“Sorry.”

“Oh, n-no. I should be the one apologizing. If you’re not interested in being a singer, then you shouldn’t do it. The CEO said that if you aren’t interested, I shouldn’t push you. However, I find his words a bit weird; he’s not the type to easily let someone go.”

As Leaf stated, Kim Sunghyun, SH Entertainment’s CEO, typically wouldn’t let someone with great potential in the industry walk away. Of course, he wouldn’t exploit someone’s weakness to coerce them into doing what he wanted. If the person in question weren’t interested, regardless of the amount of urging, they would fail. Sunghyun was the type of person who’d mobilize himself, research everything to the extreme, and try to amaze and emotionally appeal to the other party through personal marketing. This was Sunghyun’s personality.

However, in Yongno’s case, Sunghyun was willing to give up. This was primarily because, through his own research and background check of Yongno, Sunghyun realized that Yongno wasn’t someone that could easily be swayed or approached. As the representative of a famous entertainment company protected by all kinds of influential people and national organizations,...