The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 286 You should find an honest woman to take over.

Bae Young-joon looked at Lee Ji-eun on top of him and felt a little short of breath.

"Hey! Don't say that!" Lee Ji-eun straddled him, grabbed his neck, and shook him back and forth. "I was just saying it offhand!"

She had been pressed by Woo Kyung-ho and blurted out a reply, which was now being mocked by Bae Young-joon, making the usually composed Lee Ji-eun furious.

broken.

Could it be that it has awakened some strange attribute?
No, we have to strike hard.

Bae Young-joon watched Lee Ji-eun getting more and more excited as they pinched each other, and a strange thought popped into his head.

"Forget it quickly, don't slander me... Ah!" Lee Ji-eun exclaimed.

Bae Yong-joon, who had been riding her, suddenly exerted force with his waist and back, and forcefully pressed her down beneath him.

"Hey, getting excited, huh?" Bae Yong-joon grabbed her two fair arms. "You can't even breathe."

"How could that be? It's not that easy!" Lee Ji-eun grumbled, trying to pull her hand away.

"Impossible? I'll show you tonight!" Pei Yongjun held onto her small hand tightly.

"Huh? What?" Lee Ji-eun paused for a moment, then immediately put on a serious expression. "Oh, right, seriously, how did you manage to do that today?"

She tried to change the subject.

However, Bae Young-joon wasn't buying it. He pretended to grab her hand and reach for her fair neck.

"Ah, Oppa~ No, no, no, I was wrong, I was really wrong." Lee Ji-eun quickly begged for forgiveness.

The two played around on the sofa for a while before Bae Yong-joon finally let go of her, who was panting, and put his arm around her to sit on the sofa.

"So, how did you do that?" Lee Ji-eun poked his cheek. "President Bae, what's your background? You're not some hidden chaebol heir, are you?"

She recalled the scene in the Kakao Entertainment conference room, where Bae Young-joon, who had been fighting alone just a minute before, underwent a dramatic change after a phone call from Chairman Kim Bum-soo.

What started as a joke turned into a shared vision with the chairman, and he even luckily secured the huge prize of exclusive coverage rights for Produce48, which Kakao Entertainment would be heavily promoting, making everyone envious.

What is the relationship between Bae Young-joon and Chairman Kim?
Everyone was speculating.

“Let me see, he doesn’t look like Chairman Kim at all.” Lee Ji-eun looked Bae Young-joon’s face from side to side, seemingly guessing whether he was Kim Bum-soo’s illegitimate son.

"Where would there be so many illegitimate children?" Bae Young-joon chuckled and patted Lee Ji-eun's little bottom. "What nonsense are you thinking?"

"Otherwise, why would Chairman Kim make the call? How did you persuade him? When did you two meet?" Lee Ji-eun asked.

These are questions that Woo Kyung-ho wants to know, and Lee Ji-eun wants to know even more. It seems that there are always layers of mystery surrounding the man in front of her, waiting for her to uncover them.

mystery……

It's quite interesting, though.

Lee Ji-eun unknowingly began to enjoy this way of getting along with Bae Young-joon.

“I don’t know Chairman Kim. Didn’t I say that we share the same views?” Bae Young-joon said seriously.

"Tch! I don't believe it. So secretive, not sincere at all," Lee Ji-eun snorted.

"You really want to hear it?" Bae Young-joon blinked.

"Really." Lee Ji-eun blinked her big eyes even faster.

“I did contact someone, but not Chairman Kim. It was a phone call, a call to Chairman Kim,” Bae Young-joon said.

"What phone call? You managed to persuade Kim Bum-soo with just one sentence?" Lee Ji-eun was even more curious.

"It's a call from the Blue House." Bae Young-joon nodded.

"Really?" Lee Ji-eun didn't know whether to believe it or not. How could Bae Young-joon, the president of a small entertainment newspaper, be involved with the Blue House?

"Guess?" Bae Young-joon replied with a smile.

"Tch~ You're copying me now." Lee Ji-eun rolled her eyes at him and stood up from his arms. "I'm leaving now, see you tonight." "Where to?" Bae Young-joon asked.

“Didn’t Woo Kyung-ho ask me to treat you to dinner? See you at the restaurant tonight.” Lee Ji-eun fiddled with her phone for a moment and sent Bae Young-joon a message with the restaurant’s address and contact information. “It’s booked. Let’s go to my usual place.”

"It tastes good, but it's very expensive. I'll have President Yu reimburse me for it."

Lee Ji-eun started scheming, her face showing shrewdness.

"Really eating?" Bae Young-joon asked. "Think about what to say, and then tell Woo Kyung-ho."

“Of course we have to eat it. If we’re going to put on an act, we have to go all the way.” Lee Ji-eun looked at Bae Young-joon and said confidently, “You should learn from this.”

"Otherwise, if you start having affairs and the future president's wife finds out, that would be a big deal."

"President's wife? Who?" Bae Young-joon was amused by her appearance.

"Who knows? Anyway, it's not me." Lee Ji-eun said to him sincerely, "President Bae, you should find an honest and good woman, otherwise I'm afraid she'll be driven crazy by me."

She raised her eyebrows smugly, said "See you tonight," and pushed open the door to leave.

Tsk.

interesting.

Bae Young-joon smiled.

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Seoul, Gangnam-gu, Cheongdam-dong, Woolim Entertainment
Inside the practice room, the latest entertainment news was playing on a television in the corner. Kim Chae-won, panting heavily, stared intently at the screen.

Kakao Entertainment has revealed that it has acquired the rights to the popular talent show series Produce from CJ Entertainment...

"It is said that Kakao Entertainment is preparing a new season of Produce, which will be released soon..."

“So that’s how it is…” Jin Caiyuan muttered to himself, “No wonder the company suddenly told us to prepare well these next few days for the selection.”

"Is it for this?" she asked, turning to look at Kwon Eunbi beside her.

"Hmm," Kwon Eunbi said, seeing that the news had already been released, she no longer kept it a secret. "It should be this one. They said that, like the first season, they will continue to select trainees from the existing trainees of various entertainment agencies."

"Because of the addition of Japanese companies to this program, the number of slots for each company has been reduced, so we need to work harder."

Kim Chae-won nodded.

"Chaewon, you can do it!" Kwon Eunbi raised her little fist to cheer Kim Chaewon on. "Let's work hard together!"

"Okay, Ernie."

Jin Caiyuan nodded, but other thoughts were swirling in his mind.

The number of slots for each company has decreased. How many? In the first season of Produce 101, Woolim only got two slots. What about this time? There won't be just one, right?

One, just one!

Isn't that Kwon Eun-bi?

Kim Chae-won is exhausted from practicing so hard every day.

She almost cried because she wanted to debut with dignity.

Eh?
If Kwon Eunbi goes on this audition program, wouldn't she have no competitors when she debuts in Woolim?

A brilliant idea suddenly popped into her head.

Why not just let Kwon Eun-bi pass the test and send her to the audition? That would guarantee my debut, and I could also do Kwon Eun-bi a huge favor.

Kim Chae-won thought he was a little genius.

(End of this chapter)