A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 597

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 597

After thinking hard for a while, I finally decided that a three-way meeting would be best.

I had experience mediating between friends who were about to fight back in school.

‘Oh, you two gonna throw down? Want me to set up the ring? Hey hey hey, guys! These two are gonna fight! Huh, what? Why aren’t you fighting? You made up? Already? That was fucking fast? What’s with you guys grabbing each other by the collar and then making up without throwing a single punch?’

It was time for my amazing fight mediation skills to shine once again, having stopped a fight in just one minute without even intending to.

[If it’s hard to make up just the two of you] 9:32 PM

[Let’s do a three-way meeting with me included]

[I’ll get you reconciled within 5 minutes] 9:33 PM

Since I succeeded in a one-minute reconciliation back then, if I handle this well this time too, they’ll probably make up on their own without me knowing, just like before. Probably.

[Cha Yeonho- We didn’t fight] 10:00 PM

[Cha Yeonho- Jeongjun’s just been a bit sensitive lately] 10:01 PM

What the world calls “fighting,” Cha Yeonho, who seems to have no friends besides KJ, apparently doesn’t understand well.

[You should make up within a week]

[If you don’t want to regret it for life] 10:04 PM

[Cha Yeonho- What is it]

[Cha Yeonho- Did you remember something again?]

[Cha Yeonho- What’s going on]

[Cha Yeonho- Why a week] 10:05 PM

[Cha Yeonho- Hey]

[Cha Yeonho- Yoon Eden]

[Cha Yeonho- Say something]

[Cha Yeonho- Don’t speak so vaguely] 10:06 PM

[Cha Yeonho- Please] 10:07 PM

I just set a timeline half with the intention of telling him not to be stubborn when his friend’s life is at stake and to have some sense of urgency about the current situation, and half because I was tired of constantly worrying about their friendship front, but the problem was that Cha Yeonho took it too seriously.

I hoped this would give Cha Yeonho some mirror therapy for his vague way of speaking. Now you know how frustrating it is when you’re on the receiving end, right?

[If you really can’t make up by then, call me]

Tsk tsk, what can I do? Unlike a certain someone who has no friends except KJ, I have many friends, so I’ll have to mediate well.

As I was grinning while typing a reply with my phone while lying down, Gyeon Hajun let out a short sigh and turned sharply toward Seo Yehyeon.

“Ah, seriously, phone light is bad manners… Don’t you know that using your phone with the lights off is bad for your eye health? How can someone who takes care of their health like that not know such basic common sense? Don’t go around saying you take care of your health.”

Seo Yehyeon’s grumbling and nagging came as a two-for-one deal. It seemed like the distance between us had gotten too close.

When we were roommates during our awkward days, he would just close his eyes tightly without saying anything when I used my phone with the lights off. But now that we’re too close, he nags at me and gives me grief like this, right?

Having received both silent reproach and nagging simultaneously, I quietly pulled back the covers and got up.

Right, if you don’t like the temple, the monk should leave.

I trudged toward the Youngest Line’s room, where there were only guys who all used their phones at night and weren’t picky about sleeping conditions at all.

As soon as I opened the door, I felt at peace seeing the two phone lights glowing softly from the pillow area of the beds.

“If you’re going to use your phone, turn the lights on. Using your phone with the lights off is bad for your eyes.”

I solemnly recited the updated health knowledge and turned on the Youngest Line’s room light.

I actually knew that. I knew but didn’t pay much attention to it, and only felt a sense of crisis after Seo Yehyeon pointed it out.

“Why did you come here, Hyung?”

“I got kicked out for using my phone when I should be sleeping, man. I’ll sleep on the sofa anyway, so don’t desperately guard your beds like that. Who’s going to kick you guys to the floor and steal your beds to sleep in?”

I plopped down on Kim Dobin’s bed, which had some space left since his legs were shorter than Ryu Jaehee’s, and finished sending my text reply.

There was no reply from Cha Yeonho. He’s going to leave me on read like this? Should I throw him another ominous prophecy-like bullshit for being so impudent?

* * *

At a point when I had become familiar again with both the semi-basement dorm and the practice room’s size, halved by partitions.

Before everyone went to their respective schedules, I participated in the 1,317th Rev meeting led by Kim Dobin.

“We decided to film the fake documentary up to just before the 【All Right or Night】 activities when we escaped being flop idols.”

So we had roughly finished filming up to the 【One Chance】 activities.

For scenes that were difficult to recreate through filming or scenes with other singers (ex. the 【Some Ending】 music show where we stood with Seo Raon Sunbae, Kim Dobin’s fancam of filling in for Adora that was filmed with Adora Sunbae), we contacted the relevant agencies and got permission from both the agencies and the individuals, exposing them only in the form of watching videos.

We also recreated this morning the first OA live where we had been silent for 3 minutes, not knowing how to communicate.

We turned it on during the early morning hours when there would be the fewest people, worried that fans who didn’t know about our fake documentary project would be confused by the sudden silent broadcast, but many foreign fans came in, probably due to time differences. We didn’t think of that. The fact that there were no foreign fans 5 years ago back then also played a part.

Since I wasn’t speaking for about 3 minutes, the chat was flooded with crying emoticons asking what was wrong, so I had a hard time calming them down by sweating and explaining that it was for a project, and that they’d be able to understand why I was silent for 3 minutes in a few weeks.

I should have just replaced it with a camera video. I shouldn’t have turned on the OA live just to make it more realistic.

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Now the only major filming cuts left for us were the 【All Right or Night】 recording scene and music video filming scene.

“I think we’re trying to recreate everything too mildly, so it’s lacking in pure entertainment value?”

You made me into a musical leader who can whip up a composition using my laptop as an imaginary instrument, and now you’re saying it’s mild, you fake youngest?

Jiwon Hyung will definitely watch 100% since he appeared in it, and I couldn’t imagine how much he’d laugh and tease me every time we meet during DTB filming after seeing the funky composition scene.

“At this rate, it’ll be called honey-boring and the documentary will be completely buried! The last episode will record 11,000 views and become the kind of self-content that even fans don’t watch!”

Well, even 【Come to My Universe】 had the interest from shocking hair and makeup, the song, and the crazy narrative that came from pushing 【One Chance】 as a follow-up, no matter how harmonious we made Rev’s atmosphere look.

After moving on to 【One Chance】 activities, it was indeed too smooth since we removed all of our terrible conflict narrative.

“So hurry up and give me opinions, Hyungs, and Ryu Jae! We need to somehow bring the recording scene and music video filming scene to life!”

Kim Dobin seemed afraid that his proposed idea would end up with 11,000 views, so he kept rushing us. But that wasn’t what was important right now.

“…Bring to life? Doby, are the Hyungs your friends?”

The most important thing right now was the fact that Kim Dobin had dropped honorifics without the Hyungs’ permission.

In my day, you know? Even when no one told you to drop honorifics, if you did, you’d immediately be called disrespectful and get a headlock, man.

I loosened up a bit so he wouldn’t go into dark mode, and now he’s trying to climb over my head again? It’s been a while since I’ve lightly established discipline, so when I put on a serious face, Kim Dobin rolled his eyes around like a dog that had caused trouble.

“I was talking to Jaehee. As you Hyungs know, Jaehee is the brain of our group. I didn’t expect anything from the Hyungs in the first place… but saying that would be kind of unfilial, ahaha… It’s not that I didn’t expect anything, but the Hyungs’ heads can’t keep up with Jaehee… No, I’m not lumping both Hyungs together, only Eden Hyung… No, no no Eden Hyung, that’s not it. Could you please take the intensity out of your eyes? I’m seeing visions of you holding a golf club. Or is it a bat…? Anyway, I’m scared so I keep misspeaking. This is absolutely not my true feelings.”

Kim Dobin, who had been rambling incoherently with a twisted tongue while breaking out in cold sweat, glanced at the time and then jumped up with the same expression Seo Yehyeon would have when finding salad in a feast of greasy foods.

“Oh my, it’s almost time for my Triple T meeting, so I’ll get going first!”

I clicked my tongue watching Kim Dobin run out of the practice room faster than anyone. Hey, how can you call a meeting with such a damn difficult topic and then run away without giving any opinions?

Rev’s brain, Ryu Jaehee, slightly frowned and shook his head.

“But can we make this more interesting? If we don’t want fandom wars from conflict narratives, we need to tone it down to about our current recording level.”

“Don’t the fans pretty much all know our recording is intense?”

“Please remember that when we released it as behind-the-scenes content, it was when the recording studio atmosphere was much less brutal, Hyung. No matter how much fans know our recording is intense, if we recreate that era exactly as it was, Yehyeon Hyung’s individual fans and Eden Hyung’s individual fans might cross a river of no return.”

No matter how sensitive I was back then and how strictly I nitpicked every note, how brutal could it have been…

The moment I scratched the back of my head and glanced at Seo Yehyeon, I immediately understood thanks to remembering Seo Yehyeon’s skills from that era. Shit, when there was such a huge gap between the ideal in my head and the reality of Seo Yehyeon’s singing, how could the atmosphere not be brutal?

I was lost in thought with my chin propped up when an idea flashed through my mind and I lightly snapped my fingers.

“I do have an idea that could really bring out the tension in the recording part.”

“What is it?”

Seo Yehyeon, who was scheduled to experience another nightmare in the recording part, asked anxiously, but I waved my hand to indicate I wouldn’t tell him.

“I can’t tell you now. For realism, only I should know.”

“Then why did you even mention it?”

“So you’d know I have an idea.”

A head of household isn’t a head of household for nothing. This is when I need to step up.

This absolutely wasn’t me holding a grudge because Kim Dobin said my brain was the worst.

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