A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 519

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 519

Even before Juseong Hyung could speak, the hyungs who noticed first started stirring.

“Don’t tell me the big announcement is marriage news?”

“Come on, no way. He wouldn’t do something so cruel as to invite his ex-boyfriend here for that.”

As Juseong Hyung’s expression soured, the hyungs who had shut their mouths began ganging up on him with faces like they’d caught something good.

“No way… right…?”

“Breaking up not too long ago and doing that would be against common decency!”

“Not too long ago? It’s been quite a while. Wasn’t it about 4 years?”

“Wow, that was already 4 years ago? Time flies damn fast. Well, DTB is on season 6 this year. We need to get out before the DTB bubble bursts.”

“Yongcheol, I’m counting on you.”

“I won’t go easy. There’s no personal connections judging or anything like that. What kind of criticism would I get for that.”

The conversation topic naturally shifted from ex-boyfriend jokes to DTB. Juseong Hyung, who had only been twitching his brow, suddenly burst out.

“I’m getting married, married! Do I have to listen to those damn ex-boyfriend jokes until the day I announce my marriage!”

I also nodded vigorously and joined in supporting Juseong Hyung’s outburst.

“Exactly. Stop pairing him with a soon-to-be married man now. Who are you trying to kill off.”

Finally, I won’t have to hear those ex-boyfriend jokes anymore! No more annoying hassle of taking off my ring before every gathering!

The food we ordered came out and the hyungs started chattering again after learning that today’s gathering was for a bachelor party.

“Hey, if you’re coming, you should bring Jae-su with you. Kid has no sense.”

“Really? Ayeon said bachelor parties are just for taking care of your own friends.”

Suddenly realizing that before regression, I had fallen out with the hyungs and wouldn’t have received this wedding invitation, my mouth turned bitter again and I just gulped down water. How many connections, futures and pasts, I lost due to my stupid stubbornness.

I would never have known for life if it weren’t for this new opportunity.

“Juseong is going first.”

“Anyone listening would think he’s going to the afterlife.”

I snapped at Gijeong Hyung’s damn wistful comment. I’m still in my mid-twenties and an idol so I don’t think much about it, but the meaning of Juseong Hyung’s marriage news seems different for the hyungs in their thirties.

“I thought no married man would come out of here.”

“Exactly. I firmly believed this gathering was a future lonely old men’s club.”

“Damn, curse us, curse us.”

“No, look, look. Sangyeol Hyung is so crazy about work that even if he gets married he’ll get divorced, Gijeong Hyung honestly looking at how he changes girlfriends all the time, he’ll probably cheat after marriage and get divorced, and Yongcheol Hyung… this guy even rejected a model’s confession saying he wants to focus on work. If Sangyeol Hyung might at least go through it once, this guy won’t even manage to go through it once.”

Listening to Semin Hyung’s sarcastic evaluation as he really laid out a proper curse when told to curse, I gaped and then casually asked about the name that didn’t come out till the end.

“Hyung, what about me?”

“How would you get married when you can’t even date?”

Semin Hyung clicked his tongue and hit the nail on the head with eyes that I couldn’t tell if I should call admirable or pitiful.

After finishing most of our meal, Juseong Hyung passed around the wedding invitations he brought.

“Oh, the ceremony is in May? There’s still three months left but you’re giving them out already.”

“I have a lot of people to give them to so I started early. Hey, but you guys are the first. Be moved.”

After passing out all the invitations except mine, Juseong Hyung directly handed me an invitation from right across and carefully asked.

“Ah, Eden. Could you possibly handle the wedding song?”

As soon as Juseong Hyung said that, damn season 2 began again.

“Hey! Juseong! I was going to stay quiet but you’re being too harsh to Eden, really!”

“Bear with it, bear with it. What kind of rumors would spread if Eden cries while singing the wedding song. He’s an idol. What about his image.”

Now I casually stayed silent and had a conversation with Juseong Hyung.

“It’s not impossible. But I specialize in rap, not vocals, so vocals might be a bit iffy. Is that okay, hyung?”

You can’t rap for a wedding song, can you? What, should I do a wedding diss rap for you? I can’t do a confession diss rap like I did to MoonK either.

Looks like I’ll have to work hard on making a wedding song that fits my vocal range again.

“Ayeon kept saying she was jealous watching weddings with celebrity wedding songs. So I wanted to ask you to show her as a surprise. Anyway, other weddings just put up ordinary people who sing well, but wouldn’t a celebrity who sings decently be better than an ordinary person who sings well?”

As expected, staying silent was the answer to nonsense, so they stopped teasing and the hyungs gradually joined the conversation.

“Surprise? Doesn’t sister-in-law know you and Eden are close?”

“Uh… I didn’t tell her. But once Ayeon showed me our group photo that he posted on his personal account when that thing happened before, asking if this was him.”

“So? Did you say it was right?”

“No, I pretended it was someone else because I was afraid she’d get turned off and dump me. Hee Jeong Noona carved a really deep trauma into me.”

“Is that why you buzz cut your hair as soon as it gets a little long?”

Surprisingly, sister-in-law didn’t know I was in the same crew as Juseong Hyung. The funny thing is that Juseong Hyung’s ex-girlfriend knew because she came to a crew gathering once.

Juseong Hyung got dumped while growing his hair out as punishment for losing a bet. I heard he got dumped when he grew it to about bob length because she said his face was a turn-off.

This all happened because Juseong Hyung, knowing ex-girlfriend talk would come up, got guilty in advance and didn’t bring sister-in-law.

“Eden, since it’s come to this, sing that for the wedding song.”

I was thinking they’d probably recommend something like 【Wrong Connection】 seeing them giggling like that, but the hyungs had different methods.

“【Your wedding】.”

“Hey, good! Good! Perfect for this situation!”

You guys should sing it yourselves. I clicked my tongue watching the hyungs belt out one verse each. Of course, singing the wedding song like that would be perfect for ruining someone’s wedding.

“Are you crazy! What would both families’ parents and relatives, mine and Ayeon’s friends all think hearing that!”

“Right, that’s the bride’s favorite song. People who don’t know the situation would misunderstand him as the bride’s unrequited love. When the reality is he’s the groom’s ex-boyfriend.”

“Then rearrange it for the groom, rearrange it. That much is a piece of cake. Right, Eden?”

Damn, that alt account or whatever is cursing us. Why the hell do they keep breaking unverified dating rumors to make me and Juseong Hyung suffer forever.

As for vocal skills… I could use an item. Isn’t there an item that improves vocal skills? I was thinking comfortably when I remembered I once had that item.

Damn it, why did I use that item? Not only did I waste it meaninglessly, but because of that item I ended up having to stick and remove talismans in the studio while watching the younger guys’ reactions.

A few days ago, Ryu Jaehee suddenly started talking about the studio CCTV, so I panicked and smashed the CCTV with my own hands to make it look broken and barely got through it. Thanks to that, I just have more repair costs.

It’s a bit too much on my conscience to blame this all on the system, so let’s say it’s half and half joint responsibility between the system and me.

Clutching my aching stomach, I returned to the dormitory and sent a group text to the Rev group chat to gather in the living room.

Everyone poked their faces through door cracks within less than a minute of sending the text and leisurely walked out to the living room.

“My beloved members.”

Clap clap, I clapped to gather their attention and Seo Yehyeon asked with disgust.

“Did you drink?”

“Just exactly two glasses of wine? I’m not drunk.”

I must have been lacking in expressing affection usually. I should continue to be lacking in the future. As I was nodding to myself, Gyeon Hajun asked.

“But why did you call us?”

“Any thoughts on handling wedding song chorus?”

Chorus written as chorus but read as dedicated vocal parts. Come to think of it, instead of me trying to do the parts I’m lacking and ruining it, I should outsource it.

If I sing alone it’s a 1, but if I mobilize all the members to sing together, we can create an effect of about 10, so why not use it?

I can pay the fee on behalf of Juseong Hyung.

“Oh, that sounds fun! I wanted to try singing a wedding song! I want to do it! Me! Me!”

As Kim Dobin raised his hand high and appealed his desire to sing a wedding song, Seo Yehyeon quietly pulled him back.

“Doby, he probably needs Youngest Member and Hajun more than us.”

“We can all do it together.”

One face for public broadcast variety shows tailored for elders, one visual face, two vocal chorus members, and me. Even I thought it was a perfect wedding song group.

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Everyone readily agreed to the wedding song group and it was completed as a 5-person party. This was planned to proceed as a surprise without telling Juseong Hyung.

Since I walked to the studio with Ryu Jaehee, I sneakily stuck a talisman on the wall avoiding Ryu Jaehee’s eyes.

But embarrassingly, this effort was in vain as Ryu Jaehee wasn’t even interested in the talisman and was reading the list in my notebook.

“Hyung, why did you write down these groups?”

“A list of groups I decided to give songs to or produce for later.”

“What’s the criteria? Vocal tone?”

What else could it be. The criteria of who showed their face at my funeral.

Ryu Jaehee cried from the time he went to the funeral home, so he had bonus points. It’s a feeling thing, one more solo song for the album!

“But I think my solo album’s main concept should probably be summer vibes.”

Then Ryu Jaehee, who had decided on summer as the main concept to match the album release timing, dropped a bombshell.

“My solo album will probably come out in June at the earliest, July at the latest. That would be perfect for summer.”

“Then the timing… hmm, it’ll be awkward for me to release my solo album. Why June? Is there something happening before that?”

Since we have to make a comeback as the full Rev group in August, even if Ryu Jaehee’s solo album comes out in June, if his activities are scheduled for about 3 weeks, the timing for my solo album activities becomes awkward.

I might end up having to release an album without any promotional activities. The full group comeback preparations come first, after all.

“Because, from what I can see, hyung’s solo album should come out by May at the latest. So that means hyung should release yours before me.”

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t find the reason and frowned.

What is it? Why did our Rev’s brain judge that my solo album should come out in May?

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