Posted 09 December 2014 - 02:20 PM (Edited by thekitchenhouse, 09 December 2014 - 10:50 PM.)

Updates at the end

I came to this forum to read more information about this rumour but I don't find any thread so I am posting what I know and please share information if you have more:

Today, there are rumours of Tao and a Korean member soon leaving EXO, rumours first started circulating over Weibo and later in the day escalated to Sina.

The original post was at 9:46 am today (I don't know what time zone maybe China). It said that Tao is leaving EXO

posted by: http://www.weibo.com/pungentbitch

Poster is a verified entertainment critic account, 500k followers, I don't know if that number of followers is big in weibo context. The post itself was popular: it has been reblogged 7730 times with over 9000 comments in less than a day.

Later in the day another account posted:

Next year two members are leaving EXO: one Chinese and one Korean. The group disbandment is not long away.

The second account is also a verified entertainment critic account whatever that means. 724k followers. This post is not as popular as the previous one when I checked the reblogs (only 1k reblogs)

source: http://www.weibo.com...63954/BA0vKmZ27

Maybe because too many people talked about it on Weibo today so in the afternoon an article about Tao leaving EXO appears on Sina. The article described how the rumours have spread and that SM has no response. (source: http://ent.sina.com....ex5605121.shtml )

First time making a thread let me know if it's already discussed somewhere.

I don't know what all of the above means but because it is reported by Sina now I am very curious. I can't find discussion about within international fans anywhere (I cannot read Chinese). please share if you have more information.

UPDATED:

I read on tumblr that Tao already dismissed the rumours the same day (9 December). Their explanation makes sense about Tao's ambiguous latest IG caption so I am reposting it here.

more at: http://exotaobias16....d-the-rumors-of

My Chinese friend @梦想是梦想-你是你 on Weibo explained this to me. “解约“ means termination in Chinese, but ”约“ can also mean “date” and ”解“ has the same pronunciation with ”姐姐“ (jiejie or unnie). So we c-fans use ”解解约你“ date jiejie to clean Weibo. TO CLEAR BAD TERMS REGARDING TAO THAT COME UP, LIKE THESE RUMORS ON WEIBO, HL AND C-FANS USE THIS TERM TO CLEAR HIS NAME. He probably saw what the HL did to protect him on Weibo, hence the message “가자 엑소L 데이트하러 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 손잡을래? 走吧EXO L约会去，要牵手吗？ " EXO-L let’s go on a date, do you want to hold my hand?

가자 엑소L 데이트하러 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 손잡을래? 走吧EXO L约会去要牵手吗

Let's go on on a date EXO-L, want to hold hands?

EDIT: If that is what Tao meant it's a smart way to quietly dismiss the rumour without directly mentioning it. That makes me see now why making this thread was a bad idea :(

I changed thread title.