The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 98 The past is like smoke

Pei Yongjun stood up, encrypted the document, turned off the computer, and stretched.

It was dark outside the window. He glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost two o'clock, very late.

Liu Chengzhu will come at three o'clock to do the preliminary typeset. The editorial team has also been contacted and will come at five o'clock to do the formal typeset. The final draft will be available before work, and after another review and proofreading, it will be sent out at ten o'clock.

There was a faint sound outside the office door. Bae Yong-jun walked to the door and saw Choi Sulli sleeping on the table with her cell phone in her hand.

The scene above was of himself fighting with Zico and the other two. Various exclamations kept popping up on both sides. It should be a clip from KBS's "Live Report".

Choi Sulli was a light sleeper, and she woke up immediately when she felt someone approaching.

"Hmm?" She raised her head and looked at Pei Yongjun next to her, "Editor-in-Chief, I'm sorry, I fell asleep, I..."

She suddenly saw Pei Yongjun on her phone screen, and she felt embarrassed. She slammed the phone on the table and said, "Um, um..."

Pei Yongjun laughed.

"Hey, what are you laughing at? You look at me and I look at you, is that not okay?" She raised her head and wrinkled her nose at Pei Yongjun, snorted twice, and then couldn't help laughing too.

"Let's go." Pei Yongjun pulled her up from the chair, and the two walked out of the office area one after the other.

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"What about your car?" Bae Yong-jun looked at Choi Sulli who got into his car.

Her white BMW was still parked opposite the newspaper office.

"Let's leave it here for now," Choi Sulli fastened her seat belt. "Let Hyesoo-unnie drive tomorrow. She'll just pick me up at Hara-unnie's house."

"Hye-soo?" Bae Yong-jun heard an unfamiliar name.

"Oh, that's right!" Choi Sulli's expression became excited. "The company has given me a new agent, Hye Soo-unnie, Kim Hye Soo."

"Great! Thank you, editor-in-chief nim~"

She looked at Pei Yongjun happily.

Choi Sulli thought it would take at least ten days or half a month to change her agent, but when she returned home, SM told her that they had changed her agent.

Pei Yongjun heard the joy in her tone. He started the car and asked as he drove, "Do you know her?"

"Yeah! Huixiu unnie used to be our assistant. She doesn't talk much, but she has a good temper. She got married and had a child a few years ago, so she left the company. I think she just came back last year."

Choi Sulli began to speak.

Promoting the former assistant to become the agent of Choi Sulli, a marginal artist, is a promotion in position without arousing jealousy. On the other hand, replacing Zhao Youbin, who tends to be strict, with Kim Hye-soo, who sounds like a service-oriented person, is a win-win for everyone.

SM really put a lot of thought into this player replacement.

This was partly due to Li Dongxun's face, and probably also due to the influence of the news he broke on "Live Report" tonight.

Being at the center of public opinion and holding the most explosive news, SM is naturally wary and doesn't want to be worried about them.

Replacing Zhao Youbin, with whom he had conflicts, as soon as possible was a gesture of goodwill.

Otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence that Choi Sulli had already changed after the show was broadcast.

"Let her come and help me drive the car tomorrow, and then have lunch with her at noon, okay?"

"Oh yeah, I'm going to be with Min-yeon and the others tonight."

Choi Sulli thought about tomorrow's plans, "Editor-in-Chief, where are we eating tomorrow night?"

"It's all fine. Just find a place you like."

"There's a delicious barbecue restaurant in Bangbae-dong, Seocho District. How about going there?" Choi Sulli took out her cell phone and started planning tomorrow's itinerary.

I will sleep with Hara unnie tonight, have dinner with Hyesoo unnie tomorrow morning, go to the company in the afternoon, pick up Kim Min-young and Yoo Ji-min at dinner time, and then I will be able to meet Editor-in-Chief-nim again.

Choi Sulli feels that life is full of hope.

After planning for tomorrow, she began to talk excitedly about her memories with Kim Hye-soo.

Pei Yongjun's mood brightened as he listened to her chattering while driving.

"Hyesoo-unnie is very skillful and can knit. I remember she gave each of us a small woolen wallet. Mine was beige, and Soojung's was..." Choi Sulli's voice suddenly paused as she spoke. "Huh?" Bae Yongjun glanced at her.

Choi Sulli's hand was still suspended in the air, but her expression suddenly froze.

"...It's been a while since I've seen you all." She slowly lowered her hands and placed them on her knees, her eyes filled with memories. "How is everyone doing?"

"Hasn't there been any contact?" Pei Yongjun asked.

She shook her head.

Since she left her original group F(x), she has not been in contact with the members.

"what happened?"

"...I feel so sorry for everyone." She murmured, "We said we would always work hard together, but I ran away on my own."

“It’s not completely absent.”

"During the Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year, I would receive greeting text messages."

"I wanted to say something, but I didn't want it to end like this. However, I didn't know how to say it, so I just replied with a blessing, and that was it."

"I'm sure this must be disappointing to everyone. I'm really sorry..."

She intertwined her fingertips.

The car fell silent for a moment.

F(x) has had a rough fate and has encountered many misfortunes one after another. Now its actual activities have basically stopped. When Choi Sulli thinks about this, she feels even more guilty.

The car sped through the streets of Seoul late at night. The empty streets were sparsely populated, and the cold white street lights shone into the car.

"You've seen that photo, right?" Pei Yongjun broke the silence. "The one in the bookcase."

"Yeah." Choi Sulli looked up and remembered the photo in which she only recognized Bae Young-jun and Ryu Sung-soo.

"That was a photo I took when I first came to Hangang Sports. They all followed me here from KBS."

"Hmm?" Choi Sulli glanced at Bae Yongjun's profile. "Why did Editor-in-Chief Nim leave KBS?"

She was really curious.

"Kicked out." Pei Yongjun smiled.

"Kicked out?"

"Yes, I encountered an accident. Or maybe it wasn't entirely an accident. Anyway, I was kicked out of KBS. The person in the photo is my colleague there at the time. He felt it was unfair and didn't accept it, so he decided to leave with me and wanted to make a career."

"So loyal," she said, listening intently. "I feel like Reporter Liu."

"That's right, they're all very loyal partners." Pei Yongjun nodded. "When we took the photo, we had just signed a contract with President Lin and had a place to stay, so everyone was very happy and took a photo downstairs."

"Is that so?" Choi Sulli hadn't expected there to be such a story behind the photo. However, she only knew Yoo Sung-soo and had never seen the others. "Are they all in other news groups?"

"No, they all left." Pei Yongjun shook his head.

"Mo?" Cui Xueli opened her eyes wide. This was an answer she had never expected.

"Everyone has their own life. It's great that they can accompany me to Hanjiang Sports. I never blame them."

At the traffic light, Pei Yongjun stopped the car and turned around. His usually cold eyes were softened by the memories. "Sulli, no one will blame you."

"Editor-in-chief nim..." Choi Sulli murmured to herself and slowly smiled, "You are so nice."

She had a nice smile.

"Really, very..."

like.

Choi Sulli didn't have the courage to say the last two words.

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