Choi Hwang-Cheol continued to check his surroundings during his meeting with Hong Ju-Tae after a long time. Anyone could tell that he was on pins and needles, worrying about people trying to find out who he was. Ju-Tae chuckled from seeing his fretful junior.
“You don’t have to be so on edge. There’s not a single person here who’s interested in us.”
Neither of them was famous like Kang Ra-Eun, so there wasn’t a single person who recognized them. Despite that, Hwang-Cheol continued to be on edge.
“Celebrities sure are amazing, sunbae.”
“What’s up with you all of a sudden?” Ju-Tae asked.
“It’s just... I’m sure they would feel like this in their daily lives. I don’t think I could handle it.”
“That’s true. The celebrity life isn’t for everyone.”
Ju-Tae shrugged. They decided to leave the chit-chat there and got straight to the point.
“GNF hasn’t really done anything in particular besides their first official statement.”
Ju-Tae had continued to keep an eye on Ra-Eun and her agency’s reaction, but they had not yet done anything significant.
“Situations like this can be a result of one of two instances,” he mentioned.
“What are they?”
“One is that they’re silently acknowledging the other party’s claims. The other is...”
Ju-Tae took out his smartphone and told Hwang-Cheol to wait for a moment. Hwang-Cheol had thought Ju-Tae was either taking a call or a text message, but he had come to realize that he had been wrong after Ju-Tae set down his phone on the table at an angle horizontally.
“You saw the article too, right, Hwang-Cheol?”
“Which one?”
“The one about Kang Ra-Eun holding a surprise press conference today.”
Ju-Tae positioned the smartphone so that the screen would be visible to Hwang-Cheol sitting next to him as well. He then spoke about the other instance as he pointed at the live feed of the press conference.
“The other is that they’re collecting materials to reveal all at once.”
“Could Ra-Eun really have gathered such materials?” Hwang-Cheol asked.
There had not been a CCTV camera present when Hwang-Cheol and his posse had been beaten up by Ra-Eun, which was why he had thought he had the advantage against her. He had proof that he had been beaten up by her, or in other words, the photos.
Although no one knew whether or not those injuries had been caused by Ra-Eun, Hwang-Cheol was not the one who needed to prove that; that was solely up to Ra-Eun. She herself needed to prove her innocence, and Ju-Tae and Hwang-Cheol simply needed to sit back and watch her struggle. That was their plan.
Ju-Tae finished what was remaining of his iced coffee and snickered.
“It doesn’t matter how hard she struggles. We’re bound to win in the end.”
There was no such evidence that Ra-Eun hadn’t been the one to cause those injuries. This was why Ju-Tae was so sure of their victory.
Ra-Eun showed herself at last to the reporters. The moment the press conference began...
“...!”
Ju-Tae and Hwang-Cheol’s faces began to turn pale.
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