Reboot the heyday

"He's alive."

"I feel like I've come back to life."

After Ahn Yoo-jin finished eating, she let out a heartfelt sigh.

That's why they say only suffering can give birth to a true poet. Ahn Yoo-jin now already has the temperament of a poet, expressing her feelings about life and death.

If I want to hear it again, I'll have to starve myself for at least another month.

Wang Taika looked at Ahn Yoo-jin's satisfied expression and shook his head: "That's all you've got."

“A person who hasn’t eaten properly for a month doesn’t deserve to talk about success,” Ahn Yoo-jin said with a straight face.

Wang Taika was defeated by Ahn Yu-jin's logic and said nothing more, asking the owner to settle the bill. The two walked out of the small shop. The night breeze was still cool, but Ahn Yu-jin felt warm all over after eating and didn't feel cold at all.

Get in the car, start the engine, and drive towards the company.

With music playing in the car, Wang Taika focused on driving and said, "I'll drop you off at the company entrance; I won't go inside."

“Hmm,” Ahn Yoo-jin leaned back in the passenger seat, looking at the streetlights receding outside the window, and suddenly spoke, “Mr. Wang.”

"Ok?"

Ahn Yoo-jin pursed her lips: "Can't you see me off?"

Wang Taika glanced at Ahn Yoo-jin: "In my experience, you're actually in a difficult position yourself when you make this request. If you're making a request in such a difficult situation, there must be something even more difficult."

Ahn Yoo-jin hesitated, "Not really. Okay, you could say that. But also..."

“You’re really suspicious,” Wang Taika said. “Logically speaking, that’s a possibility. But I’m not so narcissistic as to think you’d like me. But you’re so hesitant to ask, is it possible someone’s bullying you and you’re trying to use me to intimidate them?”

Ahn Yoo-jin looked at Wang Tai-ka helplessly: "Your thinking is just too jumpy, I can't keep up."

“That’s the most likely explanation, but judging from your answer, it probably isn’t.” Wang Taika thought for a moment: “Could it be that you’re afraid of the dark? That can’t be right, the company lights are on at night.”

An Youzhen didn't want Wang Taika to make wild guesses, so she asked, "Do you know that the top floor of our company is haunted?"

Wang Taika paused, then turned to look at Ahn Yoo-jin: "What?"

“It’s haunted!” Ahn Yoo-jin lowered her voice, her expression becoming serious. “When I joined the company, my seniors told me that the old building had always been haunted, with unknown shadows flashing by at night. I heard that XB Entertainment moved to the new building here because of this. But on the top floor of the new building, there used to be shadowy figures flashing by at night. But it seems to have stopped recently; it was really scary before.”

"What? What? You saw it?" Wang Taika was speechless. He even had his office on the top floor.

"I've seen it, it's available at night." Ahn Yoo-jin pursed her lips. "But the seniors said it's much better now than before, because it's only available on the top floor. I heard that..."

Wang Taika frowned and said, "Go on, don't stop halfway through."

"Please, don't be angry!" Ahn Yoo-jin said softly, "I heard that some trainees were bullied before, and then there was some lingering resentment that's been hanging over them."

You're insane!

Wang Taika was actually feeling a bit inexplicably uneasy, because this matter seemed to have become a strange rumor circulating within XB Entertainment, but he had no idea about it.

"Was this what you asked me when you called me last time?" Wang Taika asked.

Ahn Yoo-jin blinked: "I've already forgotten what it was about. Maybe?"

Wang Taika frowned, his mind racing. Before, in the old building, the whole building was haunted at night. Now it's just the top floor? The company's top floor is the executive office area; it's practically deserted at night.

A dark shadow flashed by? And that was only a while ago; it's gone now.

Wang Taika suddenly remembered something, or rather, a person.
Quan Meng'er.

Previously, Quan Meng'er was placed on the top floor by Wang Taika, ostensibly to be in charge of cleaning the rooftop, but in reality, it was a form of house arrest. During that time, Quan Meng'er's mental state was unstable; she often couldn't sleep at night and would wander around the corridor, probably plotting how to get revenge on him.

Later, Quan Meng'er was moved to another place, and there was no one left on the top floor.

Wang Taika asked, "When did the ghostly figure on the rooftop appear? Has it been around recently?"

Ahn Yoo-jin answered honestly, "There wasn't any before, it just suddenly appeared for a while recently, which is why there are rumors of it being haunted. But I heard from a very senior trainee that the old building of the company was really haunted at night! Mr. Wang, is that really why the company moved here?"

Alright, case solved.

The dark figure on the top floor is Quan Meng'er.

Calling it a ghost is really no different; Quan Meng'er has already become mentally twisted. Such a person is actually more dangerous than a ghost.

The thought of Quan Meng'er wandering around the building late at night instead of sleeping makes me laugh. She's definitely up to something!

“Mr. Wang?” Seeing that Wang Taika didn’t speak, Ahn Yoo-jin thought he didn’t believe her, so she added, “It’s true! Many people have seen it. Especially before we moved into this building, the old building was also haunted.”

Wang Taika couldn't hold back anymore.

Actually, Wang Taika knew about the ghostly figures in the old building before. It's just that so much time has passed that he's forgotten about it now.

But after Ahn Yoo-jin said that, Wang Taika remembered something. Because it wasn't a ghost story at all; it was just a mess that Wang Taika had created himself.

Back then, XB Entertainment was still in the old office building, and Wang Taika arranged for the "lunatic army" that followed him to cause trouble to be located in the deepest part of the office building.

To maintain secrecy, those people worked at night and stayed hidden during the day. Only late at night would they emerge from the depths of the company building and walk back and forth in the corridors.

But secrets can't stay hidden forever, and since it wasn't a real ghost, their actions would inevitably leave traces. Besides, entertainment companies always have people working overtime at night. It was only a matter of time before they were seen.

As more and more people saw it, the story gradually became a rumor of it being "haunted".

Furthermore, to protect the privacy of his mentally ill patients, Wang Taika prohibited access to company surveillance footage. If necessary, he would simply erase or remove the footage. He consistently adopted a hands-off approach to these matters.

All these actions, accompanied by a strange silence and deliberate intent, inevitably lead one to suspect that the company's upper management might know something.

After all, XB Entertainment's very origins lie in a girl group company that exclusively produced vulgar content, with a terrible reputation. This inevitably leads one to wonder if someone suffered injustice and, unwilling to accept their fate, took their own life, their vengeful spirit lingering long afterward.
Conspiracy theories are universally disliked, yet unavoidable for everyone.

These two "ghostly" incidents involve Kwon Meng-er and a group of mentally ill people. One is a ghost-like person, and the other is a human-like ghost. But the instigator of both is Wang Tai-ka.

Wang Taika just didn't expect that these things, which had happened so long ago and which he had forgotten, were still circulating.

In fact, the impact of these events is far greater than Wang Taika imagined! The rumors of the XB Entertainment Building being haunted have long been one of the most talked-about and enduring classic topics among K-pop fans in Seoul and even across Asia.

Its influence is so great that even when writing K-pop fanfiction, authors will uniformly arrange for the male protagonist to go to the XB Entertainment Building to protect a female protagonist who accidentally wanders inside. Its classic status is comparable to arresting Taeyeon on the Han River Bridge.

It's already reached the level of an urban legend! (End of Chapter)