Peninsula: The Best Actor Starts from an Idol Battleground

Chapter 60 Agreed! Yoona, you're so annoying!

Yoona was stunned.

As she recalled Li Zhixing's unusual behavior that day, her face gradually turned deathly pale: "So... he did it on purpose that day."

Yoona's voice was filled with barely suppressed panic: "He was afraid of implicating me, so he deliberately said those things to distance himself... What exactly happened that made him want to hide in the military camp?"

Overwhelmed with regret, Yoona looked at Ji-eun, her voice pleading, "Ji-eun, when exactly did you meet Oppa? What happened to him afterward?"

After a moment of silence, Zhi'en finally began to recount how she met Li Zhixing back then.

"In early 06, when we were still living in Uijeongbu City," Ji-eun recalled softly, "I met Oppa near my home. He was wearing a dirty and tattered hospital gown and looked like a homeless person."

"He must have been starving for a long time, so I gave him a lollipop, thinking I'd go home and get some more food," Ji-eun's voice trailed off. "But when I ran back with the food, he had already collapsed on the roadside."

"Later, Grandma found someone to take Oppa to the hospital. After the doctor examined him, he said that Oppa not only had new external injuries all over his body, but also had a surgical scar from a major operation."

"Surgery?" Sun-kyu's eyes widened in astonishment. "What exactly did he go through?"

Zhi En took a deep breath: "Later, the police checked the records and found out that he had just been discharged from the army due to injury, and the knife wound on his body should have been left from the treatment of that serious injury."

Seohyun asked from the side, "Is it because of this injury that you lost your memory, senior?"

Ji-eun denied it, saying, "The police investigated the previous hospital records. Oppa did not have amnesia when he was discharged from the military, and his surgical wounds were almost healed. Those new wounds on his body were left from something that happened after his discharge."

"The amnesia might also be due to those recent injuries!"

At this moment, Soon-kyu frowned and said, "But didn't Ji-hyung oppa go to the military camp because he encountered some trouble? Why did he get injured in the military camp?"

Yoona clenched her hands tightly: "What exactly happened to Oppa after his military service?"

Ji-eun shook her head: "Nobody knows. Oppa was in the hospital for a week before he woke up, but he had amnesia after waking up. He just stares blankly and can't communicate. He doesn't respond to any questions you ask him."

"It was around that time that we learned Oppa's name," Ji-eun paused, "that the police retrieved his resident registration file, which showed that his only relative was his mother, Lee Hye-shim."

Yoona quickly pressed, "Didn't the police contact Aunt Huixin at the time?"

"I tried to contact them," Ji-eun said softly, "but I couldn't reach them at all. The phone number is not in service, and the address on their file is no longer there."

"With no other choice, Grandma couldn't bear to see him wandering the streets, so she took Oppa home and temporarily took him in."

"For the first month, Oppa would just sit there blankly every day without saying a word," Ji-eun said softly. "He would go to the stall with his grandma every day and sit next to her in a daze."

"It wasn't until more than a month later that he suddenly started speaking, and his mind gradually returned to normal, but he still couldn't remember who he was."

Ji-eun looked at Tae-yeon: "Furthermore, it seems that the previous injury left a lingering problem. Whenever he tries to recall the past, he gets a headache, and the symptoms are quite frightening."

Taeyeon nodded, her face pale, unconsciously clenching the hem of her clothes.

"Over the years, Oppa has been trying to find out about his past, but he can only find some information that is obvious," Ji-eun said in a low voice. "For example, Aunt Hye-shin, we only found out that she left Korea in March 05, and then we never heard from her again."

Ji-eun paused, then turned to Yoona: "Oppa, besides your mother, do you really have no other relatives?"

Yoona shook her head instinctively: "No."

Then, as if suddenly remembering something, she abruptly raised her head: "No, there's one more."

"Who is it?"

Yoona recalled, "I was in elementary school at the time. One day after school, I went to my oppa's house and saw him throwing a tantrum. He was yelling at a little girl who was several years younger than me, telling her to get out and never come to his house again."

"I was terrified at the time. Although Oppa has a somewhat aloof personality and is not good at talking to people, he never loses his temper, especially towards such a young child."

"Later I secretly asked my aunt, and she only said that she was Oppa's little aunt, and didn't say anything else."

"Auntie?" Ji-eun was taken aback. "An auntie even younger than Oppa?"

Yoona nodded: "Apart from that, I haven't seen any other relatives of Oppa."

"Oppa doesn't socialize much and has almost no friends," Yoona said with a bitter smile. "Besides his aunt, his closest relatives are our family and Seohyun. He's also very close to Seohyun's family."

Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze naturally fell on Xu Xian.

Seohyun lowered her head somewhat guiltily: "My relationship with my senior isn't as good as Yoona's. My senior doesn't like me very much."

Taeyeon was a little surprised: "Why?"

Xiaoxian explained softly, "Aunt Huixin and Aunt Ou used to be colleagues at the music academy. Later, Aunt Ou opened her own piano school, and Aunt Huixin went to help her."

"My mom and the others were too busy to take care of me, so they asked a senior to take care of me and also give me my first piano lessons."

"At that time, my senior was only ten years old, and I was only six."

"My senior was extremely talented in music, but he didn't want to teach me at the time because he thought I was too stupid."

At this point, Xiaoxian pursed his lips, looking somewhat aggrieved: "A song that he can learn after hearing it once always takes me a long time to learn, and he's always very reluctant to teach me."

Sun-kyu couldn't help but interject, "Then you should call him 'teacher,' why do you keep calling him 'senior'?"

Xiao Xian felt even more aggrieved: "My senior said that someone of my level is not worthy of being called his teacher."

There was a moment of silence in the dorm. Ji-eun smiled helplessly: "So Oppa has always been this sharp-tongued since he was little."

Xu Xian nodded vigorously, deeply agreeing.

Yoona couldn't help but smile as she thought about her childhood: "Oppa's personality is indeed a bit difficult to deal with. He's indifferent to everyone. When I first moved here, I took the initiative to get close to him for two years before he smiled at me for the first time. He's completely different from Aunt Hye-shin's gentle personality."

"Huh?" Ji-eun was a little surprised. "But Oppa is completely different now."

"Oppa has made a lot of friends now, both inside and outside the industry, and he has many close friends," Ji-eun recalled about Lee Ji-hyeong now. "And he is not cold at all when he is with people now, and he smiles a lot."

Yoona and Seohyun exchanged a glance, both surprised.

In their minds, even when Li Zhixing smiled, it was a slightly mocking sneer; he would never wear a smile on his face all the time.

Yoona sighed softly, "It seems that the current oppa is the real him. When he was little, he always pretended to be aloof and deep. But it was really interesting when he revealed his true nature after we got to know each other."

Suddenly, Xiaoxian's eyes widened: "Something's not right!"

"What's wrong?" Everyone looked at her.

Seohyun said, "IUxi just said she first met her senior in early 2006, but Jessica unnie said she met her senior at the end of December 2005. Does that mean Jessica unnie met her senior first?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's attention turned to Ji-eun.

Ji-eun nodded: "It seems that Oppa did meet with Jessica unnie before, and it seems that something unpleasant happened."

"After Oppa regained consciousness, he learned that the treatment had cost all of his grandmother's money. He felt very guilty and went to look for a job before he was fully recovered. However, he was in such poor condition that no one wanted him."

"Until he went to apply for a sparring job at Jessica's boxing gym, President Jung not only accepted him but also personally taught him boxing."

"At that time, he was weak and needed to replenish his nutrition, so President Zheng and Auntie often made him some food and supplements."

"They are a very kind family and have helped Oppa a lot. Oppa even has his own bedroom in their house."

"But Jessica's attitude is strange. I don't know what misunderstanding Oppa had with her before he lost his memory, but she always seems to be targeting him."

"The two of them are bound to argue whenever they're together. They can't stand each other, and sometimes they even come to blows," Zhi'en sighed helplessly.

Yoona looked dazed for a moment: "So he was so close to me, right next to Jessica unnie... How come I didn't know at all..."

Xiaoxian asked softly, "Does Jessica's family also know about your amnesia, senior?"

Ji-eun shook her head: "Uncle, Aunt, and Soo-jung all know, but Oppa won't let us tell Jessica unnie."

"Why?" Sun-kyu asked, puzzled.

Ji-eun sighed: "He didn't say why."

A long silence fell over the dormitory as the various mysteries of the past finally pieced together a cruel truth.

Yoona and Seohyun finally understood why he looked at them like they were strangers when they met again.

Because he truly and completely forgot.

The eyes of everyone present were red, and Yoona even broke down and leaned on Seohyun, her tears never stopping.

Ji-eun lowered her eyes: "After saying so much, we still don't know what happened to him after he retired that made him like that."

Just then, Yoona suddenly stood up and walked out the door without saying a word.

"Yoona unnie, where are you going?" Seohyun asked worriedly.

"I'm going to find Oppa!"

"No," Ji-eun hurriedly stood up and grabbed her arm.

"Why?" Yoona turned around, her eyes full of confusion and anxiety.

Ji-eun gripped her arm tightly: "If you go and acknowledge Oppa now, what if he can't control himself and starts reminiscing again? Do you know how painful it is for him every time he recalls those memories?"

"Moreover," Ji-eun's eyes also reddened, and her hand holding Yoona trembled slightly, "he is clearly doing very well now. He has rarely had headaches in the past two years, and he can control himself from thinking about the past."

"What if he knows about these past events and tries to investigate again, and then encounters danger?"

Ji-eun looked at them, her tone softening but unusually firm: "Yoona sunbaenim and Seohyun sunbaenim, if you really want what's best for Oppa, I hope you won't tell him these things."

"In fact, I hope you stay away from Oppa. After all, you are just his childhood neighbors, not the relatives he is looking for."

Upon hearing Ji-eun's warning, Seo-hyun lowered her eyes slightly, folded her hands on her knees, and said nothing more.

Yoona refused without hesitation: "No."

Her eyes were still red, but her tone was unusually stubborn: "We're not just ordinary neighbors. I... I'm Oppa's fiancée. He promised to marry me!"

The dormitory fell silent instantly, and Taeyeon and Sunny stared in astonishment.

Ji-eun frowned deeply: "How is this possible?"

Yoona pursed her lips, turned around and unzipped her bag. From the innermost compartment of her wallet, she carefully pulled out a neatly folded, slightly yellowed piece of paper.

She slowly unfolded the paper, and Taeyeon and Sunny couldn't contain their curiosity and quietly peeked over.

The top of the document read "Marriage Guarantee," and the main body contained a long list of clauses that revealed the girl's inner thoughts. The gist of the clauses was that Li Zhixing could only be good to Lin Yun'er from now on, and that he must marry her when she grew up.

At the very bottom, next to Yoona's neat signature, there was another line of extremely messy handwriting: "Agreed, agreed! Yoona, you're so annoying!"

Looking at this note that seemed like child's play, the originally heavy and oppressive atmosphere instantly became utterly absurd.

Taeyeon and Sunny were speechless, while IU stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

Seohyun couldn't help but mutter under her breath, "Yoona unnie, did you really force your senior to write this?"

Yoona's cheeks flushed instantly. She snatched the note back and retorted stubbornly, "Whether he forced me or not, he'll always keep his promises!"

Then, she took a deep breath and looked at Ji-eun earnestly: "Ji-eun, I know your worries, and I don't want Oppa to get hurt again."

"Don't worry, I will never bring up the past to upset him, but I will also never distance myself from him."

Yoona's eyes were incredibly firm: "Just consider it as getting to know him all over again."

Ji-eun stared at her intently.

After a long silence, Ji-eun spoke seriously, with a hint of warning: "No matter what, please don't hurt him. Otherwise, please stay away from him. Oppa is the most important person to me now; he's my family!"

After saying that, Ji-eun bowed slightly and left Girls' Generation's dormitory with a lot on her mind.