[Entertainment Industry] Have You Reached the Top Yet? How Dare You Date

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A confident, proud anti-gaslighting expert × a clingy puppy who rules the stage. A sweet childhood-friends romance.

After more than a decade of living abroad, Yien became a top-tier star in Korea, an advertising queen, and a walking source of headlines less than two years after debuting. Her legend has always been passed around inside YG.

They say she was the one woman who could leave even the boss, a master of gaslighting his artists, speechless.

Boss: You dance like that? Have you even practiced properly all these years?

Yien: This company’s such a mess. Have you even tried, Boss?

The boss quietly had oxygen pumped into the practice room.

Yien brought out a medical report and the Child Welfare Act.

Ever since a certain man stopped being able to hide his mouth and his gaze in public one year, the relationship between YG’s leading man and leading lady has kept coming up.

CP fans: GD looks like such a womanizer, but he gets shy when he tells Yien he loves her while they’re playing a game. Yien blushes when she looks him in the eye, too.

Solo fans: Our oppa/unnie is just shy in private.

CP fans: Then why do ordinary friends put their arms around each other’s waists and play in the water on variety shows, touch each other’s thigh garters onstage, and hug and act cute so naturally in skits? GD even keeps all his money in Yien’s hands.

Solo fans: It’s totally normal for childhood friends!

CP fans: Ah, they kissed.

Solo fans: They’ve been friends for eighteen years. A little kiss... Aaaah! Childhood friends can’t kiss each other!

After CP fans had teased solo fans for two or three years, the pair, who had known each other for eighteen years, finally went public. They announced it on the anniversary of the day they first met.

Fans all remarked that over those eighteen years, they’d created countless legends and weathered all kinds of ups and downs, yet always held on to each other’s hands. They would keep walking forward hand in hand, too.

Wait, what? How did they go from being YG’s top man and woman to running their own companies?! And Lee Yien was involved in all those things we thought had nothing to do with you two?!

We thought she was a cute sunflower, but she turned out to be a man-eating flower...

Reader’s Guide:

1. The timeline is very, very long! It starts when the two are child stars, and some real-world dates may be changed to suit the plot.

2. Childhood friends growing up together, told from both perspectives.

3. The heroine is the fifth member of 2NE1 and an expert at resisting Yang Gukhwa’s gaslighting at YG.

4. BigBang’s youngest member is an original character, so subscribe at your own risk if that bothers you.

(Blurb dated July 2, 2024)

Theme: Childhood friends growing up together