BREAKING NEWS]
“V1CE’s Jinwoo Caught in Secret Getaway with Foreign Crime Syndicate Leader?”
Photos leaked.
Hashtag: #JinwooCancelled
Fan war: On fire.
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Jinwoo stared at the screen in silence.
The cabin’s old radio hissed in the background. His phone now buzzed nonstop—calls from his manager, the agency, even his mother.
On the news: blurry photos of him kissing Sasha in the cabin. In his arms. Smiling like he meant it.
> “They know,” he whispered.
Sasha stepped beside him. Silent. Tense.
He saw the photos too.
And the headlines.
And the word criminal beside his name.
> “We have to go,” Sasha said, voice cold, sharp—like he’d snapped into his darker self.
Jinwoo didn’t move.
He felt numb.
“They’re going to bury me,” he murmured. “Not just my career. Me.”
Sasha grabbed his shoulder. “Then we burn them first.”
---
But it was too late.
By the time they reached the back exit of the cabin, three black cars had surrounded the area. Flashlights. Shouts. Agency security mixed with men Jinwoo didn’t recognize—but Sasha did.
“KGB,” he muttered. “F*cking snakes.”
Jinwoo turned to him. “You planned for this?”
“No. But I’m never surprised.”
---
Suddenly—
BANG.
A smoke bomb hit the ground. Panic. Screaming. Coughing.
Sasha shoved Jinwoo behind him, pulling out a gun, ready to end anyone who came too close.
“Get to the back,” he growled. “NOW.”
“I’m not leaving you—”
“I SAID GO!”
But before Jinwoo could move—he was grabbed.
Black cloth over his head. Arms restrained. Sasha roared his name—
> “JINWOO!!”
Then silence.
Darkness.
---
He woke up hours later.
Bright lights.
Agency boardroom.
Cameras.
Lawyers.
And across the room?
His manager, arms crossed.
“You’re going to apologize. Publicly,” they said. “We’ve already written the script. Say you were kidnapped. Drugged. Used. Cry, if you can.”
Jinwoo’s fists clenched.
“…And if I don’t?”
They leaned forward.
“We make him disappear.”
Bright lights.
Camera rolling.
A teleprompter blinking with the fake apology his agency typed out.
Jinwoo sat perfectly still.
Hair styled. Skin flawless. Outfit innocent.
They dressed him like a victim. Told him to cry. To beg the world to forgive him.
> “Say you were manipulated. Say it was all a misunderstanding. Say you’re sorry. Save yourself.”
Behind the glass, executives watched with dead eyes and fake concern.
They had no idea…
Jinwoo had already pressed record on his hidden phone.
---
The red light blinked.
Live.
The anchor nodded.
“Whenever you’re ready, Jinwoo-ssi.”
He stared into the camera.
Took a shaky breath.
Then… smiled.
But it wasn’t the smile they trained him for.
It was his.
> “I was told to lie to you today.”
Gasps. Someone in the room stood up.
> “They wanted me to tell you I was kidnapped. That I was drugged. That I was used by a foreign criminal.”
Jinwoo’s voice stayed calm. Sharp. Dangerous.
> “But the truth is… I ran.”
> “I left because this agency doesn’t care about people. Only profit. I left because I finally found someone who looked at me like I wasn’t a product.”
Security started toward him.
> “And if I disappear after this, you’ll know who did it.”
---
The screen went black.
Broadcast cut.
Screams behind the glass.
Executives shouting.
Phones ringing.
Too late.
The internet had already exploded.
> #FreeJinwoo
#ExposeV1CE
#WeBelieveJinwoo
And somewhere in the shadows of Seoul...
Sasha smirked, phone in hand.
> “That’s my boy.”
---
Back at the agency building, chaos spread. But Jinwoo?
He stood in the middle of it.
Free.
For the first time.
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