A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 556

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 556

“But you called Yongcheol before debut to confess, didn’t you.”

“Oh, right. He suddenly called me and said, ‘Hyung, I don’t think I can succeed with my face! There’s a crazy handsome guy here! Now I really have to compete with skill alone! There was someone else who could succeed with their face!’ That’s what he said.”

“We all heard that too, Eden.”

Today our members are having quite a laugh with my story. Seo Yehyeon, who had been the confirmed wall to my success, laughed the loudest hearing that behind-the-scenes story. Yeah, laugh away, laugh.

“So this person here is the one who plunged our youngest member into despair back then?”

Kek-

Suddenly pointed out, Seo Yehyeon was laughing but got flustered and choked, letting out a small cough. Well, the undisputed crazy handsome guy here was too obvious to anyone.

“I’ve seen this person so much on street billboards and TV that I feel an inner sense of familiarity.”

“Hey, Eden has a point. It was the first hardship our youngest member faced when he was dreaming of certain success with his face.”

Hey, is it enough for just you hyungs to understand after exposing my dark history?

As the conversation continued with me at the center, they seemed to develop intimacy through common ground, and before we knew it, they were naturally speaking casually to each other.

“But does this kid do aegyo a lot? Is he good at aegyo in front of cameras?”

At Hyeongbeom Hyung’s question, Ryu Jaehee shook his head and answered.

“Eden Hyung isn’t our team’s aegyo representative. Maybe once as a penalty? And when fans request it at fan meetings? Only very occasionally at times like that.”

“What a funny guy. He sent us a 10-type aegyo set video saying he could do aegyo for us, making us buy him lunch, but now that he’s debuted he doesn’t do it?”

Seo Yehyeon, who was picking at the food on his plate, asked back with a very displeased expression.

“So you’re saying Yoon Eden filmed and sent a video doing ten different aegyo? Isn’t that terrorism…?”

“That’s what I’m saying. So we said if this spreads on the internet, this guy will get kicked out, so let’s just bury it among ourselves.”

No wonder, I thought at least one of them would have uploaded the video to the group chat to tease me, but why was it only mentioned as oral tradition.

I can only be moved to tears by the hyungs’ ocean-like grace-

“Wait, I think I saved it… In case our youngest member suddenly gets artist disease or past controversies arise, I was going to spread it as evidence that he was this sincere about being an idol.”

-My ass.

After past dark history photos, I was now in danger of having dark history videos exposed too. What blessing was I trying to enjoy that I got tempted by the mention of a course meal and accepted the meal ticket. I should have just gone home and eaten Gyeon Hajun’s cooking.

“Semin Hyung, put it away, put it away. Our members probably don’t want to see that stuff either? These guys wash their eyes when my aegyo comes out on broadcasts.”

“I want to see it! The image of Eden Hyung like a thug extorting money is so stuck in my head that I need to neutralize it with something like that.”

“I think the same as Doby Hyung! Show us proof that our leader wasn’t a thug!”

“No, Eden, I know how you were back then, so I can’t even imagine you filming such a video.”

Jun, even you…!

“I don’t particularly want to see it… It seems like it would appear in my nightmares tonight.”

“My goodness, you’re finally saying something sensible, hyung-nim. I don’t want to see it either.”

“Why are you suddenly using extreme honorifics again? It’s scary.”

The only one here who agrees with me is Seo Yehyeon. I raised my members wrong. While I was feeling gloomy, Semin Hyung finally found that terrible dark history video.

“Oh, I found it. It’s here.”

“Let’s create a group chat and send the link instead! Don’t play it here!”

Very fortunately, Juseong Hyung and Hyeongsu-nim, who had changed into after-party clothes, came to our table and my assassination attempt ended.

So this is how Juseong Hyung repays the wedding song favor!

“Thanks, Eden. Thanks to you, I got five immunity cards from Ayeon.”

Juseong Hyung firmly grasped my hand and pressed an envelope into it. Seeing how thick the envelope was, it seemed he prepared portions for all five members.

Since Juseong Hyung knew well that my vocal skills definitely couldn’t be included among those who sing well, he must have been quite moved that I brought members who could sing and performed an amazing wedding song.

“Ah, hyung. Why did you put in so much? I don’t need to receive this. How long have you and I known each other.”

“Hey, that’s so touching!”

“How long have you known each other, he says. Well, it was quite a deep relationship.”

Whistling and chaos broke out. Juseong Hyung, familiar with ignoring the crew hyungs’ teasing, shook his head as he pressed the envelope I returned back into my hand.

“I already received congratulatory money from my younger brother, so what would I be if I didn’t give payment for the wedding song? And even if you’re okay with it, what about your members who helped?”

“We’re okay too. Eden Hyung worked us hard preparing the wedding song but rewarded us generously.”

Ryu Jaehee answered while chewing the steak from the course meal.

For me, it’s a wedding for a hyung I’ve known for a long time, so performing for free would be fine, but the members had no connection to this person and were mobilized for a wedding song performance, so payment was naturally due.

“Use this to buy something delicious with your members.”

“We can’t eat delicious food… Since we received it in front of Yehyeon Hyung, all we can buy to eat is grass…”

“Doby, what do you mean by that, haha. Anyone listening would think we always eat out at salad shops.”

At Kim Dobin’s innocently opened mouth of truth, Seo Yehyeon gritted his teeth and smiled forcedly while making excuses.

“Oh, right. Juseong Hyung, should I give you the first wedding song? So you can fulfill your dream of a failed public proposal with that song by inviting Hyeongsu-nim to a label concert later.”

At my question, Hyeongsu-nim answered faster than Juseong Hyung.

“No, no. It’s okay. If you’re going to officially release it anyway, I’d much rather have it come out as a Rev song than Juseong oppa’s song.”

“Oh, she says that…”

Next to Hyeongsu-nim, who was even waving her hands vigorously to stop me, Juseong Hyung nodded weakly.

“Then I’ll settle the wedding song fee with copyright royalties, so keep it. Use that to buy Hyeongsu-nim one more gift on your honeymoon.”

Hyeongsu-nim, moved by my words, covered her mouth and kept exclaiming while hitting Juseong Hyung’s arm with her remaining hand. Is Juseong Hyung’s arm okay?

I can just release the wedding song as a Rev album track later.

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Yxxtube

(Video)

Rev suddenly popping out from a wedding song video

5.5 million views

👍60k 👎

-If there were any daydreamers among the wedding guests that day, they really hit the jackpot, I’m so jealous ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-The priest really loves it hahahaha

└You’re such a daydreamer lol

└A front row concert where your singer performs at a wedding? How did she resist a groom replacement ceremony?

-I thought they just made a surprise appearance in the video, but they really popped out from the video into reality

-It’s not a member’s family wedding but Eden’s close hyung’s wedding~~

-Even the way they entered the stage for the congratulatory performance wasn’t ordinary at all ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That’s Red Velvet for you ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-It’s an unforgettable wedding for both the wedding parties and the guests

-With a wedding like that, there wouldn’t be complaints even if they only served kimbap and ramen for the meal…

-That’s the first time I’m hearing that song, could it be an unreleased track?

-A concert that gives you the first reveal of an unreleased song for 50,000-100,000 won, sings hit songs too, close view, and feeds you? This is totally a great deal

-That’s perfect as a wedding song, if that gets released it’ll totally become the representative wedding song

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After successfully completing Juseong Hyung’s wedding song performance that we had practiced for so long.

DTB, which had already finished filming the cipher for the third preliminary round that didn’t even need producer judging, had now entered the diss battle, the stage right before the group mission that was the gateway to the main competition.

The diss battle was called the flower of DTB until Season 4, but it completely flopped in Season 5 for various reasons.

First, the first reason was the diss battle format that changed in Season 5.

The diss battle format DTB had maintained until now was the designation type. But suddenly starting from Season 5, they reformed it to an unheard-of diss battle format called team diss, and they properly experienced trial and error.

Most contestants becoming wallflowers except for a few, a system where if one person did well, the rest of the team members could mess up and still advance, having nothing to diss about since they were put in teams so they had to squeeze things out, etc.

It was a diss battle pattern that received the worst reviews in many ways.

And my diss battles must have been really impressive, because a large number of people wearing masks and people launching surprise confession attacks appeared.

But most of them had no meaning in covering their faces, and viewers got annoyed asking why they were covering faces that should be judged by rap alone even if they didn’t need to hide them.

And confession attacks? That’s only fresh when done for the first time; if it continues, it becomes brain-dead.

And when it becomes brain-dead, it can no longer be passed off as a laughing matter, making viewers who have to keep facing this become serious too.

Confession attacks by male contestants toward female contestants caused an uproar about PTSD triggers, and confession attacks by male contestants toward male contestants caused another uproar about making light of coming out.

So since everyone watched the bitter taste of malicious comments and controversy, masks and confession attacks probably won’t appear in diss battles anymore.

The format also changed back to the designation type.

However, perhaps judging that N:1 competition would overlap with Season 4’s format, or worried that it wouldn’t create good scenes, they changed opponent designation to auction-style fight money betting.

When multiple people target one person, those who pointed them out bet on how much fight money they’ll wager. The person with the highest bet amount gets to face off against them.

Watching that auction process was also part of the fun.

What drew the most attention was the first diss battle between two repeat contestants from Season 4, Yupi and G-TE.

Since you only get eliminated when your fight money goes negative, no one would be eliminated in the first diss battle, so I was casually watching their diss battle when I got completely blindsided.

Yupi dissing G-TE: “You used Yoon Eden as a rival, fans, everything for image making and building your reputation – what have you accomplished on your own without Yoon Eden?” VS G-TE dissing Yupi: “You built up your underdog narrative using Yoon Eden and that’s what you have to say? If you, who were the PD’s pick back then, hadn’t chosen Yoon Eden, would that third preliminary round have become such an issue?”

Is it just my imagination that my name comes up more than the actual diss opponents’ names…?

“Hey, Eden. At this point, shouldn’t you go up there and decide the winner yourself…?”

It was bad enough that Yongcheol Hyung said this. Jiwon Hyung was too busy laughing to have any room to speak.

The producers who were watching this DTB Season 6 main competition prospects’ diss battle with us each threw in a comment.

“Producer Yoon Eden has had quite a profound impact on those two rappers’ lives.”

“I didn’t see Eden that way, but he’s a bad man.”

“Take responsibility. Take responsibility.”

I covered my eyes with my palm while watching the two rappers use me to diss each other. Please, couldn’t they just diss each other without involving me?

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