After getting rid of the detective, Seo was preparing to go to the company to return her ID card when she bumped into her neighbour Namu again. This neighbour was the nosy type, so he blocked her path and asked her straight out.
"Hey, tell me the truth. Is that guy in your house actually the missing superstar Dohyun?"
Seo's heart felt like it was going to jump out of her chest. But in a moment of desperation, she came up with a really clever lie. She put on a miserable face.
"It's so tough. He really is my cousin. He's a huge fan of Dohyun. So obsessed that he got plastic surgery to look exactly like his idol. But because of that, his brain short-circuited, and now he always hallucinates that he's the real superstar. I had to bring him here from the countryside to get treatment."
Namu, being naturally honest and a bit naive, fell for it hook, line and sinker.
"Good grief. Are there really people that crazy in the world? All right, then. You go ahead to work and I'll keep an eye on this cousin for you. I won't let him wander off."
So Seo felt relieved and went off to take care of her business, leaving Namu in the room to supervise Dohyun.
Dohyun saw Namu like a saviour and quickly cried for help. "Hey, help me. I'm the real Dohyun. Look at my face. Don't you recognise me?"
But Namu just looked at him with pitying eyes. "Stop being delusional, kid. You're this handsome. Why not focus on working instead of getting surgery and claiming to be a celebrity? I know the whole story. You're just a poor, crazy little cousin."
After hearing that, Dohyun felt traumatised, unable to understand why the whole world wouldn't believe him.
When Seo got back, Namu even advised her to take this cousin to a mental hospital soon and get it over with. Seo quickly stopped him. "No. He's family after all. I can't bring myself to abandon him."
Dohyun sat there listening to the two of them acting out his life and could only laugh bitterly. My god. I am who I am, but now I've become a crazy person in everyone's eyes.
That night, while Seo was fast asleep next to him, Dohyun used all his strength to untie himself and escape. He thought to himself, "I've been in so many action movies and professional fights. Is there any way I can't handle one small girl?"
Dohyun planned to jump on Seo and attack her to overpower her. But life isn't like the movies. He had no idea that Seo was actually a wrestling queen in the making. Just as he made his move, Seo woke up and reacted like a professional athlete. She threw a knockdown blow that sent the big star flying straight into the wall and onto the floor once again. The fall was so hard it knocked him unconscious.
Only then did Seo realise, in a panic, that she had gone way too far. She rushed over and shook him, but Dohyun didn't budge. She trembled as she put her hand to his nose to check his breath. And then her face turned pale.
He's not breathing any more. Did I actually kill someone for real this time?
Thinking she had truly sent Dohyun away, Seo once again cried hysterically. This time she didn't dare hesitate. She decided she had to dispose of the body immediately.
She dragged Dohyun to a deserted place and started digging a really deep hole. So deep that she told herself, "If I bury him like this, he couldn't sprout even if he wanted to."
However, while she was busy shovelling dirt over him, the guy suddenly moved. It turned out Dohyun had only fainted and hadn't kicked the bucket yet. Seeing him wake up, instead of being happy, Seo started shovelling dirt even faster, because she was afraid his screaming would attract attention.
Dohyun scrambled to crawl out of the hole, his face covered in dirt, and yelled, "Are you crazy? Are you seriously trying to bury me alive?"
Seo calmly replied, "Oh, you're alive? I thought you were gone, so I didn't notice."
Dohyun was so mad he was speechless. He planned to push her into the hole for revenge, but then he remembered that Seo was a martial arts pro with a black belt in wrestling, and if he fought her, he would just end up on the floor again. So Dohyun decided that running away was his best bet. He ran like there was no tomorrow.
But talk about bad luck following you. Dohyun was running while looking back to see if Seo was chasing him. Then, bam, he slammed his face right into a massive old tree. The result? The big star was knocked out cold for the umpteenth time.
When Dohyun woke up, a familiar scene appeared. He was lying in Seo's house again, hands tied tight, but luckily this time his mouth wasn't stuffed with a smelly sock.
Seo sat next to him and probed. "By the way, what were you doing sneaking around that dark alley that day for me to hit you by mistake?"
Dohyun was about to threaten her. "Just you wait. My manager and the CEO have definitely called the cops. You'll be behind bars soon."
But right then, the news on TV reported, "The management company confirms superstar Dohyun is not missing at all. He is simply on a private vacation and getting spa treatments to recover his health."
Dohyun heard that and was about to blow a gasket. He had no idea what his CEO was thinking.
In another development, his best friend Miran secretly went to see the detective and insisted that everything the CEO said was a lie. Dohyun had definitely been kidnapped. The detective showed Miran a very blurry CCTV photo of a girl carrying a guy. However, since the photo was too blurry, Miran didn't recognise who it was.
Back at Seo's house, she started going online to find a way to get away with it. She posted an anonymous question in a private group. What should I do if I accidentally kidnapped a celebrity, so I don't go to jail?
One comment caught her eye. Make him fall in love with you. Once he's in love, he'll never report you.
That sounded pretty good. Seo started planning to seduce the big star.
Coincidentally, Dohyun was thinking the exact same thing. I'm so incredibly handsome. I just need to use my charms to make her fall for me, and I'll be out of these chains in no time.
And so the battle of love began.