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The issue was simple.

Was this really the right way for the program to treat a young child named Seo Si-yeon?

That was the question everyone was asking.

In fact, almost no one believed that Seo Si-yeon had been unaware she was going to meet her relative.

To begin with, Si-yeon herself had said in an interview near the start of the program that she was a little nervous about meeting her relative.

There was no way for ordinary viewers to know that the scene had been filmed afterward, following the accident.

But even knowing that, seeing Seo Si-yeon rush out of the hospital room with a slightly wounded expression was more than a little shocking.

Who is Seo Si-yeon?

She was South Korea's one and only—or perhaps the world's one and only—cold, cool-type musical genius grade-schooler.

Everyone in the country knew her habit of keeping a blank expression by default and showing an industrial smile only when she had to smile onstage...