When I Opened My Eyes I Was a Superstar - Chapter 38

# 38

Sensation (2)

Everyone stopped in their tracks. Dowook was also surprised and looked back.

The short-haired female student was standing there holding her hand that had been thrown away, and Seok Ji-hoon had a frighteningly stern expression. Seok Ji-hoon’s gaze went down to the floor. The short-haired man’s face was distorted, both in pain and in a bad mood.

“Oh, it hurts. Mr…….”

A short-haired friend who was attached to Taehyung Park came up to him and made a fuss, asking if he was okay.

It was an ambiguous situation to leave the place as is or to apologize to Sasaeng fans. The one who grabbed Seok Ji-hoon’s wrist first was the one with short hair. When the short-haired hand touched his arm, Seok Ji-hoon shook it off with a sound.

Jeong Yoon-gi, who was standing behind Seok Ji-hoon, who was just looking at the ground, slightly pushed him. It was when Do-wook was going towards Seok Ji-hoon.

“let’s hurry. “I’m going to be late.”

Seok Ji-hoon started walking forward again, pretending not to be able to overcome Jeong Yoon-gi.

Ahn Hyeong-seo responded to the fans in a chaotic atmosphere with an awkward smile. Everyone walked faster than before.

Seok Ji-hoon felt that fans were staring at him from behind, but he tried to pretend not to notice.

It’s true that the fans were at fault, but Seok Ji-hoon’s reaction also felt a little excessive. In fact, it felt bad when fans tried to touch it, but it was also something that had to be accepted.

However, no one reprimanded Seok Ji-hoon for yelling.

“I was hit by a fan once before. “Jihoon.”

“Ma… you got hit?”

Park Tae-hyung was surprised by Ahn Hyeong-seo’s explanation and asked back.

In fact, everyone except Park Tae-hyung and Do-wook, who later joined the agency, knew the reason for Seok Ji-hoon’s overreaction. Before the two entered the agency, one of the fans who was waiting for Seok Ji-hoon in front of the office hit Seok Ji-hoon.

Seok Ji-hoon, who became famous as a child actor and has a handsome appearance, received the attention of many trainee fans. Among them, there was a female student who was only about a freshman in high school. She had a thin and delicate appearance and came to visit me every day, but she tended to just say hello quietly and leave, so this was completely unexpected.

Originally, Seok Ji-hoon was basically kind to his fans. Due to his personality, he couldn’t come forward and provide fan service like Ahn Hyeong-seo, but he didn’t stop fans from approaching him. He accepted all letters and gifts, and when I told him his name, he remembered it and later pretended to know me.

It was one day when Ahn Hyeong-seo and Seok Ji-hoon left the practice room after finishing practice late at night.

Because it was so late, there weren’t many fans and only a couple of extreme fans were standing in front of the Hit Entertainment building. Ahn Hyeong-seo also told them to go home quickly because it was late.

It was when I turned around the alley to go to the bus stop. A bag suddenly flew and hit Seok Ji-hoon on the back.

“Ah…….a!”

Seok Ji-hoon stumbles after being hit on the back and Ahn Hyeong-seo is surprised. In an instant, the female student slapped Seok Ji-hoon, screamed at him why he did not greet her, and ran away. A little blood flowed from Seok Ji-hoon’s cheek along with scratches from his fingernails.

Seok Ji-hoon and Ahn Hyeong-seo, who could not bear to respond to the female student who was a fan, had no choice but to stand and face the screaming female student.

“How… did something like that happen…”

“I just couldn’t see it because it was dark. I was a slightly… no, very strange fan. Later, I cried again and apologized, but it was even scarier. “I was surprised, but I think Jihoon was really surprised and hurt.”

Ahn Hyeong-seo added that it was a fairly famous story among trainees.

“It’s amazing.”

Park Tae-hyung also nodded at Do-wook’s words.

Seok Ji-hoon was hurt in one way or another at a young age by entertainment industry staff members who were famous for their roughness. Still, the fan treated him with a warm heart, thinking that he was someone who liked and cared for him, but that incident served as an opportunity for Seok Ji-hoon to realize that fans are not necessarily like that.

“Usually I’m fine, but I’m probably a little more sensitive these days because I’m really tired. “Don’t worry too much, either.”

For some reason, Ahn Hyeong-seo spoke to Park Tae-hyung and Do-wook like an older brother.

In terms of actual age, Do-wook was about the age of the members’ eldest brother or youngest uncle. Perhaps that’s why Do-wook felt proud when he saw the members maturing mentally.

It meant that there was a lot of affection for the members.

‘Seok Ji-hoon…… There shouldn’t be any major problems with fans in the future.’

While thinking about this, I looked around Dowook’s practice room.

When the members arrived at the practice room, they each dispersed and were warming up to prepare for practice. Seok Ji-hoon was also quietly stretching out his legs and concentrating on warming up.

***

The day of ‘Very Sorry’’s first music broadcast performance.

Ahead of the song of life broadcast, the members visited a salon to get their hair done. Since the rehearsal started early in the morning, I had to come to the shop early in the morning.

For members who were unable to open their swollen eyes due to drowsiness, the shop staff first placed cold cotton pads soaked in skin on the members’ eyes. Most of the members couldn’t come to their senses until they started washing and styling each person’s hair.

Oh Baek-ho also dozed off at a table in the corner of the shop.

The shop staff were equally tired. My hands were more busy than usual.

The staff member with bleached yellow hair who was in charge of Do-wook dried his hair and spoke to him. We were already friends because we went to the same shop every time we had a schedule.

In addition, Do-wook tried to maintain an amicable and friendly relationship with the officials as much as possible, so he was known as a person of good character among the staff.

“Do-wook, are you going to become rich now?”

“Are you rich?”

“Yeah~ I heard you wrote the title song. “Copyright fees are no joke~!”

“Ah… I wrote it together with the producer of Brave Only Child.”

“Even if you share it, it’s a great deal. “I saw the music video that came out and it was just amazing!”

Dowook responded to the staff’s praise with an ambiguous smile.

When the music video for ‘Very Sorry’ was released following the sound source, the response became twice as hot. People expressed their anticipation for the stage due to the well-chosen music video, like a well-paved highway. There were many people who wanted to see the choreography version of the music video.

The beginning and end of the music video screen was Dowook’s face. Thanks to this, the thumbnail at the beginning of the music video was Dowook, and people were also enthusiastic about Dowook’s face.

There were numerous comments praising Dowook, who participated in composing music and has a perfect face, calling him a fraud.

“Anyway, congratulations! He said he was the top candidate today. “Then you’ve already hit the jackpot.”

Do-wook looked at his face reflected in the mirror and at the staff behind him who was applying essence, and nodded.

Candidate for first place upon comeback.

When we heard the news a few days ago, none of the members could believe it. Even Oh Baek-ho, who delivered the news, was very surprised.

There was no broadcast score at all. He was nominated with only the music scores, album scores, and votes collected in just a few days.

“Oh, thank you.”

“You know that even if you become a big star, you can’t pretend not to notice, right?”

“Sure.”

“I don’t think you will, but if you do this job, you should be able to understand people’s work.”

In response to the mumbling staff, Do-wook comforted the staff by saying that he would never do that. He must have been tired, but he complained instead, he told Do-wook after the staff finished fixing his hair. Even though Dowook said it was okay, the staff said they were sorry and brought snacks for him from a corner of the shop.

***

SVS Broadcasting Station Life Song Studio Rehearsal Site.

The staff’s mouths widened as they watched KK’s comeback stage.

The director of photography, who had received the choreography video in advance and made a plan for filming, also gave a camera rehearsal and applauded.

“LOL, today the picture will come out perfectly!”

When the director of photography, who was always tired and did not smile at most things on set, laughed out loud, the staff on the filming team started whispering.

Even though it was a rehearsal, the members’ plain clothes were soaked with sweat as they did their best as if it were a live broadcast.

The main costume was a black suit. The suit costume is so well-received by fans that every male idol wears it at least once. However, even if the costume was the same, who wore it was important. The fit of the KK members’ suits, which had been training their bodies since filming the school uniform advertisement, was truly fantastic.

The current producer of Life Song, who watched the entire rehearsal, was satisfied and gave instructions to bring the next team on stage.

While the set was changing, KK members came down and bowed to the staff.

“Thank you~!”

“Thank you for your effort!”

The faces of the staff brightened as they heard the loud voices of the KK members.

“Please do this much even during live broadcasts, guys!”

Producer Hyun’s voice became louder. Everyone bowed towards the current producer. Oh Baek-ho also approached Hyeon PD and expressed his gratitude.

“Please pay close attention, PD.”

“Director Oh, you’re so greedy! How can you care more?”

Oh Baek-ho smiled brightly at Producer Hyeon, who was jokingly scolding him.

There were two reasons why KK, who had quite a few places she wanted to sing, chose Life Song as her comeback stage. One was to not forget the grace of having a special MC, even though it was only one episode, and the other was the stage time given by the current producer.

Producer Hyun did not forget Do-wook’s contribution in preventing a live broadcast accident that could have been serious. Also, I quickly decided that KK’s popularity was not something that would just pass by.

Therefore, we proposed a 6-minute comeback stage to Hit Entertainment. Excluding commercial time, it was a truly great opportunity for a rookie to allocate 6 minutes out of the 50 minutes or so of broadcast time. The current PD thought that it was worth investing in KK.

Thanks to this, KK was able to sing two songs in complete form without arranging them for broadcast.

‘Something’, which is close to the hip-hop genre, and ‘Very Sorry’, which is a pop dance song and the title song. There were two songs.

“haha. I know that PD Hyeon took great care of you. When will you find out?!”

Oh Baek-ho made a gesture of breaking his glass and smiled at Hyeon PD. Producer Hyeon tapped Oh Baek-ho on the shoulder.

“Okay then. “Don’t just say it, set a date~!”

Oh Baek-ho replied that he understood and took the members to the waiting room. The position of producer of a public broadcast music broadcast was a position of power, regardless of the viewership ratings. This was because there were not many places for singers to promote their songs. The reception was a place to enjoy that power.

Even when I was raising monsters, I often entertained the current producer. Oh Baek-ho quickly waited for the day when KK would become a big singer and not bow down to her current producer.

I felt like KK could do it.

The other members stretched out as soon as they returned to the waiting room. I was exhausted just from rehearsing.

Meanwhile, Do-wook came out of the waiting room to meet Kim Woo-yeon separately.

Today’s top candidate is KK. And it was Kim Woo-yeon.

Although they exchanged greetings and stories through messages, Do-wook thought it would be better to meet Kim Woo-yeon before the broadcast. Do-wook was truly thrilled to not only perform on the same stage as Kim Woo-yeon, his idol and dream, but also to be nominated for first place together.

‘If I tried to say that I was thrilled, the teacher would only scold me…’

Nevertheless, when Do-wook visited Kim Woo-yeon’s waiting room, Kim Woo-yeon was not there because she had gone to have lunch near the broadcasting station. There was no need to rush since we would be able to meet before the broadcast anyway.

Instead of Kim Woo-yeon, Do-wook saw men talking about Kim Woo-yeon in the hallway.

“Why couldn’t I have made it big by now at that age? “It’s all about personality.”

“You really have a nasty personality. Just now, he suddenly told me to do this and that in informal language.”

The people smoking cigarettes and swearing at Kim Woo-yeon in the non-smoking area were members of a male idol group that has released three albums but has not yet made a name for themselves.

Kim Woo-yeon was criticized by some idol group officials for criticizing incompetent idols in a harsh tone.

‘It’s probably people who really don’t have skills that get stabbed.’

Dowook frowned and turned around. One of the men who discovered Do-wook called him.

“Look how cheap you are?”

The conversational tone was no different from that of a gangster.