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Chapter 43 Folding Cellphone. Stone

Hearing her unnie's excited, somewhat incoherent voice, Chou Tzuyu couldn't help but chuckle, her eyes crinkling into crescents, her tone brimming with pride:

"Yes! Because... I met a very kind senior."

"Wow! Absolutely amazing! Tzuyu, you're the best! I never expected that you'd get this kind of good thing while filming promotional material in Macau." Kim Dahyun's voice was sickeningly sweet.
"Is everything settled? When are you coming back? I miss you!"

Chou Tzu-yu was already well aware of this unnie's tactics and exposed them without any mercy:
"Unnie, do you miss me, or do you miss these three autographs?"

A silly chuckle immediately came from the other end of the phone: "I want them all! Absolutely all of them! I want autographs, and I really want Tzuyu too!"

"Filming finished a long time ago, I'm already at the airport. It was just a few more shots for the trailer..." Chou Tzu-yu's voice was soft and gentle:
"Anyway, I'm just here to be a background character... But meeting my senior was incredibly lucky! I'll tell you more when I get back, unnie~"

"Come back soon! Be careful on the road!" Kim Da-hyun said with satisfaction.

"Yes~ I'm here." Zhou Ziyu replied with a smile and hung up the phone. She glanced again in the direction Jiang Che had left, but he was already gone.

Meanwhile, Taeyeon finally couldn't resist her curiosity:
"Yoona, what did you two talk about just now with that pretty girl?"

"We talked about how she took the box but didn't give it to Jae-suk oppa." Kang Cheol couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this. He wondered what kind of expression Yoo Jae-suk would have when Zhou Ziyu debuted and saw him again.

After all, with Chou Tzu-yu's face, Yoo Jae-suk probably couldn't forget her even if he wanted to, haha.

Sunny's focus was more practical:
"Hey! Im Yoona! You were really good at ordering us around to work and sign autographs for you just now!"
"Oh, unnie, I was just doing this to give back to our enthusiastic fans!" Jiang Che immediately snapped out of his reverie upon hearing this.

Just as Taeyeon and Sunny were about to say something, a piercing scream rang out from behind them:

"Hey! Im Yoona! Stop right there!!"

Jiang Che turned around abruptly and saw Liu Zaishi, like a wild dog that had broken free, sprinting towards them at top speed with a ferocious expression!

"Holy crap! This guy isn't looking for his own suitcase, he's planning to steal it!" Jiang Che hurriedly shouted to Taeyeon and Sunny, who were still a bit confused.

"Unnie! Run!"

Before he finished speaking, he shot out of the door like an arrow!

"Hey! Yoona! Leave the suitcase behind—!" Yoo Jae-suk chased after them relentlessly.

Thus, under the astonished gazes of countless passengers and airport staff:
You can see Girls' Generation's visual, Im Yoona, carrying a box and running frantically ahead, with Yoo Jae-suk chasing relentlessly behind, his expression completely out of control! Meanwhile, the truly physically exhausted Kim Tae-yeon and Sunny are left far behind.

The two of them rushed outside, one after the other.

boom-!
Accompanying the humid and sticky sea breeze of Macau are screams and shouts as loud as a tsunami, enough to shake the heavens and earth!

"Ahhhhh! Yoona unnie—!!!"

"Yoo Jae-suk oppa! Fighting! Catch up with Yoona unnie!" "Running Man! Fighting—!!!"

The crowds welcoming them at the airport were like a boiling ocean, stretching from the airport entrance all the way to the roadside! Girls' Generation's incredible popularity, combined with Running Man's national recognition, created a synergistic effect far greater than the sum of its parts!
Normally, Jiang Che might have stopped to watch, but right now he only had one thought in his mind: run first.

Jiang Che's gaze instantly locked onto an empty taxi that had just dropped off a passenger and was about to start moving. He rushed to the passenger side of the taxi.

He spoke to the driver in Chinese:

"Master! Wait a minute! Don't start yet!"

As he spoke, he glanced back warily and, sure enough, saw Yoo Jae-suk following closely behind, panting as he rushed to the taxi.
"Huff...huff...Yoon...Yoona..." Yoo Jae-suk caught his breath, forcing a kind and friendly smile onto his face:
"Look...why are you running! Aren't you tired? Let Oppa carry the suitcase, Oppa will keep it for you!"

As he spoke, his hand naturally reached for the box.

Jiang Che deftly sidestepped while holding the box, his face bearing the same innocent smile as Yoona, but his tone carried a hint of helplessness:
"Jae-seok oppa, instead of chasing after me, why don't you go find your own suitcase? Why are you staring at me?"

Yoo Jae-suk was momentarily speechless, wanting to say that he came to steal it precisely because he couldn't find it, but then felt it was too embarrassing, so he put on a pained expression:

"Hey! Yoona! This is my suitcase! After I got it, when Kim Jong-kook was chasing me, I handed it over to a fan for safekeeping!"
I don't know how it ended up in your hands, so... shouldn't it belong to me?

"Pfft—" Listening to this guy's fabricated story, Jiang Che felt that he had met his match and met a worthy opponent.

I couldn't help but burst out laughing.
“Jae-seok oppa, she clearly said that on her way back from finding the box, you asked her for it, but she didn’t give it to you. How did it become that you asked her to keep it for you?”

Hearing Kang Cheol say that, Yoo Jae-suk couldn't help but recall that girl who took off her mask as soon as she saw him and politely called him "senior."

I was initially overjoyed, thinking I was finally going to get the box, but the next second I was completely defeated by her powerful logic.
—This girl would definitely be a chivalrous heroine with a strong sense of loyalty and righteousness in ancient times, but if she were in Running Man, she would probably be tricked into selling herself and still be helping the person count the money!
Thinking of this, and meeting Jiang Che's gaze again, he suddenly became speechless, his eyes darting around, and he stammered:
"Ah...ah...this...that..."

Seeing that he couldn't gain any advantage, Yoo Jae-suk decisively switched tactics—

"Hey! Kwangsoo! Where the hell have you been?!" He suddenly opened his mouth and shouted into the distance like a screaming chicken, hoping that some fan would bring Kwangsoo back.

While shouting, she tried again to snatch the suitcase from Jiang Che's hand.
Just when the scene was so chaotic that words couldn't describe it, Taeyeon and the others finally arrived!
"Yoona...Yoona! Jae-seok oppa!" Taeyeon and Sunny ran over breathlessly, clearly still a little confused by the bizarre standoff in front of them.

Jiang Che thought to himself, "You've finally arrived!" and shoved the box he was carrying into Taeyeon's hands, speaking rapidly:
"Unnie! Here you go!"

Taeyeon instinctively hugged the box tighter, and before she could react, she heard Kang Cheol continue:

"Sunny unnie! Quick! Get Taeyeon unnie to the back seat!"

Sunny reacted quickly and immediately opened the car door and pushed Taeyeon inside.

Just as Yoo Jae-suk was about to stop him, he saw Kang Cheol precisely pinch the nerve in his arm! A sharp, tingling numbness instantly shot through his entire arm, and Yoo Jae-suk hissed in pain. His arm was sore and weak that he couldn't muster any strength.
In that brief moment of hesitation, Jiang Che deftly opened the passenger door with his other hand, and seized the opportunity to grab Yoo Jae-suk's waist with both hands! Immediately afterwards, his core strength exploded forth, combined with a clever tripping maneuver:
"You can go in too!"

(End of this chapter)