A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 1

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 1

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yoon_eden Now I want to make real music instead of fxxking idol songs

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lee_yeon Eden, stop being ridiculous

33__o212 Ah oppa please just…

twenty.five Are you going to start that “I’m not an idol, I’m an artist” bullshit now too? Get a grip, you’re an idol

daydreeeam1 Eden, let’s not lose our original intentions ㅠㅠ

YoonEdenFindYourInitialIntentions @ReveluvUJ

Should I make a Reve Yoon Eden anti thread

I was already pissed off from today’s fan signing and seeing his Instagram post made me completely lose it

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YoonEdenFindYourInitialIntentions @ReveluvUJ

No way Eden, looking at your dead fish eyes, do you really think I spent 200 just to listen to a medley? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Reve’s comeback song this time is shit too but the songs for other groups under your company that have your name on the lyric writing and composition credits turned out amazing? Are those copyright fees that sweet? Do you think your fans are pushovers?

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Danma @danma11

I brought a headband and heard someone say right to my face that it was too tacky to wear ㅠ Is that really something you say to a fan?

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YoonEdenFindYourInitialIntentions @ReveluvUJ

Oh, that was your sister? Wow hahahahaha I heard that and thought that guy was crazy hahaha

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You Are My Garden of Eden @EDenpark

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Please delete this

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YoonEdenFindYourInitialIntentions @ReveluvUJ

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Why should I delete it? Yoon Eden with his artist disease should see this and get his head straight

Did that bastard completely erase from his memory the days when he was stuck living in that semi-basement dorm as a failed idol from Jjotso

Daydream Sina @daydream_sina

Hey hey, I think Eden isn’t going to renew his contract?

At the fan signing when I asked him to spoil the concept for the next song just a little, he said “Well, I’m not sure if I’ll be there then”

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Five Stars Reve @fivestar_dream

What the hell is this now

* * *

Wow, you made it, Yoon Eden. Even got a star magazine interview scheduled.

I sat in the chair and glanced around the studio lit by the lights, letting out an exclamation of admiration.

“I’m curious about how you felt when had a reverse run after Yehyeon’s fancam became a hot topic.”

“Actually, from the moment the song charted, I couldn’t believe this was really happening. I kept asking the members if this was really our song, and they scolded me asking how many times I was going to ask, haha.”

Although the interviewer was focusing not on me but on our team’s eldest and face of the group, Seo Yehyeon, who had revived our group that was plummeting into failed idol hell with just his face alone, I had no particular regrets.

Isn’t riding the bus originally the sweetest deal? Thanks to that, I earned enough money too.

‘Reve,’ the group I lead, was a 7-year veteran 5-member boy group facing contract renewal.

Reve had many descriptors attached to it.

Jjotso’s miracle, fancam idols, reverse run success myth, Seo Yehyeon and the kids, etc.

After Reve’s debut album and follow-up song failed spectacularly, we were smoothly walking the path of failed idols whom no one recognized even when riding the subway.

At the moment we faced disbandment crisis, we were resurrected by Seo Yehyeon’s fancam taken at an event.

Since the songs we released after that didn’t explode, Reve couldn’t quite reach the first tier, but thanks to raising our recognition, we reached about second-tier idol status where people would say “Oh, those guys?” when you mentioned the group name.

True to Jjotso form, our agency had zero sense and even when opportunity came, they were too busy having power struggles with their own artists to row the boat properly, so the public’s attention was focused only on Seo Yehyeon, which was the problem.

I’d bet my new house in Cheongdam-dong that if you asked who’s in our group, people would mention Seo Yehyeon and then shut their mouths.

“Eden, Reve has already reached its 7th debut anniversary. As the team’s leader, do you have anything you’d like to say to the fans?”

Near the end of the interview, I smiled refreshingly at the closing question thrown at me and delivered the answer I had prepared.

“Thank you for the 7 years. Now I’m going to freely pursue the musical path I want to take. From now on, please see me not as Reve’s Eden but as producer Yoon Eden.”

Four pairs of shocked eyes turned toward me. The interviewer, showing slight signs of confusion, hastily wrapped up the interview.

“Did you have to say that in the 7th anniversary commemorative interview?”

I picked my ear and replied indifferently to Gyeon Hajun’s reproachful tone.

“But it would be a bit much to lie in an official interview saying let’s keep meeting in the future, wouldn’t it?”

“Sigh, Eden. That’s not what I mean.”

“Most of them are Yehyeon hyung’s fans anyway, so whatever. They’ll probably just read Yehyeon hyung’s interview part and skip the rest.”

Gyeon Hajun, who had been opening and closing his mouth several times as if wanting to say more to my nonchalant response, turned his back with a fed-up expression.

“No, you already know I’m not renewing my contract, so why are you overreacting like that?”

When I grumbled loudly for him to hear, Ryu Jaehee, the team’s youngest member, scolded me.

“It’s not about the contract renewal, this is about your attitude toward fans. You tactless human who has no sense whatsoever.”

“Hey, how many fans do I even have?”

“Hyung has the second most fans after Yehyeon hyung. Why on earth do the fans choose this kind of person over Yuje who gives amazing fan service…”

Leaving the grumbling youngest behind, I yawned lazily and headed toward the van.

“If you’re going to write a withdrawal statement, write it quickly, hyung. Your birthday is coming up.”

Ryu Jaehee advised from behind, but I just shrugged my shoulders.

What does my upcoming birthday have to do with anything? And it’ll obviously be published in the magazine interview anyway, so why bother?

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The day the magazine with Reve’s 7th anniversary interview came out.

In the car returning after our schedule ended, the youngest member silently handed me his cell phone while I was groaning and writing a withdrawal statement to post on Instagram and the official fan cafe.

When I lowered my gaze to the screen, I could see my name appearing quite frequently on social media.

Reve♥ @Reve_onlyone

I really don’t understand… Why did I have to learn about your withdrawal first through gossip and magazines instead of your own statement

Even though I had my doubts, I believed in you and defended you saying it wouldn’t be true until it came from your mouth. But is this all my faith was worth? If you had thought about your fans even a little, you shouldn’t have done this

#YoonEden_Apologize_For_Deceiving_Fans

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(Main account confirmed) End of Daydream @daydreamending

I won’t stop you from going the path you want to go, but I can’t support you either

Go ahead and make all that real music you love from now on. But at least apologize to Daydream before you go

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Leaving the fandom @Tlqkfeden

This is so fucking annoying, keeping his mouth shut until his birthday, only revealing he’s leaving after getting support – if this isn’t deceiving fans, then what is?

Eden, are fans your ATM? lol

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XL Hamster Milk @hamzziUJae

That bastard leader is shitting all over the 7th anniversary and running away

The other members who put up with that for 7 years are saints, seriously. It wasn’t just once or twice we saw him acting however he wanted on variety shows, damn it. There’s a limit to how much we can defend him

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I casually scrolled past the posts demanding an apology from me.

“Come on, I announced it during an official schedule, is this really something to get so pissed about? Anyone would think I took birthday gifts and ran off. Fuck, those damn gifts I didn’t even need.”

As I frowned and muttered, the Youngest Member roughly snatched my cell phone from my hands and shot back with a sharp voice.

“Don’t you remember when we were flop idols who couldn’t even get a single fan letter, let alone gifts? Please find your original intentions, hyung.”

“What original intentions are there to find at this point? I’m quitting the idol life now.”

When I shrugged and replied nonchalantly, the Youngest Member’s face contorted.

“I won’t help you anymore, so write your apology yourself, hyung.”

“Apology? Not a statement?”

“You’re really hopeless, hyung. I don’t think you used to be like this before.”

The Youngest Member let out a deep sigh and turned his head away from me. I scratched my cheek in the suffocatingly quiet atmosphere inside the van.

Ever since I declared my departure in that magazine interview, the other members except the Youngest Member started treating me like I didn’t exist, apparently upset that I revealed the failed group contract renewal on my own in the interview.

Even Gyeon Hajun, who I believed would always be on my side.

Are they all ostracizing me just because I’m leaving the team?

Now even the Youngest Member seemed thoroughly upset for some reason, making the atmosphere in the car even more awkward.

“Hyung, drop me off in front of my house.”

I said to the road manager and leaned my head against the seat.

The Cheongdam-dong apartment where I was finally moving in today after finishing the furniture arrangement a few days ago was purchased with settlement money and my precious royalties.

Of course, Reve’s share of those royalties was almost nonexistent. The bitter dispute with the agency over this matter would take all day and night to explain, so let’s set that aside for now.

Working as a composer and producer on the side was a stroke of genius. Otherwise, I never would have been able to buy my new house.

The flood of CFs and love calls mostly went to the eldest, Seo Yehyeon, and the company wanted it that way too.

The car that had been driving for a while stopped in front of an apartment in Cheongdam-dong.

“There’s a schedule tomorrow too, so don’t be late.”

“Yeah, yeah, got it. See you tomorrow.”

I gave a half-hearted reply to the road manager and got out of the car.

As I looked around my lovely new house that I’d finally moved into with emotional eyes, then went into the bedroom and flopped onto the bed, a snickering laugh escaped me.

“So a day like this actually comes.”

From that damn worn-out semi-basement dorm to a Cheongdam-dong apartment – this is what you call a success story.

I washed up and lay back down on the bed. I needed to go to sleep early to handle tomorrow’s final official schedule.

Now I can live making the music I really want without power struggles with the agency.

Ding, ding, ding-.

A faint notification sound rang out.

[The 30,000th fan is disappointed in you.]

[Conditions have been met.]

[⏳Loading….]

[system] [Starting the Original Intentions Recovery Project for idols who have lost their way.]

[system] [Target: Yoon Eden]

Something kept sparkling in front of my eyes, but thinking it was just because I was tired, I ignored it and fell asleep.

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“…Hyung. Eden hyung!”

A voice I’d heard for 7 years, familiar to the point of being sick of it, rang noisily in my ears.

I had definitely moved out of the dormitory and never told that guy the password to my new house.

So why was the Youngest Member’s voice ringing clearly above me, not through a phone?

“Fuck, what? You bastard, how did you know my house password?”

As soon as the reflexive curse ended, a ding- sound struck my ears.

At the same time, my body tingled as if static electricity had occurred. I frowned and inhaled at the stinging pain.

Thinking it might be a cell phone notification, I fumbled around the bed mattress with my hand looking for my cell phone when a square, bluish translucent window appeared before my eyes.

[Profanity detected.]

[Original Intentions -2]

“Ah! Fuck, what is this!”

[Profanity detected.]

[Original Intentions -2]

It was a status window with exactly the same text, not a single word different from before.

Before I could even worry about the stinging sensation I felt again, chills ran down my spine. No matter how I thought about it, seeing hallucinations could only mean mental illness.

Should I book a mental hospital consultation right away?

Wondering if they might be filming some surprise farewell camera show, I frantically felt around my face, but unfortunately there was no VR device on my face.

“What’s wrong, hyung? Are you so nervous about debuting today that you’ve lost your mind?”

Uh, I think I really have lost my mind a bit.

But what the hell are you talking about? We’ve been debuted for how many years now, and we’re debuting today?

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