A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 37

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 37

Yuje lightly tosses the can he was holding into the trash bin as the Transfer Student hesitantly shows him the letter.

After skimming the letter and shaking his head, Yuje pushes the Transfer Student’s back, sending her into the hallway.

A solo shot captures Yuje making a camera frame with his fingers before smoothly transitioning to the hallway.

As Yuje’s part ends, Eden’s rap begins with dark blue lighting as neon signs flicker here and there.

The exact scene from the teaser.

Eden, who had been looking diagonally while biting on a lollipop, turns a cup upside down, spilling its contents on the floor and flinging the lollipop behind him.

The moment the lollipop shatters on the ground, the camera zooms out to show Eden casually draping his arm over the Transfer Student’s shoulder.

The two head toward a dart machine mounted on the wall.

Eden glances at the letter the Transfer Student showed him, shrugs, and grabs a dart.

Eden’s dart hits dead center, and the camera closes up on the bullseye before zooming back out to a crowd of people gathered in a circle.

Doby, who had been breaking in the middle of the crowd, spots the Transfer Student and approaches her.

After looking at the letter and waving his hand dismissively, Doby playfully waltzes with the Transfer Student before sending her to Yehyeon.

Yehyeon looks at the letter and personally closes it for her, then leads the Transfer Student to a TV screen playing Just Dance.

Naturally taking the controller, Yehyeon dances Just Dance with the Transfer Student before gently pushing her onto a small makeshift stage.

Yehyeon’s solo shot ends with him wearing a playful smile as he turns a cheese ball container upside down, spilling the cheese balls, and the second verse chorus begins.

The second verse chorus features group choreography shots taken in front of a large mansion and a parked convertible.

Unlike the free-spirited choreography of the first verse, this was much more structured and sharp.

After the group choreography ends, Hajun and the Transfer Student appear standing awkwardly yet side by side on stage.

It was a scene paying homage to the first meeting of the two leads in High School Musical.

Hajun and the Transfer Student.

The scene of them facing each other and singing becomes blurry as flashbacks of Hajun’s continued interest in the Transfer Student play out.

The perspective shifts to the Transfer Student’s point of view as she opens the collection of sonnets Hajun had given her.

The bookmarked page is Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18.

And at the end of the sonnet, written in cursive: To. Daydream.

That handwriting overlaps with the letter’s “Come to me.”

With Yuje’s high notes, the camera fades out to show a group shot of the Reve members sitting or lying on sofas.

Soon the screen rotates 360 degrees, capturing group shots of Reve dancing and playing around energetically with the repeating hook.

Their faces are shown in close-ups one by one before all five collapse simultaneously onto the messy floor.

An aerial shot captures them like this as the song ends.

The chorus instrumental plays as a brief video continues like a post-credits scene.

Eden, Yehyeon, Yuje, and Doby take turns opening lockers and placing letters inside.

Hajun, who had been watching from inside the classroom and standing by the window facing the sunset in the empty classroom, opens the classroom door and stands in front of the lockers.

He opens his locker, puts in the letter he was holding, and takes out the four letters that were already inside as the screen goes black.

Only then does Miss Kim remove her hand from her mouth and open a social media app, typing with trembling fingers one character at a time.

Dream♥Daydream @revedream

Fuck, I could die without regrets

Currently losing my mind watching the music video for the 513,645th time

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Worried that she might be mistaken about the music video looking good due to the thick rose-colored glasses over her eyes, she immediately began exploring online communities.

-wow a high teen concept lololol house party instead of clubs lololol

-Capturing both fresh and club vibes at the same time? Is that possible? Yes, our kids can do it

-Hajun = model student, Yehyeon = popular kid, Eden = delinquent band vocalist, Dobin = famous celebrity lol, Yuje = basketball team ace

-The kids all came out looking handsome but while their roles seem fitting, except for Hajun, they’re oddly unfitting

└ Ah I agree, I think I know what you mean. Yehyeon probably lived a life far from being popular, and it’s kinda funny that Eden the main rapper is the band vocalist, and Dobin being a personal celebrity ㅋㅋ is just funny, and Yuje probably can’t play basketball

└Yuje can’t play basketball, that’s what Eden said lol I’m so frustrated hahaha

-I’m reading Sonnet 18 and thinking of it as something the kids are saying to us, and it’s so beautiful and lovely ㅠ

-Wait, was the teaser spoiling the music video ending? First time seeing spoilers in a teaser

-I’m just happy… there’s so much promotional capture material and gifs to extract…

└222 The song and music video turned out amazing, I hope they keep coming out like this in the future ㅜㅜㅜ

└The time when I was crying because there was nothing worth salvaging in my universe feels like a past life for real

└Shh let’s treat that as a non-existent song and music video now

└Bury

it

The reactions were generally positive, just like hers.

Having experienced the worst with their previous activity, the fandom atmosphere upon encountering a decent song and music video was practically like a festival.

After the music was released, Reve’s new song finally appeared on the TOP 100 chart.

[78th place-new ‘Reve – All Right or Night’ ♥8,102]

Even though the current chart is relatively empty, entering within the top 80 from the start. The firepower has definitely gotten stronger with the increased number of fans flowing in.

Although three of the four B-side tracks failed to enter the TOP 100, except for which took 99th place.

Considering that the previous album [My Universe] had no songs in the chart rankings except for the reverse-charting , this was quite a good performance.

After streaming the title track and B-sides that had settled into decent rankings on other music sites, Miss Kim glared at KICKS’ which was currently occupying 1st place on the chart.

Miss Kim, who had compared KICKS’ song she heard as background music in a cafe with her kids’ song, thought:

‘If we do this well, we might even surpass KICKS?’

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“Hyungs really don’t check the charts? Our ranking went up so much though?”

Ryu Jaehee, who was sitting on the cold floor instead of a chair in the rented studio, waved his cell phone.

“Yeah, tell me when we overtake KICKS’ ranking. Until then, I won’t look because it’s too frustrating. Don’t even mention rankings until then.”

I gritted my teeth and deeply furrowed my brow.

Our song is ranked below KICKS? Does this make sense? Are you telling me to witness this sight with my own eyes right now?

No matter how guaranteed that song’s success is, I won’t consider it a success unless we catch up to KICKS.

“Me too. And if you don’t want to catch a cold like me, sit on a chair instead of the floor, Jaehee.”

Gyeon Hajun, with a blanket draped over his shoulders, chimed in. Kim Dobin was humming an annoying melody beside him.

“Okay, it’s time now. Time to surpass KICKS.”

“Are you singing KICKS’ song in front of us right now? It’s not like you’re trying to annoy us…”

Our Doby seemed to have a bad headache, so I pressed firmly with my fingers to give him a scalp massage, and Kim Dobin let out a joyful exclamation as if it felt refreshing.

“I rewrote the lyrics! I rewrote them! Save me! Eden Hyung is killing me! Hajun Hyung, please stop Eden Hyung!”

“Don’t make him cry since we have to do a live performance later.”

“Hajun Hyuuuung!”

I snorted at the guy who cried out Gyeon Hajun’s name with a voice full of betrayal.

Did you think he’d take your side?

At perfect timing, the stylist and Manager Hyung burst through the studio door, allowing Kim Dobin to escape from my grasp.

Usually we would turn on the OA app and do lives personally, but today’s live was for the comeback commemoration and album unboxing, so the agency prepared it for us.

As I watched the camera and laptop being set up, the stylist called me first.

“Eden, haven’t you been sleeping lately? Your dark circles have gotten pretty bad?”

The stylist asked while applying cover makeup.

I was about to nod but realized I was getting makeup done, so I sighed and opened my mouth to respond.

“I want to sleep too, but I can’t.”

“Why, insomnia? Is it because of stress?”

“No, because of song production. But are they that bad?”

“It’s still coverable for now, but if it gets darker, it’ll show, right?”

“Wow, this is serious. This concept isn’t supposed to be haggard sexy, it’s supposed to be refreshing.”

He joked and giggled weakly.

The reality program team had proposed they wanted to film a Christmas-themed digital single and the working process, as well as music video shooting scenes, so I was pulling an all-nighter that wasn’t in my fate.

Since time was so tight, I thought we could just get a song from somewhere, but they said they wanted to capture me producing and told me to do the lyric writing and composition.

These bastards seemed to think songs just pop out when you go “abracadabra,” which pissed me off, but what could I do? When they say do it, you do it. We’re the weaker party here.

Worried that our Doby might misunderstand again, every time I went out I made sure to tell him I was going to the studio, and when I arrived at the studio I even took photos and sent them via messenger.

November 14th

[(Photo)]

[Arrived at studio] 7:36 PM

[Kim Dobin- Yes, fighting today too!] 7:36 PM

[Looks like I’ll be coming home after 4 AM again today, so tell Hajun not to wait and sleep first] 10:31 PM

[Kim Dobin- Yes!] 10:31 PM

[Kim Dobin- Hajun hyung says don’t overdo it too much] 10:32 PM

November 15th

[(Photo)]

[Arrived at studio] 7:01 PM

[Kim Dobin- Yes, confirmed! Fighting today too!] 7:01 PM

[Tell Seo Yehyeon that if he throws away the bread in the refrigerator again, his luggage will be thrown outside the dormitory the next day] 7:03 PM

[Kim Dobin- Hyung, Yehyeon hyung already threw it away…] 7:05 PM

[Kim Dobin- He says if you’re going to eat bread, at least buy whole wheat bread, what kind of chocolate cream bread and croquettes are you buying to eat at dawn, do you have any awareness that comeback is coming soon…] 7:06 PM

[Tell him to make people moderately angry]

[Ugh, the more I think about it the more pissed I get, is that something for a mistake machine to say] 7:08 PM

[Don’t tell him this]

[And buy some bread] 7:09 PM

[Kim Dobin- What kind of bread should I buy?] 7:09 PM

[Double chocolate cream bread and potato croquettes]

[If you buy whole wheat bread, I’ll wake you up at dawn and make you eat it] 7:11 PM

[Kim Dobin- Why are you giving me such trials…?] 7:11 PM

Thanks to this, our messenger was filled with roughly this kind of conversation.

Since we still hadn’t found a proper studio, I was indebted to Yongcheol hyung again.

This time when I said let’s eat Korean beef without Kim Junbeom, his smile stretched from ear to ear.

After finishing makeup and hair styling, when I returned to my seat, Gyeon Hajun was slumped in his chair, pressing his eye bags and muttering.

“Will it look better after makeup? It shouldn’t show much on screen…”

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