A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 227

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Regression Manual for an Idol Who Lost Their Original Intentions Chapter 227

“Wow, you have good digestion, Youngest Member. To think you didn’t get indigestion even after eating at that house.”

At my admiration as I started the car, Ryu Jaehee turned to look at me with a haggard face.

“I didn’t get indigestion, but I almost did.”

“I got indigestion so much from eating at that dinner table that I just started saying everything I wanted to say.”

Especially when I was in my third year of high school when I declared I wouldn’t go to university – that was the peak. From that point on, my freestyle diss skills improved dramatically.

“But why didn’t you just give them a VIP ticket? Why did you do that?”

At Ryu Jaehee’s question, I silently swept up my bangs.

‘I’m kind of successful now and even holding concerts. Would you like to come? I brought VIP tickets to give you.’

‘No thanks, it’s a waste of time, tsk. What could a guy who didn’t even go to university and wasted his precious youth doing entertainer nonsense possibly have to show?’

‘You’re right. Now that I think about it, I don’t really have anything to show you, haha…’

I chuckled as I recalled the VIP ticket to Rev’s first concert that was rejected before my regression.

“Well, it’s just spite.”

I could understand being displeased with a high school graduate grandson who spent his early twenties aimlessly without achieving anything while claiming to be an idol, but when I asked you to come you didn’t, and now when I have no intention of inviting you, you say you’ll come – it really twisted my insides.

During my flop period it was natural, and even after we hit it big with , everyone just asked in surprise if I was really in the same group as Seo Yehyeon, but they didn’t even acknowledge how successful I was individually or how much effort I put into it.

By the time I achieved great success with composing and producing, I had already cut ties with my paternal family.

I hated seeing my parents’ bitter expressions when relatives and Yoon Hyeonho made snide remarks disguised as concern, so when I fought back asking why they were interfering when I said I’d live my own life, I’d just get scolded by Grandfather for being disrespectful.

Grandfather was strict with everyone, but he was especially harsh and cold toward me who had strayed from the set path.

I couldn’t grab the current Grandfather and ask if my failure was such an eyesore in his life.

The current me would be a grandson who, while irritating in Grandfather’s eyes, at least hadn’t failed.

So what could I do? Since Grandfather had no way of knowing those lost years, those damn bitter memories, I had to indulge in this much spite.

Looking back, I might have wanted recognition from Grandfather.

I might have wanted to show Grandfather, who found me distasteful, that the path I chose was right, not the path he had drawn for me.

Now I don’t need that recognition. Why does it have to be now of all times.

Perhaps sensing that my mood had darkened, Ryu Jaehee carefully added his words.

“That’s what family is like. Even when you resent and hate them, you can’t easily let them go.”

“You can let yours go.”

I replied while lightly ruffling Ryu Jaehee’s hair.

“At least our old man gives money.”

“Exactly. It would be so nice if I could just cut them off cleanly.”

Ryu Jaehee smiled bitterly.

“That damn ancestral mountain that no one acknowledges, what’s so important about being the eldest son. I hear that real prestigious clans get all their money from family associations, but our house seems like it’s just for propping up Father’s pride.”

This was also a story I was hearing for the first time across both before and after regression. The reason he was so terrible at cooking but so skilled at making pancakes was…

“You had many ancestral rites because you’re the eldest son? Like wearing hanbok and gathering in groups?”

“That’s what really prestigious noble families do, our house isn’t at that level. It’s just a rootless ancestral table like Hyung’s diss rap said.”

Is that why my filial piety diss rap #1 was such a hit? Because there were many families who could relate?

“But the funny thing is we have so damn many ancestral rites. Have you seen ancestral rites for great-great-grandparents? It was reduced to great-grandparents when paternal grandparents passed away, but we used to observe even those. Of course we observed holidays too.”

So 8 ancestral rites a year wasn’t an exaggeration? Whether my shocked expression wasn’t visible or not, Ryu Jaehee continued talking.

“So I was so sick of ancestral rite food. We ate it too often. I helped Mother since she was struggling alone, but I couldn’t understand why Mother was meekly taking on everything by herself when it wasn’t even her own family.”

That guy’s first younger brother obviously wouldn’t have helped since he looked like bad news, and the second younger brother would have been too young, so only Ryu Jaehee suffered together with his mother.

And they extort money from such a son? If it were me, I would have given them a proper tantrum.

“But Hyung, where are we going now?”

At Ryu Jaehee’s question, I turned the steering wheel and said briefly.

“My maternal grandparents’ house.”

“What…?”

“If you don’t want to go, should we just go straight home?”

“No. Since we already visited Eden Hyung’s paternal family, let’s visit the maternal family too.”

“We’ve visited both sides of my family, so how about coming out of that house and being my younger brother?”

“I’m already Hyung’s younger brother.”

Ryu Jaehee replied with a grin. That brat, I can’t help but find him adorable.

Before I knew it, the car had arrived at my maternal grandparents’ house parking lot.

“Grandmother! Grandfather!”

“Oh my, our grandson. You’ve gotten even taller. Why are you so thin? Does the company starve you?”

When I hugged my maternal grandmother whom I was seeing after a long time, she immediately poured out her worries while hugging me back. There is a calorie-obsessed guy in the same group.

When Maternal Grandfather asked where I had abandoned my parents, I scratched my cheek and answered.

“Mom and Dad are going to Seongbuk-dong on the actual holiday anyway. So I came because I thought Grandfather and Grandmother might be lonely.”

“Are your other grandparents still well?”

Perhaps noticing that I had run away midway again, Maternal Grandmother asked carefully.

“It’s better than when I was in high school though.”

“My child does so well on his own, what is there for your other grandparents to worry about…”

“It’s probably not worry about me. Oh, Grandmother, Grandfather. I’m having a concert this time, would you like to come? I brought invitation tickets too.”

“Huh? Is it okay for this old lady to go? Isn’t that something only young people go to?”

“Hey, what does it matter? You can come watch your grandson’s cute performance.”

Ryu Jaehee muttered while looking at me as if I were possessed, as I sat quietly eating apples and answering Maternal Grandmother’s questions affectionately.

“How can an unfilial wretch and a heavenly filial son coexist in one person?”

Why would I treat my paternal grandfather who just complains about entertainers the same as my maternal grandmother who believed in and supported me no matter what path I took?

Ryu Jaehee was also answering my maternal grandmother and grandfather’s questions with a much more comfortable expression than at the paternal family.

Of course, their questions were mainly about me, and the me that Ryu Jaehee described was someone extremely idealized.

So much so that even the subject of the story wondered if it was really about himself.

After comfortably and fully eating the dinner they prepared at my maternal grandparents’ house and receiving plenty of spending money, we returned home.

“Oh, now Podo doesn’t welcome me anymore.”

“Now you’re also someone he knows.”

I replied while scooping up Podo, who had rushed over like lightning upon hearing the front door open, then turned around indifferently upon seeing it was us.

As I was filming videos of Podo to watch whenever I missed him, my parents returned home.

I glanced at Father and pushed the golf bag in the living room behind the curtain, but surprisingly Father didn’t say anything to me. Though his expression did look a bit complicated.

‘What on earth happened after I left? Should I ask Yoon Jeonga?’

As I was texting Yoon Jeonga, Mom asked me.

“Eden, do you want to come to your maternal grandparents’ house tomorrow?”

“No, I’m meeting friends tomorrow so I can’t go.”

“Really? Your maternal grandmother will be disappointed. She wanted to see her grandson’s face so much.”

“I thought she might, so I went there today in advance.”

Mom patted my back saying I did well.

“And yet you caused such a scene at your paternal family.”

I shrugged at Father’s displeased voice.

“I didn’t even swear and the lyrics were only based on facts.”

“Even so, how could you tell Grandfather that he completely copied society’s ills into the family!”

“Wage discrimination based on education and allowance discrimination based on education! That’s what ills are!”

Seeing Father looking around for his golf club, I quickly fled to my room with Ryu Jaehee. Like father, like son – he’s exactly like Grandfather.

[Yoon Jeonga- What happened after Oppa ran away like that?] 10:21 PM

[Yoon Jeonga- Grandfather said he couldn’t see the letters so he made Hyeonho Oppa read it aloud] 10:22 PM

[Yoon Jeonga- Hyeonho Oppa censored a lot on his own] 10:23 PM

[Yoon Jeonga- Of course even with that Grandfather was plenty angry…] 10:24 PM

[What do you mean “plenty angry” to an adult, “plenty angry”] 10:24 PM

[Yoon Jeonga- Look at yourself Oppa] 10:25 PM

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The last day of vacation.

After finishing breakfast, Ryu Jaehee and I left our house, briefly met with our respective friends, and returned to the dormitory together.

“Ryu Jae, how was it? Was it fun at Eden Hyung’s house?”

Kim Dobin, whose cheeks seemed mysteriously plumper, greeted us while sprawled out on the dormitory sofa.

At Kim Dobin’s question, Ryu Jaehee rubbed his face with a dry wash and lamented.

“If I say it was fun, I feel like my character will become irreversibly corrupted.”

“Huh, why?”

“Honestly! Honestly, there wasn’t a dull moment! But the fact that I found it thrilling to watch somehow felt like I was committing a sin!”

Seo Yehyeon, who had just arrived and was standing at the entrance listening to Ryu Jaehee’s outburst, muttered in a dazed voice.

“Sin… I committed a great sin against Caesar…”

“What’s wrong with him?”

“Why did I upload that photo and make our baby hear such harsh words…! If our Caesar could read Korean, she definitely would have gotten depression!”

“I think I’m going to get depression because of you, Hyung.”

Is being told you resemble me really such harsh words? Seo Yehyeon staggered as he took off his shoes at the entrance and entered the dormitory, scanning my and Ryu Jaehee’s faces and bodies before looking at Kim Dobin with a relieved expression.

The relief quickly turned to shock.

“Doby! I told you to be careful with holiday food!”

Seo Yehyeon rushed to Kim Dobin, grabbed his slightly plumper cheeks, and screamed as if in agony.

“Grandmother kept feeding me saying I was too skinny, so what could I do? I couldn’t become an unfilial grandson who refuses Grandmother’s food.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been drinking water in the kitchen, immediately burst into coughing fits upon hearing the words “unfilial grandson.”

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