A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 470

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 470

Seo Yehyeon’s phone displayed a temple stay homepage.

Not even noticing the members who looked reluctant or had already lost interest, Yehyeon was excitedly sharing his personal dream that no one had asked about with an elated expression.

“I’ve always wanted to try a temple stay. In a quiet, serene place where no one recognizes me, just sitting peacefully drinking tea, meditating, walking around pagodas, listening to wooden fish sounds while cultivating my spirit.”

I could already clearly picture myself getting bored and planning an escape. Gyeon Hajun seemed somewhat interested, but it really didn’t suit me at all. Kim Dobin seemed to share similar thoughts and desperately tried to object.

“Temple stays require doing 108 bows, right? 108 bows are too hard. Even during Youngest Member’s college entrance exam period, he gave up halfway through.”

And that objection led Ryu Jaehee one step closer to the truth we had desperately hidden.

“You said your knees gave out from doing 108 bows before. So you’re finally testifying with your own mouth that you never actually completed 108 bows.”

“I didn’t give up, I just modified it slightly. So I did do 108 bows, but I never did 108 bows per person.”

“What’s this modified 108 bows?”

While Ryu Jaehee grabbed Kim Dobin and shook him demanding a quick explanation, Yehyeon tried to persuade us again with sparkling eyes.

“There are options where you don’t have to do 108 bows. There’s an experience type and a rest type, and if you choose the rest type, you can relax comfortably without following the schedule.”

Yeah, I get it. But I still don’t want to spend a week at a temple eating only vegetables.

“Let’s soothe our tired minds and bodies in a place with good air, away from the secular world, making prayer beads and drinking tea.”

Yehyeon passionately listed the advantages of temple stays. Anyone watching would think he was a temple stay ambassador.

Just thinking about five twenty-something men who should be running around everywhere having to stay cooped up in a temple for a week stringing prayer beads already felt boring. Wouldn’t it be much better to go overseas and learn surfing instead?

“And temple food is vegetarian. Vegan. So we won’t have to struggle with weight control after our vacation ends, and I won’t have to suffer monitoring your diets. How good is that for all of us?”

No matter how I look at it, only that last part seems to be his true intention.

To make Yehyeon give up his temple stay dream, I somehow had to find and present an option that looked better than temple stays.

Or find fatal flaws in temple stays that would force Yehyeon to give up.

“Alright, let’s start Rev’s 998th meeting. Where should we go for vacation instead of temple stays?”

“No, that’s wrong. We should have the 998th meeting on whether to do temple stays or not, then have the 999th meeting on what you mentioned.”

While I was arguing with Yehyeon about the 998th meeting topic, Kim Dobin, who seemed to suddenly remember something, let out a short contemplative sound and spoke.

“My aunt said she was sorry about making us stay at that haunted pension last time, and told us to come visit the valley guesthouse with the hyungs and Jaehee.”

“Doesn’t that place have ghosts too…?”

What a worry to have. Asking if there were ghosts there too. Kim Dobin immediately refuted Yehyeon’s unnecessary concern.

“I’ve been there several times with my parents. There are definitely no ghosts. There’s a valley right in front too. You can eat on the wooden platform and go straight into the valley to play.”

Kim Dobin showed us his phone screen displaying reviews on a map app.

“Here it is. This place also runs a restaurant, so my aunt stays there throughout the summer, and if you look at the map, there are lots of reviews. If you search online, there should be quite a few blog reviews too. My aunt is famous for her good cooking.”

The guesthouse named [Green Leaf Garden] had pretty good reviews. Lots of stars, and high ratings too.

“Oh, that’s right. Quite a few people come just for the restaurant without staying overnight? They say the chicken soup and spicy chicken stew are delicious. The seafood pancake too.”

“Then we should go. I vote for here.”

Ryu Jaehee, completely won over by the food, quickly sided with Kim Dobin’s aunt’s guesthouse. Right, what’s more important than food?

But unfortunately, Yehyeon didn’t prioritize food. Rather, convincing someone who wanted to feed us temple food with talk about how good the food was, especially meat dishes, wouldn’t work.

Yehyeon’s expression remained firm in wanting temple stays.

Kim Dobin also seemed to want to avoid temple stays and desperately promoted his aunt’s guesthouse.

“My aunt said she’ll provide all three meals, so we just need to bring ourselves. They sell alcohol there too. Since my aunt does the shopping, we don’t need to go to the mart. That means hyung won’t need to make us put back the frozen foods we pick.”

Though it was just an escape route to avoid temple stays, listening to Kim Dobin made that guesthouse seem like an excellent vacation spot.

Gyeon Hajun, who had been quietly sitting without expressing opinions or taking sides, finally spoke while looking at Yehyeon.

“Hyung, temple stays don’t have beds. You have to sleep on the floor.”

With just two sentences, Gyeon Hajun shook Yehyeon’s firm love for temple stays.

Yehyeon, who was terribly picky about sleeping arrangements, couldn’t sleep well without a bed. A person who needed at least a sofa having to sleep on the floor for a week? There was no way Yehyeon could endure that.

Nice, Gyeon Hajun!

Spotting Yehyeon’s wavering eyes, Kim Dobin immediately delivered the final knockout punch.

“Hyung, this guesthouse has rooms with beds.”

In the end, Yehyeon surrendered over just one bed, and our vacation destination was decided as Kim Dobin’s aunt’s guesthouse. Kim Dobin, who called his aunt, relayed the message to us.

“She says we can come starting tomorrow. Bed rooms are available too. Oh, and when we come, she wants us to bring two 8-watt light bulbs and a pack of 2-liter water bottles.”

“Then let’s all hang out together the first week and do our own things the second week. At least one week should feel like a vacation. If we’re always stuck together looking at each other’s faces, is this even a vacation?”

So we headed to our respective rooms to pack for the valley guesthouse we’d be going to tomorrow.

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Third day of vacation.

For 2 nights, we really only ate, drank, played in the valley water, lounged in our rooms, and played drinking games, card games, and board games.

As Kim Dobin had boasted, Kim Dobin’s aunt’s cooking was quite good, so even Yehyeon, who usually ate small portions, polished off a heaping bowl of rice with just kimchi and acorn jelly.

Though the guesthouse always had guests, since our routes were different, we rarely ran into them, so we could enjoy our vacation comfortably.

Since we were eating for free anyway, we ate avoiding lunch hours and played in the water during the empty lunch time, naturally becoming reclusive.

The guests had no intention of recognizing us, but I was drinking my own kimchi soup, which seemed a bit like excessive self-consciousness. At least so far, no one had figured out we were celebrities.

“Isn’t the chicken here really delicious? Native chickens that are actually caught fresh are definitely different. The chickens are really big too.”

“The chicken breast wasn’t dry but chewy.”

“Coming all the way here and only eating chicken breast is quite respectable.”

“Thank goodness aunt called us. We almost spent a week eating only temple food while stringing prayer beads, meditating, and walking around pagodas.”

“The amount of seafood in the seafood pancake was crazy. Hey, let’s have seafood pancake again for dinner.”

“Starve a bit for dinner! You already finished two bowls of chicken porridge!”

“Ah, that’s why I’m swimming hard now! How many calories can you burn swimming! If you want to starve, starve alone, human!”

“Guys, they’re looking down at us from the platform above. Let’s reduce the noise.”

Though the environment naturally couldn’t compare to Hawaii where we went on our last vacation, the satisfaction level was no less than Hawaii. The peace of mind from not having to transfer flights four times also played a part.

Taking advantage of the empty time, we lay comfortably on the platform eating watermelon that Kim Dobin’s aunt gave us in the late evening, expressing our wishes.

“Wow, I wish we could just rest peacefully like this without any incidents and then go back to Seoul.”

“Oh, hyung, that’s a flag saying something will happen. Now we won’t be able to rest because of you.”

“You’re really cursing me, cursing me.”

“Ugh, look at all the bugs swarming to the light bulb because it’s evening. Don’t we have bug spray?”

“The moment you spray that, it’ll all fall on the watermelon. Spray it after we finish the watermelon.”

And that curse really came true. Is this because of me or because of Kim Dobin? It must be because of Kim Dobin.

The incident happened on the morning of our third day at this guesthouse.

Kim Dobin’s aunt and uncle, who had left early in the morning by car to buy groceries at the mart, kept not returning, and while Kim Dobin was anxiously wondering what had happened, he received a phone call.

“A car accident? Geez, are you both not badly hurt? Do you need to be hospitalized?”

Unfortunately, the only child of this family was working overseas and couldn’t temporarily take over this guesthouse.

“Right. We can’t suddenly tell the guests who are staying to leave… What? There are reservation guests tomorrow too?”

We exchanged glances while listening to Kim Dobin relay the situation over the phone.

“That would be better, right?”

“For meals, well, I’m here and Yehyeon hyung is here too. Eden who has plenty of time and ingredients is here too.”

“I don’t think I’ll have enough time, so I can’t promise I’ll be helpful. Setting that aside, I agree too.”

“Wow, Yoon Eden is already laying groundwork. But then again, we’ve been freeloading for two days… The valley waterside is really amazing.”

Our opinions seemed to roughly converge on one. We conveyed our opinion to Kim Dobin, who was holding his phone to his ear, not knowing what to do.

“Dobin, tell them we’ll help for now. Just the free food and accommodation costs we’ve received, how much is that?”

Neungi chicken soup 90,000 won, seafood pancake 20,000 won, spicy chicken stew 70,000 won, duck bulgogi 80,000 won, seasoned acorn jelly 20,000 won, six bottles of alcohol at 5,000 won each.

Plus the pork belly and pork shoulder they bought when Kim Dobin complained he was sick of chicken, the ramen they willingly provided, and the carrots and cucumbers that became Yehyeon’s meal.

And free accommodation on top of that.

For staying a few days at a pension with no ghosts, just a slightly eerie atmosphere where nothing happened, it was too generous treatment. After receiving such treatment, it wouldn’t be right to just walk away clean.

And since it wasn’t peak season when people swarm like crazy but almost the end of vacation season, it seemed manageable for us to help.

“Aunt, then we’ll help for three days. You said you’re closing in September anyway.”

So we became temporary owners of a guesthouse, something never in our destiny.

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