A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 117

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Regression Manual for an Idol Who Lost Their Original Intentions Chapter 117

With regular activities finished and time left until the year-end award ceremonies,

Rev finally had a break after a long time. The agency gave us a long vacation of two weeks.

The Chuseok holiday had long passed, but it was actually better that the vacation period wasn’t during the actual holiday.

“I’m going home, hyungs!”

The first one to bolt out of the dormitory was Kim Dobin.

Just hearing him talk, you’d think his family home was in some provincial area about six hours by car from Seoul, but Kim Dobin’s family home was in Incheon.

“I made beef bone soup, so eat that for meals. If it’s bland, add some salt and pepper.”

Gyeon Hajun, whose family home was in Suwon, also left the dormitory. What remained were me and Ryu Jaehee, whose family homes were in Seoul, and Seo Yehyeon, whose family home was in Yangsan, Gyeongnam.

Closing the lid of the beef bone soup pot that Gyeon Hajun had made a full pot of before leaving, Ryu Jaehee asked.

“Aren’t you hyungs going home?”

“I mixed up the dates and booked my plane ticket for four days later. I’m going in four days.”

Seo Yehyeon answered calmly.

“What about Eden hyung?”

“Me? I have a reason why I absolutely must stay at the dormitory until the day after tomorrow, so I’m also planning to go in about three or four days. But Jaehee, aren’t you going home?”

At my question, Ryu Jaehee nodded and grumbled.

“I’m just going to stay at the dormitory. Even if I go, I don’t have my own room anyway, and I’d have to take care of dinner for my younger siblings too. Mom gave my room to my sibling since I’m living in the dormitory. Ah, why doesn’t middle school provide dinner at school.”

“Ah, your siblings are middle schoolers?”

When Seo Yehyeon asked, Ryu Jaehee confirmed and trudged over to the sofa, slumping his back against it.

“That’s why I liked being the youngest member here. Being the eldest is too hard…”

Is being the youngest comfortable? I thought back to my youngest days in Under Crew, but I couldn’t really relate. I didn’t live getting pampered just for being the youngest in that scene.

Seo Yehyeon looked at Ryu Jaehee with a worried face and asked.

“Then if Yoon Eden and I both leave the dormitory, won’t you be alone? Can you handle being alone?”

“Come on, I’m not a seven-year-old kid. And anyway, Doby hyung will probably come back after just spending the weekend. School vacation hasn’t started yet.”

That was right. Kim Dobin was a high school student who had to attend school even during vacation to meet attendance requirements.

I was worried about leaving Ryu Jaehee and Kim Dobin alone at the dormitory. I figured I should stop by the dormitory once in a while to check if they were doing okay.

I sighed and got up. After going into my room to put on outerwear and carefully putting on a hat and mask, Ryu Jaehee asked.

“Hyung, where are you going?”

“A friend who went to the military is on leave.”

“Whoa, your friend went to the military?”

“Hey, I’m twenty-one years old.”

The thing I was most grateful to this damn system for was making me regress before I went to the military.

Thank you so much for not creating the tragedy of going to the military twice!

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“I’m sick of beef bone soup…”

Ryu Jaehee, sprawled over the dining table with breakfast laid out, muttered.

“Me too…”

I expressed my agreement while stirring the white broth with my spoon for no reason.

Since my school friends were all busy with college and I had dinner appointments packed, I also had to have breakfast and lunch at the dormitory. Thanks to that, I was now eating beef bone soup for the fifth meal in a row.

As I was eating the bland beef bone soup, I desperately craved hangover soup. Damn hangover.

“Still, Hajun made this thinking of us, so shouldn’t we eat it all? It’s not right to throw it away either.”

Seo Yehyeon, who had even given up his diet food thinking of Gyeon Hajun’s sincerity, said while looking down at the beef bone soup with dead eyes. Just looking at his expression, he looked like he wanted to throw it away right now.

“Jun wouldn’t want us to suffer like this either.”

“Then you call Hajun and ask if it’s okay to throw away the beef bone soup.”

“You do it. I can’t.”

After passing it back and forth to each other, we eventually gave up and grudgingly ate the beef bone soup.

“If we put ramen noodles in here, it would be beef bone soup with noodles…”

“Should we buy thin noodles and sliced meat to make it into seolleongtang…”

“Damn it, seolleongtang or beef bone soup, it’s all the same.”

Excluding Seo Yehyeon who doesn’t eat dinner, Ryu Jaehee and I were trembling in fear at the approaching dinner time, thinking of dishes using beef bone soup. We were already sick of just eating rice mixed with beef bone soup.

Then, my cell phone rang.

Seeing the caller’s name, I took a deep breath. What was coming had come.

-Yoon Eden! You little brat, hurry up and come!

As soon as I answered the phone, I held the cell phone far from my ear at the shouting voice and grumbled.

“Ah, why! I said I wasn’t coming! You told me not to come!”

-Shut up, hurry up and come! If you’re not coming home, come straight to the hotel!

At Mom’s call that cut off abruptly, I looked at the screen and stuck my tongue out.

I guess I’m going. I still haven’t forgotten the humiliation I suffered there before regression.

‘No, wait. The situation is different now, isn’t it?’

Back then I was a failed idol, and now I’m a rising star who escaped that fate, so isn’t this a great opportunity to get revenge from before regression?

“Hyung, Jaehee. Don’t you want to go eat dinner at a hotel buffet?”

“Suddenly?”

“Yeah, I’m treating.”

Seo Yehyeon, who kept refusing, couldn’t resist Ryu Jaehee’s tantrum that if hyung stayed alone at the dormitory, the food wouldn’t go down his throat, so he followed along.

“Yoon Eden, you crazy bastard…”

Reading the large banner letters at the hotel banquet hall, our destination, Seo Yehyeon trembled and muttered in a bleak voice.

Next to him, Ryu Jaehee was letting out an enlightened hollow laugh.

“What are you trying to do by bringing us to your grandfather’s 80th birthday party…!”

That’s right. The identity of the hotel buffet was my grandfather’s 80th birthday celebration.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I asked my mother and she said two people would be fine. Grandfather would be happy to have more people congratulating him.”

I winked at Seo Yehyeon, who was gritting his teeth as he spoke, perhaps unable to raise his voice. Seo Yehyeon kept rubbing the back of his neck.

“But didn’t you say hyung was treating?”

“My parents’ money went into it too, so it’s the same as me treating.”

“Hyung is really crazy.”

Ryu Jaehee shook his head and lamented.

Mom, wearing a hanbok, spotted me and immediately strode over.

Before I could feel moved by Mom’s face, which looked younger than my last memory from before regression, Mom mercilessly hit my back.

“You, really, coming to Grandfather’s 80th birthday wearing a tracksuit, a tracksuit? Oh my, I can’t live like this, really!”

“Ow! This isn’t a tracksuit, it’s a sports jersey!”

“And what’s all that hanging from your ears! Take it off right now!”

“Ah, fashion! Fashion!”

As the arrow now changed direction to piercings, I desperately defended my ears while making excuses.

“You, take off those piercings right now and take off your outerwear. People will curse at your mother when they see you. No matter what, you should dress appropriately for the TPO.”

“I’m wearing short sleeves underneath? Wouldn’t it look weirder to have no sense of season?”

Noticing Mom’s brow twitching, I quickly pushed Ryu Jaehee and Seo Yehyeon in front of Mom.

“Mom, these are our members. This is Seo Yehyeon, and this is our youngest member, Ryu Jaehee.”

“Didn’t Hajun come?”

“He went home.”

While watching the two awkwardly greet Mom, I looked around the tables that were already quite full. I quickly scanned for decent seats.

When I led the members toward a relatively empty table, cousins at the next table spotted me and greeted me.

“Oh, Eden, long time no see?”

This was my cousin hyung who got into law school.

“I heard from Jeonga that you debuted? Jeonga’s friend is a fan of your group. Where did you debut? TK?”

This was my cousin noona who’s a medical student. She’d be in her second year of pre-med now.

The probability that this noona, who only knew TK among the big 3 agencies, would know the small company LnL was 100%, so I just shook my head instead of answering.

“Didn’t Yoon Jeonga come?”

“She’s coming straight from academy. Jeonga is already a high school sophomore. If another high school dropout comes out of here, imagine how furious Grandfather will be.”

At my question, my same-age cousin who thought getting into S University was like passing the state examination giggled as he answered.

He was the guy I was endlessly compared to in grades every time we gathered during holidays as kids.

Of course, he also had bitter feelings from being compared to me. Because his height was 171cm.

“What? You’re too short, I can’t hear you.”

I picked at my ear with my pinky finger as I retorted, then turned back toward Ryu Jaehee and Seo Yehyeon who were sitting there awkwardly.

I could hear grinding sounds from behind but ignored them. Who told him to pick a fight?

“This is seriously the first time in my life I’ve come to someone else’s grandfather’s 80th birthday banquet just to eat.”

I lightly patted Yehyeon’s back at his dejected muttering.

“I told you it’s fine. It’s just one meal, what’s the big deal. My mother isn’t saying anything either.”

“But hyung, when you talk to your mother you call her ‘mom,’ but when you talk to us you say ‘mother.'”

“At my age, it’s a bit awkward to refer to her as ‘mom’ in front of others, don’t you think?”

As we exchanged meaningless conversation, the 80th birthday celebration soon began.

I was yawning through the endlessly boring program when the MC called for the grandchildren to come forward and bow, so I sluggishly got up with my cousins.

As I walked toward the chair where Grandfather was sitting, I blinked slowly.

Before regression, I had been hurt by his expression and words and immediately ran out, but now that I’d experienced it once, I didn’t think I’d be particularly hurt.

Grandfather’s face, which had been kindly scanning my cousins’ faces, hardened grimly when our eyes met.

To Grandfather, a former judge who had gotten all his children and grandchildren into prestigious universities and made them choose professions with the suffix ‘sa’ (professional), I was the ultimate eyesore for not going to university and choosing a job with ‘dol’ (idol) in it.

Even though before regression, among all his grandchildren, I was the one who became the most famous and earned the most money.

“I told you not to show your face until you quit that entertainer nonsense. Eden, I have no intention of receiving your bow, so go inside.”

Before regression, I was already miserable as a failed idol and hurt by my relatives’ whispers, but when Grandfather issued his order to leave, I couldn’t control my emotions and stormed out.

But the current me is not the past Yoon Eden who was hurt by words of that level.

I replied indifferently to Grandfather who was glaring at me.

“Why are you like that? I’m also doing work that has ‘sa’ in it, you know.”

“What? What kind of work are you doing?”

“Lyric writing.”

I could hear my cousin noona desperately trying to hold back laughter beside me.

“And it’s not entertainer nonsense, it’s artist. Please refrain from job-disparaging remarks. Family blunders are also included in celebrity mistake lists, you know.”

As I spoke while taking a prayer position, Grandfather’s face turned red and blue, so I bowed at super speed and quickly darted back to my seat.

It would be troublesome to get kicked out now when I hadn’t even performed the finale yet.

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