Chapter 177 (1/2)

Chapter 177: Chapter 174

After parting with Myunghoon, Hyunwoo met Jungah.

Jungah was in a cheerful mood in sharp contrast with Myunghoon. Though she was offered 30 million won in annual compensation, she gladly signed the contract.

“Sorry, I wish I could give you more, but our profits are not growing now. If all goes well in the days ahead, let me give you an increase in your salary.”

“Okay, Promise me 100 million won as a bonus. Hohoho,” said she, cracking a joke.

In fact, Hyunwoo wanted to.

And there was a real possibility for the rapid growth of Ani & Funny.

After having lunch with her, Hyunwoo walked with her on her campus and met with her friends at the animation club.

After spending several hours like that, he headed to Nami's condo, timed with Dukwoo's arrival there.

Dukwoo, who got there first, was already waiting for him at the entrance. Exchanging greetings, they waited for Nami, who soon joined them.

They walked up the stairs to her condo.

“Oh, this is your place,” said Dukwoo, looking inside here and there. Because of Taesu Ahn's close monitoring, she wouldn't let anybody in up to now.

Nami prepared tea for them.

Drinking tea, they discussed how to cope with Taesu.

Dukwoo expressed his opinion first, “Why don't you break the contract first?”

Nami went berserk at that, arguing that's nonsense. She said he could bring a lawsuit on compensation for damages, which could reach a colossal amount.

When she opposed, he came up with the next best solution.

“Okay. Let me go along with you wherever you go night and day. I can go to your shooting studio or anywhere else.”

“What about your company?” asked Nami.

“You're more important to me. Let me take my vacation until your contract expires.”

Nami grinned at that and said, “Do you think someone threatens to kill me? You don't have to go to the trouble of doing so. Just come to my office when I call you. That's enough. Actually, dating someone is a breach of the contract as I have to live on my image as an entertainer.”

Nami felt Dukwoo's idea was an excessive response, which she didn't need.

Actually, Hyunwoo rented a good house 10 minutes away from her condo, where Raymon was supposed to stay just in case he had to serve as her bodyguard.

Though Dukwoo might not trust Raymon that much, Hyunwoo felt rea.s.sured that Raymon would defend her.

“Well, I have to go now for the shooting schedule in the afternoon.”

Nami put on her clothes and stood up.

After she left, Hyunwoo and Dukwoo went to a place near Hongik University to see Raymon and his friends.

They were performing on the street, three black people and two Korean people singing and dancing.

There was a big crowd watching their pa.s.sionate performance, but the performance itself was not as good as Hyunwoo expected. There was a lack of harmony among the five performers, even though Raymon's husky voice and the other two black guys' high-pitched tones were impressive.

After their performance was over, Hyunwoo approached Raymon.

“Our animation production is getting delayed because of a big workload at the moment. Let me invite you to Ansan sooner or later, ” said Hyunwoo.

Waving his hand, however, Raymon said, “I'm alright. I've decided to stay in Korea until this fall. If I don't make a success by then, I'm going to go back to America. If you can call me by then, let me chip in.”

“Hope Nami Yu is in your good hands,” said Hyunwoo.

“No problem. You got me a good rental house anyway. If something happens, she said she would reach me right away.”

Having dinner together with him, Hyunwoo had lots of talk about music.

After dinner, Hyunoo went to his house in Hwasung, Suwon City. It seemed as if he got all the worries off his chest for now. Though he felt regrettable about Myunghoon's decision, that was something he couldn't do anything about. Koh made a legitimate decision for his own interests.

“Sure, all things did go well.”

Emptying his heart, Hyunwoo lay on the floor comfortably.

The next day, Hyunwoo's cell phone buzzed noisily.

It was a call from Dukwoo.

Hyunwoo felt his heart sank as Dukwoo called him only one day after they met.

Hyunwoo urgently took the phone.

“What should I do, brother? Taesu Ahn finally began to use the dirty trick…” said Dukwoo in an excited voice.

“What's the matter? What happened?”

“What? s.e.x video about Nami?”

“It's certainly not Nami in the video. It's just t.i.tled that way. Everybody thinks it's her s.e.x video.”

Hyunwoo opened the file he sent and confirmed it. The t.i.tle of that video was Nami.

The images of the video were pretty bad enough to identify the female face, but it looked like her in some respects. If someone argued it was Nami, they might think it was.

Dukwoo sent him several pictures, which showed Nami rus.h.i.+ng to a man and being wrapped in his arms.

Dukwoo cautiously said, “In fact, these pictures are a headache. There is rumor fast-spreading that the man in the picture was the same as the guy in the video…” he paltered, which was understandable. For Nami was wrapped in someone else's arms, not her boyfriend Dukwoo's, and the pics were real, not imaginary as in a film.

But Hyunwoo was not shaken by that. He obviously knew where it was, when the pictures were taken, and why Nami was wrapped in the guy's arms.