novellhall Chapter 48 You Don't Want Girls' Generation to...
Chapter 48 You Don't Want Girls' Generation to...
Lee Ji-hsing was a little stunned by Yoona's sudden outburst.
He cursed inwardly, "Is this woman a dog? How can she turn on me so easily? What right do I have?"
Li Zhixing is now completely certain that this woman is a lunatic.
Seeing Yoona's aggressive demeanor, Li Zhixing retorted without hesitation, "Are you sick in the head?"
Im Yoona was stunned by this rebuke.
He actually insulted me!
Yoona was so angry that she was trembling all over.
Jessica grabbed Li Zhixing's wrist abruptly: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
After scolding Li Zhixing, Jessica quickly turned to comfort him, "Yoona, don't take it to heart. He was just worried about me and thanked me on my behalf. Don't take it to heart."
Jessica's words, intended to smooth things over, felt like a thousand arrows piercing Yoona's heart.
He was just worried about me and thanked me on my behalf...
Faced with Jessica's comfort, Yoona felt even more upset. She opened her mouth, but found that she had no grounds to refute it at all.
Seohyun looked at Yoona, whose eyes were red-rimmed, gritted her teeth, and mustered her courage to stand in front of Yoona: "Senior, how could you say that to Yoona unnie!"
Li Zhixing looked at her impatiently.
"You're being ridiculous too. Who's your senior? Jessica, why are all your teammates acting so strangely?"
Seohyun was stunned by the rebuke, her forced courage vanished instantly, and a look of grievance welled up in her eyes.
If I don't call you senior, what should I call you? Didn't you forbid me from calling you teacher?
In the corner, Lee Soon-kyu watched this inexplicable conflict, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.
Her gaze swept back and forth between Yoona, whose eyes were red-rimmed; Seohyun, who looked aggrieved; and Lee Ji-hyung, who looked displeased. Seeing these three completely out of sync and listening to their illogical conversation, the strange feeling in her heart grew stronger.
At that moment, the door to the ward was pushed open, and a man in his thirties, slightly overweight, with a buzz cut, walked in holding a test report.
The person who arrived was Choi Jin, the manager of Girls' Generation.
"Jessica, the doctor said it's nothing..."
He was speaking when he suddenly noticed a strange man in the ward. His face darkened, and he asked in an unfriendly tone, "Who are you?"
Li Zhixing ignored him, walked up to him, took the test report from his hand, and started looking through it.
Jessica, who was standing nearby, quickly said, "Manager, this is my friend."
Cui Zhen frowned and reprimanded her bluntly, "What friend? Jessica, what time is it? Countless media outlets are watching, trying to dig out the inside story of your injury. How dare you call outsiders this?"
He then turned to Li Zhixing and urged him on, "Hey, I don't care if you're Jessica's friend or what, get out of here now, you can't stay here."
Li Zhixing had quickly reviewed the test report and was relieved to find that there was nothing seriously wrong.
He closed the report, looked up at Cui Zhen, and said in a calm tone, "I'm here to take Jessica home."
Choi Jin was stunned for a moment before realizing that the person in front of him was actually the rising star of "Haeundae" who was currently very popular.
He couldn't help but wonder if these two were dating. And when did they start dating?
Go home? Go home to whose home?
Thinking of this, his gaze toward Li Zhixing became even more hostile: "Jessica can't go with you. I'm her manager, and I need to be responsible for her safety. You should leave now."
The agent's tone became increasingly stern.
"Take responsibility? How are you taking responsibility?" Li Zhixing sneered. "Is taking responsibility only until the artist is harmed, without finding the culprit, without calling the police, and busy making up lies to deceive the fans? Don't you know how to give the artist an explanation, or give the artist's family an explanation?"
"What, are celebrities just commodities in a shop window, just tools for making money, unworthy of your care and love?"
Li Zhixing's voice wasn't loud, but with each sentence he spoke, he took a step closer.
By the time he finished speaking, he was already standing in front of Cui Zhen.
Li Zhixing stared down at him, his piercing gaze causing Cui Zhen's eye to twitch.
He instinctively took half a step back, forcing a defense, "It was just an accident!"
"An accident? All I see is SM's inaction!"
Seeing the atmosphere growing increasingly tense, Jessica quickly stepped forward: "Manager, I'll go back with him. He is...."
She looked up at Li Zhixing and said softly, "He is my family."
Upon hearing the word "family," the atmosphere in the ward instantly became extremely subtle.
Taeyeon stared in shock, her eyes wide.
Family? She could tell that Jessica and Li Zhixing were very familiar with each other, but calling them family seemed a bit too fast, didn't it?
On the other side, Yoona felt her heart clench upon hearing those two words, and an indescribable chill spread through her.
After you left us, you even have more family members now.
First IU, and now Jessica unnie...
Seohyun turned her head with concern and found Yoona's face was deathly pale, her lips tightly clenched.
Lee Soon-kyu followed Seo Hyun's gaze.
Seeing Yoona's distraught appearance, a clue flashed through Sunkyu's mind, as if something was about to be connected, but he couldn't quite grasp it.
Before she could think it through, the eerie silence in the ward and Cui Zhen's increasingly grim expression interrupted her.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Soon-kyu quickly stepped forward to smooth things over: "Chief, Ji-hyung oppa is a trustworthy person. He will get Jessica home safely. Just let him take Jessica home to rest."
Choi Jin glanced at Soon-kyu, and although he didn't reprimand her directly, his expression remained gloomy.
He turned to Jessica and said coldly, "Go home? Go home what! Jessica, are you out of your mind? What time is it? You have to go back to the dorm tonight. The company has arranged a performance stage for you tomorrow!"
"A music show stage?"
Everyone stared at him in surprise.
Jessica asked in surprise, "What music show stage? How can I go on stage now? What if the swelling doesn't go down by tomorrow..."
"Only when we're on stage can we prove that nothing like the camera-throwing incident happened today, and only then can the fans' anger be quelled!" Choi Jin said without room for argument. "Jessica, for Girls' Generation, for the company, I hope you can persevere."
"Sorry, Jessica won't be on any of those lousy stages tomorrow," Li Zhixing interrupted him coldly. "Jessica has to come back with me now and will cancel all her schedule for tomorrow."
Choi Jin was completely fed up: "Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are! Newcomer, don't think you're so great just because you became famous after starring in 'Haeundae'. Know your place, SM is not someone you can mess with."
Then, as if he had seen through everything, Cui Zhen looked at Li Zhixing with a mocking expression: "What, wasn't it enough that you created a scandal with your own sister last time? Now you want to create a scandal with Jessica?"
"What are you saying!" Jessica glared at him angrily.
Meanwhile, Yoona couldn't help but look up and speak up to stop them: "Manager!"
The others also frowned.
Cui Zhen ignored their attitude and stared intently at Li Zhixing: "Aren't you leaving yet, newbie?"
Li Zhixing smiled dismissively: "Just an agent. Anyone who didn't know better would think you were Lee Soo-man."
Then, he took out his phone and made a call.
"Hello, Auntie, I got through. Jessica's fine." Li Zhixing's tone was casual, even carrying a hint of complaining. "But her manager won't let me leave and even threatened me. Um, Auntie, please give him a piece of my mind!"
As he spoke, he handed the phone directly to Cui Zhen.
Cui Zhen hesitated before answering the phone: "Who is this?"
Then, the quiet ward was filled with the extremely angry roar of the woman on the other end of the phone.
"I entrusted my child to you, and this is how you treat her? Zhixing is our own child, Jessica's oppa, why can't he take Jessica back! Are you SM trying to force my daughter to her death?!"
Cui Zhen was so shocked by the sudden outburst of anger that he broke out in a cold sweat and bowed repeatedly, apologizing profusely.
The confidence they usually had in bullying celebrities vanished instantly in the face of the anger of the victims' families.
After being scolded for quite a while, Cui Zhen finally hung up the phone, looking dejected.
He tried to say something polite to Li Zhixing, but Li Zhixing completely ignored him, took off his baseball cap and put it on Xika's head: "Let's go."
Reaching the door of the ward, Li Zhixing suddenly stopped, glanced back at Cui Zhen, whose face was ashen, and said lightly:
"You, and your company, had better treat your own artists better."
"You don't want what happened to TVXQ to happen to Girls' Generation, do you?"
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