Well, in the end there was nothing Jaemin had to get ready for because after finding out where his house was Renjun had gotten nowhere...How long has Renjun camped out near Jaemin’s house?
Renjun had been sitting around near Jaemin’s building...house...apartment? He didn’t even know what to call it when the thing was so enormous. For the last 1 and a half weeks, the brunette has sat in the sun, rain, wind, no matter the weather Renjun persisted and sat there to wait for Na Jaemin.
The brunette followed Jaemin everywhere, whether it be an expensive restaurant, club, house, Renjun always followed after close behind. Even if he couldn’t go in the building with the other man, Renjun knew where Na Jaemin was at all times.
And even though the thought of him being killed if he got caught plagued the back of his mind, Renjun couldn’t help but feel a bit more lazy and desperate. Following the CEO in a hurry without pulling on his mask or putting on his hat.
After more than 3 weeks Renjun was at his wits end. He felt like it was no use if he tried to hide anyways.
With spending so many weeks watching over Jaemin and not being caught Renjun really believed that nothing would happen. There was no way they were going to notice him all of a sudden with the time Renjun had left.
Renjun wholeheartedly believed that if the CEO hadn't caught him from the last 3 weeks, they weren’t gonna catch him in the next 2. Call him dumb and reckless but Renjun was too tired of the job to care anymore.
If he got caught, oh well it looked like he was dead.
Still, with this new mindset nothing happened when it came to Jaemin. Even with Renjun being more reckless and following Jaemin everywhere he still hasn’t found anything remotely useful.
The photographer really felt like he was doing this for nothing by now.
Renjun was probably being pulled on a leash right now by a complete stranger. The article he read that fateful night was probably complete bullshit and for some dumb reason Renjun had put all his hope into an article he randomly stumbled upon.
Really though, he was starting to regret even clicking on the damn article. Jaemin never went or did anything suspicious. He either went to the entertainment building or went to a restaurant or club.
Of course there was the high chance that Jaemin did something illegal in those buildings but it wasn’t like Renjun could enter with him and try to find out what he was doing in each building.
If he even tried he would be dead no doubt. Although at this point Renjun was just thinking about putting his life on the line and just entering the building with him. It’s not like Renjun could follow Jaemin all the way in with what he was wearing and with a 20 dollar bill in his pockets.
He was limited to waiting outside the buildings and hoping for the best.
So Renjun was stuck with following after Jaemin like a lost and abandoned puppy. But really he was starting to lose hope for about the 10th time since he’s started trying to find evidence for his paper.
The brunette was just thinking about giving up and going back to going around the city trying to miraculously stumble upon a dating scandal. After all these weeks could you blame him for second guessing himself?
He would’ve given up at this point with any other topic he tried to write about if his career wasn’t on the line. Renjun couldn’t even think about giving up with the amount of time and effort he’s spent trying to find evidence that Jaemin was a mafia boss.
Every day, not including the one day he spent at home trying to rest his sore legs, he spent following Jaemin. By now the photographer felt like he was trying to fool himself into thinking that there was even a slight chance that the CEO was actually a part of the mafia.
When Renjun had summoned the determination to find evidence that Jaemin was a mafia boss there was no doubt in his mind that Jaemin wasn’t a part of the mafia. But now that Renjun has spent so much time stalking the man, he was starting to slowly regret believing that the biggest CEO in Korea was a mafia boss.
When the brunette had read the headline Renjun had laughed at it, so why did he even believe the article? And why did he think that anyone would even believe him if he wrote a paper about it, even with concrete evidence there was a chance that people still wouldn’t believe him.
But even if Renjun wanted to back out right now, he really couldn’t. Every time Renjun got relatively close to the thought about giving up his mind wandered back to the words his boss had said to him that night.
‘We’ll have to let you go Renjun.’ the brunette couldn’t help but shiver at the sheer thought of those words. Yet again he was reminded of how important his next and probably last paper would be.
Renjun’s next assignment was probably the most crucial paper he would write in his career and here he was currently sitting next to a dumpster waiting for Jaemin to exit the restaurant he was in.
Oh Renjun was delusional to think that he would be able to ruin his career. If anything it was more likely that his was about to be ruined, and the sad part about it was that it would be ruined even if he didn’t get caught by the CEO.
And if he did get caught by Jaemin he was still ruined, oh it was horrible for Renjun right now there was no hope.
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It was really starting to seem like someone in the universe was watching over him struggle to survive. Almost every time Renjun has come close to losing hope something miraculously blessed him with a wave of good fortune and luck.
Did the universe really hate Renjun or did they just like watching him struggle?
Really though, Renjun couldn’t help but wonder where all this luck was coming from. Over the past 3 days he was sure that he had seen Jaemin walking around every day instead of going by his car.
The brunette couldn’t help but get eager every time he saw Jaemin walk out his front door instead of him exiting the garage with an expensive limousine. He had to resist himself from taking pictures of the man walking around from sheer excitement and collect himself each time he saw Jaemin.
And although the CEO always went straight towards the entertainment building it was still a hell lot of progress in his opinion.
Though that also meant that he was walking around to follow after Jaemin instead of cycling around. Don’t mistake him for complaining though, the sudden change of Jaemin walking everywhere helped Renjun with following at a slower pace while not killing his legs from pedaling as fast as he could.
Not going to lie, Renjun’s leg muscles were loving him right now though. With the constant walking and biking around he couldn’t help but notice his legs starting to get more toned. Even now when he walks everywhere Renjun’s legs never get sore like the first time he had decided to cycle after Jaemin in a car.
With his new and trained legs, following Na Jaemin was a piece of cake with them walking around. Renjun couldn't help but inwardly thank the other man for the sudden change of transportation.
But even with this sudden blessing it wasn’t hard for Renjun to realize that he was running out of time and fast. He didn’t want to admit it but with only 12 more days and without any pictures taken for his paper he barely had any time.
By now even if he got good enough evidence, his paper would be mediocre from the lack of editing and revising. Not to mention how poorly it would be organized without being able to ask his coworkers or boss for help from the lack of time.
With the time quickly beginning to stress him out more and more Renjun couldn’t help but get even more sloppy. He followed behind Jaemin at a faster pace and couldn’t bring it in himself to walk and instead opted to follow on his bike.
Inwardly, Renjun knew that he was being stupid and irrational when logically following after him at a faster pace didn’t help at all with finding evidence. But with the thought of him being fired rolling around the corner he couldn’t even think straight.
The brunette was starting to get desperate even with the sudden change in transportation. With only 12 more days before he was getting fired from his company Renjun was doing anything he could do and fast as he could.
And oh how he would regret it soon.
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Somewhere in the back of his mind there were alarms going off at the sheer amount of times he’s been seeing Jaemin lately. About how much Jaemin was walking around as if he was deliberately letting himself be seen more.
But any logic completely left his brain when he left his apartment to continue his work. Renjun was too occupied with the thought of him losing his career to worry about being caught. When he first began following Jaemin he would have immediately noticed the change in behaviour.
Completely giving up on the paper about Na Jaemin and going back to trying to get a headline about another celebrity in fear that Jaemin was catching on. But the current Renjun was engrossed in the CEO, as if Renjun needed to get evidence or he wouldn’t know what to do with himself.
Instead of being suspicious all Renjun thought about was how lucky he was. Jaemin was spending more time walking around and even when going into restaurants Renjun always ended up getting a clear view from outside of the window.
Maybe it was a trap, but Renjun was in heaven right now and the small thought of the sudden appearances of Jaemin everywhere was only on the back of his mind. Instead he continued to follow close behind, only running to hide when it looked like Jaemin was about to look behind.
The CEO nor his guards never looked behind or around themselves, as if they were confident that nothing was going to happen. It was off putting at first as Renjun was sure that they would be a lot more cautious of their CEO being in the open.
But after a few days Renjun thought nothing of it and continued following after Jaemin. It was stupid of him really, but did it really matter right now. If he hasn’t been caught after all this time then Jaemin probably wasn’t too cautious of his surroundings.
Did it matter if he was wary or not? He only has a few more days left before he would lose his job anyways and Renjun needed to be bold in his opinion.