The scoop article spread throughout all communities, and each community was debating Seo Hanryul’s actions.
That’s right. It was already a grand Colosseum situation that was beyond control.
[‘Laws of the Universe’ Seo Hanryul. Unexpected physical altercation with agency CEO]
ㄴ He’s a rookie, isn’t he crazy? Doping test urgently needed;;; As expected, you can’t trust a celebrity’s image
ㄴ He pushed someone 4 years older than him… He looks delicate but has quite a temper…
ㄴ People who look like that originally have worse tempers
ㄴ What happens when kids with nothing in their heads but good looks become celebrities
ㄴ If he’s this flashy from being a rookie, I can’t even imagine what he’ll do when he gets more famous. In a bad way
Amazing
ㄴ But isn’t that CEO the son of Yuseong Group? What kind of guts does Seo Hanryul have ㅎㄷㄷ He’s amazing in his own way
ㄴ Shouldn’t we hold off on this? The CEO might have said something weird and got on his nerves
ㄴ Agreed. We don’t know the before and after of the incident, so lumping it all together and cursing first doesn’t seem right
ㄴ Do your hands come out first when you get angry? Whatever the case, pushing someone like that in a public place doesn’t look good
ㄴ On the contrary, it’s good^^
ㄴ Right. A celebrity should have some temper and be like that. The personality reversal makes him more charming. Looking at it, he didn’t actually hit him… It’s nothing serious
ㄴ Am I the only one rotten? Seo Hanryul’s back view is amazing. A model of an angry butt.
ㄴ You too… really have a problem…
ㄴ Random but the CEO is also fucking handsome…
I thought the last comment was funny because it was so out of the blue, but I could tell at which point they were praising Seo Hanryul. Yesterday, Seo Hanryul wore a black rider jacket and black tapered jeans that clung slightly to his legs. In the photo, Seo Hanryul’s heels were slightly raised as he pushed Lee Dojun, who was bigger than him, and because of this, his angry butt was blatantly exposed.
‘Ha… That Jjanggu-like bastard.’
In the original work, far from causing accidents, the kid was so kind that he induced pity in readers, so why is he causing such accidents every other day now, making my heart sick?
After reading the flashy comments, I was now getting angry at Youth. What kind of place is Youth? It’s a solid agency that goes without saying in the entertainment industry. For such an agency to not be able to block such a pathetic article.
‘Isn’t this just a conglomerate in name only?’
It was true that Seo Hanryul’s behavior yesterday was excessive and wrong, but it was a very small happening. However, the scoop article was subtly distorting Seo Hanryul’s actions. He never even grabbed anyone by the collar, but they used vocabulary like ‘an attitude as if about to grab the collar,’ blatantly throwing bait to the public. The article was so absurdly false that I wanted to see the reporter’s face.
‘Is he okay?’
Seeing the endlessly running malicious comments, I thought Seo Hanryul might also be shocked. There were still about 2 hours until the schedule, but I quickly rushed to his house.
* * *
I was the only one worried again. I visited his house in a hurry, but the bastard’s attitude was tranquility itself. Seeing his lofty behavior, I naturally thought that you need that much guts to challenge being a celebrity.
I, who rushed over with one pure heart of worry, really wanted to beat my past self. The bastard didn’t care about his article at all and was only obsessed with attacking me.
“Cha Jaehyun. We have unfinished business from yesterday. We should finish it, right?”
Even though we were alone, the bastard called my name in a gentle voice. My whole body froze at his spine-chilling behavior, and I desperately changed the subject.
“Is that important right now? Look at the article. Get a grip. When even the two of us racking our brains wouldn’t be enough, what are you talking about?”
“You’re talking nonsense. The water’s already spilled. Will the article disappear if we two rack our brains? This is something the agency will handle, and we should do our work, right?”
But Seo Hanryul wasn’t easy.
“Ha… I told you everything yesterday. The CEO suddenly asked to have dinner. I was going to tell you everything today, okay?”
“So why did you lie? When I asked what happened with the CEO yesterday, you clearly said nothing much happened, right?”
He’s definitely interested in Lee Dojun too. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to interrogate me this much just because I ate one meal with Lee Dojun.
“Hey, even if we had dinner, nothing would have happened. That’s why I said nothing much happened. And I was going to tell you everything I talked about with the CEO. How many times do I have to say it?”
“…Cha Jaehyun. If you keep lying like this, it’s troublesome. It’s a breach of contract, you know?”
Seo Hanryul glared at me and brought up breach of contract. That bastard’s breach of contract, I feel like I’m getting neurosis.
“…I’m sorry. I’ll absolutely never lie from now on. Please forgive me just this once.”
“How many times is this now? Next time, ‘just once’ won’t work. This is the last time I’m letting it slide.”
The contract expiration is right before my eyes, so I can’t mess it up in vain. I begged him for forgiveness in a humble posture, and fortunately, he killed his temper.
* * *
A week had passed since the scoop article came out. A correction report went out four days ago, but the handling wasn’t satisfactory. Usually, when such a negative article goes out, a correction report should go out within a day, but for some unknown reason, Youth’s handling was very frustrating.
Also, the entertainment industry was an unknowable world. On the first day, only malicious comments were overwhelmingly posted, but as days passed, public opinion began to change. Once the correction report went out, Seo Hanryul transformed into a celebrity with reversal charm, and his buzz increased even more. After that incident, Seo Hanryul became a person who recorded the highest mention volume on SNS for the entire week.
This could only be explained by the protagonist buff. As the tranquil bastard predicted, the situation began to flow favorably toward Seo Hanryul. In the end, the bastard became even more arrogant without a shred of reflection, and only the pain I felt grew. After that incident, the bastard began taking an interest in my personal time to a disgusting degree. Even this morning, he tediously probed about my daily schedule.
“So what are you doing this evening?”
“Ha… I have no plans. Let’s just take the elevator.”
‘What shitty coincidence.’
Lee Dojun was in the elevator. It was truly an unwelcome face.
“CEO-nim, hello.”
“Seo Hanryul-ssi must be so lucky?”
Lee Dojun cleanly ignored my words and started saying what he wanted to say.
“What do you mean?”
Seo Hanryul answered stiffly without even looking at Lee Dojun.
“Even throwing all your tantrums like that, your popularity rises.”
‘Is that a word or a fart?’
Lee Dojun was being sarcastic toward Seo Hanryul. No matter how much he wanted to hide his feelings toward Seo Hanryul, was that something to say to your own agency’s celebrity? I hated both bastards so much I was becoming disillusioned.
“Haha, CEO-nim. Your joke is going too far. We’ll be getting off now.”
Leaving behind the brief encounter with Lee Dojun, the two of us entered the conference room.
Today’s morning schedule was to meet with the agency planning team to discuss future advertisement schedules. Because I visited Seo Hanryul’s house early today, about an hour of free time remained. In other words, I had to be alone with Seo Hanryul for an hour. I dug my own grave.
“We’re alone again?”
The bastard said to me in a demon-like voice.
“That sounded really villainous just now. Didn’t it?”
“You said you’re not doing anything in the evening, right? Then let’s go work out with me.”
Being stuck with the bastard throughout the schedule was already terrible, but now he was trying to invade even my precious free time.
“Hey, this isn’t right. Even a slave has break time. Isn’t taking away even break time really too much?”
“That’s upsetting. Cha Jaehyun, do you hate working out with me that much?”
The bastard didn’t hesitate to call my name affectionately. The bastard’s face imitating a sad expression was detestable itself.
“I feel sick inside, so don’t call me like that.”
“Why? However I call you, isn’t that my freedom?”
Why on earth is he acting like that toward me? It’s true that the relationship between Seo Hanryul and Cha Jaehyun has improved a lot compared to before. But it’s only improved, it doesn’t mean our relationship is good. Of course, the bastard and Cha Jaehyun were entangled in a dirty and messy way, so there was nothing to untangle or anything.
‘Why is he acting like that?’
Why does Seo Hanryul keep trying to stick by my side? As the expiration date of the absurd request form approached, Seo Hanryul’s sliminess intensified. Was he acting like that because he was frustrated that Cha Jaehyun wasn’t causing accidents according to his plan, so he had no justification to break the contract?
“Why are you speechless?”
I was pondering the bastard’s intentions when he tapped my lips with his finger. This was also strange. At some point, the bastard started touching me without hesitation. I’m a slave, so it didn’t matter that Seo Hanryul was tapping me around. But what I was curious about was the bastard’s inner thoughts. Previously, he would tremble with disgust even if he just brushed fingertips with Cha Jaehyun, but now he was the one touching Cha Jaehyun’s body first, which was simply fascinating.
“Because you’re weird.”
“What?”
“Why have you been tapping and touching me since last time?”
“Wow~ Cha Jaehyun. Really cold? Can’t a celebrity touch his own manager?”
The bastard went one step further and naturally placed his arm on my shoulder.
‘No matter how I think about it, it’s strange.’
“Ah, here we go again?”
“Stop acting precious. Then I’ll take it as we’re going together in the evening.”
The bastard shamelessly easily snatched away my dinner time.
‘Damn…’
Knock knock-
‘What?’
While I was having a meaningless quarrel with Seo Hanryul, I heard a knocking sound from outside the door.
“Yes~ Come in.”
What? Today’s meeting was scheduled for 11 o’clock, but the planning team arrived much earlier than expected.
“Hello. …But isn’t today’s meeting at 11 o’clock?”
“An urgent agenda item was added, so we need to discuss it right now. Fortunately, you arrived earlier than the meeting time.”
“What’s going on?”
“Let me turn on the projector first and explain. Please look at this first.”
The planning team busily turned on the beam projector while handing us two the PPT materials.
‘What is this now?’
