Chapter 135 – …Was It Like That
“… So, it’s been confirmed that The Queens will enter the year-end awards ceremony.”
“Yes.”
“You must have already prepared for the year-end stage, but make it more clear.”
“Yes.”
“…And that, did Minji’s broadcast post a good notice? You change the schedule every other week?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, and that… Kang Yoon-yi asked me to go back to Saet-byeol’s lesson, Mr. Park Krystal. Take it out and change it?”
“Yes.”
“…”
“…”
“Sejin-ah, your salary is cut.”
“Yes.”
“Oh, you bastard, what’s going on!”
Poo!
He was barely aroused by the harsh sensation on her shoulder.
Before I knew it, the southern chief was putting his shoulder in my hand.
“Yes?”
“No matter what I say, I can only say yes, yes. What’s wrong all of a sudden?”
I was losing my mind unknowingly.
“Uh… I’m sorry.”
“Did you hear everything I just said?”
“That… You were talking about the year-end awards ceremony.”
“What next?”
“…Sorry.”
Now, no matter what I said, I couldn’t hear it.
Obviously, it was a strange feeling that the other person was saying something in front of my eyes, and listening to it, only the content was not processed in my brain.
“Anyway, it’s the end of the year, so get your mind right. Do you think you’ll fall again? Would you like a little more vacation?”
“No… No. I can’t even take a vacation at this time.”
“Yes, you bastard, now is a very important time. Wake.”
Tuk-tuk.
The southern chief tapped my shoulder lightly.
It was a hand that felt like he was worried about it, but I couldn’t afford to worry about it.
‘CEO… How did he know the relationship between me and the kids?’
The relationship between me and the kids was discovered, and it must be the CEO of this company.
I thought that Secretary Yoo might have noticed the relationship between me and the kids.
So, when I went on a business trip with her, I tried to cheat on her again while going through a few of her cutthroats.
She even made a fake recording of herself on the tape recorder, and when she returned it, she believed she had succeeded in deceiving her.
‘But it wasn’t.’
No, maybe Biseo Yoo cheated on her.
If so, how did the CEO find out?
CCTV? No, I was especially careful about CCTV after that…
“Sejin!”
Puck!
A harsh sensation in the shoulder again.
When I came to my senses, the southern chief was pressing my shoulders again.
“I’m sorry… I don’t know again…”
“Let’s have a meeting later. You should rest for a while. Wash your face, and if you are tired, go to sleep for 30 minutes.”
“…Yes, I understand. Excuse me then.”
Damn, I have so many things to do besides getting caught by the CEO.
Not only managing the kids’ schedules, but also about Minji, who has become strange these days in preparation for the end of the year…
My head just gets complicated and my heart feels stuffy for no reason.
“Go and come quickly. I will call you back later.”
Tuk-tuk.
In the meantime, I’m starting to lose my mind again.
“Sorry.”
I left the meeting room as if I were running away.
***
Rattle.
“Whoa…”
I left the meeting room as if I was running away, and the place I went was in the car.
It was because it was impossible to be at peace in the company, whether it was the break room, the sleeping room, or my office.
The unbearable feeling of someone watching me everywhere scratched my whole body.
“Damn it…”
He clutched her head and leaned her head on the steering wheel for a moment.
After standing still for about five minutes, I finally raised my head again.
‘Don’t panic. Let’s think calmly. How did you get caught, and what should you do? You just need to know these two things.’
Even if you get bitten into a tiger’s den, you can do anything if you stay alert.
Relying on the old adage, you have to come to your senses somehow.
‘But what difference would it make if I came to my senses?’
After the biggest secret has already been revealed?
Do you know why you got caught?
And what to do, what is possible?
‘No no no, shut up…’
She forced her tangled thoughts to calm down.
Still, her bleak mood and deadly worries were still weighing on her head.
It is impossible to think of a proper countermeasure at this time.
‘It can’t be helped.’
Taking her cell phone out of her pocket, she turned on the hypnosis app for the first time in a long time.
“Calmly come up with countermeasures for the current situation.”
When it comes to dominating moods and thoughts, he is directly effective.
He’s the kind of guy you really need in a situation like this.
Beep.
I pressed the run button and looked at the screen.
“Whoa…”
As soon as I was hypnotized, I felt my mind calm down.
‘Okay, nothing complicated. First of all, let’s be clear about the current situation.’
The representative has found out that me and the kids are having sex.
Other than that, there isn’t much of a problem.
Considering that they will praise you for raising your grades significantly, it is highly likely that the CEO will not care about having sex as he says.
Right now, the kids’ idol activities are continuing, and nothing has changed on the outside.
‘Why was this caught?’
Knowing the reason will prevent you from making similar mistakes or being caught by others in the future.
I was hiding it hard in my own way, but why did I get caught?
Did I just live because I was so excited without knowing?
‘I have to find evidence from the CEO’s words.’
Even if you make a guess like this by yourself, there is a high possibility that you will be wrong.
The most important thing is not me, but the hints the other person showed me.
Rather than my guesses, I need to weigh those hints accurately.
“…Yes?”
As I looked back at what the CEO had said to me, I felt something strange.
It’s a strange sense of heterogeneity, she says, but it seems like she said an important part.
‘A gift, if I use it well, somehow…?’
The CEO clearly said that to me.
‘I gave you a gift, so I will work hard to fulfill my desire’, ‘If I use it well, it won’t be hard to take on several children’, ‘I can do something even if the kids resist’.
By the way, what did she mean by the gift here?
Do you write well? What are you good at writing?
Even if you take charge of 16 people, you can do something, what and how?
‘…If you use a gift well, you can do something to others.’
Putting it all together, it looks like this:
And what this theorem points to is…
‘Hypnosis app.’
Come to think of it, among the caveats of the hypnosis app, there was one that only works for people belonging to Dao Entertainment.
When you think about it, this was a very strange point.
Why does the absolute power of hypnosis only work for people in our company?
It must mean that there is something in common that only people in our company have in common, but what on earth do they have in common?
‘We still don’t know what we have in common. But if you are a company representative, you might be able to create that common ground.’
Thinking this far, I was half convinced.
The representative knows the existence of the hypnosis application.
I know I wrote it, and I know I can use it to control my kids.
“…Was it something like that?”
If so, it is very likely that the representative planted this application on my phone.
‘Why the hell?’
The thought that followed was the reason.
Why did you give me a hypnosis app?
Do you know what I can do
‘…He said he would work hard to satisfy his desire.’
From the time I gave them the hypnosis app, they believed that I would have some kind of relationship with them.
A reasonable idea.
If you give this power to a man in his prime, near attractive women, he’ll use it for sex.
Then why are you condoning that?
What do you want to do by entrusting the hypnosis app to someone else instead of using it yourself?
‘Why the hell… To me? Can’t I just use it myself?’
Am I taking a risk knowing what I’m going to do?
If I write to the CEO, how are you going to handle the aftermath?
‘Couldn’t it have already been written to me…?’
The current me is moving in a hypnotic state… I think the possibility is small.
I have my ego in that I am thinking like this, and this hypnosis app doesn’t get caught repeatedly.
If you are hypnotized by the representative, it would be impossible to organize your thoughts with the help of a hypnosis application like now.
‘Is it because she doesn’t have a hypnosis app?’
Oh, that can’t be
There’s no way that it’s impossible to copy the software, and it doesn’t make sense to give weapons only to this side.
Of course she has it too.
‘Then… Is there a possibility that I didn’t use it because I couldn’t use it?’
There is no possibility of duplicate commands.
If so, what is the possibility that it was written to me in the past and could not be used again?
‘Um, no. I don’t remember her using a hypnosis app on me.’
It was the first time I met her in the first place.
…Wait a minute. Is this really your first time?
The representative said, even though it was a ‘long time no see’…
‘I’ve met the CEO, but what’s the possibility that I can’t remember?’
There is nothing wrong with my memory.
There’s no such thing as a film cut or amnesia… No, wait a minute.
Me,
Come to think of it,
Have you ever had your memory erased…?
‘I don’t remember the first time I dated Soye. I was just having a comfortable day, and suddenly… I was with Soye.’
I thought it was a side effect of the hypnosis app.
But since then, I have never had my memory blown while using a hypnosis app on me.
Ha-eun never lost her memory just because she used a hypnosis app.
Until now, I thought it was a side effect caused by the strong hypnosis application only for me…
‘What if… That memory was erased by the CEO…?’
It is an assumption.
Nothing is certain yet.
But it was a horrible assumption that gave me goosebumps.
Why did a person who tolerated messing with kids needed to erase only the memories of that time?
‘This is… I need to dig behind the CEO. Be careful.’
The president is in favor of me continuing to grow more Queens.
I am very satisfied with the result, to the extent that I want to take over other groups if necessary.
So, it is unlikely that he will immediately kick me out or expose my relationship with the kids.
If you follow her words carefully, she will protect you.
So, you just have to follow her outwardly and learn her purpose bit by bit.
Focusing on what the heck they are aiming for and whether they ever erased my memories…
‘Okay, so what am I going to do now, what can I do?’
After calmly grasping the current situation and deciding on a goal, the only thing left is a plan for the future.
I opened the diary I kept in the car and scribbled down various things, deciding what to do next.
***
A few hours later, the dance practice room used by The Queens.
“Okay, that’s it!”
“Whoa, whoa…!”
“Whew, that’s tough… Thank you for your hard work.”
“Whoa… Whoa, whoa… Good job, you did it.”
At the words of the dance lesson trainer, the children stretched out to their seats.
No, to be precise, only Minji stretched out, but looking at the other two being exhausted, it was a similar situation.
“Okay, thank you for your hard work. Good job everyone. Drink water here.”
As always, I handed out water bottles to the kids and wiped away the sweat from their faces little by little.
“Ah, thank you Sejin.”
“Let’s take a little break and go to work. Everyone worked hard until evening.”
It was time to end the day like that.
Smart.
There was a knock, and soon the door to the practice room opened.
“Do you have Sejin?”
“Yes, boss.”
It’s rare for this person to come at this time.
“Hey, it’s finally here.”
“Yeah? What?”
“Not what, but who.”
“Who…?”
The southern commander grinned at my questionable expression.
“Road. I finally have your load.”
“Oh really?”
Is my load finally lightening up a bit?
“When do you start going to work?”
“Aren’t you going to ask who it is?”
“You’ll know when you see it.”
Whoever it is, I hope they come quickly and just drive.
New things have been added, and I just want to breathe a little.
…I wish I wasn’t a man, but I can’t complain about this.
“No funny guy. Normally, I would ask who it is.”
“You can trust him because he was chosen by the manager.”
“He speaks well…But he brought me here.”
Saying that, the southern chief steps aside as if to ask him to enter.
But no one was seen behind him.
“Boss, is there anyone?”
“Hey, you’re doing too much.”
The manager said that and pointed down with his finger.
