In the following two days, Bae Juhyun was still shuttling between various schedules.
She took all the intermissions between schedules to rest as much as possible, and every day after the schedules were over, there was always an unshakable time for a call.
At first, Liu Xin’an actually wanted to use this time to let Bae Juhyun rest well.
But for Bae Juhyun, chatting with Liu Xin’an at this time helped her rest more, so ultimately this replaced her rest time.
A half-hour video call with Liu Xin’an before bed could give her a long period of peaceful sleep.
If she was lucky, she might even dream of this guy.
Just like that, time flew by, and it was already August 20th, the day of the first performance for their "Queendom" comeback.
Liu Xin’an understood the performance aspect. He had briefly encountered this part before when he was accompanying Im Nayeon on her schedules.
So, early in the morning, Liu Xin’an was... woken up by Li Chenglu, who called him multiple times even earlier than he usually got up.
"... We’re not celebrities, there’s no need to get up and go for makeup and styling so early, why are you waking me up?"
Liu Xin’an prided himself on being an early riser, but right now...
It’s only five in the morning!!
Fortunately, it’s midsummer, so getting up early wasn’t particularly difficult.
"Let’s head over early, we can get into the backstage, right?"
"We can get backstage, but they’re probably not even at Music Bank yet..."
(Music Bank: A show that records performance stages)
"So that’s why I’m asking you to check."
Liu Xin’an finally understood why this person called him so early.
He sat up from Bae Juhyun’s bed, rubbed his eyes that were hard to open, and grumbled as he hung up the phone. Thɪs chapter is updated by novel·fire.net
He let Li Chenglu stay at his place, so he had to come over to Bae Juhyun’s to sleep.
Of course, this was with Bae Juhyun’s permission; her boyfriend wasn’t a messy person, so she had no objection to it.
As soon as Liu Xin’an sat up, the first thing he did was open the chat app and saw a message from Bae Juhyun sent half an hour ago.
"I’m heading to the beauty salon, keep sleeping~"
Attached was a sleepy-eyed selfie of Bae Juhyun, looking drowsy.
But beauty is beauty; even just-awoken selfies made Liu Xin’an’s heart race.
A few seconds after sending the message, he received a reply from Bae Juhyun.
"So early? Do you need to go to the bathroom?"
"No, I’m really up. See you backstage at Music Bank."
Synchronizing filming wasn’t a secret, so Liu Xin’an couldn’t make their visit to the live stage a surprise.
"There’s no need to get up so early, we won’t get there until around eight."
Seeing his girlfriend’s reply, Liu Xin’an couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.
"Li Chenglu seems eager to join you at the beauty salon."
"Hahaha, so was Xin’an woken up by Chenglu?"
"Is something funny?"
Asked the stylist who was preparing Bae Juhyun’s look.
Because they often worked together, this sister-like stylist was quite familiar with Bae Juhyun.
"Hmm, Miyeon, what’s my style today?"
Though familiar, for a celebrity, matters of romance needed to be handled cautiously, so Bae Juhyun changed the topic, not wanting to discuss it further.
"Today’s style is this set."
Miyeon pointed to the outfit nearby, and Bae Juhyun followed her gesture to look.
The top was a short pink and white shirt, paired with a white pleated skirt, knee-high white stockings, and white loafers—an overall very cute look.
"What about the hair?"
"Hair stays parted in the middle. It suits you so well. This time, we have white hairpins as an accessory, you’ll need to take off the purple one later."
Miyeon pointed at the purple hairpin on Bae Juhyun’s forehead and smiled as she spoke.
After Bae Juhyun nodded to show she understood, Miyeon lowered her voice, full of gossip.
"Is that hairpin really a gift from your boyfriend, Irene?"
Because stylists often interact with celebrities, gossip about their private lives is usually avoided.
But after seven years of working together, they were not just colleagues but also good friends.
Bae Juhyun would send holiday greetings to this stylist every year, even though she wasn’t particularly social.
So, this level of gossip didn’t anger or surprise Bae Juhyun. She looked at the mirror with a perfect smile.
"Miyeon, you’re really into gossip, huh? I love this hairpin, that’s why I wear it all the time."
"Oh~ I actually really ship you with that Chinese guy. You look so good together, Irene, a beauty like you should be with such a handsome guy!"