Chapter 644: Seoul Regional Preliminary (3)
"Ma'am. What you're saying here amounts to applying outside pressure to get Eun-Seo selected."
I addressed Han So-Ye not as a lawmaker's wife or as the actress Han So-Ye, but simply as Go Eun-Seo's mother. That gave me the grounds to drive her out of here.
At that moment, Han So-Ye turned and began speaking down to me. "Outside pressure? Did you just say I'm applying outside pressure?"
"Yes. You heard me correctly."
"Hah! Jung Yoon-Ho, you've really let success get to your head, haven't you? Who do you think you are, interrupting a conversation between adults?"
She gave me a contemptuous look, but I didn't blink as I replied. "I'm saying this for Eun-Seo's sake. If word gets out—whether through broadcast footage or staff rumors—that you met with production privately in the waiting room, it'll only hurt her."
"Oh, this is just unbelievable. Are you seriously trying to lecture me? I've been in this industry far longer than you, kid."
"Times have changed, ma'am."
Even in Global Producer 47, the show where I once pulled Kang Ha-Na out, the truth about vote manipulation eventually came to light before the regression. Other audition programs had been exposed too as well, and any form of manipulation eventually came out. And when it did, everyone involved took severe damage.
I couldn't let that happen to Project I.O.A. However, Han So-Ye had no intention of backing down and the room began to chill with tension.
Finally, Department Head Park Han-Jong cleared his throat and glanced at CP Kang Dae-Woong, telling him to step in and defuse the situation.
Kang Dae-Woong nodded and joined the conversation between us. "Mrs. Han. Let's stop here for now. Chief Jung isn't entirely wrong. This could easily be misunderstood."