The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 237 You are a little dependent on him, I don’t like it
like?

Falling in love with Bae Young-joon?

There was a long silence, and Lee Ji-eun could only hear the two people's breathing.

"Do you want to help?" She finally broke the silence, her voice seemingly motionless as she said coldly to Pei Yongjun, "Am I being too sentimental?"

"If you don't need me, I'll hang up."

"You really like me." Pei Yongjun answered the question irrelevantly.

"Ah! Bae Yongjun, are you crazy?" Lee Ji-eun's forced calmness disappeared in an instant.

"I didn't." Pei Yongjun's voice was normal.

"Then why don't you let me go find him?" Li Zhien questioned him, "Why? Give me a reason that can convince me!"

"I have to know!"

"Because..." Pei Yongjun chuckled, "You're a little dependent on him, and I don't like it."

Lee Ji-eun was stunned, her big eyes blinking, as if she saw Bae Young-jun's deep eyes.

"You..." She wanted to say something, but the phone was busy beeping.

Pei Yongjun hung up the phone.

[You're a bit dependent on him, and I don't like that...]

Pei Yongjun's last words repeated in her mind, and she felt that her clear and rational brain had become confused.

I don't know why, Pei Yongjun's words are so irrational, so uncalm, and so unreasonable, but she...

Lee Ji-eun raised her hand and covered her chest, feeling her heart beating rapidly.

But she likes it very much.

The crazy person is me, right?
[You're a bit dependent on him, and I don't like that...]

She stared at the empty space in front of her, and scenes of their interactions flashed through her mind. She leaned against the wall in a daze, and Pei Yongjun's last words kept echoing in her heart.

Own……

Do you really like him?

I don’t know how long it was before the makeup artist, who was frightened by her, came over cautiously and called her.

"Jieun-unnie, are you okay?"

"Ah? I, I'm fine." She shook her head and suddenly remembered something. She turned her head to look at the TV, but she saw Jin Dayong in the wheelchair fell to his knees with a thud.

"Everyone, please help me!"

"I can't accept that such an important award was won by an unscrupulous reporter like Bae Yong-jun!"

"Please help me find him!"

"I don't want money! All I want is his attitude!"

With a bandage hanging on his chest, Jin Dayong shouted at the top of his lungs and kowtowed to the audience on the stage. Most of the audience could no longer sit still and stood up naturally, looking at Jin Dayong with a hint of sympathy.

The situation was already critical. Lee Ji-eun didn't care about what happened with Bae Young-jun. She picked up her phone and was about to call Woo Kyung-ho. Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the earphones on her ears.

"I am coming."

Li Zhien was stunned for a moment.

The makeup artist next to him suddenly screamed, "Wow! Unnie! Look!"

Li Zhien raised her eyes and looked at the TV.

On the screen, a figure suddenly appeared at the edge of the stage. He stood straight, with sharp eyes between his handsome brows.

It was Pei Yongjun.

He held the microphone in his hand, his expression normal, his voice deep and magnetic, "Are you looking for me?"

Bae Yong-jun turned his head to look at the camera, his dark eyes were like an abyss, as if he was looking at Lee Ji-eun in front of the TV through the screen.

"I am coming."

He uttered a few words softly and walked onto the stage. His handsome figure cast a slender shadow under the bright lights of the stage, like a brave knight with his lance inserted into the heart of the enemy.

Lee Ji-eun stood in front of the TV, staring at his figure infatuatedly, her eyes sparkling like stars in the dark night, twinkling.

[IU, you seem to... fall in love with me.]

Lee Ji-eun came back to her senses, looked at Bae Young-joon on the screen again, turned around and ran out.

"Ouni, where are you going?" the makeup artist, who didn't know what was going on, asked from behind.

"Go to the stage!" Lee Ji-eun's figure disappeared in the corridor outside the waiting room door.

——————Bae Yong-jun stepped onto the stairs, his eyes moved, and he looked at Kim Dong-gun and Kim Dayong in the middle of the stage.

Kim Dayong was still kneeling on the ground, tears streaming down his face, while Kim Dong-gun was standing beside his wheelchair. The two of them stared at Bae Yong-jun who suddenly appeared, their eyes wide open, and were so shocked that they were speechless.

"What? Aren't you looking for me? I'm here, why aren't you talking?" Pei Yongjun smiled easily.

"Ah!" Jin Dayong was the first to react. He pointed at Pei Yongjun and shouted to the audience with a look of joy on his face, "It's him! It's him! Pei Yongjun!"

"It's him..." He shouted twice, then suddenly remembered his current role and howled, "It's him who hit me!"

"I thought he had escaped, but I didn't expect him to dare to come back!"

The whole place was in an uproar.

Just as Jin Dayong thought, most of the audience present thought that Pei Yongjun had escaped, which confirmed the suspicions of many people.

"It's him!"

"That's him, why is he still here?"

"What are you here for? A confrontation?"

There was a flurry of discussion at the award ceremony, and the voices were like a swarm of bees, making people's heads buzz.

Pei Yongjun seemed not to hear Jin Dayong's question. He stood there with his figure upright, and his eyes, as if real, slowly swept across the audience.

"He's here!" Liu Zhimin's eyes lit up. He looked at the slightly surprised face of Liu Xunjie beside him, and felt indescribably happy. "Dad, he's here! Look!"

"So what if he's here? Let's wait and see." Liu Xunjie couldn't hide the surprise on his face, frowning slightly, feeling that Pei Yongjun's actions were beyond his imagination.

Pei Yongjun's gaze moved from front to back, from Liu Zhimin's face which suddenly became happy, and all the way back.

"That's great..." Choi Sulli murmured to herself with a smile on her face. Her bright eyes seemed to meet Pei Yongjun's gaze in mid-air.

"Team leader nim..." Kwon Eun-bi looked at Bae Yong-jun's calm expression and couldn't help muttering to herself. She suddenly remembered the scene when he rescued her from Lee Seung-ri's nightclub.

His expression was still calm, as if no matter how big the problem was, he could solve it effortlessly.

Jin Caiyuan, who was still clasping his hands together and thanking God for his presence, was stunned again.

No, is this God effective?
Pei Yongjun's eyes swept across the audience. The pressure was like a substance, and the noisy venue gradually quieted down.

He looked around with an upright posture, and everyone felt as if he was the master of this place.

Would such a person really do something despicable?
Without saying a word, everyone present was already shaken.

"Bae Yongjun!" Jin Dongjian sensed the delicate atmosphere, his heart tensing. He immediately jumped out, pointing one finger at Jin Dayong, who was kneeling on the ground, and the other at Bae Yongjun. "Why don't you confess to the victim quickly? You made a mistake and you're afraid to admit it?"

Bae Yong-jun withdrew his gaze from the audience and turned to look at Kim Dong-gun and the other man.

"Admit your mistake quickly!" When their eyes met, Kim Dong-gun suddenly felt a little nervous and shouted again as if to gather his courage.

Shouts echoed on the stage, but Pei Yongjun slowly shook his head, "Of course I have to admit my mistakes, but I wasn't the one who made the mistake."

Jin Dongjian thought he was being stubborn and was delighted. "If it wasn't you who made the mistake, could it be me?"

"Hmm?" Pei Yongjun raised his eyebrows and looked at him in surprise. "Ah, I didn't expect you to admit it so proactively."

"What?" Jin Dongjian looked at him as if he was looking at an idiot, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat. "What do you mean?"

“Please take a look at who made the mistake,” Pei Yongjun ignored him and waved his hand. The big screen on the screen suddenly changed to a photo.

In a high-end hotel, Kim Dayong and Kim Dong-gun were sitting and standing, seemingly plotting something.

In the photo, Kim Dong-gun is taking out a thick envelope from his pocket and handing it to Kim Dayong with a flattering smile on his face.

The whole audience immediately burst into an uproar, exclaiming in disbelief.

Kim Dong-gun's face turned pale in an instant.

"what happened!"

"What are you doing?" someone in the audience shouted angrily.

"Kim Dong-gun, tell me, what are you doing?" Bae Yong-jun asked leisurely.

"I, I..." Kim Dong-gun looked at himself taking out money on the screen, and his brain went blank as if struck by lightning.

How did he know?
How did he get the photo?
How can it be?

"Is it impossible?"

"But you did it."

"Bribing witnesses and fabricating false evidence."

"The one who made the mistake," Pei Yongjun walked up to him and patted his shoulder, "It's you."

He pointed to the audience and said, "Now, apologize to the people you fooled."

(End of this chapter)