**Major News, News & Issues**
He drove drunk but didn’t drink alcohol… Gi Siyoung’s drunk driving nonsense?
Alcohol destroys people. Even T.O.P couldn’t escape that damn alcohol! Alcohol! Alcohol!
The child actor prince stamped as a national dislike in just one day…
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⤷Just cleanly admit it, this is pathetic
⤷Ugh, it’s not drunk driving. He just got off with a warning
⤷Can’t forgive drunk driving, how is it different from murder
⤷Good riddance, don’t go far
⤷I knew something would blow up with this guy
⤷Why the hell do people drunk drive ㅜㅜ
⤷I’m an insider and Gi Siyoung has never drunk alcohol. Really never…
⤷I was wondering when the insider talk would come out
⤷He’s never drunk alcohol but drove drunk?
⤷What kind of bullshit is this? He drank without drinking?
⤷Either way, drinking and driving is absolutely not okay. I’m so disappointed in Gi Siyoung with this incident. He usually had no scandals so I felt safe liking him.. but… sigh…
⤷Hey, the one claiming to be an insider. Prove it and spill more details
⤷This comment has been deleted.
⤷What was the deleted comment? Was it real proof?
⤷Yeah, it was deleted in one second. Didn’t even have time to screenshot
⤷I saw it before it was deleted and it was just a company employee ID. But they said Gi Siyoung’s drunk driving blood test was done and everything, and the level was super low
⤷Hahaha, low is still drunk driving? Then can I take a sip of beer and ride a kickboard?
⤷But the blood alcohol level in the article is low enough that if he sued, he could get a not guilty verdict. There was a precedent like that before. But he doesn’t seem to want to go that far.
⤷This is why you shouldn’t let kids taste money from a young age
The public’s reaction was split exactly in half.
Those who would kill him and those who wouldn’t.
The company was in a state of extreme emergency. Director Kang kept muttering like a crazy person that they needed to perform an exorcism, that this was all because they didn’t hold a ritual when building the company—pure shamanism talk.
The staff didn’t hesitate to work overtime. They collected all the malicious comments flooding the countless posts. They called the reporters who had thrown out articles without fact-checking and threatened them to take down the articles immediately.
However, none of them seemed to be thinking of contacting Siyoung, who was currently alone.
“I’ll go to Gi Siyoung-ssi’s house.”
“Oh, thanks, Seungun-ah.”
Myeongwoo answered without even looking back.
“…….”
Seungun, who had been suffering from guilt, couldn’t help but worry about Gi Siyoung. He had lived his life shamelessly, as President Gu had told him to throw away things like guilt. However, no one was born that way by nature.
He didn’t know how President Gu resolved his own guilt, but Seungun needed Seungun’s way. He tried eavesdropping on the bus the whole way there, but there was no sound at all. When he opened the door and went in, a pitch-black house greeted him.
“Gi Siyoung-ssi?”
“…….”
The house was quiet as if no one lived there. The clearly visible living room and kitchen were messy, unlike usual. On the table, several scenarios and scripts he’d been recently reviewing were scattered carelessly. It seemed the cleaning lady hadn’t come to work either.
Seungun called his name again and approached the bedroom. There wasn’t a single light inside the slightly open door either. He quietly opened the door. The lights of the Han River bridge outside the large floor-to-ceiling window dimly illuminated the interior.
“Gi Siyoung-ssi.”
The middle of the bed was bulging up. The other person wasn’t moving at all. When he got closer, he could see a face peeking out slightly. Following up his sharp nose bridge, his long eyes were beautifully closed. His eyebrows, as if drawn with a brush, gleamed distinctly.
“Gi Siyoung-ssi.”
“…….”
This is strange. There’s no movement. Just for a moment, he worried if he might have had bad thoughts.
“Gi Siyoung-ssi!”
Startled, Seungun grabbed his firm shoulder and turned him to the side. At the same time, he pulled back the blanket and checked his body.
“I’m not dead.”
“…….”
“Why did you come?”
This was the first time Gi Siyoung’s voice sounded so welcome. He almost lost strength in his legs and nearly collapsed.
“Why didn’t you answer when someone was calling you?”
“I wanted to surprise you.”
“You’re joking.”
“Were you surprised I might be dead?”
“…….”
“I was just pretending to sleep.”
His phone was shining brightly from inside the blanket.
“Were you reading the news? Why bother looking at stuff like that?”
“I’m curious what people are saying.”
“Don’t look at things like this. Especially at times like this, checking public opinion isn’t good.”
“Seungun-ssi already seems to know what everyone’s saying about me. That’s why you rushed all the way here because you were worried I might have taken my own life.”
“…….”
Of course, the only ones taking Gi Siyoung’s side were his fans. Even people who weren’t interested in him said things like what was bound to blow up had blown up, that’s why top stars are no good, there’s never a calm day. Even though Gi Siyoung didn’t plead for people to trust him, people who got their foot chopped by the axe they trusted were popping up everywhere.
“Don’t answer phone calls as much as possible. Only answer contact from the company. And go through me for that contact too.”
“…….”
Seungun listed out exactly what Myeongwoo had instructed before he came here. Gi Siyoung listened quietly while looking out the window. It was the back of a head that seemed full of thoughts. If his build had been just a little smaller, Seungun would have immediately pulled him into an embrace to comfort him.
Seungun plopped down on the bed. He had nothing more to say. Even looking straight at Gi Siyoung right now made his conscience hurt too much to last more than 3 seconds.
“My life has been too boring all this time.”
“…….”
“You need some ups and downs for episodes to develop.”
Gi Siyoung’s voice saying this was quite melancholic. He looked at Seungun with sunken eyes.
“There are always bastards around me trying to use me and leech off me. Ten or more times a day, people ask me to invest here, lend my name there, and I get useless calls from places I never even gave my contact information to. That’s why I made another phone. Everyone pretends to care about me, but at critical moments, they’re all just bastards frantically trying to save themselves.”
“…….”
“What happened isn’t Seungun-ssi’s fault. If it was a bastard who cleverly spiked my drink with alcohol, they would have gotten me caught sooner or later.”
“…….”
“But if it’s Im Seungun-ssi….”
Seungun looked at Gi Siyoung questioningly as he trailed off unclearly.
“If it’s me?”
“If it’s Im Seungun-ssi, I don’t think you’d lie to me. I somehow get that feeling.”
“…….”
Gi Siyoung recalled Seungun, who got hit by the alcohol Kim Hojun had sprayed instead of him. He threw his body quickly without hesitation. It was hard to see it as a calculated action. Besides that, Seungun had acted so sincerely that it made him feel bad for being mean to him.
Gi Siyoung chuckled for no reason, as if he found it funny that he was having these thoughts—they say when you go through something big, you mature.
“…….”
Seungun had nothing to say. Even if he seemed okay, Gi Siyoung was also human. He wouldn’t be okay. Gi Siyoung, who was always surrounded by people, was always alone at important moments. He had eyes that looked like they needed comfort more than anyone else right now.
“Didn’t you come here to comfort me? If you came, at least give me some real comfort.”
“What kind of real comfort?”
“Usually you’d hug them.”
“…That’s not very difficult.”
Gi Siyoung extended his arms. Seungun hugged him. If it gave him comfort, it was a shallow selfishness to try to ease his own guilt this way. However, when he held Gi Siyoung in his arms, his own facial muscles distorted strangely instead.
If misfortune came to someone who had never had an ‘unlucky moment,’ there would be no deeper blow than that. This situation where he was asking for a hug from the very person who had driven him to this was absurdly ironic.
“Hmm… This isn’t as comforting as I thought.”
Gi Siyoung’s voice returned to normal.
“What kind of comfort do you need more?”
Seungun couldn’t read his expression well. Just then, he straightened his posture. Their bodies were tilted slightly toward each other. Siyoung stared directly into his eyes. Eyes so deep that if he stared at someone with purpose, you’d be helplessly fooled. Siyoung’s eyes were darker and deeper than even the dark blue sky visible behind him.
Perhaps, as Gi Siyoung said, what happened now was just an episode in his life, just an up and down that would soon pass, like a drama. When something blew up, there were more than a truckload of people who would jump in and handle things before he even had to. Even now, such people were all over the company.
The feelings he was having right now were probably just false. Gi Siyoung rubbed his chin and muttered.
“You know that usually in dramas, the next stage goes to kissing, right?”
