Free Web Novel[Is this VYNNIA content, or Lee Sion taking a lap around the neighborhood?]
"Fuck, I thought I clicked into the wrong YouTube channel.
Why is Lee Sion invading other people’s YouTube channels too?!"
⤷But honestly, it was fun, right?
⤷For real lol. Our girls’ content used to be sweetly boring, and just sprinkling in Lee Sion changes it this much?
⤷This is what MSG is! Super stimulating.
⤷But since when were Kaella and Lee Sion this close?
⤷They say they got close during Three Kingdoms, but I had no idea they were close enough to hang out in private too.
⤷If you watch the broadcast behind-the-scenes, Lee Sion just chatters away with everybody, whether they’re VYNNIA or LYNX.
This latest self-made VYNNIA content was setting ablaze a community famous for having a huge number of idol fans.
Unlike usual, when only fans talked about VYNNIA’s content, this one was drawing an unusually heated response.
"The Sion effect really is obvious. The views are especially high only on the episode Sion appeared in. It hasn’t even been a few days since it went up."
"Lee Sion is going to kill me···."
And as Raon read posts reacting that way, the back of the neck wasn’t just tightening anymore—now there was barely any strength left even in the fists.
A few days earlier, Lee Sion had gone out to casually film a YouTube content piece together with Kaella, the leader of VYNNIA, SY’s girl group.
-They said it’s just kind of a vlog feel.
-If it’s only that much, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything there that could make Miss Sion cause trouble. SY also gave us a lot of consideration during Three Kingdoms, so let’s cooperate with this one.
At first, Raon and Sanghyeok had been bothered by the fact that Iam’s secret weapon, Lee Sion, was appearing in a rival group’s content.
But once they heard about it, it was just ordinary content with the normal feel of spending a day off with a friend, and on top of that, there was the matter of Sion having caused chaos while dragging Kaella around on SY’s side too, so in the end they had no choice but to give permission willingly.
At the time, even though Lee Sion had caused what could definitely be called a major incident, they had let it slide without making a real issue of it out of consideration for their connection with Raon, because nothing good would come of KJ Entertainment acting petty.
However, as always, after seeing the exploits of Lee Sion, the hired thug of the variety world, who had gone off and wrecked somebody else’s content, the two of them regretted it desperately.
[Breaking! Iam member makes disparaging remarks about LYNX]
"(A screencap of Lee Sion pointing at a LYNX album in the album section and provoking them)
"LOL is it for real that she’s making fun of LYNX because their albums had the most copies left?"
⤷Lee Sion is insane lol. Aren’t LYNX fans saying anything?
⤷I think they let it slide because everybody knows Lee Sion and LYNX are close.
⤷Fans really have gotten a lot gentler lately. Back in the old days, LYNX fans would’ve already swarmed KJ Entertainment by now.
⤷They liked it, actually. After that scene aired, LYNX’s album sales went up even though promotions were over.
⤷Yeah, LYNX fans apparently swarmed Yeongdong Bookstore and cleaned out the LYNX albums. There were a ton of proof pics on Twitter.
⤷This too must be the grace of Great Sion.
They had told Lee Sion to just go film some content, and instead Sion came back after suddenly firing off a provocation at rival group LYNX, so KJ Entertainment had been in chaos for quite a while because of it.
-···I’m sorry, Taesu oppa.
-Raon, you’re not doing this on purpose, are you?
-I’m really not! This is so unfair!
-We’re the ones this is unfair to! We re-signed Ayeon for you and this is how you repay us, with a provocation?
From Park Taesu’s point of view, it must have felt like a bolt from the blue.
He had pushed through re-signing Ryu Ayeon at the company while overriding the objections of other executives, respecting Ayeon’s wishes and future, and then KJ Entertainment repaid that with a sudden provocation.
Of course, it hadn’t been KJ Entertainment but Lee Sion acting on a whim, yet if luck hadn’t turned that provocation into the miracle of the LYNX fandom rallying together and increasing album sales, it could easily have turned into something serious.
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[Do not insult my alma mater...]
"You think you would’ve beaten Lee Sion?
There’s a reason we called Sion the blue-eyed devil back then.
There was nowhere to eat near Sion’s school, so Sion climbed over the wall and came to our high school store asking us to buy food."
⤷So you lost a staring contest and got shaken down too?
⤷It wasn’t shaking us down. An elementary school kid looked up at us with sparkling eyes and asked for a piece of bread. How are you supposed to ignore that...?
⤷Jinseong High, you people really are the disgrace of high schoolers.
⤷That place is just a nerd school full of kids who only study, so it couldn’t be helped.
⤷From what I’m hearing from Lee Sion’s classmates, didn’t Sion already conquer Haan-dong back in middle school?
⤷That part is true.
After the things Lee Sion had said while walking around Haan-dong as if they were something to be proud of were broadcast, cross-checking online was steadily proving every last one of them to be true.
Which meant Jinseong High School, currently suffering the dishonorable humiliation of being known as the high schoolers who lost to an elementary school kid, was only the beginning.
-In Haan-dong, if you don’t know Lee Sion, you’re basically a spy.
-Kids from Cheolsan Elementary and Cheolsan Middle used to avoid any girl with long hair on sight.
-There were a ton of high school boys who tried hitting on Lee Sion and got thrown with a shoulder toss.
Testimony from Haan-dong residents kept pouring in about what on earth Lee Sion had been doing during school days.
Of course, if there was a problem, it was that most of those testimonies sounded, no matter how kindly you looked at them, less like stories about a girl idol and more like anecdotes you’d expect to see in one of those school-violence webtoons that had been popular lately.
It was definitely supposed to be VYNNIA’s self-made content showing the ordinary day-off vlog of a hot girl group idol, yet somewhere along the way it had turned into an expedition through the legends of Lee Sion.
-This is unfair, unfair!!! If everybody else keeps taking her away and using her, what are we supposed to live on!
Thanks to Lee Sion’s performance, VYNNIA’s content had not even been public for three full days before surpassing one million views and heading for two million.
And because of that, KJ Entertainment’s office building currently echoed with the howls of content team lead Hakyun.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the broadcasting bastards blinded by ratings had been plundering Lee Sion and her content, now even a rival group’s content team was stealing views too, and Hakyun was begging them to please stop the outflow of national wealth.
Raon was already having a hard enough time because of the trouble Sion had caused, and now had no mental bandwidth left because Hakyun had gone insane over view counts and had to be soothed down.
"But seriously, what are we supposed to do about this image?"
"By image··· do you perhaps mean the final scene?"
"Yes! I almost stormed SY for real! How could they broadcast that without editing it at all!"
What was drawing particularly intense attention in this content, moreover, was the scene at the very end.
[Lee Sion really is a legend]
Out of all the posts uploaded to the community, one in particular was exploding in views, comments, and upvotes.
This was the true culprit making Raon grab the back of the neck.
"If you think of it positively, doesn’t it actually fit really well with the feel of our next album?"
"···How in the world do you have to think positively to come up with that?"
"I think it’ll be fine. It’s Miss Sion, after all."
Still, Raon couldn’t quite bring herself to argue against Sanghyeok, who said in an absurdly calm tone that it would be fine because it was Lee Sion.
And that was
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"Boss, did you really get into group fights in high school too?"
"What a disrespectful thing to say, Im Wiyeon?"
"No! There are a ton of posts online by people saying they got hit by you, Boss!"
"I saw them too."
"Boss, you saw them too?"
"There was some nonsense rumor saying Yunkyung’s family was rich, so I corrected it in the comments and said not rich—filthy rich."
"Boss!"
During a short break in practice, Yunkyung came trotting over to my side and started chattering away.
And the topic of that chatter was none other than the VYNNIA self-made content that had gone up this time.
"What kind of neighborhood is Haan-dong that it got conquered by this scrub?"
"Lee Sion is good with fists, so I assume it was resolved by force."
"That’s right! Even a crocodile was no match for Sion unni, so there’s no way a human being could win!"
Before I knew it, the other members had gathered around me too and started throwing in their own comments one after another, but most of them were lies so close to malicious slander that I had no choice but to administer punishment.
"Ow! Use words! Lee Sion is hitting people!"
"It’s fine, Gahyeon unni. Anyone who insults Haan-dong isn’t a person."
"You insult me all the time for living in Seoul!"
"Yah!"
"Ow!"
Since Lee Gahyeon kept resisting to the bitter end, I jabbed the side again, and Gahyeon flailed arms and legs like a frog.
It was only after I used Gahyeon as a sacrificial offering like that that the members finally started looking away and pretending not to know anything, as though they had never said a word.
'Maybe I should’ve asked them to cut the last part a little.'
Still perched on top of Gahyeon’s back and poking the side, I fell for a moment into contemplation about the content I had filmed with Kaella the other day.
I hadn’t thought much of it while shooting, but seeing how PD Raon looked ready to kill me after the video went up, it seemed it must have contained something that really shouldn’t have aired.
I briefly thought back to what had happened then.
After leaving Yeongdong Bookstore and heading for Starbucks to grab some coffee, Kaella and I found a group of vicious-looking high school boys appearing in front of us.
Arrogantly, they were smoking in the alley and spitting all over the place.
-Sion, let’s just go···.
-If this were Seoul, maybe I could pretend I didn’t see it and walk past. But in Haan-dong, I can’t do that.
Kaella and the filming crew, after seeing them, suggested we just avoid them and go around, but there was no way I could accept that.
My hometown.
The last remaining utopia on earth. Haan-dong, a neighborhood on the level of a UNESCO natural and cultural heritage site—and in a place like that, minors were smoking and hocking spit everywhere.
If Master Ori Yi Wonik, the pride of Gwangmyeong City, famed in Joseon times as a righteous and incorrupt official, had seen this from the afterlife, tears would have fallen from the eyes.
-Isn’t that Lee Sion?
-I think Kaella’s with Sion too.
-Holy shit, awesome. This is my first time seeing a celebrity in real life.
Sure enough, maybe because they were so far gone in common sense that they dared smoke in my territory, Haan-dong, they didn’t cower even after seeing adults. Instead, they started snickering among themselves and threatening us.
-Are you filming us right now without even getting our permission?
-Isn’t that illegal? I should upload it to Insta.
-Take a picture with me. I want to brag to the guys that I’ve got connections to idols.
One of them swaggered toward me.
'I’ve grown too.'
Back in the old days, a kick would already have been flying, but Lee Sion, newly reborn as an idol, was different.
-Sion. Don’t people call entertainers public figures? Strictly speaking, that’s not the correct dictionary meaning, but it tells you how much influence entertainers actually have on society.
I remembered something CEO Kim Sanghyeok had once said to me, and because of that I had promised myself I would restrain violence unless the situation made it unavoidable.
Certainly, every time I saw little-kid fans saying they liked Iam after our debut, I had thought I needed to be a good example for them.
Unless the members were in danger the way they had been back in Shinyu days, using force rashly against some neighborhood punks would have been like slaughtering a chicken with an ox-cleaver.
I quickly scanned their school uniforms.
Anyang Technical High.
I’d crossed paths with those bastards a few times back in high school, but after the top dog at that school got broken by me, they had become hard to spot in Gwangmyeong for quite a while.
After that, I pulled out my phone.
-Yunseop, where are you?
-Noona! What’s going on? Why are you calling?
-I’m at the Starbucks by Haan Intersection. Where are you?
-We’re actually nearby already.
-Come over.
I called in my juniors.
What happened after that was very simple.
No sooner had my call ended than juniors came roaring in on motorcycles.
-Anyang Tech? Aren’t those Yeongho’s juniors?
-These little shits are crazy. Yeongho, you’re not letting them run around doing this in somebody else’s neighborhood too, are you?
-Noona, we’ll take care of this from here.
The moment they arrived, they instantly surrounded those punks and naturally started creating the sort of atmosphere you’d only expect at a school recycling dump, so I had a hard time making them restrain themselves.
After that, once I had a pleasant little consultation session with the now-polite delinquents—
-Starting now, each of you is collecting a hundred cigarette butts.
-How are we supposed to collect a hundred···.
-If you can’t collect them, then after I finish filming later, come see me separately. Together with Yeongho from your school.
-···.
The content for that day ended with all of us going around Haan Intersection with them, picking up cigarette butts and carrying out an environmental campaign to make Haan-dong clean.
[Iam and VYNNIA, idols with sense! Service content with teenagers]
"Iam member Lee Sion and VYNNIA member Kaella uploaded a YouTube content video on the 3rd in which they guided smoking teenagers and did volunteer work together, drawing attention.
Considering the influence of idols, netizens say the good deed···."
⤷Did that reporter actually watch the same thing I did?
⤷What I saw was the Haan-dong boss making people clean up Sion’s territory.
⤷KJ Entertainment is really trying to block out the sky with the palm of a hand!
⤷How much money did they get paid to fabricate a heartwarming story out of Haan-dong gangster Lee Sion’s episode?
⤷LOL the difference in those kids’ faces between the beginning, when they were smoking, and the end, after cleaning up, is so fucking funny.
⤷Lee Sion really is a legend.
"Kaella unni, what kind of bolt from the blue did you get hit with when you went to Haan-dong?"
"Jisoo liked it. Jisoo even said later Jisoo would introduce Sion to Jisoo’s own neighborhood too."
"The fact that Jisoo also became close with Lee Sion as soon as they met means Jisoo isn’t normal either."
No, Kaella—real name Lee Jisoo—had been grinning when we parted, apparently very satisfied with my Haan-dong tour.
The mood had turned a little ominous at the end, but Haan-dong was the kind of place you couldn’t help falling for once you visited it.
"That’s just how school days go. Once you fight once, everybody ends up becoming friends."
"No they do not!"
"Even Gahyeon unni sprawled out here right now—do you know how viciously Gahyeon fought with Kim Nayeon back in Class F when we first met? But now they get along just fine."
"You! I fought with you! You keep rewriting history! You staged a coup against me!"
Tsk.
I was starting to think Lee Gahyeon’s memory was slipping because Gahyeon was the oldest among us.
The Class F coup had plainly been led by Kim Nayeon, yet here Gahyeon was still trying to pin it on me.
Clack.
Just as I was about to jab Gahyeon in the side again to hear the proper truth, the practice room door opened and a familiar silhouette came into view.
"Lee Sion, were you bullying Gahyeon again?"
"PD, save me! Lee Sion was causing trouble again!"
"Tch."
Because of the things I’d pulled lately, PD Raon’s combat power had risen, so I had no choice but to let Gahyeon go.
Raon listened while patting Gahyeon on the back and soothing away the sense of injustice from being briefly released out of my grasp.
"Now it’s time to go into recording. Everybody, let’s move to the recording studio together."
Once Gahyeon seemed to have calmed down at least a little, Raon finally brought up the real point.
