Fake Smile | Jaeyong Nct

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Until the the sun rises above the world
I wanted to protect you by my side

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With bored eyes, Taeyong sat in front of the management office. Although he was picked up on time, he had to wait more than 30 minutes in front of the office until the colonels had time for him. He felt like at the doctor's office where you also always wait endlessly long in the waiting room even though you actually have an appointment. To bridge the time he played games on his mobile and after another 10 minutes he was finally allowed to enter the office. Slightly annoyed by the waiting time, as well as nervous about the conversation, he entered it and let himself fall into one of the uncomfortable but comfortable looking pink armchairs and looked up at the three men in front of him. One of them was SM founder Lee Soo-Man.
"Ah! Nice of you to make it here Taeyong." The eldest of the three spoke up and smiled at Taeyong, causing his tension to drop immediately. The smile already said that it would not be negative news and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The oldest of the three, crossed his arms on the table and looked at Taeyong for a moment, probably because he had breathed out too loud. The three men first started to ask Taeyong typical questions. How things were going with the boys at the moment, if everyone was exercising enough and if everyone was healthy and alert, since the tour was coming up soon before they got to the real issue. "As you know, NCT is a band without a fixed number of members. Big Hit Entertainment has sent us an artist that will join NCT." Confused, Taeyong looked up. Why on earth would Big Hit Entertainment send an artist to another company? Lee Soo-Man the founder of Sm Management immediately understood his confusion and intervened. "Big Hit just got a new boy band with TXT and is not looking for new idols right now. Lei, that's the name of the young man, was already cast for TXT but he was too old for the concept of the band so Lenzo Yoon called me and asked me if we wanted to have him. He sent me some videos of him and I thought that he would fit perfectly into NCT and decided to record him." Taeyong listened intently. It has never happened before that idols were distributed or exchanged among the companies. SM was an entertainment with a seemingly endless number of bands and solo artists, while Big Hit was much smaller. Taeyong sometimes envied Big Hit idols very much. While the managers there only cared about one band, SM was constantly creating new bands and neglecting many bands and existing ones, such as SHINee. Through SuperM Taeyong has a closer contact to Taemin and Taemin had often told him how sad it had made him when SM announced a new band instead of promoting SHINee.

"Anyway," continued the other manager. "Lei will join your group, or rather 127, and move into the dorm tomorrow. Since you are the leader, it's your duty to welcome him and introduce him to the others. Lei has been with us for 3 weeks now and has already reworked some necessary choreographies, but he will be very dependent on your help." Taeyong nodded slightly. Of course he would take care of him, after all it was his job. Lee Soo-Man clapped his hands briefly before he stood up and gave Taeyong his hand. Taeyong shook it briefly and bowed slightly before the founder of the company left the room and left Taeyong alone with the remaining two managers. They spent another 20 minutes in the office talking about the next appointments NCT has in the near future before Taeyong is released and he leaves the building. While sitting in the van on the way back to the dorm, he checked his cell phone and saw that he had missed a lot of messages. Doyoung as well as Taeil have already squeezed him privately about the conversation, while the other messages are either from the NCT group chat or from the SuperM group chat. Baekhyun was the one who had the idea to create a group chat. Smiling, Taeyong clicked on the chat and skimmed the missed messages. Kai asked when the next SuperM dates were, probably he had forgotten them again. Ten as well as Baekhyun had answered him and Lucas, as he is, had responded with a meme, whereupon Baekhyun also answered with a meme. Taeyong laughed slightly and thought about what he could answer but then just left it to read along. But when he saw that even Taemin had sent a meme, he decided to send one too, and a small meme war broke out in the group.