Chapter 8 Archaeological Ex-Girlfriend, Us That Year

On the way to Apgujeong, when passing by the LED screen of Shinsegae, Taotao's reaction not only surprised the two adults, but was more like a bomb with the effect of a nuclear bomb dropped into the car.

The two grown men were so shocked that they couldn't speak.

Quan Zhilong made an emergency stop on the side of the road. The cheers of the children in the car were still ringing, shattering a whimsical idea that flashed through his mind last night.

"What is this...?"

Li Zhuhe held the excited child, Xiao Taotao, who was almost dancing on him. At the same time, he couldn't take his eyes off the screen, staring at the advertisement that was playing in a loop again.

He knew exactly who the woman above was, her figure and her face.

But that's what makes it incredible.

His words sounded like a whisper to himself, and also like he was asking the person in the driver's seat, what are you doing?

After all this time, it turns out that the mother of Quan Zhilong's child is an old acquaintance?

Oh no! It wasn't an old acquaintance of his. It was someone he had dinner with and attended the same party with during their relationship.

However, as his friend's relationship with the other party ended, Li Zhuhe, as the male friend at the beginning, was not familiar with the woman to the extent of becoming relatives or friends, so he no longer had any contact with the other party.

Like him, Kwon Ji-yong treats his ex-girlfriends with the same attitude. After breaking up, he returns to the status of relatives or friends of one of the parties and acts as if he has never met that person.

But he was confused by the twists and turns of the plot. Kwon Ji-yong and Yuna actually had a child, and the child was three years old?

Kwon Ji-yong didn't hear Li Zhuhe's question at all. His eyes hidden behind sunglasses stared at the face that suddenly caught his eye. As the child in the back seat shouted "Mommy Mommy", memories that had been sealed for a long time were recalled from the depths of his memory.

The face in my memory, compared with the face in the advertisement on the big screen, feels like a lifetime ago.

It's like facing two different people.

It’s not that the person’s face has changed, but the feeling of strangeness that comes from suddenly meeting your ex-lover after many years of separation.

For example, when comparing 35-year-old Kwon Ji-yong with his 25-year-old self ten years ago, although he often says, "He is still himself, and now he is the best version of himself", the blessings from his family, friends, and fans also say the same.

People have to accept their reality!

But once we look back on the past years of our life, and face the young man who was full of vigor and vitality at that time, who was in the continuous upward stage of his career and bravely climbed one peak after another, people seem to have no idea where Kwon Ji-yong's greatest achievement in life would be.

More dazzling than he is now, isn't it?

Then, the same goes for Yuna in front of me.

The eight years since their breakup were enough for a 24-year-old young singer to grow into a 32-year-old mature actress. Her appearance has become more mature and profound with the baptism of time. She is still stunningly beautiful, with more elegance and grandeur in her every move, and her eyes reveal the confidence and composure after experiencing the vicissitudes of life.

She was more dazzling than before, and they were actually the opposite.

As a former lover, from the perspective of the opposite sex, the person still meets his or her heart-beating conditions.

She shook her head and laughed, shaking off these inappropriate and inexplicable thoughts and returning to the matter of her identity as the child's mother.

The child's mother is Chinese and has a varied career. At her grandparents' house, they also speak fluent Korean...

They all correspond one to one with the woman in front of me.

...........

From the morning when Xiao Taotao showed up at his house, to the paternity test results that took two days to come out, to today when he took the child out to buy daily necessities, the speed of finding the child's mother was extremely fast.

Thinking of the one at home, which should be the key token to recognize the child's mother, Quan Zhilong felt a sense of helplessness all over his body.

How do you feel specifically?...

It may be: I thought I was destined to be a single father, monopolizing a daughter who came out of nowhere. Anyway, the results of the paternity test showed that they were really father and daughter. It was a good mentality to directly transition to a life with a daughter and not get married in the future.

It turns out that: I suddenly found a responsible partner, and my child was crying for his mother.

His thoughts were shattered.

Li Zhuhe was speechless, especially after listening to his friend's monologue. "So you are upset that your daughter is no longer yours alone?"

How could such a strange idea come about?

Fans used to say that Kwon Ji-yong's imagination was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, but Lee Joo-hyuk thought it was okay! It's just that artists' creative thinking is quite jumpy, and some ideas that ordinary people can't understand are the source of creativity.

But no one would have thought that this person's original idea was, "I want the child, not the mother."

"If we switch identities, she would be the one who met Taotao first, so she would probably want to do the same."

Quan Zhilong has an inexplicable confidence in his ex-girlfriend, with whom he had been dating for three years, and he believes that she will have the same thoughts as him.

"What does that mean?"

"It means you two are a perfect match!" Li Zhuhe teased before leaving.

Looking at the troubled look on Quan Zhilong's face and the children in the living room who were still unaware of the situation, he felt that it was really interesting that things had developed to this point.

When the children at home get tired of playing with toys, they go to play with the indigenous people at home. Among the cats, Iye is thin and her escape movements are more agile, avoiding the scene of the child's murderous attack. However, the little fat girl Zoa is in a miserable state. The body of the gas tank is directly held hostage by Xiao Taotao and picked up, becoming the child's nanny cat, being hugged so tightly that she looks like she has no desire to live.

Quan Zhilong's human cub. His biological daughter, he suddenly became the head of the family.

"Don't say I didn't remind you."

As he was about to leave, Old Li, who was putting on his shoes at the entrance, said without looking up, "It's a good idea, but it's not realistic. The child needs his mother's company. Even if you can hide it for a while, you can't hide it forever."

"Taotao, we might end up staying here. Do you want your child to be without a mother for the rest of his life?"

What’s more, the child knows who her mother is. Can’t she go find her herself?

Facing Quan Long who was covering his face, Li Zhuhe patted his shoulder before leaving and said in a persuasive tone, "Talk to Yuna Xi. She can understand the same as you."

If it weren't for the smile that couldn't be suppressed on the corners of his mouth, Quan Zhilong would really believe his lies and clearly want to laugh, okay!

And yet he gave him such bad advice in a serious manner, saying something like "have a good talk with the other party"

After breaking up that year, they were busy with their own things. There was no lingering contact or any drama. Later, they heard that the other had a new partner. They had been "dead people" in each other's lives for many years, and suddenly they came back to life.

Go to each other and say, 'You and I have a daughter.'

'Do you believe it?'

I’m afraid that the other party will think he is crazy!

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There is a saying in Chinese, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle." Kwon Ji-yong, a Korean, also understands a similar meaning.

After seeing off Lee Joo Hyuk, Kwon Ji-yong started surfing the Internet... Beforehand, he first learned in detail about the current situation of the child's mother over the years.

As far as he knows, although Yuna was born in a Chinese-Korean family and her mother is Korean, she grew up in China and came to Korea in her teens. The few years before her debut were the longest period of time she had lived in Korea.

So he has a deeper affection for the Chinese side. When they were together, Quan Zhilong discovered that there were many living habits that were different from those of Koreans. For example: they don't like eating kimchi, saying it has a strange smell, they like to drink hot water, and they don't like desserts that are too sweet...

He often joked with her, saying, "Why do I feel like I'm dating a foreigner?"

When they go out to eat, if there is kimchi in the rice, she will push it to him and ask him to pick it out for her. She is not very interested in the fresh food that Koreans like. She says that she feels sick when she sees a live octopus twisting there, and she doesn't want to eat it raw.

At that time, Yuna asked him with a stern face, "Why~ Oppa, are you comparing me with your ex-girlfriend?"

"I am a foreigner!" Her nationality is Chinese, but SM Entertainment created the illusion that she is Korean from the beginning in order to create hype for her debut.

In addition, she is fluent in Korean and has a good command of English, so people think that she is a foreign Korean. There are many Korean-American predecessors who debuted in the same company.

As he carefully watched the video footage from those years, the face of Yuna in his memory became more and more vivid. He could even recall the small details of their relationship, with a relaxed smile on the corner of her mouth that he didn't even notice. In the past, Kwon Ji-yong had never had this experience of carefully recalling (excavating) his ex-girlfriend.

Until 2015, the year they broke up.

There is very little information online about Yuna's public activities this year. There is a TV series that was filmed the previous year and invested by SM. Most of the actors in it are from SM's acting department. She plays the third female role in it and has her own character story line.

It was already their second year together, and dating as celebrities is often squeezed out of their schedules. Kwon Ji-yong wasn't happy with the free time he finally had after returning from Japan, but his girlfriend couldn't even find time to meet him. Furthermore...

"Aren't you a debuted solo singer? Why do you want to act?"

At that time, Kwon Ji-yong did not understand the change in direction of his lover's career development. Although he debuted in an idol group, he has always positioned himself as a singer and can also compose his own songs. He believes that he still has a long way to go in his career as a singer.

He is full of confidence in both his personal future and the future of the bb team, and he doesn't understand why a singer would want to act.

Acting requires interaction with other actors, close contact, and emotional development...even though that's in the play and it's fake.

G-Dragon still doesn't like it and is unhappy.

After he said these words, he vaguely remembered that Yuna, who was sitting opposite him, was silent, with an unchangeable blue-gray color in her eyes and a pale face. Her whole body and mind exuded the aura of "I am very tired". This topic was not the first time they talked about it. The previous few times they parted on bad terms were also like this.

The woman simply didn't want to continue repeating this endless topic with him, and her eyes were full of the meaning of "I told you, but you don't understand."

Quan Zhilong really didn't understand, and they ended up parting on bad terms.

This relationship has been up and down, but on the last day of 2014, Kwon Ji-yong still rushed back after his trip to Singapore, and they spent New Year's Eve from 2014 to 2015 together.

The new year was supposed to be getting better, but the relationship started to deteriorate again in the first half of the year.

In the first half of 2015, Kwon Ji-yong's schedule was quite busy. He spent almost the entire first half of the year in her country for the group BB's world tour. However, this was the worst time in their relationship. The cold wars that broke out at any time, his disappearances and diving, tired both sides.

If neither party takes the initiative to save the relationship, it will eventually end.

All that's missing from a formal breakup is 'Let's break up!'

Regarding the breakup and the impending departure from the country, Song Yu had his own premonition dream, but was powerless to stop the reality. He watched as time pushed him forward step by step, and finally ushered in the end of everything for them.

Sadly, she seemed to be the only one who had this premonition at the time. It was only today that Kwon Ji-yong realized it after watching Yuna in the video.

In June of the same year, before they had a chance to spend the summer together, their three-year relationship came to an end.

………

As his thoughts returned, he realized that there was a furry little head sitting next to the sofa where Quan Zhilong was holding a tablet. It was his mommy, Xiao Taotao, who was tired from playing and saw him watching the tablet. She leaned forward and wanted to sit next to him to watch with him.

"Is this Mommy?" Why is she different from what she saw on TV before?

The figure with red hair and dancing on the stage was something Xiao Taotao had never seen before. When Quan Zhilong heard this, he laughed and said, "This is the old mommy."

Apart from this TV series, Kwon Ji-yong discovered that in the entire year of 2015, Yuna only appeared at the family concert, and even in her acting career, there was no news about her development. He felt a little disappointed at that moment.

As an artist, he knows exactly what this means.

Is this a disguised hibernation with no schedule?

At that time, he was flying around the world in the limelight, reaping all the fame, money, and love.

When a relationship ends, there is no need to lick the wound of heartbreak alone. There are more beautiful people of the opposite sex who are willing to come forward to fill his emotional void like moths to a flame.

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"Is that so?"

There were so many things that he cared about, argued with, and could not understand...that the other party had not let him know back then.

He was only concerned with expressing his dissatisfaction as a boyfriend, and had no idea what was happening to his lover, including why she was so tired at the time.

He held an emerald jade pendant tightly in his hand, as if he was holding a heart that he had missed that year. What he held in his hand was complete, but what about Yuna from that year?

Looking at the video, the little face that had only been publicly seen a few times in 2015, through the electronic screen, penetrating the time nodes of that year, the person he saw had eyes full of indifference towards everything here, a cold feeling?

Or...free?

Yes! It is free.

Since 2016, the SM female singer named Yuna has officially left the Korean entertainment industry. In the first two years, her activity name was still Yuna + Song Yu. In the third year, her name on the social platform in China was officially changed to Song Yu.

The jade pendant in Quan Zhilong's hand was found from Xiao Taotao's neck on the night he first arrived. The main part of the jade pendant was carved into a flowing and agile auspicious cloud, with smooth lines and natural shape, as if it could really sway gently in the wind, giving people a sense of peace and tranquility.

He also knew a thing or two about jade. The piece the child wore around his neck was jadeite, one of the best jades. It was obviously of high quality and must be very expensive.

The tablet was already in Xiao Taotao's arms. She finally saw the woman on it, and it turned into the familiar mommy style. Then she heard her father ask her, "Baby, Daddy is going to test you~"

"Taotao, can you recite Mommy's phone number?"