Entertainment Life With A Camera

Chapter 108:

Chapter 108

There will be a lot of talk from now on.

Luna Girls’ Juyeon-Awi Ian dating rumor… Top idol official couple born?

JW-BHL side, “Awi Ian-Luna Girls’ Juyeon dating? Checking”

“What the hell is this?”

The portal site was filled with articles about him. 

Even the real-time search terms were flooded with them. 

Ian frowned at the bolt from the blue that happened while he was sleeping.

“Are you really not?”

Lee Juhyuk looked at Ian with doubtful eyes. 

Even when he was a trainee, idol groups that he knew from a few bridges asked for Ian’s contact number.

“When do I have time to date? We always went out together wherever we went.”

“That’s true.”

Not only that, but in the industry, Awi, Choi Ian was rumored to be handsome, polite and kind, and other celebrities picked him as the celebrity they wanted to date.

“Then why did the article come out?”

“What do you mean, we got popular, so they must have written it after picking up some rumors.”

Cho Taewoong answered Park Jinhyuk’s question indifferently.

“And if Ian was hyung, I think it would have been obvious.”

“Whoever here dates, wouldn’t it be caught? Cho Taewoong is not ordinary in his sense.”

“Then, how keen is my intuition?”

There are signals that appear when you date. 

Checking your phone often, not showing your phone to others, suddenly laughing and so on.

“Well…”

The members recalled their memories, and Ian didn’t do any of them.

Park Dongsu, who opened the door of the dormitory and came in, grabbed Ian’s shoulders.

“Is it not?”

“It’s not.”

“Then it’s fine.”

Park Dongsu sighed with relief at Ian’s words and made a phone call somewhere. 

It must have been the company’s press team. 

Ian stared blankly at Jin in the air.

[What.]

‘What do you mean? Find out what’s going on.’

[AC…]

Jin disappeared into the air with annoyance.

“Anyway, there will be a rebuttal article coming up. What a sudden thunderbolt…”

“I guess we’ve gotten that popular.”

“It’ll be noisy for a while… Guys, get ready to go to the company.”

The members who washed up and put on their clothes pressed their hats down and stopped by Ian’s room. 

They each took one of the disposable masks piled up on one side of the wall.

“Ian has a lot of masks in his room.”

“They said there was another confirmed case?”

“That’s why MyKit kids are coming to Korea soon.”

At last, Lee Juhyuk’s words made the members stop in their tracks.

“Come to think of it… Didn’t Ian say something to them in Japan?”

“Uh… I feel a bit creepy.”

“Is there really a shaman among your ancestors?”

Ian, who came into the room after washing up, looked at the members who were huddled together with curious eyes.

“What?”

“…Nothing.”

***

On the way to the company in a van, Jin came back.

[I found out.]

‘What happened?’

[Well…]

The story was like this. 

After Ian gave Luna Girls’ Kim Juyeon a blanket and a hot pack at Imjingak, she became interested in Ian. 

And she wanted to contact Ian personally through Lee Seohyun, the lead actor of ‘Dangso Deut’, who was close to her.

‘Did that rumor spread…’

Lee Seohyun tried to ask for Ian’s contact number during ‘Dangso Deut’ shooting, but Ian avoided him well using Jin, so Lee Seohyun couldn’t match them.

[Then she went around asking other celebrities for your phone number. I think she asked Jo Minhwan too?]

‘He’s not the type to tell me.’

Lee Seohyun and Kim Juyeon were best friends. 

Lee Seohyun tried to grant his best friend’s request and tried to make contact with Ian for a few months after ‘Dangso Deut’.

[Because of that, there was also some talk that you and Lee Seohyun were dating…]

‘Oh my…’

Ian pressed his temples hard.

[Anyway, someone smelled the news that Lee Seohyun was trying to match you and Kim Juyeon.]

This year, FactFix didn’t announce any dating rumors. 

So the reporters looked for other stimulating topics, and one reporter heard the rumor that ‘Lee Seohyun tried to match Kim Juyeon and Choi Ian!’ and posted an article hastily.

-But why no pictures? Usually pictures come out first, right?

-Just wait until the official statement comes out.

-But is this site reliable? Isn’t this a pseudo-media?

-It doesn’t look like a dating rumor. If it was Luna Girls or Awi level, FactPix would have exploded first.

Of course, the netizens who had experienced various internet incidents did not easily believe it. But as expected, the aggro and the haters were different.

-CrazyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋThe gossip was rightㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-It must be Raxeta. Honestly, Awi has no other hit songs besides Side Effects, right?

The most common repertoire when a dating rumor breaks out is to bash the career. Ian had a lot of praise for his main job, so there were few aggro like this. But that was not all.

-Honestly, I didn’t like him because Byunghun only pushed him.

-In the selfie on the fan cafe, isn’t that pink doll the same one that Kim Juyeon has?

The malicious individual fans who said ‘I didn’t like him’ at this moment. 

They searched for evidence of deception such as Love Star and found common items that they received from fans and made a fuss about them being couple items. 

Surprisingly, these people were either people they were interested in or fans.

-The bluebird account exploded right now. I’m so pissed off.

-Ah, I’m going crazy. I skipped breakfast and lunch and cried while bleeding my noseㅠㅠㅜ

The really vicious people were those who had a basic profile picture on SNS and had a hard-to-read and obscure ID.

-Joongan was different from his debut. He couldn’t even remember the fan names. He must have had a girlfriend.

-I know someone who works at the agency. He said he didn’t even come out of the practice room properlyㅋㅋㅋ He didn’t practice properly because he had a girlfriend.

-I knew it was suspiciousㅋㅋㅋ I know someone who works at the broadcasting station. I heard a lot of thingsㅋㅋㅋ

These people didn’t care whether the person was dating or not. It was important to make the person who used it as an excuse a problematic person as usual, and to bash the dating rumor partner and incite fandom fights.

-Honestly, I don’t know why Joongan does character business. His character was busted.

-He’s only nice to the staffsㅋㅋBut he’s rude to the fansㅋㅋ

These accounts that suddenly exploded, they made up facts that looked plausible in words, even if they weren’t true, and then blew up their accounts and ran away when they saw a lawsuit, aka account explosion escape.

There are always many people who bash celebrities. But at this moment, they just added more firewood and burned it. 

The agency posted a rebuttal article within an hour of the dating rumor breaking out.

JW Entertainment, Luna Girls Juyeon’s dating rumor is “not true”

Awi Ian’s side, “Dating rumor is groundless… Legal action against false facts”

-Hey, the official statement came out. They said it’s not true.

└Then why don’t they say it’s true?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└But Luna Girls’ agency usually admits it if they date.

└No smoke without fireㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋThey must be dating for realㅋㅋㅋ

-No ㅅㅂ It’s not the agency or the person who said it.

└Ignore them. They will believe it’s true even if they say it’s not.

└They already imagined them getting married and sending their kids to English kindergarten in their heads.

-Hey, the site-in article is deleted.

What the hell??? Is there anyone who exposed the reporter?

└I have it ㄱㄷ

└I’m calling to protest right now.

└Can we catch the account that exploded? I want to cry.

Of course, the ones who suffered the most in this situation were the fans. 

The people who bashed them deleted their posts in real time after seeing the agency’s legal action article, and the fans were busy collecting evidence.

They couldn’t confirm whether Ian’s luck worked here or if there was something else, but an unexpected explanation article came up.

[FactPix] Awi Ian’s dating rumor? FactPix followed his traces for months

(Photo)

The scene of him leaving the dorm with his group member, Juyeong.

Despite being called a rising idol, he only goes back and forth between the dorm and the convenience store.

(Photo)

The place is Apgujeong P BBQ restaurant.

His expression is not good as he waits for someone. Finally? The reporter lifted his camera. 

The person sitting across from him was actor Jo Min-hwan.

…He followed him for months, but he couldn’t find any evidence of a romance. He asked the person who got the evidence to report it.

This article spread rapidly, and he became the celebrity that FactFix gave up on.

‘Is this noise marketing?’

[You got a great shot. What lens did you use?]

Jin was more interested in other things. Ian showed FactFix’s article to Kim Juyeong.

“Hey Juyeong, you’re in here too. Look at the angle, anyone would think we’re dating.”

“Wow, that’s creepy. Did you know someone was taking pictures?”

“Of course not. The quality looks like they zoomed in a lot.”

Kim Juyeong, who was looking at Ian’s phone screen, suddenly turned pale.

“But don’t say we’re dating, that’s horrible.”

“Sorry, I was just joking and got goosebumps.”

Park Jinhyuk and Kim Hyundo looked at FactFix’s article with grim expressions.

“Wow, do we have to be careful too?”

“I thought only fans were in front of the dorm, I didn’t know reporters were like this.”

“We’re at the level that FactFix follows us…”

They were surprised at first, but the members who knew Ian well felt a new emotion at the fact that their level was this high.

Lee Juhyuk looked at Ian with worried eyes, but only the leader cared for him.

“How are you? There will be a lot of rumors from now on.”

“People always make rumors when you get popular. This is just one of them.”

Ian, who was in his second round of the entertainment industry, shrugged it off. He was worried about the fans who would suffer from the useless rumors. But this was not a problem that Ian could solve.

‘You knew the reporter was following you, right?’

[I knew.]

‘Why didn’t you tell me?’

[You didn’t ask.]

Ian sighed. Yeah, it was my fault for not asking earlier.

‘…Tell me from now on.’

[FactFix posted an apology article.]

‘Still, it’s the same that they followed you unpleasantly.’

[Look.]

Jin disappeared like smoke after saying that. Ian stared at where Jin had gone. Jin’s reaction had been lukewarm since he told him to find out what was going on. Was he really from FactFix?

At that moment, the door of the conference room opened.

“There’s been all kinds of happenings since the beginning of the year…”

“Hello, Director!”

“Sit down, sit down.”

Seo Suryeon, the director who entered the conference room, looked at Ian’s face and sat down at the head seat.

“Don’t worry too much about the weird article. If you need mental care, let me know anytime.”

“I’m fine.”

Well, if he says he’s fine… Seo Suryeon quickly moved on to another topic.

“We have to prepare for the album soon, are you making good songs?”

“Yes.”

Lee Juhyuk nodded his head with a confident face. Not only Lee Juhyuk, but none of the other members had dark expressions on their faces.

“Don’t feel too pressured and tell me anytime.”

“Yes.”

Seo Suryeon sighed with relief after checking the faces of the members who had been worried about the strange rumors and flyers until they came to work.

“Now, why did I call you to the conference room… There’s news of a new contract.”

Seo Suryeon clapped her hands and changed the atmosphere.

“From this year on, we’ll have contracts not only with Japan but also with America.”

“Really?”

“We got contacted by all three major agencies in America.”

“Wow! Then we’ll do activities in America too?”

“We’ll have to consult with them… But maybe we can go on some shows?”

“That’s awesome!”

The members jumped up from their seats and cheered. 

Seo Suryeon blocked her ears as she expected the noise, and Ian smiled awkwardly without being fully happy.

‘If only it wasn’t for Corona…’