wavenovel Chapter 1313 should
Chapter 1313 should
Chapter 1313 should
"He should be coming back, right?"
Upon hearing Lim Nayeon's words, Yoo Jeongyeon stood up and looked around, seemingly trying to find a reserved spot for EXO in the dressing room: "I remember seeing EXO's stage on the program schedule before, and they were the closing act, performing the same two songs as us."
"But they never came to any of the previous rehearsals."
Hearing this, Lim Nayeon pouted: "She didn't even come to the rehearsal the day before yesterday..."
“They’re XO.” Yoo Jeongyeon thought it was only natural: “Kyungwon oppa and the others are so popular in America right now, it’s already good enough that they could come back to participate.”
Hearing the two's discussion, Park Jihyo asked curiously, "Don't you guys often chat on KakaoTalk? Didn't XO tell you whether he was coming back today?"
"The time difference is different. When we have free time here, we don't even know what time it is in the US."
Yoo Jeongyeon explained, "Besides, Kyungwon oppa and the others are extremely busy, and we've recently made a comeback, so we haven't been talking much."
"..."
Park Jihyo nodded slightly, accepting the explanation, but she glanced at Zhou Tzuyu, who was two or three meters away, and muttered to herself.
She didn't notice that Ziyu used her phone less. Just like before, whenever she had a spare moment, she would be glued to her phone, typing away non-stop. Who else could she be contacting if not Chi Jingyuan, whom you said was 'too busy and had a time difference'?
Everyone knows each other so well, and Park Jihyo is very perceptive. Just by looking at Chou Tzu-yu's expression and the occasional little facial expressions, she can roughly guess who she is chatting with.
Park Jihyo thought this to herself, and coincidentally, Yoo Jeongyeon seemed to have thought of it as well. The three of them exchanged a knowing glance, and then looked in the direction of Chou Tzuyu together: "But Tzuyu should know, right..."
In my line of sight, Chou Tzu-yu was sitting in a chair with her legs together and her waist straight as usual. She was only slightly lowering her head, and her long chestnut curly hair was hanging down from one side of her face, with a small pink hair clip on the end.
She was holding her phone with both hands, her fingers, with light-colored manicured nails, rapidly tapping on the screen.
On the phone screen that Nayeon and the other two couldn't see, Tzuyu was texting Ji Kyung-won... They guessed right, Tzuyu knew Ji Kyung-won and EXO's whereabouts very well, and knew that they had taken a flight yesterday.
She had wanted to ask Chi Jingyuan when he arrived, but he hadn't replied to her text message since she sent it.
After composing another text message, Zhou Ziyu had just clicked send when she seemed to notice someone staring at her. She looked up and met the glares of Lim Nayeon and the other two.
"What's wrong, unnie?"
She blinked in confusion, looking at them strangely. She could sense that the three unnies' eyes were a little odd.
The three of them, including Lim Na-yeon, paused slightly, glanced at each other, and waved with smiles.
"fine."
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"Twice, get ready for rehearsal!"
"Twice, get ready for rehearsal!"
After waiting for about twenty minutes, they were called by the staff. All the Twice members stood up, received name tags from the staff and tied them to their bodies, and then walked out of the backstage area to the stage for rehearsal.
They had two songs on stage for today's concert: the title track "Likey" from their latest album and last year's hit song "Cheer Up". Aside from an initial problem with the music accompaniment that caused the rehearsal to be stopped, everything went smoothly afterward. They finished the rehearsal in about ten minutes, and after bowing to the PD and staff, they walked off the stage.
After stepping off the stage, they immediately spotted a somewhat familiar figure at the backstage exit—Lim Yoona was standing there, holding a stack of scripts, looking at them intently while exchanging something with the staff next to her.
Im Yoon-a is the MC for today's concert.
"Onii, anihaseyo".
"Senior, Annyeonghaseyo~"
Upon seeing such a senior as Im Yoona, all the members of Twice naturally bowed in respect. Im Yoona, who had been talking to the staff, looked up and saw the nine members of Twice, and immediately smiled, saying, "Auntie~"
"Is the rehearsal finished?"
"Your new song is really great. I feel so old when I see such a beautiful kid."
When facing Twice, Yoona's greetings came naturally, and her cheerful and casual remarks quickly bridged the gap between them.
After exchanging a few words, Yoona's gaze naturally fell on Mina, who was a little further back in the crowd. Their eyes met, and she smiled and waved to greet her, "Mina~"
"Unnie." Mina immediately responded with a smile, taking two steps forward. Yoona put down her script and pulled her aside for a few warm greetings.
Although she was very nice to everyone in Twice, it was obvious to everyone else that she was much more enthusiastic towards Mina.
Yoona and Mina met at a friend's gathering. At the time, Ji Kyung-won and Mina were dating and he brought her along... Although she knew that the two had broken up, with the emotional intelligence of a senior, she certainly wouldn't distance herself from Mina just because they broke up.
On the contrary, she will be even more enthusiastic.
Moreover, looking at the girl in front of her with her gentle smile, she couldn't help but feel a little emotional... She really had a good impression of Mina, even though she had only met her once in private, the other girl had left a very deep impression on her that night.
That night, the girl sat next to Chi Jingyuan the whole time, her emotions and expressions changing with him. She took care of him and helped him put on his shoes. Tsk tsk, Lin Yoona has been in the industry for over ten years, and she has really never seen a female idol with this kind of personality.
She'd seen people lower their standards because they liked someone before, but she rarely saw Mina act so naturally, genuinely happy, with her eyes only for the other person all night long.
Not only her, she knew that Kim Tae-yeon also had a good impression of this Japanese girl.
Some people really don't know how to cherish things...
Yoona silently complained to herself, chatted with Mina for a while, then smiled and waved goodbye to the others.
"Senior, Annyeonghaseyo~"
As Twice took a few steps forward, another group of people surged out from in front of them. The recently popular boy group Wanna One lined up and walked out. When they saw Twice, they bowed and greeted them from a distance, showing great courtesy.
Twice responded immediately, and the two groups bowed to each other as they passed by.
When it was Park Jihyo and Kang Daniel's turn to greet each other face to face, the two of them clearly exchanged a glance. If someone were paying attention, they would have noticed that the expressions of the Twice members and several members of Wanna One were somewhat strange and sarcastic.
"...Jihyo and Kang Daniel are really not hiding anything, their eyes are really not restrained at all."
On their way back to the lounge, Hirai Momo and Mina huddled together, quietly complaining in Japanese about their brief encounter.
"Hehe~"
Mina glanced at Hirai Momo's expression, then grinned mischievously, showing her teeth, and said, "Jealous?"
"Who would envy her? She wouldn't even dare to say a word when we met, and she had to drag us along to cover for her and hide from her manager. What's there to envy?"
Upon hearing this, Hirai Momo waved her hand dismissively, her words even carrying a hint of disdain.
But at the same time, her gaze towards Mina flickered inexplicably.
...If anyone's envious, it's you. You openly announced your relationship in front of your manager and the company didn't dare to interfere. How can Park Jihyo's secretive approach compare?
"It seemed like Yoona really liked you just now?"
Shaking her head to dispel these thoughts, Hirai Momo changed the subject, bringing up Lim Yoona, whom she had just met.
Mina smiled and reminded him, "Didn't I tell you that Yoona unnie and I had a meal together that time... and then we exchanged contact information?"
"It was that party with Chi... and the fireworks guy, right?"
Hirai Momo immediately remembered it; she had a very strong impression of that party... because Mina had told her as soon as she got back that she was so angry at seeing Kim Heechul bring his girlfriend to the party that she was so upset she felt like her liver was about to burst.
However, her attention was not on that. Instead, she paused slightly and said with a strange sigh, "Fireworks Man, it really has been a long time since I've seen him."
Although she has been seeing him frequently on TV and in the news lately, Hirai Momo has almost forgotten when she last saw Ji Jingyuan.
Although she often complained about him in private and didn't have a good impression of Chi Jingyuan, she still felt a strange feeling when he was suddenly mentioned after such a long time since they last met.
“I feel like…” Mina looked at her with a sly smile, “You miss him even more than I do.”
"What? How could that be? I was just saying."
Hirai Momo quickly waved her hand in denial, but she immediately seized on Mina's words and looked at her scrutinizingly, asking, "Are you still thinking about him?"
"Of course I want to, how could I not?"
When Ji Jingyuan was mentioned, Mina didn't shy away from it. Instead, she shrugged her shoulders quite frankly, as if it were a matter of course.
Before Hirai Momo could say anything, she pursed her lips gently and said in a soft voice, "I do want to, but... not that kind of want."
The sense of brokenness that had been lingering around Mina because of Chi Jingyuan seemed to have faded considerably. Her tone was calm, as if it contained a faint sense of relief... but the dark pupils in her lowered eyes were so deep that they were impossible to see clearly.
That kind of thinking, what kind of thinking is it?
Hirai Momo didn't ask that question either. She could understand what Mina meant... In her opinion, no matter how deep the feelings were before, more than half a year had passed, and any emotions would be eased by time.
Moreover, after her emotional breakdown and crying during the last "Uchiage Hanabi" performance, Hirai Momo felt that Mina seemed to have really figured things out, especially after returning from the fireworks festival that day, she seemed less depressed.
Looking at Mina beside her, who still looked pitiful but had clearly lost several pounds compared to before, Hirai Momo didn't notice the strangeness in her eyes. She sighed inwardly, reached out and gently patted Mina's shoulder, as if to say, "My good sister understands you."
There was no more indignation or instigation like before, no more cursing Chi Jingyuan or anything like that.
To be honest, Hirai Momo doesn't hate Ji Jingyuan at all. On the contrary, Ji Jingyuan's appearance and personality are very much to her liking... She was just unhappy that Ji Jingyuan was a scumbag who hurt her best friend.
Mina doesn't seem to care much anymore, so why should she continue to play the villain?
That's Chi King-Yuen...
To be honest, she was a little intimidated by him.
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Twice returned to the dressing room, and there was nothing else to do. They just had to wait for touch-ups and changing into their stage costumes, so they had plenty of free time.
"...Why haven't they arrived yet?"
When Lim Nayeon returned, she took a sip of water, looked around, and still didn't see the face that had been appearing in the news every day recently: "Could it be that she's really not going to participate in today's concert?"
"How could that be? I just checked the program schedule again, and EXO is on it. It's confirmed."
Whether it was to reassure or explain, Yu Jung-yeon said, "You don't have to come for others, but today's concert is quite important."
Upon hearing this, Lim Nayeon smacked her lips, grinned, and looked around before sitting down and whispering to Yoo Jeongyeon.
The others did their own thing; some went to chat with friends when they saw acquaintances, while others just sat there playing on their phones.
Twenty minutes later, Park Jihyo tapped her phone a few times, glanced at it one last time, put it down, stood up, looked around, and called out, "Where's Jeongyeon?... Nayeon, and Sana, do you want to go buy something together? There's a vending machine over there."
"Jeongyeon was just called away by Sangmin oppa."
Lim Nayeon, who was watching a video on her phone, was called over. She replied briefly, put down her phone, stood up, and glanced at Park Jihyo with a strange look in her eyes.
Sana Minatozaki, standing next to her, did the same. She had been whispering something to Tzuyu when she was called. She stood up and smiled sweetly, but a hint of helplessness flickered in her eyes beneath her hair.
As soon as Park Jihyo opened her mouth, they knew what she was up to.
When they heard that she was going shopping together, they knew immediately that she was definitely going to meet Kang Daniel from Wanna One... During the "Produce 101" audition, Park Jihyo showed extraordinary enthusiasm for Kang Daniel, and he seemed to be her type. After Wanna One officially debuted, Twice met them at a TV event, and the two quickly exchanged contact information.
For Kang Daniel, it was no surprise that he would accept the advances of a top girl group member like Twice, whose popularity was off the charts. The two quickly developed a close relationship, contacting each other on their phones every day and occasionally meeting up when they bumped into each other at events.
Although Park Jihyo has not made it official, the other members of Twice have all realized that the two are probably dating.
Twice's members weren't surprised at all; in fact, they thought it was perfectly natural, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with Park Jihyo dating... After all, someone had set a precedent, and they had been in the industry for over two years, so many members had already been holding back for a while.
At this moment, Park Jihyo was clearly going to meet Kang Daniel, and she pulled Lim Nayeon and Minatozaki Sana to be her wingmen... If she and Kang Daniel met alone and were seen by others, everyone would think there was something wrong, but if they were chatting in a group, it would be fine, and others would just think that they had a good relationship.
This wasn't the first time she had called them that.
Sana Minatozaki didn't really want to go. Because of some past experiences and memories, she was really allergic to being a wingman. Moreover, when she went once before, those male idols were not only overly enthusiastic, but they also clearly showed off in their words, trying to look cool and handsome, which she found a bit childish.
However, she didn't show it... but Lim Nayeon seemed a little unwilling, obediently following Park Jihyo while muttering to herself.
"Why are you looking for me again?"
"Someone asked for my KakaoTalk account last time, and they've been messaging me nonstop ever since, it's really annoying..."
"I'll treat you to dinner next time!" Park Jihyo said cheerfully, pushing her from behind, and the three of them walked out of the dressing room together.
After walking down the corridor to the right for a while, just as Lim Nayeon and Minatozaki Sana had expected, they saw three or four members of Wanna One not far away, including Kang Daniel with dark gray hair.
But... just as they were about to go over and say hello, they suddenly realized that these people seemed to be in some kind of trouble.