A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 607

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 607

Ryu Jaehee and my gazes met perfectly in mid-air.

“Why?”

“No, I was wondering if you have intraspecies hatred.”

“I’m not a fox, I’m a hamster.”

“You’re a human, Youngest Member.”

Just like Kim Dobin who called himself a dog last time, why do they keep trying to change their species from homo sapiens?

I told the truth to Ryu Jaehee, who stubbornly insisted on being a hamster and had even changed his identity—no, his species—in his memory. Then Ryu Jaehee, whose mouth fell open, grumbled.

“Hyung is Korea’s most famous tiger though.”

“Shut up, you punk. Just because I told you an uncomfortable truth you wanted to ignore, does that mean you can stab at someone’s painful spots?”

That damn public service ad kept showing up on TV whenever I tried to forget it. I even paid for YouTube Premium, which I had been stubbornly avoiding because I hated seeing ads pop up.

Dodging my hand that was mercilessly ruffling his hair, Ryu Jaehee asked.

“If you didn’t think I was a fox, then what seemed similar about us?”

“You’re also good at scheming and calculating like Yupi. I see quite a few similarities, but you seem to dislike that side of Yupi.”

Of course, our youngest member was much better at scheming and more meticulous than Yupi. Yupi was honestly amateur compared to Ryu Jaehee. He even got caught by Choi Hyeongjin, not just me.

“So I advised Hyeongjin and Bug Kim not to get eaten by Yupi, but only Hyeongjin is acting like that, sigh.”

“Why? G-TE hyung also admirably avoided Yupi’s clutches though.”

I clicked my tongue and shook my head at Ryu Jaehee’s curious question.

“I meant for Bug Kim to cleverly steal Yupi’s initiative. Not to charge head-on like Choi Hyeongjin.”

“He’s your friend though.”

“Hey, Hajun is also my friend, but Jun doesn’t act like that. What would happen if I turned all my friends into guys like me?”

At my grumbling, Ryu Jaehee narrowed his eyes and looked at me.

“What, why.”

“I don’t know whether I should be amazed at the natural Gyeon Hajun favoritism you do while even putting yourself down, or be surprised that you know you’re the type to charge head-on.”

“Huh? Why me?”

Gyeon Hajun, who had come out to drink water with a script in hand, turned around and asked when he caught his name in our conversation.

For tomorrow’s script reading, Gyeon Hajun had been diligently taking acting lessons and analyzing his script and character for months.

After much deliberation, Gyeon Hajun finally gave in to my persuasion and chose Writer Kim Jeongseo’s drama to show filial piety to his mother.

This drama with a time-leap setting was about a daughter with parents who fought daily and seemed not to love each other, who time-leaps to when her parents were young and works hard to prevent their marriage. The main couple of the drama was essentially the parents.

Gyeon Hajun’s role was the past version of the sub-male lead who was the female protagonist’s first love.

Since the time-leaped past was the main setting, Gyeon Hajun’s screen time was quite substantial.

In the past, Gyeon Hajun became the nation’s first love through this drama. It was the role that made Gyeon Hajun, who had only played minor roles, establish himself as a main supporting actor in one go.

The drama’s direction and script were all top-notch, but above all, it was possible because Gyeon Hajun fit amazingly well with the character he played.

Because of that significance, I wanted to make sure that current Gyeon Hajun could meet this drama and this role again, just like in the past before regression.

It was worth desperately stopping the 【Love Line Design】 casting.

“Oh no, it’s nothing. The youngest member said something unnecessary. You have script reading tomorrow, aren’t you going to sleep? Will your condition be okay?”

“Ah, the role I’m playing isn’t a complex character, but I can’t quite grasp how to express indifferent kindness.”

Ryu Jaehee and I, who had looked away from DTB showing next week’s preview, found new interest and our eyes lit up.

At our urging to help and quickly explain in detail, Gyeon Hajun added character description.

“This role isn’t cold or blunt. He’s equally kind to everyone, but that also feels indifferent?”

Damn difficult. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to try acting in my lifetime. I should just do music for life.

“Hmm… Found something you dropped?”

“That’s not indifferent kindness, that’s just tsundere.”

Despite wracking my brain to barely come up with that, my head hurt from Ryu Jaehee’s rebuttal. So I immediately gave up thinking and familiarly outsourced it.

“What does Yehyeon hyung say?”

Since Gyeon Hajun wouldn’t have failed to ask Seo Yehyeon for help, when I casually asked, Gyeon Hajun sighed and confessed.

“He said it’s perfect for me, to just act like I usually do, but I’m not the type to be equally kind to everyone.”

Ryu Jaehee, with a face like he realized something, nodded and raised one finger with sparkling eyes.

“It’s simple, Hajun hyung. Try acting like how you treat non-Yoon Eden.”

Gyeon Hajun and I looked at Ryu Jaehee simultaneously.

“That’s just a forced meme you guys made, Youngest Member. Maybe if Eden discriminated between me and you guys, but I don’t really discriminate between Eden and you guys.”

“Right, you punk. Have you ever seen him give me special treatment except for sharing his lunch?”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been looking at us like he saw a dog talking, sighed and muttered.

“You do it so naturally that you don’t even know… Well, you’d automatically become non-Yoon Eden on set. Anyway, if you do that, it’ll be a perfect fit, hyung.”

And the day after the script reading, Gyeon Hajun was puzzled, saying he received praise for playing his role well, though he didn’t know why.

* * *

-Nijeous finally passed the dreaded first round of the main competition lol congratulations you bastard

-Why do BQ and Gongchul look so troubled? Did Nijeous get PD-picked for his consistent DTB attendance? So they didn’t want to pass him but had to?

└There’s no leader-level contestant, so it’ll be unstable from the second round of main competition

-Huh? They’re advancing ZAYD instead of Rak Hyeon? Isn’t this too much of a stretch to get a leader-level contestant into the main competition?? Rak Hyeon followed Moltic’s style much better

└For real, do they think viewers don’t have ears? How stingily did they score Rak Hyeon for him to lose by just 1 point to ZAYD who messed up his stage?

└Fact: ZAYD belongs to F.LAK label where Moltic is the head

└DTB wouldn’t be complete without nepotism hip-hop lol

-They should penalize SYRA because she’s had unfair advantage from receiving G1’s producing during her group activities? What kind of bullshit is this? Is Fraction seriously saying this?

└G1 is pissed lol

└Wow, looks so petty lol SYRA who stepped up and accepted the penalty is the bigger person lol

└G-TE also received D.I.’s producing before, so if that team doesn’t request penalty for G-TE this time, only Fraction becomes the petty bastard lol

-G1 really makes beats fucking well, Rok Han is just… seems like an applause bot that boosts G1’s creative stats

Roughly, this was how other teams’ tumultuous first round preparation process went.

By the way, the teams that received the most screen time during preparation were Team G1 & Rok Han, which had conflict narratives despite the production crew’s machinations, and our team.

Team G1 & Rok Han had all sorts of conflicts between producer and participants and among participants, so our team was pushed back a bit in the narrative. Still, Yupi’s judgment to secure our team’s screen time to this extent might have been right in a way.

-Unbelievable, I thought this would show the lion dropping cubs from a cliff

-Wow I thought Yoon Eden would get serious and D.I. would stop him, but it’s the opposite, so fresh

└You think that’s stopping him? That’s fanning the flames and pouring oil on fire

└That sly smile is so annoying, Yoon Eden lol

-Seeing G-TE question why Yupi stayed silent until then, wasn’t Yupi pretending to master Seoba and scheming again? lol

└??: Idiots who mistake this whole game is in their hands

-Those two clashed hard during group missions in Season 4, but they chose to be on the same team looking only at Yoon Eden?

└Still, you can’t beat the friend-following-to-Gangnam friendship with Yoon Eden

└Did he learn the Pied Piper skill from that friend?

-G-TE delivers truth bombs and Bug Kim steals the role lol Yupi met his match

Unfortunately, thanks to Choi Hyeongjin’s blow, Yupi’s big picture was completely exposed even to the viewers.

-Honestly, if they went with Yoon Eden or D.I.’s style, they would’ve been accused of favoritism, so they completely flipped it, but thanks to giving beats that suit all three with different styles, all the trick accusations disappeared and only Yoon Eden’s abilities got reevaluated

-Wait, this is possible? lol I was ready to mock them for using cheap tricks after hearing the team style, but after hearing the beat it became “God Eden has thought of everything”

-Yoon Eden doesn’t just discipline concept-obsessed kids but also disciplines producers lol Other team producers should be nervous, right? He’s about to devour participants’ skills with his beats lol

└A tiger descended to the civilian world to give awareness to slack DTB producers

└Plus the 10-year connection Yongcheol buff

-He’s so fucking good at his main job, who can criticize Yoon Eden for some attention-seeking fashion?

-It’s not a beat that doesn’t suit any of the three, but a beat that suits all three, so honestly the producers could make this level of demand;; Look at other teams, they suffered like hell trying to match styles, but these guys got spoon-fed by producers, so there should be give and take

-Wow hidden evaluation criteria lol priority selection right lol What a fucking amazing coincidence lol

-Anyway, it’s individual competition where one person gets eliminated, I deeply bow my head for criticizing the many demands, truly God Yongcheol

And the change of perspective (written as such, read as trick) we pulled because we didn’t want to be accused of favoritism played a huge role in boosting my producing skills.

After finishing monitoring to determine which team is currently the weakest and assessing the situation of other teams, I was making plans for the second round of finals when a text message arrived for Cha Yeonho.

[Cha Yeonho- Did you guys by any chance]

[Cha Yeonho- punch each other and then make up by applying medicine to each other’s wounds?] 11:31 PM

It seems Cha Yeonho and KJ finally threw punches at each other. After all that acting refined, tsk tsk. I clicked my tongue and ignored Cha Yeonho’s question, sending my own question instead.

[Did you finally make up?]

If these guys successfully reconciled with this method, shouldn’t I patent the Yoon Eden-style reconciliation method? I waited for a reply with an excited heart.

And after a moment—

[Cha Yeonho- No]

[Cha Yeonho- We’re screwed] 11:39 PM

What? You even threw punches, so why?

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