chapter 22
22 – What’s Next (6)
A short break.
“Dahye, are you okay?”
Chaerin, who felt ideal in Lee Da-hye, approached her with a worried expression on her face.
“Oh, yes. Sorry for the choreography mistake earlier. You slept a little late yesterday, so you must be in a bad mood.”
“Is it because of the drama?”
“…… What? How did you know that?”
“Ah, yesterday was the day the drama aired. I also took care of it. Maybe the other kids will see it too?”
“What is it? Are you talking about that now?”
The members next to us heard the conversation between the two and immediately joined the battle as if they were interested.
The drama they are talking about here is, of course, Welcome to Café Violet, which is making a big hit recently.
The moment the latest drama comes up in the women’s talk, there is no choice but to have enough time to talk that day.
This means that a given break can be deleted in an instant.
“Wait a minute! I’ll go to the bathroom and wash my face first.”
Lee Da-hye must have felt it as well, so she hurriedly got away from her older sisters.
Actually, the reason she wanted to leave her practice room was to wash her face to get rid of the overwhelming fatigue, but the real reason was different.
While she was heading to her practice room earlier, Lee Da-hye accidentally spotted a strange boy about her age.
She was able to memorize most of the faces of people in JYB, and even if it was someone her own age, she couldn’t help but know.
In the meantime, I suddenly heard the conversation of the Hongryun members.
‘Guys, did you hear that rumor? I heard that the representative has recently been meeting a huge mogul?’
These words greatly stimulated Lee Da-hye’s curiosity.
Because the direction the boy was heading was towards the representative office.
The moment she realized that, Lee Da-hye thought of this.
Isn’t that boy the tycoon who recently met the CEO? Called.
From the moment she came to this conclusion, her nerves were all over there.
This is the reason why choreography mistakes were common today.
Also, Lee Da-hye knew that if this curiosity was not addressed, she would not be able to continue to focus on her day job.
She regarded this as an unavoidable force majeure, and she boldly moved her actions.
“Will it be all right for a little while?”
So she arrived at the door of the representative’s office, and Da-hye carefully put her ear to her door.
She compromised herself.
When she senses a crowd in the hallway across the street, she naturally acts like a person who is on her way, and when she gets the right information, she just settles down there and finishes it.
─hahahaha. Understanding…. Dahye… Look… I hear
This is definitely the CEO’s voice.
I couldn’t tell the details because of the thickness of the door, but it was clear that I was talking to someone.
Lee Da-hye had no choice but to put her body close to the door and put her ears to the door in order to hear more details.
─Dahyeyo? He’s just a natural idol. She dances well, sings well, and even her face is pretty. The perfect trinity.
Oh, I can hear it now.
However, the only thing I hear from the beginning is the praise for myself.
Um… It’s embarrassing for the representative to say something like that.
─Since you only give high praise, I want to hear more about the downside.
Disadvantages… ? But who is this voice?
What was certain was the voice of a man he had never heard before.
─If I had to pick one, I’m curious and a little stubborn, probably because he’s still young.
No, CEO?!
No matter how much he asks about his shortcomings, you can’t answer so openly!
It was at that time when Lee Da-hye was thinking that way.
“Huh?!”
Too focused on the conversation, Lee Da-hye didn’t notice that the door to her representative’s office was slightly less closed.
In the end, the door began to open naturally due to the force of pushing her body against the door, and her center of gravity was completely tilted to one side.
“Da, Dahye! Why are you coming out of there?!”
CEO Baek Joon-young hurriedly got up from her seat and approached Lee Da-hye as she fell down.
It was a bonus that my eyes widened at the unexpected appearance of her.
With the help of CEO Baek Joon-young, Da-hye Da-hye barely got up from her seat and let out an awkward laugh.
“hahahaha… It happened that way.”
“Ehh, it looks like this base bae is curious again.”
“Sorry…. But, representative! What the hell do you mean I’m stubborn!”
“Uh, huh? Did you hear that?”
CEO Baek Joon-young starts to stutter as if he means that the situation has reversed in an instant.
She thought this with a simic smile.
‘Maybe good is good?’
I’ll get scolded later, but thanks to that, I felt like I could solve my curiosity at once.
Lee Da-hye carefully looked around the inside of the representative office.
And she just made eye contact with the person she was talking to CEO Baek Joon-young.
Eventually, Lee Da-hye, who confirmed that she was the boy she saw an hour ago, slowly opened her mouth.
***
A beautiful wall staring at me with eyes full of questions.
Well, it sure looks pretty with him.
It’s the first time I’ve seen the real thing today, just by watching it on TV or in pictures, but as CEO Baek Joon-young said earlier, I thought I knew what it meant to be a natural idol.
Anyway.
The biggest problem right now is not Da-hye Lee’s shiny appearance, but that she overheard the conversation between me and CEO Baek Joon-young.
Perhaps CEO Baek Joon-young, who had a direct conversation with her, would have realized this by now.
So that’s why you’re so restless.
Then Lee Da-hye opened her mouth.
For some reason, I’m not looking at me, but at CEO Baek Joon-young.
“CEO~”
“Uh~ Is that Dahye? What’s happen?”
“Who is sitting over there?”
“Eh, hmm?”
Lee Da-hye asks who I am with an innocent look on her face.
This…….
‘I don’t think the situation is more serious than I thought?’
Why did she ask CEO Baek Joon-young who I was?
The number of cases is probably two.
One is to get clear information about my identity from CEO Baek Joon-young.
The other is that I’ve only heard the latter part and don’t know anything about my identity.
First of all, what these two families have in common is that she has no certainty about my identity.
However, this is also a very personal guess, and there is no way for me to know her exact intentions.
“Uh… As for who this is… “
But CEO Baek Joon-young, who was having a direct conversation with her, seemed hard to even think of that.
‘At this rate, I’m going to say that I’m a 927 writer.’
So, before CEO Jeo could not overcome the pressure in front of him and started working, he decided to throw in a gambling number.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Dahye. I heard a lot about it from her uncle.”
Make it as awkward as possible.
I approached her with the kindest smile I could.
“Eh? Uncle… What?”
“This introduction is late. My name is Seo Eun-woo. He is also the nephew of CEO Baek Joon-young. Right uncle?”
“???”
No, what is that expression like now?
I’m here to help, but I want you to hang out with me!
“Ah.”
CEO Baek Joon-young nodded slightly as if he understood only then when I noticed.
“hahahaha. Eunwoo stole my lines. Dahye, as I heard earlier, this child is my nephew.”
Oh? You don’t have a dirty eye, but your acting is quite natural, right?
CEO Baek Joon-young looked at Lee Da-hye, who was making a disapproving expression, and continued.
“But it’s Dahye. Why is she making that face? Are you suspicious of us?”
“Yes. I must have heard them use the utmost respect for each other!”
“Huh? Do I say honor to him? My nephew, why? Eunwoo, what do you think?”
“Apart from right or wrong, of course I have to say respectful words to my uncle, right? I think Dahye heard it through the door, so she didn’t hear it properly.”
“Hmm, that seems to be unconditionally right. He is also our nephew.”
“No… It can’t be.”
Lee Da-hye is distracted by our acting that continues like flowing water.
Originally, if the majority continues the conversation shamelessly like this, confusion is bound to ensue on the other side.
“Wait a minute! Then why did you tell my nephew about my flaws?!”
In the meantime, a rather sharp question popped up.
I had to answer more carefully than before.
“Oh, that one?”
At that time, CEO Baek Joon-young smiled as if he had a good idea.
“I gave you the successor class in advance just in case you didn’t know. He might be the CEO of JYB in the future, so you should have a rough idea of what kind of people the people at the agency are.”
“???”
I was so taken aback at the moment that I almost cursed out loud.
What is it?
Could this person……
Aren’t you so immersed in acting that you really think of me as your nephew?
I think this is a bit irrational, even if I think about it.
“Future representative of JYB?!”
Write…….
But looking at the surprised reaction, it seems that it worked surprisingly well.
Even CEO Baek Joon-young went one step further.
“Look. Dahye You are surprised like this, but our family’s reaction won’t be much different, right? So, in order to prevent confusion, can you keep Eunwoo’s identity as secret as possible?”
“Um… I know roughly what you mean.”
“I wish I knew. Oh, by the way, you should show him well in advance, right?”
In front of Lee Da-hye, CEO Baek Joon-young puts both hands on my shoulders and emphasizes friendliness.
In this way, I was officially stigmatized as the successor of JYB Entertainment and a family-like relationship to Lee Da-hye.
“After… I almost died of heart trembling.”
After a while.
Lee Da-hye, whose curiosity was all satisfied, once again apologized and bowed her head and left her room. Only then did CEO Park Joon-young sweep his chest and let out a sigh of relief.
I was also in a state of exhaustion just like the CEO.
However, even though it was difficult, there was still news to tell the CEO.
“CEO. I have good news and bad news, which would you like to hear first?”
“Well, personally, I want to hear the good news first. I think it will break if I hear something bad first.”
“Good judgment. First of all, I think the good news is that we can cast Dahye for the role of ‘Jiwon’.”
“Okay. If he was that kid, he would be able to pull off her performance well. So what’s the bad news?”
“You know we still have two more people to cast, right?”
“… ….”
After all Eunwoo’s words……
It is said that there was silence in the room for a while.