RUMOR SAYS....

After their extreme fans used his sincere display of affection and care for her during 2009 MAMA as the reason to attack and hurt her with hateful malicious comments, Jiyong made a vow to protect her from getting more hurt.  And ever since, he made sure he does that. They started  acting like nothing between them but purely sunbae and hoobae relationship under the same entertainment company when they’re out in public eyes.

He even going as far as creating relationships rumors here and there, steering public’s hateful eyes away from her that sometimes backfired on him and causing misunderstandings between him and Bom instead.  Multiple of times he found himself in the hot seats and scrambled to explain his actions to her.  He'd lost counts of how many times he sent boxes of choclolates or tons of roses, not to mention the hundreds of unanswered and unreturned phone calls and all those sleepless nights they both had to go thrrough over the years due to the out of control rumors.  And recently the reoccurrence rumor of him and Kiko, his close Japanese model friend had driving him and Bom further apart as all his attempts to explain to his lady love fell on deaf ears.  Bom had told him that she had enough and wanted out of their relationship and then stopped talking to him completely.   

But that wasn't really the main problem he was facing at the moment....