Chapter 20 - We Should Talk Over There
“Mmph...!”
PD Seo Dong-cheol let out a low groan.
The composure disappeared from his face, and his expression became stiff.
His mood had become displeased because his wrist was suddenly twisted.
The people around also noticed the atmosphere and turned pale.
Seo Dong-cheol, the real power of the TVX Variety Bureau, is a man who treats everyone kindly on the surface but is endlessly cold once he turns his back.
A mere road manager made such a person's mood displeased?
Everyone couldn't help but think that a huge problem had occurred.
However, Baek Hyeon-woo was composed.
He shook Seo Dong-cheol's arm up and down and twisted his wrist a few times.
“It's all done now.”
“What did you just do...”
“Try moving it up and down once.”
“……”
Seo Dong-cheol slightly frowned and moved his right wrist.
Right after that, Seo Dong-cheol's expression changed.
“Huh...?”
This can't be.
With an expression that seemed to say as much, Seo Dong-cheol moved his wrist this way and that.
“What, why is it so smooth...”
“It should be fine for a while.”
“No, how...”
Seo Dong-cheol was unable to complete his sentence and stared at Baek Hyeon-woo.
“What did you just do? I've been suffering all this time, how in just one moment...”
“Seo PD-nim!”
At that moment, there was someone running over while calling for Seo Dong-cheol.
“You have to go to the meeting room now! You need to move!”
“Ah, my mind!”
It seemed he had stopped by the studio for a moment on his way to attend a meeting.
Seo Dong-cheol checked his wristwatch and showed a look of difficulty.
“Well, this is... Ah, could you give me a business card?”
The surroundings stirred.
Whispering sounds of 'PD Seo Dong-cheol is asking a manager for a business card?' could be heard.
“I'm sorry.”
However, Baek Hyeon-woo offered words of apology.
“I'm still an apprentice, so I don't have a business card.”
“What?”
He's not even an official manager, and he did such an impulsive thing to PD Seo Dong-cheol?
The surroundings stirred even more.
“Seo PD-nim, if you don't leave right now...”
“Tsk, I get it.”
Being urged, Seo Dong-cheol clicked his tongue and looked at Baek Hyeon-woo's face.
“You said Haram Entertainment, right? Let's talk again next time.”
“Yes, I'll see you next time.”
In the end, Seo Dong-cheol left.
Then, the gazes became focused solely on Baek Hyeon-woo, who was left behind.
“Wh-What on earth are you?”
Bolero Da-hee's dedicated manager spoke to Baek Hyeon-woo.
“What did you do? You just grabbed his arm and shook it up and down...”
“It's because I've studied this kind of field.”
“Studied...?”
As Baek Hyeon-woo didn't provide any further explanation, he made a slightly annoyed expression.
“I guess you must have learned sports medicine somewhere?”
“Well, something similar.”
“But don't think you've gotten on Seo PD-nim's good side just with this. Because he's a person who becomes endlessly cold once he turns his back.”
I wonder if the dedicated idol and the manager have similar personalities.
Like Da-hee's attitude towards Kanade, he could feel the ill will mixed with jealousy.
“The part about talking again next time was probably just lip service.”
“That may be so.”
Baek Hyeon-woo retorted with a composed attitude.
“However, you never know what will happen.”
“Huh?”
Leaving behind the people making puzzled expressions, Baek Hyeon-woo took Kanade and left the site.
***
On the way down to the parking lot.
Baek Hyeon-woo felt a hand poking his side.
“Th-That was cool just now.”
Kanade was repeatedly poking Baek Hyeon-woo and smiling with excitement.
“When you just left abruptly as if you weren't going to deal with him anymore, Manager-nim, Da-hee unnie's manager was staring while trembling with anger. He had the complete look of a dog that had been chasing a chicken.”
“That proverb is not used in a situation like this.”
“Eh? Then what do you say? Anyway, it was a gaze filled with immense humiliation.”
Kanade had a very gratified expression.
Whatever she might say, it seemed she still had some bad feelings toward Da-hee's side.
“And what did you do to the PD-nim earlier? You were shaking his arm up and down, can just that heal a sore wrist?”
“Shaking his arm up and down was to secure space between the wrist bones.”
“Space between the bones?”
“Because I was adjusting the wrist bones.”
To people watching from the side, it probably looked as if Baek Hyeon-woo was just shaking his arm up and down.
However, in reality, he was adjusting the wrist bones while holding the wrist.
“Do you know how many wrist bones there are?”
“W-Wrist bones?”
Kanade touched her own wrist and tilted her head in confusion.
“Three...?”
“There are eight.”
“There are that many?”
“And two arm bones are also interlocked with the wrist bones. In total, it's a complex structure where ten bones are connected.”
The elbow or shoulder joints are composed of just three bones.
But since the wrist joint is composed of ten bones, it's a much more complex structure.
If you also consider the five metacarpal bones connected to the wrist bones, it becomes even more complex.
“If these bones are even slightly misaligned, they hinder the movement of the muscles or ligaments, causing discomfort.”
“Ah, so then...”
“Seo PD-nim was in a state where his wrist bones were misaligned like that.”
It seemed Seo Dong-cheol had been continuously receiving anti-inflammatory painkillers and electro-physical therapy.
However, it doesn't improve with that kind of treatment.
Because there's no way a misaligned bone will return to its original position just by taking medicine or passing a low-frequency current through it.
“In cases like that, you have to apply direct force to the wrist and perform a correction. It's a type of manual therapy.”
When Baek Hyeon-woo examined it by touch earlier, it was misaligned in a pattern common to wrist sprain patients.
Because he had seen many such patients over the years, he was able to correct it right on the spot.
After securing space between the bones by holding the wrist and shaking the arm up and down, you just have to apply a momentary force to the bone you intend to correct.
On the outside, it looks like you're just playfully pulling the arm, but in reality, it's not something just anyone can do.
It was an advanced technique only possible for someone who has a perfect understanding of the anatomical structure and has personally touched many patients.
“It depends on the patient, but if it works properly, the effect appears right on the spot.”
“Wow…”
Kanade was in awe.
“Manager-nim, your skills are truly amazing. I respect you.”
“Respect is a bit much...”
“Since your skills are so amazing, your treatment at the hospital must have been great.”
“It wasn't really like that.”
In fact, when Baek Hyeon-woo treated patients like this, the hospital side didn't really like it.
This was because on the outside, it was a really simple treatment, so it was difficult to charge the patient additional treatment fees.
It was more profitable for the hospital side to just have them consistently visit the hospital and get treated for months with only anti-inflammatory painkillers and electro-physical therapy.
You could call it the bitter reality of the medical world.
“If the treatment at the hospital had been good, I wouldn't have bothered coming to the entertainment industry.”
“Ah, is that so...”
At that, Kanade grabbed the hem of Baek Hyeon-woo's clothes.
“Then you won't be going back to the hospital and will stay in the entertainment industry?”
“For now, that's the plan.”
“Ehehe… that's a relief.”
Kanade laughed with a happy expression.
“In my opinion too, it seems you have an aptitude for this field, Manager-nim! You just fixed Seo PD-nim in one go and gained his favor! Now, through Seo PD-nim, work from TVX will come flooding in like...”
“That's not it.”
Baek Hyeon-woo corrected Kanade.
“Seo PD-nim, he'll be in pain again soon.”
“What?”
“Because it's rare for a condition to be completely cured with just one correction.”
The human body has the property of trying to return to its original state.
Even if you apply an artificial force to correct it, after sleeping one night, it goes back to its original state.
“He'll probably be in pain again by tomorrow morning.”
“R-Really? Then isn't it pretty much useless?”
“Not so. If you treat it repeatedly, the time it's maintained for increases, and eventually, it's completely cured.”
“Ah, then... shouldn't you make a separate appointment and tell him to get treated again?”
“No.”
Baek Hyeon-woo shook his head.
And he said with a smile.
“The talking should be done from that side.”
***
Haram Entertainment in the morning.
Park Yeong-ho, who had been sitting anxiously in the office, shot up to his feet as soon as Baek Hyeon-woo came to work.
“Hyeon-woo-ssi, did you do something strange at TVX yesterday?”
“Something strange?”
“I mean to PD Seo Dong-cheol.”
Looking at Baek Hyeon-woo's composed expression, Park Yeong-ho asked with a frustrated heart.
“I heard from another company's manager... that you grabbed PD Seo Dong-cheol as he was about to leave and just shook his arm?”
“Something similar did happen.”
“Ah, seriously...”
At Baek Hyeon-woo's answer, Park Yeong-ho let out a deep sigh.
“Hyeon-woo-ssi, I told you last time. Not to make a mistake in front of PD Seo Dong-cheol.”
Until now, Park Yeong-ho had thought pretty well of Baek Hyeon-woo.
Because his personality was calm, and he seemed to handle work smartly.
That's why he sent Baek Hyeon-woo alone to the 'Idol Weekly' recording too.
Because he believed that even if he sent him alone, he would handle things well on his own.
But to think that he would cause this kind of trouble, of all things.
“Do you know how many programs the Seo Dong-cheol Division is preparing right now? It would be a huge hit to secure just one spot among them, but at this rate...”
Park Yeong-ho had been tirelessly trying to build connections with the production staff under Seo Dong-cheol.
Even if it was difficult to build a connection with Seo Dong-cheol himself, if he made connections with the sub-PDs under him, he might be able to seize an opportunity later.
The fact that Kanade was frequently appearing on 'Idol Weekly' could also be said to be the result of Park Yeong-ho's diligent networking.
But if Baek Hyeon-woo commits a rudeness to Seo Dong-cheol himself like this... all the effort he had put in until now would turn to nothing.
“Team Leader Park, you don't have to worry.”
However, Baek Hyeon-woo was just composed.
“Nothing will become a problem.”
“What do you mean nothing will become a problem! You did that to Seo PD-nim in front of everyone!”
“Team Leader Park, it's not like that...”
Baek Hyeon-woo tried to explain.
However, right at that moment.
“Baek Hyeon-woo-ssi.”
A stiff voice was heard.
When he turned his head, Director Choi Tae-hyung was peeking his head in with a stiff expression.
“A call just came from TVX's PD Seo Dong-cheol.”
A call from PD Seo Dong-cheol?
And to Director Choi Tae-hyung, no less?
“It seems he contacted me because he didn't know your contact information, Baek Hyeon-woo-ssi. What on earth is going on?”
“……!”
His heart sank.
For him to contact Director Choi Tae-hyung directly as soon as morning came, this meant that PD Seo Dong-cheol was furious.
‘Ah, should I start looking for another job?’
This wasn't a matter that would end with just Baek Hyeon-woo personally.
His direct superior, Park Yeong-ho, also couldn't avoid responsibility.
No, rather, Park Yeong-ho could become the biggest victim.
Baek Hyeon-woo is CEO Baek Yeon-ah's nephew, and if things really don't work out, he can just leave the entertainment industry.
But Park Yeong-ho can't be protected by anyone, and since he has spent his entire professional life in the entertainment industry, it's difficult for him to move to another industry.
But what entertainment agency would welcome a team-leader-level manager who caused trouble with TVX?
Just as Park Yeong-ho was imagining all sorts of bleak futures in that short time and was soaked in a gloomy mood.
“Team Leader Park.”
Park Yeong-ho doubted his eyes.
Seo Dong-cheol had called first thing in the morning, yet Baek Hyeon-woo was just composed.
Rather, he was even wearing a smile on his lips.
As if he had been waiting for something like this to happen.
“You said it would be a huge hit to secure just one spot in a program the Seo Dong-cheol Division is preparing, right?”
What on earth is this.
Something that couldn't be understood with Park Yeong-ho's common sense was happening.