Chapter 30:
Lee Hangyeol, a member of OneSeven, headed straight to his dorm after finishing the last shoot of ‘White Tiger-ham’.
“Hey, hyung, you came early?”
“Is Lee Joon not here yet?”
He ignored Kang Junwoo, another member, and opened the door to his room.
“Maybe he’s still on schedule?”
“Really?”
It was rare to see Lee Hangyeol’s expression so distorted and unreadable. He only looked like that when they debuted and when Yoo Yeon Seo left the team.
“What’s wrong? Is something wrong?”
“I have something to talk to Lee Joon first.”
Wow, what’s going on? Did they fight? Kang Junwoo crunched on the potato chips he was holding. He meant he would talk to him later, right?
Lee Hangyeol sat on the sofa and crossed his arms. He couldn’t focus on the shoot after hearing the conversation between Lim Seunghyun and Oh Beomsu.
After Yoo Yeon Seo left and they had a brief hiatus, OneSeven had at least two comebacks a year.
They also had a lot of albums. They did music shows for three full weeks, and sometimes they went on overseas locations. They moved to this dorm before their reverse run…
‘So did he do all this with his money?’
He was roughly calculating the money that went into OneSeven when he suddenly remembered the words.
[What if, just what if.]
Kim Lee Joon, who had blurted out something absurd when he went to visit Yoo Yeon Seo’s hospital room. He must have heard something to say that.
“I’m here! Are you all here?”
“Hyung, I ran into Juwon hyung in front of the dorm.”
Lee Hangyeol got up as if he had been waiting for him and headed to the entrance.
“Lee Joon, wait a minute.”
“What, what?”
Kim Lee Joon was dragged into the room without even taking off his shoes properly. He held his shoes loosely and looked up at Lee Hangyeol.
“Did you hear anything from Yeon Seo when you went to her hospital room?”
“Uh… that time?”
Kim Lee Joon threw his shoes on the floor and sat on the bed.
“Don’t be so cheesy and live your life, he said.”
“Not that… You said something weird back then. That there might be another reason…”
Why is he bringing that up? Kim Lee Joon had been leaning towards the possibility that there was another reason for Yoo Yeon Seo’s departure.
But he didn’t say anything more after that because he felt like he had made the atmosphere weird.
“I… actually had something bothering me.”
“What is it?”
“He said that he finally admitted the reverse run, that it was worth the investment. He said that.”
Lee Hangyeol swallowed his breath.
“Is there something I don’t know? I’ve been thinking about it… but I didn’t say anything more because I felt like I made the mood weird that time.”
“…”
“Do you know something, hyung?”
Kim Lee Joon frowned as he saw Lee Hangyeol’s expression change in an instant. Was his suspicion right?
“What I heard was…”
Lee Hangyeol briefly explained the conversation between Lim Seunghyun and Oh Beomsu. Kim Lee Joon’s expression changed to horror as he listened.
“So he really…”
“I think the reason why our settlement was delayed was because of that.”
“No, what…”
Kim Lee Joon gasped as he ran his hand through his hair. It wasn’t just annoyance at the delayed settlement.
He thought they were doing well at the company. He didn’t know that and they fought whenever they met, but he felt guilty and resentful for not telling him.
“No, why didn’t he tell us?”
So he really left because of his family’s opposition, and he felt sorry for leaving suddenly, so he invested for seven years? Even if he’s a chaebol, that doesn’t make sense, does it? That Yoo Yeon Seo?
“What did you guys just say?”
At the words of Yoon Yuchan, the leader, Kim Lee Joon and Lee Hangyeol turned their heads. The door that they thought was closed was wide open. The remaining four members were standing at the door with blank expressions.
“Guys. Did you never doubt it?”
The other members looked serious at Lee Hangyeol’s words.
***
The singers who were going to perform and receive awards at the ceremony sat in the seats prepared next to the stage, and the actors waited in the separate waiting room for their turn.
There were a lot of cameras on the singer seats, and it must be boring without being able to use their phones. Yoo Yeon Seo thought as he opened the door to the waiting room.
“But aren’t you bored waiting?”
“Isn’t it fun to watch the performances? I want to see how the trends are going these days.”
“Really?”
Yoo Yeon Seo shared the waiting room with Choi Yujin. The spacious waiting room had finger food plated luxuriously and even a massage chair.
“Oh? Mr. Lim Seunghyun, weren’t you off today?”
“I have to follow the schedule of the master.”
Lim Seunghyun was standing next to Lee Taegyeom, who had arrived sometime.
“I have something to check, too.”
He had a smiling expression as usual, but the atmosphere was somehow strange. Lee Taegyeom stepped back from Lim Seunghyun. He was not fooled by his announcer-like appearance anymore.
‘He came to shake down Oh Beomsu.’
Yoo Yeon Seo chuckled.
At first, Oh Beomsu contacted him, and then the CEO called him and begged him to spare him, saying he couldn’t raise the money right away.
‘They should have done it moderately.’
Of course, there was no mercy. He would take back all the money he had stolen, but he had plenty of money, so he could extend the deadline.
But Lim Seunghyun decided to do it himself, saying that he would do it until the end since he had told him to do it. Yoo Yeon Seo agreed. He was honestly annoyed by the hassle.
Lim Seunghyun had been squeezing AST Enter by finding the perfect point where they seemed to be able to raise the money they had embezzled and saying, ‘If you don’t send it by then, you’ll end up like Entertainment Jump’.
“Just do it moderately.”
“Yes, I’ll play with them moderately.”
What are these people talking about? Lee Taegyeom stepped back another step. He was actually having fun with Lee Taegyeom’s reaction, but.
Yoo Yeon Seo felt quite good. Lim Seunghyun would surely drain them more than he did.
(Yes, the 2018 JMA…)
The ceremony started on the screen. Yoo Yeon Seo also briefly appeared in the flashy introduction video of the cast. After a brief introduction by the MC, the stage of a rookie group that debuted this year began.
Yoo Yeon Seo watched the performance while chatting with Choi Yujin from time to time, but around the time the commercial break started, he covered his mouth with his hand.
‘I thought I threw up everything earlier.’
He felt nauseous and headed outside without anyone noticing. He looked around for a restroom with no people, but he almost bumped into someone at the corner.
“Huh?”
The other person was OneSeven. They had just finished their stage and came down, sweating.
So… I said that I used to growl whenever I met Yoo Yeon Seo and OneSeven, right? I don’t think I can use the automatic behavior mode because of the aftereffects of memory synchronization… Then how should I deal with them?
‘Should I act the same as before?’
Yoo Yeon Seo, who had gotten a hang of it at the engagement ceremony, thought that he could imitate the actions that the original body would do even without the automatic behavior mode. He just had to be appropriately rude and snarky.
While Yoo Yeon Seo was seriously pondering, Lee Hangeol, who was at the back, raised his hand first.
“Yeon Seo. Long time no see.”
“Oh, long time no see.”
OneSeven was surprisingly quiet. Was he tired from the stage? Yoo Yeon Seo tried to step aside and let OneSeven pass.
“…What? You’re not going?”
“Why did you do that?”
OneSeven asked a question without a subject, which was his characteristic. Yoo Yeon Seo frowned. He was already feeling unwell, and he was annoyed by the nonsense.
“Do what?”
“The investment you made for us. I heard it from Hangeol hyung.”
Lee Hangeol? No way… Was there someone else there besides me? When Yoo Yeon Seo looked at Lee Hangeol, he nodded with a heavy expression. No wonder he was acting weird at the end of the shooting.
“Ha…”
Yoo Yeon Seo sighed deeply. Honestly, I want to know too. Why did the original body do that?
‘Can my body handle it?’
Yoo Yeon Seo hesitated for a moment, then bit his lower lip with his teeth.
‘Beta. Turn on the automatic behavior mode.’
<Master, your physical condition is not good…>
‘Let’s just do it for a bit.’
<…Okay.>
Yoo Yeon Seo’s mouth moved on its own.
“For no reason?”
“What?”
“Do you need a reason to be kind to a beggar? Besides pity?”
Lee Hangeol let out a deflated sound. If it was the old Yoo Yeon Seo, he would have fallen for it, but not now. He had already figured out the situation before and after, and he knew how he had changed in the ‘White Tiger ship’.
“Yeon Seo, that doesn’t work anymore.”
Yoo Yeon Seo scowled as if he had hit the mark.
“…Just, I thought I should take responsibility for quitting suddenly.”
“You did that for seven years?”
“I was going to do it until the artist contract period. I wouldn’t have quit suddenly if I could, so I would have been active until then.”
“It was because of your grandfather that you quit, right?”
“Well, there was also the fact that I couldn’t persuade my grandfather…”
Kim Ijun had heard everything from under the hospital bed, so he didn’t bother to deny it anymore.
“Hyung, you should have told us sooner…”
“Right. Why didn’t you tell us? If you did…”
We wouldn’t have blamed you and resented you, right? As the OneSeven members added a word each, some people looked at them because of the commotion in the hallway.
“There was no reason to tell you.”
“No! Why was there no reason to tell us.”
Kim Ijun scratched his head. He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t form a proper sentence. He hated him for so long, and he was embarrassed.
‘Did you hope for this? Did you want us to find out later and apologize to you?’
“Well, it’s possible for this hyung…”
“Hey. Who would wait for seven years for that?”
“He’s crazy, right?”
This bastard? Yoo Yeon Seo glared at Kim Ijun without realizing it.
Kim Ijun shut his mouth. Actually, this was not the time to argue. He wanted to say thank you, and sorry for being angry all this time, but he couldn’t say it easily. He was ashamed of his hatred.
<Master, it would be better to stop now.>
‘Yeah, turn it off.’
He had a rough idea of the reason. The assumption that he had been happy with OneSeven and tried to keep his loyalty was correct.
‘It’s getting weirder…’
He didn’t seem to have a bad personality by nature, judging from his childhood memories. He had some sense of responsibility and pride, and he wasn’t completely stubborn. But why did he act so rudely? He got worse as he got older.
<Master, please prepare for bleeding.>
Yoo Yeon Seo lowered his head almost reflexively. Blood dripped down. OneSeven was startled and approached him.
“Hey, hey! You’re bleeding!”
“What do we do, hyung?”
“I have tissue!”
“That’s the one you wiped your sweat with.”
“No! This is a new one!”
The OneSeven members surrounded Yoo Yeon Seo and made a fuss.
Oh, this is crazy. Yoo Yeon Seo took the tissue that someone from OneSeven handed him and pressed it to his nose. His heart beat pleasantly. It wasn’t a bad feeling.
-I went to the awards ceremony as a helper today and I saw YYB and WWS fighting
They were shouting and making a scene?? He even had a nosebleed?
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