Chapter 101 - FreeXiongShun

Sighing, Jin pulled away and glanced over at the others talking to one another. He would have been happy to see Xiong Shun’s friends getting along, but now now. Not while he was still heartbroken and wanted to punch someone.

“Ah Jin,” Lisa sighed out a smile, “Whatever he said to you, you know it isn’t true, right?”

Green eyes blinked at her.

“Before you broke up with me the first time, I knew. You were different with him and when you speak about him… I was envious. He does love you. He said he was willing to fight for you, Ah Jin. Whatever is happening, I am certain Gina is blackmailing him,” she cupped his face, “If it was me, I would do what I must to protect you. I am sure Shun is the same.”

‘Protect me…’ Jin leaned against the headboard and sighed, ‘If that is so, why did Shun say those words? Why couldn’t he just tell me?’

He got off the bed and announced he was going to shower. He needed time to himself to understand all of what was happening. Not to mention the headache that was still pounding in his head.

While Suu Jin was in the shower, Kaiden had received a text from Shun. He sent one earlier to see how his friend was doing and didn’t get a reply until now. He wondered if his former leader was busy or if Gina was preventing him to use his phone. Reading the text, he hummed to himself. Jenell leaned over, blocking the raven haired man’s view of his phone. Reading the text, she huffed and turned, only to have the back of her head smacked against the idol’s nose.

“Ugh,” Kaiden covered his nose and Taemeng stood up.

“Ah! Sorry Kaiden!” Jenell quickly ran to grab an icepack. By the time she returned Taemeng was checking Kaiden’s nose. She frowned slightly and pressed the cold icepack onto the injured nose. The raven haired idol winced and the male dancer reached to hold the icepack, but Jenell only smiled and held the icepack tighter.

“Forgive me, Kai Kai, please?” Jenell asked sweetly, but inwardly she was trying not to show how cold her hand was feeling.

“Mm,” Kaiden nodded with a smile, “It is alright. Thank you, Janell.”

The raven haired idol touched her hand and asked she sit down. Removing her hand on the icepack for the idol to hold himself, she smiled and glanced over at Taemeng. The dancer stared at her with slightly furrowed brows.

“Oi,” Kola plopped beside Janell and whispered, “What are you doing?”

“What do you mean?” She whispered back.

“Girl,” the female rapper deadpanned knowing fully well the princess knew.

Jenell smirked and shrugged, earning shoulder bumps from a grinning Kola. They glanced over at Lisa who was watching them with a knowing smile. That only caused them to laugh. The door to the hotel opened and Ping walked in with two bags while Wen Dong carried the load. Star got up to help and Taemeng joined.

Setting the food on the table and separating the meals, the sound of the shower turned off. Then, the pinkette walked out with a towel wrapped around his waist. Wet droplets dripped from porcelain skin and cotton candy hair. A screech shook the audience awake from the hypnotizing idol prince.

Ping quickly ran to stand before his cousin, trying to block the shamelessness.

“Biao ge! What are you doing?! Only Gege can see you like this! So… so shameless!”

Big green eyes looked around the room and he screeched again. Running over to Wen Dong, he jumped onto his friend and covered those purple eyes.

“Don’t look! Not for you to see!”

Jin smiled and shook his head.

“I forgot to grab my clothes. Ah Ping, biao di, grab me clothes so I can cover myself.”

He chuckled watching his dear Ping Ping rushing and grabbing anything to hand to him. Thanking his cousin, he went to get changed. Once dressed, he took a deep breath and exhaled. Well, there wasn’t much he could do now but move forward.

Leaving the restroom, he saw his manager had returned and there was another person there.

“Suu Jin,” the female smiled, “Finally got to meet you. I’m the girls’ manager and former manager of Symmony, Manager Bon.”

“Nice to meet you,” he bowed and she chuckled.

“Hm… Nice fashion.”

“Courtesy of my cousin.”

“I dressed him really good!” Ping exclaimed happily and they laughed.

“Alright,” Manager Yaotzu announced, “Let’s go over the plan. Whoever couldn’t make it, we’ll rely the info to them. Let’s start.”

“Plan?”

Suu Jin questioned and only received a bright grin from the little pinkette and a smile from the others.

‘What… is going on?’

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Shun smiled, laughed, nodded, and faked everything.

He forced himself to not flinch when Gina touched his arm and interlocked their fingers. He forced himself not to grimace when she pecked his cheek. He shared fake stories of their “love” and future. Everything made his stomach bile want to leave his mouth. This was worse than when he was pretending to court those princesses.

“You two look so beautiful together, don’t you think He Chan?” The female host smiled over at her cohost.

“Definitely,” the man nodded holding his cue cards, “Let us bring the wheel,” he got off screen to grab the wheel.

Shun’s face brighten when he saw the colorful wheel like a pinwheel. There was numbers on each slice of color and he wondered what it was. He enjoyed games and the shows they’ve gone to be all creative, but… They always wanted them to kiss.

Shun had avoided it. He hoped he could do so again.

Heeang and Mikey was watching the show. Why? One, because they were caught up on what was going on with Xiong Shun. Two, Mikey was in love with the female host, Jae Lee. Lastly, they had the day off. The youngest of the two was watching closely to Shun and Gina’s behaviors. He loved celebrity gossip, it fueled him, so being a part of a plan to thwart this mess of a fake relationship made him giddy.

He had created an account called FreeXiongShun with hashtags for InstaMe and Weebo. He made sure to join both Suu Jin, Xiong and Xiong Shun’s fan accounts, fan pages, fan websites. Slowly, he was pointing out flaws in the couple. His very first post was the picture that Jenell made, a side by side picture of Gina and Jinny. That caused some confusion, uproar, and had some reporters questioning if it was real or fake.

“You look so happy getting to do all this,” Mikey laughed handing him a bowl of cereal.

“Of course. You know I live for this,” Heeang grinned showing the latest post, “I’m doing a live react of the show right now. Gaining more people who can see how fake they are.”

“Ah! You are amazing Ah Ang. Ah~ you should research the girls and guys I will end up with then,” Mikey grinned before it fell into a frown, “Mm, nevermind. If you don’t like them, you would ruin them.”

“They better make me like them then,” Heeang shrugged, “I’m your best friend.”

The older boy laughed and threw his arm over the younger one, going back to focusing on the gameshow their former leader was on. Some of the numbers on the wheels were funny, it made him laugh because Shun’s face was easy to read when the silver haired boy wasn’t lying.

“Oh, last one,” the female host Jae Lee giggled, “How perfect! Time for a kiss~”

Mikey spit the milk out of his mouth and jostled Heeang, who had been preparing a post to erasing it. The boy frowned deeply and turned to his friend to see Mikey staring wide eyed at the television. Heeang looked at the screen and his own eyes widened. What they saw was Shun and Gina kissing… actually kissing… on the lips… making out.

‘This was not good.’