a barely perceptible hint of panic on her face. "As soon as the nanny van door closed and the distance opened, I should have been pulled back. What do I do now? Will I slowly dissipate like in the movies?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan subconsciously glanced at her.

The next second, his face darkened visibly.

"There's a thread connecting you to me."

The illusory image of Lim Yoona blinked and looked down at herself.

After looking for a while, I couldn't see anything. "Where's the wire? I can't see it!"

Jiang Yan was too lazy to explain. In his vision, a thin line with a faint blue glow connected the two of them.

One end is tied to the left side of the illusory image of Im Yoona's heart, and the other end is connected to the lower part of the collarbone on the right shoulder.

He raised his hand and tried to flick the wire. His fingertip went through it but didn't touch anything. But in that instant, the phantom image of Lin Yoona seemed to be electrocuted, and her whole body trembled slightly.

She glared at him warily. "Hey! What are you doing?"

"I touched that thread."

"Don't touch me!"

"You think I want to touch you?" Jiang Yan put his hands back in his pockets, lifted his foot and walked towards Hongdae. "Don't move, let's see if we can break it first."

"Ugh, what's the point of trying that! What if it breaks and I disappear?"

Jiang Yan glanced expressionlessly at the illusory figure closely following him, then looked down at the thin line with a faint blue glow below his right shoulder.

"Hey, has this happened to you before?"

Yoona shook her head vigorously: "Of course not. No matter what I did before, I would follow her wherever she went. If I was more than three meters away, I would be pulled back."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan paused, quickly going through every detail of tonight in his mind.

Eating, chatting, toasting, the party ending, the nanny car leaving.

The only variable was that he possessed special eyes and had been sitting next to Yoona for so long, unknowingly creating a passage between himself and the phantom that shouldn't have existed.

Once this channel opened, she shifted her focus from Yoona to him.

In other words, he kidnapped someone else's ghost.

Jiang Yan sighed and continued walking, suddenly feeling very tired.

At that moment, the illusory figure of Lim Yoon-ah floated directly in front of him, flying backwards, her semi-transparent skirt swaying gently in the night breeze. "Jiang Yan, what should I do now?"

Jiang Yan looked at the semi-transparent figure in front of him. She was floating half a meter off the ground, looking at him pitifully, her doe-like eyes filled with the fear of being homeless.

Jiang Yan glanced at his watch; it was already past eleven. He took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled.

"Let's go home first."

"Go home? Your home?"

"What else? You'd just wander the streets of Jiangnan like a lost soul?"

The illusory image of Im Yoona opened her mouth as if to retort, but swallowed the words back.

She really had nowhere better to go. Her true form had already gone far away with the nanny van. That inexplicable thread had tied her to this man, and she couldn't even float far now, let alone catch up with the nanny van.

"So...do you have any food at home?"

Jiang Yan turned and walked towards Hongdae without looking back: "What are you, a ghost, going to eat?"

The illusory image of Im Yoona immediately caught up, "I can't eat, but I can watch you eat! Tonight, I watched the four of you stuffing yourselves full of Korean beef, and I couldn't even smell it. Do you know how that feels?"

Jiang Yan paused slightly, then took out his phone from his coat pocket and swiped the screen expressionlessly: "Then I'll eat ramen."

"Hey! How could you be like this!"

Jiang Yan ignored her rambling and walked home without looking back.

After walking for about three minutes, Jiang Yan suddenly stopped.

The illusory image of Im Yoona couldn't stop in time and passed right through his shoulder.

In that instant, Jiang Yan felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him from head to toe, causing him to shiver violently and take a half step back.

The illusory figure of Lim Yoona turned around, somewhat puzzled. "Wei? Why did you stop?"

Jiang Yan rubbed his shoulders, and only after the biting chill subsided did he frown and say, "Before we get home, there are some rules I need to make clear to you beforehand."

"Rules?" The illusory image of Lim Yoona crossed her arms, a hint of amusement flashing in her doe eyes. "You, a twenty-year-old brat, want to set rules for Noona?"

Jiang Yan ignored her provocation and held up one finger: "First, you're not allowed to drift in while I'm showering, changing clothes, or using the toilet."

"Tch, who cares about you?"

"Second," Jiang Yan held up his second finger, "You're not allowed to suddenly talk to me outside. If anyone sees me suddenly tremble or get excited, the whole company will be saying tomorrow that Jiang Yan is crazy."

"When can I talk to you?"

"Go home, close the door, it's up to you."

"Fine." The illusory image of Im Yoona shrugged. She could accept this. She had been holding back for several years anyway, so what difference would a little more time make?

"Third, you're not allowed to nag me while I'm working. Arranging and mixing require a high level of concentration, and if you open your mouth, my entire track might be ruined."

"Arrassingly, arrassingly." The illusory image of Im Yoona waved her hand dismissively, then her eyes lit up. "So, when you're not working, can I say whatever I want?"

"...in moderation."

What does "moderation" mean?

"Just don't keep nagging me like you did today."

The illusory image of Lin Yoona stared at him for two seconds, then suddenly burst out laughing, bending over in mid-air.

"Hey, Jiang Yan, you're only twenty, how come you're even more long-winded than my father?"

Jiang Yan smirked: "Because your current behavior is less mature than my five-year-old niece's."

"You!" The illusory image of Lim Yoona raised her finger at him, choked for a long time, and finally swallowed the "ah" that was about to come out of her mouth. She turned her face away sullenly, "Fine, I won't hold it against you since you took me in tonight."

Jiang Yan glanced at her puffed-up profile, a barely perceptible curve appearing at the corner of his mouth, before turning around and continuing to walk forward.

"There's one last one."

"There's more?!" The illusory image of Im Yoona suddenly turned around. "How many do you have?"

"One last thing." Jiang Yan didn't stop walking. "Don't go through my things without permission, especially my desk drawers and wardrobe."

The illusory image of Lim Yoona floated to his side, keenly catching the slight pause in his tone. Her eyes darted around, and she tentatively asked, "Are you hiding something you don't want anyone to see? It's not a love letter, is it?"

"It's none of your business."

"Aigoo, a love letter, huh?" The illusory image of Lim Yoona floated directly in front of him, hands behind her back, smiling as she scrutinized his face. "Who wrote it? From your school? Or your company? Is it good-looking?"

Jiang Yan looked into those bright, doe-like eyes, narrowed his own, and said, "Do you want to know what I'll do if you keep asking?"

The illusory image of Im Yoona blinked: "What?"

"I'll go back and figure out how to cut that wire."

The smile on the illusory Lin Yoona's face froze instantly. She subconsciously covered the left side of her heart and took half a meter back.

"Hey! How can you be like this! You threaten people all the time!"

Jiang Yan walked past her and continued forward, the curve of his lips deepening slightly, but he quickly suppressed it.