episode_0286
by admin“What, what did you say? What is this…”
The previous relaxed demeanor was nowhere to be found. The CT Entertainment CEO stammered like a broken machine.
Anyone could see that he was losing it.
Soon, he started frantically moving his fingers.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
He was hammering on his phone screen like he was going to break it, which just looked bizarre to others. He was sweating buckets even in the air-conditioned room.
“This can’t be happening? What the hell is this!”
But who could answer him when he was just shouting into the void? Besides, there wasn’t even time for a comfortable Q&A. The CT Entertainment CEO thought, “Damage control is the priority.”
But how to do damage control?
In the midst of all this, the first person that came to the CT Entertainment CEO’s mind was Mystic CEO Kim Iseo.
‘We were going to tear Yang Harin to shreds with all our might, but what is this atmosphere? How did this happen?’
─♩♪♬
He immediately called Kim Iseo.
“Answer… answer… answer quickly…”
The situation wasn’t good. But what bothered him more was that something he didn’t know about was happening behind the scenes. He anxiously waited for a long time.
“Hello?”
Finally, Kim Iseo answered the phone.
“CEO Kim Iseo! What’s going on?”
The CT Entertainment CEO shouted immediately.
“Excuse me, CEO of CT Entertainment.”
“…?”
Without realizing it, the CT Entertainment CEO flinched. Kim Iseo’s voice was filled with even more anger than he possessed.
Humans briefly regain their sanity when they’re confronted with someone else’s overwhelming anger, even after losing their own, and that was the CT Entertainment CEO’s situation.
What is it?
While he was wondering, Kim Iseo continued.
“CEO of CT Entertainment, were you playing around with me?”
“What?”
What was she talking about? That was what CT Entertainment wanted to ask Kim Iseo!
But Kim Iseo didn’t give him a chance to breathe.
“The information I bought at a high price from a private investigator. It seems like it wasn’t just sold to me? It wasn’t even the first one I bought. It was already circulating. I spent a lot of money and couldn’t even use the information.”
“Ah?”
For the CT Entertainment CEO, the target of his resentment shifted from Kim Iseo to those private investigator bastards.
Of course, it was Kim Iseo’s thorough act, but it was also true that the private investigators indiscriminately sold information to anyone. From their perspective, they could secure a bigger retirement fund if they sold the same information even one more time.
Everything overlapped, creating an alibi.
Kim Iseo sighed.
“If I was the only one who bought it, I could have had the information deleted, but the people who already bought the information are blasting articles everywhere… I’m the only fool. Only me.”
“CEO Kim Iseo, there’s some misunderstanding.”
“What misunderstanding?”
“I’m also a victim. Just wait a moment. I’ll check what happened right now. I absolutely didn’t lie at the drinking party that day…”
“I’m sure you didn’t. Sigh, what can I do, the information is already bought? The money is already gone, so do whatever you want.”
Click.
The call with Kim Iseo ended like that.
“These crazy bastards…”
The CT Entertainment CEO was furious and called the private investigators.
‘These bastards, I was supposed to sell the information only to the people I introduced? Did they backstab me?’
Of course they did.
─This is a non-existent phone number.
He couldn’t even reach the private investigators. They were planning to make a big score on this case and retire, so there was no way they would have left their contact information.
“Damn it! Really!”
The CT Entertainment CEO ruffled his hair wildly.
Forget it. Let’s put aside all other thoughts for now. Let’s focus on correcting the situation. Correcting the articles that went up and sending Yang Harin into the abyss.
But…
Even that wasn’t easy.
‘If the articles were only from one or two places, I could somehow cover it up, but there are too many articles. I can’t handle it.’
Currently, the entire portal site is plastered with Yang Harin and Clive. It was only natural that the number of views was copied every time he refreshed the page.
“…”
Tadatadak─!
The CT Entertainment CEO’s hand movements became more frantic, and his expression became even more blank. Soon, Clive also became interested.
“What’s wrong? What’s going on?”
“Ah, it’s nothing.”
But it was close to trying to cover the sky with a palm. Meaning it was impossible. It wasn’t long before the Clive members’ phones also received signals.
─♩♪♬
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[ Agency ]
▷ Hey you guys
▷ Where are you
▷ Answer the phone right now
▷ Are you crazy?
“…!”
It was the sound of a crack forming in their long-standing peace, and at the same time, the sound of the gates of hell opening.
◈◈◈◈◈
Meanwhile, in a large mansion.
A man was relaxing in a space that seemed like it would only be used as a set.
The man’s identity was David Park.
He was an actor who had experienced Hollywood and had now returned to Korea, and was involved in “Crescendo From Tomorrow.”
He swirled an ice-filled glass of water and muttered.
“So, I’m being forced to rest in Korea? Even if I try to work hard, the project doesn’t move…”
He muttered and leaned back on the comfortable sofa.
Swoosh─
What he picked up next was the script for “Crescendo From Tomorrow.” The highlight part where filming was currently blocked.
“Hmm…”
David Park examined that part very carefully. About an hour passed like that.
“As expected, it’s a good scene no matter how many times I look at it, it’s a shame.”
In David’s view, the highlight wasn’t a highlight for no reason. He liked the work itself of “Crescendo From Tomorrow,” but if the scene could be completed as written in the script, it would be really great.
But the problem was, as expected.
“Yang Harin, that actress.”
David Park narrowed his brow.
“Kim Yoonkyung… Actually, it seems like anyone could be replaced in this role? I don’t know why Lee Sua is so persistently pushing Yang Harin.”
Soon, David Park’s interest shifted to Lee Sua’s ‘eye.’ Lee Sua, what did you see in Yang Harin that you marked her as Kim Yoonkyung?
But he soon dropped the thought.
“Well, even if Lee Sua marked her, is it a meaningless assumption now? Yang Harin has fallen into the abyss… ‘Crescendo From Tomorrow’ will resume from today.”
The moment he muttered that.
─♩♪♬
Suddenly, David Park’s phone rang.
The caller was none other than the agency CEO.
“Hello? CEO?”
“David, are you resting well?”
“It’s a little unfair to ask if I’m resting well? I want to work, but I’m forced to rest.”
“That’s the same thing. Anyway, your rest is probably over now.”
“Why?”
“Didn’t you see the internet articles? Yang Harin blew up.”
“I saw that Yang Harin blew up. Why are you bringing up old news…”
But the next moment, David Park was very surprised.
“…Huh?”
The internet was still hot, and there were many stories about Yang Harin, but the content of the articles had changed.
[ Found Data to Prove Yang Harin’s Innocence in ‘Solicitation Controversy.’ Re-examining Clive’s Shameless Behavior in the Past ]
“Heo.”
David Park was surprised by the content of the articles, and the next moment he was surprised by Sua’s eye. Did she know everything?
‘Did she know that Yang Harin was innocent, and did she think that Kim Yoonkyung could handle it well? In any situation? No, was that her thought from the beginning?’
He currently felt a kind of déjà vu from Sua’s actions that he had received from the top people in Hollywood.
They themselves were top-notch.
It means that not only was their eye for work excellent, but their eye for people was also very accurate. Therefore, David Park.
“CEO.”
“Yeah.”
“Can I say something out of the blue?”
“Is that the first or second time you said it? Just spit out whatever comes to mind without asking me one by one.”
“Okay. About Lee Sua in my work.”
David Park smiled.
“…She, I think she’s definitely going to break into Hollywood later.”
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That day at 7 PM.
That is, 3 hours after the Yang Harin innocence article broke, the girl group Clive was in a waiting room.
This place was the filming location for the music broadcast .
In fact, the Clive members were famous for using the waiting room roughly. Like leaving snack bags and trash lying around carelessly.
But today, this waiting room was very clean.
Everyone was busy biting their nails.
All of the Clive members’ faces were anxious.
“Aish…”
“What are we going to do about this?”
“What are we going to do, we’ll get scolded by the CEO, but nothing much will happen, right? From the beginning, it’s Yang Harin’s innocence being cleared, not our actions being dug up?”
“…That’s right, right? Please let that be the case.”
“That bitch Yang Harin! Why is she being annoying to the end without dying peacefully? Just die! Die!”
It was at this time.
Knock knock─
Some people knocked on the waiting room door and entered.
“Clive sunbaenims, hello. We are the junior group Kids Boy. We look forward to working with you.”
“Hmm?”
The Clive members flinched without realizing it. The reason was the attitude of the junior group ‘Kids Boy.’
Yes, ‘Kids Boy’s’ attitude wasn’t good. Their greetings weren’t energetic and the feeling of bending their bodies was half-hearted?
Clive’s leader pointed that out.
“Hey, redo your greetings.”
“Pardon?”
“Redo your greetings. Is that how you were taught?”
“Ah, yes. Guys, they said to redo our greetings.”
Kids Boy greeted again.
“Hello. We are Kids Boy.”
But their attitude was much worse than before.
Clive couldn’t understand their attitude.
‘Why are these greenhorns acting like this? There’s no way they don’t know our position with so many hit songs?’
They wanted to give them a dressing down right away, but Clive didn’t have time for that. They were already struggling to worry about Yang Harin. Therefore, they just waved their hands.
“…You better be fun the next time I see you. We have good memories? I’ll remember your attitude.”
But what was this, Kids Boy didn’t back down.
“If you have good memories, then you must remember what you did, right? We think that’s fun.”
“What?”
“Isn’t that right? Isn’t the phrase ‘respect the elders’ something that people with good behavior should say?”
“…You know about our actions?”
“We didn’t know either, but now we do. It’s not just us. I think the whole nation will know?”
At the same time, the Kids Boy leader held out his phone.
[ ‘Sex Escort Allegations’ Clive, Biggest Crisis Since Debut ]
[ Clive Had Sex Escorts. Can’t Avoid the Abyss. ]
[ Clive, Who Claimed ‘Yang Harin Sex Escort,’ Was Only Yang Harin Innocent? Evidence of Lewd Solicitation in Brothels Revealed ]
The Kids Boy members clicked their tongues.
“…Isn’t it pathetic to act like a sunbae while doing this? Everyone here is exhausted after reading the article. What the hell is this disgusting behavior in a situation where we have to compete fairly with skill?”
“…”
Clive couldn’t react in any way.
Kids Boy’s words were clear and there was nothing to refute, but more than that, it was hard to accept the reality that all of this had broken out in the article.
“…What?”
Denial is also impossible. The video attached to the article showed the movements of the members entering the lodging facilities, except for Yang Harin.
Even though their faces were blurred, it was a video that anyone could guess were the Clive members.
Bang─!
In the meantime, the PD rushed in.
“Clive! Know that Clive’s stage today has been canceled! Even if you go out, it will be edited!”
Now that the tower Clive has built up until now has begun to collapse, this was only the first ordeal.
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That night. Director Go Taemin’s studio.
Now that filming for ‘Crescendo From Tomorrow’ had stopped, the production team was gathered here instead of the Hyeonhwa Arts High School.
Usually, there would be sighs coming from all directions, but that wasn’t the case now. Everyone’s expressions were subtle.
“…”
In that silence.
“We’re here!”
Sua and Yang Harin arrived.
“…Hello.”
Yang Harin greeted in a weak voice.
“…”
After that, there was silence again.
Everyone was uncomfortable in this place, and so was Yang Harin. After a long time, she didn’t know what to say at the ‘Crescendo From Tomorrow’ set that she had returned to.
Things started then.
“Harin-ssi, I’m sorry.”
“Huh?”
Yang Harin unknowingly blurted out a stupid sound. Because she heard a sound that she hadn’t expected at all.
And the words that followed.
“Harin-ssi, we didn’t know too much.”
“You worked hard. How unfair were you?”
“We didn’t even know…”
“…”
Every single one of them is warm.
Yang Harin didn’t know how to react in this situation. She was used to being kicked out from somewhere, but it was the first time she had been accepted again.
Sua, what should I say in this situation?
When Yang Harin looked at Sua with those eyes.
Sua smiled brightly.
As if she knew all your thoughts.
“Harin, that word that comes to your mind now.”
Sua quietly placed her hand on Harin’s shoulder.
“The word that comes to your mind the most intensely. Just say that.”
The most intense word.
Yang Harin soon nodded.
“…I, I think I can film the highlight.”
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