The Trashy PD Has To Survive as an Idol - Chapter 61

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61

[1st Place!!!]

Noeul’s fanbase was practically in party mode. They laughed while simultaneously crying. Especially the core fans who had been supporting them since debut were crawling all over the floor.

[1st place… 1st place… 1st place… Is this real or a dream? Is this actually happening? Ahhhhhhhhh this is so good]
[Fastest among all the new debuts this time, what’s going on with them?
└Manipulation?
└Shining Star + cleaning house
└└Lol they really played it smart]
[The moment 1st place was announced, they all started crying like babies lol I’m dying, it’s so funny and sad and touching and wonderful at the same time, I didn’t know I could cry this much]
[And through it all, Kang Yi-chae and Seo Ho-yoon stayed composed
└Those two are the textbook definition of professionalism]

The reaction to 1st place itself was excellent. Perhaps because of the image that they had struggled through Shining Star, everyone was completely invested.

[Wow, this is seriously like a novel setup. Complete unknown → Shining Star appearance → skyrocketing success → 1st place. I’m so proud I could burst]

To begin with, since this song was just as well-crafted as the last one, there was less noise to deal with.
Meanwhile, when The Dun’s stage performance and Seo Ho-yoon’s fancam were released….

[Whoa]

Seo Ho-yoon’s individual fanbase seemed taken aback.

[;;; What is this god-tier dancing?]
[Why is he dancing so well? He must have practiced so hard, I’m so proud I could go crazy]
[What’s Seo Ho-yoon lacking now… He’s got looks, vocals, dancing, and variety show talent all covered…
└Manners
└Lololololololololol I’m dying laughing]

Of course, Noeul fans didn’t bring up his visuals.
Those who liked Seo Ho-yoon casually might not understand, but those who described Seo Ho-yoon as “crazy” seemed to know his personality.
He was kind to his fans in his own way, but… he had a strong presence and wasn’t particularly friendly to everyone.
Even those who had truly “bet their lives” on Seo Ho-yoon remained steadfast no matter what controversy erupted. In fact, when Seo Ho-yoon called out Today, some fans laughed it off with otherworldly coolness.

[Ho-yoon’s actually just a baby lol
└lololol crazy lol
└└laughing?
└└└my apologies]

[our bunny could totally do that hehe
└agree agree lol]

Like idol, like fan—if the other members saw them, they’d be shocked at how shamelessly brazen they were.
In any case, the increasingly powerful fanbase congratulated Seo Ho-yoon’s remarkable growth with laughter.
On YouTube, videos titled “[Tuk-ttaki Seo Ho-yoon, Dance Evolution]” and similar attention-grabbing headlines multiplied. Complimentary comments increased, but where there’s a growing celebration, flies are sure to gather.

[He’s only good at that because it’s his part lol. When you praise an idol for barely memorizing their own part, you can tell the level, right?]

Naturally, the fans were quick to respond.

[Look at the shade slowly creeping in~~ ah so thrilling lololol]
[proof he did that well lol]

I almost got annoyed, but these weren’t fans who’d be dragged along by this. As his popularity grew, there would be more provocations to ignore.
However, once the first-place promise fancam was released, even this attention-grabbing controversy vanished in an instant.

[The Dun Ocean Train Encore Stage – Celebrating 1st Place!]
[Promise Part Breakdown!
Sung Ji-won → Kang Yi-chae
Kang Yi-chae → Jung Da-jun
Jung Da-jun → Seo Ho-yoon
Seo Ho-yoon → Kim Sung-hyun
Kim Sung-hyun → Sung Ji-won
Please give it a like♡]

Whether it was meant as a funny concept, the rap and vocal parts had been swapped.
Watching Sung Ji-won awkwardly deliver Kang Yi-chae’s rap part, even Sung Ji-won’s most devoted fans had no choice but to squeeze their eyes shut.

[I memorized it correctly….
The pitch was right too…
The diction was good…
So why…]

[Ji-won…… just sing]
[Ji-won, don’t do what you want to do
Haha, everyone’s being so cold-hearted.

And Kang Yi-chae swung his hands around as if possessed by Jung Da-jun, mimicking his distinctive vocal technique so perfectly that everyone burst into laughter.

Kang Yi-chae is seriously shameless lolololol I caught a glimpse of Jung Da-jun for a moment
This one’s got a really strong presence, but their personality is so good lol. They’re the definition of doing their own thing.
└He would’ve been the top in any group…. We can’t help but love him]

Next was Jung Da-jun. He deliberately tried to look cool, sweeping his hair back and striking various poses, but to the fans’ eyes, he was simply adorable.

[LOL It’s just Jeong Da-jun.
└Jeong Da-jun: ㅠㅠ;;
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Our baby ㅠㅠ It’s really cute]

Kim Sung-hyun sang Sung Ji-won’s part smoothly and faithfully. His tone was better than expected, causing a stir among the fans.

[What is this…. What is this….
Kim Sung-hyun singing the Main Vocal part all by himself, what’s going on…]
Why is Kim Sung-hyun singing the entire Main Vocal part by himself…

Everyone was happy to see comedy or unexpected skills revealed while changing parts, but the one who stood out the most was Seo Ho-yoon. At first, he seemed hesitant when taking on Kim Seong-hyun’s part, but he danced well during the dance break, adjusting his strength and weakness to the beat.

[????]

Although he was still a long way off compared to Kim Sung-hyun, he still seemed to be around the average of other idols. The dance line was captured beautifully and attracted even more attention.

[what? Seo Ho-yoon dances well even though it’s not his part??]
[What? Seo Ho-yoon’s doing well even though it’s not his part??]
[He’s got great control, really nailing the dynamics]
└Jiji, take your fist out of your mouth.
└Hey, take your fist out of your mouth
└└Hehe]

The reaction was flowing exactly in the direction Seo Ho-yoon was aiming for.

***

“You really have no conscience.”

I said, putting on my gray jacket. No matter how much I thought about it, I had no conscience. Jeong Da-jun, still a high school student, was flying around and grumbling.

“I want to stop wearing school uniform now.”
“I want to stop wearing a school uniform now.”
“Ah~, those were the days.”

No, I’m really old. I wanted to say that to Sung Ji-won’s tackle, but I quit.
No, it’s really been forever for me. I wanted to say that in response to Sung Ji-won’s jab, but I held back.

‘Kang Yi-chae, go.’
‘Kang Yi-chae, go.’

After finishing preparations for filming, I walked down the hallway toward the classroom model set following the staff’s guidance.
After finishing filming preparations, I followed the staff’s guidance down a hallway toward the set of a classroom model.
For a concept like this, the brazen and smooth-talking Kang Yi-chae was perfect.

“Who is this guy?”

‘These are faces we’ve all seen a lot.’

Celebrities who had been harassed terribly during their PD days cheered without knowing anything.

“It’s The Dawn!!”
“The Dun!!”

Seong Ji-won followed behind, waving his hand gently as he entered, and one by one, all the members entered the classroom. We stood in line and smiled and said hello.

“We came to this school to eat.”
“We came to this school to eat.”

It was a filming that went smoothly. They were people who were as faithful to the concept as the cameras were rolling outside the set and as famous as they were.

“I heard that this song was composed by Lee Chae?”
“So the song this time was composed by Yi-chae?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”

“I’m sick of it because of money… I’ve seen it so many times.”

For a moment, those words came to mind and I glanced at him, but Kang Yi-chae answered leisurely, shaking his head.

“Ah, unfortunately the copyright fee hasn’t been paid yet.”

Kang Yi-chae playfully winked at the camera.

“Please transfer money to Lee Chae quickly!”

A guy who is thorough in public and private life.
A guy who keeps business and personal matters strictly separate.
Everyone burst into laughter at his composed attitude.

‘Okay, don’t do it. ‘It’s a backlash.’

After the members were laid out so that everyone could focus on each other, it was my turn, but the celebrities suddenly tilted their upper bodies.

“Hoyun, I heard you’re that smart?”
“Ho-yoon, you’re supposed to be really smart, right?”

He smiled an embarrassed smile.
I offered an awkward smile.

“No, not to that extent.”
“No, it’s not that much.”

‘hmm… … .’

The praise was nice, but fans might get bored if they stick to this image too much.
The praise felt good, but if I got too locked into this image, the fans might grow bored.

“Haha, no big deal.”
“Haha, it’s nothing special.”
“….”
“….”
“…But you’re really handsome.”

Even when I was a producer, I think I heard something similar when we first met. Of course, it’s no secret that when we started working together after starting the program, that bastard would smile and call me Binggrae behind my back because he was very good at criticizing people.

‘Ah, it was fun back then.’

It’s very disappointing.
I missed it a lot.

“I think there are about 10 people on the other side of the camera right now?”

I waited calmly while listening to the celebrity with a grumpy image complaining.

‘Anyway, there’s nothing that makes me burst out in laughter…’ .’

While I am starting to show off my entertainment PD self with the thought that I need to make a big splash… The next corner has begun.
As I was firing up my variety show PD instincts, thinking it was time for something to really pop off… the next segment began.

“Hey, let’s talk about something scary.”
“Hey~, let’s tell some scary stories.”

As the classroom darkened and the sound of thunder was heard, comedians among the cast created a skit and created an atmosphere.
As the classroom darkened and thunder rumbled, the comedians among the cast performed skits to set the mood.
On a rainy day, the students in the classroom each brought up entertaining stories.

“Now, who wants to go first?”

As I was preparing to open my mouth, Kang Yi-chae suddenly raised her hand confidently.

“Lee Chae will do it.”
“I’ll do it.”
“Yi-chae, but why do you keep mentioning your own name?”

Tiring!

[Isn’t this just cute?]

I think that’s right too.
I think that’s right too.

“This is a true story of a shock I experienced.”
“It’s a shocking true story I experienced.”
“What is it, what is it?”
“The main character this time isn’t me—it’s Ho-ho Hyung.”
“Ho-ho?”

‘This bastard?’

Kang Yi-chae’s finger pointed at me. I crossed my arms and crossed my legs as if to show off. The production team seemed to think it was a joke and burst into warm laughter, but in reality, they had no idea what was going on and broke into a cold sweat. … There are so many outrageous things I said and things I didn’t like.

‘No, Kang Yi-chae is not that thoughtless.’

I won’t say anything that will ruin my image.
He wouldn’t say anything that would damage my image.
But then what could it be? Everything I’ve said lately is related to Today anyway, so it’ll all be edited out regardless….

“That day… it rained a lot like today.”

As if trying to set the mood, Kang Yi-chae spoke in a low, gloomy whisper. Guided by him, even Kim Seong-hyun listened and focused on the story.

‘The day it rained a lot… … ?’
‘A day when it rained heavily…?’
“What is it? Ho-yoon, do you have an idea?”

I answered Seong Ji-won and did the calculations quickly in my head, but I still had no idea.

“It was the day before the last filming of Shining Star…”
“It was the day before the final recording of Shining Star….”
“Shining Star? You mean that last broadcast where Kissmet performed?”

I was a little anxious.

“I was practicing hard, promising myself that I would get first place, but I was too tired and was about to go in… but Ho-yoon stayed and said he would practice more.”
“I told myself I had to rank first and practiced hard, but I got so exhausted I was about to leave… and then Seo Ho-yoon said he’d stay and practice more.”
“Seo Ho-yoon?”
“Yeah. But we just figured, well, that’s how he is. Because he’s a practice machine. There was even a time he couldn’t sleep and practiced while sick, and ended up in the Emergency Room.”

Boisterous voices echoed throughout the set.
Murmurs of surprise rippled across the filming location.

“My brother suddenly collapsed. Everyone was shocked and panicked. It was no joke.”
“He suddenly collapsed, sir. We all panicked and rushed around—it was serious.”

It was a pain that was deliberately targeted, so it pricked my conscience that everyone’s eyes were on me, but there was no harm in the title ‘Idol who was taken to the hospital while practicing hard’, so I left it alone.
Since there was calculation behind the injury, I felt a twinge of guilt as everyone’s eyes fixed on me, but the title “an idol who was hospitalized from practicing hard” wasn’t a loss, so I let it slide.

‘what… ‘What was it?’

“Anyway… Ho-yoon is always calm and cool-headed. He is practicing. So I was on my way back when I suddenly got a call. They said the Shining Star program would continue. That’s a good thing for us, right? So I contacted Ho-yoon to let him know.”

Kang Yi-chae pounded the lectern.
Kang Yi-chae tapped on the lecture desk.
The rainy day.
The final practice day for Shining Star.

“But I’m not receiving any calls.”
“But he didn’t answer the call.”

‘I remembered!!’

Feeling like I was screwed, I jumped up and ran to the teacher’s table. And he tried to cover Kang Yi-chae’s mouth. Kang Yi-chae clenched her teeth to suppress laughter and struggled to avoid me, but she couldn’t stop me from desperately trying to stop her.
Feeling like everything was falling apart, I bolted up and rushed to the lecture desk. I tried to cover Kang Yi-chae’s mouth, and though he clenched his teeth to stifle his laughter and struggled to dodge me, he couldn’t overcome my desperate resistance.

“Oh, Seo Ho-yoon, you can’t do this!”
“Hey, Seo Ho-yoon, you can’t do this!”

If this became known, I felt like I would really want to die that day. He almost attacked Kang Yi-chae and tried to stop this beautiful snout. The members who still didn’t understand the English language were just watching the situation from afar with question marks on their faces.

“Hey, you really….”
“Hey, you really….”
“Hyung! I’m just getting good content for the show.”

There is something about this, something that is a huge hit.
There’s something here, something big is about to blow up.

“Hey~, seeing Ho-yoon come out like this, do you really think there’s something there?”
“Hey~, seeing Ho-yoon come out like this, there’s definitely something going on, right?”

Kang Yi-chae, a mess, woke up from under the teacher’s table. And he said solemnly.

“You can’t stop the truth, bro.”

Laughter also broke out among the staff. Because of the anticipated humiliation, I was thrown into a corner alone, squatting on a chair, covering my face, and escaping from reality. I felt the camera close up on this side.

“I didn’t hear from my brother, so I went back to the practice room. I was worried that I might have collapsed again. But you can’t disturb me while I’m practicing, right? So I quietly opened the practice room door and—.”

Kang Yi-chae pretended to gently open the door with her hand.

“—Hoyun hyung is practicing his cuteness.”
“—and Ho-yoon hyung was practicing aegyo.”
“Waaahhh!”
“Ohhhhh!”

The comedians screamed as if they felt empathetic shame as they watched Kang Yi-chae imitate the situation by clapping his index fingers together.

“……what?”
“…What did you say?”

The remaining members picked their ears or looked at the ceiling as if they had heard something they couldn’t hear.
The other members either dug at their ears or stared at the ceiling as if they’d heard something they shouldn’t have.
This bastard….
I thought he was a good guy for not telling the members, but damn it, he’d been holding back to expose me in front of the entire nation.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing… whether it was a dream or reality. Hoyun hyung, he’s not that kind of person… If you ask the members, you’ll know.”
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing—whether it was a dream or reality. Ho-yoon hyung isn’t that kind of person… You’d know if you asked the members.”

When the comedian asked if he was curious, Seong Ji-won answered with a laugh.

“Uh… he’s calm and cool-headed. He’s definitely not that kind of personality….”
“Well… he’s composed and level-headed. Absolutely, absolutely not the type to do something like that….”

Kang Yi-chae, this scumbag, was even cheering up the mood with the people around him.

“But that person was doing this, ‘Simga-kae, Simga-kae.’”
“But then this guy kept going ‘Shim-ga-chae, Shim-ga-chae’ like that.”
“And? And?!”
“Our eyes met in the mirror. His face turned completely pale.”

When I jumped up, someone around me grabbed my arm as if waiting and made me sit back down. The set was already filled with the screams and laughter of people (who felt empathy shame).

“So, I was afraid of embarrassing my brother, so I came out very quietly and told him the news.”
“So I came out really quietly, just to give you the news, worried you’d be embarrassed.”
“Hahahaha!”

Kang Yi-chae brushed her hair as a finishing touch and muttered with a sad face.

“This brother…you really work hard.”
“This hyung really lives his life so hard.”
“Wahahaha!”

As an object of shame, I lay face down on my desk and died quietly. I thought it would be better to hide my presence like this and pretend it wasn’t there.

“Hoyun, Hoyun, you need to say something!”
“Ho-yoon, Ho-yoon, you have to say something!”

We were in such a hurry that even the cast members forgot the concept of speaking informally. The comedians next to me kept making a fuss and asking me if I had passed out, so I ended up having to come out to the podium in a huff.
The cast members were so eager they even forgot their casual speech concept. The comedians next to me kept making a fuss, asking if I’d fainted, so I eventually had to stumble over to the lecture desk.

‘It wasn’t 2% covered, it was 200% covered. under… .’

“Brother, please tell me your thoughts.”
“Hyung, give us your thoughts.”

When I spoke honestly with a dejected expression, even the staff members almost sobbed beyond laughter. Kang Yi-chae seemed to be about to burst out laughing again as he fell down on the table and started to almost cry.

“I love you so much….”

It was the most depressing ‘simgakasimgachae’ in the world.
It was the most depressing “Shim-ga-chae, Shim-ga-chae” in the world.

‘These crazy people… .’

No, I’m even crazier… .
No, I’m the crazier one….

“Hoyun… was born pretty.”
“Seo Ho-yoon is… just born pretty….”
“Ahhhhh! So embarrassing!”

‘life… … .’

“Seo Ho-yoon, please! Please stop!”

Kim Seong-hyeon That bastard didn’t even know if it was because of him, but he was laughing so hard that he slipped and fell off his chair.
Kim Sung-hyun, that bastard, didn’t even realize it was because of him as he laughed so hard he slid off his chair and fell.

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