Yoo Hyorin looks calm and quiet but it's a mask to cover up her fear. A sigh leaves her lips, over and over again. It drives her crazy until she feels like exploding. Slowly, she closes her eyes and takes a really deep breath. It's not easy to stay sane in this kind of situation but at least she tries her best. Exactly two hours ago, she asked her personal assistant to take down and block everything at once. Later, everything disappeared in a blink of eyes. For a while she got a piece peace of mind but it didn't last long. It was a boomerang. She thought she put out the flame but instead, the fire uncontrollably burnt down everything. People started questioning about The Insider Talk. Speculations were here and there. Rumors sparked and there she was, feeling scared that everybody would find out.

Don't misunderstand. Since the beginning, it was not about Jimin and Seulgi that triggered Hyorin, but it was the blind item between rookie idol C and chairman E. At first she, just like the other did, had no idea, but now she clearly understands. Yes, that damned chairman E is her husband. She really is speechless as she experiences another heart break. It hurts her enough to face this reality yet she needs to be the one who cleans this mess and whitewashes her husband's scandal and affair. Why did she take pains? Because she imagined about the public backlash and outrage, and wow, it would be beyond words. She just wishes it would stay behind the closed door, though, deep down inside her heart, she knows, a bigger storm is about to come and heartlessly ravage her life.

***

The sandalwood fragrance is always Grandma Park's favorite. It brings warmth and comfort, but at this very moment, it unsuccessfully relaxes her. She is enraged and furious. Her blood boils as she hears the latest information that Mr. Kim collected. It's unbelievable and in the same time can't be tolerated. Her own son is about to tarnish the whole family's image and she will do anything to prevent that. She thinks hard for a solution and eventually gets an idea. Truthfully, it's not a good one and she doesn't want to do it but she needs to becayse the other way around is a dead end. To cover up her son's scandal and minimize the damage, she has to sacrifice not only her beloved grandson but also his fiancé. It upsets her but she has no choice. The public's attention should be shifted and the only headline that could do is the announcement of Jimin and Seulgi's wedding. It's inequitable but she already makes her heart.

"Mr. Kim, please ask the maids to prepare everything, I will go to Seoul with my grandson" Grandma Park talks.

Mr. Kim nods slightly and then bow deeply before he excuses and leaves the room. As he disappears, Grandma Park exhales heavily. She swears, Junjin, her oldest son is useless. He keeps causing scandals and making affairs. In the end of the day, she is always forced to hide his sin and solve the problem. Today finishes off like that too. She has to visit Seulgi's family and explain everything. She is forced to take it as her responsibility and asks for help. She believes they will try to understand and lend a hand, but her grandson, she doubts it. She knows him too well. He will be against the decision. This time, once again, she probably will beg for a favor from Seulgi.

***

Jimin looks around his old bedroom and smiles a little. He will miss this place and its coziness. Soon, he will return to Seoul and his so called family. His smile disappears as he rolls his eyes before he walks to talk to the intercom, asking maid to bring down his luggage and help Seulgi with hers. After a while, maid comes and does his order. Then, he leaves his bedroom and heads to Seulgi's room. He knocks there but no answer. It's when he tries for the third time, Mr. Kim sees and approaches him to inform that Seulgi is with his grandma. He thanks Mr. Kim and is about to go away, but he halts as he notices his grandma's thirty years old custom-made suitcase on Mr. Kim's hand.

"Is grandma going somewhere?" Jimin asks curiously.

"Yes, doryeonim, she is going to Seoul with you" Mr. Kim tells him.

Jimin furrows his eyebrows as it leaves a lot of questions inside his brain. He smells something unusual here and somehow figures out there must be an issue as his grandma, out of the blue, decides to visit Seoul. As much as he thinks, he just doesn't understand. He demands to know. Immediately, he excuses himself and walks past Mr. Kim to his grandma's bedroom. He wastes no time as he right away barges in, but he stops his step once he sees his fiancé there and witnesses her depressed and frustrated face. In the other hand, both women are startled. They turn their sight to him and feel like they are caught red handedly.

"Jimin---" Seulgi hangs her word there.

Jimin locks his eyes on Seulgi. He makes an eye contact with her and further learns her expression. From his point of view, she looks distracted and that moment he realizes there is something wrong. He watches her bites her lips before she breaks the eye contact and turns her attention to the blue Ceylon sapphire around her finger. He is confused, so he tries to find another answer from his grandma, but she also stays silent.

"What is happening?" Jimin asks. Grandma looks up at him but says nothing. She then reaches out to hold Seulgi's hand, conveying the unspoken plea.

Seulgi nods and she stands up from her seat. She braves herself and approaches Jimin. Once she is close enough, she speaks lowly "Come with me" As she proceeds to hold his hand but he rejects. She is a little bit taken aback by the refusal. Honestly, it hurts her but she hides it away. Afterwards, he turns his face to meet her gaze and says "No, I want to hear it from grandma" In no time, he walks away from her but she stops him by grabbing his wrist. He immediately looks at her and how thunderstruck he is when he finds her in shambles "Jimin, please, I beg you" It's almost inaudible. The look on her face makes him worries. She hits the weakest spot inside his heart and it makes him nods almost instantly. He swiftly intertwines his fingers on hers and holds her hand gently, then leads her outside. There, before he closes the door completely, he glances at his grandma and is aware that she has the same expression as his fiancé, sad and in distress. For God's sake, something horrible is happening.

***

It's only the two of them, face to face. One second, two second and so on, until it turns into minute. Silence and still nothing leaves from her lips. Seulgi secretly sighs as she feels a heavy weight on her shoulder because of the trust and duty that grandma gave. Difficult situation comes one after another, repeatedly. The time when Seulgi first heard about the scandal from grandmother, she actually thought that was wild and crazy. She couldn't even control her expression and she totally showed how disgusted she was. She knew that was quite impolite but she couldn't hold it back. Then, all of sudden, grandma told about the only resolution she had and asked for her help. There, the confusion slapped as her thought immediately flew to Jimin. It would be an insistant attack, a double kill. Her man wouldn't be able to deal with it. He surely would end up in an extreme anger.

"Kang Seulgi" Jimin raises his tone as he starts to lose his patience, but she is still deep into her own mind, ignoring him.

This is annoying. The silence is suffocating and it almost feels like there is no air. Jimin is not able to breathe normally. Adrenaline rushes through his blood and it causes his heart to beat faster. He is desperate to know but Seulgi keeps shutting her mouth. He slowly makes a move as he reaches out his hands. He grips on her shoulders strongly, pressuring her. Right away, she lifts her chin up and meets his eyes. He uses this chance to look into those beautiful orbs deeply and it's concerning. He is in dismay as he sees her emotions. Her eyes speak the truth, they tell about her confusion, frustration, a little bit of depression and a lot of worries. She looks fragile and it's his weakness. He feels guilty as he loosens up his grip. He chooses to hold his anger back for her. Now, he starts caressing her softly to relieve her tension and make her as comfortable as possible.

"Care to explain?" Jimin whispers.

Seulgi nods slightly as she keeps staring into Jimin's eyes. She tells him from A to Z. She explains about another pharagraph in The Insider Talk's article and reveals the ugly truth. She watches how his jaw hardened and his body tensed. He says nothing but his face yells anger and madness. The negative emotion rules and it makes him unconsciously clenches his fists on her shoulders. She flinches but she lets him. She halts her words and takes a step forward, closing the gap between them. She touches his waist and strokes gently. She needs to calm him down first before continues to deliver the bad news.

"I want you to be open minded, can you do that?" Seulgi asks.

Once Jimin hears that, he believes, there is much worse story follows behind that's why he decides to give no response. He just contemplates. In the other hand, Seulgi waits for him but she somehow realizes, he doesn't want to answer. It's impossible to think clearly in this kind of circumstance. She doesn't know what to do but she refuses to give up. She slowly wraps her arms around his waist and rests her head on his chest. She listens to his heartbeat, fast and loud. She pats his back affectionately and begins the most unpleasant part of the news as she has no other choice.

"Jimin, grandma is having a difficult time right now, we need to help her---" Seulgi pauses because Jimin is cursing, cutting her sentence.

There is a lot more curse words on the tip of Jimin's tongue. He exactly knows what is coming next when Seulgi emphasized 'we' and he has zero will to hear that. Most probably, his grandma is about to turn him into a scapegoat for the sake of family's reputation and it's unacceptable. As it's his father that they're talking about, of course it makes him feels more unsympathetic with the decision. Grandmother should've known the fact that his relation with his father is far from good and she should've had predict that he is going to reject it willingly. There is no way he will take consequence of his father's wrongdoing in any possible way because sincerely speaking, his hatred is thicker than blood.

"Jimin---" Once again, Seulgi hangs it there as Jimin interrupts her.

"I know!---" Jimin snaps until it startles Seulgi. She jerks a little and he is aware that he is too harsh, but his anger already takes over and it blinds him"---my grandma definitely wants to push forward our wedding, right?---" He raises his tone as he lifts her chin up, forcing her to look into his eyes "---she needs to manipulate it to steer public's attention from the scandal, right?---" He continues just to pause it. He then cynically laughs, mocking and ridiculing this idiocy, but in one second, contradictory, everything changes. His laughter disappears, his gaze is as cold as an ice, then, his body shakes in rage "---am I wrong?!" He yells, pouring his disappointment as challenging her to deny.

Seulgi runs out of words because Jimin speaks the reality, he is 100% correct. Right now, she is hopeless. She just tightens her embrace as she lightly grips on his shirt. He is overly angry to the point where she can feel his anger. It stabs her heart like thousands thorns but she doesn't complain. She just keeps hugging him, desperately wanting to at least lessen his frustration, but he keeps openly swearing and it scares her. This is the first time she witnesses him this out of control and yes, it shocks her, but sure enough she doesn't blame him. It's his rightness to feel upset and think about how unfair it is. In some way, she understands.

"You're right" Seulgi confirms. There, Jimin's expression turns darker, he is so cranky.

"Let me go"

That's how Jimin responses heartlessly. He sees Seulgi blinks her eyes in disbelief. Through her gaze, she she shows disagreement. He absolutely notices it but he chooses to ignore. In any time soon he could lose his sanity by reason of his anger and he is so scared that he would accidentally hurt her. He never wants that to happen, that's why he asks her to leave him alone. Better to avoid it rather than to regret it later.

"Do I need to repeat myself?" Jimin asks, sounding really cold.

It creeps into Seulgi's heart until it makes her immediately withdraws her hands from his body and takes a step back, breaking the hug and leaving gap between them. She bites her lips as she hesitates, but in the end she nods slightly. She gets it, he needs space. She stares into his eyes one last time as she reaches her hand to touch his cheek and caresses it gently. She then speaks inaudibly, saying that she loves him, before finally she walks away from him as approaches the door and opens it. She exits then she proceeds to close the door, but there, she petrifies. Before she could completely shut it, she sees him loses his mind, totally gone crazy.

Jimin breathes heavily as he trembles. He can't hold it any longer, it wrecks him inside out. He needs to let it out and saves his own self. He grabs the first thing he sees, a standing lamp on the left side. He lifts it up and wildly propels it to his bedroom's window wall. It causes a loud thud but he doesn't care at all. He then bends as he screams in frustration but it's not enough. He decides to come near the console table and violently sweeps off everything on top of it in one go, making all hit the floor and causing them to crash into pieces. The noise of porcelains cracking and frames breaking reverberate, but in between there is the sound of his desperation. In the end, his legs give up and he collapses. He is crying out his pain and collecting his shattered heart. He is falling apart, hurted and wounded.

In the other hand, from afar, Seulgi is watching and witnessing the worst and the ugliest version of Park Jimin silently. To be honest, she is in shock.

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Yoo Hyorin looks calm and quiet but it's a mask to cover up her fear. A sigh leaves her lips, over and over again. It drives her crazy until she feels like exploding. Slowly, she closes her eyes and takes a really deep breath. It's not easy to stay sane in this kind of situation but at least she tries her best. Exactly two hours ago, she asked her personal assistant to take down and block everything at once. Later, everything disappeared in a blink of eyes. For a while she got a piece peace of mind but it didn't last long. It was a boomerang. She thought she put out the flame but instead, the fire uncontrollably burnt down everything. People started questioning about The Insider Talk. Speculations were here and there. Rumors sparked and there she was, feeling scared that everybody would find out.

Don't misunderstand. Since the beginning, it was not about Jimin and Seulgi that triggered Hyorin, but it was the blind item between rookie idol C and chairman E. At first she, just like the other did, had no idea, but now she clearly understands. Yes, that damned chairman E is her husband. She really is speechless as she experiences another heart break. It hurts her enough to face this reality yet she needs to be the one who cleans this mess and whitewashes her husband's scandal and affair. Why did she take pains? Because she imagined about the public backlash and outrage, and wow, it would be beyond words. She just wishes it would stay behind the closed door, though, deep down inside her heart, she knows, a bigger storm is about to come and heartlessly ravage her life.

***

The sandalwood fragrance is always Grandma Park's favorite. It brings warmth and comfort, but at this very moment, it unsuccessfully relaxes her. She is enraged and furious. Her blood boils as she hears the latest information that Mr. Kim collected. It's unbelievable and in the same time can't be tolerated. Her own son is about to tarnish the whole family's image and she will do anything to prevent that. She thinks hard for a solution and eventually gets an idea. Truthfully, it's not a good one and she doesn't want to do it but she needs to becayse the other way around is a dead end. To cover up her son's scandal and minimize the damage, she has to sacrifice not only her beloved grandson but also his fiancé. It upsets her but she has no choice. The public's attention should be shifted and the only headline that could do is the announcement of Jimin and Seulgi's wedding. It's inequitable but she already makes her heart.

"Mr. Kim, please ask the maids to prepare everything, I will go to Seoul with my grandson" Grandma Park talks.

Mr. Kim nods slightly and then bow deeply before he excuses and leaves the room. As he disappears, Grandma Park exhales heavily. She swears, Junjin, her oldest son is useless. He keeps causing scandals and making affairs. In the end of the day, she is always forced to hide his sin and solve the problem. Today finishes off like that too. She has to visit Seulgi's family and explain everything. She is forced to take it as her responsibility and asks for help. She believes they will try to understand and lend a hand, but her grandson, she doubts it. She knows him too well. He will be against the decision. This time, once again, she probably will beg for a favor from Seulgi.

***

Jimin looks around his old bedroom and smiles a little. He will miss this place and its coziness. Soon, he will return to Seoul and his so called family. His smile disappears as he rolls his eyes before he walks to talk to the intercom, asking maid to bring down his luggage and help Seulgi with hers. After a while, maid comes and does his order. Then, he leaves his bedroom and heads to Seulgi's room. He knocks there but no answer. It's when he tries for the third time, Mr. Kim sees and approaches him to inform that Seulgi is with his grandma. He thanks Mr. Kim and is about to go away, but he halts as he notices his grandma's thirty years old custom-made suitcase on Mr. Kim's hand.

"Is grandma going somewhere?" Jimin asks curiously.

"Yes, doryeonim, she is going to Seoul with you" Mr. Kim tells him.

Jimin furrows his eyebrows as it leaves a lot of questions inside his brain. He smells something unusual here and somehow figures out there must be an issue as his grandma, out of the blue, decides to visit Seoul. As much as he thinks, he just doesn't understand. He demands to know. Immediately, he excuses himself and walks past Mr. Kim to his grandma's bedroom. He wastes no time as he right away barges in, but he stops his step once he sees his fiancé there and witnesses her depressed and frustrated face. In the other hand, both women are startled. They turn their sight to him and feel like they are caught red handedly.

"Jimin---" Seulgi hangs her word there.

Jimin locks his eyes on Seulgi. He makes an eye contact with her and further learns her expression. From his point of view, she looks distracted and that moment he realizes there is something wrong. He watches her bites her lips before she breaks the eye contact and turns her attention to the blue Ceylon sapphire around her finger. He is confused, so he tries to find another answer from his grandma, but she also stays silent.

"What is happening?" Jimin asks. Grandma looks up at him but says nothing. She then reaches out to hold Seulgi's hand, conveying the unspoken plea.

Seulgi nods and she stands up from her seat. She braves herself and approaches Jimin. Once she is close enough, she speaks lowly "Come with me" As she proceeds to hold his hand but he rejects. She is a little bit taken aback by the refusal. Honestly, it hurts her but she hides it away. Afterwards, he turns his face to meet her gaze and says "No, I want to hear it from grandma" In no time, he walks away from her but she stops him by grabbing his wrist. He immediately looks at her and how thunderstruck he is when he finds her in shambles "Jimin, please, I beg you" It's almost inaudible. The look on her face makes him worries. She hits the weakest spot inside his heart and it makes him nods almost instantly. He swiftly intertwines his fingers on hers and holds her hand gently, then leads her outside. There, before he closes the door completely, he glances at his grandma and is aware that she has the same expression as his fiancé, sad and in distress. For God's sake, something horrible is happening.

***

It's only the two of them, face to face. One second, two second and so on, until it turns into minute. Silence and still nothing leaves from her lips. Seulgi secretly sighs as she feels a heavy weight on her shoulder because of the trust and duty that grandma gave. Difficult situation comes one after another, repeatedly. The time when Seulgi first heard about the scandal from grandmother, she actually thought that was wild and crazy. She couldn't even control her expression and she totally showed how disgusted she was. She knew that was quite impolite but she couldn't hold it back. Then, all of sudden, grandma told about the only resolution she had and asked for her help. There, the confusion slapped as her thought immediately flew to Jimin. It would be an insistant attack, a double kill. Her man wouldn't be able to deal with it. He surely would end up in an extreme anger.

"Kang Seulgi" Jimin raises his tone as he starts to lose his patience, but she is still deep into her own mind, ignoring him.

This is annoying. The silence is suffocating and it almost feels like there is no air. Jimin is not able to breathe normally. Adrenaline rushes through his blood and it causes his heart to beat faster. He is desperate to know but Seulgi keeps shutting her mouth. He slowly makes a move as he reaches out his hands. He grips on her shoulders strongly, pressuring her. Right away, she lifts her chin up and meets his eyes. He uses this chance to look into those beautiful orbs deeply and it's concerning. He is in dismay as he sees her emotions. Her eyes speak the truth, they tell about her confusion, frustration, a little bit of depression and a lot of worries. She looks fragile and it's his weakness. He feels guilty as he loosens up his grip. He chooses to hold his anger back for her. Now, he starts caressing her softly to relieve her tension and make her as comfortable as possible.

"Care to explain?" Jimin whispers.

Seulgi nods slightly as she keeps staring into Jimin's eyes. She tells him from A to Z. She explains about another pharagraph in The Insider Talk's article and reveals the ugly truth. She watches how his jaw hardened and his body tensed. He says nothing but his face yells anger and madness. The negative emotion rules and it makes him unconsciously clenches his fists on her shoulders. She flinches but she lets him. She halts her words and takes a step forward, closing the gap between them. She touches his waist and strokes gently. She needs to calm him down first before continues to deliver the bad news.

"I want you to be open minded, can you do that?" Seulgi asks.

Once Jimin hears that, he believes, there is much worse story follows behind that's why he decides to give no response. He just contemplates. In the other hand, Seulgi waits for him but she somehow realizes, he doesn't want to answer. It's impossible to think clearly in this kind of circumstance. She doesn't know what to do but she refuses to give up. She slowly wraps her arms around his waist and rests her head on his chest. She listens to his heartbeat, fast and loud. She pats his back affectionately and begins the most unpleasant part of the news as she has no other choice.

"Jimin, grandma is having a difficult time right now, we need to help her---" Seulgi pauses because Jimin is cursing, cutting her sentence.

There is a lot more curse words on the tip of Jimin's tongue. He exactly knows what is coming next when Seulgi emphasized 'we' and he has zero will to hear that. Most probably, his grandma is about to turn him into a scapegoat for the sake of family's reputation and it's unacceptable. As it's his father that they're talking about, of course it makes him feels more unsympathetic with the decision. Grandmother should've known the fact that his relation with his father is far from good and she should've had predict that he is going to reject it willingly. There is no way he will take consequence of his father's wrongdoing in any possible way because sincerely speaking, his hatred is thicker than blood.

"Jimin---" Once again, Seulgi hangs it there as Jimin interrupts her.

"I know!---" Jimin snaps until it startles Seulgi. She jerks a little and he is aware that he is too harsh, but his anger already takes over and it blinds him"---my grandma definitely wants to push forward our wedding, right?---" He raises his tone as he lifts her chin up, forcing her to look into his eyes "---she needs to manipulate it to steer public's attention from the scandal, right?---" He continues just to pause it. He then cynically laughs, mocking and ridiculing this idiocy, but in one second, contradictory, everything changes. His laughter disappears, his gaze is as cold as an ice, then, his body shakes in rage "---am I wrong?!" He yells, pouring his disappointment as challenging her to deny.

Seulgi runs out of words because Jimin speaks the reality, he is 100% correct. Right now, she is hopeless. She just tightens her embrace as she lightly grips on his shirt. He is overly angry to the point where she can feel his anger. It stabs her heart like thousands thorns but she doesn't complain. She just keeps hugging him, desperately wanting to at least lessen his frustration, but he keeps openly swearing and it scares her. This is the first time she witnesses him this out of control and yes, it shocks her, but sure enough she doesn't blame him. It's his rightness to feel upset and think about how unfair it is. In some way, she understands.

"You're right" Seulgi confirms. There, Jimin's expression turns darker, he is so cranky.

"Let me go"

That's how Jimin responses heartlessly. He sees Seulgi blinks her eyes in disbelief. Through her gaze, she she shows disagreement. He absolutely notices it but he chooses to ignore. In any time soon he could lose his sanity by reason of his anger and he is so scared that he would accidentally hurt her. He never wants that to happen, that's why he asks her to leave him alone. Better to avoid it rather than to regret it later.

"Do I need to repeat myself?" Jimin asks, sounding really cold.

It creeps into Seulgi's heart until it makes her immediately withdraws her hands from his body and takes a step back, breaking the hug and leaving gap between them. She bites her lips as she hesitates, but in the end she nods slightly. She gets it, he needs space. She stares into his eyes one last time as she reaches her hand to touch his cheek and caresses it gently. She then speaks inaudibly, saying that she loves him, before finally she walks away from him as approaches the door and opens it. She exits then she proceeds to close the door, but there, she petrifies. Before she could completely shut it, she sees him loses his mind, totally gone crazy.

Jimin breathes heavily as he trembles. He can't hold it any longer, it wrecks him inside out. He needs to let it out and saves his own self. He grabs the first thing he sees, a standing lamp on the left side. He lifts it up and wildly propels it to his bedroom's window wall. It causes a loud thud but he doesn't care at all. He then bends as he screams in frustration but it's not enough. He decides to come near the console table and violently sweeps off everything on top of it in one go, making all hit the floor and causing them to crash into pieces. The noise of porcelains cracking and frames breaking reverberate, but in between there is the sound of his desperation. In the end, his legs give up and he collapses. He is crying out his pain and collecting his shattered heart. He is falling apart, hurted and wounded.

In the other hand, from afar, Seulgi is watching and witnessing the worst and the ugliest version of Park Jimin silently. To be honest, she is in a great shock.

***

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