“Yes, yes. Then let’s delay our meeting by an hour. Alright, understood.”

Dongwook hung up and sighed. One of the most frequent occurrences when doing interviews was delaying the interview just before the appointed time. In cases like this, it was always money that was the problem. The interviewee was probably undergoing an interview with another journalist at a different coffee shop right now.

“I guess it’s no good.”

Since it was clear that it was a scam, the social journalists would rush to get a piece of the pie as well, not just entertainment journalists.

“Hello? It’s been a long time. You haven’t changed your number, huh. I was just going to ask something. Did you guys put some people on Number 8? So you are moving after all. How about the other TV stations? They look like they’re busy as well? Alright, that’s how it is huh. Hey, do you have any useful news? Don’t be so cold. Hey, Hey.”

He had called a junior of his who still worked at a TV station but he got nothing. The guy that always followed him, calling him ‘senior’ had disappeared.

“Did you really have to cut off the lifeline of a freelancer like me?”

He scratched his head and got in his car. He messaged the person he was going to interview to cancel their interview. When he did, he immediately got a reply back saying that the person was available right now, but he simply ignored that text.

“You shouldn’t try to double-time me.”

He drove his car to Daechi-dong in Gangnam-gu. The president...