He had been thinking about quietly consulting a lawyer about contract termination tomorrow.
“Because there’s a concept meeting for the next album.”
It was a topic he had absolutely no interest in.
“Aigoo, I’m not feeling well…”
Doha pressed his temples hard and gave an awkward performance. Then Sehyun opened his mouth again.
“The CEO is coming too.”
“What time are we leaving?”
Doha urgently looked around searching for a clock. Then Sehyun’s eyes narrowed.
“You must really want to see the CEO.”
“Huh?”
“Why would you want to see him when you don’t even have your memories?”
Lim Sehyun’s trademark mischievous smile appeared. His pointed question definitely had meaning. Why would someone with no memories desperately search for the CEO?
“It’s like you’re scheming something.”
As expected, a regressor’s intuition was different. Doha felt a slight fear.
“What kind of trouble did our Doha hyung cause? Or is he thinking of causing some now?”
Scary bastard. Son of Satan. No, son of Lim Sehyun’s parents, but anyway.
“I, tongue?”
Ah, fuck.
He tried to lie calmly, but his voice cracked because he was too nervous.
Why am I so nervous about this guy?
It was a situation he couldn’t understand himself. But one thing was certain – Doha became a herbivore in front of Lim Sehyun.
Cheetah and gazelle. Yeah. Exactly that kind of food chain. Some documentary said that the animal that hunts gazelles the most is the cheetah.
Doha stared at Sehyun with a pale face. Then Haram and Eden, who had been bustling around in the kitchen, discovered the standoff between the two.
“Doha hyung, want some milk?”
Haram asked Doha.
“…Half a cup.”
Whether they heated the milk warm, a savory smell wafted along with the microwave sound. Doha quietly moved his steps toward the kitchen. He thought that talking with Sehyun would only expose the few cards he had.
Sehyun’s gaze followed Doha’s movement.
Doha, who stepped into the kitchen, finally snatched the cold medicine from Eden’s hands after he had managed to find the medicine. Eden looked at Doha with a blank face.
Doha held out the bottle of citron syrup next to him to Eden instead of the medicine.
“Citron tea is more effective than medicine.”
Taking medicine at the slightest illness isn’t a good habit. A real man should shake off a cold with natural vitamins.
‘You need to stay away from any kind of medicine.’
It’s a team he’s going to leave anyway, did he get attached after just one day? He found himself unnecessarily concerned about trivial things.
“Uh…”
Eden held the citron tea bottle and looked back and forth between Haram and Sehyun blankly.
“Hyung, here.”
Haram handed over the milk. Doha drank the lukewarm milk while deliberately ignoring the intense gaze he felt on the back of his head.
Let’s ignore it. Tomorrow, it’ll be over tomorrow. Tomorrow he’ll definitely launch the withdrawal operation.
* * *
Fortunately, he got through last night because Yunbeom was the type who falls asleep the moment his head touches the pillow. He didn’t sleep properly, repeatedly startling awake at every snoring sound, but at least he prevented the ridiculous scene of running away in the middle of the night.
“Yes yes, everyone come in, sit down. Doha, are you feeling okay?”
Yoo Suhyung, the CEO of Lim Entertainment. He left a major agency 10 years ago, created his own company, and now produced the well-known idol group Strix. The second group he directly planned was OnX.
“Hello.”
Doha sat in the prepared seat while stroking the pocket containing his resignation letter (though he called it that, it was a emotional appeal letter).
The meeting seemed to have been in progress before the members arrived, as various drafts about the new song concept were displayed on the meeting room screen.
He had no interest in the meeting content and only thought about quickly getting a 1:1 conversation opportunity with the CEO in secret.
“We’re here.”
“CEO-nim, your face looks even better? Did you change dermatologists?”
The members entered the meeting room one by one.
“Where did you learn such smooth talk?”
Suhyung laughed heartily at Eden’s smooth words. His appearance was unmistakably that of a common ajusshi, but he was a person with good energy. Once all the members were seated, the CEO got straight to the point and started the meeting.
“No matter how much I think about it, I want our single album this time to bring back the worldview from our debut.”
Wow.
Goosebumps rose all over his body at the CEO’s words. So that’s why OnX, which had been fine, entered a decline – the CEO was the problem.
The early debut past that even fans were afraid to dig up. OnX’s worldview was Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday. Each member was motif-ed after one planet. Should he say they were the planets themselves? The story was about planetary souls gathered to protect Earth… but anyway, the worldview collapsed in the next album and was archived as if it never existed.
“Wow…”
Sehyun’s sighing voice flowed out.
“Are you serious?”
Eden asked the CEO. Then Sehyun opened his mouth.
“Venus hyung. Can’t you tell by looking at the CEO’s eyes? He’s 500% serious.”
Venus. That was a nickname teasing Eden, who was Venus.
“The CEO must have some thoughts.”
Sehyun was Mars, Eden was Venus, Haram was Mercury, Yunbeom was Jupiter… Who was the Moon? Why bother saying it. There’s only one remaining member.
“Why does that concept keep popping up whenever we’re about to forget it?”
Sehyun spoke in a thoroughly twisted voice. The regressor had no intention of proceeding with a worldview cursed with doom.
“But back then it was expressed too old-fashioned, if we interpret it well in a modern way…”
“A second dark history will be created.”
“But these days, you need a worldview to succeed, right? Fans find interpreting worldviews fun too…”
“Worldviews are only as good as the worldview itself. This time you’re just going to do tacky color play again anyway.”
Sehyun knew the future. The future where they get brutally criticized for reviving this concept. It was common for idol groups to have mysterious worldviews. In fact, there were many cases where groups with unique worldviews were loved. However, it becomes a problem if you don’t have the capability to express that worldview with good sense.
(Group photo of members with colorful clothes matching their hair colors.png)
[Comments]
Ha… what a load of bullshit… Am I stanning idols or stanning Power Rangers
└I knew I’d seen this somewhere, it was Power Rangers
└Did one of the members borrow money from the coordi and run away?
└Lim Entertainment please dress the kids like humans please… I graduated from Power Rangers when I was young ㅜㅜ
└Is there a coordi mission?? Like ‘make them as funny as possible’??
└So this is what protecting Earth means – “by force”
└ㅠㅠThis is abuse
└Power Rangers you say. It’s ‘Galaxy Guardians’, excuse me?
└This color scheme… this mood… it’s like… there are idols performing in Temu clothes?!
So cringey my hands and feet disappeared ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Tears come to my eyes thinking about going on stage like this and pretending to be sexy ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
I’m genuinely curious who picked the hair colors ㅋㅋㅋ Even a hair salon part-timer wouldn’t pick these colors
└Sehyun looks like he was painting a building exterior and accidentally dropped a paint bucket on his head lmao ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋ
└Matching even the lens colors is really audacious
Wow.. nowadays idols have no genre limits, they’re pros faithful to their concept..
But didn’t they do pretty well considering?
└This person is brainwashed
└Remember. Isn’t it better than the first broadcast when they went on stage with wings attached and the wings fell off and rolled around?
└ㄹㅇ It’s strangely logical which pisses me off
└Wings or Power Rangers, that is the question
└Does Lim Entertainment have to make us worry about this?
Even OnX’s fandom, famous for being supportive, was horrified back then. Of course, there were fans who loved them anyway, but the members also had many complaints about the tacky concept. They realized public opinion and modified the concept, but the initial label kept following them.
“Still, I want to show OnX’s solid colors in this single.”
“That damn colors, colors, colors! CEO-nim, do you have some kind of color fetish?”
Sehyun’s expressions became increasingly aggressive. Members and staff started reading the room between the two.
“But we received a song from K2, and if we have a worldview, it would fit well…”
K2 was a famous composer in this world.
“Throw it away.”
“What?”
“Let’s throw away that song.”
As soon as his name was mentioned, Sehyun’s eyes gleamed coldly.
“That bastard’s a plagiarist, so don’t accept songs from him anymore.”
“Plagiarism? Hey hey, K2 isn’t that bad.”
Since this industry frequently had plagiarism suspicions, you couldn’t brand a composer as a plagiarist based on just some suspicious circumstances. However, there was a reason why Sehyun was reacting so sensitively.
