A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 110

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 110

As we entered the studio rented by our agency, I saw a banner with thick font written on a black background.

[REVE’s FIRST B-DAY]

That’s right. Today was August 8th. Rev’s first debut anniversary.

“Hyung’s birthday and debut anniversary seem too close together.”

“Why are you telling me that? Should I change my birthday or something?”

“So from now on, let’s celebrate Hyung’s birthday according to the lunar calendar…”

“Doby, I really want to treat you well. But when you talk nonsense like this, that desire completely disappears, you know? Will you calculate and tell me that constantly changing lunar birthday every time? Huh?”

Even when I glared at him, Kim Dobin didn’t even blink and spoke nonchalantly.

“Wow, Eden Hyung is scolding me.”

Now this damn brat was practically stretching his legs out completely. The rising relationship improvement level was proportional to how annoying he got.

“Haah.”

When I rubbed my throbbing forehead and let out a deep sigh, the guy who had been unfazed by my glaring flinched.

I really don’t understand the criteria for when this brat gets scared.

On the large table placed in the studio were cake sheets, whipped cream, green grapes, a whisk, and piping bags filled with chocolate.

“Just how often are we eating cake these days?”

“Don’t eat it then.”

“I don’t have to eat it? Really?”

As if he’d been waiting for those words, Kim Dobin immediately rushed over to get confirmation.

I understood that reaction because the lettering cake the agency brought for my birthday tasted absolutely terrible.

No matter how I looked at it, it seemed to be from the same company as that tasteless lettering cake they brought for Kim Dobin’s birthday.

We clearly told them after Kim Dobin’s birthday live broadcast that the cake tasted bad and to buy from somewhere else, but they apparently didn’t listen at all.

‘Should I turn things upside down once?’

While I was pondering, Gyeon Hajun nudged me.

“What are you thinking about?”

“I’m wondering how to find out which company made those lettering cakes from my birthday and Kim Dobin’s birthday.”

If I dig into it, something will probably come out. Like a cake shop with connections to staff members, for example.

“You’re thinking about that with such a serious face? I thought you were feeling emotional because it’s our first anniversary.”

Gyeon Hajun said with a chuckle. Having already experienced a seventh anniversary, would a first anniversary really feel emotional?

Still, it did feel somewhat new. I remember spending our first anniversary before regression holed up in the semi-basement dorm.

Only the very few fans we had back then gathered on a single first anniversary commemoration post on the fan cafe to celebrate our debut anniversary with us.

‘Back then, if I left one reply to a comment, I’d write about 10 lines.’

Before my passion burned out, there was a time like that too. When I was amazed and happy just from a single fan cafe comment.

After finishing simple makeup and hair styling, we heard it was one minute before the live broadcast and stood in front of the table.

“Two, three! Dream of me! Hello, we’re Rev!”

As the camera light turned on, everyone gave the opening greeting in unison following my signal.

“Yes, Rev has already reached our first debut anniversary.”

“Already one year. Time really does fly fast.”

“It’s already been a year since we debuted with . I really can’t believe it.”

“Right. It feels like 10 years ago.”

“Well, the styling was definitely from 10 years ago…”

“10 years ago? That was 20 years ago. Even when I was in elementary school, there wasn’t styling like that.”

While sharing our first anniversary thoughts one by one, it somehow flowed into banter again.

“Today, to commemorate our first debut anniversary, we’ll challenge ourselves to make a first anniversary cake.”

“Actually, because we ruined the Christmas cake, even the tteokbokki disaster on My Idol Observation Camera is being blamed on me and Eden Hyung…”

“That’s right. Actually, we two aren’t responsible for how the tteokbokki turned out. It’s all Doby’s fault for buying the wrong ingredients. If we had the right ingredients, we definitely could have succeeded.”

I confidently pointed to the cake ingredients on the table with my hand. This stage was actually closer to assembly than baking.

“So by making a first anniversary cake directly in front of our fans, Jaehee and I will prove our cooking skills.”

Having done it once before, the cake-making process was much easier. Since there were only frozen strawberries or expensive strawberries available, we substituted with green grapes.

“Hyung, this time only whip the cream until peaks form.”

“Right, Jaehee. And you don’t crush the grapes this time.”

We completed the cake while exchanging words amicably. The other members took on the role of watching from the side and offering a comment or two of advice.

Unlike the hideous strawberry cake from Christmas, this green grape cake had quite a decent appearance.

Ryu Jaehee, who took the piping bag filled with chocolate saying he would write the lettering message for the cake, put his heart into writing letters on top of the cake.

Congratulations

Rev 1st Anniversary

“Hey, what is this! It’s totally old-fashioned!”

“Why? How is this old-fashioned?”

“You should have written Reve’s B-Day instead!”

“That’s cultural subservience, Hyung! We have Korean, so why use English!”

Sighing at the sentence combination that looked like something from a 70th birthday party, I decorated the top of the cake with the remaining green grapes.

Still, a cake with much better visuals than last Christmas was completed.

We stuck in candles and sang a birthday song adapted into a debut congratulations song as self-celebration. As the leader, I represented the group and blew out the candles.

Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon, who tasted a bite of the cake each, clapped saying it was a human victory.

Kim Dobin, who sneakily tried a piece with his fork because he was curious about the taste from their reaction, apparently liked it and completely ate a slice of cake, making his confirmed permission to not eat it meaningless.

Ryu Jaehee said with a bright smile.

“Normally for a first anniversary, singing the debut song is standard, right?”

Are you serious, Jaehee…? You want to sing that?

Maybe it’s because I just erased from my mind entirely. I was getting hazy on the choreography too.

If I could, I wanted to erase that damn My Universe from our portfolio entirely.

When I looked at him with a sour expression, Ryu Jaehee winked at me. I immediately read the meaning of that wink and chuckled. It was this song, not that song.

Ryu Jaehee, who monitors even more than I do, couldn’t possibly not know that was a forbidden song even among fans.

“Really? Should we try after a long time?”

People who would want to see a performance that we sang on August 8th last year, our real debut song… well, judging by sales, there might be some niche tastes, but the number of people who would be disappointed if we didn’t perform this song would be truly minimal.

The studio space was wide enough to perform on stage.

We naturally got into formation and stood. It felt new doing One Chance after so long.

Since it was a performance with AR, it was essentially a dance performance, but still, maybe because it was the song that revived our group, just doing the choreography was quite enjoyable.

After finishing the performance in the studio, we sat side by side in chairs placed in front of the table and continued with talk again.

“Wow, Yehyeon Hyung didn’t get a single dance move wrong. Everyone, you can’t call Yehyeon Hyung the creator of new choreography anymore.”

“Eden emphasized it so much that the memory naturally came back.”

“Oh, so it’s thanks to me.”

I took the cell phone and skimmed through the rapidly scrolling chat.

[The missing 3 weeks lol]

[Don’t you guys do ask anything sessions?]

I found a chat perfect for filling time. And immediately implemented it.

“Should we try it once too? Rev! Ask us anything. First, let’s try it among members. Things you were usually curious about each other, but couldn’t ask because you didn’t have the chance. Let’s clear up all curiosities today.”

I asked Seo Yehyeon first.

“What I was curious about with Yehyeon Hyung is, at what age did you realize you were good-looking?”

“Um… late elementary school?”

“Really? Not kindergarten?”

“No, I thought being told I was handsome was just something adults say routinely. Like a compliment when they have nothing else to say.”

“A compliment when you have nothing to say would be ‘the kid is really nice.’ ‘The kid is handsome’ – they don’t say that if you’re not actually handsome.”

Was he going for a humble concept, or did he really not know? But with that face, if it’s the latter, it really doesn’t make sense.

“Eden Hyung, have you ever said you’d drop out to do hip hop – yes or no!”</Human: You are an ELITE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR for Korean web novels (COMMERCIAL QUALITY).

“…there is.”

“Ah, how did your parents react back then?”

“They said I’d lost my mind and beat me until dust flew on that rainy day.”

I answered Ryu Jaehee’s question with a groan, making pained sounds. How dare he dig up my dark history like this.

Even after getting beaten, I couldn’t come to my senses and ran away from home claiming it was a protest, but it started raining so I returned home after just 3 hours of running away—a bitter memory.

By the way, my parents didn’t even know I had run away.

Seo Yehyeon threw a question at Gyeon Hajun.

“Hajun, did you learn cooking separately?”

“Yes, I learned from my noona and hyung. Since I’m the youngest child, I was raised quite spoiled, so under my noona’s philosophy that I should at least be able to cook and clean on my own, I studied hard.”

“Noona? Weren’t you the eldest?”

“I have a hyung who’s 7 years older and a noona who’s 6 years older above me.”

“That’s completely unexpected. You don’t feel like the youngest at all. Rather, Eden seems more like…”

“I’m an only child though?”

At my retort, Ryu Jaehee nodded with a face that showed deep understanding.

“Well, if my one and only son said he was dropping out to do hip hop, I’d probably beat him up too.”

Why are you empathizing with my parents’ feelings?

“Doby, don’t you collect… figures or anything like that?”

“That’s really a generalization. Not all otaku have the hobby of collecting figures.”

I shrugged my shoulders at Kim Dobin, who was waving his hand with a serious face.

“No, a friend said he was organizing and told me to take some One Piece figures. I was going to give them to you if you collected them.”

“Whoa, I want them! If there’s Whitebeard and Ace, please give me those!”

“It doesn’t seem like a generalization…”

Kim Dobin, unaware of his future as the shortest member of the team, was teasing Ryu Jaehee about his height and asking about his expected final height.

“What do you expect the youngest member’s final height to be?”

“176cm? Because I must always be a cute hamster.”

“Wow, this is the first time I’ve seen someone say something like that with their own mouth.”

176cm my foot. This guy will hit 185cm in 2 years, instantly becoming Reve’s tallest member.

“If Daydream has any questions too, please add a Q in front and send your questions.”

There were also difficult-to-answer questions mixed in, like whether it was true we were NewBorn trainees, and if so, why we left.

I smoothly passed on those. Why mention them and create trouble?

I was picking out appropriate questions to ask the members when suddenly the same content started appearing consecutively in the chat.

[Q. Is it true that Ryu Jaehee, former TK trainee, was kicked out of TK for assault?]

[Q. Is it true that Ryu Jaehee, former TK trainee, was kicked out of TK for assault?]

[Q. Is it true that Ryu Jaehee, former TK trainee, was kicked out of TK for assault?]

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