Chapter 55. Are you familiar now?

uan, whose mood had improved recently, inexplicably felt a lump in his throat. Looking at the fans who gazed at them with hopeful and determined eyes, he couldn't tell if it was moved or weighed down...."Me Hehehe...."

Hearing this question, Chi Jingyuan laughed and shook his head. "To be honest... when I was in school, if I didn't bully others, they should have been laughing."

After he finished speaking, he said seriously: “I hate school violence very much. Even though I'm not someone who likes to interfere in other people's business, if something like this happens, I will take the initiative to stop it.”

It's a pity you weren't at my school back then.

Cui Xueli suddenly felt like talking. She pursed her lips, leaned against her arm, and looked out the window without really focusing on anything. Her voice was soft, like she was telling a story, as she spoke about her experiences.

"When I was in school, I was often bullied by my senior sisters. I don't know if it was because I looked cute or for some other reason, they really disliked me. They would constantly order me around and insult me. Once, when I resisted a little, they pressed my head into a bucket of water. That feeling of being choked by the water left a deep shadow on me, which is why I'm very afraid of water now."

"Later on, after so many years as a trainee, I didn't make many good friends. It had a lot to do with my own personality. Whether it was speaking or doing things, I often didn't consider other people's feelings. I just said what I wanted and did what I wanted, without caring if it would sometimes burden others..."

But one's personality is already formed and very difficult to change.

After debuting, it became even harder. It was difficult to find someone I could talk to and share my thoughts with. Everyone I met had a smiling face and seemed very enthusiastic, but who knows what they were really thinking There are some people I consider close friends, but even privately, I don't know how they talk about me...

Choi Seol-li's tone was flat, as if she wasn't talking about herself. However, Ji Kyeong-won could hear the sadness and some very complex emotions in her words.

He didn't speak, only listening quietly.

He now understands why Choi Soo-ri often exuded that sense of loneliness and disarray.

When she was a child, her life wasn't very happy. She was bullied and harassed, and she had few friends or close relatives. After growing up, she really hoped to have some sincere and close friends. Sadly, she also knew that her personality wasn't particularly good, so she didn't know who to trust and who not to trust.

She is a rather contradictory girl.

“I heard that the FX members are very close, and weren't you close with senior Jung Soo-jung before”

After silently listening to Choi Se-ri's self-pitying words, Ji Kyeong-won brewed in silence for a while before breaking the increasingly melancholic atmosphere.

"It's pretty good, but... how do I say this, it's somewhere between a colleague and a close friend. We get along really well normally, the older sisters take good care of me, but there are some things I can't bring myself to say..."

Hearing Ji Jingyuan's question, Cui Xueli also perked up. After some thought, she expressed her opinion.

Then she sighed again, as if remembering something from the past, her eyes losing focus a little: "Hye-gyeong's... before our debut, we were really close, we practiced together all the time, played together too, but that was all before we debuted."

“After a year or two of debuting, things started to feel different. We were both born in 1994 and had similar positions in the group. Even our plans for expanding into film and television were identical. I felt like we were competing with each other everywhere. The company has limited resources and it's impossible to treat everyone equally, so…”

"Even though we used to have a great relationship, there's not really any conflict now. It's just that we're not as close as we used to be, and sometimes things feel a bit awkward."

"I understand."

Chi Jingyuan nodded to indicate understanding.

Many idol group situations are similar, and considering EXO, it's easy for Ji-seong to understand Sulli's feelings.

After that, the two of them didn't say anything more. They leaned against either side of the window, quietly watching the scenery outside. Just by saying some of the things in their hearts, Choi Se-ri looked a little more relaxed than before.

Soon they arrived near the FX dormitory. As a popular group, fans and paparazzi were always stationed outside their dormitory, so they stopped a short distance away.

Then I'll go first.

Bye bye.

When it was time to say goodbye, Choi Se-ri seemed to come back to life. A lively smile returned to her face. After opening the car door, she didn't get out right away. Instead, halfway extending her leg, she turned her body, and in the darkness, her eyes were unusually bright. She smiled at Ji-gyeong with a mischievous twinkle.

"So, are we familiar now"

Ji Jingyuan also smiled, his eyes shining as he looked into the other's. He reached out a hand proactively: "What do you say"

“Hmph…” Choi Seol-ri’s expression was one of disdain, but she reached out and slapped her palm down hard, a smirk playing on her lips as she lightly hummed at Ji Kyeong-won. She then walked out, closed the car door, put on her mask, and stood there waving at him inside the car.

“………”

Ji Jingyuan chuckled lightly and shook his head. After Park Jae-hyun started the car, he still saw Choi Seolri standing in place, waving at the back of the car from the rearview mirror until she disappeared.

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Starting from the official release of the album on the 5th, this week is EXO's official first week of promotions for their comeback. Starting with the show "Shoion" on the 7th, they will be appearing on all music shows every day.

Yesterday finished recording M! Countdown, today it's Music Bank again.

When EXO arrived at the KBS parking lot in two vans and walked through the side door, fans who had been waiting there erupted in a deafening roar.

"Ahhhh, EXOEXOEXO!!"

"Yuanoppa look at me oppa! Ahhhh!"

"Annyeonghaseyo!"

A large crowd of fans stood densely packed in several formations at the KBS side entrance. Several pale yellow warning tapes cordoned them off on either side of the road, leaving only a gap of about one meter for the artists to walk through.

As soon as EXO arrived, the security personnel nearby immediately became tense. They were first startled by the deafening cheers and then quickly rushed to the edge of the crowd, watching the warning tape swaying precariously under the excited fans. Beads of sweat formed on their foreheads.

Many fans of idol groups have the habit of cheering for their idols when they go to and from recording music programs at TV stations, but it's usually not this many people, nor this crazy.

The pre-release stage for those few days in August was okay, but since the re-issue album “Growl” by EXO officially released on the 5th, after a few days of brewing, their first week of music show schedule officially began. Every time they went to and from television stations, it was a day of suffering for the staff and security guards.

Whenever there's a music show featuring EXO, the number of fans cheering outside the studio increases by several times compared to usual. Most of them are young students who get incredibly excited and lose control when they see their idols arrive.

At times like these, security personnel are always on high alert outside the fan gathering, fearing that something bad might happen.

Feeling the weight of the massive crowd beside him, the atmosphere was like a volcano about to erupt. Security guards wiped the sweat from their faces and muttered in their hearts, "Have these fans gone mad I didn't realize EXO had this much charm..."

"And, don't they have to work or go to school Aisy..."

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