AN: I had too much wine on new year's. This is how much I could write. Sorry guys. Happy reading.
Yu Xi stared at his communicator, lips curled into a smile that didn't reach his eyes. The forums were already buzzing.
"Looks like Alarna has finally tamed tenth."
"They have been close since childhood. It was only a matter of time."
"Close where? Didn't you see Jian Ci was never close to her and when she bought things for him, he would give them away?"
"Power couple of the year?"
"Power couple where?" Yu Xi scoffed, thumb flicking through the posts. The wording was too careful, too conveniently vague. The posts where anonymous with no direct claims, but the implication was clear. Alarna was staking her territory, and she was doing it with the subtlety of a knife in the dark.
