Chapter 18
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Shuji wakes up in his bed and he still can't believe he is on the island of Leatrice's family, no matter who she is.
He went inside the bathroom and changed his clothes. Shuji came out of his room and went downstairs, he was still amazed when he saw the size of the house or mansion. It is not obvious that there is a house behind the big resort and hotel.
"Sir Shuji, Lady Li-eatrice is already in the dining area, she is waiting for your arrival." opened the door of the woman in black clothes.
Shuji just nodded before he went with her and took her to the dining area.
"The manager texted me that we will do a Valentine theme with a summer collection in the photoshoot." Lixue/Leatrice said initially when she saw Shuji approaching her.
"Good morning, Leatrice." Shuji greeted.
"After the photoshoot, we can train again." Lixue/Leatrice replied to Shuji.
"Do you have a personal investigator? If so, I'm asking for a favor if I can get information about the Gayag family." Shuji initially said he sat on Lixue's left side.
Shuji saw Lixue raise her hand and suddenly the woman approached her and Lixue whispered something later.
"Let's eat now, maybe our co-models outside will wonder." Lixue/Leatrice said to Shuji afterward.
"This mansion is big, if it belongs to your family, why don't you live here?" Shuji asked as he looked Lixue in the eye.
"It's sad to be alone and I have memories I don't want to go back to." Lixue/Leatrice answered Shuji without looking at him.
"Where is your father?" Shuji asked as he took a bite of the food he took from the food spread in front of them.
"My daddy has another family and I don't agree with his new family." Lixue/Leatrice replied that she had already eaten.
Shuji didn't answer and just looked at Lixue before continuing his meal. A few hours after they both left the house and passed through the restricted area.
"What are you doing there? It is forbidden to stay where you are standing." Lixue met the staff of the modeling agency they worked for.
"-J-ust look at the whole re-sort." stammered the staff to Lixue and Shuji.
"What are you looking at? You can't see anything here, people can't go in this area, in large letters on the poster above, RESTRICTED AREA." Lixue replied, pointing out the meaning of the word she was referring to.
The staff couldn't answer before Lixue called her bodyguards. It held the staff who were just wondering and looked at Shuji and Lixue.
"Le-what's happening and they're holding my staff?" the gay manager asked and he looked at Lixue.
"She violated what is forbidden here at the resort, manager went to the restricted area at the end of the resort when our family was there, I told us to wait until here in front of the lobby, but Shuji and I caught up with her there," Lixue replied to their gay manager causing him to remain silent.
"Are you—Miss Aiya Gayag's staff? Lady Chen and I suspect that one of your staff is the reason for her to come without permission?" Lixue's staff asked and everyone suddenly became quiet.
"-What are you talking about?—I don't know what you're talking about—" stammered the staff to the bodyguards.
"I said whoever we catch something bad will happen to you or your family—do you think I'm joking?" Lixue replied seriously, causing the others to look at her.
"We will take her outside the resort, Lady Chen, and we will bring her back to Manila I'm sorry if you lacked your staff and she didn't follow the rules of the resort." the bodyguard approached and looked at the gay manager who was still shocked by what he was seeing.
The staff has been evicted for violating the resort and hotel grounds.
"I'm sorry for what she did, I didn't know the-" the gay manager interrupted when Lixue tapped him on the shoulder.
"Let's not think about what happened," Lixue answered the gay manager.
"What was your bodyguard saying earlier, Leatrice, she is the staff of the woman you fired yesterday?" the photographer asked, causing both models and Erika to look at her.
"Her motive is personal, sir," Lixue answered and then looked at Shuji.
"What she did is shameful I will talk to her when we return to Manila after our photoshoot here at your family's resort, Leatrice." the gay manager said and they went to the beach where the photoshoot would be done.
They have just started their photoshoot for their summer and Valentine magazine.
The photographer introduced Erika's cousin Hyo who is a new model at Sakura Modeling Agency.
After Hyo did the photoshoot with the female model, the gay manager put them aside and followed the other models.
"Darling, after our photoshoot here we will stay here as a vacation," Erika asked her boyfriend as she hugged him afterward.
"I don't know if we will stay here after that and because Papa bought something from Leatrice and me about this resort, I am his proxy to accompany Leatrice." Shuji knew his girlfriend and he just sighed afterward.
"Can I leave if you agree, darling, then I will go with you and Leatrice to their house where you are staying," Erika replied to her boyfriend, she looked at Lixue who was just looking in front of her.
What they didn't know was that Lixue could hear and listen to what they were talking about without even looking at it.
"You two separate, one by one." the photographer called to Shuji and Erika who suddenly looked at each other.
Shuji and Erika went to the front and Shuji was surprised that someone had given him a dog.
"Sit on the sand, Erika." the photographer said to Erika, and the make-up artist and the stylist fixed her up.
"Perfect! Another shot of you two." the photographer said to Shuji and Erika.
The photographer ordered Shuji to lie down on the sand. Then he raised his hand and made a square and applied it to the sun.
Erika stood in the sand as she approached the photographer and then told her to look cute in the camera.
"Look at the picture I took of you." the photographer smiled and called the one he had taken for the photoshoot.
"Manager, my boyfriend is just a copy lying around," Erika said to the gay manager that she was thrilled to see her boyfriend's picture.
"Sure!" the photographer replied to Erika laughing at her appearance.
Shuji was embarrassed by his girlfriend's expectations. Having put aside the finished photoshoot, the assistant photographer called Akatsuki and Lixue.
"Hold the cat, Leatrice, and pet it, think that it is the one you love that you miss." the photographer instructed calling a man holding a cat.
Lixue stared and smiled as the cat looked at her and she was just laughing after she approached her not calling his/her name.
"He was scratching a while ago! Are you close to the cat?" the gay manager asked Lixue.
"No, manager, I didn't have a pet cat or dog when my sister and I were young because we didn't want them to get hurt." Lixue/Leatrice answered meaningfully to their gay manager.
The male models were stunned by Lixue along with Akatsuki, Hyo, and Shuji when they saw her they saw a fairy when they looked when she came out of the resort again.
"Oh!" Hyo said annoyed when he felt a hand on his head.
"Get well! Shuji Liao, I'm already jealous of her." Erika was annoyed with her cousin and boyfriend who were holding their heads.
"You're a sadist, cousin, of course, we just fell in love with him," Hyo said frowning at her cousin afterward.
They moved places when Lixue changed her clothes.
"Maybe Shuji will leave you when you're like that, it's normal for us to look at your co-model, but we know ourselves where the limit is." Akatsuki snapped at her friend.
After the photographer took several shots of Lixue, they stopped to eat dinner. They went to the restaurant and sat at the reserved table.
A few hours later they continued to photoshoot on the beach.
The photographer unbuttoned Akatsuki's long-sleeved polo shirt and just made him stand up.
They laughed when they heard the laughter from the tourists and fellow models.
"Perfect! How many pandesals is that?" the gay manager said to Akatsuki with a pissed-off laugh.
"How many?" Akasuki laughed and took off his long-sleeved polo completely, not knowing that the photographer had taken a picture of him.
"Sir!" Akatsuki said in shock when he heard and was dazzled by the light of the camera.
"You're hot here, Akatsuki, we'll put this in our latest magazine with other male models." said the photographer.
They agreed to have a bonfire on the beach, Lixue said goodbye to her father first. Their stay on the beach reached twelve o'clock in the morning.
Lixue and Shuji bring drunk friends to their rooms. Then they went straight to the back of the resort where the house was and they both had to rest in their room.
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