An Idol's Scandal

Chapter 4: The Concert

In the morning, three days before DXD's concert, Dispatch revealed to the netizens about Sunoo's poor condition. A prediction was made that he will be unable to perform in DXD's concert in China.

 Frustration, exhaustion, and contempt were all over the media regarding Diversi5. XD all over the world expressed their concerns and sympathy for Sunoo through DXD fan-café and letters (which they had intruded the security to send into DXD's accommodation address in China). Within the things Sunoo's fans sent him, some asked why all of this happened, why Sooyoung was in an affair, why haven't Sunoo broken up with her, why haven't Sunoo done anything yet.

"Gah!" Screamed Sunoo as he punched the wall.

"Sunoo-hyung! Please, don't!" Se Hwan rushed to the older man and hugged him, preventing him from further destroying his knuckles.

The scream startled the other DXD members. They rushed to Sunoo and Se Hwan's hotel room, scared that Sunoo might have done some things out of recklessness. When Se Hwan unlocked the door to let them in, the DXD members saw their youngest member sobbing and Sunoo laid on the bed, covering his eyes with his arm.

"Sunoo, Sunoo?" Minjun sat on the bed next to him.

"I don't know what to do, hyung. I really don't know what to do. Our fans are worried, Band PD-nim is facing the disturbance of our fans and is struggling to answer the press's skeptics, we can't even perform as a complete band, and it's all, it's all..." Sunoo choked in his voice.

"We're not blaming you. It's not your fault. You're gonna do fine, Sunoo." Said Seungkwan.

"If it's not my fault, then I should be blaming her, shouldn't I? Sooyoung this. Sooyoung that. Sooyoung! I don't understand her. I really don't. And what's worse, I can't do anything. I can't help PD-nim, I can't help us, I can't even get a grip of myself!" Sunoo sobbed.

"If only, if only she didn't exist. If only she wasn't trash enough to carelessly fly to China. If only she wasn't greedy to get fame through this, through such an undignified way, but I don't wanna- I don't wanna..." He gritted his teeth.

"Sunoo, stop blaming on Sooyoung." Yoonsu warned: "We don't know this for sure yet."

"We don't know this for sure? Have you lost your mind? The entire world knows for sure that she was the one who started this mess!" Shrieked Sunoo. 

Yoonsu could not retorted back and stayed silent instead.

"I don't, I really don't know what to do." Sunoo chuckled bitterly.

DXD knew they were in a desperate situation. They were cornered. They were unable to do the things they knew they can do.

The next day was the rehearsal day, but unlike any of the previous rehearsals, Yoonsu did not make dad jokes and Se Hwan did not bug any of his older members. The atmosphere was hard to breathe for all of them.

Just before Sunoo's planned solo performance, a filming staff member approached him and said: "There's something urgent I need you to listen to."

"What's going on?" Minho appeared from behind Sunoo.

"We've found a doctor that can speed up your recovery. It's quick enough for you to perform at the concert. We need to go. Now." He emphasized.

Sunoo's heart skipped a beat, and so did Minho's, but they were suspicious of the staff member. Nonetheless, time was running short and for Sunoo, it's his last hope. Minho frowned but when he looked at the gleam of light in Sunoo's eyes, he no longer hesitated.

"Let's go." Minho followed the man.

The concert was a huge success. It was one that held a spectacular memory in both DXD and XD's minds. Despite the articles about Sunoo's poor health conditions, DXD was able to perform as a complete group.

" XD, ****! **!" Yelled Sunoo in his foreign accent. Out of all the members, Sunoo was the most satisfied one. He danced and sang. They had finished their concert in bliss, and Bang PD-nim was no longer stressed out. Everything was indeed a miracle, a treasure found amidst potholes.

"Woo hoo!" Minjun beamed as he freestyled across the stage when their album track Answer: Love Myself was playing.

"You show me, I have reasons, I should have love myself!" Yoonsu sang beautifully as he cheekily pointed to Sunoo.

"Oh oh oh!" Se Hwan wrapped his arm around Sunoo's shoulder.

After their performance, the DXD member received a celebratory call from Bang PD-nim. The staff members congratulated the DXD members, and as a gift for supporting them, Sunoo paid for the dinner DXD had with their staff members. That evening was a blast for everyone. XD was happy, BigHit was happy, DXD was happy, and Sunoo had the wildest recovery in his life.

When the days of the concert held in China ended, DXD had one day left to stay there. When Sunoo was about to scold Se Hwan for playing Overwatch the whole night, Minho and Yoonsu knocked on the door. They both wear solemn looks. Sunoo nodded and locked the door after they entered the room.

"Don't you think it's strange?" Minho asked.

"I thought so too." Sunoo agreed with Minho. "I don't think it's as easy as it seems."

"What's not as easy as it seems?" Se Hwan asked, suddenly jumping into the conversation.

"Remember I had to take 7 injections in my throat to speed up my recovery? And that it was a filming staff member that ushered Minho and I to that private hospital?" Sunoo reminded him. Se Hwan nodded.

Sunoo then continued: "What's strange, is that it was a filming staff member. How many filming staff members you know that can sing?"

"No one." Se Hwan still looked confused.

"Exactly. None." Smirked Minho.

It's exactly because usually, there would be no filming staff member that knows how to sing that sparked their curiosity. Why in the world would a staff member know of a doctor that knows how to treat a singer's throat just in time for their concert? And to top it up, it is a Korean filming staff member who knows the right doctor in this huge country, China.

"Se Hwan, I need to go somewhere with Minho-hyung and Yoonsu-hyung. You wanna come too? Minjun-hyung and Hanbin-hyung are busy with producing, anyway."

"Nah! I'm teaming up with Seungkwan. We needa finish this battle." Said Se Hwan before he flipped on his back and continued with his game. Sunoo rolled his eyes.

When Yoonsu, Minho, and Sunoo arrived the private hospital that Sunoo took his shots in, they were troubled by a lengthy queue of people, which was contradicting the image of the empty halls the hospital had when Sunoo and Minho first came. The three quickly figured out that the press must have taken captures of them entering this hospital from before, hence, more patients have gravitated toward the hospital.

"***！******. ******* of the way!" Screamed Yoonsu in his broken Chinese as he pushed through the crowd.

Pfft. Minho and Sunoo covered their mouths. They looked at anywhere but the person in front of them. As much as it is embarrassing, Yoonsu's method was a huge success. A fan at the beginning of the line who recognized them, allowed them to go in her place and insisted that she can just wait at the end of the line. In return, Yoonsu took out his mini XD bomb and signed her backpack, which almost caused the girl to faint when her bias did that.

When they meet the doctor from the other day, he gladly greeted them and asked what made them visit him again.

"Actually, we've come with a different purpose. We want to know the person who booked the appointment we had with you." Said Minho.

"I'm afraid I don't have the right to tell you. The person insisted so." The doctor smiled.

"Can you at least hint us where the person is?" asked Sunoo, however, the doctor only shook his head and escorted them outside of his office room for the next patient to come in.

Minho had to go to the bathroom and left two of his members outside in the hallways. As Yoonsu and Sunoo were waiting, they contemplated any possible candidate that was behind the help he received. 

Yoonsu thought: "The person was too nice to pay for 7 expensive injections."

"It might have been someone we know, maybe, BangPD-nim?" Sunoo suggested.

"It's not him. I've hinted a couple of times about it but he seems clueless." Yoonsu grumbled.

"How about our manager- Ow!"

"Oh my God, I'm, so, so sorry!" Apologized the nurse.

The clash between the rushing nurse and Sunoo caused the documents in her hands dropped on the floor. Both Sunoo and Yoonsu crouched down to help her organize them in order again. When Yoonsu took hold of a document, his face darkened. Sunoo, who found the change on his face, leaned forward to him and read the document on Yoonsu's hand. His eyes widened.

"Oh My God!" The nurse yelped. She clutched the documents tight to her chest at the sight of the taller man punching the shorter one.

Yoonsu did not stop there. He jumped onto Sunoo, threw all the paper in his hand, and started to hit Sunoo with his fists. It was only when Minho came out from the bathroom and pulled Yoonsu away from Sunoo that the violence stopped.

"Guys, what happened?" Minho frowned at the frigidity in Yoonsu's eyes and the silence Sunoo was keeping to himself. "Why are you making a mess in public like this? And what's this? Why is that document in your hand, Yoonsu-hyung?"

Minho approached Yoonsu and took a look at the sheet of paper Yoonsu was tightly gripping after the fight. A row of small bold words caught his eyes and it read: KIM SOOYOUNG.