A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 480

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 480

“Be careful going down!”

“Come again next summer. When you come then, rest comfortably and make up for all the rest you couldn’t get this time.”

“Haha…”

We left the guesthouse where so many things had happened over six days, being seen off by Kim Dobin’s aunt and uncle who had briefly come out from the hospital.

“See, I told you. If we had gone to the temple stay like I said, we would have come back after resting comfortably while feeling the phytoncides in the mountains.”

“I think it was meaningful enough just that we ate plenty of meat and Chinese delivery food!”

“That’s the problem, that is!”

Still, Seo Yehyeon’s rampage was less intense than usual. Because of the hard labor, we had burned more calories than we consumed, so no one gained weight.

It was a happy ending for both us and Seo Yehyeon.

“Still, folding and stacking five blankets to sleep on made even the floor bearable. My back hurt less than sleeping directly on the floor. So next time, let’s definitely go to a temple stay.”

“Of course. If you stack that many blankets, it’s basically a bed. And if the temple stay only gives one blanket per person, would you take all our blankets to sleep on, hyung?”

Seo Yehyeon’s eyes shook wildly at my retort. But seeing how he stubbornly didn’t answer no, it seemed like he would readily take all our blankets for his own good sleep.

Since there’s no conflict with me, Seo Yehyeon isn’t maturing either, tsk tsk.

Now that there’s nothing to cause conflict, it seemed unlikely that Seo Yehyeon would mature this time.

Like this, the six days of vacation flew by in an instant.

We worked for three days, or more precisely just two and a half days, but it felt like we had worked non-stop for all six days.

As soon as Seo Yehyeon arrived at the dormitory, he immediately packed his bags and headed to his family home shouting “Caesar!”

“I’m going now…”

Ryu Jaehee had to go fulfill his music show MC schedule without even a moment to catch his breath after returning to the dormitory.

“Have a good trip, Ryu Jae.”

Kim Dobin, who had suggested his aunt’s guesthouse as an option only to plunge the members into a labor hell, saw off Ryu Jaehee going to his schedule with a quiet demeanor instead of his usual teasing.

“Doby, don’t you have any Trouble Trouble filming this week?”

“Not this week, and next week is just a guest special Seoul filming that’ll end in one day. So I’m planning to just go back and forth from home without coming to the dormitory.”

Seeing the youngest line with individual schedules, I felt truly fortunate that we had appeared on DTB last year instead of this year. Isn’t this the busy time preparing for the main competition?

My gratitude toward Yongcheol hyung, who kindly made time in such a busy schedule to meet with us, only grew. I was ready to gladly accept it even if Yongcheol hyung requested featuring for his team participants.

“Hyung, are you leaving the dormitory? Hajun hyung says he’s going home.”

At Kim Dobin’s very random question of unknown significance, I raised my eyebrows, and Kim Dobin added a supplementary explanation.

“If you leave the dormitory too, hyung, Jaehee will be alone, so I was thinking of staying. It would be boring to be alone at night for a whole week.”

He’s even worrying about the youngest member who might get lonely. Kim Dobin has really grown up.

“I suggested we go home together, but Jaehee said he has many appointments scheduled so he’ll just stay at the dormitory.”

“You go home. I’ll stay.”

Anyway, I also had appointments lined up, so even if I went to my family home, I’d spend much more time outside than at home, making it more convenient route-wise to stay at the dormitory.

When Gyeon Hajun heard that Ryu Jaehee and I would stay at the dormitory, he worried about our meals and tried to create bear soup hell season 2, which I desperately refused.

I didn’t want to experience again drinking bear soup with red pepper powder sprinkled on it as a hangover cure the day after drinking.

One day after sending the members to their family homes.

“Hyung, did you order a package?”

Ryu Jaehee asked as he entered the dormitory carrying a large box.

“No? I didn’t order anything. Didn’t another member order it?”

“It says it’s food that needs refrigeration. I should open it and put it in the fridge for now, should I post about opening this in the group chat?”

When we opened it, the box was full of salad packs. With impeccable timing, a text saying delivery food had been delivered arrived simultaneously with Seo Yehyeon’s message in the group chat.

[Seo Yehyeon- I heard from Doby] 9:11 AM

[Seo Yehyeon- That Yoon Eden and Youngest Member are staying at the dormitory?]

[Seo Yehyeon- I was thoughtful so you wouldn’t order delivery food] 9:12 AM

[Seo Yehyeon- I ordered salads with toppings so you won’t get bored, so don’t eat delivery food and eat those] 9:13 AM

Damn, how does he make my gratitude not last even two days.

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As hip-hop rose to the mainstream of popular culture, the crew hyungs who finally caught the zeitgeist also became busy with song work, featuring, album work, and rap lessons, so gathering together like this was really after a long time.

Due to heavy traffic, I arrived at the meeting place slightly later than the appointed time.

“Hey, we should still keep it secret from Geumma.”

“Are you still doing that crap? I can’t wear rings except couple rings because of you, rings! You bastard!”

It was noisy beyond the door as they were having some interesting conversation.

But when I opened the door and entered, the hyungs who had been chattering noisily just moments before shut their mouths as if they had made a pact.

Wait, are they ostracizing me right now? Our hyungs, of all people?

“What is it, what’s going on. Why are you acting like this.”

When Juseong hyung tried to open his mouth, Taehoon hyung quickly blocked him and shook his head with a serious face.

“Don’t tell him. You’ll hurt his feelings.”

Juseong hyung, eyes wide, shook his head frantically. When I looked around at the other hyungs asking them to speak up quickly, they all kept their mouths shut with the same expression as Taehoon hyung.

But seeing some of their lips twitching, it didn’t seem to be as serious as Taehoon hyung was making the atmosphere.

The fact that Taehoon hyung was creating the atmosphere in the first place was proof that it wasn’t a serious matter.

Puha-

Juseong hyung, who finally removed Taehoon hyung’s hand from his face, frowned deeply and pointed at Taehoon hyung.

“I borrowed some collective intelligence to propose to Ayeon. But this bastard is talking nonsense saying it shouldn’t reach your ears!”

It really is nothing serious… no wait. Is this crew finally getting a married man? Of course, that’s only if the future sister-in-law accepts.

“Wow, man, you’re cruel, so cruel. You just had to reveal that you’re proposing to another woman in front of her boyfriend.”

“Come on, when was that dating rumor? Are you still milking it?”

I grumbled to Taehoon hyung who was clicking his tongue and shaking his head. Juseong hyung also seemed quite fed up with this crazy dating rumor being continuously milked, so he attempted to eliminate it with new bait.

“Speaking of which, what about MoonK that guy confessed to last year?”

“He got rejected.”

“Eden got unilaterally rejected without even getting to share couple rings once, so they’re not a couple.”

“Right, like our Seong-i, no dating rumors, no couple rings.”

“Besides, our Eden even had that couple ring he prepared for MoonK taken away. That couple ring is preciously on MoonK’s girlfriend’s finger…”

“That’s not being taken away. That’s compensation.”

Juseong hyung didn’t give up and brought up even the cases of Curdy Boy who got K.O’d by a counter-confession attack after launching a confession attack at me, and Toohyeok who received a Love Actually sketchbook confession, but it couldn’t work.

“Hearing this, you really did try poking around here and there. But why are all the guys you confessed to men?”

At Gijeong hyung’s teasing question, I threw a puffed snack from the appetizers into my mouth and replied indifferently.

“Still, I’m an idol, so I can’t do it to women. If I made a public confession like this to a woman, our group’s youngest member would come chasing with a bat.”

I can’t do it even jokingly. Even the scandal with Juseong hyung, who had long hair, was headache-inducing enough.

“Man, I heard you act like a hyung in the team, but you’re completely under the youngest member’s thumb.”

Taehoon hyung giggled while messing up my hair.

Come to think of it, that’s true. Me chasing after the crew hyungs with a bat? That’s unimaginable, but Ryu Jaehee can do this.

While I was pondering ‘proper hierarchy should be established vs Kim Dobin might be different but Ryu Jaehee knows the line exactly and keeps it sharp so it’s fine’, the hyungs were telling Juseong hyung how to return to being single.

“There’s a label concert. Invite your future wife there and do a public proposal.”

“Or make an album from now. How about proposing with album tracks? Track 1. With me, Track 2. For life, Track 3. Together, Track 4. Will you, Track 5. Marry me. Wow, the idea is brilliant.”

“Hey, good, good! Just make five songs!”

Even I, who’ve lived the all-male route, can immediately tell that’s not it. What kind of fan song is that.

“Just do a classic proposal. Book a hotel room, decorate it with flowers and balloons, and propose while giving a proposal ring. If you propose like the hyungs said, sister-in-law will run away.”

“Isn’t it too simple? Doesn’t it seem like you didn’t put in enough sincerity and thought?”

I told Juseong hyung, who was worrying about everything, the eternal truth.

“Classic is best. And if you spend a lot of money, it can’t be simple, hyung.”

From Juseong hyung’s proposal to recent updates, the topic now moved to DTB Season 5.

“I didn’t know DTB’s dark age would come this quickly. Honestly, even I as a judge find it boring, so what about the viewers? There are no characters, no characters.”

“Yongcheol, that character standard isn’t this guy, right?”

“Eden is out of the question. I’d be satisfied with someone at least at Skoen’s level, but this season doesn’t even have anyone of that caliber.”</Human: You are an ELITE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR for Korean web novels (COMMERCIAL QUALITY).

“Eden, use your head. You’ve set the bar too high. Hey, if it’s SCOEN level, damn, that’s Season 3 BQ level.”

“From what I saw, they should have set him up as a producer to keep this firepower going, but Dubnet is too stubborn about that damn label producer system.”

“Exactly. I heard Wonbaek Hyung is also quitting as DTB producer next year, so I don’t know what’ll happen. There doesn’t seem to be anyone talented enough in our label to replace Wonbaek Hyung as producer.”

Yongcheol Hyung also looked troubled. From what I remember, Wonbaek quit being DTB producer and Dubnet also gave up their stubborn insistence on the label producer system, reaching some kind of compromise. So I think Yupi came in to fill Wonbaek’s position.

“Ah, Eden.”

Yongcheol Hyung, who had been sighing deeply, called me with an expression like something had just occurred to him.

“Did Jiwon Hyung happen to ask you for any favors regarding featuring?”

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