Capítulo 43: 1st World A/O/B/: 31

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The Chef x The Movie Emperor

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From Luna Bellflower to Terra Anka PXD2422 – The Capital (a whole planet) of The Golden Dragon Star Nexus Empire

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Nix's Party's P.O.V.:

As I sat in the main cabin of the luxury ship the production department for The Chef & The Celebrity sent to pick me up, I staired out the observation window appearing as if I was highly engrossed in view before me. The truth is that I could not stop mulling over the intriguing turn of events from this morning. I am pretty sure hyung fell in love with my new assistant for the duration of The Chef & The Celebrity, Bai Yu Ning. If I am not mistaken Bai Yu Ning is at the least attacked to Beyol Young-Jae hyung.

I was pulled from my thoughts when I noticed the sly "shit eating" grin on my face and amethyst eyes that were almost aglow with the undisguisable look of intrigue and mischief. Now I realize why Solaris had previously said I looked like a nine-tail fox.

As funny as it would be if that were the case, me being a nine-tail fox deity/spirit/demon, truth is I have no sex appeal. Well, I guess it would be better to say that rather than I lack sex appeal, I have no self-awareness to knowingly seduce someone, nor do I have a real sex drive. Only recently have my physical urges reawakened after being snuffed out for nearly 30+ thousand years, being repeatedly abused and even being forced to abuse others by an entity that has full control of your body will do that to a person.

How am I supposed to heal and allow someone in my heart? Even if the person I did allow to enter the fortress I had to build in order to protect myself could actually care about me enough to look past my many, many downsides, it would be impossible for them not to be disgusted with me. Galaxies know, just how disgusted I am with my own self.

How can I expect someone else to understand it was not my fault and look past my past… when… I swallowed a large, painful lump when I finally admitted to myself what is at the core of my issues. I cannot forgive myself even when, I know better than anyone, I had zero say or power in stopping whoever was controlling my body.

I should really stop this way of thinking; it won't do me any good. Plus, I promised Solaris I would stop, after all. With a deep sigh I closed my eyes to recenter myself and clear these wayward thoughts. Once I was done and feeling lighter, I decided it would be a good idea to get to know my new assistant, if things go well, she may even end up as family.

-Nix: – "Miss. Bai Yu Ning, if you do not mind me asking, what would you like me to address you as?"

-Bai Yu Ning: – "Hmmm, what do you feel comfortable addressing me as? I am older than you but not by much. I gather that it does not matter by how much, you would still address me with honorifics, would you not?"

-Nix: – "Yes, Bai Yu Ning-ssi, or would you prefer xiǎo jiě or even just miss instead of ssi? I would unless you asked me to do otherwise. Your opinion and feelings matter just as much as mine."

(xiǎo jiě – Miss in Mandarin, ssi -Mr./Mrs./Miss in Koran, Nim- Mr./Mrs./Miss in Koran but even more respectful then ssi, usually used for those in high or noble positions statuses.) .

-Bai Yu Ning: – "Oh, well thank you for that. You are the first person to speak to me this way. Or rather I should say the first person who I technically work for to speak to me so politely. I appreciate you offering to use xiǎo jiě since my family is from China from ancient Earth but please feel free to use ssi since your family still honors your Korean roots. Just please do not call me nim, that is just a bit much especially since you want me to be more informal with you."

-Nix: – "I am sorry you have had to deal with people looking down their noses at you. I will not do that simply because you work for me nor for your secondary status. It does not matter that you work from me, regardless of how long the duration is I will treat you with respect so long as you do the same with me. Alright I will call you sii or even just Miss. I will not lie; it will depend on my mood. Hey may be one day we will even be close enough that you can call me didi"

-Bai Yu Ning: – "Thank you Beyol Bang Tae-Hwan-ssi. I will not only give the respect you deserve but also will do my best to help you in any way that I can as long as it does not go against my core beliefs." She said has she bowed to show her respect and sincerity. I am honored to know that you would like us to grow close like family. Alright well if and when that time comes you may call me nuna or jiějie if you would like. At that time, I would not mind calling you didi or nae namdongsaeng. But like I said if and when the time comes as for now it is important to remain professional, after all you are my boss no matter the length of the duration."

-Nix: – "Ha, I understand and I for one am sure that day will come, and I look forward to it. Thank you and if you do not mind, please feel free to presently address me informally. I do not wish to go by my full name on The Chef & The Celebrity. Instead, I will be going by just Phoenix. You may address me as Pheonix, Nix or even Nix- ah or Nix-namdongsaeng. But I understand if you do not feel comfortable with the last two yet. No matter what I want you to be comfortable with me and I will not take offence to how call me if it is one of these, so please feel free to call me as you wish."

-Bai Yu Ning: – "I will take note of the name change and make sure to not address you as your full name. I take it that you want to keep some of your privacy am I correct?"

-Nix: – "Yes, that is correct. I am not sure how much you know since the files are supposed to be confidential but since they personally assigned you to me, I assume you know about my secondary status?"

-Bai Yu Ning: – "Indeed, I do know about it. Yes, that is one of the reasons I was assigned to you. That said I will do my best to not only assist you but protect you."

-Nix: – "I appreciate that, but I do not want you placing yourself in harms way, especially on my behalf."

-Bai Yu Ning: – "I may be a female beta and I may not look like much but I can say with conviction that I will protect you with my life is it comes down to it. But I am not just your secret bodyguard. I really am your assistant so please feel free to rely on me, Phoenix-ssi."

-Nix: – "You really do not have to speak with me so formally after all I am younger than you, though I do appreciate the respect you have shown thus far so please do not feel that I am dismissing your efforts. I just would like for us to become closer and hopefully form a friendship before The Chef & The Celebrity wraps up. If you feel more comfortable though you are welcome to keep calling me Phoenix-ssi. It is important to me that you feel comfortable as well."

-Bai Yu Ning: – "I will call you Phoenix-ssi for now and while we are in front of others. I will also work on dropping the ssi. It may take a bit of time though as some habits are harder to kill then others."

-Nix: – "This is true."

I continued to get to know this new personal assistant/bodyguard. and possible friend and future sister-in-law of mine. I have a strong feeling that Bai Yu Ning and Young-Jae Hyung are at the very least attracted to one another. Looks like his brothers are doing decent wise, in the romance department. Pffftt… Who am I trying to kid? Both of them will definitely need some help but it will be fun to watch them continue to swim in circles chasing their own fins for a bit. I doubt they will need my intervention but if they end up making too much of a mess I will secretly help.

Though I have lack in the romance department personally, I still have a lot of knowledge and experience in helping other "love birds

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By the time we arrived in the atmosphere of Terra Anka PXD2422 Bai Yu Ning had grown more relaxed and comfortable with me and even said I could call her nuna if I wanted. It is surprising to meet someone else who comes from a family that honors their family's ancestors by keeping up with long traditions from ancient Earth. Though Yu Ning Nuna comes from a family with a lineage from China back on ancient Earth, she readily and respectfully honored me by choosing to use Ancient Hangul (Korean) honorifics instead of those of one of the ancient Chinese languages.

It is nice meeting someone else in this day and age that comes from a family that still holds on to some of the ancient traditions and even doing what they can to keep both the written and spoken language(s) alive. "After all a culture is not gone as long as there is at least one person who upholds, honors the traditions, language and share the knowledge they have of it." I was shaken out of my own thoughts when I heard my inner thoughts pour from my lips subconsciously.

'Thank the galaxies no one is around or else that would have been very embarrassing. I wonder if Yu Ning Nuna is done with her business yet? We should be arriving in The Starlight District soon.' I thought to myself but decided to no block my thoughts from Solaris, secretly hoping he would respond back to me so that I could focus on anything other than then…

"Phoenix-ssi, I apologize for that taking so long. The good news is that we will arrive at our destination in approximately 8 minutes. The bad news is that you will have to go through the contract process which normally takes a good amount of time followed by the briefing before they start filming." Bai Yu Ning's beautiful and sultry voice rang out as she reentered the lounge cabin. I assume she used the office or perhaps one of the two bedrooms this ship has to offer. It may not be a huge luxurious "trailer" that major stars get but I am sure as day am not complaining.

On the contrary I had been seriously checking this ship and its specs out as I think it will be a good fit for what I am looking for. It is just that this is one of Dragon's Breaths latest and unreleased models. A light bulb went off over my head. 'This must be one of the models that the overall winner of The Chef & The Celebrity winner can choose from. …wow, the sponsors are going all out. I guess this is just a way to whet our appetites in order to get us even more competitive. Well, it could also be a way to keep us focused and not getting too star struck with our celebrity partners.

Bai Yu Ning took a seat next to me next to the viewing window and I caught her glancing over at me as if she were waiting to see my reaction to something, but I am just not sure what yet. 'Oh well, I won't worry about it.' Just after I had that thought a beautiful, architectural dream and literal behemoth of a building came into full view. It was breathtaking in its intricacy and beauty.

Bai Yu Ning who was now full-on staring at me had a wide smile on her face. She had double dimples on each side of her lovely smile and her eyes were crescents. "Phoenix-ssi, welcome to The Majestic Bonghwang, Luxury Estates & Resort. This is where the filming for The Chef & The Celebrity will take place. I wish I could tell you more but unfortunately, they want that to be a big reveal, but I am sure you will love it.

I just nodded my head with an excited look and smile on my face. It is not as if I could tell Yu Ning Nuna that I already knew about this and that I already knew about how the filming and variety show will go down.

'It is more than a little obvious that Choi Yongbok is doing quite well for himself! Just The Majestic Bonghwang, Luxury Estates & Resorts alone would have him set for life. No wonder the movie emperor is not filming much these days! I mean why not branch out if you have the means and desire to, I know I would. Still, I have never once in all my many, many lives ever seen such a building. It is at least as large as a whole city block back on Ancient Earth!

The Majestic Bonghwang, Luxury Estates & Resort is a massive, state of the art, luxury, sky city tower. It is basically a whole neighborhood or even a small city in one building. Or would it be more accurate to say it is a complex of skyscrapers all interconnected with skybridges, "floating gardens" and "floating pools".

It is not just a luxury 5 Star hotel, that has five 3-Star Michelin restaurants, but also contains a luxury shopping mall. As one would imagine of such a massive hotel and estates building/complex it has all the amenities one could need or want. It boasted indoor ski slopes, 2 ice rinks, 2 indoor skating rinks, and indoor and outdoor skate park as well as a parkour park. It also has an outdoor white-water rafting and a lazy river that circles the entire parameter of the massive complex like a mote. There is also and in and outdoor water park along with an indoor beach that is climate controlled, With the artificial weather and light control that is coupled with the state-of-the-art holograms, makes one feels like they are really at the beach.

As if that was not enough the Majestic Bonghwang also has several gyms, grocery stores, an art & history museum, childcare, fully immersive movie theaters, 10 ball rooms, 20 executive meeting rooms, 10 banquet halls, an aquarium that spans 3 sub floors, 8 outdoor parks, 4 indoor parks and botanical gardens, a prestigious private prep school, has ancient Earth East Asian style and dragon and phoenix motifs throughout blended tastefully with the futuristic (current times, in the novel) architecture and style.

-Nix: - 'With everything the Majestic Bonghwang has to offer one will never need to leave if they so choose. I cannot believe this is where we will be filming. Solaris, do you think there will be any chances to get to check out the accommodations? Perhaps I should book a week or two long stay here so that I can check them out. I definitely would like to try all five of the Michelin 3-star restaurants. What would you like to check out Solaris?'

-Solaris: - 'I am not sure there is a lot to chose from that is for sure. If you find something that you really like please let me know, we can see about adding it to The Nursery if possible.'

-Nix: - 'Wait, really? You can really do something like that?'

- Solaris: - 'Of course I can, who do you take me for? I told you my powers have been fully unlocked. I can do a lot more than you obviously think I can, Tsk, such little faith. You wound my poor heart, Mama Phoenix.'

I was speechless, I could hear his pitiful words and see his pouting face but the look in his large obsidian eyes shouted, "I am full of arrogancy, but it is well earned." It was hard to respond correctly so I just hummed in response and acted as if I was seriously considering what he said, all the while biting my inner cheek to keep myself from busting out laughing out loud. I do not want to hurt my sweet baby's feelings nor have Yu Ning nuna asking me about what made me laugh.

We finally arrived at the front doors after several minutes of crossing the vast "front lawn" and upon alighting from the ship I was greeted by two rows of staff all impeccably dressed in their pristine uniforms. There was a total of twenty-five staff members lined up, twelve on each side and one at the front who greeted me. "Welcome to The Majestic Bonghwang Beyol Bong Tae-Hwan Yorisa-nim" and with that they all gave a full 45-degree bow.

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