Chapter 135

Chapter 135: Chapter 135
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‘You know, Lee Nara, right? The actress in the ‘Blue Flame’ and ‘To the Gorgeous Sky.’ Anyway, in her recent review, she replied to the question about her most ideal type as, ‘A guy who’s closest to the model Yoo Chun Young.’
“What?”
‘It’s model Yoo Chun… instead of just saying that, why did she have to say that her type was someone who’s closest to model Yoo Chun Young?’ Anyway, although I didn’t remember the names of actors and actresses when watching TV dramas, ‘Lee Nara’ was clearly inside my head. A renowned actress herself, she always took the leading roles in many popular shows.
‘Geez, that famous woman referred to Yoo Chun Young? Because of this, he would be even busier now. Would it be almost impossible to see his face from now?’ With that thought in mind, I grew a little nervous.
I, however, felt surprised that I was feeling anxious about it. I then hit my head. Scowling at the monitor with tearful eyes, I thought, ‘What’s wrong with me? Why was I anxious?!’
The reason why I couldn’t first reach Yoo Chun Young out was that I was afraid of interrupting him while he was sleeping since I was aware of his weird lifestyle. He was so bad at using electronics that he would turn off his phone in the theaters or in school instead of putting it into silent mode. I even taught him how to do it, but he still forgot eventually.
‘At home, he would open his phone to receive calls for the shoot. If I send him a message while he’s asleep, then the sound of it might wake him up, which would ruin his schedule and so on… Gosh!’ I rubbed my head. ‘It’s hard to reach him out and even harder to see his face, but if he becomes busier than now…’ thinking that way, I opened the web and checked the trending searches on the portal.
What Dam Eun said was true. The most searched words right now on the portal were, none other than, ‘Lee Nara & Yoo Chun.’ With both of their names, especially the name of a man and a woman together, on the trending searches, I knew then that this was bad. It meant that it involved something about love scandal or ideal types.
As I clicked the keyword of their names and scrolled down, there I saw a few articles that said, ‘Lee Nara of [Blue Fame] Reveals Her Ideal Type of Guy… Model Yoo Chun?’ ‘Song Ji Hun Didn’t Even Know About Her Ideal Type of Guy… [Photo: Song Ji Hun’s Confused Smile]’
Song Ji Hun was Lee Nara’s partner in the recent TV drama. He was also a well-known actor, but compared to her, he was still not good enough. Scanning the article, I murmured with my chin on my hand.
“Well, “Blue Flame” had recently finished, so, oh… maybe it was an interview for that.”
It was indeed an article written on that interview since it had a photo of Song Ji Hun smiling in confusion at the bottom.
Lee Nara, inside the photo, had very light brown hair and almost golden eyes, which made people gossip that she was a mixed-blood. Her pure and refreshing smile was indeed breathtaking while it was on TV. At the bottom of the article, there was a summary of the interview.
‘… Lee Nara answered the question, ‘Between your previous drama “To the Gorgeous Sky” and the current drama “Blue Flame,” which partner is closer to your ideal type of guy?’ by saying, ‘I like a guy who is closest to the model Yoo Chun.’ Her unpredictable response surprised everyone…’
Usually, famous actresses at the level of Lee Nara would escape this sort of questions skillfully. When I read the comments below, half of them were negative comments speaking sarcastically about how she was targeting the heir of Balhae Group on purpose.
Scrolling down the comments apathetically, I heard a voice coming through my ear.
“Hey, but that’s not why I called you.”
“Huh? Oh, yeah.”
Since I was focusing on the article too much, I completely forgot that I was on the phone. As I responded in perplexity, Dam Eun spoke to me in a lower voice than earlier.
“So I remembered your friends and just started thinking if you were still close to them. You know, once we go to high school, we would often lose touch with our friends in middle school.”
“Yeah, true. That happens a lot.”
“But you said that you were doing fine, and do you remember that time when I found their fan pages?”
“Oh, I do,” I replied promptly.
It was nothing strange to know that the Four Heavenly Kings or Ban Yeo Ryung had fan pages. However, the problem was that there was an increasing number of paparazzi around them.
Eun Jiho’s family attorney came forward to resolve the issue, which eventually closed all of their fan pages.
I asked, “Did they open another one?”
“No, this time, it’s not a fan page but a hate club, instead”
“What?”
My jaw dropped out of shock. Dam Eun answered back.
“It’s Ban Yeo Ryung haters.”
“Gosh, an anti-fan? Then, do they write swears about Ban Yeo Ryung on that club? What crazy assholes are they!?”
When we were in middle school, some kids did something like that, but they did not have a large following. Were they gathering up because they were bored with doing such things on their lonesome? Someone said that those who were eagerly leaving negative comments about others were just bored and had nothing to do with their lives. I ultimately agreed to those words.
I closed the article of Lee Nara’s interview then heaved a sigh. When I searched for it on the web, I found out that there really existed a club against Ban Yeo Ryung. Over the phone, Dam Eun’s whisper-like voice continued.
“Ban Yeo Ryung’s fan club or fan pages before had thousands of following, but this hate club only had 45 members. It didn’t seem effective to take action with such a small group of people, so I quietly signed up and tried to post some comments about how miserable they were to do such things. That was when I intended to withdraw from the club. Although I wasn’t that close to Ban Yeo Ryung in elementary school, you were her best friend since you were young.”
“Yeah.”
That made sense. Only 45 members were in that anti-café, and nothing was actively posted there, so reporting them seemed odd for now. While I thought that way, Dam Eun kept on her words.
“So I registered with that thought in mind, but as I browsed some posts there, I’ve realized that something was strange.”
“Why? What was strange?”
“I think that the one who made this club knows Ban Yeo Ryung in person. How else could someone know what Ban Yeo Ryung had for lunch or a snack bar? Geez, they were giving out too much information, so freaky. I don’t know. Let me just tell you my ID and password, so log in and check it out. Let’s be in touch.”
“Uh… yeah.”
Putting on a sour face, I quickly picked up a pen and paper to write down the login information. When I hung up the phone, I entered the club, where I found the ID of the owner.
‘ham310… is this person born on March 10th and has ‘Ham’ for the last name?’ Thinking about it, this person had the same birthday and last name as me. ‘Well, there’s this usual pattern when creating an ID, although I’ve made mine with something easy to type,’ with that thought in mind, I entered the board. Half of the posts were written by ham310, and each had an average of 20 comments, which made it clear that the board was very activated. I then clicked a random post that came into my sight.
Title: Dude, it’s when Ban Yeo Ryung was in middle school
By: ham310
Date: 2007/06/07
Content: Lolololololol this is something insane about her.
When Ban Yeo Ryung was a sophomore in middle school, a very pretty girl was in her upper grade.
She was such a gorgeous and famous sunbae whom everyone in our neighborhood knew.
She was particularly close to the kendo club members in D middle school.
Almost the girl version of Ban Yeo Dan.
I frowned after reading this part. ‘What the… if the girl version of Ban Yeo Dan existed in our middle school, then everyone in our school would have gone crazy as many times as they could.’ Anyway, I kept on reading the remaining post while thinking, ‘Why is this person talking like he or she knows about the things that happened back then?’
Ban Yeo Ryung might have had a quarrel with that pretty sunbae lol. Not sure, but I guess Ban Yeo Ryung initiated the fight. Maybe she felt so jealous about that sunbae stealing others’ attention from Ban Yeo Ryung because of her goddess looks?!
After that fight, that pretty sunbae cried, and her friends tried to cool her down, but the worst thing happened afterward.
She had an ex-boyfriend who broke up with her soon after their 100th day anniversary… but he confessed his crush on Ban Yeo Ryung when he broke up with that sunbae.
What a coincidence, right? Can you believe that? Isn’t it too obvious?!
‘Jesus Christ…’ as I read the entire post while holding my breath, I couldn’t help but laugh upon seeing how ridiculous it was. Furrowing my brows, I looked for other posts. Ban Yeo Ryung cut her bangs, wore a cardigan to school… something like those were there. ‘Hmm…’ Doubts began to rise and replaced the anger I had until that moment.