"As you requested, I processed the painting with an old veneer in it," the guy handed a painting to his boss.
"Okay. What's happening to Chihoon these days?" The boss asked as he puts down the painting after taking a look at it.
"He did leave a message saying he wanted to look at the painting," he answered.
"Just make sure he won't suspect you. Right now, he is unemployed. He should be more worried than me."
"I understand," the guy bowed at his boss and leaves the place.
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Chihoon woke up that morning as he felt someone lying at his chest. When he opens his eyes, he saw Shanelle lying down his chest hearing his heartbeat. "My chest isn't a public dorm," he snorted.
Shanelle smiles widely and lifted her head. "I know now where is that strange noise comes from. I hear your heartbeat," she said grinning and points at Chihoon's chest. These days she is hearing a heartbeat not hers and now she's sure where is it coming from.
Chihoon arranges Shanelle's messy hair to look at her face better. "So?" He asked.
"It seems that if we are far apart, it will continue to beat anxiously," she said pouting.
Chihoon puts his forefinger in Shanelle's forehead to remove her face near his face and then sits up. "That's because your blood brought me to life and I gave you my blood to save you, our heartbeats beat at the same pace. That means when we are near each other, we can feel each other's presence. I can't feel your presence nor hear your heartbeat when you're very far or very near from me."
Shanelle blinks her eyes twice. "You're like that with me?" Shanelle asked full of curiousity.
Chihoon nods his head. "If your emotions change I will feel it even how far you are if you're in danger."
She grins at what he said. "Could this be what they call telepathy which is found in movies?"
Chihoon shakes his head lightly. "I'd rather call this a mutually restraining effect."
"Then what is the range?"
"I'm not sure. It's my first time experiencing this kind of situation."
"Then let's experiment," she said and pulls Chihoon's hands.
Chihoon just lets her pull him outside the house. They went there to test how many kilometers can they hear each other's heartbeat.
Shanelle looks around the area. "You go there," she points to the area not very far away from the house.
"Okay," Chihoon said and runs fast to where Shanelle points.
"I still can't hear it. Continue to walk!" Shanelle shouts at him. Chihoon walks even far from the area. "Stop! I can hear it!" Shanelle shouts again when she hears Chihoon's heartbeat. She dials Chihoon's number. "About one hundred meters are enough to hear your heartbeat."
The guy is just listening to what she's saying over the phone.
"Continue walking for me to see where will I not hear your heartbeat," Shanelle said again that Chihoon agrees to do and runs far from the area. The girl looks at the google map where the guy is headed then feels her heartbeat. I can't hear it after 1 km, she thought.
"Hello? Can you still hear it?" Shanelle hears Chihoon's voice over the phone.
A light bulb lights on top of Shanelle's head as she thought of an evil plan to eradicate Chihoon from her house. She grinned at the thought. "Right now...I can still hear your heartbeat very loud. Walk even far!"
Chihoon tilts his head at what the girl said. He walks even far then talks to her through the phone. "Can you still hear it?"
"Yes. Walk even far!"
"Are you sure?" Chihoon asked in wonder while looking at the place he's now at. He's near the mountains already.
"Yes, walk even far!"
Chihoon walks further again. "What about now? Can you still hear it?"
"Hello? Hello?"
"Can you still hear it?"
"Hello?" Shanelle slowly puts down her phone then jumps. "Yey! Goodbye Monster Chi who is now outside the 500 kilometers! Don't ever come back!!!" She said happily.
Chihoon heard her voice through the phone that she forgot to end. So that is her plan huh? Chihoon grins and runs fast to her house.
As Shanelle entered the house, her eyes widen ans her shoulders fell down when she saw Chihoon sitting down at the sofa while reading magazine.
The guy looks at her. "Oh, you're already here. You're really slow,, eh?" He said with a raised eyebrow that made Shanelle's lip stretched upward.
She walks passed him with a fallen shoulders. Chihoon looks at her while walking away. I still haven't finished my revenge. I need to find a way to let her ask me to stay on her own, he thought. He looks around the house and saw a picture frame of her with her dad and mom. He knew that her mom died already, so he thought of using hee dad for his benefit.
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Shanelle is currently sitting down on Rizalane's side while preparing for their scene. They have started filming already for their movie together. Riza as the main actress and Shanelle as the supporting actress.
"You haven't called me these last few days. I planned to ask you to come with me to see the good fortune-teller that I've met," Riza said while applying lipgloss on her lips.
"Nah, I gave up on those. They are not even true," Shanelle answered as she puts down the mirror she's holding. Riza always let Shanelle come with her to see a fortune teller because she is known as the unluckies girl in town. She is always unlucky with everything. But, all those fortune tellers she met are all fake.
"So, you've given up? Nah, I understand. Someone like you who has super bad luck, I think it's safer to just raise an immortal monster in your house," Riza said jokingly that made Shanelle's forehead creased.
"You---"
"Cut. Next scene," the two girls heard the voice of the director. "Next scene. Miss Rizalane!"
Riza closed her powder then looks at Shanelle. "I'll be going first."
Shanelle looks at Riza while she walks to the filming site. "Psh. Does Monster Chi count?" Shanelle murmurs then sighs.
That time, Professor Lee, a professor, scientist, and researcher that manages the Research Lab together with her 6th ex boyfriend Nicolai Troy, came to the site. He reay looks for her because he belives that there is something wrong in Shanelle's sudden healing after her car accident happened. And he even thinks that the dormant corpse is not stolen, rather he woke up and is now alive. He hasn't proven that one yet, but his instincts are telling him that what he belives in are true. And he will do everything to prove that, not only for his research but also to cure his sick daughter. He really feels that Shanelle and that dormant corpse has something to do with each other.
"Shanelle?" Professor Lee said as he walks nearer to where Shanelle is sitting down.
Shanelle looks at the person who calls her and she smiles as she realizes who that is. "Professor Lee!" She has known the professor after being with Troy for few months. She saw him a lot of time when she was going to the lab to look for Troy that time. And even going to the professor's house to eat. It's been a few years since she last saw him.
"I heard from Troy that you recovered well," Professor Lee said.
Shanelle nods. "Yes. I'm all better now Prof. Those who are waiting for me to lose my beauty are now half-dead with anger."
The old man chuckled. "It's good that you're okay now."
"By the way prof, Annie should be around 10 years old now, right? How is she?" She asked. Annie is the daughter of Professor Lee. "She is the first one who cried when me and Troy broke up."
"Ah...I was divorced with my wife for 2 years now," the professor said with a bitter smile. "Annie went to the US with her mom."
"I-I'm sorry I didn't know," Shanelle awkwardly said.
The old mqn shakes his head. "That's okay. That's my fault in the first place. I didn't treat them well. I focused solely on my work and didn't give them the attention they needed. By the way, regarding your car accident, I know that many car accidents leave after effect condition. Sometimes the hospital can't diagnose it. If you're not busy today, how about you come with me to the research center and I'll draw some blood so we can do a more detailed exam?"
"I-it's okay," Shanelle shakes her head. "There is no after effect."
"That's only at first. Aftereffect doesn't show any obvious symptoms," the old man said convincing the girl to come with him.
"There really has no after effect prof," Shanelle looks around. "I think I might be next. I'll go now. Bye Prof," she said and runs away from him. She doesn't like to be experimented and she fears that Chihoon's true identity might be exposed.
The professor sighs as he didn't succeed in his plan. He took a deep breath. He should do another method to take her blood sample. He suddenly saw Shanelle's script on the chair she sat a while ago. He suddenly thought of a plan to get her blood sample as soon as possible.
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"We don't have any hard evidence yet to prove that the car accident was caused deliberately by someone. I also hope that you can find all the researchers that might be interested in this dormant research that you're doing," Gab said to Troy while they are walking from the academy.
"I'm already sorting that out," Troy answered. They stopped infront of the research lab. "Hey," he said when he noticed Gab's nose bleeding.
"Why?" Gab asked.
Troy points his nose. Gab touches his nose and he realizes that his nose is bleeding again. "Is there a toilet here?"
"There," Troy points the direction of the toilet. Gab suddenly runs to the toilet.
After Gab went to the toilet, Troy suddenly heard loud cheering from his students. He looks around and saw Rizalane Kim who is confidently walking and smiling to her fans.
Troy suddenly smiles. Rizalane Kim huh? He knew about her but didn't knew she can be this beautiful. He watched her as she walks towards the parking area.
Rizalane smiles at her fans as she walks, but suddenly her right heel was stucked to the wet ground. She tried to lift it up without making it obvious to her fans but she cant.
She then awkwardly smiled at her fans that suddenly went near her asking for autograph. She leaned her back on the car near her and signs autograph for her fans while she tries to lift her heel again, but she really cant. It was stucked very deep.
Troy noticed that so he can't help but grin. He then walks to his car where Rizalane was leaning. "Can you move aside?" He said to her. He can't open the door because she is still leaning on it.
Riza looks at him but didn't answer because she's busy signing autograph.
Troy walks near her. "I'm sorry Miss, but can you move aside please? That's my car." She didn't answer again. "Miss Rizalane, eventhough you're pretty but you can't be infront of my car."
Riza looks at him again. She suddenly remembers him being Shanelle's ex boyfriend. She suddenly hugs his arms that made Troy flinched a little in shocked. "Nicolai Troy! Are you done with your class?"
Troy creased his forehead. She knows me? He thought.
"Are they your students? They are so cute!!!" She grinned and looked at the students standing around them. Troy smiles at her awkwardky and then looks at her hands that has been hugging his arm. "Do you know that I've been close to your teacher? We will going to eat now, so let's end this okay?" She said that made Troy grin.
Okay, you started this first, Troy thought again. He pulled Rizalane's waist that made Riza's eyes widen. "Yes dear students. Let's end it here, okay? A celebrity needs privacy too, you know," he said then looks at her wearing a smile.
The students then left them. Riza took Troy's hand off her waist then glared at him. She cleared her throat and looks at the other direction. "Thank you. Now we can talk about Mr. Jung's sexual harassment conduct, right?"
Troy looks at her seriously then suddenly bends his knees. He touches the girl's feet and lifted her heel that was stucked from the ground. After that, he stands and looks at her. "Being a woman is difficult, I guess. But, can we also talk about how come a celebrity like Miss Rizalane knows my name?"
Riza looks at him then thinned her lips. "I saw you when you were with Shanelle before. And I even know about your double timing. Ah, I think everyone knew about it," she said with a raised eyebrow. She knew that only few people knew about her close relationship with Shanelle. People thinks that they are mortal enemies since they always are rivals for the highest ranking position at school.
Troy smiled then nods. He puts his face near her. "I understand why you're not close with my ex girlfriend. On TV she looks like a fairt. Very beautiful like a living barbie doll. But in real life she is foul tempered and foul mouthed. And now she's going around telling everyone that I double-timed her."
Riza blinks as she realizes that their face are just inches away. She looks around and saw Gab walking towards them. "Gab! There's a pervert here!" She said in a loud voice enough for Gab to hear it.
"Hey Miss Kim, that's not so nice of you. You're being ungrateful and mean," Troy said.
Riza looks at her. She didn't like how he talks about Shanelle. "An opponent is only an opponent if they are well-matched. If you look down on my enemies, you are also looking down on me," she said and looks at Gab. "Gab, he held my waist, put him on prison."
Troy grinned. "I also touched his heels." He said because Gab already is looking at him badly, then he entered his car.
"Riza, did you kick him with your heels?" Gab asked his friend.
Riza just chuckled.