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“Yes…sure…sure…thank you Sir..thank you.” His manager said to the person on the phone while nodding several times. Yibo adjusted his seat, feeling uncomfortable and upset, ‘I really don’t like this’ he thought angrily.
“Remember you have to follow our plan, I know you hate this but you have to be grateful about this because ….. you know right?’ His manager said to him sternly.
Yibo just stared ahead and said nothing, trying to calm himself down.
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“Look he is here” someone whispering, Yibo glanced and noticed a group of people which he didn’t recognize staring at him and whispering, it was clear that they were talking about him and he could see the disdain in their eyes, Yibo decided to ignore it and walked faster.
“Hei…” he heard someone called him, Yibo stopped on his track and stood still. Several people approached him, circling him.
“Wang Yibo, I never thought you could be this brave to come here today.” A good looking young man said to him while sneering.
“.…….Who are you?” Yibo said eyeing him. Apparently this person was also one of the casts, but as far as Yibo remember he never met them before. Hearing Yibo’s question, the young man glared and raised his voice, “Hmph, I am sick with that cocky behavior of yours.” He said heatedly before he thought of something and smiled mockingly at Yibo.
“Ahhh, I heard someone got accepted for this project using a dirty way.” He said while circling Yibo, his fellow just nodded their heads and whispered again.
Eyes widened, Yibo followed the person’s movement and glared, ‘How come he….’ Yibo thought confused and angry at the same time.
“What? Why didn’t you say anything Yibo?” He stood closer to Yibo and crossed his hand in front of him along with his creepy smiled.
“Do you perhaps know who this person is?” he asked again while leaning closer toward Yibo, the creepy smile was still there. All the people who were surrounding him suddenly sneered and even several of them pointed his fingers at him.
“Never judged a book by its cover, because we never know how rotten a prince is from the inside.” he said again.
“What do you mean? “ Yibo asked eyes glaring.
“Don’t pretend to be innocent kid, we all know, all the casts here know about you about how you get this role!” He said again.
“You are not worthy of Lan Wangji, Yibo, even not worthy of anything, not at all!” He almost screamed.
Yibo never knew this person let alone his reasons for this bash. Yibo gritted his teeth and glared again, how much he wanted to talk back at them and told them to get lost, but he couldn’t do any of it at the moment.
He shook with anger, his eyes felt hot and blurred. ‘Who wants this role?? I never want this at all!!’ he screamed on his head and blinked his eyes, preventing any tears to fallen.
Wang Yibo a young teen barely 18 years old, just stood there and tried so hard to overcome his rages and other emotions that he couldn’t point out anymore. He coughed and coughed, his heart was racing, his palm was sweating and he couldn’t help but bent over to stop the coughing. He didn’t noticed what happen to them but somehow they left, but he clearly heard someone said “A Money grubber.”
Eyes closed, he kept coughing until he couldn’t stand anymore, slowly lowering himself and trying to open his bag, but the bag just slipped form his shoulder and fell somewhere he couldn’t reached.
Several moments later, someone grabbed him and shook his shoulder, calling his name, but he didn’t care, he just wanted to stop the coughing which was failed at the moment. Yibo swallowed hard, trying to manage his breathing. He heard there was rummaging and something was being put on his lips and told him to take a sip, he complied and drank as much as he could. He took a deep breath and felt his throat better after drinking, he slowly opened his eyes and noticed Xiao Zhan’s worried face.
“Are you okay now?” He asked worriedly.
Yibo swallowed again and stared for a bit longer before he nodded his head slowly.
“What happen?” Xiao Zhan asked.
Yibo glanced around and noticed they both squatted, his bag was lying beside him and luckily none of the people from before were there.
Yibo looked at Xiao Zhan and swallowed more, his throat hurt so much.
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Xiao Zhan noticed Yibo’s hair that was stuck to his cheeks, he suddenly remembered seeing the same thing during their previous meeting with him, the difference was this time his cheeks didn’t have the rosy color as before, Yibo looked pale. ‘Poor kid’ he said to himself.
He was just arrived and was about to go to the hall room when he heard someone coughing nonstop. When he noticed the person was almost collapsed he rushed to him and surprised when he saw it was Yibo.
“If you are not feeling well, why don’t you tell the director and ask for the day off.” Xiao Zhan said worriedly.
Yibo just stared at him and shook his head.
“I am okay, just a flu.” Yibo said hoarsely.
Frowning, Xiao Zhan didn’t believe him at all but he couldn’t say anything.
Yibo slowly stand up and took his bag, he tidy up his clothes and hair, but Xiao Zhan could saw how his hand still trembled.
So many questions on his head at the moment but Xiao Zhan didn’t dare to ask any of them. So he just followed along.
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Now after several minutes of resting, his cough was receded and his strength was back little by little. He saw Xiao Zhan was still there standing in front of him with a frown and worried look on his face.
‘Xiao Zhan’ he stared, thinking whether this person would be the same with the other or could he really becomes friend with him. He didn’t know, he just couldn’t believe anyone right now.
“Xiao Zhan, do you know me? “ Yibo asked curiously.
Xiao Zhan looked confused and dumbfounded hearing his question, several moments later he answered.
“Of course I know you. You are famous and you are a great dancer too.” he said, smiling a little. “Well, now I am glad I can talk with you in person, because you know I admire you.” He grinned while starching his head.
Surprised Yibo stared and noticed Xiao Zhan’s sincere expression, Yibo couldn’t help himself but felt happy hearing this. ‘He doesn’t know everything about me at all, but maybe I can really be friend with him.’ he thought silently and smiled a little.
This time Xiao Zhan seemed to notice the smile and he smiled back.
“Na yibo, are you sure you are okay? “ Xiao Zhan asked again.
Yibo nodded slowly.
“Then let’s go! We have to start our training, and then we can continue our games na?” Xiao Zhan asked him again.
Yibo nodded again “Mn.” He said
Both suddenly felt happy, despite what happen just now. They spend their time focused on their training for the whole day. They also spent their break time together talking, playing games, laughing and eating. At the end of the day they completely forgot about the incident this morning.
Walking together to the parking lot, they both were feeling quite content and tired, but somehow happy. Xiao Zhan glanced at his side and saw Yibo bite his lips, seemed like in a deep thinking. Xiao Zhan gulped and averted his eyes, ‘God’ he said to himself.
In the meantime, Yibo remembered about what happen this morning and he couldn’t help but felt worry, thinking about those people, he was sure it was from the same project with him, but today he didn’t saw them anywhere during the training. Frowning some more, his head started to feel hurt so he decided to dismiss about it this time.
After a long moment of silent.
“Xiao Zhan gege” yibo said.
Xiao Zhan choked and coughed, he turned to Yibo and stopped abruptly, eyes widened.
Yibo blinked his eyes and stopped too, eyeing Xiao Zhan, afraid of him getting choked more.
“Ahem….uhuk…Yibo..uhuk…I…what?” Xiao Zhan said nervously.
Yibo just stood and blinked.
“Thank you.” he said without further explanation.
Xioa Zhan stared and then grinned sheepishly. He didn’t know how to response to that.
“Umm okay you are welcome, though I didn’t do anything today hahaehe…mmm”. he said nervously eyes darted everywhere, couldn’t looked at Yibo.
Yibo just nodded and continued walking, moving further from Xiao Zhan.
Xiao Zhan stood at his place and yelled.
“Ah Yibo, just call me Zhan ge, na?” Xiao Zhan said from behind him.
Yibo stopped and waved his hand and walked forward.
Xiao Zhan smiled and continued the opposite way, to his car.
Tbc