Chen Xin and the others walked up to the door of President Fei's office. Chen Xin knocked twice.
President Fei: "Come in."
Chen Xin walked in and said directly, "President Fei, did anyone tell you about them running into sasaeng fans last night?"
President Fei: "They called last night, and I said I'd handle it this morning. But look at them, they went right ahead and posted it online! And you people were right there making a scene along with them."
Chen Xin: "We didn't even know about this last night."
Tan Shuang: "If we had known, we would have posted it then. Would we have waited until the middle of the night?"
President Fei: "Do you think posting it directly online is a good idea? President Chen said they need to be severely punished."
Liu Wenyao: "This wasn't their fault."
Liu Dongbin: "I think they did the right thing. They've finally learned to fight back."
Tan Shuang: "It was the middle of the night, and those kids had to go find somewhere else to stay. They couldn't even get a proper rest."
President Fei: "Are they here yet?"
Chen Xin: "We have no idea where they are right now. Their phones are turned off, and we don't even know if they're safe."
Meanwhile, at a certain hotel, everyone was sleeping soundly, one curled up against another. Liu Yaowen was sleeping hugging his own blanket, and the four dogs were all sprawled out sleeping on the floor.
President Fei: "First, take down that video on Weibo. Delete their retweets too, it's bad for our image."
Chen Xin: "I don't think we need to delete the video the studio posted. There's no use deleting it now anyway, some fans saved it ages ago."
Liu Wenyao: "It's already trending, there's no point in deleting it."
Tan Shuang: "We can't delete their retweets. If we want them deleted, we'll wait for them to get here; once they agree, they'll delete them themselves."
President Fei: "Get out of here and check the nearby hotels to see if you can find them."
Chen Xin: "We won't find them. Even if they are at a nearby hotel, we don't know which one, and the front desk won't give out that information."
President Fei pressed his hands against his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Go out and figure out what kind of statement we should write to clear this up."
Chen Xin: "Fine."
The group turned around and walked out of President Fei's office.
Liu Wenyao: "What do we do now? We don't even know what to put in the statement, we don't even know the whole story."
Wang Yong: "Just go back to whatever you were doing. The few of them are probably sleeping right now, and there's no use in us panicking. When they wake up, they'll return our calls."
Liu Dongbin: "Sigh, right now I'm just worried about whether those kids are safe."
Song Congcong: "They're definitely safe by now, otherwise they would have called us long ago."
Chen Xin: "It was so dangerous last night and they didn't even think to call us. When we see them, we're going to give them a piece of our mind."
Tan Shuang: "Alright, everyone back to what you were doing. Call if anything comes up."
Meanwhile, last night Zhen Zhinian had gone through more than thirty group photos to find the one she liked best to use as her wallpaper, and even sent it to her two best friends to show off. Completely satisfied, she set her alarm and went to sleep.
At 8 AM, she was jolted awake by the WeChat group chat. Opening WeChat, the pinned group chat "Wives of the Seven Egg Group (170)" had 99+ unread messages. She tapped into the chat, where messages were still rapidly scrolling by, and seeing 267 new messages in the top right corner, Zhen Zhinian tapped it and scrolled straight to the very top.
One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings: "[Video]"
One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings: "I shit you not, the studio posted a video."
Popcorn: "Just woke up, what happened?"
One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings: "Those women were sasaeng fans."
Popcorn Diary 1123: "@One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings, is this the latest one?"
One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings: "The video was posted at 5:07 AM."
Fighting Li Fei for a Man: "[Video screenshot] A video from 4 AM today. This video should be edited together from three different times; only the very last part where they leave has the date and time."
One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings: "These people are seriously sick, they even climbed in through the window."
Big Sister Swallows TNT Whole: "Whose room was that? Were they scared?"
Sat On Seven Milk Dumplings' Face: "They must have been scared, otherwise they wouldn't have left in the middle of the night."
One Bite of Seven Little Milk Dumplings: "So angry, I really want to slap them to death."
Explosion Diary 1123: "I'm about to cry. Sasaeng fans don't deserve to live in a beautiful China, and they don't deserve to stan the TEENS IN TIMES."
After finishing the video and reading a few messages, Zhen Zhinian muttered to herself, "Holy crap, they even climbed windows! No wonder they chased after Huan. If Huan hadn't been there, it really would have played out just like what that sasaeng fan said—'If it weren't for this dog, I'd already be lying in my brother's arms.' I don't even dare to imagine how traumatized they must be."
Zhen Zhinian closed her phone, wanting to sleep a little longer, but couldn't fall back asleep. She opened her phone again and looked at the photo on her wallpaper. "These boys are so great. Shouldn't loving them just mean wanting them to live well?" After looking at it a while longer, she turned off her phone and got up for work.