The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 138 Shirley Will Forgive You

"Sorry, Ji-eun, I've troubled you tonight." Bae Yong-jun put down the phone and looked at Lee Ji-eun who was standing quietly beside him.

She shook her head. "It's okay, Editor-in-Chief, you're the victim, aren't you? There's no need to apologize. What's more, this is Lee Seung-ri's revenge for exposing the truth."

IU seems to have regained her composure.

"There's nothing to apologize for."

"Besides, if it weren't for you, editor-in-chief, something really might have happened if I had driven myself." She looked at the miserable Kia car on the flower bed nearby, and a flash of fear flashed in her eyes.

"So, it's you who should thank me?" Pei Yongjun asked.

"Hey, editor-in-chief! How can you be like this?" Li Zhien shouted in dissatisfaction, "You almost scared me to death just now. At most, we are even."

"I owe you a favor." Pei Yongjun nodded at her, "If you need any help, just tell me."

"Then I won't be polite then." She chuckled, raised her hand, stretched out her white little finger, and made a pinky promise. "Is it a deal?"

"Friends should be loyal~" Lee Ji-eun blinked, and the fragility just now seemed like an illusion.

"...It's settled." Pei Yongjun paused, "Thank you for thinking so."

He stretched out his fingers and pulled them with hers.

The two looked at each other and Li Zhien smiled.

"Well," she breathed out and asked about the next plan, "What should we do now?"

"I'll take you to Hal's house. You'll stay there safely. I have some things to do."

"How do we get there? Is the car still drivable? What about the car?" Lee Ji-eun asked, "Should I call my agent over?"

"The car can still be driven, but we have to wait before we can leave." Pei Yongjun glanced at the alley next to him, then at the wall behind the flower bed, then turned to look at Li Zhien, looking her up and down, "Zhien, I have a question."

"what?"

"Have you ever climbed a wall?" he asked earnestly.

"Mo?" Li Zhien was stunned.

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"Hurry up." Pei Yongjun patted the dust on his pants, raised his head and looked at Li Zhien who was squatting on the wall, opened his hands, "Come."

"Mo? I..."

The wall was not very high, but Lee Ji-eun hesitated and did not move.

"Are you afraid of heights?" Bae Yong-jun asked Lee Ji-eun who was biting her lower lip.

"A little." She nodded, "But it's okay, I...ah!"

She suddenly felt dizzy, and before she could shout out the words in her throat, she found herself falling into a broad embrace.

Pei Yongjun raised his hand, grabbed her slender ankle, and pulled it gently. Li Zhien immediately fell down and landed in his arms.

"You!" She opened her eyes wide and was about to say something, but Pei Yongjun raised his finger to his lips and made a hushing sound.

"Don't talk." He stared at the wall in front of him and listened carefully to the sounds outside.

Outside the wall, there were chaotic footsteps coming from far away and loud shouts suddenly rang out.

"hurry up!"

"Did you hit it?"

"Of course. Didn't you hear that loud noise just now?"

"No one noticed, right?"

"There shouldn't be anyone. Neither the police car nor the ambulance has arrived for a while."

"Then hurry up and see if the person is dead?!"

Lee Ji-eun suddenly turned her head and looked at the gray wall, and suddenly understood why Bae Yong-jun suddenly pulled her down.

If she was still on the wall, she would be discovered by these people immediately.

"Li Shengli's people?" She held her breath and asked in a low voice.

"Yeah." Pei Yongjun nodded.

"What are they going to do?" Lee Ji-eun asked. She had just escaped death and was now in danger again.

She had never encountered anything like this before.

"If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body. You're very dedicated." Pei Yongjun nodded, as if expressing appreciation.

Li Zhien's heart tightened.

She is a queen who easily controls everything on the stage, but here, she is just an ordinary girl.

Even more dangerous than ordinary girls.

Outside the wall, there were ping-pong sounds, as if someone outside was hitting the car.

“Why is there no one here?!”

"Did the person run away?"

Someone immediately retorted, "Impossible, don't we have people guarding both sides?"

"So where did they go? How are we going to explain this to Brother Shengli?"

There were about eight or nine people outside, arguing for a while, and finally decided to look around first.

"Smash the car first, don't let him get away with it." A leader, with a rather rough voice, shouted, "Then split up and search!"

The place where Pei Yongjun and the other two were seemed to be a small park.

"Are we hiding here?" Lee Ji-eun turned her head and asked, but suddenly found herself still in Bae Yong-jun's arms.

"Editor-in-chief, nim?" Her cheeks flushed slightly. She had been focusing on the wall and hadn't realized it at all.

Pei Yongjun looked down at her when he heard the voice.

Li Zhien was slightly stunned.

On a cold winter night, outside the wall, the thugs were still shouting and banging their heads, their noises entering her eardrums, manic and noisy.

Inside the wall, the cold wind blew her hair, and the masculine and heroic face was so close.

There was only a wall between them, but she curled up in Pei Yongjun's warm and generous arms, feeling dazed for a moment.

like……

The strong and warm embrace of my father, which I rarely experience.

Lee Ji-eun didn't even let Bae Yong-joon put her down.

Although, his right hand seemed to be quite close to his thigh.

He's not that kind of person. Shirley said he's quite honest, so he shouldn't...

Li Zhien suddenly opened her eyes wide.

Why is your hand moving upwards?
The warm atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous.

Pei Yongjun also looked at her with a normal expression.

"I..." Li Zhien just opened her mouth when Bae Yongjun interrupted her.

"I'm a little angry."

"Mo? Angry?" Lee Ji-eun felt the warm palm beside her thigh, wondering what he was angry about.

"He hit my car, then came to smash my car again. Maybe he will beat me up again later." He looked at the wall and listened to the sounds outside gradually stopping.

"I'm really a little angry." He said softly, narrowing his eyes.

He moved his arm and said, "Come down, it's okay."

"Oh." Lee Ji-eun followed his movements obediently like a little girl and stood on the ground.

Pei Yongjun felt that at this time, she was a bit like Concubine Kwon.

but……

He recalled the feeling of being hugged by her just now and compared it.

Okay, it’s cute even though it’s small, I tried my best.

Bae Yong-jun can understand everyone's efforts.

"Alright! Stop smashing it! We're on this side, you two go this way, you two go that way!" The leader's voice came from outside the wall again, "Hurry!"

Pei Yongjun's expression straightened up, and he gently waved to Li Zhien, "Follow me, but don't get too close, keep your distance."

Then he followed the leader's voice and walked to the left.

The two sides were separated by only a wall, and the leader's rough shouting and cursing could be heard from time to time.

IU nodded and followed him closely.

After walking about a hundred or two hundred meters, it seemed that we had reached the end of the park. The wall turned and the area not far ahead became an open space, which should be the entrance to the park.

"Don't go forward, keep your distance." Bae Yong-jun said to Lee Ji-eun, quickened his pace, walked to the gap, stopped, and waited quietly.

After a few breaths, three footsteps were heard.

"Huh? Can we go in here?"

"Would you like to go in and take a look?"

"Come in! Let's go in and take a look!" The leader's rough voice rang out.

A bald man walked in with a steel rod in his hand, the same kind used in Lee Seung-ri's nightclub.

"This……"

boom!
Pei Yongjun kicked him in the side.

The bald man was caught off guard, let out a scream, and immediately staggered and fell on the railing next to him.

"Ah! Who..."

He cried out in pain and just as he turned his head, he saw another kick coming towards him, hitting him in the chest, causing him to feel a sharp pain. Then his heart suddenly skipped a beat, his whole body went limp, and he slid down the railing to the ground with a scream.

Pei Yongjun stretched out his arms, grabbed the fallen steel rod, and turned to the right.

Outside the wall, there stood two stunned men.

"It's you..." The man on the left saw his face clearly and was about to shout, but Pei Yongjun had already rushed over and hit him in the chest with a stick, causing the second half of his sentence to be stuck in his throat.

Lee Ji-eun stood behind him, staring blankly at Bae Yong-jun as he pounced on the two of them, the sharp steel rod flying.

"Editor-in-chief nim..." She murmured to herself. She didn't expect that Pei Yongjun, who seemed to have a very mild temper, actually had such a side to him.

Unbridled, like a wild beast.

She couldn't help but take a few steps forward, wanting to see more clearly.

Suddenly, the bald man who had fallen to the ground picked up a stone from the grass next to him and struggled to get up.

Pei Yongjun had his back to him and seemed defenseless.

"Editor-in-chief nim!" Lee Ji-eun blurted out and shouted.

The bald man suddenly turned his head to look at the shadows in the wall. His eyes, red with pain and anger, stared at her figure. "Is there another one?"

After a brief thought, he immediately rushed towards Lee Ji-eun with a ferocious look on his face, as if he was ready to control her first.

In her sight, the bald man's ferocious face was getting closer and closer until he was in front of her. His red eyes were as if he wanted to devour someone. His right hand was raised high, opened into a claw, and grabbed fiercely!
The strong wind hit her face and Li Zhien was almost out of breath.

Then, his body suddenly stopped, his arms suddenly twisted into a strange angle, his ferocious face suddenly became distorted, and his body fell to the side.

Pei Yongjun's figure appeared behind him, holding his wrist in his hand, and then he swung the steel rod with his left hand, pressing it against his throat.

The bald man couldn't move.

Lee Ji-eun gradually came back to her senses, her heart pounding in her chest. Tonight had been so up and down that it was impossible for her to maintain a normal state of mind. She felt herself gradually slipping from the rational and civilized world and directly into the dark jungle.

And in the jungle, the only person she can rely on is Pei Yongjun.

"I told you to keep your distance," Bae Yong-jun glanced at Lee Ji-eun, who had already moved forward quite a bit, and stepped on the bald man's waist. "It's dangerous to get too close."

"I was fine in the car accident just now, but if I get hurt by these guys, I won't be able to explain to Shirley."

"Then why did you hug me for so long?" Lee Ji-eun blurted out when she heard Choi Sulli's name.

I don’t know if she was questioning keeping distance or not being able to explain to Shirley, or both.

"Sulli will forgive you." Pei Yongjun paused before answering.

Li Zhien was speechless for a moment.

Why do I feel like I've become the bad guy?
Bae Yong-jun glanced at Lee Ji-eun who wrinkled her nose, leaned over, and patted the right cheek of the bald man who had his eyes closed.

"Open your eyes."

The bald man didn't move, as if he was determined to play dead.

"If you don't plan to open your eyes, then you don't have to keep them, okay?" Pei Yongjun's hand slid towards his eyes, his tone light, but it revealed that he was not joking at all.

The bald man was terrified, and he immediately opened his eyes. "I, I, I opened my eyes! I opened them!"

The two looked at each other, and he couldn't help asking, "You, what are you going to do?"

"Are you going to arrest me?" Pei Yongjun asked.

"Yes, Pei, Editor-in-Chief Pei, nim." The bald man was very cooperative.

"Li Shengli is your boss?"

"Yes, he is our boss."

Pei Yongjun keenly noticed the subtle change in the wording and his eyes moved.

"How much did he pay you to catch me?" he asked.

"Not much..." The bald man laughed awkwardly, but the steel rod on his neck suddenly tightened, which stopped his smile.

"Editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief!"

"One hundred million! One hundred million!" he replied quickly.

"One hundred million?"

"Yeah, yes." He continued, "beat him up first, and then catch him back."

"More than 100 million?" Pei Yongjun tightened the steel rod in his hand, and the bald man was immediately speechless.

"Not much? A lot?" The bald man's body was very flexible.

"many?"

"Yeah, more!"

"Then let's make money together, are you willing?" Pei Yongjun's grip loosened slightly.

"Mo?" The bald man was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was going to do. "You want to go find the boss? Alone?"

"Take me in," Pei Yongjun said. "I'll give you half of the prize money."

"Ah?! Are you crazy?" The bald man was startled, and then his face changed. "Actually, Editor-in-Chief Pei, as long as you talk to the boss, it's okay. It's all a misunderstanding."

"The boss is also a little angry. When he calms down, you can cooperate again, really!" The bald man was very good at talking. He was unable to move his body, but he was talking with a smile on his face.

"Editor Pei, let me be frank. Even with the police, the boss can come and go as he pleases. What can you use to fight him?"

"He has a powerful background. Even if the news gets out, the people above him will still protect him. There's nothing we can do about it. We're all just trying to make a living, so why bother?"

"If you get yourself involved..."

He suddenly stopped talking, his eyes wide open, full of disbelief, looking at the photo on Pei Yongjun's phone.

"How can it be……"

He muttered to himself, his voice trembling.

"Are you willing now?" Pei Yongjun laughed softly.

"Yes, yes!" The bald man nodded repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)