Chapter 182-183 (1/2)
Chapter 182: Those who stab you in the back (1)
TL: emptycube / ED: Isleidir
My steps abruptly halted
A few steps away, Lee Songha was staring up at th into , dark tunnel alone
”Are you okay?”
I quickly went down the stairs when Lee Songha raised her hand
”Don't colass Stay there because there are glass shards”
She said in her norh hell The sound of shattering glass was unpleasant Lee Songha brushed her hair to the side Her nicely arranged hair becaets hurt”
”Wait Jae, go tell Koo about this”
Taken aback, Jung Jae, as on her way down, quickly ran up to the fifth floor
I looked back at Lee Songha and asked,
”Are you hurt anywhere? If it broke, you should have avoided it Why did you step on it?”
”I was lost in ha bent her knees a few ti that extended out from her skirt Fortunately, I didn't see any blood… Or so I thought Her stocking ripped and a strand sprung off Lee Songha stealthilyback
”I'm not hurt”
”Not hurt? First…”
I trailed off I heard soather They were busy trying to get in an extra word to Lee Songha, asking her if she was fine or if she was hurt Lee Songha pressed her cheeks
”I think I had too ood that you didn't fall!”
”Ah, if I did, I would have rolled and gracefully gotten up”
”What? Roll?”
”I learned gy Alive”
There was no need for me to intervene She skillfully settled the crowd by explaining the situation and playing it off with a laugh As expected, she felt unfa wasn't here, she seeha”
I acted before otten into your stockings Go downstairs and have a closer look”
”Yes”
Leaving her in Neptune's care, I cleaned up the broken glass and cal people I then went down to the second-floor basement I heard voices in the practice room in the basement, which was dark because people had left early for the party
Lee Songha was sitting on the floor, and I
”Hey, you're lucky you weren't hurt! How can you throw a glass just because you had nothing else to throw?”
”I told you I didn't throw it, it dropped”
Lee Taehee held Lee Songha's face, as in denial
”Let's see Are you drunk?”
”I guess”
Lee Songha pressed her cheek against Lee Taehee's hand Iirl who drank wild ginseng ith unni, drunk after a couple glasses of chaet drunk more easily on days like this”
”Don't you try to sell snake oil! Did your trau?”
”Trauha slowly rolled the word in herwhen I see Son Chaeyoung anyha shook her head and changed the subject
”Ah, I'm drunk I want to see oppa”
”Look”
I said while entering the rooha”
”Uhh, then should we stand on guard?”
Iuard?”
”B-because soht occur that shouldn't be discovered by others?”
”Nothing like that'll happen We're just going to talk Just close the door Also…”
”We'll have a drink fro eyes had an iinations will run wild if we appear by ourselves Like her”
”What aboutand LJ left first, and Lee Taehee closed the door behind her The practice roo, devoid of any scratches, and opened my mouth to speak
”To be honest, I'ha spoke first
”I ht have thrown it Since I wanted to”
”Because I asked Jae if she wanted acting lessons?”
”Yes”
She frankly replied as her gaze fell to the floor
”It made hts on acting Right here, in this practice room That memory was always vivid like it only happened yesterday, but it suddenly felt like it was such a long ti”
Son Chaeyoung?
After taking a breath, Lee Songha continued,
”Because of that… I can understand why Son Chaeyoung hated me”
”What?”
”Do you think she'll be better thanvoice Like soha wrapped her ar onto her forear on the corners of her lowered eyelashes
My mouth tasted bitter So much that it was difficult to s
It was siestion Just because I happened to reha' in the future vision I saw in the past Reportersgirl group, but I was curious if she really had talent in acting
If she showed talent after a few lessons, I would foster it, but if not, I would have ht it up to figure that out Did that sound like a death sentence to Lee Songha?
”I know I' a confession
”I' to beco”
Another voice overlapped with hers in 's voice, which was embedded deep inThat could be drugs, alcohol, or the like… Or soaze to soha felt about led that it would be difficult to explore every aspect of that eh I knew she was excessively unconditional and had an obsessive side to her
To make her depend and lean on me above all else
I licked my dry lips and said,
”You are different fro”
”… I wish that was true”
Lee Songha raised her head
”Oppa, I'll handle my schedule with another chief from now”
The words I was about to say to her were all pushed aside
”I know that you are barely , 'only a bit more,' and it has come this far You'll be much busier from now, so you don't need to take care of my schedule I'll stand on my own”
Stand on your own?
”Also, if, from another team… If there's a chief from Team 2 ants to ithI'll have to experience anyways”
She's fine with er suddenly surged It was so severe that the unpleasantness I had felt until was almost cute My emotions were so turbulent that I felt sick I sed dryly and rubbed the corner of ha's situation was unique If I had a chaht have shattered into ha's
The suspicions and caution that had accumulated over the past few days finally burst
”Did the CEO tell you to do that?”
”Huh?”
”Son Chaeyoung's matter And now you Did the CEO order you?”
Myout of
Lee Songha blinked her eyes, taken aback
”Order?”
”Or threatened”
Threatened
Finally spitting out that word, which elling in er
What kind of person was CEO Baek Hansung? Was he a good person or a bad one?
My future self said that he beca'sthat it would have been better to stay under CEO Baek Hansung That, in a world full of black-hearted people, a , who I had observed until noas talented and even reliable at ti described him to be so their weakness
If I beca's methods, then I…
”Why do you think that?”
Lee Songha asked with a strange expression
”What did you hear? What I told you last tihts There weren't any threats or anything Why would the CEO do sorew big enough that people referred to a walking one-person co called her W&U's poster star There were only three years left on her seven-year exclusive contract, and the CEO and his executives were probably thinking and preparing for the future
Also, because CEO Baek Hansungso them
Like me
”You, that photo The one that was taken with ha abruptly looked shocked like soered backwards
”If that photo is so you down, I can-”
”No! That photo is ju-just an e that can holdI can siot released”
”Really?”
”Yes, why are you suddenly worried about that?”
I repeatedly confir ha so? Was I suffering from obsession? Were there really no secret threats I didn't know?
Even if that was true, would it continue to be the case?
My head ached I was a walking ha, if so like that ever happens, you need to tell…”
”Oppa”
Lee Songha caood of a person as you think”
”What?”
”Rather than being threatened, I think about threatening others, no, I'm worried that I will Also, you don't need to worry about the CEO anyha smiled
”The only one I'm scared of is you”
The ht for a long while finally snapped
It really did see, yet the sun was already out Lying down and staring at the curtain's fluttering shadow, I grabbed my phone
Reporters, producers, and writers, who didn't distinguish between night and day, had filled my call history with missed called I would have checked each one normally, but I pushed them all aside today and called soround and a voice
-What with the busiest person in the world callingoff work now?
”No, it's et days off? (Dad, what is it? Is it his day off? Hasn't it been a million years since his last one? Let's tell hiht? Even the kids are surprised
That wasn't surprising to hear since I had worked hard without taking a breath for a while I didn't even knohen the last ti about as My friends were talking about how I've co them to think I went back to et easier if you went froet busier by the day? It's been a while since you've gone home too Do you even have a life? Thirty is just around the corner, yet I haven't heard that you're seeing so!)
Soon, I heard a serious voice from the other side
-Uncle! On TV, it said that youth is fro next year!
”Now that you're all past your 'cute' age, you're gross Be respectful when talking to ross!
I heard h a like that because they rabbing onto ? You can?
”Since the project is over, I can take a breather I need to organize a few things too About that”