Hello, I know you

But you don’t know me

We haven’t talked for all this time

I just looked at you hanging out from far away

--Hello  (AKMU)

                Breaking his tablet is one thing, but losing his magical strings is another. He can’t have these things happening to him. He’s turned their apartment upside down and he still can’t find them. Those strings are exclusively made for a pair, none of his other strings would work. Curse Fate and all it’s descendants. Are they determined to ruin him (or have his two clients suffer through out their lifetimes)? Magical strings or not, he’ll prove to them that the Great Yue Lao is… erm, great. He doesn’t need all these magical crap (he feels somewhere someone with magic curses him as well) to bring two people together. He will make them fall in love if it’s the last thing he would do (and if he’s also able to find his missing shoe, he swears he put it somewhere in the living room last night when he was, as Chen would put it, being emo).

                Tao enters the apartment, package in hand. “We have delivery from Heaven…”

                His other assistant lifts his head from the papers that he was trying to sort out. “Is it from Ba Xian?”

                “Are you expecting a package?”

                Chen nods and stands up to grab the manila envelope from the pile that Tao is holding. “Yes… More research materials…” He deliberately ignores his boss, still currently on the floor trying to find the missing pair of his only shoes.

                The smaller assistant goes back to his desk. Getting a letter opener, he carefully opens the envelope. He scans the content of the papers, it’s the same type of report. Chen thinks that instead of dwelling in the past maybe they need to actually just look at the present and maybe plan things for the future.

                “Can anyone tell me where my shoes are? I’m on a mission I can’t be hindered by such a trivial thing as shoes…” Just imagine ‘The Great Yue Lao’ thwarted by something so unbelievably human, he can’t even.  “I need to do something… Has Handsome Manly China Man logged in to the site or is he still sulking?”

                “Oh, you mean like you?” Tao flops down on the sofa and clicked on the TV.

                “Manners…”

                “You mean like you, oh great one…” the younger says doing a half bow while still seated.

                “Better… Anyway, is there anything we can do? Stalk the barista? Hunt Handsome Manly China Man down?”

                “Why would we do that, Nim?”

                “Coz we’re all bored and useless and we needed to do something…” Chen explains. He’s still sifting through the documents that Ba Xian sent him, noting some of the things their client should never do again. Being overly jealous is one of them, maybe he could lessen his stalker tendencies a bit too. Their barista on the other hand needs to either stop being clueless or start caring about people around him and not just noticing them because of the messes they make.

                “Hyungs… I’ll call you both that since we’re all pretending to be human and trying that thing called normalcy…” Tao proceeds with his rant before the two can even protest about the casual term. “In typical human drama fashion these two should be each others faces by now. We’re almost half way through the series and we haven’t seen any action yet. I haven’t even seen an evil step mother or a childhood sweetheart re-appearing. Heck I’m getting more action than our leads, I’m not even a secondary character, I’m just a support…”

                “Well, that’s… Wait, you’re what?!” Yi Xing’s confused, when did his younger assistant started getting some? Where is he getting some from?

                Chen waggles his eyebrows at his co-assistant. He knew Tao has a thing for that weird squinty guy. So the bubble tea dates are more than just getting bubble tea.

                “Tao! You should be telling me about things like these! You can’t leave me clueless, I can guide you…”

                “That’s beside the point, hyung… Not that I’ll ever need to take advise from you…” The younger waves his hand dismissing any of Yi Xing’s further protest. “Hyungs, the viewers needs action. The only action we’re getting so far is Handsome Manly China Man gaping at our barista every chance he gets. I know our barista can be endlessly clueless and has been hurt by an incredibly y , I think Manly China Man is a perfect fit for him. We just need to skip all the drama and have him up his game. Let him have a descent conversation with our barista for once, and when I say conversation I don’t mean him ordering a café americano… Everything starts with a ‘Hi’…”

                Tao pauses to fix his hyungs with a serious look. “We all have the same goal, right? To bring them together… We don’t need tablets or red strings to do that. We just need this…”, pointing to his head. “And these…” and he brandishes a pair of tickets out of his jacket pocket.

                “Okay, the brain I kinda understand but what are these cardboard things for?” Yi Xing asks. Taking the tickets from Tao’s hand.

                “These are not just cardboard things. These are magical… They give you access to a certain thing that our barista is very fond of…” Tao waits for his companions to guess what he’s pointing at.

                “Cleaning?”

                “You got him magical things to help him clean? What on earth were you thinking? We already have those magical cloths for that… What do they call that, again? Rags? Those magical cardboard things don’t look so magical now…”

                Tao face-desks. Considering these two were supposed to be the best of the best in their own field they can be pretty stupid when it comes to humans (and sometimes logic). “These are called soccer tickets… Handsome Manly China Man just needs to offer this to our barista and we’d be able to create an entire string of moments for both of them. The rest, of course, is up to our leading man. So hyung, give him good advise this time…”

                “Hey!”

                “We have a problem though, our leading man hasn’t logged in to the site for days now… How do we—“

                “I’ve got that taken cared of…”

                They hear a ping from the computer and Yi Xing focuses his eyes on the blinking red bell on top of their chat screen. Is it really…

~o~

UNDER THE MOON CHATROOM

Handsome Manly China Man:

Ermm… Yo Yo~ ^^v

Yue Lao Wannabe:

You’re back!

I mean

What?

Handsome Manly China Man is typing…

YLW:

I thought you said you’d never ask for advise from me…

Handsome Manly China Man is still typing…

YLW:

Have you changed your mind?

Handsome Manly China Man is typing something akin to a novel…

YLW:

I need to know first if you trust my matchmaking skills

Handsome Manly China Man has probably expired while typing his response…

YLW:

Are you still there?

…

Ermm…

…

Hello?

…

…

…

I’m sorry please come back (begging emoticon)

Handsome Manly China Man has resumed typing…

YLW:

^___^

HMCM:

My friend…

Sehun said you have two soccer tickets for me?

/grabby hands emoticon/

YLW:

Oh, the magical cardboards?

HMCM:

???

YLW:

I’ll give it to you outside the café tomorrow

And don’t be creepy this time…

HMCM:

Is this Kyung Soo?

Kyung Soo are you pretending to be Cupid?

If you had the soccer tickets you should’ve given it to me at the apartment

YLW:

????

HMCM:

Ok maybe not…

Yeah, yeah I’ll try to be normal…

YLW:

And less stalkerish

HMCM:

=________________=

YLW:

Ah yeah…

Well yeah

Tomorrow

Bye

HMCM:

O.O?

Yue Lao Wannabe has left the chatroom

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a/n: I apologize for the slow updates. I don’t have an excuse, it’s true, real life is getting in the way. With studies and my older sister pestering me about her wedding preps, so yeah pretty much no ‘me’ time. I was supposed to post this ages ago /ok I’m exaggerating, maybe a week ago/ but my laptop decided to mess with me so I gave up attempting to get along with it…

End of rant. I hope this makes up for the absence. I’ll try as much to update as soon as Yue Lao is able to find the other pair of his shoes~ ^^v