The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 95 Late night phone call
Hangang Sports News, Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
It was late at night and the building was quiet. Only in Pei Yongjun's office could the faint sound of keyboard tapping be heard.

Click, click, click...

Bae Yong-jun sat in front of the computer, revising the special news that would be released tomorrow. The content was exactly the crimes of Zico and others, starting from Jung Joon-young to Zico's arrest. The ups and downs were enough to fill two episodes.

The manuscript has been completed and Pei Yongjun is reviewing the text.

There should be no problem.

Bae Yong-jun scanned the screen line by line, then closed the document and encrypted it. It was almost done. The draft would be finished tonight, and then Yoo Sung-su would take over the shift and prepare for typesetting and printing. It would be sent out tomorrow morning at 10: AM.

He looked at his watch and saw that it was almost midnight. He picked up the cold coffee on the table, took a sip, then stood up and stretched.

Walking out the door, he walked towards the window at the other end of the corridor, looking at the Han River in the distance outside the window, relieving his mental fatigue and taking a short rest.

The night was dark and it was almost 12 o'clock. Even the cars on the street outside were starting to thin out.

After looking for a while, he turned on his phone.

A cascade of news poured out.

Jung Joon-young, Zico, and Choi Jong-hoon, three stars were brought down at once. It was not just the scandals, but even the horrific acts of violating women, secretly taking photos and sharing them, which were enough to completely ruin the acting careers of these three people.

No one knows who else is in the group chat he mentioned on TV.

The current news has become one of the most explosive news in the entertainment industry in many years. People who know him and those who don’t know him are trying every possible way to ask him for information, for fear that their own artists will be implicated and caught up in the terrible storm of public opinion.

The top ten hot searches on Kakao were all dominated by news-related terms, with the names of Zico and the other two high up on the list. The internet was seething late at night, with everyone condemning these people in unison.

[Until this afternoon, I still liked criminals and scumbags! ]

A post from a Zico fan is going viral.

【I am a repeater. 】

I first saw Zico in person at the university anniversary celebration I dreamed of attending. I thought his songs were great, and I've been a fan of him ever since. I desperately saved money from my living expenses to buy him albums and try to attend his book signings, but I never got in. So I've always dreamed of meeting him one day.

I imagined him encouraging me to study, imagined that by then I would have been admitted to the university I wanted to go to, and imagined everything that would happen on that day.

【In the end, I didn't expect to see him in this way on the news.】

[It was really painful, like a big dream, and now I finally woke up.]

Then I felt terrified. If it weren't for reporter Bae Young-jun, would I have always loved such a vicious criminal and scum?

[I even argued with someone online about Zico, saying that Zico was a very good person.]

[It's really scary, as if I've become an accomplice.]

I'm very grateful to reporter Bae Young-jun. He woke me up.

[Please work hard! Don't let this kind of scum appear before you again! ]

I want to know the truth. I want to know how many people are still doing evil things.

Is the agency an accomplice? Did they never even know about this? [Starting tomorrow, I'll be protesting near the Southern District Prosecutors' Office. No matter how much money these guys have or who they know, please investigate thoroughly.]

[This is my atonement for having loved such a scum and criminal before.]

【If you want to join us, please contact me. 】

[Reporter Bae, please continue to tell the truth! Please! I will always be grateful to you for bringing me to my senses!] KBS's report only scratched the surface of the dark truth, but the underlying reasons couldn't be fully explained in just a dozen minutes. Everyone was wondering what exactly happened and how many people were involved.

The one who can answer these questions is tomorrow's Hanjiang Sports.

After a night of fermentation, the public, who are entangled, curious and angry and unable to sleep, will burst out with even more violent emotions when they read this special news tomorrow.

A corner of darkness was accidentally revealed, and it turned out that Pei Yongjun had been in a life-and-death struggle with this group of guys.

However, with Cao Guo's phone call and the angry people, anyone with a sound mind in the District Procuratorate would stand firmly on his side and crush this criminal gang.

Lee Seung-ri, who was revealed in Zico's inner voice, cannot escape the blame, and cannot resist the trend.

Although Zico did not actually confess, Bae Young-jun had already talked to Jung Tae-ho and listed a group of suspects, including Lee Seung-ri.

Zheng Taihao has told him that the Procuratorate will send someone to summon these people tomorrow.

The power of public opinion?

Since leaving KBS, Bae Young-joon once again felt this indescribable and elusive powerful force after a long time.

While I was lost in thought, the phone beside me rang.

Buzz~buzz~
The name of the telephone contact is Cao Guo.

"Hello, Chief Cao."

Bae Yong-jun did not have any friendship with Cho Kuk, but what he did not tell Jung Tae-ho was that before Cho Kuk called Kim Young-ho, he contacted him first.

"Editor-in-Chief Pei, you haven't rested yet?" Cao Guo's voice was very gentle, with the somewhat vicissitudes of a middle-aged man's magnetism, which seemed very contagious in the middle of the night. "Thank you for your hard work."

"Thank you for what happened today."

"Chief Cao, please don't say that. I should be thanking you." Pei Yongjun said in a calm tone.

"No way. I can't thank you enough for not reporting the ridiculous things Hyun-young did in the news." Cho Kuk was very humble.

Feel angry at the darkness, fear of evil, and sympathize with the weak.

The public sentiment is the most powerful force for journalists.

Now, this power is in Pei Yongjun's hands.

It was precisely because of this power that Cao Guo took the initiative to contact him and said that he wanted Zhu Xianying to be dismissed immediately.

Because according to the original program schedule of "Live Report", at the end of the program, Bae Young-joon will disclose that he is under investigation by the prosecutor.

Holding the most explosive topic, once he hands over the program process, someone will naturally pass the information to those who are willing to face this power.

He confused right and wrong, was used as a pawn by the suspect, and then turned around to search for the hero who solved the case. The perpetrator was a household name star. What Zhu Xianying did was absolutely a major injustice, enough to shock the peninsula.

Even if Cho Kuk doesn't contact him, his enemies will. Bae Yong-jun may seem like a small reporter, but he is currently holding a power that Joo Hyun-young cannot understand.

However, as he expected, Cho Kuk called first.

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