DS Ch29

“Taehyun, my uncle wants me to ask you something. Donghwa Bio, you know, is it true that they’re doing a rights offering soon?”0350dc1b905d410b

The kids at school were desperate to read Joo Taehyun’s intentions from even the slightest twitch of his lips, and they assigned meaning to the smallest things. Piecing together their conjectures like a puzzle and exaggerating rumors was commonplace.922ca51c10fe430c

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“Oh, what’s the point of having friends? Let me get some benefits from my chaebol bestie. Huh?”b31b4f0eaecdb5fb

“You’re not Joo Taehyun’s best friend, though…”e3714be5213a3476

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“Yeah, Joo Taehyun doesn’t look happy. Stop it.”7410f04700ad33ba

“No, you guys don’t understand. Last time Joo Taehyun and I were in gym class…”40ba9b9fa196028c

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It’s not even surprising anymore that kids who weren’t even close to him keep pretending to be friendly. Bringing news from who-knows-where that even he hadn’t heard of and demanding corporate secrets, and the fact that they kept blathering on about how DH’s Joo Taehyun was “my friend”, “my best friend”, just because they were in the same class—he’s used to it all. Not that it didn’t bother him anymore, though.e9b9cb702b32a120

“Just stop it, seriously.”dc57bb77607b0307

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Unable to bear it any longer, he said a word with a blank face, and the guy who was claiming to be Joo Taehyun’s best friend tucked his tail and ran away. But seeing him mutter “fuck, that bastard’s so rude,” he figured there would be another post about him somewhere on the internet today.cad39d3875b785ca

Joo Taehyun, the youngest son of DH Group. Maybe it’s because he grew up spoiled at home, but people say his personality is trash.9c06edf68f863333

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But what could he do? He just wasn’t suited to smoothing things over naturally with a flexible face like his older brothers and sisters. He especially didn’t know how to overwhelm people with a smile like Seo Baekhan.a0f0bbdf0250cdcb

Besides, no matter how cold his face was, he couldn’t completely shake off those clueless bastards who kept clinging to him.274ff507e76b83b0

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So Joo Taehyun firmly resolved 6ed9a2992b to manage his face like a4d47cd6d7 this in the future.fbc98faf3518376c

He used to get angry when he first discovered ridiculous nonsense about him on online communities, but now he didn’t even care. Maybe it’s because he knew what kind of guys write those posts, but even pouring out anger felt like a waste.e993920208282a97

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‘It’s a compliment. It seems like you’re good at managing your expression even though you’re still young.’964d5242f7422e1e

‘It means people can’t read your thoughts easily, so what’s not to like?’afd68057f7095a7b

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And Joo Taehyun now understood 285918bdd0 the meaning of the advice 6191d1e8b7 Seo Baekhan had given him 1c9041ebbf in the past.00a908f7ee443869

Anyway, his family was too busy praising him, saying he’s doing well and that he’s pretty, whether he squints his eyes or widens them. It’s enough as long as he didn’t get misunderstood by the people who were important to him, isn’t it?28f0478c0bae3f2c

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Well, he couldn’t just keep his mouth shut like this when there are royal family members or important people he needs to impress… but he’d like to think about that when the time comes.4b5a1a4949aa7ce6

Now that all his lower bcc94cdcce wisdom teeth had grown in, ac6afbaac6 the adolescent boy was just a46fb1b6b5 tired.9dbd8bf3818a39d1

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“Taehyun, I’m going to film a video to upload on SNS, can you do it with me? Let me get some views.”4abae0ef40b7dfc6

“……”a97ff609201950b3

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“It’s not that hard. Just put your hand over your head like this to make cat ears…”bfe9e45bc058ecbc

Ignoring the unfamiliar face 1fbf5a3db2 who was spouting ridiculous 93463169fd requests, Joo Taehyun adjusted e24b11344b the bag on his ecd21d6f62 shoulder.2fd260efb8ad98e1

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There must be a reason why they keep sticking to him like this, even though they know he’ll refuse.ca044bd4f0c32721

Based on his c6210d79f4 experience, there was fb03f21bb2 a high probability 27e5166b16 that the same 81f3f2b567 gang members were b3b26e99fc secretly filming him 148c1e02b4 nearby, rather than 2c8aed094e the guy who 5b8f85620c was pushing to 6861ab0989 take a picture bfe1b3bbb7 or video together.48690bc67e1fed5f

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“Hey, you there! Student! Put your phone down. Don’t take pictures!”a613f90709e8b66a

“Ah, I didn’t take a picture of Joo Taehyun?”85969eccc00aa1b5

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“Then please show me your phone for a moment.”a148cf136e9e293e

“What? Who are you to check someone else’s phone? Do you have the, what, uh? Do you have the right? Isn’t that a violation of privacy? Huh?”285cd75c6f89eee0

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“Yeah, fuck, should we report you for over-guarding or something? Should I write a post on the internet?”70879ee34da45d88

“Are you threatening me now? And as you well know, due to the incident a few months ago, filming other students is strictly prohibited on campus. That’s why private security guards like us have been hired.”636f0daf5f4692d7

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“Ah, I said I didn’t take a picture of Joo Taehyun! And wh-who’s threatening who!”adadf87a874099e0

“Yeah! Is this Joo Taehyun’s house? Is this the DH kingdom?”03502bed239e43dc

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“I told you, we’re not just hired for Joo Taehyun.”5e93bd73cdd1bd60

“Hey, let’s just go. Don’t you remember Hwang Hee-jun dropping out?”6b01d47363db2fbf

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“No, fuck. Was I asking to do something great? He’s acting like some kind of prince. So annoying.”7cd2aff02e6bbd29

The strange thing 99ca047146 was that while e61f1dcf72 they wanted to 8c535073f8 get close to 54778875ed him, they also 2967780323 tried to find 385f04e101 fault with him c7e2ca5fb3 in any way 3e6f98a424 they could.75f6a8e65a5d394f

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At the beginning of the semester, Joo Taehyun had stared blankly at the classmates who were flailing around strangely in front of him. There was a low-class dance that was popular at the time… what was it called, anyway? Some BJ would dance it when they received donations, and Joo Taehyun had never seen anything like that in his life, so he was very embarrassed. He was just bewildered because he couldn’t understand why they were doing such a thing in front of others.aa0f81e99be6671f

And someone who was there 9472bb8a4c secretly took a picture of 6e3bcc2e22 Joo Taehyun looking bewildered and 29db5d0880 posted it on the internet.b71a4da35e89145c

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With such a bizarre title.ea7660aa9acb2bbf

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Well, his parents, older 3a0d97ee7a brothers, and sisters had 595033ead6 been suffering from strangely f8e1ad4815 taken article photos for a7e3125654 years, so he figured 61ef059160 that was just how d5579e3eb0 it was. To borrow the 2a3a3c9a26 expression the school beb7d531d1 kids used when 099f295a79 they were talking 7f84c16378 shit about him, 22cf43243a he was born 5101edbe54 with a cheat-level bb2c4e629b booster, so he 80106dde09 figured he had a751979514 to put up 6b38158732 with this much d05d49411b inconvenience.fded19b9dff6d1c4

But he couldn’t stand the fact that the student who wrote that post demanded money from him in exchange for deleting the photo.d5d30ab0cfe01404

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‘Hey, you know~ I don’t just have one picture of you.’6b4ac57b8ed8ba37

‘……’5d9f040742ff2f22

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‘You know that once something is preserved on the internet, it follows you forever, right? You’re going to be in the news a lot in the future, so you wouldn’t want weird memes popping up with you every time, would you?’b5c4588ac9070491

He didn’t know why he added such a stupid thing, but thanks to that, he was able to add a charge of extortion. Joo Taehyun naturally didn’t put up with it and called a lawyer to present the neatly organized evidence.33d89ce6eb122588

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His family, of course, c6232a91a3 breathed fire and were 851726daa1 furious. DH Group took a hard 8f68d7bbe9 line and proceeded with a 5fcc760510 strong legal response, so this 32e87988c3 incident was widely reported in 81256c1e6c the news and articles.be25fe244073ff26

To the public, who were dissatisfied with the DH family for keeping Joo Taehyun hidden and not showing him off, they were able to retort, “Does a celebrity have to put up with invasions of privacy and such vile threats?”ce0cd83432998eb0

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As the incident came to a close, the student was no longer seen at school, and the number of Joo Taehyun’s photos circulating on the internet was significantly reduced.b65a724bd3c27002

And after this incident, Joo Taehyun was listed on the first page, first line, of the portal site’s biographical dictionary. This was definitely not something he welcomed.33763c7a5e131ee3

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‘Haha. I’m right, aren’t I? But you can feel affectionate even if you seem aloof, and you can seem endlessly difficult even if you’re always smiling. In situations like this, you just need to be in your most comfortable state, in your most confident form. It’s a battlefield.’7a21f0dfb35b3731

Whenever he saw ae6e718868 himself alienated among 7d75ddd1fd his peers, he ac61562e62 would reflect on 8df8b79ad8 what Seo Baekhan 2428b61dff had said.2169ad4efd3b0708

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Battlefield.12d9071eb622596c

The reason why Joo Taehyun didn’t drop out right away, the reason why he decided to endure at least one semester because it was something he wanted to do, was because he was deeply impressed by Seo Baekhan’s expression of calling the act of living and interacting with people a war.f994b13a51f4d4cc

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Was it easy for 939177904e Seo Baekhan? He, too, must have 1e4d13fc7f gone through countless situations 0ffcd0b218 similar to his, or 6a5a899787 perhaps even worse.170a30b97bca20fd

If so, Joo Taehyun also didn’t want to give up on this war. He wanted to gain his own insights in this battle where Seo Baekhan had realized something.e56dfb8ccca745c2

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Of course, he knew that c0b61f2335 continuing such a wasteful battle, 8d4c26c2bc where he was just blindly a6b78f5abe enduring, would only wear him cb170436a0 down, so he was planning 9f0ddf4015 to endure for only one 6aef81a682 year, then drop out and a6398af58e take the high school equivalency 050842746b exam right away.020581190b2db49a

In the early days of enrollment, when he couldn’t adapt at all, he gritted his teeth, determined to graduate no matter what, but now he realized that knowing when to retreat at the right time was also a wise tactic.4cae663e41a626e3

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He also realized that expensive tuition didsn’t provide a safe filter.ed07332d5f25ba2c

“Young Master, are you alright?”8af7fcc5b06c6939

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“Yes. Let’s go quickly. Are you hurt?”fc13514d77ead931

“Oh, we’re fine.”7342ba5cd017f37a

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Once he passed the high school equivalency exam, he would go straight into high school courses, and if he got early admission to university… he’s planning to distance himself from people, using the excuse that he kept feeling out of place because he’s younger than his peers.b06f11c19bb0b367

This was how Joo a734c77eb4 Taehyun learned to protect 794d573f81 himself on the battlefield.936bc756c0a7a009

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