Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 199



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 199

Min Hyo-chan and Min Hyo-min.

These siblings were closer to ‘club members’ than ‘idols’ to me.

I am more familiar with being in the classroom than dancing and singing on stage.

Min Hyo-chan is always playing Chinese otaku mobile games in a corner with a posture that hurts his back, and Min Hyo-min is smiling brightly and chattering away with Gu Yu-na’s arms crossed…

It feels like that.

On the contrary, sometimes I felt awkward whenever I saw them on TV.

And I can still feel that awkwardness.

Min Hyo-chan, who has really shiny pink hair, not mushy pink hair.

And Min Hyo-min transformed from an ordinary girl of literature into ‘idol mode’.

The two people who came unexpectedly were sitting at the table in the studio with a hesitant look on their faces.

I placed a can of vitamin drink in front of each of them.

“If you came without contacting me, it must have been some pretty urgent business… What is that look like? “Did you come right after jumping on stage at the broadcasting station?”

“When you say you’re running on stage, it sounds like you’re running on a night stage…”

Min Hyo-chan’s younger sister’s elbow hit the side of Min Hyo-chan, who was grumbling sullenly.

I also heard the sound of Min Hyo-min whispering in Min Hyo-chan’s ear.

“If you really don’t want to go on stage at night, come to your senses.”

“huh…”

Min Hyo-chan, who had come to his senses thanks to his younger brother’s support(?), looked at me with determined eyes.

And said-

“Are you not interested in idol activities?”

“Get out.”

“Sleep!”

Min Hyo-chan, screaming desperately, grabs my wrist as I try to get up.

Min Hyo-chan looks up at me with his pupils shaking like crazy.

“Joe, you could listen a little more!”

“What is it?”

“It’s not often that you get a chance to learn how to dance and sing from an active idol! “I will especially give you a chance to take lessons from Rapid Boys members!”

“And?”

“Well, if you let me go on a music show on the event stage and film it as an entertainment show…”

“goodbye. “It doesn’t go far.”

He mercilessly shook off the hand of Min Hyo-chan, who was making horrible noises.

Then, I ran to the main room of the studio and tried to lock the door, but this time I felt something blocking my ankle.

no way……

“and…”

“……”

“Hey…”

“……”

“This is the first time in my life that I’ve been held back by someone. Senior Min.”

“……”

Min Hyo-chan, who threw himself desperately, was holding onto my ankle.

I wrapped the blanket around my shoulders around my hand and lashed it at Min Hyo-chan like a whip.

“Get off. away.”

“no.”

“Because it’s falling.”

“I can’t let you go until you say okay.”

“Am I acting like an idol because I’m crazy?”

“Please! Just once! “Just think about saving a lot of lives just once!”

While Min Hyo-chan, who was holding onto my ankle, was pulling out the aggro, Min Hyo-min, who moved naturally, took control of the entrance to the main room and blocked my escape route.

While I was flinching at the threatening movement, Min Hyo-min sighed and persecuted Min Hyo-chan.

“That’s why I said it was a lame idea.”

“…? “This is the idea you came up with-”

“That’s it.”

Min Hyo-min’s pitiful eyes turned from her brother to me.

“Like my brother said, you don’t necessarily have to do idol activities yourself. Just help the Rapid Boys once. “Please…”

A voice also came out from the pink sponge around my ankles.

“Please…”

I don’t think it’s really normal for things to happen like this.

I opened my mouth with the intention of letting them in.

“What on earth is going on? Are you going to dismantle it?”

Min Hyo-min, hearing the word ‘disbandment’, smiled bitterly.

“It’s worse than that.”

EP 12-Marionette

The culprit of all incidents goes back to .

– It’s a face I’ve never seen before… Where did it come from?

– head office.

– Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!

The angel of death blows his trumpet, a tsunami rises and sweeps the earth,

That was the day when men in suits appeared riding a black Equus and kidnapped people.

Baekhak Entertainment’s core middle managers received sweet temptations from employees dispatched from the headquarters.

– I… can be the boss?

– The headquarters is dividing Baekhak Entertainment into separate agencies and management companies and planning innovative management in line with global standards. Of course, for that to happen, we need to hand over more responsibility to the existing working-level staff.

Immediately after the replacement of the chairman, Baekhak Group’s headquarters pursued a plan to reorganize its subsidiary, Baekhak Entertainment, by splitting it into several subsidiaries.

The fact that President Baek Seung-won actually built Baekhak Entertainment from the ground up was not very important.

Because it was all an attempt to bring President Baek Seung-won to his knees.

Fortunately, the situation was resolved smoothly.

President Baek Seung-won visited the chairman’s home, had a quiet conversation, and sold all of his shares to the headquarters.

In this way, the headquarters took full control of Baekhak Entertainment, and President Seungwon Baek became the richest person in history and the salaried CEO.

– Fuck.

Key middle managers who had promised to betray President Baek Seung-won continued to work under President Baek Seung-won without any changes.

I promised betrayal, but I was cut off and turned into a duck egg in the Nakdong River. These were the words of foolish people who did not know the teachings of teacher Kim Kar-ryung, the master of betrayal, who said, ‘If you are not sure, do not betray.’

The first director of singer management was also one of those traitors.

Because President Baek Seung-won’s power was less than before, he was barely able to survive, but he was in a pitiful situation, unable to make eye contact with the president every time he had a meeting.

There are three main paths left for such traitors.

A fairly large number of traitors band together and claim to be the opposition party within Baekhak Entertainment and act as the head of the headquarters.

Mutter, ‘Fuck you, the Baekhak Group is doing shit,’ and spit out phlegm and leave the company.

Or, use your skills to prove that you are exactly what this company needs.

– I decided to prove my qualifications to remain in this company through my skills. So all of you, trust me one more time.

– Manager…!

– I decided to bet everything on Rapid Boys’ 4th album. The reason the concept of failed was because it was too future-oriented. Our art was too avant-garde for the public to accept… But this time it’s different!

-…!

– The most Korean thing! And the old one! With , they will conquer BTS and conquer the world beyond the US!

The first manager who said that is currently running a successful business by starting a chicken restaurant after leaving the company.

It is widely praised by gourmets for opening a new horizon for bulgalbi-flavored chicken beyond galbi-flavored chicken.

However, Rapid Boys members could not go to fry chicken.

Even if the manager ruins the album, he can just resign and go fry chicken.

This is because Rapid Boys members clearly have a ‘contract period’ remaining.

The standard period of activity for an idol is 7 years, and Rapid Boys is currently in their 4th year.

Even though I finished the album twice in a row, I still have to do this for three more years.

It’s not just the members who are in trouble.

The company is also in trouble.

– No, I can’t dismantle this…

– Director 1 That guy splashed a lot of shit and jumped out. Ugh.

-The chicken was delicious.

– Did you really go to that gentleman’s chicken restaurant? Are you crazy?

-There is no sin in chickens…

It is difficult for Baekhak Entertainment to deal with a boy group that has had two albums in a row despite being in their 4th year of debut.

Whether it’s a music video or an album, it’s not like a penny or two is spent on idol activities, so you can’t pour water into a bottomless pot.

However, the group cannot be disbanded altogether.

Baekhak Entertainment is not a small or medium-sized entertainment company, but is definitely one of the four major entertainment companies in Korea. However, if a boy group that has debuted for 4 years is disbanded, this terrible failure will be remembered in history.

It’s not important to be ridiculed for having a dark past, but then the stock price falls.

Someone needs to be held accountable for this terrible business failure.

So the idol industry has a solution to deal with this difficult situation.

That’s right…

* * *

“It’s neglect.”

“Neglect?”

“If we disband, we’ll get criticized by fans, our stock price will drop, and there’ll be an uproar, so we’ll just quietly cut off support and leave it until the end of the contract period.”

“Then idols can’t be active?”

“of course! Lyrics, composition, and choreography all cost money, so how can an idol do that on his own?”

“ah…”

“Even publishing articles on the Internet costs money! They say you have to pay the reporters to get the story published. What about music videos and concerts? “It’s something that costs hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, but how can idols who are at a loss and can’t even receive the settlement do it on their own?”

Min Hyo-min taught me the stark reality of the idol industry.

Then, I also saw Min Hyo-chan differently.

Min Hyo-chan was not simply a ‘failed idol’, but a ‘difficult idol who was neglected by the company until the end of the contract period due to his failure’.

At this level, I understood why I couldn’t hang out with the practical dance students (idol wannabes) at school, and why I always hid in the club room and escaped reality by playing mobile games.

Min Hyo-chan’s eyes naturally turned pitiful, and he got angry.

“Why are you looking at me like that? Do I look pitiful?! “You bastard?!”

Min Hyo-chan tried to lose his temper, but quickly became sullen like a person suffering from bipolar disorder.

“no. Do whatever you want no matter how you look at it. “I can endure anything as long as you help me…”

Soon, Min Hyo-chan smiled emptyly, like someone who had let go of something.

“Inseop hyung, will you help me if I call you hyung?”

It was a truly dramatic three-stage change in emotions.

Those eyes shining with emptiness looked dangerous, so I slowly walked away from Min Hyo-chan.

And then he whispered to Min Hyo-min.

“That person tasted good…”

“right? You can see it too, right? “How terrible would it be for me to live with him?”

Now I see that Min Hyo-min is not in good condition either.

Although I hid it under makeup, I could feel deep fatigue and depression on my face.

I couldn’t hide my pity as I watched the two siblings thrown into the cold entertainment industry.

“I never thought the idol industry would be so scary…”

Min Hyo-chan, who went out of his mind for a moment but came back to his senses, somehow answered sanely.

“Not all mangols are like us. Usually, the higher-ups will stop you before you end up in such a miserable situation. In a way, the producer who produces the idol is like the idol’s parent…”

“But Rapid Boys…”

“yes. My father was robbing us and our hair fell off. Fuck, if only the manager hadn’t hit President Baek Seung-won’s head…”

Min Hyo-chan began to wail, crying out the manager’s missed name.

I comforted Min Hyo-chan by gently patting him on the shoulder.

“Well… haven’t you asked senior Kim for advice?”

“You really don’t know anything…”

Min Hyo-chan, with dark eyes without any light in them, muttered gloomily.

“If you go to a male actor and ask her for help, won’t people around you see you as a bully?”

“ah.”

“If I’m caught saying something about going to Byeol-ni’s sister and asking for help, I’ll be criticized on social media for being a pervert who is obsessed with an actress from the same company as a shitty idol…”

Min Hyo-chan, who seemed to be feeling depressed all over his body, grabbed my wrist once again.

Unlike before, I didn’t feel any strength in my grip.

“So please help me just this once… My brothers and I are writing our own songs, filming music videos with our own money, and doing all sorts of things right now, right? “Please help me promote it…”

“……”

“No matter what we do, no one cares…”

Suddenly, I remembered the first time I met Min Hyo-chan.

At that time, Min Hyo-chan was an immature middle school student who had a crush on Kim Byeol.

I often showed jealousy towards Kim Byeol, who was close to me, but I also often showed a foolishness that seemed to open my heart too much to my close friend whom I had been dating for a long time.

However, his quality as an artist was nowhere to be seen.

I’ve never seen Jo Jo, a self-proclaimed rapper, rap, and I’ve never even seen Min Hyo-chan on stage as an idol in person.

But now, I suddenly realized that Min Hyo-chan looks closer to a ‘young man’ than a ‘boy’.

Perhaps because he is a celebrity, he grows up quickly. She’s tall, she has muscles in her arms, and she looks like a young woman in her 20s who was in her second year of high school.

Min Hyo-chan is now fighting to protect his art.

But those eyes were still immature.

A young boy, crushed by the darkness of the world, was hoping for someone’s help.

The moment I met those shaking eyes, I sighed as an adult.

And said.

“Well, let’s give it a try!”

“…!!!”

The project to save failed idols begins.