A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 537

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 537

“He must have lost the luxury of acting gloomy. Just looking at him, he seems like the type who likes drawing big pictures, and he was probably planning to achieve a graceful ending through his comeback with this solo song.”

Seo Yehyeon analyzed Parachute’s sudden outburst quite coldly.

“Yoon Eden, he kept asking you for songs, right? Getting songs from you was part of that plan too. But now at the very end, he screwed up big time because of that. From his perspective, a project spanning several years has failed.”

Well, since it was unexpected that KICKS didn’t expose Jung Iseo as Parachute before the regression, Jung Iseo probably calculated that the fact he was Parachute would be revealed in his big picture.

But he probably didn’t know that the song I gave him under a pseudonym instead of my real name would fail this badly.

“So he threw that tantrum at me because I’m the biggest reason?”

“That’s right. You weren’t kicked out because of Parachute, you left on your own feet following Hajun, so you probably don’t feel as much guilt as you do toward Hajun.”

Gyeon Hajun, who seemed quite refreshed from seeing Parachute’s downfall and getting to pour out everything he wanted to say to Parachute’s face, was still wearing a pleasant smile as he refuted Seo Yehyeon’s words.

“Well, seeing how he fired back at everything, he didn’t seem to feel particularly guilty toward me either. If anything, he might have malice toward Eden.”

That’s right. If that Parachute bastard had even a little guilt toward Gyeon Hajun, even if he had bad feelings toward me, he wouldn’t have made plans to ruin my friendship with Gyeon Hajun by asking me for songs for Hajun’s sake.

Come to think of it, he’s really a shameless bastard, isn’t he?

“But Hajun hyung, when you patted Parachute’s shoulder at the end, you really looked like Eden hyung. For a moment I wondered if you two had switched souls.”

It wasn’t just me who felt it – the other members also seemed to feel the same watching Gyeon Hajun give Jung Iseo that final warning.

“When I did things my way, he seemed to look down on me, so I tried copying Eden’s method a bit.”

Gyeon Hajun spoke the truth with slight embarrassment. Thank goodness. I thought like the other guys said, Hajun had been influenced by me and crossed a river of no return. He was still the Gyeon Hajun I knew.

“It wasn’t a soul change but a perfect copy.”

By now everyone was used to letting Kim Dobin’s otaku-like words go in one ear and out the other.

Going up is hard, but falling is easy.

Having fallen once before, I knew this well. Though there was still some distance since the memories were only fragments.

They say what goes around comes around. Parachute paid the price for trying to steal someone’s position and ruin their life 6 years ago.

Now that the image of ‘Parachute who has less skill than Gyeon Hajun but took Hajun’s spot through connections’ was properly established, it would be very difficult to overturn this unlikable image.

Before the regression, he didn’t pay the price because of me.

I immediately understood why Gyeon Hajun cut ties with me before the regression.

He endured the hip-hop warrior concept spreading to the world, used profanity in lyrics he normally wouldn’t use, spat vulgar words like “crazy bastard” and “bullshit” to someone’s face, and even copied my people-scratching behavior in front of quite a few people despite being misunderstood as being influenced by me – he was that hateful, so how resentful must he have been toward me for making such a guy succeed as a solo artist.

The depth of hatred I could only guess at was different in intensity from seeing it right before my eyes.

Damn, my pre-regression self should have had a slump when making Parachute’s solo song if anything.

While I was mentally beating up my past self, Ryu Jaehee tattled that Choi Hyeonmin smiled really smugly at him at the end.

“Why?”

“I don’t know either. I knew he had some weird competitive spirit toward me, but what did he think he won in this situation to smile like that?”

“While the three of us were clinging to you trying to stop Yoon Eden, he probably felt like he won because he calmed Yoon Eden down with just a few words.”

So I’m the problem, Seo Yehyeon suddenly deflected the blame to me. I was dumbfounded.

I was fucking reevaluating Ryu Jaehee’s character, and it was Choi Hyeonmin who felt victorious on his own, so why are you giving me grief.

“Come on, no way. A twenty-three-year-old person couldn’t be that childish.”

As expected, the sensible Ryu Jaehee couldn’t understand Choi Hyeonmin’s immature personality. Yeah, I’ll try to calm down to this hyung’s honest words, not just sweet talk.

Before Gyeon Hajun’s turn, we first watched the stages of the two teams participating in the three-way battle. Jung Iseo’s stage showed no significant improvement or development from the level shown in the first broadcast, and KICKS’ stage was just mediocre. It was nowhere near enough to cover up the controversy they had caused.

Since we all came together, we enthusiastically cheered for Gyeon Hajun from the audience seats along with Daydream.

Watching like this suddenly made me more pissed off. To think I gave such a masterpiece to that Parachute bastard of all people before.

REVE_official☑ @LnL_reve

[Yuje Dream]

All members mobilized to commemorate Hajun hyung’s final week of solo activities!

We’ll always support you until the end, Hajun hyung💕

#Reve #Rev #Daydream #GyeonHajun #ANDYOU #Solo #CongratulationsOnFirst PlaceHajunHyung

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How can you give us such touching moments in the final week of solo activities😭😭

Looking at today’s lineup, it’s cute how it seems like everyone came together to cheer up Jjun ㅋㅋ

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Jjunp🐺 @oslf_5962

Pomesurin fans are picking on one word again and doing their gloomy witch hunt behind the scenes?

For real, that singer and their fan lol

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Meanwhile.

-Even if the song is good, it’s uncomfortable to consume because of the bullying controversy;;;

-Shouldn’t these guys bring an apology letter for girl group face-rating, talking behind other groups’ backs, and bullying first, rather than a comeback?

-Kix fans keep chanting about PDFs, but where exactly are the malicious comments here that would warrant a lawsuit and taking PDFs? Don’t tell me it’s defamation by stating facts? lol

-The public just says they don’t want to see them, so why are you pushing so hard? We don’t want to see male idols who rate girl groups’ faces, so please just consume among fans only

-It’s amazing that there are still fans left ㅎ They openly criticize fellow singers’ looks, so why wouldn’t they criticize fans’ looks too? If it were me, I’d be too scared to even go to fan signings worrying about being talked about behind my back, but the fans who still buy albums and go to fan signings are really amazing, that’s all I can say…

-The withdrawn member wrongly took someone’s rightful place and parachuted in, but that’s separate from being a bullying victim. They don’t seem to realize it’s more uncomfortable when they keep treating that as a causal relationship to elevate KICKS

-It’s fucking hilarious how they’re trying to paint everyone criticizing as Jung-i-seo fans ㅋㅋㅋ Ugh, I hate both the nepotism hires and the bullies~

-They just stirred up controversy by promoting for nothing lol It’s the annual comeback route for controversial idols but they never learn lmao

Even after Gyeon Hajun’s activities ended, like Jung Iseo, KICKS failed to make it to the first place candidates. In terms of music chart performance, Jung Iseo was out of the charts, and KICKS was barely staying in the 80s.

No matter how good the song was, since they were already branded as the group-bullying-club-backstabbing-face-rating-group to the public, a comeback was impossible.

Of course, it was their own doing, so I didn’t feel sorry for them.

Seeing the cold reaction from the public, New Born seemed to have decided to spend KICKS’ remaining contract period on overseas tours.

[Kwon Yunseong- This will probably be our last activity in Korea] 8:21 PM

What would it feel like to sense an involuntary end? At least my pre-regression self left on my own feet.

Still, maybe because I had memories of running toward the same goal of debut at the same agency once, I felt slightly bitter.

Of course, only for Kwon Yunseong who apologized to Gyeon Hajun. I don’t care about the other bastards.

[If you need a solo song later, tell me]

[I’ll give you at least one song] 8:22 PM

[Kwon Yunseong- Hyung, me too]

[Kwon Yunseong- I want a solo song too] 8:23 PM

[Kwon Yunseong- Ignore the message above]

[Kwon Yunseong- Choi Hyeonmin snatched my phone and sent it] 8:25 PM

Their hierarchy is a mess. Try snatching a hyung’s phone and sending messages in our group. Let’s see what happens.

I was clicking my tongue at another group’s pathetic state, then seriously wondered what would really happen if it were our group.

If Ryu Jaehee did it, there would be a reason so I’d let it pass, and Kim Dobin… what more could I do besides headlocks and nagging.

Even I thought I had become too soft. In the past, I would have immediately put on a stern face and set things straight.

[Choi Hyeonmin, you should apologize to Hajun too, man] 8:26 PM

I’m still considering whether to give him a song, but where does he get off trying to freeload my work without even apologizing.

“It was good that they didn’t make it to the first place candidates alongside me until the very end.”

Gyeon Hajun, with a cake in front of him, shared his thoughts on finishing his activities.

Thanks to all four of us conspiring to keep our mouths shut in front of Seo Yehyeon, we could eat cake again to commemorate the end of Gyeon Hajun’s activities. This time it was with light party food instead of salad.

Now we only had one final revenge left ahead of us.

Precisely, it was the ‘my song is my song, your song is also my song’ revenge. A revenge that would make him feel to the bone what it’s like to have even the one thing he had stolen from him, and to hear that the thief suits it better than the one who was robbed.

If Gyeon Hajun covered Jung Iseo’s song, the fact that Jung Iseo couldn’t properly digest that song and Gyeon Hajun’s outstanding musical capabilities would be highlighted, making it inevitable for their skills to be blatantly compared.

There’s no way Gyeon Hajun couldn’t sing a song I produced.

However, if handled carelessly, it could be perceived as blatant mockery and attack, distorting the intention and causing fatigue, so we needed to approach it carefully.

“We need to make sure there’s no reaction like ‘stirring up unnecessary trouble.'”

“We can’t completely avoid it, but there are ways to minimize it.”

As soon as I heard Ryu Jaehee’s confident words, I scrapped all the plans I had roughly put together in my head. When our youngest member says he has methods, why would I need to rack my brain?

Just like I had advised Ryu Jaehee before, outsourcing to the right person at the right time was also part of my ability.

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