A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 320

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 320

Gyeon Hajun, the very person who had sent us to the living room, stopped Seo Yehyeon.

“I know Yoon Eden paid for all the ingredients, but he emphasized that sincerity is what matters. And it wasn’t even me who said that, he stressed it himself. Besides, it’s not like he went and bought the ingredients directly – Yeongjin Hyung bought them and brought them over.”

“Exactly, if we had come up with the idea a bit earlier, we could have ordered online, but we just made Manager Hyung suffer. It’s my brain’s fault for thinking of the reverse gift idea so late. But then again, isn’t money also a form of sincerity?”

As I continued lying on the sofa lamenting, Seo Yehyeon grumbled.

“You think I’m doing this because I hate seeing you laze around? We’re going to post photos, and if you’re the only one who looks like he did nothing, won’t you get criticized?”

My goodness, Seo Yehyeon is even worried about me getting criticized. What a thing to live long enough to see.

“Still, at this stage there’s nothing specific for me to do, Hyung. Do you think those two can succeed at double boiling on their first try?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s serious question, Seo Yehyeon glanced down at the chocolate being melted through double boiling and readily agreed.

“That’s true.”

“While Hyung went to wash his hands, Eden Hyung tried to put chocolate directly in a pot and boil it, so Hajun Hyung stopped him and sent him to the living room.”

“I wondered why that huge pot was sitting on the gas stove. He already did something to get kicked out of the kitchen.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had quickly dashed to the kitchen, held his cell phone horizontally and acted charmingly innocent.

“Hey, I was just there for a moment because I thought Eden Hyung might be bored. I’ve been ready to jump in and become a photo journalist at any time.”

“Ryu Jae, instead of you, can’t we ask Eden Hyung to take the photos? Eden Hyung takes much better pictures.”

“Right, Jaehee. Hand the camera over to Eden and come here to slice these frozen strawberries for me. Chop this much finely, and slice this much horizontally like this.”

After taking photos diligently, I handed my cell phone to Ryu Jaehee, who had finished his tasks, at Gyeon Hajun’s call and rolled up my sleeves.

“Now, decorate.”

“I’m pretty good at this kind of thing.”

I decorated the chocolate by arranging dried fruits, nuts, and cookies nicely on top of the melted chocolate. Ryu Jaehee took charge of photographing my work process.

“Oh, it has a nice feel to it.”

“Right? I think I arranged it pretty well.”

My shoulders rose proudly at the praise. After placing the final strawberries, the handmade bark chocolate to include in our reverse gift was complete.

“Once that hardens, we just need to cut it and wrap each piece individually, right?”

“It’s chocolate made with our hand feel, so I hope Daydream will like it.”

“Saying ‘hand feel’ sounds weird. Say it was made with sincerity.”

“But I didn’t expect Eden Hyung to come up with this kind of idea.”

“I only suggested the bark chocolate idea. The idea to include a handmade dessert in this reverse gift came from the Youngest Member.”

That was exactly why the members were working hard in the kitchen, double boiling chocolate.

Ryu Jaehee’s idea was cookies, but it was obvious we couldn’t make enough quantity with the dormitory’s oven, so as soon as I saw the handmade bark chocolate that one of my friends had bragged about receiving from his girlfriend for their first anniversary, I switched directions.

“Alright, let’s package them now.”

After neatly finishing the individual packaging, we handed the handmade chocolate to Manager Hyung who came to pick us up for the pre-recording.

The first comeback music show stage for 【Cheongryuga】 was Inkigayo, where Ryu Jaehee works as an MC.

Even while waiting in the waiting room from after the pre-recording until the live broadcast, Ryu Jaehee was busy studying his script until the run-through rehearsal.

Our turn was second from the end, but the comeback interview took place around the middle.

“Live broadcast Inkigayo! Rev has returned with a refreshing autumn song with a refreshing title! Let’s meet them right away!”

Ryu Jaehee, who had done hand gestures with the two other MCs, quickly joined us in the center while holding his MC microphone.

“Dream of me! Hello, we are Rev! Yes, Rev has returned with our new song 【Cheongryuga】. Eden-ssi, I mean Eden Hyung. What kind of song is Cheongryuga?”

Whether this was a music show MC or a member. Even after joining, Ryu Jaehee displayed his hosting instincts without any filter.

“Yes, Cheongryuga is a song that interprets the Korean sentiment of han, endlessly waiting for a departed lover, in a modern way. It’s a fusion genre combining hip hop and traditional Korean music that we’re trying for the first time.”

“Just hearing the song description makes me very excited. Could we hear a preview of the song before the stage?”

At the girl group member MC’s request, Gyeon Hajun and Ryu Jaehee picked up microphones and briefly sang the chorus. The other three were in charge of harmonies.

“We’ll see Rev’s comeback stage in just a moment, so please introduce the next stage!”

“Yes, the next stage is…”

* * *

-Wow the stage was insane, the choreography is so intense

-The oriental feel only really stands out during the fan choreography in the middle, overall it feels like traditional Korean music incorporated into hip hop?

-Yehyeon’s killing part is so addictive I keep listening to it, when Yehyeon does his part with his hands behind his back and snaps open the fan, it’s insane,,,

-Hajun as center ㅠㅠㅠㅠ The vocal line did so well ㅠㅠ

-Compared to what I was worried about, the stage wasn’t cringey and was clean and nice, if you blur your ears to the lyrics and focus on the melody it’s pretty decent

The first broadcast stage reviews were mostly positive reactions.

REVE_official☑ @LnL_reve

[Rev Dream]

Rev prepared a surprise gift because we wanted to repay even a little of our Ilmong-ies’ love♥

#Reve #Rev #Daydream #Cheongryuga #Mongyubyeolgok

(Seo Yehyeon_Gyeon Hajun_Kim Dobin_chocolate_double boiling.jpg) (Ryu Jaehee_ingredient prep.jpg)

(Yoon Eden_chocolate_decorating.jpg) (busy_packaging.jpg)

Share 13k Quote 1101 Likes 63.7k

-Hul I wondered why there was no brand label, it was really handmade???

-Oh my god, Jungsung, what happened?ㅠㅠ

-Wow the chocolate was already too pretty to eat but now it’s even more precious, I have to treasure it forever

-Oh my god how am I supposed to eat this ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Meanwhile, the fact that they didn’t make the two cooking-disaster brothers do any actual cooking and only had them prep ingredients and make dipping sauce ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-I’m jealous… I want handmade chocolate from my kids too…

The photos of Rev’s carefully made handmade bark chocolate spread widely through SNS and communities via Daydream’s verification shots.

HIT! [Quality of handmade chocolate made by male idols as music show reverse fan service.jpg] [381]

-Wow, it’s really pretty. The fans who received it would probably feel too bad to eat it ㅋㅋ

-Ah is this DTB 4 Yoon Eden’s group? I knew from DTB that he was an idol rapper but I didn’t know the group name was Rev

-Rev made a comeback this time~ Please show lots of love for Cheongryuga!

Thanks to this, it created a heartwarming reverse fan service story, and Yoon Eden’s group being Rev was well promoted once again, so it was killing two birds with one stone.

* * *

[Required Condition – You who disappointed 30,000 fans, make 30 million fans happy! (3,000,000/30,000,000)]

[Congratulations! You have achieved 1/10 of the required condition!]

[You are given +5 Initial Heart Points as a reward]

Should I be happy about this or not?

This means I need to increase it by 10 times more, right? While I was staring at the still daunting number, the System threw me another status window.

[HIDDEN QUEST]

[▶Improving relationships with members

-Content: Through sincere conversations and considerate actions with members, fill the relationship improvement level to 100%.

-Deadline: 3 months

※If you fail to achieve 100%, there is a ‘Regression’ penalty!]

[▶Relationship improvement level with members

-Seo Yehyeon(100%)

-Gyeon Hajun(99%)

-Kim Dobin(100%)

-Ryu Jaehee(99%)]

I thought the System had forgotten about it, but it threw me another damn relationship improvement countdown. Now it doesn’t even give rewards, damn System.

Raising the relationship improvement level by 1% with the two people who were relatively closest to me in this group within 3 months seemed easy at first glance, but considering that it suddenly dropped from 100%, I didn’t know when the other members’ relationship improvement levels might fall as well.

“Does the improvement level dropping mean it went back to how it was before?”

“Probably so. Improvement means making things better than before. In other words, it’s a downgrade.”

Seo Yehyeon, who was checking today’s schedule, answered my question that was more like talking to myself.

If I just maintain exactly this level of relationship with Seo Yehyeon, there shouldn’t be any downgrades.

I could roughly guess when the two people’s relationship improvement levels had dropped and how I should restore them.

The person I feel closest to is Gyeon Hajun, and next is Ryu Jaehee, but the fact that the only person I could confide these worries to was Seo Yehyeon was truly ironic.

“Hyung, what if you realize you shouldn’t depend on someone, but you absolutely must depend on them for the future?”

“What kind of ghost nonsense are you spouting?”

Seo Yehyeon frowned and answered immediately. Only after I patiently repeated the same thing three times did Seo Yehyeon finally understand what I meant.

After thinking for a moment, Seo Yehyeon replied concisely.

“Hit your head hard to give it a big shock and erase that realization.”

“Ah, be a little more serious.”

“I am being serious. That’s all you can do. The other person has to change into someone you can depend on, and that’s entirely up to them.”

At my grumbling, Seo Yehyeon turned his gaze back to his phone screen and shook his head slightly.

“But from what I’ve seen, you’ve never depended on Hajun.”

I hadn’t even mentioned Gyeon Hajun’s name, but Seo Yehyeon immediately caught on to who I was talking about.

“Even if you had depended on him, it was only briefly at the beginning of your slump, when you were struggling most with insomnia.”

That was exactly when the relationship improvement level had reached 100%.

“You try not to burden Hajun, so how can you depend on him? Depending on someone inevitably means burdening them.”

“Still, I thought I was relying on him when I needed to.”

“During the final featuring too, you always try to come up with convincing reasons so Hajun won’t feel burdened. Like an obsession.”

I could only let out a groan at those irrefutable words.

Whether I did that or not, Seo Yehyeon’s deduction, which had broken through a 99.9% accuracy rate, continued.

“But you’re not the type to be considerate while reading others’ moods at all, and that attitude only applies to Hajun. So the reason you developed that attitude must have something to do with Hajun, probably.”

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————