For a month after the awards show, Sun and Yixing barely spoke to each other. He had his own commitments with SM Entertainment, while Sun had her own with Pledis Entertainment. They were unable to see each other, even in the middle of the night because often their schedules had them out until the early morning hours. Sun had to spend most of her free time with Aron, which left her with no time to even send her real boyfriend text messages.
Yixing often tried to start up conversations with her, but was dismayed when she would take several hours, at one point even a few days to reply. He shrugged it off as the busy schedule he knew she had as an idol, especially with the upcoming music video Baby Lips was going to film for the single Sweet of their repackaged album.
EXO was doing the same, having arduous dance practices for the filming of Growl, which would be the single for their repackaged version. In many ways, Baby Lips really was like a female version of EXO, and vice versa. They were always doing the same things, and always competing in everything because of it.
Sun was having lunch with Aron in the lunch room of the Pledis Building for show. Normally, she sat with Baby Lips and Aron with Nu'est. But ever since their kiss on stage, and the buzzing speculation that they were an item, their Pledis managers encouraged them to spend all their time together. Sun and Aron only did it out of obligation, and she was getting tired of being forced to pretend she was having a great time with him. The news hadn't yet been confirmed by the agency. They told the two idols that they didn't want to seem too eager in the media's eyes, and they were going to wait a bit more before finally announcing it.
The two tried to make conversation with each other, but when it fell into a silence, Sun got her phone out and searched her boyfriend's name in the search bar. Zhang Yixing. Nowadays she found out more about him and his whereabouts from the kpop gossip news sites than from his own account.
One of the most recent news stories was about EXO-M and Sun clicked on it when the title grabbed her attention.
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EXO-M to participate in Chinese game show called "Do Your Best!", Sun read the title of the article and she sucked in a breath, surprised at what she was reading, and rather disappointed. Instead of hearing the news from Yixing--who was her boyfriend, and her best friend--she had to find out through allkpop.
As she continued reading the article, she found that he would be out of the country for two weeks while filming for the show. In those two weeks, they would promote the comeback album in China and appear in some variety shows other than Do Your Best! to create a hype for the upcoming showcases, and the album. Sun was happy for him because she knew that EXO-M was more often than not ignored by SM Entertainment. EXO-K was given more promotions and more opportunities.
At least, Mae was thankful that Pledis was more fair when it came to the two subgroups of Baby Lips. Both groups promoted equally when they were together, and when they were separate, promotions were still equal. Even when Baby Lips M did promotions in Japanese, English, Spanish, or any other language that wasn't Korean or Chinese, the agency tried to include the other girls, even if they weren't part of the foreign language subgroup.
