Chapter 436
“I’m going to rewrite the song.”
That day, the moment we got back to the dorm, Kang Ichae dropped a bomb.
Before anyone could even react, he’d already taken refuge in the workroom, and afterward, as soon as schedules ended, he disappeared again without a trace.
Even when we tried hovering around offering help just to make small talk, Ichae would smile faintly and put up a wall, saying he was fine. For those of us who knew his usual personality, it was deeply unsettling. But seeing how tense he seemed, no one dared to touch the subject lightly.
I also decided it wasn’t right to press him without evidence, so I limited myself to quietly checking his progress from time to time and otherwise left him alone.
Instead, I decided to use that short gap to confirm something that had been bothering me for a while.
‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this.’
Strangely enough, every time we filmed a survival program, some sort of trouble would hit all at once as if it had been waiting for us. Especially the incident during Shining Star Season 2, when Seo Hojin collapsed—just remembering it made my teeth clench.
If everything that had happened until now was mere coincidence, that would’ve been nice.
‘But there’s no way.’
Just as my KakaoTaxi pulled up at the entrance of Hojin’s apartment complex, I spotted him crouched beside a flower bed. Getting out of the car, I approached, but he didn’t notice me at all, head bowed low.
“Hey.”