Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 148

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Chapter 148.

The album spoilers for StillBlue’s sudden rise were setting the internet ablaze.
It was heating up the internet.

The members participated in all the tracks on this album too.

StillBlue handled everything from composition and songwriting to art direction.

└Yeon Ju-hong, but it’s collaborative
└└Ah, I see. They’ve been showing up a lot in magazines and ads lately, so they have a real eye for it
StillBlue’s concept sounds adorable
The concept seems like it’s going to be super cute.

Paper Dol
Looking at how the costumes and props from their last album all came out as paper doll designs, it seems like the concept is doll idols
Sounds cute, it’ll suit the members well
It seems like it would be cute and go well with kids.

Yeah, there’s definitely some deeper meaning behind it lol. It’ll be fun to interpret. Hurry and give us the next clue..
Ryu Bora’s acting experience really shows
Ryu Bora’s acting chops really show through.

Apparently Ryu Bora filmed all of it herself
She seems interested in directing
It seems like you’re interested in directing.

Apparently she shot it with a used camcorder she bought herself
He said it was filmed with a used camcorder that he bought himself.

Just when things seemed to be going so smoothly in drawing reactions to the next album.

Ding!
Ding!
Ding!

News has come that made fans’ hearts skip a beat.

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Steel Blue’s Ryu Bora, the hottest new female idol these days, is perfect for dating.
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Ryu Bora’s dating rumor that lives up to her face value lolol I’ll clear it up for you right now
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Fan deceiver Ryu Bora?! Rookie male idol killer?
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Former actress, current idol? StillBlue’s Ryu Bora dating rumors are ongoing lol

It was, in fact.
A dating rumor exposed by OTube’s cyber smear campaign.

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A female idol who showed dating signs on her Star Instagram;;;; Is this even allowed?

In an instant, Ryu Bora’s dating rumors flooded every entertainment industry cyber smear channel.
Fans deliberately avoided watching to prevent boosting the view count.
But subscribers of those channels watched the videos and eagerly spread the rumors across communities and social media.

An idol who showed dating signs on Instagram? (Subject: Ryu Bora)

(Captured photo)
This is a post by Ryu Bora on StillBlue’s official StarStar account
You can see in the photo that she went to the West Coast
Night ocean
(Captured photo)
This is TerraByte Seung-do’s personal Instagram, who debuted in March last year
Posted just one day apart from Ryu Bora
Background is the West Coast night ocean
That’s not all
(Captured photo)
This is the dish Ryu Bora allegedly failed to make
If you look closely, it’s an egg dish
(Captured photo)
This is a message TerraByte Seung-do sent to fans on their public account that day
They said their stomach hurt because they ate a failed fried egg today
Besides that, the places they both went for volunteer work also overlap
(Captured photo)
Fans discovered this is TerraByte Seung-do’s secret StarStar account
And they’re following Ryu Bora..
There are also many overlapping outfits and accessories..

Wow, isn’t this completely obvious?
Who even is TerraByte… they’re such nobodies
How did they leave so many clues like this…???
Wow, this is really undeniable;;
Both are rookies, but they’ve got some nerve, haha.
??? Wait, is this even evidence…? By that logic, I’m also dating Ryu Bora
└Ugh, these fanatics are so delusional
└└No, I also went to the beach on the west coast and ate egg dishes, so he’s dating Ryu Bo-ra..????ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What proof is this?
└└└Haha then you believe so hard~~

The fans were dumbfounded by the evidence that the antis and trolls were presenting.
The evidence they had gathered was far too flimsy, and anyone could see it was just forced connections.
Fans who were initially shocked began to grow angry.

Why is following Ryu Bora on a secret account evidence of dating

By that logic, do the 100,000 Ryu Bora fans already have her married off?
Even more so, that male idol’s secondary account is following 712 celebrities
Shouldn’t the celebrities who didn’t get followed feel left out?????

Right? Like, it’s not even mutual follow-backs, one person just did it one-sidedly?????
And where’s the actual proof that it’s really that male idol’s secondary account? When we ask for evidence, there’s no evidence, just “believe us”

The fans worked hard to refute that the evidence spread by the trolls was false.
But no one believed the refutations denying the dating rumor.
In the first place, because the evidence for the dating rumor was so flimsy, people were being stubborn, saying the content refuting it wasn’t conclusive.

TerraByte Seung-do StillBlue Ryu Bora Dating Rumor Evidence

Food that Ryu Bora always says she likes the most: salad
Even fans can’t deny this
And TerraByte Seung-do’s SNS from yesterday
(photo)
She said she’s trying to get used to eating salad lol

Lol, only Ryu Bora’s fans are crazy.

She pretends to be such a devoted fan, but behind the scenes she’s just dating lol

As the fans spent days feeling frustrated, they gradually sensed something was off.
Not a single paparazzi photo of the two together had surfaced.
Why did this dating rumor suddenly explode like crazy?
And it’s not just anyone—it’s ‘that’ Ryu Bora.
A professional idol, and StillBlue, famous for having zero connection with male celebrities, would really be this obvious about dating?
Gradually, the fans began digging deeper into the truth.

But something seems off about TerraByte’s Entertainment Company

I thought they were a new company since TerraByte was their only group
But the Entertainment Company president is… that MidBless president who used to torment his idols over settlement scandals

Wow, that president who spread rumors about the artists who left after breaking contracts..?
└ㅇㅇ… He is a person who harassed the singers of his agency through media play… He just changed the name of his agency.
TerraByte Dating Rumor Something Suspicious

Look at the timeline of all the evidence they’re claiming proves the dating rumor.
Every single piece was posted by Ryu Bora first, and then Seung-do posted things afterward…
And the timing is always just one or two days apart…
Seung-do has never posted anything first, not even once.
It’s like she deliberately posted to spread the dating rumor…

Seriously?
Wait, that CEO is super famous though…
Could it be intentional…?? To draw attention…?
But honestly, I barely know that male idol;;; I was shocked, but is he really trying to build recognition this way?

This evidence was devastatingly powerful.
The Entertainment Company’s CEO had a history with more than one or two idols and entertainers.
As the Entertainment Company’s name became synonymous with a blacklist, people’s suspicions began to amplify.
Just as people were beginning to see the truth, in that very moment.
The other side’s desperation intensified.

[StillBlue’s Ryu Bora in a relationship? Her partner is rookie idol ‘TerraByte’s Seung-do]
[These days rookies love hot and heavy… StillBlue Ryu Bora♥TerraByte Seung-do]
[Rookie idols date too ‘StillBlue Ryu Bora’, dating rumor?!]

They began officially cementing the dating rumor by releasing articles.
Until now, it had only circulated on some SNS and community forums.
Now it had completely surfaced into the public eye.
The power of articles was formidable.
Public opinion, which had been dying down, began to boil over once more.
Until now, it was merely a rumor lurking in the shadows, so Colors hadn’t particularly responded.
They knew there was nothing to gain from addressing every single rumor like this.
It would only feed the trolls.
But now articles had been published.
A concerted effort to establish the dating rumor as fact.
And simultaneously, an effort to prove the absurd dating rumor was false.
Where did StillBlue stand in all this?

“I’m going to find out who this bastard is and see his face right now…!”

I was holding back Ryu Bora, who looked ready to march over and destroy the Entertainment Company in question.

“Bora, Bora. We can’t have this on the front page of the company news.”
“Unnie, please hold back! It’s natural to be angry, but violence will cause serious trouble…!”
“Get rid of everything so Bora doesn’t get a weapon in her hands! Get rid of it all!”
“Let me go. I’m setting that Entertainment Company on fire right now.”

Ryu Bora appeared calm most of the time, but she absolutely refused to tolerate something like this.
I’d barely managed to endure the rumors circulating in the shadows all this time, and now they were making it official.
From Ryu Bora’s perspective, there was no way she wouldn’t be furious.
Knowing this, the members each grabbed one of Ryu Bora’s limbs to restrain her.

“B-Bora….”

After hours of struggle.
The members, who had barely managed to calm Ryu Bora down, were still holding onto her arms and legs.
Who knew when she might bolt out and cause trouble…!

“I won’t go out, so let me go.”
“You really won’t go out?”
“I said I won’t.”

S-so scary….
The members trembled as they carefully released Ryu Bora.

“What’s the Company saying?”

Ryu Bora spoke to me in a voice barely containing her rage.

“For now, we’re planning to completely deny the dating rumor.”
“But what if the other side insists the dating rumor is true? It looks like a deliberately fabricated rumor from the start anyway.”

In truth, we were cautious in our response because that scenario was the most troublesome for us.
It was obvious that the other Entertainment Company was trying to build recognition by using Ryu Bora.
After the dating rumor broke, many people said they learned about TerraByte for the first time.
Since Ryu Bora was the one who had built recognition the longest among us, it seemed they deliberately targeted her.
It’s hard to find someone in Korea who doesn’t know Ryu Bora, after all.

“We need to prove that this dating rumor absolutely cannot be true.”
“So how do we do that?”
“Don’t worry. I’ll handle it.”

I handed the tablet PC to Ryu Bora.
The PC containing the solution.

“…When exactly did you all start preparing this?”

Ryu Bora stared at us with wide eyes, even forgetting that she was angry.

“We didn’t really prepare anything special. We just each looked into things on our own… and somehow it all became evidence.”
“This doesn’t seem like something you prepared in just a day or two…”
“We’ve been digging through everything meticulously since the rumors first started, so don’t worry!”

We patted Ryu Bora’s shoulder.
Not just me—all the members looked at each other with determined eyes.
No one said it out loud.
But truthfully, we were all angrier than anyone else.
We found out before Ryu Bora did.
So we were angry first.
And we were ready to fight first.

“The company won’t stay silent, and neither will we.”

Let’s turn the tables and make them regret it.
We’re genuinely angry for the first time in a long while.

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