A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 534

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 534

If the original song was the blues of a cold and lonely city of the 80s, then the direction Ryu Jaehee and I reinterpreted was the blues of a modern and sophisticated city.

While maintaining the desolate and lonely emotions of the original, we gave it a completely different charm from the original song, preserving the cold city atmosphere but reborn as an energetic song expressing loneliness within a glamorous city.

[No Gangyeol: They changed 【Blue Night of the City】 like this? Whoa…]

Ryu Jaehee’s fashion also reinterpreted retro fashion, evoking nostalgia of the past while presenting a kitsch feeling that wasn’t tacky.

Ryu Jaehee’s stage, complete with choreography that immediately brought to mind the King of Pop and belting out high notes with refreshing power raised one note higher, was captivating enough that you couldn’t take your eyes off it even without personal bias.

[Choi Eunjeong: Youth is good. Look at him flying around the stage.]

[Moon Yejin: Right, he’s doing well. Oh my, I feel even more proud.]

[Perfectly capturing the noonas’ hearts★]

If I showed through my outfit that I was an idol rapper, then Ryu Jaehee presented a stage that only idols could do, making his characteristic of being an idol vocalist—which could be considered his weakness—into something that couldn’t be ignored.

“Ugh, Ryu Jae. Even though I explained it to you like that, you still couldn’t fix that habit until the actual performance. You need to flow smoothly but cut it off sharply.”

Kim Dobin, who was watching while hugging a cushion, clicked his tongue. As if anyone would understand with that kind of abstract explanation, dude.

“If I had focused on practicing just the choreography for about a week, I might have understood hyung’s abstract explanation, but that was choreography I learned in just two days.”

Ryu Jaehee retorted grumpily. He still couldn’t take his eyes off himself on the screen.

Unlike before the regression when I was left with only regrets, I was relieved that he seemed to have performed a stage without regrets.

[This was 【Blue Night of the City】 reinterpreted as a modern city night]

As Ryu Jaehee finished the last verse, the hottest applause and cheers among the four stages aired this week poured out.

[Yuje: Was it okay? Wow, even though the stage is over, I don’t know why I’m still trembling.]

Ryu Jaehee on screen untied the handkerchief he had tied around his forehead and wiped the sweat beaded on his face.

[MC: Now the time for the results announcement has arrived.]

The sight of eight singers standing on stage anxiously waiting for the results announcement briefly flashed by.

[MC: We announce the results of Round 3, the hit song arrangement mission!]

[1st place. Yuje(95)]

[2nd place. No Gangyeol(94)]

[3rd place. Choi Eunjeong(87)]

[4th place. Ura(81)]

[5th place. Moon Yejin(72)]

[6th place. Sol(64)]

[7th place. Jeon Seok(55)]

[8th place. Lee Seokwhan(51)]

Out of 100 audience evaluators, as many as 95 people evaluated Ryu Jaehee’s stage positively.

As soon as everyone spotted Ryu Jaehee’s name positioned at the very top, they all celebrated with their whole bodies and vocal cords, making the sofa shake wildly.

“Hey, what did I tell you! I said he’d definitely make it!”

“Wow, Group 4 is crazy. Three out of five people have survived so far. It really was the group from hell.”

“Jaehee, you’re really going to win, aren’t you?”

“Of course I’ll win! I even got 1st place, so what’s stopping me from winning!”

He even beat No Gangyeol’s stage, which had been continuously talked about before the regression. It was only a one-vote difference, but a win was still a win.

Seeing the name that would have been positioned at the very bottom before the regression now sitting proudly at the top made me feel proud.

Outsourcing to the right people in the right places was also his own ability, so this could be said to be a result achieved entirely through Ryu Jaehee’s capabilities.

[Yuje: I don’t think it felt real. 1st place? Really? With all these amazing people here, me?]

Ryu Jaehee in the individual interview screen truly seemed like he couldn’t believe that he had gotten 1st place.

“Hyungs, don’t get me too carried away. What if I get cocky and get eliminated in the next round? I need to stay humble until the end.”

Ryu Jaehee, crushed under the hands pouring down on his back and head and the arms pressing heavily on his whole body, spoke maturely.

“You can be proud. Look at Yoon Eden. He always chanted that he would win and never even thought about getting eliminated midway, but didn’t he win? He did it very confidently. But wait, is it right to tell him to live like that guy…?”

“What about me. What about my life attitude.”

[MC: Bottom four, unfortunately you are eliminated. But!]

The four people who had hung their heads raised them with faint hope at the MC’s meaningful words. Were they going to have a revival round or something?

But the words that followed from the MC’s mouth were different from my expectations.

[MC: Moon Yejin and Yuje have bonus points they received as the privilege for winning the previous mission.]

[10 points each, a total of 20 additional points]

[Will that be able to change the results?]

If Moon Yejin added 10 points to her current score, she would surpass Ura Sunbaenim by 1 point and enter the survivor cutline.

The bonus points that I had believed without doubt would help Ryu Jaehee’s narrow escape were meaningless to Ryu Jaehee and instead helped Moon Yejin’s narrow escape.

When Moon Yejin, with tears welling up, turned toward Ryu Jaehee who was standing next to her, Ryu Jaehee smiled brightly at her.

The scene of the two sharing a light embrace passed by, and Moon Yejin’s individual interview wiping away tears was inserted.

[Moon Yejin: I was so grateful to Yuje. If I had just kept being stubborn in the previous round, what would have happened… My spine feels so chilly. Thanks to Yuje, I’m advancing to the next round.]

“Thanks to this, the preparation process for the previous round’s stage will probably get attention again. I didn’t know this bonus score would provide such a dramatic reversal.”

Ryu Jaehee spoke with a beaming face, humming as he smiled.

[MC: Applying the bonus points, the rankings of 4th place Ura and 5th place Moon Yejin will change. Yuje, No Gangyeol, Choi Eunjeong, Moon Yejin, congratulations to the four of you! Your advancement to the next round is confirmed!]

Now only the semifinals and finals remained for 【Voice Legacy】. I hoped Ryu Jaehee would safely advance to the finals. Winning would be even better.

As the video was uploaded to YouTube, Ryu Jaehee’s stage received attention once again.

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Voice Legacy 3round #Yuje – Blue Night of the Street

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YujaToTu • 1 day ago

Anyone who likes this version better than the original?

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cottage123 • 19 hours ago

It was more idol-like than any other stage, but it was also the stage that best understood the mission’s purpose

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Missya-uj255 • 10 hours ago

A modern reinterpretation of the blues genre. Truly amazing! The most surprising thing is that the singer who presented this performance is just a K-pop idol in their early twenties. Unbelievable emotion.

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Based on the trend, it looked like it could even hit 10 million views. Since only Ryu Jaehee himself appeared in this stage video, there would be no need to suspect that these view counts came from Seo Yehyeon’s face this time.

“Thank you, hyung. Thanks to you and Doby hyung, I got to experience first place once. If I had gone with what I originally thought without your help, forget first place—I almost wouldn’t have made it within the survival cutline.”

I waved my hand dismissively and replied indifferently to Ryu Jaehee’s thanks.

“What’s there to be thankful for.”

I’ll get paid back through brain outsourcing anyway. I don’t remember the previous brain outsourcing well, but my past self probably paid it all back. I trusted myself who regressed and came to my senses.

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[KICKS- ‘Russian Roulette’ official M/V]

KICKS, reorganized as a five-member group after Jung Iseo’s departure, made their comeback and the three-way battle began in earnest. New Born must have been grinding their teeth quite hard, as despite the tight preparation time, both the song and music video quality were quite decent.

As expected of the prestige of a mid-to-large agency that was called an idol powerhouse.

If it had been LnL… well, looking at Gyeon Hajun’s low-budget music video gives you the answer to that hypothetical.

Anyway, although their image was damaged when Jung Iseo’s departure exposed what they had done, thanks to their remaining existing fandom plus the quality of the song and music video, their performance was higher than Parachute’s.

-Wow, with one person gone, the formation can’t be more stable lol As expected, odd numbers make formations much better, the center stands out too

-What the hell, how are these bullying perpetrators crawling out so shamelessly? Did bullying instigation become no big deal in South Korea while I wasn’t looking?

-Very satisfied that it became a five-member formation after the main culprit who turned a planned seven-member group into six members got lost👍👍

-Their chart entry ranking is higher than Pomesurin’s solo song, right? Pomesurin’s evil fans can’t argue back and just keep chanting about the bullying perpetrator group, right?

-It’s MAX gloomy and suffocating;;; After bullying and tormenting someone like that, they don’t even pretend to avoid overlapping activities🤮

-Just looking at the chart rankings, doesn’t it clearly show the public’s perspective on who did worse?

-If KICKS crawls out and gets popular for having good songs, it’s no different from giving bullying perpetrators a free pass, what will kids learn from watching this

-Gloomy lol acknowledge lol Gloomy is a word that should be attached to that runner Lee Seo who made a solo comeback around the same time as Gyeon Hajun, trying to make up for your fandom’s logic that he’s less skilled than Gyeon Hajun and caused parachute controversy

-The song is good, as expected from NewBorn ㅠㅠ That person’s new agency shouldn’t just spend money on music videos and stage outfits, but invest some money in the songs too ㅠ If they’re even stingy with money for their nephew, you can imagine how they treat the artists they took from NewBorn ㅠ

-When Kyun Hajun and Iseo were going at it, they were all about “justice” and whatever, mocking the hell out of Iseo’s grades, but when Kicks and Iseo are fighting, suddenly Kicks is the righteous one because his grades are high?ㅋㅋ This is fucking ridiculous

-Ah, let’s each go our own way, why are you throwing a fit over coincidentally overlapping comebacks, don’t bring up the departed member and get lost, damn

The sympathy for Jung Iseo that was slowly raising its head, worried he was being too mocked and compared alongside Gyeon Hajun, completely disappeared when KICKS made their comeback and the structure changed to ‘Departed Member vs Remaining Members.’

Gyeon Hajun raised his eyebrows at the four pairs of eyes glancing at him and asked.

“If you have something to say, say it. Don’t keep glancing around so uncomfortably.”

“Hajun, do you happen to need four daily managers for the music show the day after tomorrow?”

When I nudged Seo Yehyeon’s side, Seo Yehyeon took the lead and asked.

This was purely to protect Gyeon Hajun from getting caught between two packs of hyenas called KICKS and Parachute. It definitely wasn’t because I wanted to witness this crazy three-way battle up close.

Well, of course not.

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