Chapter 205 – Scandal
“What’s wrong with Mr. Jung? See me all then.”
“I thought I should tell Shin-hye in advance.”
“What?”
President of J-up Entertainment.
He is the CEO of the agency of actress Lim Im-hye and her son Jin Seon-hu.
Lim Im-hye stopped by her office after receiving a call from the president.
As Shin-hye sits down on the sofa, Jung posts several photos on the table.
The smile disappears from Lim Im-hye’s face when she sees the picture.
“What’s this? Uniform?”
In the photo, her son Seonhu and a female student in school uniform were taken side by side.
A picture of walking arm in arm, a picture of laughing and talking, a picture of riding in a luxury foreign car together, a picture of coming out of a shabby building.
“Tomorrow morning, Seon-Hoo Jin’s scandal will arise.”
“… Are you kidding?”
The son is a charming man.
I thought that one day the women’s problem would explode.
It wouldn’t be strange if the press releases the source they had in advance, now that the stock prices of the former and the latter are rising.
But this doesn’t work.
Minors, no.
The successor to the acting life and even legal issues could arise.
“Chief Jeong. What are you going to do now? Isn’t there a boss to stop this kind of thing? Is it for money?”
Celebrity scandals don’t happen out of the blue.
The media first consults with the agency to decide whether to bury or explode.
So was this one. If you have a photo, you must have received it from that media.
But why do you let them explode without asking? If money was insufficient, Shin-hye was willing to pay.
But Jung’s plan was different.
“No. First, um, listen to the story first. Mr. Shin Hye.”
Im Im-hye is an actress specializing in villain roles, but she is usually more gentle than anyone else.
Even Shin-hye becomes a completely different person when she becomes a problem with her son.
She does not forgive anyone who touches her son. Even if it was President Jeong, whom she believed to be an ally.
Sensing Shin-hye’s aggressive atmosphere, President Jeong was sweating profusely.
“There are several other sources of Jin Seon-hoo’s sauce that we are holding. There’s Spring’s Han Se-ah and our Hwang Su-ah. The same goes for announcer Naju-ri.”
For now, Shin-hye listened to President Jung’s words in silence.
I have been working with Mr. Chung for over 10 years.
Money or contracts are not the problem.
It was impossible to do without trust.
“We rather think that it is fortunate that this child exploded before Mr. Hwang Su-ah.”
“Why? This is a school uniform Aren’t you underage?”
“That, um…”
President Jeong hesitated as if he was embarrassed to say something.
“Actually, this child is Jin Seon-hoo’s younger brother.”
“Are you my younger brother?”
Shin-hye doubted her own ears.
I didn’t understand what President Jung said at first.
The successor is her son.
Where is her real brother that her mother doesn’t know about?
… No.
There was one
“No way.”
Thinking of that possibility, Shin-hye’s mind seemed to go blank.
“Yes. Thank you for that This is Kim Seon-ha, her real brother, who lived with Jin Seon-hoo before she was adopted by Shin-hye. I am 20 years old this year. Jin Seon-Hoo started dating her sister from last year, so at the time the picture was taken, she is still underage.”
President Jeong recited Kim Seon-ha’s profile, but Shin-hye didn’t hear it.
Shin-hye’s eyes were nailed to the picture of the two laughing together with her arms crossed.
Why didn’t the ancestors say it?
Dani meets her sister in secret from her mother. What was the alternative thought?
She doesn’t want to think about it, but it can’t be——
“Mr. Shin Hye.”
President Jung called Shin-hye’s attention, who was lost in her thoughts, and said.
“Do you remember the ‘Jinmiso method’?”
She couldn’t remember.
The incident that caused her son, Seonhu, to fall by putting suspicion on her daughter, Miso, of her secret love affair.
It was a collaboration between fans who spread unconfirmed rumors through social media, and ‘giregi’ who dictated such rumors as articles without even checking the minimum facts.
First of all, you just need to draw a topic and suck up the number of views. If it’s wrong, apologize and stop.
That’s the way the giraffes are these days.
However, at the time of the incident, as the video of the first aid collapsed and the smile becoming a hot topic, the voice of criticism against social media and the media increased.
That is why the ‘Jin Miso Act’ was born, which strengthened the punishment for media regulation and the spread of false information.
Maybe the politicians just wanted to control the media with the popularity of celebrities on their backs.
However, it was also true that it was a welcome bill for celebrities who are most affected by such rumors. Celebrity associations have expressed their intention to welcome the bill in a broad way.
This bill, put forward by members of the ruling party, was proposed with public support thanks to a video of a smile that became a hot topic at the time, but was eventually canceled due to strong opposition from the media.
As a result, the relationship between the celebrity camp, who made a statement in support of the bill, and the journalist camp, who was dissatisfied with it, deteriorated extremely.
There was a fierce battle under the surface between the press trying to dig up everything and the celebrities trying not to show loopholes.
Jin Seon-hu, the person in charge, did not even know about her dream.
President Jung regarded this scandal as the second half of the “Jinmiso Act” Incident.
“We plan to beat all these rats this time.”
Rats.
President Jung described the trashies who threatened to extort money while eating celebrity poop as rats.
“So, you’re going to throw our seonhu as bait? With rat poison to catch rats?”
At President Jeong’s words, Shin-hye fiercely shot at them.
Shinhye was still in a confused state, but she had to force herself to come to her senses now. Because it was a serious matter that might change her son’s future.
“Mr. Shin Hye. This is for Jin Seon-hoo. Shin-hye, don’t you believe that her son is truly innocent? Since she can explode at any time, she wants to take this opportunity to be sure to get vaccinated.”
President Jeong’s words also had some truth.
If things go according to President Chung’s plan, the media will have no choice but to be hesitant to blow them up even if there are suspicions of a scandal against the president next time. Even if it explodes, the people won’t even believe the media that has been in vain about the succession and succession twice.
But, why is it again and again successive?
The seonhu has just begun to walk on their own feet. Why can’t she be left alone?
“… Doesn’t she tell the seonhu?”
“If you tell me, they will object.”
A weak-minded senior citizen would put her real brother before her own interests.
Because he knows best the stress that ordinary people get involved in celebrity scandals.
That is why President Jeong does not inform the predecessors.
We were negotiating to find out the facts and give an answer, but the other side suddenly exploded in a sense of urgency, fearing that it would explode first in other media. President Jeong was thinking of going out with such a scenario.
“Whoa…”
Shinhye sighed.
If so, don’t let me know either.
I’m trying to drag you into an accomplice.
Even if she later found out that it was President Jung’s plan, she wouldn’t be able to protest strongly if she knew that her mother cooperated with the plan. President Jeong looked ahead and informed only Shin-hye in advance.
Knowing that if it was ‘for her son’, she would cooperate with Shin-hye.
She’s like a thoroughly thorough human being to the point of hating it.
While Shin-hye was fortunate that President Jung was on the same side, she also felt resentful.
“… Mr. Jung. Instead, there are conditions.”
Shin-hye intended to throw a bomb at such a nasty boss.
Unaware of that, Mr. Chung, who finally thought that Shin-hye had made up her mind, corrected her posture and sat down with a little relief.
“Huh. Tell me anything.”
If this work succeeds, the future of Jin Seon-hu will be solid.
In J-up, Jin Seon-hu is the goose that lays the golden egg.
This operation was a must-go process in order not to cut the belly of the goose.
There is no way that Shin-hye, who wants her son to do well, will refuse this offer, but it is also true that she was worried that she would react emotionally to using her son as bait.
So, I thought I would listen to her Shinhye’s condition if possible.
Because Shinhye has been the goose that laid golden eggs for J-up.
However, the condition that came out of Shin-hye’s mouth was a story beyond President Jung’s imagination.
“I will retire after this drama.”
“What?!”
President Jeong jumped up.
It wasn’t a figurative expression, but I jumped with my heart.
“No, Shin-hye, why are you doing this again? Is she in a bad mood?”
“It’s not like that.”
“Okay. I’ll cancel mine. I’ll call you right here huh?”
“Because it’s not like that.”
President Jung thought that Shin-hye was saying something sarcastically.
However, Shin-hye’s decision was firm.
“Then why are you doing it again? What are you dissatisfied with? Are you blocking everything?”
“I was thinking of quitting. It’s a good opportunity, so I just said it in advance.”
“No, are you serious? Are you serious about quitting?”
“Seriously then. Are you saying this as a joke?”
Shinhye was sincere.
At that time, she nodded her head at the words of the seonhu, but in fact, she had no real intention of retiring.
She still wanted to do more acting, or she was thinking of giving a reason to talk about it.
The reason Shin-hye changed her mind was because of her sister’s sudden outburst.
I don’t know what kind of mind the seonhu had to find her younger brother.
But her intuition was ringing the alarm.
This is dangerous
That the successor, my man might be taken away.
It’s not just before and after that she wants a strong connection with her mother.
It was the same with Shinhye.
However, since she had a link between mother and son, she was confident that even if her blood was not connected, she would not lose her connection with the successors.
For Shin-hye, who had already been through a divorce once, marriage was just a formality, and it was by no means stronger than the bond between her mother and her mother.
However, if the younger brother appears here, the story is different.
Blood ties that are much stronger than the fake mother-child relationship prescribed by law.
Even if you ask the seonhu why, her mother will choose an answer that will make her feel safe.
She couldn’t believe, she didn’t want to believe, that the successor would choose her birth family over her new family, but Shin-hye couldn’t be relieved by such a foolish belief.
I needed a stronger connection to feel secure.
The successor’s child was necessary.
“Ha~. I’m going to go really crazy Then what about the roles that have just joined?”
“What should I cancel?”
“Is that easy? What can I say and cancel?”
Was Im Im-hye of the world a woman who took her role lightly?
Shinhye’s light tone made President Jung feel dizzy.
However, at Shin-hye’s words that followed, President Jung lost her words even more.
“She said she was pregnant.”
“… What?”
“Until now, I lived only as a mother and as an actress. She will live the rest of her life as a woman.”
At that age? Or, menopause? I had a lot of thoughts, but it wasn’t something I would say openly in front of a woman.
President Chung said she somehow found a replacement for her.
“No, Mr. Shinhye… Does she look like a lover?”
President Jung said she was very embarrassed, but even though she thought that of course it would not be, she asked.
“It looks like it.”
However, Shinhye smiled and nodded her head.
“A very nice lover, too.”
It was Shinhye’s smile as a woman after a long time.
