Author: LyraDhani
Manager Chanyoung managed to keep his composure and successfully park the car in the apartnt’s underground lot. After scanning the area, he made a call.
“Mr. Daeyeon, reporters are here right now. Could you circle around the area until I contact you? I’ll send the kids up and co back down.”
— Should I request security personnel?
“Yes, that would be good.”
As the manager said, the corners of caras were visible between parked cars. Perhaps thinking there was no need to hide since the news was already known, so were standing openly in front of the common entrance. If Manager Daeyeon passed through there alone with three mbers, at least a dozen hidden paparazzi would pop out.
Needless to say, we couldn’t get out of the car until the security guards UA had sent arrived. I never imagined I’d see a scene like the ones Spark had at the airport, down in our dorm’s underground parking lot.
Although the reporters, realizing Choi Jeho wasn’t there, dispersed quickly saying it was a waste of ti, it was enough to make Lee Cheonghyeon and Kang Kiyeon’s faces turn pale.
[Seongbin]
[There are many people in the parking lot]
[Bring Choi Jeho safely]
ntal Pillar Jeong Seongbin
[Don’t worry]
[Jeho hyung isn’t annoyed]
I’d contacted Jeong Seongbin because I thought even reaching out might feel like unwanted attention to soone who was already flustered. Thankfully, Jeong Seongbin let know that, comndably, Choi Jeho was waiting calmly.
“He says Jeho hyung is okay?”
Lee Cheonghyeon asked with a voice full of worry.
“Yeah, seems like he’s not losing his temper.”
I answered with a warm voice optimized to reassure the other party, but Lee Cheonghyeon’s expression was still full of anxiety. The face that should shine more brilliantly than mother-of-pearl was dark as if covered in smog. So humans really did pollute even nature’s treasures. Unforgivable.
“Why? Worried sothing might happen on the way? You don’t have to worry too much. Manager Chanyoung went down too.”
“That’s not it……”
Lee Cheonghyeon hesitated. Kang Kiyeon was also busy watching my reaction next to Lee Cheonghyeon.
“Jeho hyung can’t stand unfair or frustrating things.”
“True.”
“I also think there’s no way hyung would do that, you know? Physically, he wouldn’t even have the ti. But if he’s not reacting at all in a place with no caras…”
The unspoken implication ‘what if he’s got sothing going on’ hung in the air. After witnessing Choi Jeho’s rage in real ti over Hong Unseop smoking in the car, they seed even more on edge.
For , my first thought was that ‘these guys are harboring all sorts of misunderstandings about Choi Jeho of all people’……
I forgot. You guys don’t know that Choi Jeho had zero dating scandals in his 7-year idol life, right? Understandable to be tense.
But there was no need to worry. For all the countless rumors surrounding Choi Jeho, scandal had never been one of them.
Even without digging into his past, there were plenty of reasons to trust him. He found forming relationships with people so botherso he treated it like howork, and he had no interest in anything but dance.
Among all those reasons, there was one thing that would make these two accept it instantly…
“Let’s say, hypothetically, Choi Jeho used his ridiculous stamina to run a romance on the side.”
“Yeah.”
“Do you think he could have gone out past Joowoo?”
Lee Cheonghyeon and Kang Kiyeon made expressions of enlightennt. For soone like Choi Jeho, who would rather crash into things than bother avoiding them, slipping past Park Joowoo’s auditory radar would be impossible.
“If he’d been dating, he would’ve been caught ages ago. Let’s just check what the article actually says.”
At my words, Kang Kiyeon brought a laptop. The entertainnt section was plastered with the word ‘Spark’.
≫ [☆] Spark Jeho, visits Hotel Shinha with a beautiful non-celebrity woman
≫ Rising star Spark Jeho, who is his lover?
≫ ‘On the Stage’ winner Spark Jeho, a cozy ti with model girlfriend
Even at a glance, every word and phrase was unpleasant. It was natural for fans to be curious about an idol’s love life, but seeing grown adults swarm like this was just creepy.
If you’re going to write an article, at least do so research. One says she’s a non-celebrity, another says she’s a model. You should all go learn from ‘Exclusive Report’s Ham Yiseo.
Grumbling inwardly, I clicked on an article and saw a low-quality photo. A man whose silhouette was unmistakably Choi Jeho and a woman were standing in front of a fancy info desk—according to the article, Hotel Shinha.
But this person……
“Isn’t that Jeyoung noona?”
…..It was undeniably Jeyoung noona. The siblings, each a head taller than others, exuded a powerful aura even through the photo. There was a reason Lee Cheonghyeon recognized her at a glance.
So that was why the model talk ca out. Since he said his sister’s height was in the high 170s, it made sense.
“Was it taken during vacation?”
“Didn’t hyung go to Gwangju last ti?”
“Maybe they were in Seoul briefly with their mother. The vacation was long, and there aren’t many reasons for siblings living in Seoul to do a hotel staycation.”
At my words, Lee Cheonghyeon nodded in understanding.
“This is Miho’s bag.”
Kang Kiyeon, who turned the laptop and examined the photo closely, pointed to a corner of the photo. A little distance away from the two people who looked like they were checking in, there was the back of a girl wearing a backpack.
“How do you know Miss Miho’s bag?”
“She wore the sa one to the dorm a few years ago. I rember because of the keychain.”
Next to the pale lavender bag was a string of large beads on the keychain. The pockets were covered with various pins and trinkets.
“Did she always have that much stuff in her bag?”
“Not this much, but it was similar.”
“You looked that closely? Wasn’t it when you fought with Jeho hyung and didn’t co out of the room?”
“So of them are Kingdom Another rch so……”
“Saying you recognized it because of the keychain was a lie, right?”
Lee Cheonghyeon kindly pretended not to notice Kang Kiyeon’s inability to respond.
More importantly, the situation beca a bit tricky. If it were a baseless dating rumor, Choi Jeho would’ve just posted on Bubble like, ‘??? Where am I supposed to explain this?’ and been done with it, but family got involved.
‘If we reveal it’s his sister, Jeyoung noona’s personal info or SNS will be dug up, and if we don’t reveal it, he becos a two-year old idol who went to a hotel in broad daylight……’
“…..Do you need headache dicine?”
“No.”
I gratefully declined Kang Kiyeon’s consideration. The three of us sat quietly on the living room sofa waiting for Choi Jeho’s group to return.
The three returned to the dorm not long after. Park Joowoo’s face was a ss. Not injured, but clearly exhausted from dealing with the crowd.
“Is everyone okay?”
“I’m okay, but Jeho hyung and Joowoo……”
“I’m okay.”
Choi Jeho replied calmly. He really looked fine.
“I’m okay too……”
“Joowoo, you don’t look okay at all.”
While Lee Cheonghyeon went to get water, Choi Jeho plopped down on the sofa.
“We decided to say it’s my sister.”
“What?”
I doubted my ears at the guy’s abrupt announcent.
“I told Chanyoung hyung to release a statent saying it was a family trip. I finished talking with noona too.”
“Is that okay?”
“Why not? It’s not a lie.”
He was a guy who didn’t even want to ntion his family. There was no way he wouldn’t be displeased that such family’s appearance was revealed without permission.
“It’s not like there’s another way.”
“We can look for one.”
“I’m already becoming a total bastard out there.”
Choi Jeho said it casually, but this wasn’t sothing to brush off.
Just as I was about to say there were many ways to explain, Choi Jeho looked at and said.
“It’s not like I gambled or drank, what’s the big deal about getting dug up? As long as it doesn’t get bigger.”
“……What about your sister?”
“She said she’d rather have rumors about herself than be known as soone with a little brother who lost his mind over romance.”
The siblings’ boldness was impressive. A small, timid person like could never match that.
“The company’s handling it, so don’t worry.”
“Okay. Good job.”
When the conversation ended, Jeong Seongbin showed us the company’s freshly uploaded statent. It explained that the photo was taken without permission while mber Jeho was spending ti with his family during Spark’s vacation. It also said they would take legal action against the spread of false information.
“Why does the group keep getting into gossip whenever we do ‘Idol Dynasty Chronicle’? Should we perform a shaman ritual?”
“Wouldn’t quitting be faster and cleaner?”
Lee Cheonghyeon and Kang Kiyeon cursed the baseless gossip in frustration.
They weren’t exactly wrong. Didn’t major issues like Kim Iwol’s personality controversy or Yoo Hansoo’s assault case all explode during IDC?
‘It’s not a recently taken photo, and is there a reason for a dating rumor now when Choi Jeho isn’t particularly in the spotlight?’
If they wanted to bring Choi Jeho down, it should have been ntioned during the Nidas comrcial. There were many opportunities like the deserted island show. Why now, of all tis?
The hidden chain of cause and effect was revealed two days later, by a shocking article that rocked the entertainnt industry.
≫ Rising star All Over, half the mbers booked one after another on suspicion of drug use
≫ [Report] The bare face of drug cris rampant in the idol industry revealed… Is this really okay?
≫ Divided into ‘drug mbers’ and ‘non-drug mbers’… All-Over becos a ‘drug offender group’
≫ “Won’t get caught with this much”, “Just trade overseas”…… Boy group ssenger room for drug trading was caught
Drug addict All Over finally got their tail caught.
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