(ch.107)

A few days later, Xiang was packing his stuff, Zhe asked "Is it already time for you to go on your tour," in a calm tone as he stands at the door frame.

"Yeah, I'll be leaving in a few hours," Xaing answered as he continues to pack.

Zhe "Ah ok, do you want us to send you off," he asked in a calm tone.

"Nan, you guys can come to see me off if you guys don't have work but if you guys don't want to you don't have to," he answered in a relaxed tone, Zhe hummed and left.

At 10 am, Xaing got his things were going to leave but then Lai said "Wait, I'll see you off but are you driving or is your manager picking up," in a curious tone as he came out of his room.

"My manager is coming with a van to get me, I think you might have to tail me to the airport," Xaing answered in a quiet tone as he puts his shoes on, Lai just hums. "Don't forget to bring a hat and mask since you're famous too unless you want your pictures to take," in a cautious voice, then he grabs his mask and hat.

While Xaing was waiting for his manager to call that he was there, then he got a text saying "Sorry, I'm going to be late about a few minutes but we still can make it."

Xaing replied with an "Ok." Xaing said "My manager is going be a little late, you can head first to the Red-crowned crane airport but make sure you don't get caught," in a straightforward tone. Lai nodded, grabbed his keys, and left.

After a few minutes, Xaing got to the airport, he saw that he saw many of his fans and paparazzi, he was scanning to see Lai but he wasn't in the crowd, he stopped walking and begin to look around. He saw Lai on the second floor, looking at him, waving so he waved back, then Xaing quick walked to check-in along with his manager.

When they got their seats, his manager asked "Who was that? I don't think that was your girlfriend since I'm sure she's still on her trip," in a curious tone.

Xaing smiled and answered "I guess I can say that it's Yu's cousin's boyfriend but we just call him our cousin," in a calm tone as he went on his phone.

"Oh, so is her boyfriend, someone we know," with a curious tone as leans close to Xaing.

Xaing leans close to him and whispers "I can tell you but you can't tell anyone, HIS boyfriend is Qing Lai," in a calm voice.

Xaing's manager moved and whispers back "Wait you don't mean," in a surprised tone, Xaing just nodded, he gasps and added "Wait her cousin is a guy," in a confused tone, Xaing nodded again. "Doesn't that mean they're a-" in a confused tone?

Before he could finish his question, Xaing answered "Yes so please stop asking questions about them, it's their life so let them be," in a calm tone, then he gasps.

"What? What's wrong," his manager asked in a curious tone. Xaing shows him his phone, he added "Yeah so," in a confused tone.

Xaing asked "You think our fan will figure out that this is Lai instead of my so-called "girlfriend"," in a confused tone.

His manager sat up straight and quietly shouted "What?! let me see," with a shocked tone as he grabs Xaing's phone. After a few seconds, Mr. Zhao said "Aiya~ you know how much trouble the company with be in and what about your real girlfriend what will she think," in a disappointed voice as he frowns at him.

"I don't know, let's just hope that she'll recognize that it's just Lai and not actually a girl," he answered in a hopeful tone as he took his phone back, he hummed, agreeing. Mr. Zhao went on his phone for a few minutes, then a flight attendant announces all the things that are necessary, Xaing and his manager were seat belted and set their phones to airplane mode, then they took off in a few minutes.

After about 3 hours, Mr. Zhao gently shakes Xaing while saying "Xaing, wake up we're here," in a calm tone as he got out of his seat.

"Oh, we're here," Xaing said in a sleepy tone as he looks around, he unbuckled, and begin to stretch., then they got off the plane. As he was walking out, he saw so many of his fans running towards him so he and his manager begin to run but then he saw another group of his fans, they stop running since there was no other way. His fans surround him as his manager was trying to get his fans to move, they just keep pushing his manager.

After a few minutes of Xiang begging for them to leave him alone but they continue asking him questions and taking pictures, he went on his knees after he saw that some of his fans push Mr. Zhao to the floor, and a few of his fans gasps while the rest continues to do their thing. The fans pity their idol so they tried to make a path for him to leave, one of them shouted "You guys this is enough, can't you guys see that he's begging us to leave him alone, he's even on his knees," in a pitiful tone.

"We might of been really excited to meet him but we went overboard," another one shouted.

One of the fans, that didn't stop what they were doing, shouted back "Shut the f*ck up! You guy know this is like once in a lifetime, I don't want to pass the chance of interacting with one of my idols," in an annoyed tone.

The fan yelled back "It's better to pass the chance of meet him instead of having him to beg us to leave him alone, you know how f*cking embarrassing that is," in an annoyed tone. She continues "Now make space for him, I already feel so guilty coming near him," as Xaing got up.

Most of them didn't budge so a few of them push to make a path for him, as he walked through, he was quietly thanking them, then quickly went to his manager. One of the fans said "Xaing, we're sorry, I understand if you're mad at us," in a guilty tone.

Mr. Zhao asked "Are you okay? I couldn't see it clearly, I'm sorry that I couldn't do anything, I went to get security but I don't know why they weren't coming," in a concerned tone as he looks arms and legs.

"I'm fine, what about you? I saw some of my fans push you onto the floor and it looked like you fell pretty hard," Xaing answered in a worried but yet calm tone as he looked at him.

Mr. Zhao answered "I'm fine," in a calm tone. They felt a tap from behind, they looked, and saw that one was one of the fans that helped them, said "Sorry to bother you guys but you're bleeding from your hand," in a nervous tone as she pointed at Mr. Zhao's hand.

They both looked a saw that his hand was bleeding a bit, Xaing gasped and noted "Mr. Zhao, you said that you're fine, you were lying, let's get you to a hospital," in a panic tone.

He answered "Xaing don't overreact, I'm going to be fine, I'll just bandaid it up when we get to the hotel," in an assured tone, "Come on, let's hurry a go check-in to the hotel before we have more trouble," he added in a rushed tone.

"Do you have bandaids," Xaing asked? Mr. Zhao hooked his head and said "I'll go buy them later," in a calm tone, then he began to quickly walk away. Xaing just followed but before he caught up with his manager, the girl handed a few bandaids with a small note and quickly ran off. He quickly catches up with his manager.

While they were going to the hotel, Xaing handed the bandaids to Mr. Zhao, he said "My fan gave you this," in a calm tone.

He asked "Why did she give me this," in a confused tone as he looked at it.

"Aiya~ do you seriously have to ask that? Let me do it," he commented as he grabs his bleeding hand, then begin to unwrap a bandaid.

"Xaing, I can do it myself," he assured as he was going to take away his hand, then Xaing pulled his hand back and put the bandaid on where it was bleeding. "There, I'm done," he added in a calm tone as he gave Mr. Zhao's hand back to him.

He look at his then at Xaing, he said "Um, thank you, Xaing are you planning something, is that's why you're being nice," in a suspicious tone.

"No no, I'm just being nice plus I'm worried about you since I'm the reason that you got hurt," he answered in a calm tone, his manager just hummed. When they checked in, Mr. Zhao gave Xaing his key to his own room, his room number 222 on the 22nd floor, he asked "What room and floor are you staying on," in a curious tone as he dragged his luggage behind him.

"I'm the room next to you, 221," in a calm tone as he rolled his luggage behind him, then he got a called so he answered while Xaing went on his phone. A few minutes later, Xaing heard a knock at his door so he went to open the door, it was his manager, he told him to come in. His manager said "Xaing, you're in trouble, now you have to write an apology letter and then when you go back you might to do a press conference since you got so much hate in a few hours," with a serious tone as he watched Xaing sit on his bed.

"Ok ok, I will," he noted with an assured tone as looked at his manager.

Mr. Zhao commented "Ok, make sure you do it. By the way, you have practice in the morning so don't stay up too late," in a cautious tone as he looked at his phone, Xaing nodded, then his manager left. Xaing got started on his apology letter after like 2 hours, he finally wrote a letter with all of the thoughts he feel and could think to try to rectify his mistake, then he posted it on his Weibo account.

He sighed and laid back on his bed to rethink his choices to lend to this problem, then his phone ringed, "What's up, Sun" he answered.

"Xaing! Who is your new girlfriend? Yu and you haven't even broken up and you already have someone new, what is wrong with you," in an upset tone.

Xaing said "Ming! I don't have a new girlfriend,' in a confused tone.

"Then who was the one that you were waving to at the airport," Ming shouted.

Xaing laughed, Ming shouted again "Why are you laughing, this isn't funny," in an annoyed tone.

Xaing said "Sorry, I know it's not but that not my new girlfriend, that's Qing Lai," in a lively tone.

Ming was quiet for a few seconds and asked "You mean her cousin's boyfriend," in a confused tone, Xaing hummed. "I know they live somewhere far so how can he come to see you off, I don't believe you," she added in a disbelief tone.

"They're staying with us for a bit, if you don't believe me then you can go check room 605 on the 10th floor," he replied in an assured tone.

Ming said "Let me go check," with a serious tone, after a few minutes, Ming knocked, then Xaing heard Lai answer "Oh hi, Ming, what brings you here," in a confused tone.

Ming asked "Were you the one that was at the airport," in a curious tone.

"Yeah, I'm apparently Xaing's "girlfriend" now, why," Lai commented in a confused tone.

Ming said "No reason, give me a second," in a calm tone as Lai hummed, she went on her phone and commented "My apologies, you were right, anyways just be lucky that Lai save you from me taking Yu away from you," in an assertive tone then she hung up.

Xaing just giggled, he tried not to look at all of his notifications, then he got a call from his dad, "Hello, dad," in a nervous voice. After being chewed out for 30 minutes, his dad finish by saying "I'm not done talking to you but I'll save it until I see you again," with a disappointed tone.

"Ok, ok, dad, I get it, we'll talk more when I come back," Xaing marked in a calm tone, his dad hummed and then hung up. After a few minutes, he got a FaceTime call from one of his friends, Dong, "What do you want," Xaing asked.

Dong said "Is this how you treat your friends after not talking for a long time," in a sarcastic tone with a fake offended face.

"There's one except you plus it only has been 2 months since we talked," he commented in a confused tone.

"Yes, there is," he replied as he showed around the room, there was Bambang and Qiao Shen in the room too, they wave to Xaing as Xaing waved to him.

Bambang came next to dong and asked "So do you have someone new and what happened between you and Yu," in a curious tone.

Xaing answered "One, I don't have anyone new, and two, she and I are on a break for now," in a calm tone as he stand up his phone against one of the pillows.

Qiao Shen asked "Then who was seeing you off at the airport if it wasn't Yu or someone new," in a curious tone.

Xaing sighed and answered "How can you guys not recognize this person, the one that saw me off was-" before he could finish he heard a knock at his door so he got up to open the door. "Oh hi, Mr. Zhao," Xaing said in a calm tone as Mr. Zhao entered his room.

Mr. Zhao asked "Have you seen the comments on your apology letter," in a serious tone as he sat on a chair, he shook his head and asked why. "Well the comments are half bad and half good but the situation is still not good, there are so many articles of you and this tour might get canceled," he added with a troubled tone, Xaing nodded. Mr. Zhao said "You're lucky if you still get to do this concert," with a stern tone, he asked "By the way are you hungry if you are, you can order room service," in a calm tone

Xaing shook his head, "I'm not hungry," in a calm tone. Mr. Zhao slowly said "So..." Xaing gave him a curious look, "when will your friends stop taking pictures of us, they have been taking pictures of us for a bit now.

Xaing looked at his friends, he grabbed his phone and said "Dong, Bambang, and Qiao Shen, why are you guys taking pictures of my manager," in a confused tone as he looked at them.

They all started to face each other then Qiao Shen answered "Because we think your manager is very good looking," in a lighthearted tone, Xaing gave a confused face. Bambang asked "Wait maybe we're wrong since you guys were far, let us see your manager again," in an uncertain tone with an unsure face. Xaing looked at his manager, his manager shrugged, Xaing showed Mr. Zhao to his friends for the last time, just then they took a picture of him. Dong shouted "Thanks," with an amused voice, then quickly hung up.

Mr. Zhao sighed and said "Your friends looked familiar but anyways I'm going to leave," in a calm tone, then he left.