Chapter 181 - We're all A.d.u.l.ts Here

Ye Rim felt her face flush even more than it already was, mortified, but Jun Hyeon asked, turning and protecting her with his body,

"Hyung, can you give us a minute?"

Dae Won didn't answer, just left and closed the door behind him carefully. Jun Hyeon fixed Ye Rim's hair before letting her go, 

"Hey, don't be scared. We're all a.d.u.l.ts here," he ran his finger over her cheek trying to cheer her up.

"Ahem, we… got excited! Dae Won Oppa must be shocked!"

Jun Hyeon said nothing about it, just went to the camera and removed the memory card. Ye Rim realized at this point that the camera had been on all along!

"Aigoo! Was everything filmed?" she hid her face in despair.

"Hey, calm down, Cottonfeet!" he called her by the affectionate nickname he had given her on the first date, because of the slippers. Jun Hyeon held out the memory card to her. "Keep it for now. Tomorrow we'll edit it and delete our 'hot' scenes... Or, we can save them to watch together in the future!" he teased her with a huge and naughty smile, and Ye Rim slapped his chest, a bit embarrassed.

"No way! Delete it!" although nervous about ​​starring in a spicy shoot, one side of her she wanted to watch it.

"Do you really trust me?"

"Um, maybe I should delete it myself," she returned the teasing, and he playfully tried to take the memory card from her hand. Ye Rim quickly put it away, and defended herself with her hands,

"We'd better go talk to Dae Won, we shouldn't keep him waiting."

"You're right," he said. "I talk to him while you fix your beautiful hair and swollen mouth ... from my kisses," Jun Hyeon leaned over to steal another quick kiss from Ye Rim. She weakly pushed him away, and only for the impropriety of the moment. "Come when you're ready..." blinking, the doctor left nonchalantly, or at least it looked so.

As soon as Jun Hyeon closed the door behind him, Ye Rim grabbed her knees and lowered her head, taking a deep breath and trying to get back to reason! Madness! Delicious and hot madness!

She ran over to the camera and replaced the memory card, to watch the recorded footage. And Ye Rim discovered, to her morbid fascination, that the camera had recorded everything, since they were sitting on the floor talking, the improvised choreography, and the two of them in scenes of pure passion!

This footage definitely couldn't go public. Fixing herself up as best she could and drinking some water, she planned to leave the training room when she heard that Jun Hyeon's phone was ringing. He forgot it on the bench. She verified that it was Secretary Ma. She took the phone for Dr. Kim to pick up the call. It might be important.

The two friends were talking by the drink machine, down the hall. Jun Hyeon excused himself to take the call, and left Ye Rim with Lee Dae Won. 

The Musician scratched his head, looking embarrassed,

"I thought doing a surprise would be cool, but apparently I just surprised myself," he sighed after saying that. Ye Rim swallowed,

"No, it's not what you're thinking. Things really got a little hot…"

"Don't justify yourself, Ye Rim. You owe me nothing. But you were lucky because the Optimus President would come with me today. He wanted to see how things were going…" there was a slight, slight bitterness in his sweet tone. "It was a close shave that your agent wasn't the one entering that room tonight."

"Well, I'd be as embarrassed as I am now. I apologize. It was thoughtless and really wrong, as it's a public place, but ..."

"Ye Rim…" the musician waved his hand to show that what she was saying wasn't relevant. "I'm embarrassed to be the person to tell you that. I really thought you knew, being experienced with entertainment agencies, etc. It would be a disaster and your career might sink down. Again. I don't know the details of your contract, but I think you can't expect much from an artist cannot to impress her agent. People are mean and, unfortunately, judge women judged harshly on their behavior. Or that you intend to start your career with rumors that you have a romance with a plastic surgeon? Although our country is the Mecca of plastic surgery, the public is very voracious in relating one thing to the other, ... in a derogatory way. It would be difficult to deny you're a plastic doll, because people like to believe the spicy and mean things better."

Ye Rim was confused, but Dae Won's words made her worried. Dae Won gave an embarrassed smile,

"I'm being tough. I'm sorry, I just didn't want to see all your effort wasted, nor you blaming it all on bad luck… I just came here to cheer for you and," he held up the wrapping in his hand, "bring your birthday present. I couldn't find you or talk to you on your birthday."

At that moment Ye Rim would like to change her name, nationality, and country. Her embarrassment must have been breaking some national record.

"I… Well, thanks! It's very kind of you. And about what you saw, well, it was really a momentary thing, it's not a 'romance' nor will it hinder my career," she didn't want to extend herself justifying her private life to him but, at the same time, Lee Dae Won had done a lot for her, in exchange for nothing. She felt she owed at least one explanation.

"Well, as I said, I don't want to disrupt your personal life, I'm just fascinated by your talent and I wish you the best. And if you didn't live in that industry, where a mere rumor could be the end of many careers and even lives ..."

"Oh, no! Not after so much effort!" she shook her head, distressed by yet another failure on the eve of her success. The subject was making her nervous, and she was just thinking of disappearing.

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Chang Mi was still diligently monitoring Ye Rim. Even after almost being beaten by her for being caught by the two noonas leaving hyung's room. What were those crazy people thinking? It outraged him they imagined unreasonable things as the first reason for the fact. The half-fairy knew that it was a tendency for the noonas to like everything related to boy love, etc., but must be a limit to fantasies!

A few moments ago, however, Chang Mi had put his indignation aside when he noticed something suspicious. 

Days ago he started watching Ye Rim from across the street because of an unusual fact: a ballet teacher expelled him from the dance academy. The 14 to 20-year-old dancers who took their classes by night were crowding the lobby because of him!

Indeed, Chang Mi had never been a popular boy in high school, despite occasionally receiving a confession, from both s.e.xes. But that was ridiculous! It was impossible to keep a low profile when he felt like a mother swan with all those tutu swans walking behind him. 

It wasn't good for his task, but at least Chang Mi could really watch from this point, and not waste his time answering endless silly questions.

But Chang Mi just saw a man entering the dance academy, and that person definitely raised his suspicions. Although the student saw the tall man from a distance, he reminded Chang Mi of the man who beat him with a stick in front of that damn mansion! Of course, Chang Mi had never seen the face of the bastard son of a bitch, but the body, height and everything ... He couldn't be that wrong.

So, he needed to enter the enemy field.

Chang Mi entered the lobby and slipped away, taking advantage that the receptionist was talking to an ajuhmma. Looking around the first floor, he didn't see the man anywhere.  He wondered if he would be on the second floor, where the training rooms occupied at this time, including where Ye Rim Noona did her classes.

He saw no young dancer in tutus in sight, and that was a good thing. For some reason, all of them knew his name!

If it were really the man who beat him, Chang Mi would arrest him and call the police. Chang Mi hated the person who had hurt and humiliated him. But from time to time the idea that that poor woman might suffer at the hands of that scoundrel was even more disturbing.

Sneaking up the stairs, Chang Mi took a careful look at the floor, but only saw Dr. Kim talking on the phone from the angle he was peeking around. 

Where will that man be? Is it really him? It would be a very unlikely coincidence, by the way. Or not? After all, this dance academy was very close to where it all happened. His conscience told him he couldn't just grab a stranger without being 100% sure it was the man.

But someone took him by the arm, instead. He reflexively grabbed the person's arm, ready to use a krav maga maneuver that a friend of his brother's had taught him. But looking at the person's face, it was just Ye Rim Noona.

"What are you doing spying on like that?"

"I saw someone ..." Chang Mi stopped speaking when he saw that she looked quite stunned, and had her backpack on her shoulders. He asked, surprised, "Are you ready to go yet, noona?"

"Yes. I want to go now. Let's go?"

"Yes, just let me check something out ... oh crap!" Chang Mi saw a group of three girls in tutu leaving one of the rooms and coming in that direction.

"Yes, oh damn it. I'd like to go now, if you don't mind. But if you want to talk to your 'fans'…"

He couldn't leave Ye Rim alone for long. It was part of the deal. 

Chang Mi followed the noona, convincing himself that even if he saw the man again, he needed to make sure it was him before doing anything.