Chapter 108 Chapter 108

After the concert, she changed her flight to the next morning and returned home with Xia Qing.

The original plan was to stay in Osaka for a few more days - either to watch the remaining two concerts, or to go out for dinner and travel with Kush and his friends, and to check in at a few pre-planned travel spots.

She needed to book the earliest flight back home, so it was only natural for her to go along. She gave Kush the excuse that she suddenly remembered she had homework to do at school. She was always very diligent, so diligent that this excuse popped up out of the blue.

It wouldn't raise any suspicions. Kush wasn't surprised, only sighing that she was truly a "slave of the new age," and then happily receiving a slam. But the real reason was: something was wrong with her. Her beauty was misleading. She practically fled.

Once he had an inappropriate thought, his habitual little movements would sometimes even get closer than the social distance. To others, this might just be a casual intimacy, but to her now, it all seemed like deliberate provocation.

He exuded charm with such ease—or perhaps, he was simply a very charming person. He had no intention of doing so, but she didn't. She felt like a suspect with ulterior motives, unable to withstand such close temptation.

By the time Kwon Ji-yong realized what was happening, Lia had already returned to Seoul. He stared at the message on his phone, practically laughing. What the hell? Kiss and run?

There was still a video call with Lee Soo Hyuk on the phone, so Lee Soo Hyuk just looked at the person on the other end of the call with a gloomy expression.

"Are you listening to me?" He waved his hand in front of the screen. "What I was talking about just now - those items that just came out of the spring Japanese fashion show." "Yeah." Kwon Ji-yong responded absentmindedly. Lee Soo-hyuk couldn't help but frown.

He couldn't go to Japan recently, so he wanted Quan Zhilong to help him bring back some limited-edition items. But after talking for a long time, he didn't seem to remember anything. He just kept saying "hmmmm" and didn't seem to care at all.

"What happened?" Li Zhuhe asked helplessly. Quan Zhilong frowned, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Tell me, how could someone——"

He paused mid-sentence and changed his words, "If you kiss a girl while she's drunk—" Lee Soo Hyuk interrupted, "That doesn't sound like something I would do."

Quan Zhilong ignored him and continued to speak: "--but he left a message the next day and ran away. What kind of thing is that?" "..." Li Zhuhe was slightly stunned. This guy... was played?

"Did you really kiss?" He couldn't help but confirm again. "...More or less," Quan Zhilong mumbled distractedly. They were so close anyway, so what difference did it make whether they kissed or not?

To make matters worse, he even approached her the next day. Now, he's been made a laughingstock. "That doesn't sound like something Lia would do..." Lee Soo Hyuk pondered, offering a reasonable guess, "—and you were caught pretending to be drunk?"

"No one was discovered." Kwon Ji-yong denied subconsciously, and then hurriedly made amends, "Aren't you talking about me and her..." "Oh?" Lee Soo-hyuk prolonged the last syllable meaningfully.

Quan Zhilong raised his hand to ruffle his hair, a hint of annoyance between his brows. He was always in control of the situation, and rarely was he completely lost. He walked to the mirror and subconsciously looked at himself—hmm, handsome.

That day, he had deliberately cleaned himself up under the pretext of washing up, fearing he wouldn't look good when he lay down and pretended to be drunk. So that definitely wasn't the reason.

Lee Soo Hyuk watched him fiddling in front of the mirror for a long time and was about to complain when a sudden inspiration struck him. He slowly said, "Does she know about your breakup?" "......?" Good, judging by his reaction, she doesn't know.

Li Zhuhe added slowly: "Then, in her eyes, all these little actions of yours recently are cheating." Cheating, cheating, cheating - the two words were like stones dropped into water, circling in Quan Zhilong's mind.

He was deeply shocked by these two words, and subconsciously began to replay the events of the past few days. It was only then that he realized that he seemed to have never confirmed this matter with her.

"I thought she would search it online, or Kush would have mentioned it..." His voice gradually faded away because of his guilty conscience.

There are all kinds of news about him, both true and false. He has never responded to romance rumors, but now he is so confident that he thinks she will automatically know that he has broken up.

Lee Soo Hyuk watched his face turn from blue to white and finally as black as the bottom of a pot, and couldn't help but gloat: "Tsk, a cheating man." "I haven't done anything yet..." Kwon Ji-yong defended in a low voice.

Or more accurately, it looked like nothing had happened. So his image shouldn't be too bad. But then there was the problem—he couldn't just go up to her and tell her, "I broke up."

What does this sound like? Too pitiful. Ah Xi. Seeing the person on the other end of the video not knowing what was going on in his mind and his expression gradually becoming distorted, Li Zhuhe couldn't help but interrupt: "I said, those things I just said I wanted to buy-"

Kwon Ji-yong: "..." His mind went blank. Lee Soo-hyuk was silent for three seconds. Did anyone care about him?! * After returning to Korea, Lia resumed her routine of going to and from work, home, and the library.

The song "Paper Moon" that Isaac collaborated with is scheduled to be released in late June. The distribution channel is led by Isaac and distributed to Spotify, Apple and other platforms through DistroKid, which he is familiar with.

The song will be released on major international platforms such as Music and Bandcamp, and will also be available on SoundCloud for preview and promotion. Lia will also release a behind-the-scenes documentary on her YouTube channel.

Because she and Isaac are separated by distance, the documentary was produced in a dual-city split-screen format—presented in parallel in Los Angeles and Seoul studios, with Isaac and her creative process placed on the same timeline. In order to achieve the desired effect, she met with the editor almost every three or five days to discuss.

Fortunately, it was summer vacation, and besides studying in the library, she had plenty of time to devote to this matter. As for Quan Zhilong - it was impossible to say that he didn't want to do it at all.

This is a bit like the "green car effect". Once you notice it, it will appear frequently in your life.

He's in the news, trending, mentioned in the company corridors and meeting rooms, and his name pops up all the time in Kush chats...

——It is almost impossible to completely avoid the news about a big star, let alone when he happens to be in the comeback period.

She deliberately avoided reading and thinking about it, even trying to skip the relevant messages in the group chat. But this avoidance not only failed to work, but instead backfired on her even more. — She missed him terribly. It was like she had some kind of illness.

The more she tried to avoid him, the more she wanted to know. It soon became a habit—every day when she got home, sat down in front of her computer, and, as if driven by reflex, typed his name into the search box. Most of the results were tour news.

He has several large fan sites that update his status immediately, with high-definition photos and detailed records: photos from all angles of the stage, the order of the setlist, member interactions, and the content of the talk show...

The photo was so clear she could almost see the texture of his skin. It was just like what she'd seen that day when he leaned in close before the garland. She clicked on an article. "Alive Tour in Osaka Three-Day Collection."

Photography is usually prohibited at concerts in Japan, and this tour was no exception. I wonder how these fans were able to bring their massive DSLR cameras into the venues and still manage to take an astonishing amount of photos.

Because it was a personal website, the main post was almost entirely about Kwon Ji-yong's close-ups. The three days of performances were largely the same, and as she watched the people on the screen, she felt as if she were also there for the next two days.

At the bottom of the post, there is also a photo that Kush posted on Twitter——

He didn't waste the wreath at all, choosing a large group photo with the wreath placed right in the middle of the picture. Kento even closed his eyes and stood to the side, like a pitiful background board.

The comment section is very lively. Fans who can't go abroad to attend the event have recently relied on the pictures on the fan page to understand the latest news of their idols: "Kush: A little genius in gift-giving" "Wow, I want to take a picture too, I envy TT"

“Kento: Am I a slave to something?” “New fan asks, who is Kento?” “The one with closed eyes on the far right, GD’s old friend~” “kkkkk the biggest victim” “Your friend who doesn’t like photo editing→→”

"Did everyone go to Osaka? You guys are so close~" "Lia, little darling, long time no see~" "I think it was the first day we went. My friend said he saw me in the audience when we were entering."

"You're standing too close!!! Let me go!!!!" "Does anyone know the brand of Lia's earrings? I want the same style." "The earrings look ordinary, is it because of her pretty face?"

"Wow, a century of togetherness, who still remembers that they used to have a CP website?" "???" "A little curious, please give me a link kk" "Please don't mention this below the website..."

"You don't have to be so sensitive. We've known each other for so long, if we really wanted to date, we would have been together a long time ago." His eyes froze after quickly browsing. --CP Station?

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