Chapter 158

Chapter 158

Hwang Jun-Kyul stared at Woon, who read his comment and froze. If Siren had been filming a recorded show, Woon’s behavior wouldn't have caused problems, but they were filming a live broadcast. In this environment, people could catch every movement no matter how slight it was. Furthermore, anyone would’ve been suspicious of this strange pause.

Accordingly, the majority of the people in the chat box talked about Woon’s response.

—What is up with Woon’s response?

—Let’s just talk about Siren in their broadcast

—100% chance that he has something going on with Hwang Jun-Kyul

—I heard that they were close

Though it had been just a brief moment, people’s attention on it lasted. This was especially more so because of how often Hwang Jun-Kyul had talked about Lee Woon on live broadcasts. Those who were interested in either of the two knew that whether it was good or bad, there was something deeper going on.

Hwang Jun-Kyul quietly read through the comments. He thought he had only said good things about Woon. Though some people said that he sounded shady, he thought there was nothing bad he said overall in the end. Yet, when he quickly went to social media sites and looked through people’s responses, he realized that people’s responses were different from what he expected.

‘Was that not the case...?’ He was able to more objectively see how he had acted until now. Most people seemed to have caught on about his true feelings about Woon. Though Vision fans were claiming until the end that people were being too sensitive, Siren fans and even outsiders were rebuking Hwang Jun-Kyul.

—Hwang Jun-Kill did keep shading Lee Woon

—Maybe Lee Woon got beaten up by Hwang Jun-Kill too?

—I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this...whenever this guy talks about Lee Woon on his live broadcast, he sounds like he is trying to bring Lee Woon down

—Lol a gangster idol trying to leech off Siren somehow~

Hwang Jun-Kill was the nickname netizens gave Hwang Jun-Kyul after his assault case. And whenever Hwang Jun-Kyul wanted to assess the damage done to his reputation, he typed up this name from time to time.

‘Damn it....’ After going through these searches, Hwang Jun-Kyul realized that everything he said about Lee Woon until now had been accumulating as his karma and was about to blow up on him. He turned off his phone and computer and even locked his phone. He knew he couldn’t stop what would happen with just this, but...

‘...Fuck...’

It still gave him a little illusion that he could escape this situation somehow.

***

While Hwang Jun-Kyul was locking himself up in his room and Yoon Dong-Hyuk was drinking his troubles away and getting madly drunk, the internet was buzzing with stories about the two. It had been a while since their names were getting these many mentions after their short peak period right after their debut. Unfortunately for them, the responses they were getting now were the complete opposite from that time.

—Hey guys, we should just stop talking about Hwang Jun-Kill. That crazy guy has been talking shadily about Wo*n since the beginning of The Showcase 2

—I thought those guys were hella shady since their debut

—By the way Yoon Dong-Hy*k keeps mentioning Do-Se*ng on live broadcast, I’m completely certain something happened between them

Reply: Yeah; not just Hwang Jun-Ky*l but Yoon Copycat is a problem too. I guarantee he did something to Do-Se*ng

Reply: I just looked up the video and it’s true :0; that bastard keeps mentioning Do-Se*ng and stirring drama

—It’s hilarious how the two didn’t say a word about Wo*n and Do-Se*ng even though they were supposed to be so “close,” but now that S*ren debuted, they are mentioning our guys at every chance possible. Let’s keep using alternative names so that this doesn’t pop up on the searches. Don’t want S*ren members to trouble themselves with this

—Haa seriously, our poor babies

—No, our Woon...sad

The neutrality that had been barely maintained in place completely broke down and Hwang Jun-Kyul began to receive criticism from not just the Siren fans but everyone else. Another incident broke out on top of that then.

—After seeing the post below, I also gained the courage to make a post. I used to be YM Entertainment’s song-producing trainer

Another post with this title came up. The earlier post targeted Hwang Jun-Kyul while the latter post attacked Yoon Dong-Hyuk.

—At that time, Yoon Dong-Hyuk used his group of friends to bully Do-Seung and make him doubt his abilities as a song producer. Do-Seung went through a lot of emotional and mental turmoil in the process.

—I know it’s difficult to judge art forms, but as someone who teaches song-producing as a job, Do-Seung was far superior in terms of his song-producing skills compared to Yoon Dong-Hyuk. Do-Seung’s sense and understanding of instruments, melody, and so on were the most noticeable too.

The content of this post was simple. It was just that Yoon Dong-Hyuk used his group of friends to outcast Do-Seung. Yet, it went further to say that Yoon Dong-Hyuk had plagiarized Do-Seung’s song.

—In a place when the song-producing member of the debuting group had to be chosen, Yoon Dong-Hyuk brought a song that he plagiarized from Do-Seung. The song that Yoon Dong-Hyuk claimed to have written is one of the songs in Visions’ debut album. This is a demo that Do-Seung sent me so please make the judgments yourselves.

After claiming that Yoon Dong-Hyuk had plagiarized Do-Seung’s song, he provided related evidence. People heard the audio the song-producing trainer provided and heard Vision’s debut album’s songs and quickly made their judgments.

—What, he just copied the songs as it was...

—He made no effort to change it

—Did he really think he wouldn’t get caught?

—But Do-Seung didn’t even publish his song or anything so he probably couldn’t have sued for plagiarism :( It’s so frustrating

—Ha, this is so annoying

Yoon Dong-Hyuk’s and Do-Seung’s chorus was perfectly in sync. Besides a couple of details, the song was the same. This incident not only became a hot issue among idol fans but the rest of the public since the topic of plagiarism always garnered a lot of attention. Thus, the issue began to spread even in internet communities that mostly men used through Nutube shorts and TikTakTok videos.

—Hahaha there’s a guy who plagiarized a song in his trainee days haha

—How little talent does he have that he plagiarizes even in his trainee days?

—The person who he plagiarized from is also an idol?

—Yeah, someone named Kang Do-Seung

—But this guy named Kang Do-Seung must really be good?

—I’m a Practical Music student and he really is good at writing songs. His melody and details are insane. He’s one of the producers we often listen to while studying.

As the plagiarism issue became more famous, Do-Seung’s song-producing skills were highlighted as much. All of this led to more public attention towards Siren. This was the butterfly effect of Woon freezing for a moment after reading the chat box monitor.

—Hwang Wax and Yoon Plagiarism are screwed Haha

And thus, Hwang Jun-Kyul and Yoon Dong-Hyuk began to pay for their karma.New novel chapters are published on