Chapter 39

“Why?”

“Because they’re yours.”

“Mine?”

Cho-i blinked as she turned to look at him on the escalator. The long golden rod earrings with red jewels sparkled, reflecting the light inside the box. After getting off the escalator, the two stood facing each other for a moment.

“Take off those cheap ones and put these on.”

Cho-i examined the item.

[Hiding Earrings (A-plus)] [Can completely hide one’s status window.]

“Wow.”

“There’s no guarantee that an SS-Rank won’t appear again.”

“Even so, these?”

“Understand it as me wanting to keep it to myself.”

Cho-i instantly made a disgusted face and was about to snap, but she gasped at the hand approaching her earlobe after she briefly entrusted the new earrings to the secretary.

“It’ll be hard for you to put them on by yourself.”

“I’ll go to the restroom and put them on myself.”

“I bought them for you, can’t I even do this much?”

“Why are you being so creepy?”

“Why the sudden formal speech?”

“I was told not to accept things from strangers.”

“But you accepted all the furniture.”

“That counts as Nara Shim receiving it. No, you girl. Why are you so careless? Accepting furniture from a stranger, honestly.”

“If you don’t want to see me kneel and confess here, just stay still.”

“Are you going to be rejected openly now?”

“Not bad.”

“Go ahead, then.”

Cho-i noticed people around recognizing Taehyeok Sa and murmuring. Frowning, she slightly leaned her head forward, determined to end this situation quickly.

“Quickly. I’ll give you three seconds.”

One, two, three.

“Done.”

“That was really fast.”

There wouldn’t have been time to take a picture. Cho-i was surprised to see her old earrings in Taehyeok Sa’s hand.

“Alright, I’m leaving now.”

“Tomorrow will be even more interesting.”

“What are you talking about?”

Cho-i alone got on the escalator going further down and looked at him once. He was smiling and waving at her, seemingly pleased. Cho-i completely ignored his greeting and returned home. And that evening, while eating grilled Korean beef, she choked on an article she saw.

“Cough! Choke!”

“Ugh. What’s that, gross.”

“No, damn it. What kind of article is this?”

“Why, what is it?”

[Paehyeok’s Taehyeok Sa, in a romantic relationship with an A-Rank hunter?!]

Surprisingly, there was a photo of the two of them standing side-by-side, having gone to Yuhan Department Store. Even the scene of him putting on the earrings, which she thought couldn’t have been captured because it ended in just three seconds, was all there!

“Damn it, he’s really skilled.”

Comments on the article were blocked. Cho-i looked at the published photos and said,

“Why isn’t there a single photo of you with me?”

“Wow, this is crazy. These photos were clearly taken with the intention of starting a dating rumor. That’s why there are no pictures with me.”

“Is that it? Or maybe it’s because you’re ugly?”

“This is just rude, even when I’m worried.”

“Just kidding, just kidding.”

Instead of the news article with no comments, Cho-i immediately accessed Huntred’s anonymous board. Sure enough, the board was on fire with news of the Paehyeok Guild Master’s romance.

[No, does it make sense for the guild leader to be dating?] [Did you see the dating rumor about Paehyeok?] [Isn’t that the same person he was with during the G.D.J. incident?] [Is Paehyeok, the guild leader, crazy?] [It looks like his fan club will be burned down before it’s even established.]

Cho-i clicked on the very last post among them.

[So she’s already someone else’s woman, huh?]
└ No, no official statement yet.
└ Honestly, didn’t a rumor also spread with H.Y.B. once?
└ H.Y.B. also had a rumor with G.D.J.
└ Honestly, if reporters see a man and woman together, they all create dating rumors.
└ Are there any who haven’t had rumors?
└ G.D.J. and G.Y.H.
└ You crazy jerk, they’re siblings.

Cho-i said with a refreshing tone.

“You crazy bastard. So this was your plan.”

No wonder Mom told me not to follow anyone who offers to buy me something so readily. Cho-i smiled brightly and sent a text to Taehyeok Sa.

[You son of a bitch]

Immediately, a reply came back.

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[Are you laughing?]
[I just made it a fact.]
[What?]
[That you dumped me.]
[How can you be dumped when there’s a dating rumor?]
[It’ll happen soon.]

“What is he talking about?”

Cho-i started searching the internet again and soon found the official article released by Taehyeok.

“This, you crazy bastard.”

[Taehyeok Sa, the choice is not mine, but the other person’s…]

“Wow, look at the malicious comments.”

In the comments, Taehyeok Sa’s fans and haters, and Cho-i’s fans and haters, were in an uproar. Wait, when did I get so many haters? Cho-i blinked and read the comment sections.

[Crazy person]
[Is the guild leader really dumped?]
[So Dongju Kim was testing the waters, and Taehyeok Sa was also testing the waters, lol. She’s living up to her looks.]
[What was Taehyeok Sa thinking releasing an article like this? Is he trying to mess with her?]

There were also some sane people among them.

[But isn’t a Guild Master supposed to take care of their guild members? Releasing an article like this is basically telling her to screw off. I didn’t know he was such a small-minded person. I’m disappointed.]
└ Who are you to be disappointed, lol?
└ Excuse me, isn’t a Guild Master a person too?

Of course, it received numerous rebuttals. Cho-i didn’t bother to scroll down any further and just turned off her smartphone.

“Wow, you’ll live a long time.”

Nara Shim said from beside her.

“Be careful not to get hit with eggs when you go out on your first schedule.”
“Okay, reception.”
“What is this? It’s not a celebrity dating rumor. What does the Guild Master think?”
“You’re going to fuck me.”
“Wow, you should have done that better.”

I thought Cho-i was going to be so irritated, but she was calmer than expected. Should I just say I knew it would be like this? Should I say that it was my fault for taking the lead bamboo furniture? Well, I guess it didn’t matter. Because she didn’t particularly want to be loved by anyone. Of course, I didn’t want to be hated by anyone, but I wondered what I could do with the situation turning out like this.

“Let’s eat something.”
“But are you really okay?”

Nara told her worriedly, Cho-i nodded. Really, it was nothing.

* * *

[I heard he doesn’t even have parents? This is why home education is important.]
[LOL, can you clearly see me trying to straighten my arms?]
[I wish I could go to the dungeon and die.]
[Even if I, a civilian, turn around, I think I’ll be better than him haha]
[According to the rumor, the party members only take men with them? Even if you pretend to be, you’re a female king, right?]
[Even if I were a civilian, I would do better than him hahaha]

In a dark room, someone was sitting in front of a computer and leaving malicious comments on every article that came up. The fingers of a skinny woman with messy hair and thick glasses created letters faster than anything else.
It was a blade called writing. He was stronger than anyone else on the Internet. It was as if Yibae Hyeon, who had been clinging to the Guild Master, had also been dropped by him.

“Love? Whoever wants….”

This time, his mission was to keep that shiny-faced X away from Taehyeok Sa. He was the Guild Master that he had protected, but he couldn’t hand it over to another woman like this.

“Guild Master, I am the one who loves you the most….”

She spoke in a tearful voice and continued to write malicious comments about Cho-i Hyeon. Her fingers didn’t stop until morning.
The sun rose and shined through a gap in the curtains. The woman who had left over a hundred malicious comments all night alone straightened her hunched back and turned on the light in her room.
widely.
The room was full of photos of Taehyeok Sa. His photos were plastered all over the walls, above the bed, and even on the ceiling of the bed. She stood up unsteadily, looked at the photo for a while, and then headed to the bathroom.
Then I washed up and started getting ready for work. She tied her hair up, took off her thick horn-rimmed glasses, put on a suit, and wore an employee certificate around her neck.

[paeheok互联网管理团队]
[加纳苏]

She was one of the employees at Paehyeok.

Ganansu went to work today again with a calm expression. She was often happy just to see Taehyeok Sai’s face on his way to work.

‘But why do you act like this every time a female model comes in? It’s annoying.’

Taehyeok Sa. He had to remain his own star. It shines right there, and no one can touch it.

‘But you fell in love with that girl? ‘It doesn’t make sense.’

I remember that smooth face. Honestly, yes. Her face was really pretty. It made me wonder where they got such a model from.

“hello!”
“hello~”

She greeted the staff normally and then sat down at her seat. Then, he went to his favorite anonymous site. The gallery where Taehyeok Sa’s fans gathered was in an uproar about the dating rumor. There was also a lot of criticism of the new female model, Cho-i Hyeon.

[Honestly, how well can you run a dungeon when you come in with a smile on your face?]
[Hey, this really doesn’t make sense. I’m going crazy, guys hahaha]

There, she started to light the firewood,

[Isn’t it true that a girl deliberately called him out and caused a dating rumor? The Guild Master actually published that article to protect him.]
└ That makes sense, doesn’t it?
└ Honestly, Taehyeok Sa always took good care of his guild members.
└ Exactly, but suddenly an article like that comes out now? Honestly, I don’t believe it at all.
└ If that’s true, she’s crazy, seriously lol.

With a satisfied expression, she turned off her smartphone screen and focused on her work. Just then, the team leader received a call from somewhere and spoke urgently.

“There are a lot of malicious comments about our new Hunter Cho-i Hyeon. Please gather the evidence for a lawsuit. She wants to sue.”

“Excuse me?”

“Ah, honestly, we should sue. The malicious comments are going too far, aren’t they?”

“I don’t know what’s going on. For now, we need to protect the hunter.”

At that moment, Ganansu raised her hand and said,

“Wouldn’t suing make public opinion even worse when it’s already so bad?”

The team leader then frowned.

“Have you been doing this job for a day or two? Don’t you know that when those guys get sued, they all shut up and quiet down? Be quiet and gather the relevant documents and submit them individually. By the end of today.”

“Yes.”

“Yes!”

“Yes…”

Ganansu sat at her desk, deep in thought. Then she spoke.

“I’ll look into Huntred and the anonymous sites.”

“You will?”

“Then I’ll check the comments on the internet articles.”

At that, Ganansu pretended to work, logged in with her ID, and deleted all the comments she had left on the articles at once.