Choi Seunghyun looked at Jiyong and Seungri mucking about together, drinking his pot of tea. Do they need to go this far? He thought disdainfully and turned to look outside, only to see two people walk in, one pulling the other.

‘Shopowner, we are here again,’ the guy pulling smiled. ‘The wine we had previously was good so we are here to get another flask or two.’

A look flashed in Jiyong’s eyes, before he smiled, ‘I’ll get them for you, have a seat.’

Choi looked at the two visitors and smirked, looks like there’s gonna be a show.

The two of them noticed him and one asked, ‘Sir, are you a customer too?’

Clearing his throat, Choi put down his cup of tea, and said plainly without looking at them, ‘I’m Choi Seung hyun, just happened to pass by to get some tea. Nice to meet you.’

The one who asked the question didn’t get offended at Choi’s coolness, instead he smiled at Seungri and said, ‘I’m Lee Teuk, this guy here is my brother from another father, Kangin. Nice to meet you.’

Jiyong walked over with the flasks of wine, and passed them to Lee Teuk, ‘Nice to meet you too.’ Lee Teuk took them gingerly, ‘So...what are your names?’

‘This here is my hyung, Yong and I’m Lee Hyun, nice to meet you,’ Seungri smiled. (Ri giving fake names to protect their identities.)

Choi rolled his eyes at Seungri’s hypocrisy, and took a sip of his tea.

‘I guess I know why both of you ran here to set up a shop,’ as Lee Teuk said this, Jiyong immediately pulled Seungri behind him in a defensive stance. Choi gripped his tea cup, not taking his eyes off Lee Teuk and Kangin.

‘Two man in love… it cannot be easy,’ Lee Teuk’s lips stretched slightly into a smile. He pushed Kangin in front of Jiyong, ‘We are here to apologise for what happened previously. Today we saw you both on the streets and… um come to realise that you... get along very well.’

Jiyong glanced awkwardly at Seungri, before smiling amicably at Lee Teuk, ‘Then, we thank you for your understanding.’

‘I hope the past is in the past, if possible, let’s have a drink together some time...’

‘Don’t worry about it, you are in a rush right?’ Jiyong broke off Lee Teuk and stepped forward to put an arm around Seungri. ‘Let’s get together when you ever come back to this town.’ Seungri smiled agreeably at Jiyong’s words.

Kangin was still full of suspicions, but he kept silent and pulled Lee Teuk away with him at Jiyong’s dismissal. After walking awhile, Kangin whispered into Lee Teuk’s ear, ‘Something’s off.’ Lee Teuk answered with a smile, At least we got something from our visit.’

Back at the shop, Jiyong snatched Choi’s tea cup away from him, ‘You still have the mood to drink tea?’

‘Why not?’ Choi poured himself another cup.

‘That Lee Teuk came to test us,’ Jiyong said looking at the direction where the two had left.

‘Since you knew that, you should have treated them well. What's with that show of temper.’

‘Choi Seunghyun, go and inform the others to try and get them into our camp. Especially Lee Teuk, he’s smooth, and will be useful to us.’

‘What if they are unwilling?’ Choi put down his tea cup.

Jiyong smiled coldly, making a slicing motion at his neck, ‘Kill them.’

When Choi stood up, he saw Jiyong’s eyes widened and turned around to see a thunder-faced Seungri.

‘Kwon Jiyong, have you forgotten that we do not speak of Jianghu* matters in our shop?!’

Jiyong ruffled Seungri’s hair embarrasedly, and nudged at Choi Seunghyun with a hand behind his back, ‘Choi Seunghyun, don’t you have something to do?’

When Choi prepared to leave, Seungri stopped him, ‘Weren’t you going to stay the night? Today is our opening day, you can’t leave now.’

He looked down at Seungri’s hand holding his own, eyes moving up onto Seungri’s determined face and was stunned. He felt his heart being squeezed, a strange feeling. Unable to move, he held gazes with Seungri.

After Seungri grabbed onto Choi, they locked eyes and he missed the chance to let go off him, holding his hand as he waited for an answer.

Looking at the two of them, Jiyong felt distinctly displeased, and pulled Seungri into his embrace forcefully, breaking them apart. ‘He’s busy, let him go.’

Choi looked at Seungri, then Jiyong and nodded.

‘I know what you are ‘busy’ with. As long as Jiyong is here, he is not your cult leader, so you don’t have to listen to him,’ Seungri said looking at Jiyong.

He added, ‘ You said you won’t make things hard for me these two weeks. I can’t let it happen under my nose.’

Jiyong stared at Seungri for two beats, before closing his eyes and letting out a sigh, ‘Choi, you stay for a while longer.’

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Haha took me awhile... been busy AND lazy, a bad combo for an unfinished fic lol

but thank you all so much for your super kind comments <3 they are really the best kind of motivation!! <3

Taeyang is in the fic! but he won't be appearing yet ^^;;