#twicexmreader

Somi smirks and nodded. Sejeong continues to speak. "And that's why our tandem is still in the center stage." "Hey, Sejeong-ah let's get straight into it." Somi excused Sejeong, placing her hand on her shoulder. She followed, allowing the champ to do the talk this time. "Choi Yena, she ain't gonna make it here tonight, okay?", she said; referring to her rival who got viciously attacked in the backstage earlier. Yena was even supposed to fight Somi for the title in the main event. "But let's be completely honest here, I just did Yena a favor. I know girls like Choi Yena, she ain't built enough to handle this life." Somi patted her title belt wrapped around her waist. "She doesn't know what it takes to be the A-champion." "Talk that talk, Somi-ya." "Everybody in the back, they're praying for my downfall. They don't wanna see me win. You got people from different brands to come here and try to take what I built." Somi said. "Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, and you are all looking at the one with the heaviest head and the biggest crown here in UCF!" Somi pointed at herself while unbuckling and raising the title belt on her right arm, Sejeong is hyping and praising her bestfriend more as a support. The arrogant fun they've been having didn't last long when the arena suddenly went dark as the familiar theme resonated through the speakers. Once the titantron played in the entrance screens, the crowd popped in amazement while Somi and Sejeong are still staring unbelievingly at the person who just showed up for tonight's show. "Uhh... what?" the color commentator of UCF, Ok Taecyeon expresses his mixture of surprise and confusion after this particular prizefighter makes her unexpected appearance tonight. "Man, this place is shaking! W-we never thought that we would see Hirai Momo again!" he said. The recently main roster debuted Hirai Momo walks down in the pathway while the crowd goes chanting "MOMO!" along with the flow of her badass theme. "Yeah, and she's dressed to fight too!" Taecyeon's partner in commentary, Cha Eunwoo agreed. "Listen, I didn't think we will see her again after seeing her antics from Clash In The Combat in Seoul, South Korea ten days ago when she costs Kim Jennie the Japan Undisputed World Championship by helping her cousin, Yuta Nakamoto. As far as I'm concerned, Hirai isn't welcome here. Somi needs the time off." Momo is now climbing the steel stairs through the ring. Somi watches her as she goes while the fear and irritation gets her, shaking her head while whispering "ah damn it." "It's Hirai now who is sitting at the biggest table in JFF." "Well she's hasn't been invited into this particular table, hasn't she?" Momo enters the ring, grabs a microphone from the production staff and stands in front of Sejeong and Somi who were yelling "Get out!", "Leave!" and "You don't belong here anymore!" while the crowd goes contrast rather at their pleads, saying "We want this!" otherwise. "Somi, like I said before: I GOT NEXT!" Momo stated, officially announcing that she's the one who stepped up as the replacement for Choi Yena tonight with General Manager Bang Sihyuk to accept that request. Momo immediately Somi, Sejeong charges at her but she she threw her rather out of the ring. She shouted a battlecry as the crowd cheered. "Momo is dropping everything now at this point.", Taecyeon said. "We said, expect the unexpected." "Is this gonna happen?" "Yeah, same question. is it really gonna happen?" The referee enters the rings and monitors Momo just in case the brawl continues. Somi who is agitated, went all around the ring as she composes herself before finally enter the ring to accept Momo's challenge. With the two fighters now being in the ring, the referee called for the bell to ring and start the match.

-------------------------- As the match progresses, both of them slowly stood up but Somi went first, goes to jump attack Momo but she caught her by gripping both her legs. She throws her away then went for a punch. Somi stepped back into the ropes, tries to return the favor but Momo blocked, again she did another shot then another and another until she starts to target Somi's midsection either, firing fast blasts on it. Momo pulls Somi's arm and pushes her through the ropes on the other sides, she catapulted and Momo greeted her with a shuddering super kick onto her face. Somi bounced through the ropes again after getting dazed and Momo carried her to be slammed with a Samoan Drop maneuver.  The weakened Som crawls in the corner while the fired up Momo shakes the ropes aggressively, earning anoher cheers from the  crowd watching the fight. "It's Hirai now, adrenaline will make you do crazy things." Taecyeon said. Momo went to the opposite corner, clutching her knee that was previously targeted by Somi. "Blowing up a real head of steam, that knee having a big effect on Hirai's body." Momo runs ahead to the sitting Somi and harshly bumped her rear through Somi's head as she flew herself in the corner. She tugged Somi's body again and she landed perfectly on her shoulders again as she carried her. Meanwhile, Sejeong who is watching at the ringside to support her friend distracts Momo as she climbs up at the apron. The referee stopped her, Momo saw her and Sejeong quickly surrendered only for Somi to attack Momo as she turns around with double knees pressed on her face. Momo got dizzy, the exhausted Somi noticed and encouraged herself to get up with a mad slam of her hand in the ring. She stands up and runs through the ropes but Momo quickly recovered, throwing her up and catch her for another Samoan Drop. "What goes up, comes crashing down! Now this could be it?" Momo hooked Somi's leg, the referee slides in and began to count. "Tokyo Middleweight on the line, Hirai with the cover and..." "1... 2...-" Somi kicks out. Momo looked in the disbelief while the exhaustion is also present within her now too. Both remained laid on the ring, Sejeong climbs again and problematically searching ways to help Somi retain the title and not just by watching her for support. The referee is giving her a warning, adding more to her troubles. "Kim Sejeong knows and realizes there's nothing she can do at this point." Eunwoo said. Sejeong jumped out with her hands both up, proving that she's following and  that she's not gonna do something that will ruin the match as the referee simulteanously guarding her and checking up on both fighters. "Take one more look. Somi thought she had her, but then she gets dropped." Taecyeon said as the screen shows the replay of Momo's counter to Somi's impending attack. "And in that moment, Hirai thought she had Jeon and she thought she had her first taste of gold." As Momo stands up, Sejeong once again climbs up to attempt distracting her but it completely failed when instead she received a superkick, crashing back into the ringside. She turns around, saw a glimpse of Somi already about to blindside her as she bounced in the ropes and fly through her but with a quick instinct, Momo clutched Somi's arm and slammed her roughly with a Urinagi move. "Went for too many times, paid off the first time, not the second time, no chance!" Eunwoo called as Momo went out of the ropes and climbs in the turnbuckles. "Could this be the moment?" "No chance!"

"Flying Momo! Hirai got all of it!" Taecyeon exclaimed as Momo successfully splashes brutally onto Somi's helpless body. Momo hooks the leg, the referee began to count with the crowd joining. "1...2...3!" "What the hell?! WE GOT A NEW CHAMPION!" Taecyeon yelled shockingly as the bell rang for the finish. The crowd erupted in joy while the other has this astounded look in their faces. "Here is your winner, and the NEWWWWWWWWWWWWW Tokyo Middleweight Champion, Hirai Momo!!!" the ring announcer proclaims as the referee hands in the title belt and approaches to Momo who is still kneeling and heaving in her deep breaths. "W-what is this, this was not supposed to be how the night ended." Taecyeon said. "I-is the Tokyo Middleweight going to Knockdown?!" "Looks like it is, Taecyeon. But one thing's definitely we're sure of is that... The Bloodline has another gold to be stored in their prized collection!" Eunwoo replied. The show ended with Sejeong feeling pity for her defeated friend and frustrated at herself for not being able to help properly while Momo stands tall in the middle of the ring, celebrating with her newly won championship for the first time in her career in front of the Tokyo crowd. -------------------------- SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 | THREE DAYS LATER The current Japan's Tag Team Champions Myoui Mina and YN and 'The Honorary Muse' Minatozaki Sana are at the backstage along with the newly crowned Tokyo Middleweight Champion Hirai Momo. They were cheering her up for her match tonight with her challenger for the title against the fighter Jeong Yunho. "Let's go, Momo! It's about time to represent The Bloodline again tonight, but you already know that." Mina said to her cousin who wasn't looking again them, rather focused at somewhere else but still listening to their words of motivation. "Yeah! We're abut to go out there and handle business. We got your back just like we did last week. Let's go get it, Momoring!" YN starts to jump up and down at the rising excitement he's feeling of being involved in another chaos with his family. Suddenly, she was stopped by Momo who pressed her arm on his chest. All of them looked confused at Momo. "I got this. Yours are off the game today, YN." Momo said to YN who became silent. She turns around and gazed. "Hey, Sana. You're going?" Sana looked at her puzzledly. "M-me?" YN and Mina directed their eyes at the Honorary Muse, especially YN who looked baffled and ridiculous at her. "Gotta go guys." Sana patted Mina who gave her a proud smile while YN glared as she makes her exit behind Momo off the curtains with the theme began playing in the arena. ------------------------- Momo pushes Yunho through the ropes, she attempted for a superkick but Yunho caught her feet. He used both to add more strenghth as she carried Momo and plants her down to the ring. He covered Momo, the referee began to count. "1....2...-" Momo kicks out at two. Yunho lifts her body up and locks her head up to prepare her for his finsiher called the Endgame but Momo separated and blows the back of Yunho's neck. The athletic warrior gets stunned. Momo hooked his arm for a Urinagi slam but Yunho prevented, dragging her feet down and roll her up for a pin. "1...2...-" Momo kicks out. Another near fall has been broken. Yunho charges through her at the corner but she defended with an elbow to the side of the face. Seeing him bent his body had Momo to take the opportunity by sprinting through the ropes and attack him for crossbody but instead she was caught in the mid-air by the powerful Yunho. He throws her behind with a fallaway slam, Yunho positioned himself at the corner. "And now, it's Yunho's opportunity to claim the gold." Knight says as he watches the fuming fighter dialing up his advantage. He ran, but thankfully Momo was pulled out of the ring by Sana. Yunho was irritated by what she did, so he went out of the ring and start chasing Sana around like cat and dog. Sana entered the ring and slides off. Yunho still chased her but instead met with a surprise superkick by Momo who remerged in the ring. Momo hanged her arm around Yunho and lifted him up, slamming him down hard to the canvas with her finisher, the Ultra Urinagi to secure a victory. "1...2...3" The bell rang, Hirai Momo successfully retains her title thanks to the assistance by Minatozaki Sana. She snatches the belt away from the referee and instead took the honor to hand it to the champion and raise her arm proud to display the representative of The Bloodline in front of the booing crowd. --------------------------------------- Minutes later, it's time for The Honorary Muse to focus on her own worry as she faces the high-flying, superhuman-like fighter Lee Jihoon or better known by his alias Woozi in a match tonight also. With The Bloodline on the ringside for her, watching and supporting her through the match, they saw Sana trying to set up Woozi for a Purple Thunderbomb with couple of arm pounces on his spine. She carried him but Woozi backflips, Sana tried to grab back but Woozi avoided her by stepping on her shoulders and perform another backflip then a kick straight onto her jaw. Sana collapses in the ring, Woozi did a taunt and climbs through the turnbuckle. However, Mina climbs in the apron, distracting Woozi as she got blocked by the referee. That allowed Sana to slowly get up and carry Woozi from behind with a clean Purple Thunderbomb. She pinned him exactly as she slammed his body, but Woozi kicks out at two afterwards. Sana pulls up Woozi but the latter tries to fight back with some punches around her body. She lets him go, runs through the ropes but Woozi jumped and wraps his legs around her leg then spin her for an amazing hurricanranna move. He pins Sana, but she kicked out at two also. "Woozi not looking to slow down." Kwangsoo said as the fighter carried Sana on his shoulder but he dropped her shortly when he observed YN climbing up through the apron and quickly fought him with a punch. "And now, once again but this time it's the 'Main Event' Myoui YN. Sana from behind, rolling up Woozi for the victory, and Woozi kicks out again!" Woozi runs and bounces at the ropes and delivers a terrifying high knee right into Sana's face. YN backs up again but Woozi parkours in the middle rope then lures him away with a flying kick on the face. Sana caught Woozi again from behind, surprising him with a suplex then a cover. However, the referee didn't counted right away because the pissed off and arrogant YN tried to enter the ring again to lay his hands finally on Woozi. As YN backs out in anger, the referee then counts but Woozi kicks out. Sana peeked at the ropes to talk with YN. "What are you doing?" "I'm trying to get on him!" "I had him!" "I'm just helping you, okay?!" YN continues to push her back in the match and spit his excuses but Sana had enough, she rolled out of the ring and stares dangerously at YN as she pushes him. "WHAT ARE YOU REALLY TRYING TO DO, HUH?" "OH, SO NOW YOU'RE BLAMING ME?" "YOU COULD'VE STAYED THERE! CAN'T YOU SEE I ALREADY HAD HIM?" "THEN GO BACK AND FOCUS ON THE MATCH THEN! I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, I'M JUST LOOKING AFTER YOU!" YN and Sana traded barbs with each other, Mina steps in between and tries to break up their argument. They were too occupied to settle with this conflict that they didn't even noticed Woozi charging at them with a high cannonball to take them all out at the ringside. Woozi grabs Sana and rolled her back in the ring. He climbs up to the corner and stand at the top rope before he executes a picture perfect shooting star press through Sana's poor body. "With a style! Highlight of the night and Woozi gets the win!" Knight exclaimed as the referee counted to three on the pinned Sana. The referee raised his arm in victory. Woozi let the ring immediately when Momo enters and tries to chase him. Woozi celebrates with the crowd with The Bloodline suffered in the growth of their problem as they failed to provide their service for Sana in return.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023 | ONE WEEK LATER After Yuta Nakamoto delivers his speech for The Bloodline's Acknowledgment Ceremony to celebrate and congratulate Hirai Momo's title win last week as a complete group, they were about to leave the ring when Sana requests for a mic to be handed. "Can we cut the music for a moment, please? Can we just cut the music for one moment?" Sana speaks as she requested for Yuta's theme to be stopped. That took the rest to face her confusingly, especially Yuta. "Guys, I'm sorry. Sorry." Sana apologizes as she knew what that looks could have mean about. YN began to yell "What are you doing, Sana?!" and even Jinyoung who just asked her calmly. Jinyoung saw Yuta gesturing for an initiative. He gets another mic and gave it to him. "I-I just wanted to say that I know I'm not technically 'Blood', right." Sana mimics the quotation mark. "But the way you guys are taken me in as a family as of late, I wanted to show my gratitude and I wanted to ofcourse, publicly acknowledge The Empire Chief." Sana pointed her hand at Yuta who nodded and satisfied at her respectful remark. Yuta grins and smiles impressively at Sana who blushed at that reaction. The crowd then chanted her name loudly, capturing Yuta's attention. "I like you, Sana." Yuta said. Sana's eyes widened and her face nearly reddened. She wasn't entirely sure what it actually meant. Her heartbeats quickened but she tried to be steady. "I like you.... but what are you talking for, right now? What are you saying right now?" Sana's face turns clueless. "I get it. I've been seeing what's happening here but like... why are still here?" She gasped and furrowed her eyebrow, encapsulating her confusion further. The crowd slowly booed. "What is going on, muse? Why do you still have that scarf on? Why are you still tagging along with us? This whole thing, w-what is this about? What do you want?' Sana remained silent, she doesn't know what to respond other than just to release some "huhs?" and "what?". "I'll tell you what I want. I want you to take that scarf off." "TAKE IT OUT! TAKE THAT SCARF OFF!" YN shouted at Sana who got taken aback. "Y-Yuta, I don't know if you're kidding or not kidding but if this is about what happened between me and Woozi last week, I-..." "Sana... I'm not going to tell you again. Take. that. scarf. off. Now." "LISTEN NOW, SANA! TAKE. THAT. SHIRT. OFF!" YN yelled at her again. Jinyoung snatches the mic away from Sana's hand. Sana still tries to explain but it all just falls in deaf ears of The Empire Chief. "YN." YN aggressively tugs, untangles, and rips the scarf out of Sana's hair and neck. The Japanese woman was frightened and nervous at what is going on for her. "See, this is what I'm talking about, I need you to listen for once. I don't want to see you in that scarf ever again, do you understand me? You ain't ever gonna wear a Bloodline scarf, EVER AGAIN!" Sana just stares terrifyingly and heartbroken at everything she's listening to Yuta's words. The man she deeply idolizes, respects, and admires discreetly... is the one who is commanding right in front of her to leave him and his family alone with utter dislikedness. She feels like she's about to cry, her body starts to slightly shiver in her emotions. "You ain't ever gonna wear that scarf...

... because I got you a new one." Yuta reaches inside his shirt and throws a red cloth at Sana who catched it while shocked at what she just heard. YN who is walking around behind feeling confident and relieved, had to halt all that when he saw Sana holding a piece of clothing. Sana slowly unfolded the scarf and spreaded it, showing to everyone what it looks like. The red scarf has The Bloodline logo and prints on it with the letters spelled out "THE HONORARY MUSE" engraved on it. "Wow." Both Knight and Kwangsoo reacted in awe while the crowd cheered and clapped for Sana who still can't processed what just happened. "I guess, welcome to the family." As Sana reads the words again and realized that Yuta himself gave that scarf to her, that only confirms one thing. She finally did it. She is now an official honorary member, an Honorary Muse for The Bloodline. Sana became delighted and jumps in glee. She excitedly wears the scarf around her head and neck then raised her arms in glory. Yuta just amusingly watched Sana being very happy with the gift. Sana quickly high fives and hugs Mina and Momo who couldn't contain their happiness for their new co-member and friend. For YN though who is uncomfortable and humiliated, Sana mocks him closer to his face before facing Yuta. "Anything you wanna say?" Yuta smirked. "Yes. As a matter of fact, I do. I ACKNOWLEDGE YOU, EMPIRE CHIEF!" Sana stepped forward to approach Yuta, circling her arms to embrace him thankfully which made him unaware of. Yuta felt Sana shake through her sniffs as she finally cried on his shoulders. To comfort and be guilty of the prank that he planned to do to make her mistakenly believe that she's going to be kicked out and declined to be part of his family, he made his apology with a simple caress and pats on her back while repeatedly telling her to slow down her cries. The show ended with The Bloodline: Mina, Jinyoung, and Momo celebrates  while YN is on the corner, watching Yuta and Sana hugging together with a frown and mixed feelings disturbing him inside, not with disappointment anymore... but because of something confusing that he couldn't yet exactly identify the reason why.

"So, what happened?"

Jeongyeon was sipping her hot machiatto coffee on the mug she's holding when she heard Nayeon's question coming from the kitchen, preparing their breakfast for today. "It went... good." Jeongyeon said, quitely paused in the middle as she recalled her first meetup with you after the breakup they had. "He agreed for a closure and there, we had it." "Was he sincere?" Jeongyeon stared deeply for a few seconds on her drink, processing Nayeon's question. She remembered how there was none of a trace that you even acknowledged your wrong doing to her still but the hug as you told her how thankful you were that she won't go away because you can't make it happen that you gave her was contradicting her thoughts. She also can feel that warmth of your embrace. It may not gave the same feeling as the both of you would share before but it kind of gives her assurance that although you won't speak it for your own, it's giving her the hint that you still think and care for her otherwise. But then, she disregarded again that theory. You cheated. How the hell would make her convinced that you are what she's guessing. If you did think fo her, why did you betrayed her trust? If you did care for her, why would you break her heart and leave her without any sign of regret and guilt from you? "I... I... don't know." Jeongyeon concluded. It was too confusing and complicated to her yet. "Why do you say so?" Nayeon exits the kitchen, bringing two plates placed with freshly made sandwich each for them with her and place it on the table. "How does he responded to it anyway?" "He asked me first if I'm sure with what I'm doing. I said yes. He accepted, got surprised again because he... he knew what happened to us before." Jeongyeon gulped, fiddling her fingers on the handle of the cup as Nayeon listened to her.

"He's aware." Nayeon nodded. Jeongyeon looked at her. "Did he apologized?" Jeongyeon only bowed her head, sighed and shook her head gently. Nayeon's lips twitched in disappointment. "So, let me guess; he did accepted your closure... because he's good with the idea that you and him should remain friends. That's it?"

"Yeah." "That selfish prick." Nayeon huffed in the air. "He still won't admit it huh." Jeongyeon continued sipping on her coffee before taking a first bite on her food. While doing so, Nayeon took the chance to ask again. "What keeps you from being sure?" Heat all over Jeongyeon's body increased as the replay of you hugging her unexpectedly once again reoccured in her mind. It's as if she's in sync again with what that yesterday's her who received that felt while being entrapped in your arms again. A culmination of all the stories, memories, and experiences gathered into one done purely with the love that was once keeping you and Jeongyeon apart. Her arms suddenly moved by itself, hands began caressing each other's opposite skin as she tries to prevent it from disturbing her. "Jeongyeon?" "B-before I go he..." Jeongyeon catched her head with her hands grasping at both sides, feeling stressed because of what you're doing to her again. "He catched up to say thank you again then he hugged me." Nayeon stared at her friend for a while, monitoring her expression and reaction about it. She can tell that it brings back the familiar things that were once given and shared with her by none other than you who became her first and only man, confidently thinking at first that you were the right person she would love to spend the rest of her life to be with. Troubled. That's what it got her from deciding whether your actions and words are true. But then again, it got her thinking that at some point it makes her feeling stupid for herself asking her friend if you were sincere. You betrayed her. How could she even figure out if can you be trusted again at whatever the hell you do in front of her if you destroyed that very valuable thing that cannot or almost impossible to fix within a person's value. Now she made sure she won't ask her again about it. She can speak something about it, but then again... it's pretty understandable for Jeongyeon now to feel this way. "I know I hated how he could just do that to me but when he did it, I sensed something on him. My urge to let go was held back, Nay. It was like... a glimpse at least, that he... he still has something in there that belongs to me." Jeongyeon began slightly choking on her breath, head bobbed as she sniffed on her tiny tears slowly escaping in her eyes. Nayeon didn't hesitated to stood up and approach her poor friend to comfort her with a caress to the back and a pat to the head. "It's okay, Jeongyeon. I can't blame you if you're still feeling this way. I know it's still hard to move on and you're trying." "But just to let you know always, I'm here to help this time okay?" Jeongyeon nodded. "I will help you back up again, Jeong. Trust me." Nayeon kissed the crown of Jeongyeon's head before giving a last squeeze on the pityful lady before she returned to her seat and continue eating her sandwich. It went silent for a moment as both took time to enjoy their precious meal as respect for the blessing presented in front of them. After emptying their respective drink and food, Jeongyeon took the turn to collect the plates and mug as Nayeon opened her phone. "By the way, how was your meetup with her too?" Nayeon heard it. To be fair, she answered it too. "A success, if I must say. She was trying to be in denial as I expected. Thankfully, I'm prepared. Showed her everything I got to prove my statements are true." "Oh...", Jeongyeon reacted. "Well, so what does she said then?" "She believed, and she agreed to my proposal." Nayeon smirked as she glanced at Jeongyeon standing beside her while holding the dishes. "So, Tzuyu? Are you in with me?", Nayeon said, folding her arms, awaiting the younger's response to her invitation to assist her in carrying out the vengeance plot she had for you. Tzuyu then looked at Nayeon as she lifted her hand to instigate a handshake. She stared at the hand for a few more seconds before coming up with a finalized answer she made up in her mind after rewinding Nayeon has told her about you being a goddamn cheater and a two timer to her and to your ex-wife Jeongyeon. Nayeon felt a touch on her available hand. The sight is very clear and what a glorious thing to see for her as it only means one thing for her: accomplishment. Tzuyu's hand grasped Nayeon's hand, accepting the handshake to seal the deal. "If... that's what everything you say abut him being all true. That his love and everything he showed to me was fake and I'm just nothing but a mistress I've never wanted to... I- I accept your offer Miss Nayeon. I'll help you get back on him for what he did to your friend while I get mine... for me."

Nayeon grinned widely at Tzuyu's answer. She thanked her after and assured her that they will get this done someday until they achieve what it matters the most for them: your endless suffering. They exchanged numbers before Nayeon bought another one in the store in the store as she leaves the mall, her first plan now crossed out in the list. "So yeah, as of now she's on the standby; waiting for me to send a signal for our next move." Jeongyeon remained silent as she nodded. "What's her name by the way?" "It's Chou Tzuyu. She's a Taiwanese. Works as a saleslady in a famous luxurious designer clothing store, and I'm telling you..." Nayeon halted to chuckle in amazement and impressed at the next thing she has in mind. "What?" "She's a very gorgeous looking young lady. So pure, kind and innocent. Your husband surely does pick so well on women with the likes of you and now her but too bad, he fooled that girl and even hurt her also with you.". Nayeon clicked her tongue in dismay. Jeongyeon became even more intrigued at this Tzuyu girl regarding her friend's description.

"W-wait, what do you mean "fooled"?" "She doesn't know it also, Jeong. I don't why I didn't hesitated to atleast doubt first if she's telling the truth, but the way how I saw her face when she looked at your wedding picture with YN and how she just shambles down in front of me. Those were enough for me to realize that she... she is a victim here too, Jeong." "Seeing her broke down when I had to tell her that she's being cheated. It was like I saw you in her, and it breaks my heart immediately." Nayeon looked at Jeongyeon and showed a tightlipped expression. "I'll introduce her to you someday, Can't wait for you and her to meet." Nayeon smiled at Jeongyeon before retuning her gaze at her phone, allowing Jeongyeon to place the dishes on the sink as her head were filled of many new informations she learned all caused by your intoxicating sin. MEANWHILE... "I got to go now, okay? Have a nice day on your work today, babe." You kissed Tzuyu's cheek as both of them reached the front of the store. Tzuyu fakely smiled at your greeting, but being the oblivious you are; you didn't notice it. "You too. Bye." You waved your hand at her one last time which she also did before she quickly entered the store, her back now facing your sight. Tzuyu on the other hand, had her emotion shifted into a serious one as her fists began clenched tightly in uplifting rage that is cursing into her. You pulled out your phone and glanced through it as you stepped into one of the steps of the moving escalator. A message popped out of the screen which caused you to be excited and grin heavily because of the person who sent this to you. You drove away with your black sedan and head through your scheduled destination. A peek of the place caught your eyes from the window. You turned the steering wheel to the left as you finally arrived; parking your car on one of the available spots in the parking lot. After hopping out and start walking through the entrance door, you opened it and entered the place, on what is called to be a gym where there's some men and women busily doing also what you also came here for today: to work out. However, unlike them though; you have another reason in mind that encourages you to come here and establish yourself to become a regular and a "special" customer. Beng the only person who has a VIP like pass in this place, you shamelessly walked through the counter and pose yourself there while waiting for that particular woman locked in your gaze who is helping a customer to arrange herself to a perfect position to use an exercise machine. Now that she finished and received a thankful remark, she was about to return to the cashier when she caught your presence there, a smirk crept up in her eyes immediately. You had to watch this woman walk towards you, weren't sure if the way everything she does as it feels like it was all in slow motion when she comes in contact of your attention are either intentional or not. The way her hips sway, strong legs switching movements, her hair bounces as she combs sexily, bending her upper body where those perfectly built stoned abs get flexed and ofcourse those huge rounded chest of hers being barely hidden by her grey Calvin Klein sports bra that only compresses and instead forms a hypnotizing cleavage that you find it diffult to ignore. "You're finally here, YN." She slapped your chest before taking out her jacket and place it on her chair. She comes up to you and gave you a peck in the lips. Her hand caressed your chest as she greeted you with her seducive low pitched voice. "Good morning, hotshot. Ready for our intense workout today?" "When I have ever not if I'll do it with you, Momo?" You fixed some disarranged strands of hair in her bangs before pinched her peachy cheeks. "That's great to hear." She giggled. She took your hand and pulled it with her as she made you follow her around. "Come on, let's get started. The usual first then I have some new sets prepared for us." "Okay." You nodded. As you and her placed the tumbler and some other belongings that both of you will definitely need throughout the workout, you came up to her and wrap your arms around her waist. "Hey, I'm sorry if I never got to visit you for days, okay? Work has been requiring me a lot." You apologized to her. She did that adorable pouty look very close to your face as she sulked. "Now that you reminded me of that, yes I do felt lonely not seeing you around here" She glared away from you. "But, it's all okay now. Atleast you're sorry." She wrapped her arms around your neck. "Are you taking care of your health?" "Yup. I'm still doing a bit of cardios and endurance at home. Jogging outside, if I may include." You enumerated. "And oh, I also organized my meal plan again. Got some new additions." "Well, that's good. You're listening and . Keep it that way." She patted your head like a good boy. "Ofcourse I do, you know I'm still doing it all just to make us finally official, right?" You sniggered. Momo laughed. "You really want me to be all yours, huh?" "You have no idea." You shook your head. Momo pressed her body against yours, her face leaned closer on your ears as she whispers. "Say, what if we complete our session today... you can finally get the answer you've been waiting for." You got taken aback at what she said. Mouth went agaped as you got stunned for a while before proceeding to reply. "S-sure! What are we waiting for then? Can we start now?" You motivatedly said. Momo lets go from you and sets up the timer in her phone as she chuckles. "Easy there, tiger. Don't rush me around. I'm your coach, remember? Do you want me to reconsider-" "N-no! No. I'm sorry. I'll behave." You frantically waved your hands to gesture her to stop saying the next words you're afraid to hear. Thankfully, Momo listened as she's just only messing around with you. She stood on her own position beside you after. "Alright, ready? We'll do the stretches first. 8 counts. Left and right." After 3 hours of working out together with Momo, you two decided to continue your rest outside of the gym after you and her were both contented enough with the amount of cold temperature to help ease each other's exhaustion and body heat from the intense exercises you've gone through. You and her are now sitting behind the trunk of your car, your towel wrapped around your neck and your head placed atop of Momo's shoulder whose back is leaned behind her foldable chair. Drinking a cold water in your tumbler, you cleansed your throat before proceeding to talk to Momo. "I'm all ears, Momoring." "Eh?" You shrugged and laughed softly. "You know what I mean." "Ahh" she dumbfoundedly reacted. "Oh yeah... the answer." "Mmmhmm."

"But I'm not rushing you, okay? I just want to tell you because I thought-" You got silenced when Momo pushed her index finger on your lips. "Don't worry, YN. I'm not, okay? Actually... I've been thinking about it for days now and I had it prepared to do it... today." Momo dragged her fingers to your chin as she cupped and played it with. "And I thought... after everything that you've done and showed to me. You know I do have feelings for you too, YN and... the more I've been seeing you a lot as I reflect myself how I feel so comfortable, complete and happy when I'm with you, I thought... why don't I just turn it up, you know?" "So yeah... YN...", Momo looked down and smiled, blush forming in her cheks before looking up at you as her eyes twinkled. "You passed. I would really like to have you as my boyfriend." "Woah? Y-you are?", Your separated yourself away from Momo in shock. Momo nodded and just giggled at your actions. With pure happiness, you pulled Momo for a grateful hug which she accepted immediately. "Thnak you, Momo. Seriously." You kissed Momo in the lips after. "I love you." "You're welcome, YN. I love you too." *click* Unbeknownst to you and Momo, one of the cars parked near in the gym has a person inside of it that has been spying both of you earlier way since you entered the gym hours ago. After clicking on her camera for the nth time, she looked at the image she captured, and oh boy what a great shot she just took, A perfect formula for your sudden destruction. Her wicked smiled crept up in her lips. "Gotcha." She dialed someone on the phone before putting it in front of her ear. "Hello, Tzu. Let's meet tomorrow. I'll show you something." "What did you see, N-Nayeon unnie?" Tzuyu replied to the caller she sent to track you down. Back at the store earlier, when she reached the backroom where all of employee's locker are placed, she pulls out her phone and called Nayeon to inform her of your departure. Nayeon who is waiting outside the mall, saw you exit and silently followed you before saying goodbye to Tzuyu as she confirms her target on you. That's where it led her being here in front of the place where you secretly go to meet your other sidegirl, who is the owner of the gym you've been visiting recently named Hirai Momo. "I can't tell you yet, Tzu. I think it's best for you to see the truth in your own eyes but I only have one word to answer you: positive." She quickly pressed the end button, not even waiting any longer for her comment. All that Nayeon has in mind now is to face her tomorrow and send this to her directly. She woke up her car again and drives away back to her home to rest, leaving you and Momo to sepnd little more time to rest before also leaving together with her, as she invites you to stay with her for a while in her own house. "I figured it's been a while you've been here so... that's why I brought you here." Momo said before knocking on the door twice. "Yeah, I've missed being in here. Your house looks great. I presume what I'll see inside would be the same as always.", you smiled. The door then opens, you saw it reveals a woman sporting a brown curvy long hair, face presenting a breathtaking beauty, wearing a purple t-shirt and a jogging pants. Your eyes were fixated even more when the woman stares back at you cluelessly. You were indeed right at what you just said. It was undeniable that she even looked more beautiful today from the last time you saw her. "Momo-chan! O-oh... YN? Hi..." the squirrel looking girl said with her high pitched squeaky voice before her tone lowered when she catched your apperarance standing beside her cousin. "Hi, Sana. Long time no see." You smirked as you bounced your eyebrows that made the Japanese girl gulp and tense up in shyness. Meanwhile, Jeongyeon was walking on her way through your company building with her phone on her hand. It was open and it has your message on her agreeing that you'll meet with her there to spend time and catch up with her too. She decided to do it today so as of now she's about to visit you in your workplace today.

Entering the building, greeting the guards kindly; she made her way through the concierge area where the receptionists are always present to help the concerns of everyone who comes in here. "Uhh, hi miss." "Hello, maam. How can I help you?", the receptionist glanced at Jeongyeon first before typing back on her computer. "Can I ask if the name YN LN here today?" "Do you have an appointment with him, maam?" "N-no, he's my friend and I just want to request if you could atleast reach out to him for me. Tell her that a certain name of Yoo Jeongyeon wants to visit her."

"Okay, one moment maam please.", the lady nodded. "Thank you."

After waiting for a while, the receptionsit speaks again. "Sorry maam but Mr. LN is on the leave for today. He'll be resuming his work tomorrow though, you can come here again for him if you may so." "Oh... is that so." Jeongyeon reacted understandably. "Sorry, I didn't knew he's on a dayoff today. We just actually met again yesterday after few months of being away." She explained.

"Anyways, thank you for the help miss."

"You're welcome maam. Happy to serve." The lady and Jeongyeon bowed at each other before she leaves the building with a mix of disappointment, relief and sadness consuming her inside. "Tomorrow it is, I guess." She said before entering her car again and drive back home. Later that night, you just picked up Tzuyu in the clothing store and ate together with her on the mall for dinner. You are currently driving her to her home and you noticed that Tzuyu seemed silent and emotionless, so you assumed hat she's just tired or she's just lonely about something. To find out, an idea developed in your mind. Arriving in front of her house, you escorted her out of the car. "Thanks." She was about to come to the doorway when you interrupted her. "Tzu, are you okay?" You asked worriedly. "I'm fine. I'm just tired." You looked at the house and noticed that the lights are off. It's only 9PM in the night so far and it's weird if her parents are already asleep. "Are you parents' not at home?" "It's their anniversary today, they'll spend a vacation in Jeju for 3 days."She answered, explaining the reason. "Ahh..." You nodded. "Tzu, since your parents aren't home and you're alone. Do you want me to say for tonight and you know... help you rest with something?" "What do you have in mind, YN?" You stepped closer to Tzuyu and slowly nuzzle your face inches away to the crook of neck. Your lips began in contact with her smooth creamy skin. Tzuyu finally understood what you're referring at and to be honest, she isn't impressed at all. Instead of being aroused, she's just getting irritated and annoyed more and more. Tzuyu groaned and gritted her teeth as your hand became even more active, slowly touching her thigh up to her plump ass traced by her pencil shirt as your lips crawls down even more dangerously to the middle of her chest. "S-stop." Tzuyu isn't letting this go further now. She gently pushed you away from her which made you stare at her in curiousity. "I appreciate the concern, YN but I'll be fine. I just want an alone time for now and all I want to do so far is to sleep. I'm super tired." "A-are you sure, Tzu?" She just nodded. "O-oh, okay. If you don't feel well, I'm just one call away okay?" "Okay." "Alright, goodnight babe. Love you." You kissed her on the cheeks which she only grimaced. You entered your car and closed the door. Before driving away, you peeked at the rolled down window to say one last thing to her. "Rest well, okay?" Tzuyu just nodded. Again. You finally made your way exit. Tzuyu didn't even need to watch your car disappear on her sight from the distance as she quickly opens the door and enter her house. After changing her clothes and cleaning up, she lays down on her bed with her posture sideways. Then, she recalled what exactly happened that leads to her mood being completely ruined.

Nayeon arrived at the mall and invited Tzuyu to eat with her for lunch at one of the restaurants during her break. After they gave their orders to the waiter, Tzuyu spoke again for their conversation to proceed. "You followed him?" "Yeah. He went into this gym located in Hongdae." Nayeon nodded. "Did he say something to you before he left you?" "Nothing much. He just said he has to go now. He didn't told me where he'll be going or what's his purpose of." Tzuyu answered.

"Makes sense that he won't. Why would a cheating bitch would take down his guard if it'll risk his dark secret to be exposed, right?" Nayeon raised her eyebrows and created a sour face. "Y-you said it's positive, what did you see when you were there?" Tzuyu nervously asked and waited for Nayeon to inform her what she got. Nayeon opens her bag and takes out her camera. She turns it on and scrolls down on the gallery and paused at the exceptional picture that when she shows it toher, it won't need any further explanations to spill in addition. "I must say, he did kept you out from it. Although, having an eyes is useless when your mind is blind... and that what he is." Nayeon then gave the camera to Tzuyu and watched her look at it horribly. "I know it's not the perfect thing you want to see, but I have to remind to you again Tzuyu. You agreed to help me, I'm just doing to favor in return. This is one of my ways. I'm going to open your eyes and see the reality. Especially... when the truth is right there to set you free." In the middle of the night, sounds of helpless, broken and grieving screams and cries can be heard in the Chou residence. Despite of the exhausted eyes, Tzuyu's tears still pours out from her eyes one after the another until she finally burst out in loud sobs. She pounded the bed, raked her hair aggressively and threw all her pillows with her clenched fists in all anger, rage and devastation. She remained suffering inside the darkness as the image of you and Momo kissing outside of the gym earlier continues to intensify the pain in her heart and mind while her vengeful state becomes intensified.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you guys have a weak stomatch, please turn away... because this is not going to be pretty." Knight warned to the viewers. "Dong Taeyang and "The Sinister" Shin Donghee finally clash here tonight at Superslam."

Taeyang enters the ring, leaps at the ropes and stares down a hole at Shindong before doing his taunt and proudly showed the golden telt in his grasp.

"Taeyang promised to show the world the evil son of a bitch they have ever seen before." Kwangsoo reminded. "And now he stands before us as a World Champion tonight."

"This is a Falls Count Anywhere match. That means you pick up the victory in this building, to be out of the street as a matter of fact. Taeyang, Shindong, for the World Championship title." Knight explained the rules to anybody who might have forget how does the stipulation works.

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5 minutes after the bell rang to officially start the match, the two collided with all their last stored might at one another, sending them all around in the arena.

Taeyang rudely kicks Shindong's face while he is crawling away in the ramp from him. "I've never seen this side of Taeyang before." Knight commented as they continue to watch him assaulting Shindong.

Taeyang picks up Shindong and threw him to the LED screen of the entrance way. "C'mon, Shinister!", he mocked as he weakly kicked his face then bounced his head on the screen.

Both went to the curtain, Taeyang punches Shindong leading him inside to the backstage area where the producers monitoring the match left and gave space for the two behemoths to proceed hurting each other while sparing theirselves from harm.

Taeyang fires a blow on Shindong's stomatch before attempting to lift him up for a powerslam but the latter refuses and fights back, pummeling Taeyang with multiple arm hits on the spine.

The two exchanged hits until Shindong took the advantage and threw Taeyang into the wall, shoulder and arm first on the bump. Shindong grabbed him again and he drove him on the other side of the wall after.

Shindong positioned Taeyang to prepare executing his finishing manoever, the Kiss Of Death where he kisses his opponent's forehead first before he rotates along with the head, slamming the face backwards straight at the ground.

He perfectly performed it, putting Taeyang unconscious for good. "That's gotta be it. No one's getting up from that." Kwangsoo reacted.

"And the cover now by The Shinister to win the Japan World Championship"

"1...2..."

Taeyang swayed his arm away, lifting his shoulder up to break the count and kick out at two. Shindong sat beside his beatened foe, and maniacally laughs at how Taeyang is determined to hold on and willing to take more pain just so he could submit once and for all under his hellish brute power.

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Another 5 minutes have passed, Shindong and Taeyang's fight returned to the ring. Taeyang who is now leading the match under his control, is carrying Shindong's body over his shoulder to attempt for a second repeat of his own finisher, a running powerslam.

He ran, turned, jumped and drilled Shindong's body down on the mat. He hooked his leg and the referee began to count. "1...2..." but Shindong kicked out again.

"And if you're Taeyang you're gonna start wondering what the hell do I need to do to keep The Shinister down?" Knight stated as the camera flashes at Taeyang with bloody head muttering something out of rage in which it urged him to hammer fist Shindong's face repeatedly before screaming in anger on his front.

Taeyang rolled out of the ring and slowly walked around the ringside before he noticed something on the floor. A laid out opened toolbox with its contents scattered. He squatted and picked up a sharp object as he stared at it with fascination.

With a cruel idea, he reentered the ring and guards Shindong who is still down. He kneeled  on the vacant space and looked at the sharp object around his hand as he lets out a frightening laugh.

"The hell is Taeyang gonna do with a damn box cutter?" Knight confusedly asked before the answer was thrown at him when Taeyang started to slice through the mat of the ring.

"Taeyang is exposing the wood inside the ring." Kwangsoo replied as Taeyang spreads and tears off the thin foam and the canvas away to make the wood surface visible.

After he finished doing a little work to assist his plans, he turned around only to see a fully recovered Shindong standing and staring intimidatingly at him.

Taeyang immediately charges at Shindong but he catches him, hooking his arm around and squashes him down with a urinagi straight into the exposed ring area.

He wasn't done yet, as the tables suddenly  flipped, Shindong snatches the opportunity where he grabs the critically damaged Taeyang and sets him up again for a Kiss Of Death on the woodened surface in which he did succeed.

"Wait what? The Shinister isn't done yet?" Knight was baffled and even Kwangsoo as they thought Shindong is going to pin Taeyang already but it looks like the monster isn't finished yet with his agenda.

Shindong positioned Taeyang again on his hold, head locked around thd arm for another Kiss Of Death on the wood.

He finally covers Taeyang's completely knock- outed body and the referee counts. "1...2...3."

The bell rang on the signal and the timekeeper handed the world title belt on the referee as the entrance theme of Shindong played across the interior of the arena.

"Here is your winner and the NEW Japan Combat Federation World Champion, "The Shinister" Shin Donghee!!!" ring announcer Song Jihyo yelled into the microphone to declare the win for the brand new victorious champion.

"The Shinister is a champion again." Knight acknowledged Shindong's second world title run after winning it last year in 2019.

"Once more, darkness reigns over the Federation." Kwangsoo said. Shindong snatches the championship belt away from the hands of the referee who is presenting it in front of him.

He slowly rose from his feet and exhaustedly stood to raise his arms up with the belt in his hand to celebrate his another achievement before he sensed something danger coming against him.

He glanced at the side and the entire world went stunned when a familiar person appeared on the scene, tackling Shindong down with an emphatic spear before aggressively punching him in the head.

"What the- who the hell?!"

"You know who the hell is he!"

"OH MY GOD IT'S YUTA NAKAMOTO!!! THE GUARDIAN OF NCTIZEN IS BACK, AND HE'S BEATING THE HELL OUT OF THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION!!!" Knight exclaimed as they keep on witnessing the returning Yuta Nakamoto in action after being on a hiatus for months due to suffering from a virus infection since 2020 was when the pandemic started and spreads out around the globe, affecting all the people in every different countries.

All the fans watching that were visible on the screens provided as a temporary replacement for the arena's set-up during the pandemic were all making the different shapes of reaction to Yuta's return: shock, disapproval, and hype.

"And now he's got his eyes set on The Punisher!" Knight said as Yuta glanced at the weakened Taeyang on the ringside. He rolled out at the other side and starts to run towards at Taeyang to unleash a massive spear into his midsection.

"DID YOU TWO SERIOUSLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT ME?!" Yuta asked, talking to both Shindong and Taeyang who were taken out by him. He looked down at Taeyang laid on his feet. "I MADE YOU! DON'T ACT LIKE YOU'RE THE BIGGEST THREAT AS LONG AS I'M HERE!"

Yuta went to the timekeeper's area and grabbed a steel chair with him which he used to brutally smash it on Taeyang's back and his left arm.

"Yuta Nakamoto is mangling the chair out of the fallen body of Dong Taeyang!" Kwangsoo said.

Yuta threw away the chair bended in half and went back in the ring to set his sight on target at Shindong crawling in fours. He stood at the corner and prepares himself to create another attack on the champion.

"The Shinister, the World Champion has no idea what's going on. He has no idea where he's at. He was blindsided by Nakamoto moments ago." Knight said as they all wait for Shindong to realize the pain he's about to take.

Yuta charged and speared Shindong again for the second time. He stood up and fixed his shirt as he breathes out the effects of the impact he showed tonight.

"Yuta Nakamoto is back with an empathic statement."

Yuta observed something beside the unconscious Shindong. The golden belt in the ground, he grabbed it and admiringly looked at it as he switches his gaze to the current holder of it.

"What is this? You think you can handle the responsibility?" Yuta asks Shindong as he threatens him while holding the belt. "So this is what's all for, huh? No. You're just a freak, out of your mind. I'm the man. I'm the guy, I'm the one."

The show ended with Yuta Nakamoto officially makes his return back in Japan Combat Federation as Shindong's new challenger for the World Championship in which everyone didn't see that coming.

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AUGUST 28, 2020 | 1 WEEK LATER

The general manager of both main rosters, Monday Night War and Friday Night Knockdown Bang Sihyuk knocks on the door thrice to drew the attention of the occupant inside.

"Yuta, it's me Bang Sihyuk!" he exclaimed. Not having any responses by receiving a "get in!" signal or the door opening for him, Sihyuk had no other choice but to do it by himself, muttering "Alright, then" under his breath.

He entered the locker room, meeting Yuta inside who is organizing his things. "Oh thank God you're here, I was looking for you everywhere."

He opened the folder, showing the paper content inside of it to Yuta. "Here's the official contract for your Triple Threat match at Retribution."

"Let's see this thing."

"I'll show it to you."

Sihyuk handed the ballpen to Yuta but he didn't grabbed it from him. "I'm gonna check this out first with someone. Is that alright?"

"Yeah. Go. Sure, take your time." Sihyuk nodded before he left the locker room. Yuta picks up his phone and made a phone call, informing somebody that he finally received it and got updated in return that "he" is on his way now in the arena.

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Two matches has passed for tonight's show, Sihyuk decided to check over Yuta regarding the contract signing.

He entered his locker room again, and in his surprise, he recognized a very familar individual sitting beside Yuta on the couch.

"A-are you done, now?" Sihyuk asks Yuta who is reading the contract.

He massaged his chin, pursed his lips and popped it before he speaks. "Let me tell you this, I want you to fix the changes that I need. I assure you right now, I will be on Retribution this Sunday. That is a promise." Yuta said to Sihyuk who is switching looks to him and the other person with them in the room.

"I will be in the Triple Threat match, destroy everyone and vanish. That's a guarantee, and I will win back the World Championship that I never lost in the FIRST PLACE." Yuta added, referring to his previous reign that was unfortunately cut short with regards to his health condition where he was forced to vacate the title as a consequence for taking a time off away from the company.

"And that's not just a prediction..." He turns his head to the side, now his and Sihyuk's attention are both glued at this mysterious person making the general manager distracted. Grinning from ear to ear, he looked back at Sihyuk to end his statement.

"... that's a spoiler."

The camera's frame widens, revealing the identity of the man, who is none other than one of the most legendary managers in pro-wrestling and combat entertainment history who held many iconic fighters that ever stepped foot in the industry, Park Jinyoung.

He leans forward to make his words clearer to hear for Sihyuk. "Believe. That."

Him and Yuta looked at each other with an interesting smirk as they nod their heads, teasing everyone who is watching at their homes about their newly formed affiliation.

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AUGUST 30, 2020 | 2 DAYS LATER

Japan Combat Federation held their Retribution pay-per-view in Hokkaido. The show's main-event features the Triple Threat match which includes the rivals Dong Taeyang, "The Shinister" Shin Donghee, and Yuta Nakamoto who is making his first match since his months-length of absence.

Strangely enough, the match started with only Taeyang and Shindong present in the ring when the referee signalled for the bell to rang immediately as Taeyang plowed Shindong to the back of his neck while he was performing his entrance in the ring.

They forgot about Yuta supposedly to be included also in the match, and it proceeded instead with only Taeyang and Shindong fighting each other off for the World Championship.

"Taeyang going after at The Shinister, still upset after what happened last week."

Taeyang ran through Shindong and collided his body on him at the corner before lifting him all over and slam him down on the mat.

He made a quick cover, looking to end the champion earlier than expected. "1...2..." but Shindong kicks out.

Taeyang just laughs at the toughness of Shindong until the latter just stood back up like a possessed madman, only to be caught when Taeyang drives him to the turnbuckle and deliver some right hand shots and headbutts before he tries to splash him again on the corner.

However, Shindong finally manages to prevent the Punisher by blocking him with a crossbody, two heavyweights involved in a collision.

Shindong stalks Taeyang who is groaning in pain. He sets him up for a Kiss of Death and he nailed it. A cover was made "1...2..." but Taeyang kicks out.

Taeyang crawls out of the ring. Shindong pursues the challenger but Taeyang caught him with a choke, then a knee to the stomach and elbow shots at the back. He was about to smash his head on the edge of the ring but Shindong counters, taking his turn to attack with his own hits and returns the attempt back at Taeyang, bouncing his head off at the ring.

The two titans continues to apply pain at ond another. Shindong wraps Taeyang and performs a urinagi slam to him right through the announce table as it exploded on the impact.

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Their grueling and intense fight created a slightly similar feel to their match back at Superslam when both of them were now brawling at each other around the ring.

Shindong punches Taeyang on the stomach and sets him up again for another Kiss Of Death but on the steel ramp this time but Taeyang was able to block him with a headbutt to the forehead, escaping from his possession.

He punches Shindong on the face. Noticing that he is now standing at the end of the stage, Taeyang did an unbelievable spot by pouncing at Shindong and send theirselves crashing through the tables stacked below.

"We anticipated chaos and destruction, but these two have no bounds." Kwangsoo said.

Taeyang slowly gets off from Shindong's side and continues to hammer his fists around his face. He stands up and leaned at one of the equipment machines for the stages to heavily breath off his exhaustion caused by the ongoing battle.

Afte resting a little, he pulls Shindong's hair upwards and carried him all the way back in the ring.

Taeyang climbs at the top rope, looking to fly and land through Shindong to apply more damage but the immortal-like ability of Shindong assists him to recover eventually and fires an uppercut at Taeyang's face.

Shindong joins Taeyang on the turnbuckles and proceeded to attack him.

"These two entities, these two monsters climbing at the top of the ring."

"There's a great deal of humanity in the ring ropes even though neither of these were close to being a human"

Shindong clutches Taeyang's head around his arm and sets him up on the corner before performing a superplex to the top rope, and in everybody's bewilderment and amusement, the ring collapses at the massive impact it took.

"Oh my goodness, The Shinister has Taeyang in position for a superplex! O-OH MY GOD!"

"WHAT THE HELL! THE RING IMPLODED!" Knight and Kwangsoo reacted in utter awe as they watched the ring bounce and deconstruct. The posts bended, the ropes untangled, the referee was yeeted out of the ring, both fighters down in the destroyed battleground.

The arena then played Yuta's entrance theme, alarming everyone who might've forgotten already that Yuta is still included in the match. "And at this moment, with both men down. Here comes the Guardian of NCTizen, with Park Jinyoung in tow."

Yuta with a steel chair in hand emerged along with Jinyoung holding the contract for him. He took out the ballpen and gave it to Yuta for him to sign the contract.

Yuta starts to march in the ramp with steel chair in his hand as a weapon, completely legal based on the No Holds Barred rules.

He entered the collapsed ring, rolled Shindong around to pin him but he noticed that no referee was present anymore. He commanded one from backstage to get out and substitute.

One listened and runs through the ring to count. "1...2..." It's too late as Shindong kicks out at two, much in Yuta's disbelief.

He shook his head, then proceeded to hook Shindong's leg again for another cover. "1...2..." and a kick out still.

Yuta panics. He decided to switch to Taeyang and cover. "1....2..." but yet also, the Punisher is still holding on to his strength.

He figures out what to do next. He grabs again the steel chair that he left on the ringside and starts smashing it on Taeyang's back repeatedly.

Yuta pins Taeyang again, thinking it might finally work "1...2.." but still, it wasn't enough as Taeyang refuses to stay down.

Yuta confusedly looked at Taeyang and wondering why is he still fighting with everything he can when he knew he's losing the advantage of the match.

He tried to attack Shindong next with a steel chair but it prevented Yuta when he chokes him out with a mandible claw manouvre stuffing his fingers down into Yuta's throat only to receive a low blow on his crotch.

Him enduring the pain sends him rolling out of the ring. Yuta covers his mouth to ease the pain that he felt on that part before ficusing back on the action, setting himself on the corner as he eyed Taeyang slowly getting up back to his knees.

As Taeyang rotates, Yuta engaged a spear to him, putting him down. He covered Taeyang for the third and final time.

"1...2...3."

The referee signalled for the bell and Yuta's entrance theme played. "Here is your winner and the NEW Japan Combat Federation World Champion, Yuta Nakamoto!!!"

Jinyoung laughs and applauds for Yuta on the stage as he watches him being presented by the golden belt. Yuta grabs it and accepts the declaration by the referee to raise his arm in victory.

"Nakamoto regaining the title he never lost." Knight said at the aftermath of the main event.

"Listen, Yuta did exactly what he filed to do but I don't think Yuta even expected it to do this way. It doesn't matter anyway, because we got a brand new World Champion!"

"But wait, Kwangsoo. What about the way Yuta did this? He waited for the opportunity. He walked down here, signed the contract on the way to the ring..."

"...exactly what Yuta said he's going to do. Destroy everyone and vanish."

The show ended with Yuta approaching Jinyoung praising him for his title win, marking the beginning of his historic championship reign in the main roster of Japan Combat Federation.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 | 5 DAYS LATER

For this week's episode of Friday Night Knockdown, the brand new World Champion Yuta Nakamoto and Park Jinyoung are both scheduled to appear tonight for a segment, to address everyone and explain about their relationship.

Yuta with his golden belt around his shoulder, standing beside Jinyoung with a usual microphone in his hand fitting for his expertise.

"Just when you thought I was out, HE... pulled me back in." Jinyoung starts his speech, pointing his finger at Yuta staring seriously at one of the cameras recording them live.

"Oh please, don't make fools out of yourselves and embarass yourselves pointing your accusatory fingers at me for corrupting him, because I assure you... HE is corrupting ME."

"Let me ask you a question, what happened to the thank yous, the appreciation to all the selfish executive decisions through life-threatening illneses this man has delivered?"

"Let me tell you this one time, so you can get this into your thick unappreciative skulls. Ladies and gentlemen, my name... is Park Jinyoung, and I serve as the special adviser for YOUR Empire Chief, YOUR reigning, defending, undisputed World Heavyweight Champion... Yuta Nakamoto.", Jinyoung said, announcing to everyone his role in Yuta's life while introducing a new side into the man's entire personality.

He handed the microphone to Yuta, while he remained behind and watch him patiently.

"I'm a man of my word." Yuta speaks out his message. "I did exactly what I was about to do in Retribution. I signed the contract, I destroyed Shindong, I destroyed Taeyang and I left as your World Heavyweight Champion."

"At Battle Of The Champions, I don't care who I am gonna face. Monster or man, watch them get enslaughtered by me because THIS IS MY TERRITORY."

"And when you have this kind of power, all you have to do... is show up and win."

After they ended the segment, they walked through the backstage to make their leave on the arena. In the middle of their way, Yuta plastered a grin on his face as he get to crossed paths with one of his cousins, YN Myoui who is clapping his hands loud enthusiastically.

"OH YES SIRRR! LOOK WHO IT IS!" YN shakes hand with Yuta. "WELCOME BACK, THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION!"

He waved at Jinyoung who nodded and smiled at him. "Oh man, you really made our family proud! Yo, I've been texting you for a whole week, man. What were you up to?"

"I'm sorry, man. I was busy, alright?"

He commanded Jinyoung to go first and prepare the car for him.

"Can I ask you something, man?"

"What is it?"

"What's with you and JYP?" He asked intriguingly with a mix of doubt in his tone. "After all he'd put you in, bro? You trust him?"

"Wait, don't worry. I know, okay. I got it under control", Yuta calms down YN, understanding his point knowing that Jinyiung has been once a manager of some of his previous best rivals throughout his career.

"Everything is all in line, just let me handle this okay?"

"If you need somebody to watch your back, you know I got you. Always."

"I know. I love you, man but I have to go." Yuta bid his farewell to his cousin who still has a match upcoming for tonight.

"Okay. See ya!" He watches Yuta walk away, but he just remembered something when Yuta was already quite far away from him already."

"Wait, yo! Wanna grab some steak with me after the show ends?"

As expected, Yuta couldn't hear his invitation anymore.

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Jinyoung received a notification from his phone while he is in the middle of driving.

He tapped the screen to check, the information displayed on it.

As he quickly reads it to maintain his focus more on the road, he blinked his eyes rapidly when he understood what the update is sharing.

"Uhm, sir..." he called at Yuta who is busy playing a game on his phone.

"What?"

"Did you know that YN had a match earlier tonight?"

"No." Yuta answered. "He did?"

"Yes sir."

"What's the match and the result?"

Jinyoung cleared his throat before speaking as he wasn't sure what his Empire Chief would feel about this.

"Mr. Sihyuk organized a Fatal 4-Way match earlier with the winner to be the number one contender and your first challenger for your World Championship at Battle Of The Champions-

"Yeah, I knew that he will." Yuta replied, interrupting his sentence. He then furrowed his eyebrows and paused the game. "Wait, so YN is in the match?"

"Y-Yes, sir...

... and he won the match too."

Yuta slowly raised his head and stared at the reflection of the nervous Jinyoung in the rearview mirror as his reaction to the unexpected information that was given to him.

Minatozaki Sana, the Honorary Muse for The Bloodline is currently having a match together with MAMAMOO's Solar for this week's Friday Night Knockdown.

In the ring, Sana lifts up Solar and throws her down with a powerslam. She walks out of the ropes and climbs at the turnbuckle. YN who is on the ringside watching along with Moonbyul, raises his finger to the sky.

Viewing Solar who is slowly rising back from her feet, Sana stood straight and was about to hit a double axe handle but she was caught by a dropkick by Solar, putting both of them down. YN covered his mouth in shock at the impact.

Back again at each other, Solar ran through Sana and dodges her attempted left hook, she went bouncing on those ropes and was about to give Solar a kick but the latter caught her feet in no time, they fell together until Sana decides to roll Solar for a pinfall.

"1...2.."

Solar kicks out. They both stood up again, and this time Solar seeks the momentum when she hit Sana with a leaping knee straight to her forehead. Solar covered Sana for the win.

"1...2..."

Sana kicks out. After some few moments of them exchanging attacks at each other, it led Solar sitting at the turnbuckle. Sana was about to her but the defense was activated to blow some knuckles atop of the Honorary Muse's head and a kick to make her kneel on the ground.

Solar starts to set off both her feet on the top rope but Sana charges again, now she tries to push off Solar but she gets ducked instead. Sana climbs at the corner and hooks Solar's head for a possible superplex but Solar fires hits on her midsection before ending it with a headshot to get rid of her.

Without no more distraction, Solar positioned like a frog at the top turnbuckle and slowly stands to fly away at Sana but instead, the outcome went opposite as Sana quickly backs up and finally pushes off Solar out of the ring. The height of her fall has what made Solar to unable to stand for a while after crashing to the ringside.

Sana grabs Solar and rolls her back in the ring.  Going for another slam, Solar avoided it and chops Sana's chest, then ran through a hopes with a clothesline maneuver. Down on the mat, Solar climbs again on the turnbuckle but Sana rolls off the harm's way.

"And here comes Solar, going off the top rope, taking out Sana!" commentator Knight Yoo said as Solar targets Sana with a cannonball dive to continue the assault on her outside. Moonbyul cheers for Solar while YN is looking agitated at Sana's condition so far.

As the two fighters went back in the ring, Moonbyul and YN got into a confrontation. The referee saw them narrowing their gaps together as they argue and starts to warn them.

That didn't prevent YN to just unleash a thunderous superkick at Moonbyul, releasing his stress at her. Solar saw what happened, she was about to call out YN but Sana pulls her back and performs her Purple Thunderbomb signature move at Solar.

She pins her enemy "1...2..." but Solar kicks out at two. YN starts to encourage Sana to keep fighting and don't let herself get beaten.

With another sequence of attacks from two opposite profiles, Solar finally strikes a double axe handle at Sana to get dizzy. She makes the crowd to join her hype the finisher she's about to execute on Sana to finish the match, clapping her hands altogether with the chant saying "MAMAMOO".

"Solar got Sana where she wants her, but wait a minute; YN Myoui climbs to the ring to draw the ire of Solar!" Knight called on the right hand man's action as YN received a punch instead on Solar for doing that.

The distracted Solar got surprised by a roll up by Sana and the referee began to count.

"1...2.."

Solar kicks out. She tries to hit Sana with her finisher, the Decalcomanie spinning heel kick but Sana dodges. She stood behind, lift her off with her own attempt of the Purple Thunderbomb but Solar ducks under and flips Sana for another cover.

"1...2.."

Unknown to the referee, YN offers a back up as he push back Solar using his feet to her chest, allowing Sana to roll the pin against Solar.

"1...2...3!"

"YN Myoui with the kick, reverses, Sana with the win! YN hands the win for Sana!" Knight exclaims as the referee signalled for the bell to rang.

"Here's your winner, Minatozaki Sana!" the ring announcer Song Jihyo declares as YN slides to the ring and lifts the victorious Sana raising her fists. He patted her in the shoulder and sent her congratulations.

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"Tonight. Momo, you get the job done for The Bloodline just like I get the job done for The Bloodline." Sana said as she motivates Momo who is crossing her arm, scheduled also for a match tonight.

"Yeah, you're welcome though. You're welcome, Sana." YN said.

Sana furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "For what?"

"The Empire Chief wants me to give you the W and that's what I did, muse." YN explained.

"How?" Sana blurted. YN's stare began to increase its intensity again, not liking how this is going for him.

"Look, YN I get all of that on my own and for once I would like to appreciate a credit for me." Sana replied, pointing at herself. "Is that too much to ask?"

"Wait, Sana are you kidding me right now?" YN expresses his disbelief. "Yo, Momo! Tell me you saw that. Tell me you saw what happened back there."

"Nope, I didn't." Momo answered. "I missed it. I was watching Sana, and I'm learning a lot from you, muse." she said at Sana.

YN scoffs, turns his body around and seethes in his temper as he covers his face with his hands.

"And you have learned a lot from me, Momoring! Now, you're going to follow my footsteps. The former 3-time Southeast Asia Champion. Tonight, you're gonna be out there on your own and you're gonna ran through all of those fools to become the number one contender for the Southeast Asia Championship. That championship... is yours." Sana pours all of her inspiring message for Momo who is nodding at the words she listens to.

"You know what, after I level up tonight. When I embodied these fools, I'mma have me get a piece of a gold for myself too." Momo sweared.

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OCTOBER 21, 2023 | 1 WEEK LATER

Hirai Momo is scheduled for a fight against the leader of BLACKPINK stable, Lisa Manoban after their little altercation that happened back in the Fatal 4 Way match for the No. 1 Contender opportunity to face for the Southeast Asia Championship, in which costs both of them to lose.

The Bloodline members, the twins YN and Mina Myoui, the current Japan Combat Federation Tag Team Champions and the "Honorary Muse" Minatozaki Sana watches on the ringside for Momo while Kim Jisoo and Park "Rosé" Chaeyoung is there also to support Lisa.

During the match, Momo chops Lisa on the neck, ran through the ropes and fires a spinning leg bump to her. As she approaches Lisa, she throws her rather out of the ropes and blows a forearm at Momo's spine.

Lisa was about to position Momo for her signature 10 Beats Of Boombayah by hooking her arms each on the ropes but Momo struggles until she gives a hard elbow at the side of Lisa's face.

Lisa holds Momo's hands and tugged her arms down on the ropes to apply pain on her shoulder. Momo tried to reach Lisa but she dragged her out instead to the ringside.

Lisa sat and leaned her back on the steel steps to rest for a little but the adrenaline cursing over Momo won't let her be in peace as she charged at the hurting fighter with a rear bump, driving onto Lisa's weakened shoulder again.

Few minutes later, Lisa regained the advantage. She hooks the exhausted Momo's arms on the ropes and locks it before pounding her arms on her chest for the 10 Beats of Boombayah, with the crowd chanting the counts.

It was supposed to be just ten, but Lisa is too frustrated that she gave an extra five more beating at Momo as she slowly collapses on the apron after the breathtaking pounding that she received.

"Lisa and the BLACKPINK are all fired up here tonight guys." Knight said as Lisa stood in the corner and points at the crowd chanting along with the members for her. She starts to taunt her finishing move, the Shut Down kick.

She marches at Momo but avoids and rather unleashed a superkick on her face, it stumbled Lisa and bounced on the ropes only to elicit a high knee in return to Momo's face.

Lisa covers Momo "1...2..." but Momo kick out just before the referee shouts three.

That brought the Bloodline in shivers as they got nervous thinking Momo would almost lose there. Sana climbs on the apron and complains on the referee but Jisoo pulls her leg down, making her head bump on the ring. Mina to the rescue, gave Jisoo a superkick that sends her atop of the announce table.

Rosé came to avenge her partner as she charges at Mina and aggressively punches her but YN superkicks Rosé, joining her partner beyond the announce table.

"And now, the announce table gets put on the top of BLACKPINK! Rosé and Jisoo are trapped by The Myouis!" Knight exclaimed as he and his commentary partner Lee Kwangsoo watched their area get destroyed in order to use as a way to eliminate the fighters.

Lisa saw what happened, she climbs on the top turnbuckle and jumps at The Myouis witj a double clothesline.

She returns to the ring, Momo approached her and she gave her a weak albow due to how tired she already is.

As she was about to enter, Sana grabs Lisa's leg but ended up getting kicked only to allow Momo to kick the arm where Lisa's damaged shoulder is located.

Momo shouts her battlecry, she clutches on Lisa and slams her down with her finisher, the Ultra Urinagi before going for the cover.

"1...2...3"

Sana raised her fists up in joy as she witnessed her co-member and friend take the victory for The Bloodline, thanks to her help.

"Here is your winner, Hirai Momo!!!"

After the match, Sana enters and congratulates Momo while YN grabbed Lisa and threw her outside the ring.

Lisa still tried to fight back but she got cornered by all the four members of The Bloodline, assaulting her all at once.

YN commands Sana and Mina to grab some steel chairs on the timekeepers area and they did.

Momo sets up the weakened Lisa on the steel steps, YN steals the chair out of Sana's hand who got startled, Mina locked Lisa's bad arm on the chair while Momo continues to punch Lisa.

"Lisa Manoban is helpless, Rosé and Jisoo are still here buried under the announce table." Knight said.

"THIS IS FOR DISRESPECTING MY FAMILY!!!" YN yelled at Lisa, he hits the chair twice on the floor before proceeding to smash it on the chair where Lisa's bad arm is locked in.

"OH NO!!! HE'S TRYING TO BREAK LISA'S ARM! SOMEBODY STOP THEM!!!" Knight reacted pitifully as Lisa shouts in torment while YN repeatedly smashes the chair on her arm for 7 times.

"JUST GET THE DAMN SECURITY OUT HERE" Kwangsoo agreed on Knight.

Sana interrupts YN and asks him to stop before Momo and Mina lets go of Lisa, letting her clutch her damaged arm and grit in pain.

"You don't bad mouth, you don't cross the family, you don't cross the Bloodline. This is their primal domination." Knight said on the final shot of Momo, Mina, Sana and YN surrounding the viciously assaulted Lisa being checked upon by the medical team before the show ends.

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OCTOBER 28, 2023 | 1 WEEK LATER

After what happened to their leader Lisa Manoban in the merciless hands of The Bloodline, Rosè and Jisoo are out for payback against them.

They requested a match on General Manager Bang Sihyuk and he agreed, which he decided to make them face off against Minatozaki Sana and Hirai Momo.

As they made their entrance and wait in the ring, the camera shifts on The Bloodline behind the curtain, with Mina and YN cheering both Sana and Momo for their match tonight.

"YN, can I have a word with you for a sec?" Sana excused YN who looked at her seriously.

"Listen, tonight is a big night for us, okay?" Sana said as YN listened. "You understand what I'm saying here?"

"Let me guess, you don't want me to get involve tonight, don't you?"

"No, no. The exact opposite of that. Tonight is all hands on deck. Okay, last night was a bit of a black heart for The Bloodline. Yuta Nakamoto is not here yet, The Empire Chief is not here yet. When he gets here, the first thing he needs to see is all of our arms raised in victory, okay?" Sana continued.

"Look, a couple of weeks ago, you helped me against Solar. I saw it, so I need that tonight.  Can you do that for me? Can you bring that energy tonight?"

YN nodded and slapped his title belt. "Yeah."

"There we go. Alright, lets go!" Sana clapped as all of them make their way out of the curtain while Momo's theme began playing in the arena.

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"Tag!"

After Jisoo successfully escaped Sana's control by giving her a dropkick to reverse the advantage, she made a tag to Rosé to prevent Sana from reaching Momo.

Sana tried to attack Rosé but she was greeted by a clothesline, then a shoulder tackle and a flying one as she increased the speed of her sprint through the ropes.

As Sana went to the corner, Rosé didn't stop her barrage of attacks as she fired a couple of splashes on the Honorary Uce before she got stopped with a boot to the face.

Sana ran through the hopes and attempts to hit Rosé with a crossbody but Rosé's strength enabled her to catch the enemy with a smile on her lips. Twisting the body, she planted Sana down in the mat before the referee counts the pin.

"1...2..."

Sana kicks out at two. "Panic in the eyes of The Bloodline, this is slipping away in the worst possible time." Kwangsoo commented as he viewed YN and Mina's nervous demeanor after Sana barely made it alive.

Rosé placed Sana bending under her, grabs her underneath to perform a powerbomb but as she had her in the air, Sana hammered her head to let go.

She stayed on the ropes, Rosé went closer but Sana shooed her away with an albow. Momo returned to the ring and tagged Sana who proceeded to went back at Rosé who lifted her up but Momo saved her with a superkick.

The stunned Rosé was pushed from behind by Sana for Momo to recieve and carry her instead for a Samoan Drop before doing another cover.

"1...2..."

All of The Bloodline's fingers raised was brought down again after they thought Momo almost had it but the BLACKPINK member fights back at two and a half count.

Momo watched Rosé stumbling on her knees and feets as she tries to stand back up. She clawed her head and slowly tugged it upward, leading it near to her face as she mocks.

"Who the hell do you think you are, huh?" Momo slapped Rosés head. "Do you know who we are?"

Momo attempted some blows on the sides of Rosés abdomen but she got it both locked within her own grasp. The two stared very between each other, their face and bodies closer, realizing that none of them could get released unless one of them should provide hurt as a key.

Rosé headbutts Momo who instantly felt that stinging pain in her forehead. She returned the same until both of them were now exchanging shots of headbutts, creating red spots and a slight cut of wound from Momo's head that caused her to bleed a little.

They ran from the ropes, until Momo launches a clothesline over Rosé, both fighters down in the ring.

Sana opens her hand, free for Momo to reinsert her into the match, so as Jisoo who is doing the same for Rosé.

Rose was the first to crawl faster and reach Jisoo but was followed afterwards by Momo who hurried at Sana. The two are now legal competitors to fight. Sana slapped Jisoo and strikes back with a slap of her own too.

They touched their aching cheeks and lip at the impact until Sana initiates a high boot at Jisoo before rotating her around and position her for the Purple Thunderbomb but Jisoo added pressure to her weight and wrapped Sana's head to a side headlock as she drilled repeated elbows on her skull.

She tried to run ahead but Sana grabs her outfit and pulled her back for another attempt of the Purple Thunderbomb but Jisoo's quick instincts helped her reverse the move, dragging Sana down and sets her up to a surfboard submission move. Mina went to the apron to cause a distraction but she ate a kick from Jisoo rather.

Sana rolls up Jisoo by hooking her leg from behind, looking to steal a victory. "1...2..." Jisoo kicks out, and dashes at Sana who countered her instead for an explorer suplex to the corner.

"Sana has now put Jisoo where she wants her, aiming for her Helluva Kick finishing manouver." Knight said as he watched Sana taunts Jisoo from the distance to show her face.

Sana runs but Jisoo dodges and kicks her to the back of her neck. The collapsed Sana is now available for Jisoo to climb on the turnbuckles and go crashing against her but Momo hangs on to her feet, not too long though as Jisoo pushes off her head.

That wasn't a bother to Sana as she mocks the preparing Jisoo to perform a moonsault but her intentions to trick the opponent was interrupted by YN who grabbed her feet and pulled her out of the ring.

"What are you doing?!" Sana looked at YN puzzledly.

"It's cool, she was about to jump on you!" YN reasoned.

"I had her, YN!" Sana said as she caressed her face irritatingly.

"Yeah, it ain't like it?!"

"I got a strategy, okay?"

"I was protecting you, Sana!"

Meanwhile, Momo sweeps off Jisoo's feet who is watching the two members of The Bloodline argue at each other. She walks over to the quarreling section where the two obvious and predictable people with beef at one another going out at it again.

"See! That's how you help, that's how you help, YN!" Sana compared Momo's action to YN's

"Oh really? I'm trying to help you out, Sana... but if you don't get out of my face right now, I'm about to get you!" YN warns Sana's unappreciative manner.

"Wait, calm down..."

"Hey, relax YN! Break it up, now!" Momo joins Sana on cooling off the pent-up boiling anger of YN, spreading her arms between the two but YN just keeps brushing off her hand.

Too busy with their argument, they weren't aware that Rosè just surprised every one of them by charging on their huddle, plowing both YN and Momo with a shoulder bump.

Sana re enters the ring to get out of the harms way, she called out Rosé for what she did before focusing her attention on the immovable Jisoo laying down on the ring. She grabbed her but in her shock, Jisoo rolled her up, hooking her leg while the other was tangled around on Jisoo's leg to make the cover unescapable.

"1...2...3!"

The bell rang. Knight and Kwangsoo reacted in astonishment as they saw Sana and Momo of The Bloodline lose over Jisoo and Rosé of BLACKPINK despite how that wasn't even suppose to end that way as from what they knew.

"Here are your winners, the team of Kim Jisoo and Rosé!!!"

"Again, the issues of Minatozaki Sana, YN Myoui and the rest of The Bloodline blew up in their faces here tonight. BLACKPINK with a huge win here on Knockdown." Knight stated as the crowd cheered for Rosé and Jisoo who successfully get their redemption and revenge for their leader, Lisa Manoban who is watching proudly on her home while resting.

"Minatozaki Sana and YN Myoui's tenious relationship here in Kyoto. They might be about to explode." Kwangsoo shares his thoughts as everybody is just watching Sana and YN continue to argue inside the ring while Momo and Mina just problematically witnessing their childish behavior.

Momo tries to calm down YN again but like earlier, he is swiping off her hand. Momo stares sharply at YN before his attention was stole by Mina who rotated him around to connect his deadly stare rather at her twin brother.

YN went silent for a second as she looked around again to see Sana and Momo's stressed faces before all them felt tense in their veins as they heard the familiar theme echoed inside the arena.

The Empire Chief has arrived in Kyoto.

"I believe there's gonna be a hell to pay." Knight said.

"The kids are in trouble." Kwangsoo replied.

As the beat drops from Yuta's theme, Knight followed his statement. "Daddy's home. The Highness Of The Land, The Leader Of The Bloodline, the current Japan Combat Federation World Champion Yuta Nakamoto with his Special Adviser Park Jinyoung, and the look on YN Myoui's face tells the story. This is gonna be a very uncomfortable conversation for the family."

YN has a troubled expression as they viewed his cousin make his entrance by raising his belt with the pyro popping off in the background before walking down in the ramp.

"You're done messed up, now you gotta face the consequences." Kwangsoo said as Yuta stops in his tracks and glanced at the four guilty members of his empire waiting for him to settle their issue altogether.

As Yuta enters the ring with Jinyoung, he showcased again his golden title belt to the crowd before Jinyoung requested a microphone for him.

He gave it to Yuta who cleared his throat before starting his speech off with his famous catchphrase. "Kyoto... RECOGNIZE ME!!!"

Most of the crowd puts up their ones to the sky to acknowledge the Empire Chief. Yuta was satisfied enough at the reception he got, nodding his head. "Alright, now it's time for me to recognize this elephant in the room."

"You two..." he said, referring to YN and Sana who looked at his back. "You wanna act like kids? Then we're going to treat you like kids."

"I don't believe that the air in the backstage is the same in the ring. I believe that the fighting and handling your business goes in the ring but you two just couldn't do that." Yuta said, with some hand gestures here and there.

"So this is what I want you to do. I want you two to put it all on the table." Yuta instructs both of them. "I want you two to let it all out because I want this problem fixed, RIGHT NOW."

Sana raised her mic to her mouth, taking the first move to speak." Well, uh...I'll be the first to admit that there's been a communication breakdown as of late, and I feel like it's pretty specifically with YN, right?" Sana said as she points her hand at YN who is glaring at her.

"So I'm going to be honest, I really don't understand what's been going on around here. I like you, YN. I've always like you." Sana said, making YN taken aback at her words as she tried not to make it obvious so he looked around by wearing a grumpy face.

"And we've always gather along but when I started to hang out with The Bloodline, I don't know what it is but you just can seem to stand me. I don't understand, Mina seems fine, Momo seems fine, everybody seems fine, except you and I just don't know what I did to offend you. I really don't but whatever it is, I'm sorry okay?"

"I just don't want this to keep going anymore, okay?" Sana said to YN who keeps on listening at her. The crowd started to applaud and cheer for Sana while Jinyoung patted her back. "T-thank you. Seriously, YN whatever I did... I'm sorry. Can we just be fine? Can we just bury the hatchet once and for all?"

Sana offers her hand for a peaceful handshake to YN who looked down at it seriously before inspecting her eyes again. Yuta, Mina, Jinyoung, Momo, and the rest of the crowd are eagerly waiting for whatever YN is going to respond according to Sana's apology.

"Sana, you only got two seconds to get that out of my face." YN said as he looked at Sana with fierce. Yuta clenched his lips, Momo and Mina shook their head disapprovingly, Jinyoung sighed and the crowd booed at YN.

Sana's mouth left agaped, in disbelief that YN still doesn't want to keep things pleasant. "I don't like you. I don't like your hair. I don't like your face. I don't like that scarf you wear. Hey! I don't even like her being around my family every single week. Hey sis this, let's go that, HEY! How do you think you're part of The Bloodline if you're not even blood! I didn't even know we're accepting butlers here from now on!" YN said as he criticized Sana.

"News flash for you, you will never be valued  and worthy of serving our family because you don't belong with us and we don't need you!" YN harshly told Sana who frowned. "Nobody in this group likes you, I'm the realest out here who's gonna say this to your face that you're just a fake muse!"

"You know what's the difference between you and me is? I share blood for every single members out here because it's my family! Don't make them look like yours!" YN exclaimed with rage. "Are you gonna do it?! Will you?! I'm asking you a question-"

"Why are you yelling at me?! I'm trying to make peace, The Empire Chief says he wants peace!"

"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT THE EMPIRE CHIEF SAYS!"

The crowd elicited a loud shocked "ooohhhhh!" reaction at YN's outburst that ultimately crossed the line, especially looking at Yuta's enlarged eyes and dead expression after hearing what YN said to him.

The crowd's noise becomes louder and louder the more Yuta turns his head slowly at YN who is looking at him with seriousness. Jinyoung is covering his mouth, Mina buried her head on her arms at the corner, Momo just looked away at the scene, Sana is just stunned at what she's witnessing.

Yuta stood closer at YN and eyed him intimidatingly as the crowd chants "YOU FUCKED UP!" at YN.

"Yuta, hey look. What YB said was very messed up but... he didn't mean that. Right, YN? You didn't mean that." Sana said in defense for YN, barricading Yuta from him with her arm.

YN whispered, agreeing on Sana. "Seriously, Yuta he didn't mean that, okay? YN has gone through a lot, he's been through a lot, he's just not himself right now, okay?"

Sana continues to plead for Yuta to spare YN from his rude behavior. "He might be a hothead but I believe he doesn't want to get close with me is because he's uhm.... shy shy shy?~" she said as she did a little dance to imitate her sing song tone to tease YN, wiggling her shoulders and knocking her fists adorably along with her small voice.

Both Yuta and YN looked weirdly at her before Yuta lured his gaze away to smirk and oppress his chuckle while YN whispered "Really, Sana?" unbelievably at the unserious and bubbly muse.

The crowd began chanting SHY SHY SHY and that effectively infected Mina and Momo to slowly laugh silently at the expanded humor. Yuta couldn't help but to grin widely too at what Sana just did including Jinyoung.

As Yuta continues to stay speechless, the crowd erupted with cheers and applaud for the cute act of Sana before he switches glances at the Honorary Muse who is amused at what she has done.

"Is that what's been going on around here?" Yuta confusedly asked at YN. "I-is that because you're acting... SHY SHY SHY at Sana?!"

Yuta looked strangely at YN who is covering his face with his hands so that he could hide the uncontrollable laughter he's trying to contain and make himself not vulnerable from Sana's contagious charm.

Yuta was about to place his arm wrapped around YN's neck, the latter saw his grinning face causing him to finally broke out at how difficult it is, suppressing his laughter as he squeezed his clenched fists on his mouth.

"Stay here, stay right here would you?" Yuta said as YN wanted to distance himself a bit to avoid himself laughing out loud at Yuta's hilarious look.

"Here's what we gonna do. If you still don't work yourself being SHY SHY SHY around Sana again, I'm gonna do something you ain't gonna like." Yuta warned YN who is still couldn't calm himself down from his cackles because of Sana's newly made catchphrase.

"Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take that "Honorary"away, and I'm gonna make her our official Bloodline's muse." Yuta said as he points out at Sana's scarf around her neck, with YN now back at being seriousness even though the glimpse of how he surrendered herself from Sana's irresistable effect is still visible.

YN gave Yuta an incomprehensible look, muttering "You can't be serious, cous?!" but Yuta just nodded back at him and points his head. "Use the time well, think wisely."

"Well ladies and gentlemen, I think The Empire Chief has called an end to this segment. Please catch your Empire Chief LIVE and in person from all around the world next time on Friday Night Knockdown." Jinyoung said as he gave his closing remark in regards to The Bloodline, doing a mic drop before the arena played Yuta's theme again.

The show ended with The Bloodline as Yuta walked out on the ring first followed by Jinyoung, Mina, and Momo until YN and Sana were the last ones. Sana gave a cheeky smile on him in which he blushed before quickly rolling his eyes back and ignoring her to hid it away.

"Oh... nevermind," she eventually decided to quit with it her because she knew her words brought her to some flashbacks that might mix her mood with a gloomy one. They had just turned from the mall's right lane and were now standing on one of the escalator steps leading below. "Hey, want to buy more things? I already got what I wanted here with me," Nayeon said, lifting her item a bit to show Jeongyeon what she meant. "Nah, I'm okay my new clothing here as well." Jeongyeon did the same but peered lower to check what she bought, which was less than Nayeon's amount of what she paid to get. "I don't want to add too many stuff to my house," she explained. Nayeon simply nodded, which was understandable to her. "Let's eat somewhere then," she said as she stepped away from the escalator. They are now on the third floor, where the majority of the establishments are restaurants. "Why don't we just take samgyup?" Jeongyeon said, pointing to the distance where she noticed people eating and cooking their dishes in a samgyupsal style, which got her attention and passed it to Nayeon too. "Then samgyup it is!" Nayeon agreed, and they began strolling straight through their next chosen destination. They eventually arrived and are now standing right in front of the doors of the Samgyup restaurant, where they can see all the meals that the customers and cookingz are eating and organizing on top of their table, ready to be devoured. "Ooh, we found one," Nayeon exclaimed after searching for an unoccupied free seat inside. She was ready to walk in when she realized Jeongyeon wasn't following her. She turned around to see her looking blankly at something. Her body is utterly still, and she is completely silent. "Hey let's- hello? Earth to Jeongyeon, are you there?" Nayeon awakened her friend's senses, even though she didn't need to because her conscience was still hasn't getting blurred out. "I changed my mind. Let's find other-" Jeongyeon was ready to complete his words when Nayeon grabbed her forearm and stopped her from going away. "Wait, why? But we're already here?" Nayeon puzzledly said. She had just joined Jeongyeon, who'd already moved away from the restaurant after discovering something. They are now both standing alongside the corridor leading to the male and female restrooms. Nayeon then ducked to look at Jeongyeon's face, which was obscured by her bent head. She noticed her expression alter to one of frustration and annoyance, prompting her to inquire as to what had caused her rapid mood shift. "Hey, are you okay? What's up with the fuming eyes?" Nayeon said, grasping Jeongyeon's left shoulder, who was taking long sighs. She eventually opened her eyes and responded, but she wasn't looking at her. "He's here."Eh? H-him? ", Nayeon wrinkled her brows, then sought to identify where Jeongyeon's eyes were fastened instead, seeking a more specific by herself because the latter is still too stunned by what she had just witnessed. Nayeon returned her gaze to the restaurant, and after a few seconds of tracing the individuals visible through the glass pane wall, she realized WHO had drowned Jeongyeon out of her world. "It's YN..." she mumbled. Jeongyeon merely looked blankly at the sight of her bad ex-husband inside the samgyupsal resto, who was also visible from the outside. You're munching your own food after removing it from the hot pan with your tongs. But that wasn't the only thing that you made Jeongyeon confused, angry, and slightly hurt by your presence. You are not eating by yourself. A woman joins your table in front of you and appears to be eating pleasantly with you. You were chatting about something based on how your and her mouths are still moving despite the fact that neither of you has taken up a piece of food. "He's joined by-" "Yeah. I assume that's the person he replaced me with," Jeongyeon replied seriously, her gaze now drawn to the lady who, in her opinion, is indisputably beautiful. "You mean, through cheating?" mocked Nayeon, folding her arms beneath her chest. Jeongyeon's face twitched in anger as she remembered how you committed the largest sin in her whole life, tearing yourselves apart and leaving you unforgiven. You and Jeongyeon have been married for a year. You met her when you placed an order at her mini-online food business, where she works as a chef from home. She had just started her business at the time, therefore she is also the one who delivers it to her first clients. You are among those she served. You rushed inside the door after ringing your doorbell. You were hoping to receive a delicious treat that you purchased online at first... But you had no idea you'd meet someone who would one day be totally yours and become your very first love.

You proposed to your girlfriend months after you two first met, and she accepted without hesitation. As a result, your marriage with her was successful, and you were finally able to call her your wife and begin establishing your dream family with her. Jeongyeon believed the same thing because her dreams were almost identical to yours, so she freely shared it with you. She expected you to stay with her forever until all of your goals were fulfilled with her, but it all crumbled down when the first year of your marriage with her passed... all of her rainbow-ish plans with you were wrecked by a storm. She was just sheepishly thinking of finally wanting to have your first child with her  after she made it clear that she's now ready to raise kids with you as she tried to come up with a solution to deal with your sudden days of unusual cold behavior later that night after when you came home from work when a phone call interrupted her moment. She took it up, and what she heard and saw caused her to scream and cry out her tears. Nayeon informed her that she witnessed you driving another lady inside her house. She didn't believe it at first, but knowing Nayeon, who is always aware of the possibilities, she sent proof #2, which was her photos of you being with your another girl in a car and sending her in front of her house. What happens next when you return home marks the end of your relationship with her when she successfully made you admit that you are cheating on her because "you can't feel the love from her like you used to have." "Aish, I saw that dickhead's face in person again," Nayeon grumbled. "Let's go there, I want to confront him-" she was going to leave her side when Jeongyeon tugged her shirt. "Nayeon, stop. Let them be," she said solemnly. "I don't want to eat there anymore; I've lost interest," she added before taking the initiative to walk away instead. Nayeon trailed behind her, quickening her steps to catch up. "Jeong, listen to me. It's been months since you two broke up because of what he did, and he didn't appear to regret it, Jeong. You should do something about it." "What do you mean?" Jeongyeon asked, perplexed at what Nayeon meant with that. "Jeong, you're his wife, and he just violated your trust and love at the same time, then abandoned you like it was nothing; don't you think he doesn't deserve to... you know, pay for what he did?" she said. Jeongyeon listened to her more intently, but her gaze was still fixed on the direction they were heading. "Let me remind you, you two are married, and cheating is a big no-no. He never apologized to you, which is absolutely unacceptable, and you should not let him get away with this easy, I'm telling you." They both came to a halt in front of a store that was closed due to an ongoing construction. "I know. I-I am upset with him, but I don't know how," Jeongyeon stressed, clutching both sides of her brow. Her breathing grew heavy as she began sniffing from the brimming tears in her eyes. "I just feel like there's nothing I can do..." Nayeon came to the aid, as she usually do for her beloved bestfriend, giving her scarf to wipe the recently shed tears away to avoid staining her lovely face. "No, you can, okay? Well, because I'm also infuriated by what she did to you... I could lend you some assistance with something I'm thinking of that I guess could work." Jeongyeon's eyes were somewhat reddish and droopy when she looked at her companion. "What exactly is it?" Before telling her what she had in mind, Nayeon grinned mischievously.

THE NEXT DAY

"Tell Max to bring all my papers to my desk, then tell Olivia that I want her to go to my office because I'll give her the schedules she needs for leader-nim regarding with the project proposal, okay?" you commanded to your coworker after rising up from your seat and finishing the second batch of paperworks to review for today. "Noted right there, mate," says your colleague Seungkwan, who is sitting in his desk next to yours. After filling your cup with water from the dispenser, one of your teammates and fellow researcher, Rosé, appeared in front of you and patiently waited for you to finish drinking.

"Hey, Rosé what's up?"

"Uhh excuse me but YN you have a guest who wants to see you.", she pointed her thumb to behind, implying that the person is waiting outside the room.

"Oh okay... I'll take it from here.", you nodded before placing your cup back to your desk. "Thanks.", you said to her before passing through her.

You leave the department room of the team you are now assigned to at the firm where you work.You came to a halt after walking into the lobby when you saw a familiar figure in the distance. It was your ex-wife Jeongyeon sitting in one of the waiting seats, quietly waiting and looking at other people walking around the place. You walked slowly, a bit anxious to approach her because you hadn't seen her in months after what happened because of you. "J-jeongyeon?" you said gently from behind her. She rotated her head, revealing your ex- wife's stunning face and her new look.

Last time when you and her were together, she has a long curly black hair that you find it hot and appealing to her but her current one she's having still doesn't change the fact that she will always be beautiful and sexy in your eyes. It felt surreal to see her again. "O-oh... there you are," she mumbled, startled by your arrival as she slowly rose up and frantically adjusted her posture. "H-hi," she stammered shyly, waving her hand. She looked adorable as always, and it took you back to that precise memory where it was the first word she said to you when she came on the doorway of your house holding your ordered meal, which she cooked perfectly. But, unlike before, your heart did not bloom in strong feelings anymore on what she did. To you, it's all in the past now.

"Uhh hi?", you awkwardly greeted her too. "H-how are you?"

"Good, you?"

"I'm pretty busy, but I'm doing well with my teammates," you added. It piqued your interest when a thought occurred to you that you wanted to figure out... What exactly is she doing here anyway? "Oh... sorry about that," she apologized. "Am I disturbing you from-," she said nervously, but you cut her off quickly to put her at ease. "No, you didn't. They can move for themselves there. Nothing to worry about," you waved your hands fast in assurance. You and her exchanged an awkward and very uncomfortable silence, owing to the fact that you are definitely meeting up with the woman you used to adore. Thankfully, you spoke out again, remembering your curiosity that prompted you to ask. "Uhm, what got you visiting here for me, Jeong?" "S-sorry again It's just... I-I came here to say something for you," Jeongyeon said as she fiddled with her fingers, tensely roving her gaze about as she can't stop herself avoidng to make eye contact with you.

"Go ahead, I'll listen.", you said, placing your hands inside your pockets as you stood calmly in front of her, waiting for her to speak.

"I know that... you know, we're divorced now, but... I just want to have some closure with you," she said with a weary smile. "If you want, we could re-establish ourselves as friends again," she offered. "Y-you serious with this, Jeong?" you said, raising your brow as you got surprised after hearing her purpose in coming here to meet you. "I am... and we're completely fine now," she said with a nod of her head. "I just... don't want to hold grudges with people and get away with it forever," she finally managed to lock eyes with you, and you joined her nonchalantly. "Sure, if that's what you want, Jeong; I want us to be friends again," you answered, spreading your arms as a gesture of welcoming her again. "Then good. We've got our closure now, YN," she replied, giving you a smile that appears to be a display of satisfaction within her. "Thank you for this." "Thank you as well, Jeong; I appreciate that you still want to be close to me despite what happened between us," you chuckled, scratching your nape. "You've already become special to me; I can't let our closeness go," she reasoned. "So, uhh... I guess this won't be the last I'll be meeting you then."

"Yeah, it's all fine to me. You can visit here or let's set up a meeting anytime when I'm free."

"I'll save it up in my mind.", she nodded. She was about to turn around and start walking away from you but she added up one more question for you to talk with her.

"Before I go uhm... h-how's you and her?", she questioned with full of curiousity.

"We're doing well. Smooth flow so far.", you said as you taunted a wave using your hand.

"Oh... okay."

"How about you? Are you looking for somebody to love again?", you took the turn to ask her after.

"Not yet.", she shook her head.

"You'll find someone for you, Jeong. I believe in you. Love takes time.", you encouraged her. Jeongyeon just hummed and smiled at your cheer.

"Yeah, you're right."

You looked at the time in your phone after pulling it out from your pocket. "Oh... well I should excuse myself now, Jeong. Gotta assist my team back there again. We really need to finish all the paperworks today."

"Sure, you can go now.", she allowed you.

"Bye, Jeong," you bid your farewell to her. You were also going to leave and return to your office when you thought there was something you could do to convey more how much you appreciated doing this merely to make sure your bond with her won't get wasted. You took a step forward, then drew her body against yours and wrapped your arms around her, sealing her in a tight, warm, delightful, but also somewhat longing hug of yours. Jeongyeon was astounded by your embrace. Little did you know that she tried to compose herself and keep her disguise on, but her furious look, aggressive heartbeats, and the racing flow of her blood running through her body were confusingly transitioning down slowly from fury into something unknown that she couldn't figure out yet. Instead of pushing you and watching you slump to the floor with a great smug look on her face, she just wants to let you do your thing to her. "Thank you for wanting to be friends with me once more, Jeong." "No problem, I genuinely thought it would be best if we just stay like this," Jeongyeon remarked as you felt both her hands delicately stroking and rubbing your back in comfort. After a few more seconds of appreciating the sweetness of your hug with her, you let her go. You gave her one more wave before walking away, leaving her alone in the lobby. Jeongyeon, on the other hand, watches you fade away in her view. Her fake grin, which she had been wearing during the chat, gradually shrank and morphed into a straight-lipped fierce demeanor.

She groaned as she irritably brushed her hair before rubbing her clothes off as if though she was disgusted by your touch with her. "Aish.... I hate his guts so much," she sighed. She began walking out of the building, into the parking lot, where she unlocked her car door and got inside, rolling her eyes at the replay of her hug with you again. "There, Nabongs, I did what you told me to do; I wonder what you're doing there right now." she muttered before inserting the key to awake the engine of her car and drive away.

(MEANWHILE AT THE SAME TIME OF YOU AND JEONGYEON'S INTERACTION)

Nayeon was admiringly inspecting all the various well-made expensive outfits that were hanging presentably in every rack inside a store. She grabbed one, tracing the delicate fabric with her palms as she caressed its soft and smooth texture. She flipped it front and back, and Nayeon pursed her lower lip as she developed interest in purchasing it and adding it to her closet. Nayeon looked around the store and it didn't take long for her to recognize the person who was her main agenda for visiting here. Her selecting the clothes that that she would like to have is only part of her mini-undercover operation to make her less suspicious. She called the lady dressed in her uniform who monitors the customers, including herself on observing the garments. Raising her hand, she successfully caught her attention and quickly walked closer towards her. "Yes, ma'am? Is there anything I can do for you?" the fine lady asked. Nayeon watched her from head to toe and concluded that, although you suck at keeping relationships healthy and strong, especially when it comes for being devoted and committed, you sure do pick a one hell of a woman to fell in love with. The lady is taller than she is, and her curves are flawlessly shown by her fitted pencil skirt. Her beautiful blonde hair is tied in a ponytail, and her face exudes innocence and beauty.

Nayeon agreed and understood right away that you fell in love with this woman, but that is still not an appropriate reason and a decision to chose for you to destroy your relationship with your wife and leave her cleaning up and fixing again the shattered pieces of her heart alone. "Uhh miss, I want to ask... does this fits on me?" Nayeon asked, placing the dress in front of her, covering her upper body to make it appear as if she was wearing it. "Of course you're looking amazing there, ma'am; it would be much better if you were to buy that outfit and wear it one day," she replied, entertaining and persuading the client as she should. "Do you like it, ma'am?" Nayeon bowed her head, smiling at her praise, which was genuine. She does have this weird obsession with hearing compliments about herself, but she is still able to not get carried away easily by how they speak or act impressively in front of them. That's one of the reasons too on why she always reserve a piece of doubt with her to be aware on every people she meets. Which is very helpful to her because if it wasn't for it, it wouldn't lead her following you secretly when she detected you bringing an unfamiliar woman inside your car and discover your darkest truth. "Well, thanks to your comment, I'm even more excited about buying this," she beamed a smile , and your response had her laughing firmly; probably pleased and happy that she had successfully convinced Nayeon to buy their product.

"Yes, I'll be paying for this now.", Nayeon said, only for the saleslady to grew her smile larger.

Now that she have her target standing in front of her, she then proceeded sneakily on following her plan; still portraying herself as a normal customer.

"Uhh what is your name, just curious?"

"Tzuyu, maam.", she bowed her head as she introduced herself.

"A pretty uncommon name," she said, fascinated. "Are you perhaps, not from around here?" "I'm a Taiwanese, ma'am," she said, stating her nationality. Nayeon mentally clapped slowly, amused and astonished that you managed to attract a very gorgeous foreigner and might have tricked her with your deceptive character, which only made Nayeon feel sorrow for the young lady. "I honestly thought you were a model, Tzuyu. Your visuals are way godlike," she said in awe as she travelled her eyes around Tzuyu's ethereal face. The saleswoman fluttered, red tints of blush forming in her cheeks.

"T-thank you."

"Have you ever considered modeling before?" Nayeon asked. That's a genuine question from her because she, too, is curious. "U-uhh... I haven't, but you're just like to what others have frequently telling me ma'am that I have the qualities," she replied. "Well, on their behalf, they are obviously telling the truth!" she agreed with those other people's assertions about what they think about Tzuyu being very accurate, as well as her own. "This place... well, it's fashionable and stylish, this is the environment that matches you, so yeah, modeling? Why not, right?" Nayeon shrugged her shoulders while tilting her head aside.

"T-thank you for the compliments, maam. I'm truly touched.", Tzuyu said, bowing her body again slightly as she placed both hands on her rapid beating chest.

Nayeon grasped her supple arm in her hands and squeezed it gently. "You should be. Hey, I'm going to pay for this, then may I have you for a moment after?" she said. "Sure, ma'am, take your time," Tzuyu said as she assisted Nayeon by leading her to the cashier for the rich bunny to pay. After acquiring the clothes Nayeon preferred, she and Tzuyu left the store and beside of it, there was a free area where the two could communicate privately. "Thank you for allowing me to have a small talk with you, Ms. Tzuyu; I hope I am not bothering you or something," Nayeon apologized. "No worries, ma'am, you didn't," Tzuyu said, shaking her head to disprove it. "Well, you said it yourself that it would just take a while." "Yeah, you're right," she said, smiling and popping her lips out as it pressed together before speaking according to her plan this time. "Anyway, I'll get straight to the point now," Nayeon said, her face slowly changing from bright to serious.

"I know I sounded like a scouting agent searching for someone to invite for an audition organized by my entertainment agency or whatsoever, but... no, I'm not," she declared. making Tzuyu's brows knit together. "In fact, I intended to speak with you about something else..." "May I ask what it is, ma'am?" Tzuyu asked. She was initially alarmed by how odd this stranger she was speaking with seemed. She is eager to find out what this woman's objective is for her. "Ms. Tzuyu, you know a guy named YN LN, right?" she questioned, standing straight and placing her arms behind her back with a pint of intimidation in her aura. Tzuyu's eyes widened as he heard the mention of the name. "E-excuse me?" "YN LN. That name is particularly familiar to you, isn't it?" snickered Nayeon, enjoying seeing Tzuyu be bewildered by how she uttered the name of this man she obviously knows Tzuyu is linked with. "W-well... yes, it is since that's my boyfriend's name," Tzuyu's shaky voice became obvious as the volume increased. "What is this? What do you want from him? Can I help you something about it, maam?" "Yes, I know him, but he doesn't know who I am," Nayeon said, pointing her finger at herself. "BUT, he surely knows my friend who... he owes a lot to pay for," her jaw clenched in anger. Tzuyu just gulped, clueless and pure confused on what she's trying to convey. She's starting to wonder what her boyfriend did to this girl's friend to make her seem like she wants to rebel and hunt him down for his mistake. She has many probabilities appearing in her mind and it wasn't helping her to calm down at all. She just hoped all of it would turn out false. "Ms. Tzuyu, I'm here to ask you something." Nayeon began to walk slowly, circling around Tzuyu. "How well do you know your boyfriend?" she said, leaning down close to the younger's ear, making an attempt to get her words heard clearly by tiptoeing to reach her height. Tzuyu had shivers when Nayeon's breath hit the hole in her ear, tickling and chilling her all over. "I-I'm sorry, w-who are you miss, and where is this going?" she retorted, finally not allowing herself to be frightened by Nayeon's interrogation. " I don't understand what's going on at all; you're making it sound like my partner did something wrong-" "BECAUSE HE IS!" stomped Nayeon, staring deeply on Tzuyu's terrified and appalled state. The space between their faces has narrowed, and Nayeon's agitated attitude is clearly evident for Tzuyu to see. "Don't call me ma'am now; to introduce myself, I am Im Nayeon, bestfriend of the girl who once became his ex-wife, whom he broke up with because my friend discovered that he's having an affair with you at the same time while they're a married couple." Tzuyu's mouth parted as she gasped in shock at the revelation Nayeon had just pulled off.

"Ex- What? What are you saying... I-I don't believe you," Tzuyu chuckled uneasily, trying her best to ignore and dismiss what this woman had just said to her. She wants to believe that you told her the truth when you said you had never been involved or in a relationship with anybody before. "I knew you would say that," Nayeon sighed exhaustedly. She took out her phone from her bag and opened it. She went to the gallery and selected the very first image she saved to day.

She showed to Tzuyu your wedding picture with Jeongyeon in front of the altar. Tzuyu saw how your tuxedo suited on you, Jeongyeon undeniably looking like an angel with her long white wedding gown and your both arms wrapped around your ex-wife's waist once full of care and love.

"There, am I lying now?" Nayeon asked again with sassiness. Tzuyu's heart cracked as she realized you just lied to her. Her complete trust in you began to vanish like smoke joining into thin air. "Oh god... T-this isn't real..." she said, her voice shaking in anguish as she struggled to remain in denial, wishing all of this was a dream she was having while sleeping during her work right now. Nayeon understood instantly what she felt. She watched how her friend suffered more than she did, but the cause was the same with Jeongyeon, so she can't help but feel awful seeing Tzuyu break down because of what she did that just serves the purpose of what should be properly done. "It is, Tzuyu. I saw it with my own eyes when that one night he drove you home before he went to his own, and you have no idea that she's with his wife at that moment," Nayeon recalled the time that led everything into this.

"You're clearly looking at your boyfriend and my friend whom he married only to left her devastated.", she spatted it out strongly as Nayeon felt infuriated again at what you've to Jeongyeon... and now including Tzuyu this time when she saw the poor girl's tears flow down in her neatly make-upped face.

"W-what do you want from me?", Tzuyu said between her sniffling of her cries.

"Revenge, plain and simple.", Nayeon walked beside Tzuyu and rubbed her back gently to console her which only made the latter to cry harder.

"And I want you to assist me.", she added as she spoke it in a lower tone, leaning her mouth closer to her ear.

"How?" Tzuyu said, her eyes defining how hurt she felt as she looked at the wedding picture of you and Jeongyeon that Nayeon showed to her. "I want to make YN regret what he did to my friend, and I looked for you because... oh well, I suppose he basically did the same thing for you too, and I wasn't wrong at all." "At first, I believed he couldn't do that to me... he claimed he only loves me...", Tzuyu said before sobbing again, with Nayeon constantly supporting her. "I'm sorry to break it to you, Tzuyu, but... that's precisely what he used to say to my friend here, too," Nayeon recalled how Jeongyeon confidently mentioning it in her stories with you that she's sharing to her. She can tell by the messages Jeongyeon is telling her about her times with you that she was so deeply in love with you. Nayeon had previously observed how her friend was always pleased and floating in cloud nine while she was always with you. And now, reflecting back on what you did to Jeongyeon in the end after she had been faithful and loyal exclusively to you, did her best to do her role as your wife with full effort, and loved you through her heart and soul, it was simply unacceptable and unforgivable.

"So, that gives me an answer; you don't know him very well yet, but now... you are," Nayeon goes back to her previous question, to which Tzuyu did not respond. "That it was unexpected for you to realize that he just made you a rebound, a side option for him to replace when he fell out of love with my friend," Tzuyu just kept on listening to her words that nearly leading her back to reality, saving her from being manipulated in your deceitful and foolish claims for a longer period of time. "It hurts, I know Tzuyu.", Nayeon with her comforting words, taking the responsibility as her companion.  "I'm sorry if I had to let you know about this... it's just, you don't deserve to be played like this like what he did to my friend. That's why I came to look for you because you needed this too."

"I felt betrayed so much...", Tzuyu finally speaks, Nayeon just attentively listened to what she has to say.  She started wiping the tears from her face with her own handkerchief. "I thought seeing him sometimes with his acts that makes me suspicious of him was just me overthinking because, like he said, I am the only woman he loves but I never even knew that he really does hiding a dark secret from me," she sighed heavily as she felt her heart ache with every skips between on its beat her senses numbing at how her body feels lifeless at the immense despair she's experiencing. "YN is an asshole, Tzuyu; I'm warning you right now to stay away from him," Nayeon cautioned. "And as you said, we might not know... maybe he has other girls out there that he's keeping with him at the same time as you," she said, referring to the part where she acquired that Tzuyu had already noticed some strange and suspicious behaviors from you that made it appear as if you were hiding something from her.

"To be sure, starting today, I suggest we keep a watch on him at all times," Nayeon says before helping Tzuyu rise up by offering her free hand to the heartbroken lady. Nayeon swayed several strands of hair that blocks off her face to make Tzuyu seem presentable and prepared to greet the customers entering the business where she works and continue performing her job properly again. Before she lets go of the Taiwanese woman, Nayeon said one last thing to her before they parted ways. "So Tzuyu, are you in with me?" Nayeon said, folding her arms, awaiting the younger's response to her invitation to assist her in carrying out the vengeance plot she had for you.

Tzuyu then looked at Nayeon as she lifted her available hand to instigate a handshake. She stared at the hand for a few more seconds before coming up with the finalized answer she made up in her mind from rewinding everything Nayeon has told her about you being a goddamn cheater and a two-timer to her and to your ex-wife Jeongyeon.