[ The best way of getting Minji to stop is to let her think that what she's saying doesn't bother you. Most of the fun of rumors is to get a rise out of the person the rumors are about. She doesn't spread them because she's got some burning need to ruin the lives of her classmates, but she does like watching people get worked up over silly things. She's not as attention needy as her brother is, but she still likes having some focus on her. Even if that focus is negative.

Some is a little more negative than others, and while Sinjoon probably didn't mean anything hurtful with his question it digs at Minji in a way that insults hurled her way never do. She doesn't mind people directly calling her awful. She's been called a bitch, a brat, a horrible two-faced shrew, and all sorts of other things. She's even had people tell her directly that everyone in school hates her. But they said it in such a shrill, screeching voice, and it came from such a place of anger all it did was make Minji laugh at them.

... At the time. She let it hurt her later when she was home and safe in her room. She'd pressed her face into her pillow to muffle any sniffling sounds that came from her.

This one sort of stings immediately, but Minji does her best to ward it off. Literally holding her head up as high as she can as she snatches her hand back to her side, and stands up abruptly. ]

No, because people help me all the time. Just because you don't know how to help people out doesn't mean everyone is like that.

[ Her tone is more clipped and agitated than she wanted it to be. It's obvious that she's annoyed with him for his question, and now she's even more annoyed. How dare Lee Sinjoon make her show a sign of weakness! Who the hell does he think he is?!

She spins on her heel so she doesn't have to look at him anymore, and stomps over to the trashcan to throw the paper towel away. ]