HE RETURNED AS A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL (PART ll)

Chapter 283: Conspiracy (4)

Seo Yi-Seo looked strangely at Kang Ra-Eun, who had come back home late at night.

“Did something happen, Ra-Eun? You look exhausted.”

Ra-Eun had come back at this late hour after leaving in the morning, so it was understandable that she would be exhausted. However, Ra-Eun was not fatigued because of a long day. After all, she often worked busier days when she had shoots scheduled.

“Just... Not really.”

The sudden event at the cramped space at the end of her date with Je-Woon had put her head... no, her entire body in jumbles.

“Oh, right. I’ll give you this.”

Ra-Eun handed Yi-Seo a small gift box.

“What is it?”

Ra-Eun said as she gave Yi-Seo the prize that she had won in the mask festival, “A trophy.”

“A trophy? What in the world were you doing outside?”

“A bunch of things.”

Ra-Eun did not want to go into the details out of embarrassment.

***

Kim Han-Gyo had been using every single connection that he had to spread information about the masked woman as far as possible. The factions that had been hostile to him had been defaming him by saying that he had created the ‘masked woman’ persona, so he had reporters publish as many articles as possible so that people knew this fact.

Han-Gyo had thought that he had successfully made it into a hot topic, but that had only been for a few days. His final card to play had been buried by nothing but a dating scandal. Team Leader Park Eun-Soo sighed softly as he read the story plastered on the front page of today’s newspaper.

[Top actress Kang Ra-Eun, in a relationship with popular Bex group member Je-Woon?]

Eun-Soo held in his deep sigh for Han-Gyo’s sake. The reporters who had been frantically trying to find out the identity of the masked woman just a few days ago were now completely on the Ra-Eun & Je-Woon dating scandal train.

There was a certain conspiracy regarding dating scandals being leaked on purpose so that the public would be too distracted to notice whenever the government tried to push ahead with something in secret. Han-Gyo had fallen victim to that very conspiracy.

Ra-Eun and Je-Woon were both top stars that represented Korea. Not only were they starring in the same production, photos of them enjoying a date in private had also been taken.

“There’s no way it wouldn’t garner attention,” Eun-Soo remarked.

The chief secretary stared at him and put his index finger on his lips, telling him to be quiet. Han-Gyo also knew this fact very well. The entire country was going mad with the dating scandal between the two celebrities. The article that was planned to be released today was not even on the front page of popular articles. It could not even be seen on the top rankings of search results.

“Why now...!”

Han-Gyo trembled in rage with both hands clenched. The chief secretary frantically tried to calm him down as he was on the verge of exploding.

“C-Congressman. You don’t have to worry too much. Y-You know how scandals are. They burn hot for a little and then fizzle out soon after.”

Han-Gyo also obviously knew that, but he could not understand why a dating scandal between the two celebrities had been released now of all times.

“As if it was done on purpose...”

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His enemies who had created the persona of the masked woman may have leaked the dating scandal of Ra-Eun and Je-Woon on purpose, and their goal had obviously been to bury Han-Gyo’s claims. It was difficult to explain this situation any other way. Of course, it could just be a coincidence, but...