Are Rui Xing and Shang Ying together?

After a day of fun, they were all lethargic. Rui Xing and Wen Xi were so tired that they slept in the train on their way back to the hotel. They were being carried back to the hotel by Li Nang and Shang Ying.

The next morning, Rui Xing was shocked to find herself in her hotel bed. Was all that happened at Disney Sea just a magical dream? Did it not happen in real life? Rui Xing thought to herself.

"Morning," Shang Ying said.

"Morning, what happened last night? Did we go to Disney Sea yesterday? How did I get back here, I don't remember me walking back to the room," Rui Xing babbled curiously to Shang Ying.

"Yes, we did go to Disney Sea. And, as to how you got back here, I carried you back. You and Wen Xi fell asleep in the train so Li Nang carried her back, I carried you back," he explained to her.

"Oh, sorry for the trouble. You could've woken me up..."

"However, you looked really tired last night so I didn't want to wake you up..."

"But I'm pretty sure you were tired too!"

"It's fine," he said nonchalantly.

"Okay then... What's happened happened. So what are we doing today?," Rui Xing asked him another question.

"We're going Harajuku Street if I'm not wrong!"

"Oh my! I've been waiting for this!! I really want to go to this hedgehog café in Harajuku! Could we go there for tea or lunch??" Rui Xing was so enthusiastic about going to Harajuku Street.

They again, met Li Nang and Wen Xi downstairs. But today, they didn't eat breakfast at the hotel.

As Shang Ying and Rui Xing got out of the lift, they saw Li Nang and Wen Xi chatting about something on the phone.

"Hey! What are you talking about?" Shang Ying asked curiously.

"Oh that, it's nothing," Wen Xi said while keeping her phone in her pocket.

"Show us!" Rui Xing said.

"Don't get angry ok? I just don't want this to affect the rest of our holiday," she said showing them an article on her phone.

The article was about a picture of Shang Ying and a girl which was obviously Rui Xing. It was of him carrying Rui Xing, alighting the train the night before. And along with the photo, it says, Isn't this Shang Ying? The son of one of the biggest companies in Singapore, Hana Entertainment, is seen being with a woman in Japan. Is he on a holiday with this woman? Who is she? What happened to Shang Ying's relationship with Ning Ning? How would Ning Ning feel about this? Does Ning Ning know?

Shang Ying and Rui Xing's facial expressions changed after seeing the article. Rui Xing tried to stay positive and said, "Let's not let the media affect us." They nodded and Wen Xi as usual led the way to the train station to go to Harajuku. Although they agreed not to let the news affect them, Shang Ying still felt a little furious as to why the person who he or she is, had to post an article about this situation. He felt like it wasn't any of their businesses so why must they make a big deal about it and tell the whole world that he is on a holiday with his what the world views as his girlfriend. Shang Ying thought to himself while waiting for the train to arrive. Why must people always make assumptions? Don't people know what privacy is? Can't people respect people's lives? Is this what popular people have to deal with? With paparazzi following them? They must have done something outstanding that cause paparazzi to follow them but I didn't, so why must they invade in my privacy? After thinking about all these thoughts, he came back to reality.

Rui Xing noticed that Shang Ying didn't deal with the article situation very well, that he was a bit furious and angry about it. She tried to calm him down by saying positive stuff to him She wanted to pat him on his back but then realized that it might cause much of a controversy.

"Don't worry, we'll deal with this together after this holiday ends in 3 days time. Don't let this affect you, it's not worth your time. Where's the cheerful and happy Shang Ying I saw at the start of this holiday?"

Shang Ying was listening to Rui Xing's words but didn't give her a response back. His facial expression turned blank. Was that a good thing? Rui Xing didn't know so she started telling him puns [1]. By the time Rui Xing was about to tell him the first pun, the train arrived so the 4 of them walked into the train. Li Nang saw that Rui Xing was trying to comfort him but had no form of physical contact so he felt good. His eyes were glued to Rui Xing the entire time in the train but Rui Xing didn't know.

"Ok, first one, what kind of cheese is not yours?" She paused for second to wait for his response but he didn't answer her because he doesn't know the answer.

"Nacho (not-your) cheese!" Seeing Rui Xing trying her best to make him cheer up led a smile on his face. She was trying to hard which was funny. It wasn't the pun that made Shang Ying grin, but Rui Xing herself.

"Oh yes success! You smiled! Finally," Rui Xing exclaimed. There was a brightly lit smile on Rui Xing's face.

Looking at Rui Xing's smile, Li Nang, also smiled to himself. Wen Xi looked at Li Nang and she, too smiled.

Wen Xi still likes Li Nang. Li Nang and Shang Ying likes Rui Xing. Who does Rui Xing like? Or does she even like anyone of them? What will happen?

[1] a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.