Jia paced back and forth after her mom informed her that June wanted to meet at Azure's building.
She was a bit hesitant to believe her mom at first, but Jia felt the sincerity behind her words.
It was almost impossible to believe that June, out of all people, would like to see her on a random Thursday! However, she held onto her mom's words, and came to the building right away.
It was after lunch, and Jia had a class in a few minutes. However, she decided not to attend.
Who cares about her class when June was expecting her?
She was currently in her mom's office, waiting for the handsome idol to arrive. She paced back and forth to calm her palpitating heart, but it was no use. Just the thought of seeing June was enough to send her into cardiac arrest!
It seemed almost surreal since she was just wishing to attend the fansigning event this morning.
Luck was definitely on her side since she was going to have an exclusive fanmeet right about now!
After a few minutes, the door finally opened, revealing the handsome, most honorable, most loveable man in the world—June.
Jia felt her knees buckle, but she held herself up using her mom's table.
"You're here," he smiled, the action instantly brightening up the room. "Don't you have class?" he asked.
"I do," Jia mindlessly said.
June scratched the back of his head. "Oh, sorry for being an interruption."
'Don't say sorry, Pookie!' Jia exclaimed in her mind.
However, she wanted to keep her cool, so she smiled shakily and shook her head. "It's no worries," she said. "We don't have anything important to do right now anyway."
They definitely did.
They had a quiz on a particular subject, but then again, it wouldn't really matter if Jia missed it. She was already passing with flying colors! She can miss a class for June any time!
"So, uh, why did you call for me?" Jia hesitatingly asked.
Maybe he wanted to have a muse for their comeback.
Or maybe he realized that he was irrevocably in love with her since she had been there for him since the very beginning?
Jia shook her head to get rid of such delusions and turned earnest when she saw June's serious expression.
"Is…there anything wrong?" she asked with hesitation.
"Umm, I know this might be too big of a favor to ask, but I don't know who else to approach. I believe you're the only one who could help me with this."
Jia pursed her lips, feeling touched that June even remembered her.
"Of course," she said. "I'm glad to help you—as long as it's not illegal," she joked, chuckling at her own words. However, she quickly halted when she saw that June's expression was still serious.
Oh.
Oh.
Jia started panicking internally. Was June going to ask her to do something illegal?
She thought hard about it. Well, if it wasn't something immoral, then she could definitely help. But is there an illegal, moral thing? Maybe? Like Robin Hood or something?
"Oh, it's not illegal," June quickly clarified, seeing the panicked look on Jia's face.
Jia visibly relaxed.
"Well, it's not technically illegal. There's not a law that forbids it. However, the school might have rules against it," June added.
"Can you tell me more about it?" she asked.
June nodded. "Have you seen the rumors this morning?"
"About the fansign?" Jia asked. "Yeah, I read something about it on Navel. It's from the famous blogger called MinMin or something. Have you heard about him?"
June hid his smile as he nodded. "Yeah, he writes really good articles."
Jia nodded in agreement. "I was immersed when I was reading his article. However, it seems like it has been taken down quickly after it was posted."
June frowned and quickly opened his phone. He wasn't aware of this matter, so he checked Minjun's page.
Indeed, the article, which had over ten thousand reactions when he first saw it, had been deleted.
However, it seemed like people were still speculating about it.
- Have you guys heard? EVE encountered some trouble during their first fansign this morning.
- What? What happened? I don't see any articles about it.
- That blogger, MinMin, posted about it a while ago, but it was quickly taken down. I wasn't able to save it.
- Me too. Other reliable news outlets are also not reporting it. Maybe it really didn't happen.
- I was one of the people who won in the fansign. It was also unclear what had happened, but the boys were given drinks, and after a few seconds, June told his members not to drink it. However, Akira, being the silly little rat he is, had already downed more than half of his drink. Then, his stomach started hurting, and before we knew it, we were being escorted out of the room!
- Proof or it didn't happen.
- Are we just going to ignore the fact that he called Akira a silly little rat?
- My proof? I'm June's biggest fan! Visit my page, and you'll see that I have his face tattooed on my arm!
June shook his head as he placed his phone back into his pocket.
"Truth be told, I feel like somebody's been following me for a while now," June confessed.
Jia frowned, feeling her protective instincts kick in.
"Who? What? Where? Why?" she continuously exclaimed before she could stop herself.
June chuckled and patted her shoulder, causing her cheeks to turn into the color of ripe tomatoes.
"Calm down," he said with a smile. "I was hoping to answer those questions with your help."
Jia nodded, now more enthusiastic than ever. At first, she was hesitant to help June since it entailed breaking the rules of her university. However, now, she could do anything if it meant safekeeping June!
"I already have a hunch on who has been following me," June started off, bringing out Y University's lanyard from his front pocket.
"That's—"
June nodded before Jia could finish her statement.
"I found this in the restroom of the conference hall where he had our fansign. I believe this belongs to the culprit."
Jia's gaze turned serious.
"What do you need me to do?"
"Can you sneak me into your school?"
