Chapter 48 – Episode 48: A Brief Peace
Jump up!
Yeji went to school as fast as she could, ran to the gym, and opened the door. In a large gymnasium, two women were sitting on the floor.
“Ayeon!!”
As soon as Yeji saw her zinc, she rushed to call zinc. Her zinc her appearance her her her was a mess. Her matted hair, her red and swollen face, and even her school uniform stained with dust and foreign substances.
“Are you okay? What happened? I was so worried.”
“Hehe… It’s okay, Yeji. And Sia helped me here. I’m sorry for not telling you in advance, I was afraid I wouldn’t let you if I told you.”
Yeji, who had vaguely heard her story about Sia while she was coming to school, looked at her Sia silently. She wasn’t as good as Zinc, but her appearance was also impressive. She was dazed by the pain she had never felt before, but she had come to her senses to some extent.
“Thank you, Sia.”
“Huh? No, it’s okay! I’m just trying to stop the fight…”
Sia was also someone who admired Yeji, and she bowed her head in embarrassment, as if she was embarrassed by Yeji’s thank you.
“Come on, let’s go get lunch. Do you want to eat anything?”
“I’m Tteokbokki!!”
Yeji asked Sia for her opinion.
“Are you okay, Sia?”
“Yeah, I’m fine too. I was planning to broadcast it because it’s the last day of the exam today… But it’ll be covered up with makeup, right? Hmm.”
Sia woke up while stroking the cheek that was hit by Hyehyeon.
“If possible, rest until today.”
She said she felt sorry for Sia, who was worried about the broadcast, and worried about Yeji.
“And if you need anything later, let me know, and I’ll help you if there’s anything I can do to help with the broadcast.”
“Wow, really? It’s a promise!!”
Sia’s expression immediately brightened and she said. After Yeji and Sia became closer, Sia invited Yeji to be a guest on her show. She planned the ‘Taekwon Girl’ concept as special content and proposed broadcasting exercises such as fighting. However, Yeji did not know much about such broadcasts, and she had a history of rejecting the word ‘girl’ because she refused to do so.
Today, she wants to repay Sia for helping her without any reason, so she decided to help her on the show as she was asked to do before.
“Yes, except for the girl instead.”
“Yes, yes, then I’ll make up the contents and let you know. Yeji, you’ll be so popular!”
When it comes to the most popular talent on internet broadcasts, the number one thing is by far looks. Of course, there were many great streamers who did not have great looks and were popular, but it was an inevitable reality that it was much easier if you were pretty and handsome.
Sia went out to the gym with Yeji and A-yeon, imagining that after Yeji appeared on her show, she would become a competitor that threatened her.
Afterwards, Yeji appears on Sia’s broadcast of her. However, at the moment, no one could have known that she would appear on the show with the exact opposite intention of Sia.
Rattle
On one side of the gym where there was silence after the three women left, the door to the volleyball club opened and a woman came out into the gym with a surprised look on her face.
“Awesome…”
She was Ha Eun-seo, who finished faster than A-yeon and stopped by the volleyball club to pack up before leaving school. Not long after she entered the volleyball club, A-yeon and Hye-hyeon entered the gym, and she unintentionally overheard their conversation outside the volleyball club. Eunseo today paced around the place where they were, muttering something as if she couldn’t believe the conversation between Hyehyun and Ah Yeon or what happened afterward.
“It’s really too much, they even do things like this.”
Zinc muttered in shock while looking at the surveillance cameras found in the living room and room of Yeji’s house.
“Yes, that’s really too much. Even doing something like this.”
Yeji caressed Zinc’s swollen face her her, not her her camera her her her, and she responded lovingly.
Was it anger toward Hye-hyeon, who mercilessly assaulted Ah-yeon, or was it a complaint against Ah-yeon, who recklessly attacked Hye-hyeon? She kept it a secret from Yeji, who told her not to do anything dangerous, and on top of that, Ah-yeon, who had even dragged Sia into her, started making excuses as if she had been stabbed by something.
“Ugh… I couldn’t help it. There was no way to stop Hye-hyeon from just leaving.”
“She had no choice but to drag Xia into the preparations. Isn’t this an excuse to break the news?”
“Then if you had told the truth, would you have let me do it?”
“No, never.”
“I knew that.”
It was an expected answer, but Ah-yeon seemed to be in a good mood and answered by burying her face in Ye-ji’s chest.
“By the way… “What are you going to do now?”
“What do you mean?”
“Cheon Hye-hyeon… Are you going to take revenge?”
Zinc was desperately hoping for Yeji to take revenge thoroughly. She unhesitatingly did things that were difficult to watch from the side of her, and even watched her at home. She could not stand her evil deeds.
“Well…”
“What…? Well, then you’re just going to leave that bitch alone?”
Zinc lifted her head from Yeji’s chest and looked at Yeji’s face and asked with an expression as if she was serious.
“Anyway, Hye-hyeon can’t run away. She probably won’t even tell you, right? Because their own safety is more important to them.”
“Hmm, then how telling your parents and getting them fired from the company?”
The abuse of power by children of wealthy families is common in dramas and webtoons.
“To do that, we have to reveal our relationship?”
No matter how well Ye-ji hides her words, it is hard to think that Hye-hyeon will stay still when she is driven to the edge. Even if there is no evidence, raising an issue itself can be a problem. Isn’t there an old saying that goes, “Should there be smoke from a chimney?”
Moreover, Yeji’s parents were not the kind of parents who would do anything for their daughter. When a problem arose, I always decided between right and wrong and always tried to maintain an objective stance. Probably, Cheon Seong-gi and Go Eun-bi will not be dragged into the matter due to Ye-ji and Hye-hyeon.
“You can’t push people or animals to the end. You have to give them room to breathe. Otherwise, you never know what they might do.”
“No matter what! I’m absolutely against just letting it go.”
“Hehe, then will you tell me what you want A-yeon to do?”
After thinking for a moment, Zinc opened her mouth with an evil smile.
“How about this? Instead of using the punching bag in Yeji’s training room, I’ll hang that bitch up. You can hit her every morning, right? Then I’ll come and work out every day too.”
Yeji smiled silently at Zinc’s unfeasible solution.
“Or we can make you take classes naked. Maybe that’s possible? It’s not like there haven’t been any punishments for being naked in the past. Oh, Yeji, how about making you suffer the same thing that happened to you? Indefinitely until you graduate. Hehe, old years. Your mind will just go crazy, right?”
Yeji thought that she knew a lot about Zinc now, but sometimes Zinc coming up with these ideas felt new.
“I’ll think about that later… It’s been a while since we had a good time during the exam period and voyeurism. The exam just ended today, right?”
“Chi… I know too, right?”
Without regard to who would go first, their mouths overlapped, and soon their heads were filled with only thoughts about each other.
Monday
All weekend, Hye-hyeon did not receive any calls from Ye-ji. As Yeji thought, she was not thinking about transferring schools or dropping out. She tried to contact Cheon Seong-gi, but was told that she was confined to her room due to a cold, and she did not notice anything special on the phone. Even though it was Monday, Hye-hyeon did not come to school.
“Hmm, I guess it won’t come out.”
Sia said with a nervous look on her face.
Zinc received those words as if it was no big deal.
“Hmph, I know the map is embarrassing.”
“I was really worried when I went to school today.”
“Don’t worry, Sia, I will give you a proper cover.”
Sia, who felt reassured by Yeji’s words her her, said as she adjusted the non-prescription glasses she was wearing to disguise herself as a study group.
“Ugh, I’m still nervous because it’s my first time experiencing something like this… It seems like there are always people at my school who are sniping at me on Chatter (the internet broadcasting platform that Sia is running).”
“Sniping? What is that?”
“Yes, the act of intentionally belittling the other person or attacking them by pointing out their mistakes is called sniping. It happens a lot in people’s rooms, and it also happens often in the political world and entertainment industry.”
After hearing her her explanation her her her, Zinc stuck out her tongue, showing her disgust.
“Ugh, why are you doing that?”
“Well, there are various reasons. If the other person is a famous person, they may try to promote themselves by taking advantage of that person’s reputation, or they may intentionally try to disparage that person’s reputation. Because negative words have a stronger impact than positive words.”
“Wow~ That world is complicated in its own way. So, did you find out who the kid who shot that person was?”
“Uh, I also happened to meet this guy recently… He seemed like a guy I just bumped into.”
“Shall I hit you?”
“What an absurd thing…”
Sia, who had rejected Zinc’s proposal, thinking it was nonsense, was disappointed. This was a special school where ‘actual sniping’ was possible.
“Oh, does this sound appealing? Of course I will help you. Yeji.”
Yeji, who was quietly listening to their conversation, suddenly mentioned her name, and she looked at her zinc in surprise.
“Huh? Me?”
As if finding Yeji’s embarrassed face amusing, A-yeon giggled and asked about her morning consultation.
“Giggles. But Yeji, why did you have a consultation with your homeroom teacher in the morning?”
“Ah, to explain that… “
Last Friday, the last day of exams. Thanks to her Soo-jung’s consideration of her, Ye-ji was able to delete the revealing photos (synthesized) from Hye-hyeon’s school her from her her phone her her her her. She said that since she had to explain things to her then she had to make corrections as soon as she got to school this morning.
“So, what happened?”
Yeji felt sorry for Sujeong in front of her, but she had no intention of telling everything. The first time she had to check her phone in front of Sujeong, she couldn’t help it, but she mostly planned to reveal it. However, the only photos she had outside of the secure folder were photos that had been modified with Photoshop, so there was no need for her to tell everything about what had happened so far.
“That’s…”
She explained that there was a student who was being bullied by Hye-hyun, and that she was helping him because she witnessed him forcing her to take pictures of him. In fact, she wasn’t lying in what she said. She just hid that the student was Yeji herself.
“I see. Yeji, can you tell me who that student is?”
Sujeong wanted to know who that student was. Her face was obscured by a mosaic and she could not be recognized, and there were no blonde students at the school. She was certain that she must have hidden who she was through compositing.
“I’m sorry, teacher. That’s all… The student doesn’t want anyone to know about this anymore. The reason I’m telling you now is because I trust you.”
“But Yeji, I don’t know what other teachers might think, but I want to help my students. Even if I let this go this one time, continued bullying could occur, right?”
Sujeong’s feelings she has been sincere. She remembered that Yeji had previously broken unwritten rules for her students and that she had asked Yeji to refrain from violence. However, despite Sujeong’s euphemistic request, Yeji shook her head and indicated her refusal.
“Hyehyeon probably won’t be able to do something like that again. Like you said, I’ll be watching from the side and make sure you don’t do anything foolish.”
If Yeji said that, she couldn’t keep forcing Sujeong.
“Yes, if Yeji says so…”
“Then I’ll go prepare for class, teacher.”
She bowed to Sujeong and, as she watched Yeji leave, Sujeong muttered, “Sorry.”
“Oh, I was going to ask about the recent rumors about Yeji…”
Su-jeong, who was about to ask about the violence he used here and there under Hye-hyeon’s orders, decided to leave the matter aside for now. This was because Yeji’s expression of her, which had been very bad for her, now looked as good as before.
Yeji was enjoying the peace of school without Hyehyeon. Now, I don’t have to worry too much about Hye-hyeon or not, but I felt more mentally and physically stable because I couldn’t see her.
‘It’s been a while since I felt this sense of relaxation, really.’
For Yeji, it was the first time she felt peace in a long time.
