January 1st is a very important day that terrifies entertainment workers and fans.
This is because the announcement of a large scandal which has become as solid as a tradition by a paparazzi media, Factfix, will be posted on New Yearâs Day.1
[Exclusive] Lure Seung Hoon, Lovely Day Hee Jin âThe Strongest Idol Coupleâ Lovey Dovey⥠Car Date
-FK???
-Isnât it crazy?
The article this time was also shocking. It was such a match because besides being from the number 1 boy group and number 1 girl group in terms of sales alone, Lee Hee Jin was the most popular in Lovely Day and Lure Kim Seung Hoon was also the most popular.
-Hey, you said fans are your girlfriend FK
-Wasnât that the date of a fan signing? Did you go out to play with your real girlfriend in the back?
Naturally, real-time search terms were lined up and community reactions exploded. There was even a community that exploded until 404 popped up.
Sales of goods related to Lure and Lovely Day were all over the second-hand marketplace, and long unstanning posts were posted on the fan cafe every ten minutes.
-lolololololol pretended to be clean like that, in the end
-Heejin is going to be stripped so hard lol Lure fans are so hardcore brrr
-Didnât egg accounts2Â said they were dating 5 months ago?
-Hey, all 30 pages of fan cafe are unstanning posts lolololol
In addition, there are also people who scratched both fandoms, Sommeliers3Â who said it was smelly from before, and people who captured the fan cafe reaction and relayed the situation in which the fandom fell out in real-time.
Their intentions are irrelevant. They were just people who wanted to see others unhappy.
In the meantime, the ignorant foreign fans posted hashtags such as #Weloveseonghoon that made domestic fans burst out.4
âThis placeâs rice cake soup is tasty.â
âItâs cooked well.â
While the neighborhood next door was like a funeral, Ian and the members set up a modest table of meals in their dorm. To make rice cake soup was simple, just buy beef bone broth sold on the market and boil it with rice cakes.
âDid hyung see Factfix?â
âUh, water for me pliz.â
âIt was said they went undercover for a month in front of the dorm to take photos.â
âCrazy, so creepy. Thatâs sasaeng, not reporter.â
Kim Hyun gulped down the water. When he silently reached out his fist, the other six also reached out their hands. Tension was evident on their faces.
âLoser does the dishes. Rock paper scissors!â
âAh!â
âNiceee!â
Like a picture, everyone put out scissors and only Ian put out paper. Ian cried out desperately.
âThree rounds! Three rounds!â
âNo, go back.â
âAh, letâs humanly pick one more to clean up.â
âHuh, no way. Get lost~ Washing dishes also includes cleaning up.â
Jo Tae Woong patted Ian on the back and slipped into his room. Ian sighed deeply and cleaned up the table.
âBy the way, do you have nothing to say?â
[What is?]
âFactfix.â
[Whatâs the point? Itâs so much fun.]
Jin was shaking a bucket of popcorn. No matter how many times he witnessed it, he canât get used to those bizarre hands.
âOh yeah?â
It was clear that Jin himself was ashamed of the past as he kept avoiding it when asked about the past. Or thereâs something that holds him back.
I donât think he was just a homma, at least a worker in the entertainment industry or a showbiz reporterâŠ
Ian made various deductions as if possessed by a great detective and half confirmed that Jin was a reporter in the past.
âDid you hear anything about Kim Seung Hoon?â
[That heâs fking rude? But thatâs a fact everyone on this floor knows. Woah, by the way, how did he seduce Lee Hee Jin? Is he the warm type to his girl?]
âHe must have the charm.â
Ian answered soullessly.
If he was a reporter, he would have wanted to brag about when the suspicion of dating first came out or something, but it was quiet. Perhaps he wasnât that kind of reporter? Still, there are only a few reporters in the showbiz industry who write good articles.
âBut, why cannot we date?â
âAre you having a thing5Â with someone?â
âEii, I am just curious. It got cursed a lotâŠâ
Park Seo Dam was surfing the web with Ianâs tablet. It seemed that he was monitoring the overheated fandom atmosphere next door.
âCause fans donât like it. Well, thatâs one reason.â
âHyuungâŠâ
âDonât look at it too much.â
Ian took away the tablet. The screen Park Seo Dam was looking at was a portal site column.
[Kim Ye Eunâs showbiz report] Seung Hoonâ„Hee Jin Finally You Are Dating Too.
As expected from members of the most popular idol groups. To think that you can date when youâre busy working. It is surprising that such diligent idols can exist.
âSeo Dam-ah, novels are not read in the news column. Your eyes will rot. I told you to enter communities that you enjoyed.â
âBut I am still curious about the reactions.â
Reporters could not be left out of this major scandal. Biting Factfixâs bait, reporters wrote novels of someone meeting somewhere or who introduced them, giving fact-checking a damn, and sat down to watch.
To think that Kim Ye Eunâs article was the one that our maknae sees, believes, and singled out. Ian sat opposite Park Seo Dam.
âStill, I am scared that people who were fans get so angry like this.â
âFans who turned around are the scariest. And by then, theyâre not fans. Just bad commenters.â
Ian sighed at the dubious face showing âIs that so?â.
âI heard something from my cousin noona.â
Just asking why doesnât mean he is in a real relationship. Park Seo Dam must be asking out of pure curiosity. Ian summoned his cousin noona again.
âFirst of all, some people have relationship feelings for idols. You know this, right?
âHuh.â
âThatâs how much why we also sell relationships. Even at fan signings, they hold our hands, right?â
âBut isnât that done at the level of fan-love?â
âItâs indeed fan-love, but itâs not real love. Weâre business, but there are a lot of fans who are really fluttered.â
Thatâs right. Park Seo Dam nodded. Kim Ju Young, who was trying to eat yogurt from the refrigerator, sat down silently next to Park Seo Dam. His face was full of interest.
âBut if they get too immersed, theyâll end up being a sasaeng or a stalker. Usually, itâs just like âhe is everyoneâs idol, if I canât have him, no one shouldâ. Yet, someone took him. And sheâs someone better and prettier at that. Understand?â
Park Seo Dam and Kim Ju Young nodded. Park Jin Hyuk, who came out of the bathroom in the meantime, sat next to Ian.
âAnd indirect satisfaction. I want you to do better because I buy a lot of albums, stream music, support, and manage comments for you. But youâre all happy dating behind my back while I work so hard for you? Pissing me off. Itâs this kind of thinking. Okie?â
âOh⊠I think I know, Hyung. Cousin noona, canât we scout her to our company?â
âI think she can be a top instructor with this much understanding of fansâ psychology.â
Actually, itâs me though. Shall I run two jobs? Ian just laughed because he couldnât.
âAnd usually, the first person dating in the group is the most criticized.â
âBut why are you suddenly talking about dating?â
âSeo Dam is curious.â
Kim Ju Young and Park Jin Hyuk simultaneously said at Ianâs answer.
ââAre you having a thing?ââ
âAh, I am not!â
âThen whatâs it?â
âI was just curious because people said not to do it recklessly! I understood it roughly, but I do not know the details.â
Really? Kim Ju Young and Park Jin Hyuk gave suspicious eyes.
âI guess thereâs something, seeing him come out strong.â
âThis this. Shouldnât we tell Joo Hyuk Hyung to pay attention?â
âI said I am not!â
There was a lot of playfulness in the way they spoke. It seems heâll be teased for a month with this.
* * *
After the sweet vacation on New Yearâs Day, they had a pictorial shoot schedule the next day.
The video of the mafia game with MyKit spread to the point that almost everyone active in the community knew. It is said that it became an issue that the so-called âmugglesâ who do not do stanning also responded well.
So todayâs shoot was a pictorial with the concept of mafia and police where they took pictures together and also had a joint interview with MyKit. It is scheduled to be published in February for an idol-related magazine.
âHey, itâs been a while.â
âMa brother.â
âWassup.â
MyKit had arrived at the site first. Showing that they were best friends, they held hands, pulled each other, and lightly bumped their shoulders so smooth like flowing water.
âYouâre getting more and more handsome. Arenât we all going to become squids?â
âFrom the moment we came to this site, your group is like Noryangjin Fish Market.â
âWhat about you guys who are always together?â
âWeâre half-dried Dokdo squid.â6
MyKitâs Kim Cheol Min and Jo Tae Woong giggled and had comic talk to each other. The staff passing by went âpfftâ and burst into laughter.
âYeo! Choi ssi!â
âAigo Park ssi!â 7
Ian hurriedly approached then bowed and shook hands to each other. It was MyKitâs Park Se On. He was also the same age as Ian.
Park Se On showed his thumb. He had poor pronunciation besides a naturally low voice, but he said that his original accent was mumbled.
âWhatâs Imjingakâs parrot?â
âWhat, you havenât seen it?â
âFactfix came out today. They took over everything.â
Ian didnât even see it. Awy fell asleep as if dead after the year-end stage, and everyone was talking about the scandal when they woke up.
âOh my, you didnât watch that? There was a riot at dawn.â
Just in time, a staff holding a tablet nearby approached Ian. MyKit went in to change costumes.
It was a joint pictorial in name, but each group takes photos by themselves and takes only a few overall photos. Fans like to put together groups, but they donât really like to mix them.
âSee the fancam yourself.â
The members gathered next to Ian watched a shaking fancam because it couldnât even hold the focus properly.
(Kyaaaaak!)
A scream in a nasal voice, whether she has a cold or her original voice. Ian closed his mouth tightly. If he laughed here, it was like mocking the fan who cheered him on.
(Argh so handsoomekh! Thugh! Ough! Ian-aakh! Seo Dam-akh!)
In the end, the try not to laugh challenge failed. When someone eventually burst, everyone laughed.
(Gaiis itâs coold! Colddd! Akh! Choi Ian handsoomekh!)8
There was also a voice that was unknown whether she felt cold or worried about Awy. It was even funnier because someone put subtitles on the uploaded video written in red calligraphy font9Â and even added a shaking effect.
They almost rolled over in laughter on the scene where Ian grabbed the mic. Seeing that she became a bot and scream âso coolâ over and over again, it seems that she was called a parrot here.
âWoah such an awesome passion.â
âArenât we supposed to give something to this person, Hyungs?â
Although Factfix took over in the morning, this video is said to have heated the dawn. The members who eventually laughed out loud discussed whether to upload a fan cafe post looking for this person.
âAh, I laughed after a long time.â
âWhat do you mean after a long time, we always laugh.â
âAh, thatâs what Iâm saying.â
Carefully giving back the tablet pad to the staff, Ian ordered Jin.
âDonât forget to let me know when you saw that fan.â
[Got it.]
Jin became noticeably more docile after he had gone somewhere.
Come to think of it, who is the one that Jin referred to as MyKitâs wasted member? All five of them were hard enough. Will it change later?
Ian left his doubts behind and went in to change his costume.