Chapter 257: A Dating Rumor Only the Person Involved Doesn’t Know About (2)

[The Jin Sehyun Dating Rumor Is Basically Confirmed]

A sasaeng homepage master posted an exposé ㄷㄷㄷ

Apparently he uploaded a photo of a custom cake ordered for his girlfriend on his secret Stargram account storyㅋㅋㅋ

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* Is that really Jin Sehyun’s secret Stargram account?

└ Yeah, apparently it is. He’s insanely cautious with his personality and literally follows no one.

└ How did someone even find an account with 0 following and 0 followers ㄷㄷ

└ It got caught because it’s similar to Jin Sehyun’s game ID.

└ Damn, the person who found that is impressive too.

└ There’s still zero proof that it’s Jin Sehyun’s secret account. How do you know it’s not fabricated?

└ It’s probably real. The dessert shop owner posted a story.

└ ????

└ What does that mean?

* The dessert shop owner posted a close-friends-only story saying a celebrity ordered a cakeㅋㅋㅋ It didn’t seem malicious but the circumstances are a little…

└ Did they say it was for a girlfriend’s cake?

└ Nope, there was no mention of that. But it’s basically confirmed~ Just look at the cake design….

└ Do Hamster’s birthday is soon though. It could be a hamster birthday cakeㅋㅋㅋ How is it confirmed when nothing’s actually come out?

└ Look at the chefs desperately denying realityㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ That’s Do Hamster’s cake? If Do Seohan received that he’d probably bite his tongue???

└ Maybe Junseo or Ian could do that, but Jin Sehyun would never order something like that to give to Seohan…ㅎ

* He always bragged about having only fans and never dating and acting like he understood fans better than anyone, but he’s the first member to get a dating rumorㅋㅋㅋㅋ Sehyun, you’re good at searching right? Are you seeing this too?

└ Damn that hit the bone. Feels like it’ll fracture.

└ This is why you can’t believe in “fan-loving idols”ㅋㅋㅋㅋ If he really thought about the fans and members he wouldn’t be dating only two years into being a rookie.

└ Two years is way too early…. Ha…ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ I was already in the denial phase of becoming a fan. Should I just turn around and leave?

* Seeing that cake photo makes me uneasy…. It’s so pink that I can’t deny it….

└ “Thank you for being born (heart)” is legendaryㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ A fan-loving idol sweetly celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday~

└ But is the girlfriend a regular person?

└ Nobody knows anything right now….

└ Ugh I don’t know, this feels awful.

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Poke.

When he stabbed the sweet potato with his chopsticks, it slid in softly. He carefully pulled the foil-wrapped sweet potato out from the campfire.

“Ah, hot!”

Cha Seongbin panicked and tossed the sweet potato into the air.

He managed to catch it again, but it seemed hotter than expected, and a short scream rang out.

“AAAH!”

Beside him, Kang Siwoo was carefully peeling a nicely roasted potato.

“Here, eat.”

“I should dip it in salt.”

Seo Haim smiled brightly as she held the potato with both hands.

Hoo hoo. She blew on it to cool it down, but it was still a little too hot to bite into.

Roasting sweet potatoes over a campfire during a campfire gathering.

If he remembered correctly, it had been one of Seo Haim’s bucket list items.

The cold wind stung the tip of his nose as it brushed past his ears, but thanks to the warmth of the fire, it was manageable.

Leaning back against the frozen chair, he quietly gazed at the wide river flowing before them.

It was the peaceful scene he had long wished for.

However—

There was one person who couldn’t enjoy this leisure even after coming all the way here.

Jin Sehyun’s expression had looked strange for a while now. At first the members only glanced at him cautiously, but eventually they couldn’t hold back and asked.

“What’s wrong?”

“The public sentiment is… pretty uneasy.”

When Jin Sehyun had shown it earlier, they had checked the contents.

The claim had been so absurd that everyone just laughed it off, but apparently the community’s reaction was different.

“Huh? The reaction’s bad?”

“It’s completely savage.”

Love wasn’t a crime, but for rookie idols it practically was.

As someone who had just started rising, no one wanted to create something that could hold them back.

Especially not someone as sensitive to searching as Jin Sehyun.

“Do they at least say there’s evidence?”

“They said they saw a story from his secret Stargram account.”

Since Stargram was installed on his phone, it was only natural that he had private accounts that weren’t public.

However, Jin Sehyun wasn’t the type to cause trouble with that, so they thought there wouldn’t be any problem.

Jin Sehyun swallowed dryly and spoke.

“This account really is mine. I don’t know how they found it, but they got it exactly right.”

“What?”

“That’s really your account?”

Cha Seongbin asked with wide eyes. Jin Sehyun waved his hands quickly and added.

“But… I think the story post is edited. I’ve never uploaded anything.”

Given Jin Sehyun’s personality, there was no way he would create something that could be used against him.

Even if Doubles created an official account for him right now, he’d probably be cautious about it.

Since they all knew that, no one doubted his words.

Instead, they simply muttered with darkened expressions.

“They even thought of fabricating something like this….”

“Finding the account is impressive, but fabricating it is even more impressive.”

There were many strange people in the world. It wasn’t surprising since rumor accounts constantly created gossip to damage celebrities’ images.

But this case was a little different.

“But I know this person.”

It was a fairly famous sasaeng homepage master.

Since they followed every schedule, he recognized the face vaguely. Yet suddenly they had posted a fabricated exposé to stir people up.

Could it be—

Did they actually believe this was true?

For what reason?

“I don’t get it.”

“Same here.”

He pointed at the photo on the screen.

A custom strawberry cake with a pink base and generous whipped cream.

Seeing the message “Thank you for being born” carefully written on it, it was clearly someone’s birthday cake.

“Hyung, this cake photo is something they picked up somewhere too, right?”

There was no way Jin Sehyun would suddenly order a custom cake like this.

With that confident question, Jin Sehyun visibly hesitated.

“Th-that is….”

Jin Sehyun suddenly began stuttering.

Then—

He awkwardly spoke.

“The cake… I did order that.”

Huh?

What was that supposed to mean?

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[I will no longer run this account. I’ll delete it tonight. The evidence wasn’t fabricated by me, and the secret Stargram account really is Jin Sehyun’s… I don’t know who the cake owner is either so stop sending me DMs;;]

“Wow. Legendary.”

Dusty Lee Minha let out a sigh as she reread the short statement over and over again.

The person who had thrown a heavy stone into a quiet lake was now running away by deleting their account.

Because of that, her timeline had become complete chaos.

euium @euium294

So is Jin Sehyun dating or not? Is it enough as long as you leave the fandomㅋㅋㅋ

└ They said he is dating.

└ They said the evidence is everything already shown and told people to leave if they don’t want to believe itㅋㅋㅋ

bini＠by385uss

But someone even checked the name of the person who ordered the cake and it’s Jin Sehyun.

└ How the hell do people even find things like thisㅠㅠ

└ My head is spinning, I feel like I’m losing my mind

gyul @woein311

This is why people say not to consume sasaeng homepage masters. None of them are normal.

└ An idol dating in their second year isn’t normal either. That idol and those fansㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ Get lost.

└ Sasaengs aren’t normal in the first place, so why are you dragging the idol and fans into this?

Just reading it made her dizzy.

“This is a complete mess, a complete mess….”

Honestly, she didn’t know which parts were true.

Looking at the evidence, it didn’t seem entirely baseless—but she trusted Sehyun more.

Even if she could handle it herself, her Deokchin whose favorite member was Jin Sehyun looked so distressed that she felt she had to believe him.

Dusty Lee Minha spoke firmly.

“Hey, it’s all nonsense.”

“I don’t know… why is there never a quiet day?”

They had just finished promotions the other day, yet seeing the campfire blazing in her mind brought all sorts of thoughts.

Her Deokchin had been sighing repeatedly while answering phone calls.

“Sehyun is good at searching, so he’s definitely seen everything….”

“Right.”

“But they still haven’t exposed the secret account.”

Her friend chattered while imagining several possibilities.

“He might not have seen it yet… but if fans are misunderstanding, with Sehyun’s personality wouldn’t he try to explain something? Ah, I know. I’m asking for way too much, right?”

If artists responded to every small controversy like this, it would only exhaust them.

Besides, since they knew Doubles wouldn’t step in over something like this, the only option now was to wait for the dating rumor to die down.

“Ugh… please. Let it be fabricated…”

“Seriously. I hope the misunderstanding clears up soon….”

But neither of them knew then.

That the misunderstanding would be cleared up in a completely unexpected way.

“Wait. What’s this?”

Her friend’s voice trembled strangely as she checked something.

Then an unexpected sentence came out.

“Do Seohan’s birthday…?”

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“So, what happened was….”

Jin Sehyun swallowed dryly with an awkward face. Ha Junseo glanced at him and then slowly turned his head toward me.

“I already kind of figured it out.”

“What is it? What happened?”

Did this hyung seriously get a girlfriend?

But when would he even have time to get one?

Unless Jin Sehyun had forty-eight hours in a day, there was absolutely no time to meet someone with that brutal schedule.

“The owner of that cake is….”

So I calmly waited for the rest of Jin Sehyun’s words.

“It’s yours.”

That caught me off guard.

“Pardon?”

What?

“Well… the design is a bit like that, but… when I placed the custom order… I didn’t check it properly.”

“Pwahahaha! Seriously?”

“That custom cake you ordered was that one…?”

“Crazy.”

Cha Seongbin, who had been quietly listening, burst out laughing.

I frowned and tilted my head.

“What are you talking about?”

That pink ribbon… that cute whipped cream… and even the “Thank you for being born (heart)” message.

What part of that combination suggests it’s my cake…?

With a shocked face, I asked Jin Sehyun.

“Who chose the message?”

“That… I asked them to decide it.”

“Pardon?”

“I absolutely didn’t write it! Don’t misunderstand.”

Ahem.

Jin Sehyun cleared his throat and hurriedly explained.

“Our schedule was busy, you know. I asked them to make it omakase style… but when I said it was for a friend’s cake, they probably thought it was for a girlfriend….”

“That’s a huge misunderstanding.”

“A very thorough misunderstanding.”

It was such a thorough misunderstanding that even the fans were completely fooled….

Is this real?

Even the person receiving it had never once thought it would be theirs.

“In that sense, Seohan, happy birthday.”

“……”

“That cake is yours…!”

Jin Sehyun said with an awkward smile.

“Ah… I see….”

Well.

This was quite the awkward situation to respond to.

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