A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 182

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Regression Manual for an Idol Who Lost Their Original Intentions Chapter 182

 

 

 

 

 

The first day of filming for episode 1 only had cameras present, and everyone went about their usual daily routines. The appearance on must have been quite shocking.

 

“Won’t we get a 0.01% viewership rating? Even the fans will find it boring and stop watching.”

 

Seo Yehyeon lamented, thinking that he hadn’t really done anything except for face packs.

 

“But it’ll be different once we add narration.”

 

“Unless the narration carries like crazy, how different could it be?”

 

“The lines I wrote were so brilliant that the Main Writer was amazed when they saw them. They used them in the narration almost without any modifications.”

 

So just trust me, Ryu Jaehee said, drawing a V sign and smiling confidently.

 

If Kim Dobin had written the narration, I would have been quite worried, but since it was Ryu Jaehee, I wasn’t particularly concerned.

 

 

 

On the second day of filming, we gathered not at the dormitory but at a Hanok House.

 

It was a pre-filmed Chuseok special that would air during Chuseok.

 

Matching the subtitle “Five Brothers Under One Roof,” the Chuseok special proceeded with the concept of five brothers who had been living separately finally gathering at one house after a long time.

 

Since it was a spin-off sitcom completely different from Human Documentary: Five Brothers Under One Roof, we set up the Chuseok version settings before filming.

 

Just setting it up normally would be boring, so we added the extreme condition that the other four members (excluding the person in question) would write suitable settings, and then act out a character that combined all the written settings without exception.

 

After wearing hanbok and standing in a row to film Chuseok greetings, it was finally time to reveal the settings the members had written for each other. This would probably come out as behind-the-scenes footage after the sitcom ended.

 

“If there are any conflicting settings, you can choose the setting you prefer.”

 

First, Seo Yehyeon’s Chuseok version eldest brother setting was revealed.

 

 

 

[The eldest son who is the only successful one in our family and has the heavy responsibility of supporting the rest of the family (threatening to cut off financial support should be his catchphrase)]

 

[A celebrity who succeeded with his face – this hyung seems like he could save even a failed idol group with just his face, so I absolutely couldn’t write a failure setting]

 

[Got street-cast but messed up badly with poor acting skills, and just when he thought he’d fail, he made a comeback as a model]

 

[There’s no way that face wouldn’t get street-cast… celebrity]

 

 

 

Since everyone absolutely couldn’t write a failure setting for that face, Seo Yehyeon unanimously received the title of successful celebrity.

 

Seo Yehyeon’s face was all smiles as he received the costume prepared by the production crew that matched today’s concept.

 

“Next is the second hyung. Revealing Hajun hyung’s setting!”

 

 

 

[The second hyung who stayed alone to guard the house, waiting for his brothers who left for distant places to return someday (somehow this kind of role suits Hajun hyung…)]

 

[Started as a minor role with acting skills and wrote a legend by advancing all the way to Hollywood]

 

[Card shark]

 

[Successful top actor]

 

 

 

“Now the settings conflict. If he became a successful top actor and advanced to Hollywood, he can’t be alone guarding the house.”

 

Ryu Jaehee said, tapping settings 1 and 2, 4.

 

“What setting will Hajun hyung choose! Drumroll!”

 

“I’ll go with the second hyung who stayed alone to guard the house. Even if it’s just a setting, Hollywood is a bit embarrassing. And it would break Yehyeon hyung’s setting of being the only successful eldest son.”

 

I was a bit shocked. Gyeon Hajun abandoned my setting and chose Kim Dobin’s setting. When I turned to look at Gyeon Hajun with my mouth agape, I received a shoulder pat filled with apology.

 

“So combining these, we get: the card shark second hyung who stayed alone to guard the house, waiting for his brothers who left for distant places to return someday.”

 

“You’ll receive your costume.”

 

There were two sets of clothes in front of the production crew, as if they had prepared both actor version and house-guarding version.

 

“Oh, the durumagi looks pretty cool?”

 

Gyeon Hajun exclaimed in admiration as he looked at the costume he received. Like Seo Yehyeon’s costume, it seemed quite carefully prepared, so my anticipation for my own costume steadily grew.

 

“Hey, but who wrote card shark? Why did card shark come up?”

 

“Hyung, don’t you know? Someone with Hajun hyung’s impression would quietly smile and sweep all the money at the go-stop games during holidays.”

 

Ryu Jaehee shook his head, saying it was from experience.

 

“Third hyung, revealing Eden hyung’s setting!”

 

The white paper covering was torn away refreshingly, revealing the setting I had to act today.

 

 

 

[Ran away from home saying he’d do music]

 

[Unemployed bum – of course, hyung’s usual image isn’t that of an unemployed bum at all, and we know well that hyung works hard for Rev, so this means to rest a little even if it’s just in the sitcom]

 

[Hip-wannabe, no this sounds too much like an insult, a rapper with no successful albums]

 

[The prodigal third hyung who had a huge fight with his parents about doing music, left home and cut contact, then suddenly appeared after 10 years saying “Hey, how have you been?” (Special trait: hasn’t achieved anything)]

 

 

 

So combining all of this…

 

“Wait, why is Yehyeon hyung a successful celebrity while I’m the prodigal setting who ran out to do music and returned after 10 years as an unemployed bum with no successful albums!”

 

The production crew handed me a costume as I jumped around pulling my hair. I looked at the costume I received with a complicated expression. They were too faithful to the concept.

 

Even though I enjoy wearing sports jerseys, there’s no way wearing an unemployed blue-colored tracksuit as a complete set would be good. And…

 

“My music can’t fail!”

 

I pulled the tracksuit top’s zipper up to my neck and furrowed my brow as much as possible. Seo Yehyeon, who was wearing sunglasses and adjusting his coat, muttered reluctantly.

 

“The unemployed bum look isn’t the problem, that setting was the problem?”

 

I can tolerate being an unemployed bum. But I cannot tolerate not succeeding with music.

 

“Since you’ll never fail in the future anyway, experiencing failure like this once isn’t bad, right?”

 

Gyeon Hajun calmed me down as I still couldn’t accept the setting.

 

“Wait, Doby hyung. The 10 years later thing, you wrote that, right? But if it’s a setting where he returns after 10 years, doesn’t that mean Eden hyung ran away when he was twelve?”

 

“Someone became rich at twelve while someone left home at twelve.”

 

The Youngest Line, who had been giggling, looked at me who had changed into just the unemployed look top and gave their honest impression.

 

“Wow, he really looks like a real unemployed bum. He looks like he’d stand in an alley and extort money asking for cigarette money.”

 

“No, it strangely suits him well. This, it kind of interacts with his face, hmm…”

 

“What, man? Are you saying I look unemployed?”

 

“No, rather than unemployed, more like a thug? But hyung, you know too. Your impression is far from being diligent.”

 

Next turn, Kim Dobin tore off the paper covering his setting board with a face full of anticipation.

 

 

 

[Entered a temple saying he’d take the college entrance exam for the 5th time]

 

[A repeat student who freaks out at just the letter ‘T’ in ‘test’]

 

[Hyung somehow suits being a repeat student lololol]

 

[Second-time test taker]

 

 

 

As he read through his settings, the anticipation on Kim Dobin’s face gradually disappeared. Kim Dobin, whose eyebrows drooped into a ∧ shape, asked.

 

“Why am I a repeat student? Did you hyungs and Jaehee plan this all beforehand?”

 

It seems everyone’s hearts were aligned again this time.

 

“You have the image of someone who couldn’t pass the test once and keeps studying.”

 

“If you were unemployed, it would overlap with Eden’s concept, so moderately a second-time test taker?”

 

“Dobin, you somehow suit Buddhism well?”

 

“Our whole family is Catholic though?”

 

Kim Dobin, who was receiving a study hard t-shirt and gym pants, replied reluctantly to Seo Yehyeon’s words.

 

“Ah, wait! But isn’t this setting conflicting right now? How can a second-time test taker and fifth-time test taker be together?”

 

“Then just do fifth time. Fifth time is a repeat student.”

 

Thus Kim Dobin’s attempt to whitewash his identity as a second-time test taker came to nothing.

 

Finally, the youngest Ryu Jaehee’s setting was revealed.

 

 

 

[The younger brother who became almost a different person while they hadn’t seen each other]

 

[The younger brother who grew up so much that they couldn’t recognize him after not seeing him for a long time]

 

[The only new generation youngest among the old generation (presenting new generation solutions among hyungs who stick to old-fashioned ways)]

 

[National Intelligence Service]

 

 

 

“Three expected ones came out, but there’s one completely unexpected one mixed in right now. What’s National Intelligence Service about?”

 

“Why, doesn’t National Intelligence Service suit you pretty well? If you hadn’t become an idol, you could have been working as an agent in the National Intelligence Service.”

 

“Mastermind, mastermind.”

 

Listening to Kim Dobin’s words, someone who uses mastermind as a nickname came to mind.

 

Sounds like mastermind Yeonho. Rather than that guy who smirks so suspiciously while just stumbling around, someone who schemes while smiling so brightly like that seems much more like a mastermind.

 

Ryu Jaehee was given a formal suit to match his National Intelligence Service concept. The minor wears a formal suit, while the adult wears unemployed bum fashion training wear, seriously….

 

After we all changed into the provided clothes and came out, we started tracking down who wrote each setting.

 

“I don’t know about the others, but I can definitely tell which ones Kim Dobin wrote. Setting aside the settings that seem familiar from various media, he’s putting parentheses and explaining the settings in detail.”

 

“That’s apparently an otaku trait.”

 

As Ryu Jaehee and I were giggling together, Kim Dobin retorted with a choked up expression.

 

“You don’t even appreciate my great intention of wanting to help with character development!”

 

“Oh, right. Thanks to that, I became a prodigal son who returned without achieving anything.”

 

Finally, the full-scale filming began.

 

Only Gyeon Hajun went into the house first, and then we would enter one by one in order.

 

I was even the very last in order.

 

The members who were sitting in the living room chatting while wearing completely mismatched clothes of all kinds jumped up as soon as I entered.

 

A welcome that wasn’t really a welcome followed.

 

“My goodness, the third son who left home 10 years ago saying he’d do music has returned as the neighborhood unemployed bum!”

 

“Hyung, what on earth have you been doing all this time that you haven’t released a single album! Even when I search your name on Music Cloud, not a single song comes up!”

 

“The third hyung who used to be so trendy is wearing clothes like these that he wouldn’t wear even if given for free…!”

 

“Eden, what exactly have you been doing for 10 years.”

 

Why do my bones ache even though I know it’s just a setting.

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