"What did you do today? You should have done a lot of things on your birthday, right?"

"I didn't do anything. I just had a meal with my friends, and then opened gifts. Apart from these, is there anything else I can do? Speaking of traveling, I have too little time, and alone

There is no point in going out alone. Before I fell in love with you, I might have thought it was okay to travel alone, but now that we are in love, our personal space is extremely spacious. If I still travel alone...

…How pitiful.”

Xu Lai smiled when he heard this. He felt a little happy when he heard Lin Yuner speak, "Actually, I thought you would hang out with your friends."

"Forget it. If you go out with them, I won't be able to answer your call."

"It doesn't matter if you can't pick it up..."

"I'm the one who suffers when I can't answer your call! My boyfriend didn't say a word on my birthday. Do you think I can still have fun like this?" Lin Yoona couldn't help but roll her eyes, and the two of them were separated by a long distance.

She's so far away, and she hasn't even turned on the video yet, how can she see her expression?

Yes, video.

Lin Yoona suddenly thought of making a video, and immediately told Xu Li in the video, "Let's start the video!"

"good."

Xu Lai agreed, and after Lin Yoona hung up the phone, he sent her a video call.

"Did you just get up?" Lin Yuner looked at Xu Lai's face very close to the camera on the phone screen and the corner of the quilt and pillow peeking out. She immediately realized that Xu Lai was still in bed.

"I haven't gotten up yet, I can take a rest this morning." Xu Lai smiled, and then looked at Lin Yuner in the video. She had finished washing, changed into warm-colored pajamas, and sat on the bed. The video was viewed from bottom to top.

Yes, you can see half of Lin Yoona's body. It seems that the phone is fixed. "It's about ten o'clock in the evening in Seoul, right? You went to bed very early today."

"You got up quite late too." Lin Yuner tilted her head.

Xu Lai looked at Lin Yoona in the video and smiled.

"Are you busy these days? It feels like you haven't slept well. It's almost noon over there..." Lin Yuner looked at the slightly obvious bags under Xu Lai's eyes and began to care about Xu Lai's eyes.

After all, Xu Lai is not a very tired person at work. Even if he stays up late, is busy, and is tired, it is difficult for him to have dark circles. The signs of fatigue such as bags under the eyes actually appear tired today. She must be very tired these days.

Bar?

"Yes, very busy." Xu Lai sighed when talking about his work. The main reason is that he is so popular now and the topic is very high. He is invited to reality shows one after another and there are several radio stations.

He took part in all the activities on his own initiative, but his time was still tight.

"Didn't I shoot the MV for "Sugar" during this period? After it was released, the response was great and the popularity was also very high. Because of the high popularity, I was very busy. I participated in several programs such as reality shows or talk shows.

, and now there are many invitations from radio stations..."

"Isn't that great? Inviting you proves that you are very popular now! And not to mention in the United States, I can feel your popularity across the Pacific Ocean from here in Seoul, okay?"

"Is that so? I don't seem to be that popular in South Korea, right?" Xu Lai said with a smile.

"What are you exaggerating? You are now the pride of our South Korean K-pop. People in the music circle are just holding you up and kneeling down to look at you. And the vast majority of netizens are now supporting you. If someone says that you are not

, but you will be hung up and laughed at online."

"Ah... there's no need for this..." Xu Lai hadn't paid attention to this before, so when he heard what Lin Yuner said, he was a little speechless.

"But a lot of people are like this, so you don't have to worry about them. They're all pissed off. They push people up and down, that's it. They don't have any loyalty. If you stop being popular someday, they might laugh at you again.

It's them."

"What you said is so realistic."

"But this is indeed reality."

"Well, indeed." Xu Lai nodded, frowned and touched his eyebrows.

"Have you not washed up yet?" Lin Yuner suddenly moved closer to the phone and looked at Xu Lai's face carefully. Because the phone had a filter, she couldn't see if there was any dirt on Xu Lai's face now, but everyone was still there.

Lying in bed, I guess I don't have time to get up and wash up.

"I'm still lying in bed..."

"oh."

"Did you have birthday cake today on your birthday?"

"There was a huge three-layer cake. There were more than ten people celebrating, and many people didn't eat sweets because they wanted to stay in shape. I took a bite, and they used the rest to fight.

'It's over." Lin Yuner thought about the cake before and couldn't help but frowned, feeling a bit pity.

In fact, it would be better not to prepare any cake, or just prepare a very small one. Everyone is just trying to taste it, and they won’t eat more at all. But this cake was not prepared by her.

"Does it taste OK?"

“The taste is very good.”

"That's pretty good. I hope I can have a taste next time."

"Then let me order one for you now?"

"Forget it." Xu Lai shook his head, as if he suddenly remembered something, "Wait a minute."

After saying this, he stood up with his cell phone. The cell phone bounced and could only capture his chest. Lin Yoona heard the clattering sound, as if he was looking for something.

"found it."

"What are you looking for?" Lin Yuner asked.

"Cake and lighter. This is a snack cake brought back from the company a few days ago, and the other is a lighter brought back from "Longing for Life"."

"Why don't you use a lighter as a souvenir after you record a show?" Lin Yuner was amused by Xu Lai.

"Then I can't just carry away the corn I broke, right?" Xu Lai asked, "Originally I thought about taking away the Shiba Inu from Mushroom House, but the director said that there will probably be another movie in the future, so the puppy didn't

Let me take it with you. There is no point in bringing anything else to take up space, so I just put a lighter in my bag."

"Are you a fool? You don't smoke."

"I'll save it to go home and set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year this year."

"Are you still setting off firecrackers when you are so old?" Lin Yoona knew that you can set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, because firecrackers are also set off in South Korea, but most of them are for children, and older children don't play with them anymore.

Like the last time she was filming "Martial God Zhao Zilong", because the crew had a cannon that could explode when thrown on the ground, she was teased by Lin Gengxin for playing with it.

"You still have to be childlike sometimes."

"That's right. Then remember to tell me when you set off firecrackers and let me see."

"Aha?"

"I mean, you can occasionally be a child in front of me." Lin Yoona seemed to have the brilliance of motherhood hidden in her eyes at this time.

"no."

"What? I won't laugh at you."

"Anyway, it just doesn't work." Xu Lai didn't say the reason, but just shook his head.

"But I think it's okay."

"Why did you say that?" Xu Lai returned to the room, and sat on the chair without returning to the bed. He held the phone in his hand and looked at Lin Yuner on the screen of the phone very seriously.

"Actually, I have always thought that you should have a childish side. I have seen it before, but I feel that you have matured a lot now. You don't know where to hide your childish side, and it is less exposed in front of me.

"Lin Yuner thought about Xu Lai when he was filming the show, he was no longer childish, he just looked like a fool sometimes, and it felt like he had grown up a lot.

Obviously the last time he was in Los Angeles, he was occasionally childish, but now, just two months later, he seems to have matured a lot.

But Lin Yoona felt that Xu Lai was hiding it, and wanted to urgently mature herself, be considerate of everything, and not be childish or naive.

"No, I am over twenty-one this year."

"But you have only been working for less than a year..."

"One year...is already a long time." Xu Lai said.

"Indeed... one year is a long time." Lin Yuner felt quite emotional when she heard what Xu Lai said.

Every day is the same, nothing new happens, so the year is not long. But in the year Xu came, his life trajectory completely changed. He came into contact with another level of life. From this point of view,

This year has indeed been very long.

Moreover, so many things happened in this year, including encounters and reunions, and I even found another person who is very compatible with me.

Of course it's good for a man to be more mature, but some people say that a man will be a boy until he dies. Xu Lai came here with a youthful atmosphere. If you say that he has grown up this year, he has definitely grown. After all, he has experienced so much.

After seeing things in a bigger world, it is natural to make changes.

But Lin Yoona feels that people have two sides, one is an adult, and the other is a child. The "child" before Xu Lai was so lively. He would be sad, cry, and complain. But I don't know when it started.

I started to get used to reporting good things but not bad things, and I hid all the fatigue and fatigue I experienced.

Is this very mature?

But Lin Yoona felt that he seemed to have lost something. She could still sometimes think of Xu Lai putting his head on her shoulders and hugging her, and then saying that he was so tired.

"What are you thinking about?" The two of them were suddenly silent. Xu came to see Lin Yuner, who kept looking at him motionless, and couldn't help but speak to break the silence.

"Just think about whether you would cry if you were alone in the United States and encountered something you couldn't solve."

"I'm not going to cry, okay?"
To be continued...