Time went by quickly. Before welcoming his first official university holiday, Kang Jin-Ho had to navigate through the campus festival, midterms, and the semester-end exams. Quite a few events happened along the way, too.

One of them was Kang Eun-Yeong steadily preparing for her debut. It was decided that she would debut as a solo artist, but the reason for that was a bit vague to tell—it could be because of her sudden transfer or everyone involved finding the idea of her joining another group troublesome. Still, she was quite talented and skilled, so the opinion of the management was that she should be able to carve out a decent solo career.

The conversation Kang Jin-Ho had back then went something like this…

“Debuting solo, is it?” Kang Jin-Ho tilted his head.

Kang Eun-Yeong nodded enthusiastically. “Yeah.”

“You'll be by yourself performing on stage?”

“Yeah, that's what debuting solo means! Code's director said I'm one of the most promising talents he has ever seen in a loooong while!”

Kang Jin-Ho rubbed his chin. "Hmm, that's unfortunate."

Kang Eun-Yeong was confused by his response. "Huh? What is?"

"If he's lying, then I feel sorry for the director trying to make you feel better. If not..."

"If he's telling the truth, then what?" Kang Eun-Yeong's eyes narrowed suspiciously.

“If he's not lying, I must express my condolences to the crumbling standard of the current pop music scene.”

“...Oppa?”

"Mm?" Kang Jin-Ho looked back at his younger sister.

Kang Eun-Yeong growled like an angry beast. "Let me hit you three times. Just three."

“...Hmm.”

"Uh-huh! A man shouldn't back away like that! Uh? Stop right there! Come back here, now! Hey!"

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The next event of note was Jo Gyu-Min transferring to a new post at Jaegyeong University. The original plan was for him to occupy the seat of Chief of Administration, but he vehemently opposed that idea after having his eyes opened to the greatness of doing nothing...