The Name That Shouldn’t Have Been Seen

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🔸 Breaking News (Mar 28) – Early Morning Shooting Death in Seoul

In the early morning hours of March 28th, a man in his 20s took his own life with an illegally possessed firearm in an apartment in Seoul.

He was found by police responding to a report of gunshots and taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.

Police are investigating the exact circumstances, based on the testimony of an acquaintance who stated he was taking medication for depression.

└ Is this Korea or America?

Where on earth did the gun come from?

└ Stop reading novels.

What kind of gun incident is this in Seoul?

└ Please watch the video and leave a comment.

What’s with this news report about a suicide with an illegally possessed gun?

└ Why is the story different here?

That apartment isn’t just an apartment, it’s a penthouse.

It’s not even his house.

He said he attended a birthday party.

└ There is talk that the family of this media company is involved.

└ There’s already an article about the attendance of the president of Daeguk Ilbo, Choi J-Yeong.

└ We pray for the repose of the deceased’s soul.

🔸 Metropolitan Prostitution Ring Busted (Mar 31)

On the 31st, a group that had been systematically arranging prostitution in the Seoul metropolitan area was arrested.

The revelation that they kidnapped and imprisoned unregistered Guides and then purchased s*x from unregistered Espers is shocking.

They cleverly evaded detection by operating a famous Seoul cafe as a brokerage and renting dozens of officetels.

└ Korean men are so disgusting I could die.

Ugh, why are they always making a fuss about not being able to have s*x?

Will they die if they don’t do it?

└ They’re not ‘Korean men’, they’re Espers.

If they don’t do it, they’ll go insane.

└ What do you want me to do about it, you fucker?

Just die then.

└ Are you saying tourists kidnapped their Guide?

Are they crazy?

What is the government doing?

└ Sexual desire is one of the three basic human desires.

It should be legalized as soon as possible so that pretty women on the streets are safe.

└ This old man needs to be castrated as soon as possible.

🔸 FER Criticizes Yusang Pharma’s Drug Monopoly

FER has been vocally criticizing the monopoly of guiding drugs by Yusang Pharmaceuticals, claiming it is a serious problem and warrants sanctions.

Yusang Pharmaceuticals, however, has stated that FER’s claim to serve the public interest is merely a pretext for domestic pharmaceutical companies and that the threat of international sanctions if the company does not voluntarily disclose confidential information is deeply regrettable.

Furthermore, the company dismissed the controversy, stating that the monopoly was “unintentional” and that it maintains reasonable prices, recognizing that it is the sole supplier in the market.

└ What is FER?

└ It is an international Esper cooperation organization.

└ What is an Esper?

└ So that’s why the stock price fell so much, f11ck.

└ Let’s pick it up quickly. Yusang is definitely going to win lol.

└ FER are total thugsㅡㅡ They should be thinking about developing it themselves.

Why are they making a fuss about telling a foreign company how to make medicine?

└ Yusang Pharmaceutical: Yeah, that’s right~ I won’t sell to you anymore~

└ Fighting, Yusang Pharmaceuticals!

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The SUV races along a dark road lined with long streetlights on both sides.

The magazine photo shoot, held in a suburban studio, ended after midnight.

The overall mood in the studio was somber, taking longer than expected to select a suitable A-cut.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Yoo Hyun checked and cleared the countless notifications that had piled up throughout the day.

Eighty percent of the messages were humorous ones from his younger brother, Yoo Sung.

Most of them were unintelligible, but Yoo Hyun chuckled quietly, impressed that his brother thought what was funny to him would be funny to him too.

Yoo Hyun quietly opened his mouth, sending a laughing emoticon.

“Just say it quickly.”

“Huh?”

“You’ve had something to tell me since earlier.

Everyone keeps looking at me and making me anxious.

It’s obvious.”

As the eerie silence dragged on, Yoo Hyun’s gaze, fixed on his phone screen, slowly turned to the driver’s seat.

When he raised his head, the faint glow of the streetlights illuminated his face, casting shadows from his eyelashes, as if delicately traced with a pencil, across his orange-tinted cheeks.

Sangjin, who must have been thinking about something else, was startled and pretended to look out the window in a panic, talking nonsense.

“It’s summer, so it’s bright even at this hour.

Right?”

“Hyung, it’s one o’clock in the morning.”

“Oh, it’s hot.

Aren’t you hot?

Let’s turn on the air conditioner.

Yay… It’s totally summer now, it’s summer.”

“Are you hot?

It’s a little cold….”

“Right?

It’s a bit cold, isn’t it?

It’s June, but it’s still a bit awkward to turn on the air conditioner, right?

That’s what hyung was going to say, hahaha!

Look outside, Yoo Hyun.

There are no cars passing by, and it’s wide open.

Just looking at it makes my heart feel open….”

“That’s why it’s more suspicious.

What’s going on?”

Sangjin sighed and remained silent for a moment.

Having known Yoo Hyun since his days as MAINE’s road manager, he sometimes spoke as if he knew everything about him.

It was a confidence that stemmed from working exclusively for him during a period when Yoo Hyun’s personal activities were becoming more active.

Conversely, Yoo Hyun knew Sangjin just as well.

If he was that broken up, there was a problem.

And a very serious one at that.

Sangjin, who had been hesitating as if he was about to say something, finally opened his mouth with difficulty.

“That’s… Clear… I heard the model has been replaced.”

A furrow formed between Yoo Hyun’s perfectly straight eyebrows.

He’d been mentally prepared, having been on a downward slide since April, but the news he heard from Sangjin was far worse than he’d expected.

Clear, a cosmetics brand known for its gentle, non-irritating ingredients, had been Yoo Hyun’s exclusive model for three years since its launch.

To promote the brand, the company cast Yoo Hyun, a rookie idol with limited exposure, as its model, projecting a clean, gentle image.

Yoo Hyun, meanwhile, had been promoting the brand for years, earning the trust of both advertisers and the public, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship.

However, Clear, without warning, had now turned its back on Yoo Hyun.

“…When?”

“When you were filming earlier.

Haven’t you seen the article yet?”

“So suddenly?”

“Yeah.

That’s why I contacted them in a hurry earlier, and they said it didn’t seem to fit the image the company was pursuing….”

Yoo Hyun immediately recalled a moment during the shoot when things got awkward.

The voice of makeup artist Sihyung, who had been snickering about his rather polite manners, was right there.

He was changing clothes and lightly touching up his makeup.

Yoo Hyun couldn’t help but notice the subtle murmur in the air.

He knew there had been a slight war of nerves between Yoo Hyun’s team and the studio staff, but it had passed without a word, so Yoo Hyun dismissed it as a minor incident, a consequence of the prolonged filming.

“…Was that the reason why the atmosphere on set was like that earlier?”

“That’s…!

That’s probably it.”

It was understandable.

They’d worked together as a team for so long, a rarity in the industry, that their attachment to Yoo Hyun was extraordinary.

If he’d overheard the on-site staff quibbling over the ad article, it would have been a miracle they hadn’t fought.

Perhaps even that was patience, perhaps out of consideration for his own declining position…

The more Yoo Hyun thought about it, the more his stomach ached, and he clenched his jaw.

“Don’t worry too much about it.

There was already the issue of the deposit anyway…

Even if it weren’t for this, I wouldn’t have been able to do it.

It’s not like there’s only one company in the world that will do commercials…”

“…That’s the only advertisement I have left.”

“That, that’s true…

even if you rowed when the tide came in, your schedule was already too tight.

Think of this as an opportunity to rest.

I thought you’d be overworked sooner or later.”

“All my schedules have been canceled lately, so I have no work to do, but I’m getting benched from overwork?

You too, hyung.”

Although Yoo Hyun said it jokingly, Sangjin looked as if he had bitten his tongue.

The dozen or so commercials that had been terminated one after another were deeply regrettable, but this one was fundamentally different.

Having been a part of the brand’s growth since its launch, this commercial held a special symbolic value for Yoo Hyun.

Even before Sangjin tried to console him, he’d already realized he was simply taking a break, and that his efforts to remain cheerful were nothing more than a so-called mental victory.

“Yoo Hyun-ah.

If you rest, you’ll get more ads and stuff.

Don’t worry.

Anyway, this guy and that guy don’t even think about how hard you worked, and they don’t even say anything about manners…

They just send you an article as a notification.

It’s not like they’re making fun of you.”

“What can I do?

Everyone says they don’t want to use me.”

“Yoo Hyun-ah.”

The call was almost a mock scolding.

Yoo Hyun shrugged as if it was nothing and turned his head out the window.

Just then, his phone, which was in his door pocket, vibrated.

It was a message notification.

He looked down and checked the pop-up message on the screen.

[You blocked my number?

Don’t do something you’ll regret.

Just answer the phone.]

Yoo Hyun muttered with a frown on his face, as if he had seen something disgusting.

“It’s all because of this crazy bastard….”

Sangjin flinched at the gloomy tone and his shoulders trembled.

“Who is the crazy one…?”

“No, I’m just talking to myself.”

After simply pressing delete and block to deal with the madman, Yoo Hyun closed his eyes and rested his chin on the windowsill.

Sangjin glanced at him sideways, as if looking at an abandoned kitten on a rainy day.

Sangjin quietly rolled down the car window.

A refreshing breeze, laden with a hint of moisture, blew in.

Yoo Hyun’s hair, now matted from frequent bleaching and dyeing, fluttered lightly in the early morning breeze.

“Don’t think bad thoughts.”

“Yes.”

“Everything will be okay.”

Will things really get better?

Yoo Hyun closed his eyes, feeling the breeze.

****

That day, waking up suddenly at three in the morning could be considered pure instinct.

It was a day in July, standing on a steep slope with no bottom in sight.

[Are you sleeping?]

It was a message from stylist Sihyung.

Sihyung had been in contact with Yoo Hyun three years ago when he asked her to do his special makeup, and now she was a key member of his stylist team.

Sihyung, who got a job at a stylist team at a young age using her major, but by chance discovered her aptitude and ended up specializing only in Namer’s makeup, was a professional who kept her mouth shut and was especially reserved towards her employer, Yoo Hyun.

From his experience, she wasn’t the type to contact him privately.

If there was a work-related issue, she’d contact Sangjin or another road manager.

The only time she contacted him directly was when she needed to convey something she couldn’t share with her company’s road managers.

It was usually about schedules related to the Name phenomenon.

Even as he mentally racked his brain for something worth contacting him about at this very moment, in this unscheduled time, messages continued to pile up, signaling the urgency of the situation.

Yoo Hyun nervously pressed the message window.

[Oppa, I think you should check this.

Hurry up.]

What arrived next in that message were two links.

○  Miforisan @ME_FOR_REASON_

202x.10.1x ICN Departure PREVIEW

Our ‘Reason’ has gone crazy over the main and sub character statsㅠ

Take care and have a safe trip

#Mine #GoYooHyun #YooHyun #Reason #E-you #YooHyun #MINE

#DramaWhyNot #RewardVacation

@official_MINE

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10:27 AM · Oct 1x, 202X · via Twitter for Android

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It was a typical airport preview photo.

What was a bit unusual was that, unlike other previews, it wasn’t a departure for MAINE’s schedule.

Instead, Yoo Hyun was joining the cast for a reward vacation after a drama he starred in as a supporting role became an unexpected hit.

The photo from about ten months ago was still constantly updating its metrics.

This meant someone was constantly sharing and talking.

Feeling a sense of unease, but failing to find the problem, Yoo Hyun returned to the message window with Sihyung and clicked on the second link.

○  Eternally addicted @ecPb2zhSqpw

f*ck, E-yous please come to your senses.

‘Reason’ Sun-deok, who’s been addicted since debut, is giving signals like this

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12:03 AM · July 2x, 202X · via Twitter for iPhone

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He was urging people to leave the fandom with a very angry tone, along with the four airport preview photos he had just seen.

Yoo Hyun stared blankly at the screen, clueless, and clicked on the photo.

The full-screen version of the photo, unlike the original airport preview, contained a red circle that hadn’t been visible in the thumbnail.

“What is this….”

Yoo Hyun froze as he zoomed in on the part that the author had intended to display.

The reason why Sihyung had to contact him urgently.

“…Oh my god, this is crazy.”

It was a Name.

The day he had left the country was a vivid memory.

From the moment he opened his eyes to the moment he arrived at the departure gate, everything was perfect, and he couldn’t even imagine that anything bad could happen to him.

It was also the day he heard from Sihyung, who was scheduled to participate in the reward vacation, that a few days before departure, she couldn’t join due to personal reasons.

And when rumors spread that a certain actor had temporarily decided to retire after his imprinter was revealed, and he was constantly nagged by the CEO and Sangjin to be careful about managing his condition so his activities wouldn’t be affected by Name issues…

Looking back, it was a day when, despite sensing things were going slightly awry somewhere, he had been too excited and lazy, putting off his thoughts.

Yoo Hyun laid his phone face down on the bed and pressed his hand to his forehead.

He imagined fans and non-fans alike all pointing their fingers at him.

It made his hair stand on end.

What do I do about this…?

He looked at his phone vibrating like it was having a seizure while pressing the power button to dim the light.

Was it Sihyung?

Yoo Hyun hurriedly picked up the phone.

[I told you you’d regret it]

[I’ll give you one more chance]

[This is your last chance]

[Think carefully]

Yoo Hyun’s eyes, looking down at the screen, slowly sank.

“You crazy bastard, talking about chances.”

Pressing confirm to the prompt asking if he wanted to delete, he tossed it onto the bed, but no sooner had he done so than the phone vibrated.

How persistent it was—the vibration stopped briefly and then started again, several times.

Yoo Hyun, who had been determined to leave it until it ran out of battery, gritted his teeth.

He picked up the phone, determined to turn it off immediately, but when he saw the saved name on the screen, he gasped for air.

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