The Trashy PD Has To Survive as an Idol - Chapter 199

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199

[Seo Ho-yoon Syndrome, huh…
Is this even real?]

If you traced back to the origins of Seo Ho-yoon Syndrome, some would point to the “Would You Sing With Me?” variety show, while others would claim it was simply because that’s the kind of person he naturally was.

One week before Seo Ho-yoon Syndrome became widespread.
After the “Would You Sing With Me?” program ended, each fandom had to endure minor turbulence—accusations like “Are you fighting with fans?”, “Why aren’t you following the script?”, “How could you do this to other groups that went through survival?”—and so on.
Of course, the fans tried their best to ignore it all.

[If he’d stuck to the script, you’d have cursed him for being bland anyway, ugh]
[Come on, just be happy he’s popular~]

And among them—especially within Noeul—the conversation quickly shifted.

[I was genuinely impressed watching this program
Ho-yoon is honestly such a good person, right?
Character marketing potential?

└Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha If you just bring a fan sign video of Noeul’s face you can do it…]

[I want to marry Seo Ho-yoon
And then divorce him
And then remarry him]
Sigh… I find it so endearing that Ho-yoon likes sweet things, and now that I think about it, he’s incredibly cute.
You’re driving us girls crazy..]

They ignored the provocateurs and refused to feed the trolls.

[Look at him, no matter what’s happening outside, he just says whatever he wants

└For real, typical idol and their fans..]

Despite the special variety show’s brief run, Kang Yeon-hu and Seo Ho-yoon’s recognition skyrocketed.
However, that was the extent of it.
Due to the limitations of the plot, the program couldn’t secure a regular time slot, and neither Seo Ho-yoon nor Kang Yeon-hu seemed interested in appearing together on other broadcasts.
As a result, the heated controversy gradually subsided.
Instead, other pieces of gossip tumbled before the fans.

[Wait, are they really getting advertising deals?]
[Seriously? Is this real???]
[Are our kids world-class???]

Both Kang Yeon-hu and Seo Ho-yoon had been receiving love calls from various broadcasts and even advertising companies.

Broadcast networks are really strong, huh. Both of them have solidified their images this time lol

[It’s so cute how he gets caught up in the game ㅠㅠ It’s adult-like, but he’s shed his image haha.

└What about Seo Ho-yoon
└└That guy’s a bastard..
And my personal angel (^//^)
└└Yes.. be happy]

[Ho-yoon really is an angel (feat. Japanese fans)]

After the announcement that B App would be shutting down, the Noeul fans diligently backed up their videos, then compiled the funniest moments from past B Live broadcasts, re-edited them, and uploaded them in droves to YouTube.

[Title: Reviewing old stuff and dying laughing—Seo Ho-yoon was just so consistent

Da-jun: In Japan, Ho-yoon’s nickname is apparently “angel.” Did I maybe learn Japanese wrong??
Ho-yoon: Can’t you see the wings on my back, Bouncy?
Yi-chae: Flap flap~

Hahahahahaha
These shameless bastards..

But he stayed silent at Hyun-sung’s question about what he thought of being paired as angels together with Sung Ji-won lol
└└Yeah.. Ho-yoon, even you should have some conscience about that…]

At the same time, compilations of Seo Ho-yoon being sweet to The Dun members were being stitched together and generated in massive quantities.
Meanwhile, Kim Sung-hyun, who had been hosting B Live, let out a long sigh at the fans’ requests and opened YouTube to search for “Seo Ho-yoon.”

“Ha….”

Immediately, a flood of videos erupted across the screen: “Seo Ho-yoon Sweet Moments Compilation,” “Seo Ho-yoon What Is This A Boyfriend,” “Baby Bunny Ho-yoon Has Arrived,” “The Dun Members Messed Up,” “My Favorite Seo Ho-yoon Moment,” “Thinking About Marrying Seo Ho-yoon for 3 Minutes and 25 Seconds,” and countless others.

[Hahahahahahahahaha Seonghyun is embarrassed hahaha]
Ah, that’s so cute hahahahahaha

Kim Sung-hyun glanced at the fan comments again, then finally clicked on one video and watched in silence. The moment his birthday—March 14th—appeared on screen, he let out a sigh and pressed his fingers firmly against his brow.

It was from the early filming days of Shining Star Season 2.
Seo Ho-yoon had sauntered into the waiting room toward Kim Sung-hyun and dumped something from his pocket into his hands.
Kim Sung-hyun, caught off guard, carefully accepted it without letting anything spill.

【What is this?】
【A gift.】
【Ah… wow. Thanks.】

Looking at the small, round object wrapped in colorful pretty paper, he naturally assumed it was candy. Since his birthday fell on White Day, he was accustomed to gifts of that sort.
Kim Sung-hyun smiled brightly and unwrapped it on the spot, popping it into his mouth.
And immediately spat it out.

【Bitter! It’s soft! What is this… hey, what is this.】
【Ginseng candy.】
【…Not regular candy?】

Who in their right mind gives ginseng candy as a birthday gift to a guy in his prime twenties?
Yet Seo Ho-yoon sat on the nearby sofa with a satisfied expression, tapping his phone idly. When he heard Kim Sung-hyun’s words, he raised one eyebrow and looked at him with a narrow gaze.

【On White Day? To you?】
【No, wait. I’m sorry.】
【Are you seriously showing that you wanted candy?】
【Please! Ah! My ears!】

Feeling a chill run down his spine, Kim Sung-hyun grimaced and covered his ears, jumping up to flee to the corner of the waiting room.
Seo Ho-yoon giggled with laughter. The video also captured Jung Da-jun, who had been watching a drama rerun on his phone, quietly muttering, “Ginseng candy on White Day, that’s totally lame….”

“Ha… no matter how many times I watch that, it still gets under my skin.”

However, unlike Kim Sung-hyun’s reaction, the comment section was in an uproar, praising Seo Ho-yoon for being so affectionate and thoughtful. Some even joked that the red ginseng candy Ho-yoon gave must taste like honey.
Kim Sung-hyun’s eyelashes trembled as he watched him.

“What on earth… why?”

[LOL Seonghyun ㅠㅠㅠㅠ]

[Seonghyun has been really hurt these days.. Pat..ㅜ

└ He’s probably been boiling inside about this
└└ Boiling~b]

Ever since that day, whenever something came up, Seo Ho-yoon would tease him with things like “Don’t you want my love?” or “Aren’t you craving my affection?”—and after three months of this relentless ribbing, Kim Sung-hyun’s teeth were grinding together.
Finally, he jumped up from his seat, went outside, and came back dragging Jung Da-jun, who was holding a sausage in each hand.
Then, without a word, he played Seo Ho-yoon’s sweet video.

“…I can’t watch anymore.”
“Lost your appetite?”
“Yeah….”

[The best diet video of this century.
Highly recommended

[UNTRANSLATED LINE 140]

Just as Jeong Da-jun was about to give up before even eating two bites of sausage, Kang I-chae and Seong Ji-won came snooping in with cup ramen and kimbap.
The moment Jung Da-jun gave up after barely eating two bites of his sausage, Kang Yi-chae and Sung Ji-won peeked in with cup ramen and kimbap.

“What are you doing?”

At that time, Seo Ho-yoon appeared holding a caramel Frappuccino filled with cream that made you feel full of sugar just by looking at it.

“Ah, bro. Do you want to do it too?”

Seo Ho-yoon took a sip of his drink through a straw, swallowed it, and took a seat with his butt on one side.

【Thank you so much for coming. See you next time, by all means.】

“But why on earth are we doing this?”
“But why are we even doing this in the first place?”
“No matter how many times I watch it, I get chills.”

[It’s so fucking funny to talk about dancer lines]
[The dancer line’s commentary is hilarious]

Kim Seong-hyeon and Jeong Da-jun couldn’t eat anything, while Kang I-chae and Seong Ji-won ate well.
Kim Sung-hyun and Jung Da-jun couldn’t bring themselves to eat a single bite, while Kang Yi-chae and Sung Ji-won ate steadily without complaint.
In fact, Kang Yi-chae even giggled while occasionally slurping the broth with practiced ease.

“….”

The moment I saw the Japanese fancam where Seo Ho-yoon was greeting a fan and is still called a legend among sunset fans, the smile instantly disappeared from Kang I-chae’s mouth.
The moment Kang Yi-chae saw the Japan fancam—the one where Seo Ho-yoon was greeting fans and still remained a legend among Noeul fans—his smile vanished in an instant.

While two people were having a hard time, one was feeling uneasy, and another was breaking into a cold sweat, only Seong Ji-won was calm.

“Ahaha, Hoyun is so sweet.”
“Ahahaha, Ho-yoon is really so kind.”

【Poetry, the one who turns back time!!!
【The One Who Turns Back Time!!!
1)

1)

However, even that did not last long.
“….”

But even that composure didn’t last long.
The moment a scene from Apocalypse’s in-house produced content appeared, Sung Ji-won dropped the kimbap he’d been holding with his chopsticks.
[There is a section where even Jiwon gets angry hahahaha]

Ji-won finally broke]

“You need to eat, Jiwon.”
Seo Ho-yoon, sitting beside him, fed the kimbap directly into Sung Ji-won’s mouth with honey-sweet eyes.

“You need to eat, Ji-won.”
“….”
Hey, even my blood pressure goes up, bitch]
[Ugh,

no, now mine’s rising too, damn it]
Ji-won… hahahahahaha

In the end, that day’s B Live broadcast concluded with not a single person in a good mood.

At first, the number of stars wearing black clothes from head to toe or neutral-colored styles increased significantly. Afterwards, Seo Ho-yoon’s hairstyle also seemed to become popular.
[Why do I see so many Seo Ho-yoon lookalikes on the streets these days? Like some crime drama character or something]

At first, it was just that clothing in StarStar became noticeably more monochromatic black or neutral-toned styles. Soon after, Seo Ho-yoon’s hairstyle seemed to trend as well.
However, since neither the clothing nor the hairstyle was particularly distinctive, no one suspected anything at that time.
[I like sweet things haha]

Let’s keep this just between us lol

[Title: Hey, I think my little brother has Seo Ho-yun’s disease.

Suddenly, he wears a Conan criminal look, brushes his hair every 0.5 seconds, and forgets to eat candy.
[Title: Yo, I think my little brother Seo Ho-yoon caught the syndrome

Suddenly he’s dressed like some crime drama character and brushes his hair back every 0.5 seconds while constantly munching on candy

[Seo Ho-Yun Byung
When the camera was rolling, Seo Ho-yoon would suppress his true personality and operate in “bastard” mode with 0.1% added, and since that subtle sharp edge seemed appealing, the Ho-yoon Syndrome had become rampant at some point.
No laughing
[Ho-yoon Syndrome

No snickering laughs

[Kang Lee Chae-byeong
However, in reality, this wasn’t something that applied only to Seo Ho-yoon.
Stop the fuck, you’re going to die]

Pretending to look sharp, acting slick, carrying around a notebook, scribbling on it
Damn it, stop it, I’m dying]

Kang Yi-chae’s disaster had also descended upon South Korea.
And its influence even reached cosmetics commercial shoots.

“I’m! Seo Ho-yoon! That smirk kind of laugh!”
“….”
Even though he had barely finished filming, the photographer ate his food as if he was not satisfied with his spirit. And he made the same request to Kang Yi-chae, who was next in line.

I am Seo Ho-yoon—what more could they possibly mean by “more Seo Ho-yoon-like”?
Despite having just finished the shoot, the photographer seemed unsatisfied, smacking his lips with regret. Then he made the exact same demand to Kang Yi-chae, who was next.

“Yi-chae, be more Yi-chae-like! Make me want to catch Yi-chae fever!”
“More Yi-chae-like~!”
When the photographer even went one step further and asked, ‘Please show me some lively, bold, and gorgeous rap,’ he immediately showed ‘The naivety of thinking it was a coincidence is still the same.’
The real madman was Kang Yi-chae.

When the photographer went even further, asking to see “something vibrant yet edgy and gorgeous rap,” he immediately delivered a verse with that innocent naivety that treats everything as coincidence.

While Seo Ho-yoon was looking at this with a fed-up face, Jeong Da-jun, who had taken all of his individual shots earlier and had some fun in the sea, shook his whole body and shook off the sand and asked.

“Hyung, but why don’t you call me Bangbang these days?”

Since people call me Bangbang whenever they see anything, I don’t even want to use the name I used as a nickname.

“He’s been wearing a mask well these days.”

That’s because he wanted to prevent people from laughing in advance whenever he encountered them.
“I’ve been wearing a mask more often lately.”

That was to preemptively block people who kept asking me to give them that smirk whenever we crossed paths.
And that wasn’t all—everyone around me had started using that “~isn’t it?” and “~right?” speech pattern, piling on the “nya” endings until even I was reaching my limit.

“I’m not engaging in conversation.”

“Jiwon hyung… I’m really worried about Hoyun hyung.”
So lately, I’d unified my sentence endings to the declarative form.

“Ji-won hyung… I’m really worried about Ho-yoon hyung.”
“It seems like quite a shock… Let’s just leave him be.”
He sat down on the empty seat next to Seo Ho-yoon and opened his mouth.

He was toweling off his hair, which was soaked from the water during the shoot. Above his form-fitting white rash guard, his muscles flexed and relaxed with each movement.
He dropped into the empty seat beside Seo Ho-yoon and opened his mouth.
“Are you still talking like this? Well, anyway, FNL. Friday Night Live.”
“The Manager mentioned earlier that we’re getting a sudden schedule next week.”

“You still talk like that? Anyway, FNL. Friday Night Live.”

“Really? When?”

Kim Seong-hyun clenched his chin in surprise at the unusually slightly excited appearance.

“He said he would have to check the schedule again at some point to find out. But, he said it was the Seo Ho-Yun Byeong concept?”
Surprised by his unusually enthusiastic reaction, Kim Sung-hyun rested his chin in his hand thoughtfully.

“They said we need to check the schedule again to confirm the exact date. But apparently, it’s going to be with the ‘Seo Ho-yoon patient’ concept?”

1) Refer to the SBS entertainment show Running Man (2010.07.11.~) Christmas special superpower episode (episode 74).

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