A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 462

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 462

Writer Kim Jeongseo X Kang Seyoung starring ‘Love Line Design’ trailer released

Actor Choi Jin writes the melodrama male lead myth… What about in ‘Love Line Design’?

The queen of melodramas, Writer Kim Jeongseo’s return, this time it’s the fashion industry

Choi Jin·Kang Seyoung starring ‘Love Line Design’, first broadcast viewership rating 3.2%

From the writer and lead actors to episode 1 content coverage, news articles poured out almost daily. It was an incomparable volume offensive compared to when 【Project Blind Date】 launched.

As expected, the name value of renowned writers and lead actors and the gap in investment capital couldn’t be ignored.

Moreover, 【Project Blind Date】 and this show awkwardly overlapped in day and time slot, creating a situation where viewers had to choose between the two.

Anyone could see that 【Project Blind Date】 was at a disadvantage.

“It’s three times our episode 1 viewership rating.”

After Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama first broadcast ended, Gyeon Hajun muttered with a complicated expression while looking at the viewership rating article. No matter how burdensome the attention from the drama was, he seemed to dislike his drama being pushed back.

Including Gyeon Hajun, everyone around worried about 【Project Blind Date】 becoming like a candle in the wind, but only I remained calm.

Knowing the future really helps mental health like this. Except for the very early debut days and DTB, of course.

However, Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama couldn’t surpass 【Project Blind Date】’s viewership ratings from when the episode 1 and promotional buff ended until Gyeon Hajun filmed the drama finale.

It seemed that having tasted overly stimulating makjang once, orthodox romantic comedy approached viewers’ palates as too bland.

This was naturally proven not long after.

“Mom… gave up on Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama.”

Even Gyeon Hajun’s mother gave up her favorite writer’s drama and chose the drama her son appeared in.

I thought it was very natural, but Gyeon Hajun seemed quite shocked that his mother gave up Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama.

The lackluster viewership ratings being pushed back by the same time slot drama 【Project Blind Date】 would have been tragic for them, but the real tragedy was just beginning.

Controversy from the start? ‘Love Line Design’ embroiled in sponsor company power abuse controversy

△△Mall speaks out…’Love Line Design’ side unilaterally notified contract termination

Power abuse controversy for unilaterally notifying sponsor companies of contract termination and changing sponsoring companies.

‘Love Line Design’ glorifying Japanese colonial period? Historical view controversy erupts over ‘Gyeongseong era’ expression

Problematic ‘Gyeongseong era’ wording…Does historical distortion make sense in public broadcast drama

Not ‘Gyeongseong era’ but ‘Japanese colonial period’…Don’t package the nation’s suffering as romance

Historical view controversy that erupted due to the Gyeongseong era fashion part.

Staff speaks out…’Love Line Design’ lead actor Choi Jin’s verbal abuse and power abuse on set, not only staff but also several fellow actors suffered

‘Power abuse drama’ controversy strengthened by Choi Jin’s on-set power abuse exposure

‘Power abuse man’ Choi Jin sued as adulterous partner

Melodrama male lead an adulterous partner who cheated with married woman? ‘Love Line Design’ viewership rating drops sharply to 1.1%

Lead actor Choi Jin’s on-set power abuse and adultery controversy.

‘Love Line Design’ has three actors from specific agency…Now it’s connection casting controversy

Connection casting and nepotism casting controversy because two actors from the female lead actor’s agency were cast as supporting roles.

Thanks to this, Woo Gyeonghae, the only idol among the actors, was caught up in unexpected nepotism casting controversy and eventually had to prove that he auditioned himself.

Actually, even back then I thought, is the hate this severe?… It was absolute chaos.

All the controversies I remembered erupted one after another, and Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama met an early termination ending just like before regression.

Watching the drama he almost filmed spectacularly sink, Gyeon Hajun’s review was truly simple, if it weren’t for my dissuasion.

“Even triple misfortune wouldn’t explode like this.”

It was a remarkably calm review for someone who realized he avoided a fate of getting royally screwed.

“But Eden hyung, you openly rejected Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama back then and pushed Project Blind Date. Don’t tell me… hyung, did you know this would happen?”

When I casually nodded because explaining was bothersome, Kim Dobin covered his mouth and said in a trembling voice.

“Could Eden hyung be… a regressor?”

“That’s credible! Who would have thought Project Blind Date would become this much of an issue over Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama!”

“Come to think of it, even early in debut, didn’t this guy prevent our comeback from almost failing by using his grandmother as an excuse to move up the comeback date?”

Toward the members who brought up ancient history and made a fuss about whether I really regressed, I smiled kindly and opened the stock app on my phone.

“Yeah, I came back after seeing the future. Since I’m caught, I’ll tell you stock picks that will rise, so hurry and buy. This isn’t an opportunity that comes every day, right? More accurate predictions than investment experts!”

Everyone took out their phones as if enchanted and bought the stocks I told them about.

“Hey, Yoon Eden. But did you really come back from the future? Not some parallel world thing that was like puberty back then?”

“Haha.”

“Hyung hyung hyung hyung, do you remember being thirty? How did your personality become so ruined at thirty?”

“Haha.”

“Eden hyung, do you remember all the concepts that will be popular or variety shows that will hit? What about entertainment industry trends?”

“Haha.”

“You’re all not seriously saying this right now…?”

“That’s what I’m saying, Jun.”

And the next day.

“What, this plummeted! You said it would rise 100%! I’m an idiot for believing the bullshit about coming back from the future!”

“Well, for Eden hyung to have come from seeing the future is a bit… it was just his beastly intuition again.”

“Right, if it were me and I came back to the past, I would have swept the lottery first place and gotten suspected of number manipulation.”

Looking at the members tearing their hair while watching the stock graph that drew a bearish candle and coolly opened a water park, I smiled kindly like yesterday.

I successfully escaped suspicion of being a regressor like this. I didn’t know I’d escape in just one day. Did those guys only do short-term trading?

But plot twist, those were really stocks that would rise. If you bury them for about 2 years?

It’s like the marshmallow experiment. Friends who sold stocks quickly suffered losses, but friends who let stocks sit for a long time faced stocks that jumped several times in their stock accounts.

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While Gyeon Hajun’s first drama’s competing drama spectacularly exploded and walked the path of downfall, we were also steadily preparing our repackage album.

Music video filming also ended successfully and we released repackage album comeback articles.

Rev, comeback with repackage 3 months after regular release

Rev, July 27th comeback…repackage album ‘Daybreak’ scheduler revealed

“Oh, we’re releasing simultaneously with Altair.”

“Wow, we’re finally facing off head-on like this.”

As I lightly threw a jab toward the air, Ryu Jaehee looked at me with eyes saying to act my age. Feeling embarrassed, I quietly lowered my fist.

If Ryu Jaehee said he was a regressor, wouldn’t everyone have believed it? I probably would have too.

Anyway, Altair’s comeback articles, who would simultaneously release with us, also poured out like a tide. We couldn’t match the volume of major agencies. Major and small agencies would have different connections with entertainment reporters from the start.

‘Come to think of it, was it this year or next year that I got involved with KJ’s plagiarism case?’

Since quite some time had passed since regression, my sense of time was hazy, but I could tell enough by listening to the songs, so I wasn’t worried.

And I know the composer very well too. I even worked together like before regression.

If Cha Yeonho succeeded in making KJ come to his senses, he probably wouldn’t follow the same route as before regression, but if he failed… I’d have to forcibly make him come to his senses.

The circumstances of how I found out I was plagiarized before regression were quite infuriating. This wasn’t simple plagiarism but a problem connected to work exploitation.

“Since hyung said he’d definitely make me win next time, I’ll win this time.”

Ryu Jaehee’s pledge-like words cut off my thoughts that were extending to the current affairs program content that was the small ball I launched before regression.

“Hey, ‘this time’? I’ll keep winning from now on.”

I lightly ruffled Ryu Jaehee’s hair and got up for stage practice. I said to raise band ensemble to amateur level only, but if possible, semi-pro is better than amateur.

According to the date, the repackage album’s title song music video was also released.

Unlike the three music videos of regular 2nd album that had strong conceptual characteristics, natural band practice and performance filming were the main scenes. Cuts of lying down against the late dawn sky also passed by briefly.

The overall visual tone was blue, creating an atmosphere that flowed between refreshing and calm.

There were also cuts filmed wearing summer school uniforms. It felt awkward wearing a school uniform after so long. Still, fortunately, I didn’t look terrible in the school uniform yet.

[1st place-new ‘Reve – pale blue’ ♥99,999+]

[2nd place-new ‘Altair – egoist’ ♥99,999+]

Since the music source was released, we had consistently ranked higher than Altair.

Meanwhile, Kim Dobin kept spouting nonsense about whether we should hold a ritual for the recording studio ghost. It’s thanks to me, not thanks to some ghost.

Our comeback ended up happening simultaneously with Altair on Inkigayo, as if it had been planned.

The final stage order went to Altair. When I suggested we just do it on M Countdown, this damn agency insisted on a terrestrial music show.

At Kim Dobin’s whispered suggestion to go to the hospital store, I left the waiting room using the bathroom as an excuse, worried Seo Yehyeon might catch us.

KJ was holding the door handle of the waiting room next to ours when he spotted us. Since we had already finished greeting each other in the waiting room earlier, I was just going to nod and pass by, but KJ approached us first.

Thinking he might be trying to pick a fight for not greeting him, I sent Kim Dobin behind me and stared at him intently as if having a staring contest. After a long staring match, I was the first to speak.

“What is it?”

KJ smiled awkwardly, took a step back, and explained his strange behavior.

“Ah, excuse me. Yeonho keeps saying you’re thirty-one years old, so I was wondering if Yoon Eden was lying about his age on his profile. He also keeps saying he gets you two confused. Though I don’t see any particular resemblance that would cause confusion.”

So Cha Yeonho has finally lost it.

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