Chapter 91 Skill Pre-swing
As Friday neared the end of the workday, the office was already filled with a restful atmosphere, especially since it was the first weekend off after the National Day holiday. Guan Yue, who was in the script meeting, was also infected by the atmosphere. She stretched in the meeting room and, while no one was paying attention, grabbed her phone and started checking WB.
The trending searches were bought with money, pushed for no apparent reason, and they were all filled with uninteresting tags. It was so boring to scroll through them...
"There really isn't anything interesting happening in the entertainment industry lately..." Guan Yue held her face and muttered softly. She returned to the homepage and dragged it. A message titled "Content You Might Have Missed" was refreshed on the homepage. "What the hell?!!!"
Unable to hold back, he suddenly stood up. Fortunately, the meeting was over and everyone from Party A had left the room. Only the young girl who had accompanied him to the meeting was startled by Guan Yue's sudden action.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, it's okay. I saw a little melon and was a little surprised. You go ahead and do your work~"
The girl saw Guan Yue suddenly straighten up from her slumped position in the chair, looking as if she was facing a great enemy, holding her phone in both hands and swiping the screen intently. She couldn't help but mutter, "Strange..." and lowered her head to pack her bag. "Then I'll go wait for you in the lobby downstairs and call a taxi. Don't delay too long, come quickly!"
"Yeah, okay." Guan Yue answered perfunctorily. She was still trying to find out what happened in the comment section.
[Yikouhaniu Youzi: Can't these marketing accounts understand the situation before reposting? Do these weekly magazines just assume everything they say? Is there anything wrong with Youzi switching careers to run his own ice show and getting inspiration from ballet performances? Ballet performances aren't scheduled around his schedule, so it's normal for him to rush around! His first ice show was in Yokohama, and many of his partners are surely in Yokohama and Tokyo. What's wrong with having a permanent residence? What a fuss!]
Under this WB post, the comment section is mostly filled with responses from everyone, and it’s hard to tell what exactly happened.
She immediately changed the melon field and pieced together what was going on.
Back in Yokohama, Le had just finished rehearsing for the day and was sitting in a corner of the studio, taking off her pointe shoes to rest. Her phone was muted in her bag, but she didn't check it, absorbed in watching the final performance of the lead character, Ka. Beads of sweat rolled down her slender neck and down her back. She wiped them with a towel before slipping on her sport coat. She pulled her water bottle from the side of her bag, unscrewed it, and drank from it, slipping her towel back into her bag. It was so easy that the yellow pattern on the towel peeked through.
"Suginohara, how does it feel to be back rehearsing as an actor? Is your physical condition still keeping up?" Senior Matsuno sat down next to Le, with the concern of a senior. "It must have been a while since you've had such intense rehearsals. Are your feet still holding up these days?"
As Mr. Matsuno spoke, he glanced at Le's feet. His feet were a little swollen from the pointe shoes, and the bandages wrapped around several toes made his feet look a little sad and pitiful.
But it only looks like...
This is obviously a common thing for ballet dancers, but when his senior said this, Le raised his eyebrows, turned his ankles, and moved his toes.
"It's okay. I didn't give them too much time off when I was making my own programs, so they should be used to it~" She replied with a smile and bowed in the direction of Matsuno-senpai to express her gratitude. "Thank you for your concern, senpai."
The zipper of her tracksuit was still open, and the golden feather pendant on her collarbone tinkled as Le moved, making a subtle tapping sound against the zipper. The sound was so quiet that it would have been difficult to detect in the classroom with the piano accompaniment, but Matsuno was watching and naturally didn't miss it.
The topic that has been hotly discussed in the dance troupe recently suddenly popped into Matsuno's mind.
She narrowed her eyes.
"Hey, this necklace is so beautiful. Where did you buy it?" Senior Matsuno said as she reached out to touch it. Le's obvious retreat made her hand miss. She watched awkwardly as she zipped up her tracksuit to hide the feather pendant. "You're so nervous. It seems like it was a gift from someone important?"
"No, I was just sweating too much..." Le's explanation was a little pale.
"Well, it's better to be careful. Our group has been benefiting from athlete Hanyu's fame recently. A necklace like this can easily cause misunderstandings, so you'd better keep it." She patted Le's shoulder and stood up, glancing at the sports bag thrown aside. The yellow pattern seemed somewhat familiar.
"Le, are you going to get off work?" He Jiu joined in at the right time, interrupting the strange atmosphere. "I'll take you back."
"I'm here!" Saved. Le grabbed his bag, nodded to Matsuno-senpai, and ran to catch up with Kazuki, leaving the rehearsal room. Whispers and heckling could be heard faintly from the training room behind him. Le glanced back at the rehearsal room door, pursed his lips, and turned to leave.
After all, some things have come to a point where they must be faced.
Hasegawa's contingency plan was used so quickly, so quickly that even Kosuke complained that he was a bad-mouthed man. An unsigned article in Weekly XX suddenly sent Yuzuru Hanyu's name trending on Twitter. The article lacked any strict logic; in this fast-paced world, all it needed was a few explosive points.
This article has enough elements.
Yuzuru Hanyu, leaving Sendai, settling in Yokohama, and even making a special trip to the dance troupe to see a ballet the night before the live show. These elements, combined and arranged, without explicitly stating anything, are enough to capture the reader's imagination. Thus, topics like #HanyuYuzuruLove, #HanyuYuzuru'sLoveIsABalletDancer, #HanyuYuzuruStrivesForLove, and #HanyuYuzuruBalletDancer dominated the charts.
There was also a #discussing who unsealed the Sendai Earthbound Spirit mixed in, which made people laugh and cry.
"Are you going back to the dormitory today?" He Jiu asked at the critical crossroads.
"Well, I'd better not go back to the apartment recently. I guess there are paparazzi watching." Le sighed and took out his phone from his bag. Only then did he notice the many messages sent by Guan Yue.
[The Moon Can't Be Confined: How are you guys doing over there? There's already discussion going on back home!]
[The Moon Can't Be Confined: But I looked around and didn't see your name mentioned. It probably hasn't been exposed yet.]
[The Moon Can't Be Confined: But your group seems to have been mentioned. Haniu was photographed while watching your performance, right?]
[The moon can't be contained and a message has been withdrawn]
[The moon can't be contained and a message has been withdrawn]
[The Moon Can't Be Confined: Does this situation affect your performance?]
[The moon can't be contained and a message has been withdrawn]
[The moon can't be contained and a message has been withdrawn]
[The moon can't be contained and a message has been withdrawn]
[The Moon Can't Be Confined: You and Haniu, don't panic. Even if you discuss it, it's only temporary.]
[The Moon Can't Be Confined: Are you still busy? Remember to message me when you're done.]
Among the entire page of messages, there are also many withdrawn messages, and those left on the page are all some concerns and instructions.
【Raku Lele: Yeah, I just got off work. You've withdrawn a lot.】
Before I could finish sending the second message, Guan Yue called me.
"So you were talking to Guan Yue just now and didn't answer my call?" Yuzuru Hanyu in the video pouted, his displeasure clearly written on his face, almost deliberately. "Luckily, I don't have any other work scheduled today, so I can answer your call."
He mumbled to himself while Le busied himself preparing dinner with the video on. When Le wasn't looking at the camera, he quietly rubbed his cheek. He felt a little sore in his cheek after loosening his teeth that he had unconsciously clenched in nervousness.
Being apart was completely normal for them, but they were so nervous because a phone call went wrong. They could only blame the distance. The street map published in the weekly magazine might not have been clear enough for readers, but for those who lived there, it was practically a list of house numbers.
They had tacitly agreed not to mention their agreement to "reveal if they were photographed" that night. She didn't want to disrupt his preparations for the ice performance, and he didn't want to affect her return to the stage...
Yuzuru Hanyu naturally wanted her to return to Sendai with him. The Yokohama apartment and the dance troupe were now the paparazzi's most popular targets. But that was impossible... Leaving her here like this always made Yuzuru Hanyu uneasy.
As he watched Le in the video, his worries and tensions from today slowly melted away.
The iPad is placed on the kitchen counter, and you can see Le's profile while cooking, like a lifestyle vlogger. With her long hair tied up, she throws the ingredients into the soup pot one by one and then stirs them.
"Le, you look like you're brewing some kind of potion..." Hanyu Yuzuru couldn't help but comment, "Can't you just make dinner properly?"
"...I'm eating alone, why would I bother with all that?... And look, it has protein, vegetables, and carbs. It's fine." Even though Le felt a bit like he was brewing some strange potion after hearing what he said, he still carefully scooped out the ingredients from the pot one by one and held them up to the video to show him. He wanted to make sure he wasn't being perfunctory or dieting.
"Guan Yue told me today that a lot of people have been digging up our troupe's performances and other news because of you. She's seen my information on Chinese social media," Le said casually, stirring the ingredients in the pot with a wooden spoon. "So I took a look today and saw that my Twitter and YouTube channels have both gained followers, and some of your fans have left messages..."
"Really?" Hanyu immediately reached for his phone and asked while logging onto Twitter, "What did they say?"
"Ask me if I know anything about you or something." She looked up, but could only see the top of Yuzuru Hanyu's head. He was looking down at his phone.
"Everyone's playing a game called 'Guess Who Hanyu's Girlfriend Is'..." He lowered his head and silently concluded, "The weekly magazine article is really amazing. Everyone just assumed I had a girlfriend in the K-Pop group."
"Yeah, but I haven't been the focus yet, thanks to Hejiu."
"Huh?" Yuzuru Hanyu looked up in confusion.
"Everyone thinks I'm Kazuki's girlfriend, hahahaha~" She laughed exaggeratedly, trying to tease Yuzuru Hanyu over there. However, a quick glance revealed that the person in the video didn't show any jealousy at all, but instead had a serious expression.
"Let's make it public." He looked at Le seriously and said word by word, "This kind of speculation is not good for you. Let's make it public."
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