The number one playboy on the Peninsula!

Chapter 276 Zhao Meiyan

"Beep beep..."

After Gong Cheng honked the horn, Zhao Meiyan and Kim Jisoo both climbed into the car. However, judging from their faces in the twilight, one looked excitedly clueless, while the other pouted unhappily...

Zhao Meiyan happily sat in the passenger seat. Her white square-neck fitted top paired with a light yellow knitted cardigan exuded gentleness. A white printed mini-skirt, white slouch socks, and brown retro leather shoes draped over her fair thighs. She pouted cutely, "I missed you so much~"

As soon as she finished speaking, Kim Jisoo, sitting in the back seat, fastened her seatbelt and coughed lightly...

"Really?" Gong Cheng didn't know how to respond. He raised his eyelids and glanced at Kim Jisoo, who was sitting in the back seat, looking out the window. She was wearing a crisp white T-shirt, loose brown wide-leg pants, and a baseball cap...

Zhao Meiyan awkwardly pulled on the seatbelt. "Of course it's true. We haven't seen each other for days."

"Don't you miss me, oppa?" She lifted her chin, gazing at Gong Cheng with a gentle smile, leaving him completely speechless. If Kim Jisoo weren't in the car, she definitely would miss him, but here, some of her words would sound incredibly cheesy...

"I want to..." Gong Cheng adjusted his mindset, smiled brightly, and his eyes were full of determination.
With narrow eyes, he glanced at Kim Jisoo in the rearview mirror, and the man seemed to frown slightly...

Zhao Meiyan glanced at her boyfriend, whom she hadn't seen in a long time. It had been more than half a month since she last saw him. During this period, her group had just debuted, and she had been even busier than her boyfriend. She squinted and smiled as she looked at Gong Cheng's handsome profile, his black hair that was neither too short nor too long, and his handsome features. However, her expression was slightly unnatural when she answered...

Unexpectedly, she shifted her body and leaned in to kiss Gong Cheng on the cheek as he was about to start the car. "Let's go to Gangnam, oppa. Jisoo unnie and I have booked a restaurant there..."

Gong Cheng's cheek, still damp from the kiss, trembled slightly before he nodded.

Perhaps realizing that her best friend was still sitting behind them, and that showing off their relationship wasn't appropriate, Zhao Meiyan said with a grin, "Oppa, you look so handsome with short hair!" changing the subject...

Gong Cheng casually chatted with this pabo about "Parasite".

"..." Kim Jisoo occasionally chimed in with a few words, feigning nonchalance, but her expression, which had been fixed on the window, seemed somewhat unnatural, especially after her friend got into the car, which made her a little uneasy...

Normally, Zhao Meiyan wouldn't be so lively with Gong Chengxiu in front of him.

……

"Returning on the 15th of next month..."

In the restaurant's private room, Kim Jisoo, with droopy eyes, held her fork as she answered Gong Cheng's questions...

BLACKPINK's first mini-album, "SQUARE UP," produced by the boy sitting across from them, was released just two weeks later. The music videos were nearing completion, and the company began its intensive promotional campaign...

The team members were even more excited, shouting that they were about to take off...

Gong Cheng chuckled and took a sip of water. "There shouldn't be any competition for a comeback next month. You guys might really explode. But I find your BLACKPINK fans quite interesting..."

"They're really good at tearing things apart..."

He touched the tip of his nose, recalling the fandom of Kim Jisoo and the others. The internal fighting was fierce; if any of the four members had even a slightly off expression in a photo, it would spawn all sorts of toxic solo stans and other infighting incidents...

“…Indeed…” Zhao Meiyan nodded in agreement, rubbing her smiling eyes with a hint of helplessness, “Even though Myung-soo unnie and the others have a very good relationship, the fans treat them like enemies.”

"What are you guys saying, singing in unison? We also have a lot of group fans, okay?" Kim Jisoo wrinkled her nose and gave a dry laugh. The fans' attacks were indeed quite fierce. The people involved knew about these things, but there was nothing they could do; the celebrities themselves couldn't get involved directly.

Besides, the company is also thinking about manipulating fans and cultivating die-hard loyalists...

"When does your world tour start?" Kim Jisoo looked up at Gong Cheng curiously. Thanks to him, after the company officially started marketing BLACKPINK's comeback this month, most of the K-pop fandom's attention was focused on their upcoming comeback.

So it's not without reason that the members are always talking about ascending to immortality; this guy's titles and reputation are truly terrifying.

“Soon… early September.” Gong Cheng answered with half-closed eyes. There are still three months until the world tour in the second half of the year. The Asian tour ends in June, and in July and August, besides being busy with PRODUCE 48, he will be filming "Parasite" and producing his personal comeback album.

The filming period for "Parasite" is about 80 to 90 days, which is more than enough time to film his scenes.

"Hehe... We're releasing a single in August too." Zhao Meiyan picked up her glass, took a small sip of her drink, and couldn't hide her smile. Then, as if relieved, she laughed, "I've finally debuted..."

Since Gong Cheng was driving, he hadn't drunk much alcohol. He picked up a can of cola, a favorite among Daegu women, to moisten his throat, and said with a smile, "Not only did I debut, but I'm also the woman the nation envies the most..."

"Of course! Jisoo unnie, you're still my number one girlfriend every day!" Zhao Meiyan stuck out her tongue, her face flushed from the alcohol, it was hard to tell if she was slightly tipsy or drunk... but it sounded more like a slap in the face.

Kim Jisoo's expression changed, and she suddenly looked a little unnatural. "It's all just rumors. His fans even said my legs are thick... Haha."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but think of those two brainless fans sitting behind her at the concert a few days ago, talking incessantly and openly!
"Oh my god, what's that compared to what the gossip media said? They made it sound so real, they even said that oppa and Jessica Jung were having an affair and that oppa was being kept by her... Ugh... it's really..." Zhao Meiyan pouted helplessly, her expression a little angry, clearly feeling indignant for her boyfriend.

Although in his heart, Gong Cheng was indeed a fickle and womanizing playboy. How could someone who could describe a casual sex partner as a pure and refined colleague relationship be a good person?
But we can't just accuse someone of something out of thin air, can we?
"Ha ha……"

"That's hard to say..."

Jisoo grinned, a mocking smile playing on her lips. What kind of person could someone be who could sneak around under a streetlamp, holding the hands of two girls, one on each side, without being noticed by either of them? A born bad seed…

Who knows, he might have actually been kept by Jessica. Anyway, in the past two years, she's seen that this guy hasn't changed at all. She just hasn't found any dirt on him yet. He's been flirting with Kim Tae-yeon and Im Yoon-ah every day...

Gong Cheng listened to her barbed words and curled his lip speechlessly, "You can insult me, but don't insult my character..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kim Jisoo and Jo Miyeon stared at him with surprised expressions...

"..." Gong Cheng awkwardly lowered his head and took a sip of cola, feeling a pang of longing for Daegu's Xiao Xuanxuan...

"..."

At nine o'clock in the evening, Gong Cheng drove Kim Ji-soo to the entrance of her apartment complex. Kim Ji-soo had just opened the car door, her feet not yet touching the ground, when she heard her friend's cheerful voice from the passenger seat, "My dear boyfriend..."

"I'm not going back to the dorm, I'm off tomorrow..."

Kim Jisoo leaned halfway out of the car door, trembled slightly, then closed the door without a word, pretending not to have heard, but with more force than usual...

……

A long-awaited reunion...

After a period of aerobic exercise, Gong Cheng helped Zhao Meiyan make up for the amount of exercise she hadn't done that day, and strictly helped her maintain her figure.

In the moonlight filtering through the curtains, Gong Cheng turned over, feeling utterly exhausted as he held Zhao Meiyan's warm, soft body. "Goodnight~pabo..."

"..."

Just as Gong Cheng was drifting off to sleep, Zhao Meiyan carefully reached out and removed the hair that Gong Cheng had been pressing down on. She blinked, listening to Gong Cheng's soft breathing. His face was serene and handsome in the moonlight, his long breaths rising and falling slightly...

After staring at her husband for a long time without moving, Zhao Meiyan bit her lower lip and hesitantly touched the band-aid on Gong Cheng's collarbone with her slender fingers. She had noticed this band-aid during sex. Based on her understanding of her husband, she thought he was hiding something from her.
With a gentle pull of her slender, white fingers, the skin beneath the band-aid was exactly the same color as Gong Cheng's entire body...

But Zhao Meiyan could see clearly in the moonlight that the white patch in the center of the band-aid, which had been gently lifted, was smudged with a layer of pinkish-white concealer foundation. She frowned and lightly rubbed the patch on Gong Cheng's collarbone with her fingertip, revealing a red, fingernail-sized hickey.

Very conspicuous...

She glanced at it briefly, then quietly put the band-aid back in place. She then nestled into Gong Cheng's arms, silently gazing at his peacefully sleeping face…

She couldn't sleep, so she hugged Gong Cheng's waist tightly and asked softly, "Oppa, are you asleep?"

"..." Gong Cheng closed his eyes, trying his best to control his fluctuating breathing.

Playing dead or pretending to be asleep makes no difference...

He has a peculiar habit: he's picky about his bed. He's a light sleeper, and he woke up while Zhao Meiyan was fiddling with her hair... He was also fully aware of what Pabo had just done.

Gong Cheng was certain that Zhao Meiyan was bluffing him! She was staring at him intently, not moving an inch...

"Really asleep?" Zhao Mei reached out and touched Gong Cheng's body. Her soft voice, tinged with a playful laugh in the moonlight, sent a chill down Gong Cheng's spine.

"Goodnight, I want to talk to you some more..." To Gong Cheng, Zhao Meiyan's words sounded somewhat displeased; perhaps her expression at this moment should have been one of pouting and acting coquettishly.

But Zhao Meiyan's slightly raised cheeks and gentle eyes were fixed intently on her husband's nose, mouth, eyebrows, and eyes...

She was absolutely certain that she was in trouble; it seemed her boyfriend really had fallen for another woman…

If they were just friends with benefits, he would definitely tell her openly, just like he did two years ago. But now, she wasn't sure if he was faking it or really asleep.

She desperately wants to know who left the strawberry, but it definitely can't be that casual sex partner...

For a moment, Zhao Meiyan nestled in Gong Cheng's arms, her mind racing with a thousand thoughts. In the moonlight, her beautiful face flashed with memories; the faces of Lim Nayeon, Kim Jisoo, and Lim Yoona appeared in her mind...

I still feel that Jisoo unnie and Lim Nayeon are the most suspicious!
“I’m not stupid, oppa…” Zhao Meiyan sighed, tightening her grip on Gong Cheng’s arm. “Oppa, I remember you’re a light sleeper. I don’t know if you can hear me, and I don’t want to wake you up…”

"I don't want to hear those excuses from two years ago, like when you were with another girl during our breakup. I'm giving you one more chance, this is the second time. Let's officially get back together tomorrow..."

"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as a yes."

Gong Cheng lay on the bed without making a sound. He and Zhao Meiyan had never officially said anything about getting back together since their breakup, but when he heard it for the second time, his heart trembled. He realized that his suspicions were not wrong at all!
The first opportunity was definitely not because of Han So-hee; perhaps Han So-hee wasn't even worth mentioning in Zhao Mei-yan's eyes.

But if we go back further, it can only be Kim Jisoo. This also means that before the two of them were together, Zhao Meiyan knew perfectly well that he was flirting with Kim Jisoo behind her back, but pretended not to know and confessed to him in front of Kim Jisoo...

"There must not be a third time..."

"..." Gong Cheng remained silent, his voice firm. It was the first time Cheng-ge had been caught like this, and he was panicking!
But we can't back down!

……

The next day, Gong Cheng opened his eyes and looked down at Zhao Meiyan, who was sleeping soundly. There was a ring of tear stains on the white pillow. He rubbed his sore eyes and couldn't sleep all night.

It's hard to fall asleep peacefully...

Ugh……

"You're awake, oppa~" Zhao Meiyan seemed to hear the noise, curled up in the blankets and opened her sleepy eyes, raising her hand to touch Gong Cheng's cheek.

Gong Cheng yawned, forcing himself to stay awake from his all-night meditation, and pretended to have just woken up. "Just woke up, Pabo, why are your eyes swollen?" He reached out and touched Zhao Meiyan's swollen eyes with some concern.

Zhao Meiyan didn't resist at all. Her blurry vision cleared a little, and she looked at the smiling man in front of her. She pouted and said angrily, "You still dare to say that? I dreamed that you bullied me, and I cried..."

“I was so angry that I wanted to tell your aunt and uncle, but I thought about it and decided against it. I was afraid they would scold you.”

"Oh, so stingy?" Gong Cheng forced a smile.

Zhao Meiyan got up and scratched her long hair, then threw herself into Gong Cheng's arms, looking at him earnestly, "Are you stingy, oppa? My mom told me that there are some things you can't give up, not even your best friend..."

"So, what kind of dream did you have that made you so angry..." Gong Cheng asked knowingly, his face full of surprise.

"Really want to know?"

"I want to..." Gong Cheng nodded, a smile in his eyes.

Zhao Meiyan blinked, staring at the bandage on Gong Cheng's collarbone, then raised her hand with a wandering gaze and pinched Gong Cheng's cheek, "I dreamt that you were two-timing me!"

"Oh my god, dreams are always the opposite of reality..."

"Hmph, no! I dreamt you were juggling three, four, five, six relationships..." Zhao Meiyan wrinkled her nose. Although she was joking, her eyes were misty, implying at least two relationships were involved—a fact both she and Gong Cheng knew...

Gong Cheng felt a chill run down his spine, but he remained calm and smiled. "Hey, you guessed right! Actually, it's not just six, it's eight, nine, ten, Pabo..."

He spoke his true feelings, his eyes filled with complex emotions, but Zhao Meiyan's red-rimmed face instantly made him laugh. "Nonsense!"

"Does he think he's a shipping magnate? How could I possibly believe that! Ten ships, no less..."

"If oppa is really that amazing, then I'll... I'll..."

"What?" Gong Cheng asked, seizing the opportunity.

Zhao Meiyan narrowed her eyes, her tone somewhat unfriendly, "Oppa, you don't really have that much ability, do you?"

"Ani, are you kidding me? How could such a thing be possible?"

"Never mind, let's not talk about it anymore. Get up and see me out, oppa~" Zhao Meiyan's heart skipped a beat. It wasn't because of Gong Cheng's talk about eight or nine ships, but mainly because of what happened last night, which made her feel bad. At least two of those ships were real...

The first thing she wants to do now is to scrape out that girl who's taking up one of Oppa's feet!

"Isn't today your day off? Where are you going?" Gong Cheng changed the subject, got up and went to the bathroom. He squeezed toothpaste and brushed his teeth. With his mouth full of toothpaste foam, he breathed a sigh of relief. He was glad that he hadn't angered this pabo.

Take your time with the rest. Now that we've had a second chance, who knows, there might be a third?

Zhao Meiyan straightened the hem of her white pajamas, lazily walked into the bathroom, picked up the toothpaste that Gong Cheng had squeezed for her, and said, "Go to Yeongdeungpo to find Uncle and Auntie!"

"Okay, I'll call Mom and the others later. They'll make sure to treat you well. But I have to go back to work later. Taylor's here." Gong Cheng rinsed his mouth, spat out, and then lowered his head to wash his face.

What happened last night has made him a little embarrassed to even start his morning exercise plan.

Zhao Meiyan tied her hair up, nodded, and after brushing her teeth, her bare face hugged Gong Cheng. She stood on tiptoe, her pink and white ankles touching, and looked at him with a soft smile, "Oppa, strawberry-flavored toothpaste, try it and see if it smells good?"

“Xiang…” Gong Cheng’s pupils contracted as he looked at Zhao Meiyan. Pabo knew about his habits, his morning exercise plan and such.

Judging from her guesses, she had already figured out that she hadn't slept last night. But now that the truth had come out, would she have to have sex again?
Isn't this too barbaric? He couldn't do it!
……

"..."

"Oppa, what happened to your collarbone? You still have a band-aid on it, do you want me to take a look?"

On the bed, rolling around, Zhao Meiyan, breathing rapidly, pointed to the band-aid under Gong Cheng's neck and asked a meaningful question.

"..."

Gong Cheng remained silent, continuing his morning exercise routine. He was playing along, going all out. Sigh…

Without saying a word, I could only speed things up, so that Pabo wouldn't have time to scold me...

"Stop, I was wrong, oppa..."

……

Two hours later, at 11 a.m., Gong Cheng dropped Zhao Meiyan off at Yeongdeungpo. Just as she was about to get off the bus...

Gong Cheng hesitated for a moment before calling out, "Pabo, how about your group be my guest for my world tour in the second half of the year?"

If the truth comes out, he needs to stabilize things first and reassure Zhao Meiyan; otherwise, he's really afraid she'll run away...

"Oppa, do you want to see my members?" Zhao Meiyan's smiling face was illuminated by the sunlight, and her gentle eyebrows and eyes seemed to be very satisfied with Gong Cheng's attitude.

"I'll listen to you..."

(End of this chapter)