Behind the screen, Qiao Feng could see Qiu Yue and even though her back straightened and she rubbed away her tears, for some reason he felt like if he didn't hold onto her she'd disappear.
Instinctively his hand reached out for her, but that thin paper screen separated them.
The fans could see his movement and a loud murmur rang out. It was because it looked so sweet yet heart-wrenching. He'd reached out for her, and yet he couldn't reach her. All the fans could see was his shadow that couldn't touch Qiu Yue.
Qiu Yue turned slightly and blinked rapidly when she saw that and smiled softly.
"F-For anyone who has the passes for the fan meet please follow the staff members to the Hall! And to everyone who came here today... thank you. You guys are the light of my life."
Her voice cracked and yet remained steady as she spoke. She'd already decided to smile, and it wouldn't fall apart, not yet.
Some of the fans couldn't hold back and started crying. Obviously, Qiu Yue was in pain, and yet, just for them, she would smile genuinely, to make them happy. And all she told them was that they had been the light of her life.
Unbeknown to anyone, there was actually someone Qiu Yue was destined to meet in that stadium too, and her eyes teared up as she looked at the female idol.
The man standing next to the girl, smiled gently at her, though slightly worried when he shifted his eyes to look at Qiu Yue, his gaze became complicated.
Only once she got off the stage did Qiu Yue realize how tired she really was. She stumbled on the steps going down, almost falling, but warm hands reached out to hold her quickly, steadying her.
Qiu Yue gave Qiao Feng a wane smile as she looked up at him. He let go of her but stayed very close even while she was walking back to her dressing room. For some reason, he was afraid that if he didn't hold onto her... she'd disappear.
Like she had before...
He just couldn't remember or understand why he felt this way.
Someone else, two someones else's stepped into the hallway and seeing their faces, Qiao Feng's expression changed. Qiu Yue had no idea who man and woman were, but it was apparent that Qiao Feng did.
Before Qiao Feng could do or say anything, the girl had already run up with sparkling eyes as she held out her hand to Qiu Yue. Just by looking at her eyes and her excitement Qiu Yue could feel that this pretty girl was a fan of hers, so she smiled and shook her hand.
"Hello! Qiu Yue."
She said softly.
"Eeee! I know! I know!!"
The girl squealed and jumped up and down surprising Qiu Yue, how much of a fan was this girl? She'd even forgotten to introduce herself!
Qiu Yue couldn't help chuckling amused at her cute behavior.
Seeing her laugh, the girl seemed to realize what she'd done and a cute red blush came over her cheeks.
"I mean! I'm Liang ZiQin!"
Even though the girl said it with no idea that Qiu Yue would've heard her name, Qiu Yue's body instantly went rigged as she flinched a bit imperceptibly. Sure Bao FeiYin, in the end, has decided to help her and Qiu Yue didn't have bad feelings for main characters, they couldn't be said to be good either.
Even though Qiu Yue had largely controlled her reactions, such that normal people wouldn't even have noticed it, but unfortunately none of the three around her were normal.
Disregarding the fact that they, all three of them, were main characters, they also held enough experience to see that Qiu Yue seemed shocked to hear Liang ZiQin's name.
However they came to the conclusion that this must have been because she'd heard about their efforts from the management. As it is known, Liang ZiQin was supposed to enter the world of show business, as the original story dictated, she should've been managed by Qiao Feng. Liang ZiQin's current position allowed her to take the back door, immediately being assigned the best manager at the agency and like in the book, they'd requested it now too.
But unlike in the book, Qiao Feng wouldn't give Qiu Yue up, leaving aside his feelings, just by skill and talent she was top notch.
The person standing with Liang ZiQin right now was the first male lead, Shi Dong was already somewhat falling for Liang ZiQin. Hearing that she wanted to enter the industry, he wouldn't settle for anything but the best.
Liang ZiQin on the other hand was truly Qiu Yue's self-professed biggest fan! She thought that if she had the same manager, she didn't expect him to manage her directly, but give her an assistant manager, she'd see Qiu Yue some day. The only problem was, Qiao Feng had no assistants under him, and he didn't want to work with more than one artist at a time.
When he'd expressed this, Shi Dong had simply told him to 'ditch Qiu Yue then.'
...it probably isn't necessary to say that Qiao Feng had dropped being polite to him after that point.
He hadn't told Qiu Yue, because he didn't want her to worry about anything and he had more than enough capability to deal with this.
No matter what Liang ZiQin's family status was, she herself didn't have so many achievements whereas he was truly a part of the elite in every way possible, he had proven himself through everything. If he didn't want something to happen, how could it? Such domineering thoughts went through his head when he realized sometimes even if he wanted something he could get it, and his ego suddenly deflated thinking about Qiu Yue.
But now, look at this?! These people had actually come up to Qiu Yue after her concert!
Qiao Feng's eyes sharpened and he stepped forward, placing his hand lightly on Qiu Yue's shoulder, with a hostile gaze in his eyes.
"To what do we owe this visit?"
He tried to appear polite, he didn't want to cause a fight in front of Qiu Yue. After all, that would mean telling her that he had been hiding something her too. He honestly wished to pretend he had no idea who they were and have them thrown out.
But how could he fool Qiu Yue so easily?
She glanced back at Qiao Feng, doubt in her eyes. She'd reacted because that girl was the main character, but what? These three were all transmigrators now?Please, someone, tell her who was selling Transmigration tickets like sweet potatoes?
Qiao Feng obviously didn't want to say anything, giving her a stiff smile instead.
Instead it was Liang ZiQin who spoke.
"That is... we were very rude to Mr. Feng, we didn't realize it would offend him."
"...?"
Seeing Qiu Yue tilt her head at her words, Liang ZiQin almost couldn't contain herself.
"...actually I was told only after Shi Dong had already made the request!!! Or else I wouldn't ever try to take your place!!!"
She promptly threw Shi Dong under the bus, what was anyone else in front of her idol?!
Before anyone could say anything else, Yao Yan calmly walked up to Qiu Yue, ignoring everyone else pretending they were all cactuses standing in her way.
"The fans are almost situated, you need to leave now."
"O-oh, Alright."
Qiu Yue turned to Liang ZiQin before hurrying away with Yao Yan and Qiao Feng.
"This- please meet me after the signing! I'm sorry this was cut short-"
And before she could finish both of them had dragged her away at lightning speed.
Liang ZiQin held her tomato like face in her palm, eyes sparkling with happiness, annoying Shi Dong a little.
Liang ZiQin's idol had asked her to meet later!! Ah~ she could melt here and still be happy~~
Qiu Yue's eyes were still very red because the body she was in currently had very sensitive eyes. Furthermore, Qiao Feng stood right behind her, very afraid she would disappear on him.
All the fans melted at the sight of her smiling with such red eyes. Clearly, she'd been crying and yet look this silly idol of theirs? Welcoming everyone with such a beautiful smile.
Qiu Yue smiled and sign the album for another fan, as the staff members let the next fan through. She smiled softly at the girl she seemed to recognize slightly. It wasn't the face particularly... Either way Qiu Yue felt like the girl had a familiar aura to her.
Hmm...
As Qiu Yue was thinking absentmindedly, the girl rushed towards Qiu Yue and hugged her for a second before looking at her intently.
"Leave guys! Marry me instead! I'll make sure you're never sad!"
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Yao Yan honestly almost threw the entire table away! She'd been waiting and waiting and Wtf this girl actually did it?!
It wasn't just Yao Yan, though her feelings were the strongest, a lot of the other fans were so jealous! They'd been thinking it but that girl had said it!
Qiao Feng had also been surprised for a few seconds, but he immediately pulled the octopus away from Qiu Yue, dragging away the sticky creature away even as the girl kept talking to Qiu Yue.
"My name is He Min!!~~~"
And then~ Qiao Feng went pew pew and threw her out!~
No he seriously just threw her out, except he did it such that she was handed off to the security and very very quickly escorted away.
Seeing Qiu Yue's red and embarrassed face all the fans couldn't help but smile mischievously.
Maybe they would've been angry, but it was clearly the girl named He Min who had jumped the boundaries, literally. And she'd even gotten to hug her!
If it wasn't because their goddess actually looked very cute and shy right now, they would've gone and beaten up that girl, they were standing in line to see Meng and she'd gone and eaten tofu straightaway?!
Even Qiao Feng felt very frustrated, after all, even he hadn't been able to anything yet either okay?! TT_TT
But even more than that, he was still worried about Qiu Yue. She seemed fine on the surface but for some reason, he couldn't help worrying. Hopefully, he was thinking too much.
The thing about the universe though, was that it liked playing around.