133 Viral Marketing

It's impossible to be loved by everyone.

Especially celebrities.

No matter how good a song you make or how well it performs on the charts, someone will curse you out, saying it only succeeded through money-fueled viral marketing.

Even if you do good deeds and care for people in need with all the money you've earned, someone will call you a hypocrite.

I was no different.

No matter how firmly I'd established myself as the nation's beloved daughter, then gone on to dominate the charts and reign as the biggest figure in Korean music, there would still be people who hated me.

The reasons usually came from somewhere very simple.

The primal human instincts known as jealousy and envy.

Honestly, at my level of success, you'd think people wouldn't feel much jealousy or envy just because I'm an orphan or an elementary school student.

I wasn't making money in secret behind the scenes; I was making it openly, with several songs lodged near the top of the charts for everyone to see...