The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 236 You seem to like me (two in one)

“Likey Likey~”

On the stage, the nine members of Twice were dancing energetically to the music. Their dance moves were light and graceful, with sweet smiles on their delicate facial features. A thin layer of sweat was on the tip of their small noses, and the tender white thigh flesh trembled with their movements, which made people unable to help but daydream.

However, the performance that always attracted the audience's attention in the past seemed to be a little out of place tonight.

The commotion in the audience seats at the awards ceremony had not yet subsided.

Quan Enfei sat there, looking at the call to Pei Yongjun on her mobile phone that could not be reached, feeling extremely anxious.

Beside them, the people from the Hanjiang Sports Newspaper, after being surprised, started to discuss a solution.

"I think we need to quickly control the situation and manage online public opinion. We need to find someone to muddy the waters."

"Ah! Aren't you just giving him heat? If there's a victim, go find him right away. Once he changes his tune, everything will be easy!"

"What? Is it too late to look for it now? Could KBS not have thought of it? If they caught us on camera, we'd be caught with evidence!"

"Oh no! This topic can't be suppressed anymore, the popularity is skyrocketing!"

"KBS said they'll be broadcasting live online soon! This isn't taking advantage of someone's misfortune!"

The situation was so unexpected, and with Pei Yongjun, the backbone, absent, everyone was talking at once, and no one could convince anyone else.

"Enough! Stop arguing! I'm going to find the president!" Liu Chengzhu shouted, stood up and hurried to the first row to discuss countermeasures with Lin Bingxian.

Listening to the noisy sounds around her, Quan Enfei became even more panicked, but she still couldn't contact Pei Yongjun on her mobile phone.

"Okay, Concubine En, stop fighting for now." Just when I was getting anxious, a crisp voice suddenly came from the side.

"Mo?" Queen Kwon turned her head and looked at Choi Sulli beside her.

Her snow-white face looked quite calm, with only her brows slightly wrinkled.

"Aren't you going to fight anymore?" Queen Kwon was stunned for a moment, thinking she had misheard.

Senior Shirley, you should have a good relationship with Editor-in-Chief Pei, so why would you say that?
"Well, is it okay?" Choi Sulli nodded, with a hint of pleading in her eyes.

"Senior Sulli, aren't you anxious?" Quan Enfei couldn't help but ask.

Choi Sulli slowly shook her head and took Kwon Eunbi's hand.

There was a thin layer of sweat on the palms of her snow-white little hands.

"I'm very anxious."

"Then..." Only then did Kwon Eunbi realize how nervous Choi Sulli was. Her other hand was tightly clutching the hem of her skirt.

"But he must know about such a big thing, so don't call, okay? It will bother him." Choi Sulli looked into Kwon Eunbi's eyes and said seriously.

"There must be a lot of people calling him now."

"I..." Quan Enfei put down the phone and nodded, "Okay."

"Do you care about him very much?" Choi Sulli smiled gently.

"It's okay, team leader nim always took care of me before, so..." Kwon Eun-bi felt inexplicably nervous.

"Then let's not cause him any trouble. He must be trying hard to deal with this matter. He will come to us when he needs us." Choi Sulli said.

"What if this can't be handled properly? What should we do?" Kwon Eun-bi asked. "Team Leader-nim, he might never be able to work as a reporter again!"

After interning for a few months, Kwon Eun-bi felt that she understood the consequences better than Choi Sulli.

"Everything now is..."

"No matter what," Choi Sulli turned her head and looked at Bae Yongjun's empty chair in the first row. Her dark eyes flashed with a determination that seemed to never change. "No matter what, I will stay with him."

Kwon Eun-bi remained silent. She also looked at Pei Yongjun's chair, clasped her hands together, and prayed that Team Leader Nim could overcome the difficulties smoothly.

She glanced over and saw Jin Caiyuan on the other side, who was also holding his hands together and muttering something, and seemed to be worried about Pei Yongjun as well.

Concubine Kwon's mood brightened a little.

Lian Caiyuan supports the team leader, there must be a way!
Team leader nim, come on!
Jin Caiyuan closed his eyes and murmured to himself in a pious voice, "God bless this hateful pervert and let him die soon!"

"Don't disturb me, the upright Jin Caiyuan, who is practicing hard!"

"I don't want to eat that disgusting thing!"

Perhaps God heard her voice. After Twice's performance ended and they walked off the stage one by one, a burst of exclamations suddenly broke out amid the applause.

Jin Caiyuan opened his eyes and saw a man in a wheelchair next to the stage. One of his hands was still in a white plaster cast, and he looked quite miserable.

Someone pushed his wheelchair to the open space under the stage.

Sitting in a wheelchair, he shouted at the audience at the top of his lungs, "Dear friends! I am the person who was hit by the unscrupulous reporter, Bae Yong-jun!"

"I want to expose Bae Yong-jun's true face!"

The roar of exclamations was like a tsunami, and the venue was in uproar, and many people stood up.

"Wow..." Jin Caiyuan, who was still holding his hands together, was stunned and shuddered all over. "Is it really that effective..."

Lin Bingxian, who was anxiously discussing with Liu Chengzhu, also stood up suddenly.

"Ah! Where's the security guard! Hurry up! Send him out! There can't be any irrelevant people waiting here!" Lin Bingxian stretched out his hand to call the security guard to drive Jin Dayong out.

But just as the security guard was about to take action, the woman next to Park Min-soo in the middle of the first row spoke up.

"Secretary Lin, there's no need to rush to get rid of them, right?"

"Mo?" Lin Bingxian was stunned.

"I think we should let this gentleman speak, otherwise, tonight's grand prize will really become a joke." The middle-aged woman's voice was not loud, but the people in the front rows could hear it clearly.

"Bingxun?" Lin Bingxian quickly asked Lin Bingxun, who had a dark face beside him.

"This is Han Xiuya, a director of the Shouting Journalists Association, who is in charge of the journalists' disciplinary and internal affairs." Lin Bingxun's face looked ugly. He had invited such a distinguished guest, but he didn't expect that he would come to help others destroy his place.

He was extremely angry, but Han Xiuya held the lifeline of Peninsula journalists and could revoke their credentials, so he did not dare to act presumptuously.

"It was you?!" Lin Bingxun looked at Park Minsu, who was smiling, "You did this?!"

"Didn't you, KBS, do the interview with Bae Yong-joon? You're giving me that!!"

Park Min-soo smiled, stood up and patted Lin Bingxun on the shoulder, "I'm sorry, it's true that we did the interview, but..."

"Since I've discovered he did something wrong, I'm doing this to seek justice and make up for our KBS mistake in misjudging people."

"Please lend me the stage today. You'd better not make the same mistake again."

He waved his hand, and Kim Dong-gun immediately pushed Kim Dayong onto the stage.

"Ah! Security!" Lin Bingxun didn't care about anything else and wanted to stop it forcibly.

But Park Min-soo held him down.

The smile on his face faded, "Lin Bingxun, do you want to make the same mistake again and again?"

"KBS's live broadcast signal will be connected soon."

"Do you want security to kick the victim out in front of the cameras?"

"That's..." He said with a threatening look in his eyes, "the eyes of fifty million people across the peninsula."

"Are you going to forcibly cover up the truth in front of 50 million people?"

"I..." Lin Bingxun's face turned pale. He was pushed aside and watched Kim Dong-gun push Kim Dayong onto the stage step by step.

Damn!

Where did this guy Pei Yongjun go?
Didn't he already have the video? Why did he let people expose the fact that he hit someone?

If he runs out to see other women, I really want to punch him to death!

She thought Pei Yongjun must have taken the video and exchanged interests with Jin Dongjian and others, and each side had compromised, but she didn't expect that the incident of him hitting someone would be exposed tonight. With everyone watching, the matter would definitely become a big deal.

Liu Zhimin watched the crying Jin Dayong walk onto the stage little by little, bit her lower lip anxiously, stood up and wanted to run out, but was grabbed by Liu Xunjie.

"Ji Min, where are you going?" He pulled Liu Zhi Min back and pressed her down on the seat.

"Oh, Dad, I'm going to the bathroom." Liu Zhimin lied without changing his expression.

"Why go to the bathroom? Or do you want to find Pei Yongjun?" Liu Xunjie's words made Liu Zhimin's expression change.

"I……"

Liu Xunjie smiled and touched her head. "Unknowingly, my little girl has become so familiar with him? But don't let the bad guys fool you."

Liu Zhimin explained anxiously, "That's not the case. He's not a bad person. I..."

"He's the one who bumps into people, right?" Liu Xunjie left Liu Zhimin speechless.

"Ji Min," Liu Xunjie smiled when he saw Liu Zhimin's expression. He looked at Jin Dayong who started to speak passionately and denounce Pei Yongjun on the stage, and said softly, "In fact, it doesn't matter whether a person is good or bad."

"But it would be bad if the bad guys were stupid enough to be caught by others."

"Jimin, you're not going anywhere."

"You must remember not to sympathize with worthless people. This is the truth that my father taught you. This is how society is."

"What is a worthless person?" Liu Zhimin couldn't help but ask as he couldn't break free.

"Look," Liu Xunjie pointed to the stage, "This is Pei Yongjun now."

"Can you turn over? Let me see Xuan." He said quietly.

Liu Zhimin's heart tightened.

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In the waiting room backstage, Lee Ji-eun slammed the door open and hurried in.

Without bothering to greet the makeup artist, Lee Ji-eun ran directly to the sofa, picked up her bag, rummaged through it for a few times, and found her cell phone.

She first sent a text message to Pei Yongjun, [Quick! Answer the phone!]

Then he called Pei Yongjun.

Du~du~du~
The phone rang several times, she waited anxiously, and finally heard the sound of the call being connected.

"Know……"

"Where have you been!" Lee Ji-eun interrupted Bae Yong-jun.

"What's wrong?" Pei Yongjun's tone was quite normal.

"Do you know what happened?"

"That news? I probably know." Pei Yongjun said.

"Now that Kim Dong-gun has already pushed the person you injured onto the stage," Li Zhien glanced at the stage screen on the waiting room TV. "Do you understand?"

"Lin Bingxian and Lin Bingxun failed to stop the man. The person behind Kim Dongjian must be very powerful!"

"Do you understand how serious the situation is?" Lee Ji-eun said the most important thing in one breath, then took a breath and stood there panting.

Pei Yongjun responded, "From your tone, I understand."

"No matter where you go, don't come back yet. If you come back and we confront you, you're done!" Lee Ji-eun looked at Kim Dayong who was crying on the stage and felt the huge sense of being deceived in the hearts of the audience.

Just now I thought he was the conscience of the nation, but he actually did such a cold-blooded and heartless thing?

The reputation that Pei Yongjun had worked so hard to build up was about to be destroyed.

"Not going back? Then where should I go? I can't just go home and sleep." Pei Yongjun chuckled a few times.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Zhien didn't know why, but she felt uncomfortable and couldn't help but retort, "Is it funny?"

"You're going to be screwed, you know that?"

"It's not that bad, at least you still care about me." Pei Yongjun seemed to be in the mood to joke.

Li Zhien was stunned for a moment.

"I'm not kidding you, go find Yu Qinghao now." She whispered.

"Looking for him?" Pei Yongjun asked.

"What else? Secretary Lin, your president has no solution. Who else can we turn to?" Lee Ji-eun asked back.

"If there's no other way, go find him. He'll have a way. Bribe witnesses, convince KBS, bribe the hospital. Whatever it takes, it's better than just sitting there and waiting to die."

Pei Yongjun didn't say anything.

"Hey! Did you hear that?" Lee Ji-eun raised her voice a little.

"I heard it." Pei Yongjun responded.

"And..." Lee Ji-eun turned her head and stared at Kim Dayong who was becoming more and more excited on the screen, and the faint discussions about Bae Yong-jun in the audience. It took her several seconds to come back to her senses, she took a deep breath, and seemed to have made up her mind.

"Also, if you ask him for help, he will definitely agree, but he will definitely put forward conditions."

"My shares?" Pei Yongjun asked.

"...Use mine." Lee Ji-eun said softly, her left hand tightly grasping the hem of her skirt, her brittle knuckles turned pale.

"What?" Pei Yongjun seemed a little surprised.

"I'll use my shares to go find him."

"you sure?"

"Sure!" Li Zhien let out a long breath and spoke faster and faster. "Anyway, I only have 38% left. It doesn't matter if it's less. If you lose 51%, don't even think about helping me. You'll be in trouble sooner or later."

She spoke fluently and logically, but it seemed as if she was trying to convince herself.

"So, find a place to stay first, and I'll go find Woo Kyung-ho right away." Lee Ji-eun finished in one breath, "That's it, okay?"

"Is that so? But never mind."

To her surprise, Pei Yongjun refused.

"Why?" Li Zhien, who had finally calmed down, couldn't help but get excited again, "Why not?"

"Because I don't want you to go find him."

"Why? Is it because of your man's bored jealousy?" Li Zhien unconsciously raised her voice, "I will find a way to find out the specific reason. I won't let him find out. Now it's time to be rational, do you understand?"

"Reason! You..."

"You are the one who is irrational now." Pei Yongjun interrupted her.

"Jie Eun, why would you use the 38% stake you value so dearly to me to help me?"

Bae Yong-jun's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Lee Ji-eun's heart and making her tremble all over.

"Lee Ji-eun, you are too irrational."

Pei Yongjun said softly, "You..."

His steady breathing sounded slowly in the phone receiver, gently touching Li Zhien's heart.

"Seems like you've fallen in love with me."

Li Zhien was stunned where she was.

(End of this chapter)