"Yibo come here, you're about to perform."

"..."

"Okay go. I will be watching. Go go, and remember my words. Feel the music, feel the butterfly inside you."

"I will."

"That's the spirit. Now go. I will watch. Go go." With that he went to perform and Zhan looked around and called Katya.

"Katya... come here in corridor please, we need to talk."

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"No no, we can't wait. We have to leave now Zhan, why can't you understand?"

"I know, I know Kate. But please can't we just wait till the result announcement please."

"No no no, I won't take any sorts of risk with you especially when we're in a foreign country. I said no that means a no, we are not staying here anymore, we need to leave now."

"Please, okay how about only this performance? Please just this one. Please Kate."

"Hmmm *sigh*, you're too stubborn to deal with, you know that? Okay just this one."

"Thank you babe,I love you. I will be coming right after." Zhan smiled and winked at Kate, since there's nothing could be done, Kate just rolled her eyes.

"I don't need your love, give it to someone else."

"Haha okay I will. Bye for now. Just wait in the car okay."

"No, I'll be waiting here. You go now." Kate said and Zhan nodded and left to watch the performance.

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"That was a better performance of Do hwa than it was before what do you think Marina?"

"It indeed is, where he scored 242.8 in previous season, he made it to 251.2 in this one. This is surely remarkable."

"Okay now let's welcome, the young skater from China, Wang Yibo. Today his music is 'Kingdom Dance' , by Alen Menken."

"Wow, that's an unusual choice of music. Hmmm, Kingdom, and that red costume... so thoughtful of coach."

"It is,but he looks nervous. now let's see his performance. "

"Go boy, you can do it." All that Zhan could whisper to himself at that moment. None of commentaries were heard by him at that moment. His eyes stilled, ears focused. Only on one person, only on one music.

"Warming up, there he goes. The first one is supposed to be triple lutz, okay successful. Triple lutz followed by triple toe loop, a quadruple loop... ugh he fell."

"But he got enough rotations, he got up immediately and so his programs proceeding."

"His second planned jump is triple axel..."

" But one thing, have you noticed, he's being different today...it's not like he's having nervousness suddenly."

"Yeah, I've noticed it too. It was not in his previous performances though...it feels like he's connecting with the rhythm. "

"Yes, it is..."

Zhan's attention got diverted with the word 'music'. Music always drags him like an addict feels to drugs. He loves music just like an alcoholic adores the alcohol. And now this ice... interesting.

"Good job boy. You're improving... connect yourself to the music. Connect, connect and love ... love the art , the music... once you get the key to fall in love with them, believe me there's no way back..." Zhan whispered to himself. At that time his phone ringed. Cursing his own phone, he picked it up, and the name shows Kate

"Aish..., umm hello."

"You still have a the guts to hello me huh? Get your ass back here right now."

"Aiya just one more sec..."

"Stop talking this shit and come here right now or I will announce that Xiao Zhan is there."

"I know you won't do it."

"Don't you dare to underestimate my limits. I'm Katya Ivanov and remember that."

"But he won't know that I was here."

"I don't know who but if you don't come now I can assure you everyone there will know."

"Aiya okay okay I'm coming." At that Kate cut the call. Xiao Zhan sighed. Nah, nothing could be done. He had to go back or a mess will happen. Since he could do nothing, he mentally goodbye that boy and about to leave from there. But unfortunately he forgot that he habitually put off his mask because he always thought the most suffocating thing ever.
He was lost in thoughts and walking on the corridor. And then someone bumped onto him. Their eyes meet.

"Oh my goodness!!!! You... you.. are... are not you the great Xi...Xiao Zhan !!? "

"Shoot shoot... no no that can't happen." Zhan mumbled to himself with a frightened look on his face. Thank goodness, Kate was there and found him. She run upto Zhan , and dragged him out there, before that fan could scream.

"That is Xiao Zhan... oh my goodness."

"What... where... Zhan Xiao ... wait let us take a selfie."

In these type of situations, no one's better than Kate. They both got into the car and driver drove off before they could get a hold of them.

"SEE... SEE WHAT HAPPENED BACK THERE?" Kate yelled at Zhan who was still huffing due to sudden running.

"I ... how can I..."

"Oh God, you know what? I should never have belief in you in the first place. Just look what have you done! Now next thing is that now everyone will know where you were and all."

"I know..."

"I don't want to hear anything anymore. So just leave this now. You need to be safe okay?"

"Hmm." Zhan could only let that out. Seriously what had he done? After all, he had been working with Mr.Edwards for back one year. But this time he went overboard. And as far as they know, Mr.Edwards is not a good person to deal with. He could go to any extent to take revenge for breaking his pride. Whatever that Kate was doing is all for him. He couldn't be so irrational about it.

After that,fortunately nothing happened and Zhan left Barcelona along with Kate without any further disturbance.

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One week after that event in a early morning in Korea...

Wang Yibo was jogging as usual in the early morning. It's his regular routine. He wakes up at 5 a.m., jogs, and then went straight to ice court. Just beside the court there's shop that a granny runs, he has his breakfast there. So without any disturbance, he went to the court. He especially comes here now because no one comes here at this time except the caretaker guy. So having this in his mind, he went up to there wearing his skates and then he realized that he's not the only one there.

"What? Shoked to see me here at this time Wang Yibo? "

"Cyan..."

"Congratulations babe, at least you made till fourth."

"What? You insulting me?"

"Aiya, no no. I'm not. How can I? I just wanted to be the first to congratulate you."

"Listen, I don't have any interest in you. I know your boyfriend broke up with you. But not me."

"Aish, stop it. I'm not interested on you either. And about Seok-woo, we are still friends. Though he has a girlfriend."

"Yeah yeah. Get it. He's studying in Keats university right?"

"Yeah. Whatever. I'm not here to talk about my ex boyfriend obviously. Tell me about you."

"Not now. I need to practice..."

"Aish... okay okay. Afte that we will okay?"

They kept on practicing by themselves time to time. Cyan whose original name is Kim Hye-Yoon, is a female figure skater. She and Yibo became friends when Yibo moved to Korea at his 13s. They are more of a brother and sister like relationship. She had always been on the first place in female figure skating competitions.

"Oh by the way, I heard that Xiao Zhan was there in the stadium back then."

"What? Who?..." Yibo asked indifferently while putting off his skates.

"Xiao Zhan, the one of most famous musician, he's being a hot topic now. And a rumor stated that he was found there at the day of Semifinal, though no one gave any specific reason." Cyan said, while tieing her hair.

"Oh... I don't know. Have you eaten yet? Cause I'm hungry and I got to eat."

"If you treat me then I'm hungry ahaha"

"Shameless... let's go and have breakfast at granny's."

"Let's go then. Yaaay."

This is most weird habit of Yibo, he doesn't care not even have any interest in entertainment industry. So it's kind of natural for him, to not know who that Xiao Zhan is. But one thing had changed. That man, that masked man back that day, changed his life, changed his way of viewing music. If he has to worship someone as a music angel, then he has to worship him, not some Xiao Zhan or anyone. But unfortunately little did he know, that he's being indifferent and admiring the same person at the same time.

Hello readers, author here. I'm sorry for updating this late. Somethings came up and I could not cope with everything or whatever. Tsk tsk. So suibian, hope you're enjoying my chapters, Right? Tell me how is it going in the comments, and give votes if you like, okay? Love love. Bye for now lovies. uwu😘😘💚💘🐰🦁