Becoming An Idol Wasn’T On My Plan [EN]: Chapter 197

“…That’s because Jun started explaining the Wizney universe.”

Terrible memories resurfaced. I had been trying so hard to keep them buried.

“The, the alcohol—it tastes so bad—bad.”

“Who drinks alcohol for the taste, Jun! It’s about the feeling! The atmosphere!”

So that’s why you only smell the alcohol, Eden.

Lee Hyunjae, today’s protagonist, who had been watching this comedy that failed to elicit laughter, knelt down and politely placed both hands on his knees. What… what is he doing?

“…What are you doing, Hyunjae?”

“I’m showing respect as I was taught.”

I immediately grabbed Ryu Eden by the collar.

“What did you teach him?”

Ryu Eden made an exaggeratedly wronged expression. He’s acting.

“What are you talking about!”

“Who sits like that when drinking? It’s like a prospective groom drinking with his father-in-law.”

“I didn’t do anything! Just water to sober up… It wasn’t me.”

I let go of his collar and looked at Chae Hamin.

“…You, it wasn’t you, right?”

“That’s so unfair. You grab my collar right away. You assume Hamin wouldn’t do it. Really, I’m, like, about to cry.”

He hasn’t even opened the bottle yet, but he seems drunk on the scent alone. *Your* drinking habit is confessing your love while crying, isn’t it?

“There’s no way Chae Hamin would teach such crazy things.”

The posture is the most efficient way to enforce hierarchy. According to Michel Foucault’s theory of power, it’s just a way to unconsciously make someone recognize that they are in a lower position than the other person. Why else would a child put their hands together and lower their gaze when being scolded?

We call this posture, which makes it easier to control others, manners. It pisses me off to no end that someone taught our student this.

“No, my father taught me that this is how you drink when I was young.”

Oh, dear. This is the concept of ‘Tarulla’ [a Korean term for outdated or old-fashioned behavior] that my elementary school friends were talking about.

“He said that if I don’t want to get cursed out when I go out drinking, I have to be like this, is that wrong?”

“…It’s okay to get cursed out a little.”

Even Confucius was cursed out by many people back then, so what’s the big deal if small fries like us get cursed out? I poured soju [Korean distilled rice liquor] into Lee Hyunjae’s glass.

“Drink impudently.”

In the first place, those who need to learn manners are those whose hearts are not upright. A person like Lee Hyunjae wouldn’t do anything excessive no matter how he learns to drink. He’s a good kid who can start learning to drink straight from the bottle.

Lee Hyunjae smiled slightly at my words and sat down comfortably to drink. The first soju he drinks will be too bitter, so I pushed the snacks in front of Lee Hyunjae in advance.

“…Oh? It’s delicious?”

Ryu Eden, Chae Hamin, and Seok Jun’s gazes are focused on Lee Hyunjae.

“It’s not bitter, Hyunjae?”

“No, wow, no! It’s sweeter than I thought!”

I had a feeling that something was going to go seriously wrong. I’ve never seen a sane person who says their first drink is delicious.

Is this how parents feel when they anxiously watch their child grow up? I want to be hands-off, but I feel like I’ll end up interfering.

I immediately took Lee Hyunjae’s glass for a moment and offered him a snack.

“…Drink slowly.”

“Yes?”

“You don’t know your limit, so you have to pace yourself.”

I hope, at least, that this good kid doesn’t become a whale [a heavy drinker] living in an alcohol-soaked world.

That’s how the drinking party started. Chae Hamin and Ryu Eden held grape juice politely in their hands and sipped it, Seok Jun and I drank wine, and Lee Hyunjae drank soju, saying it suited his taste.

“I—I’m also curious—if I have a drinking—habit.”

“I have one too, so I guess you probably have one too.”

“Hyung—nim’s drinking—habit is scary.”

“That’s… I’m still sorry about that.”

“I want to drink too, Eden hyung. Can we just have one drink together?”

“Actually, me too! I couldn’t drink because I was watching Donghwa! Just one drink like this!”

Ah, if this is a dream, I hope I wake up a little later. I have to see those guys die before I leave.

“I didn’t say you couldn’t drink.”

“Then, can I drink?”

I just nodded. Jun and I will clean up the mess.

* * *

Every human makes choices, and sometimes lives regretting those choices. Regret is like a rite of passage in life, so it’s natural.

But sometimes it feels like all of this is predetermined. Especially when it’s hard to accept the fact that the path I’m walking is the result of all the choices I’ve made in the past.

“Hyungnim, I love you.”

“Can you get lost.”

“Even if I’m scared! I! Love you a lot! Eden hyung! I! Love you!”

“Me too, hngh, uh, hngh!”

Some philosophers even explain that choice is the most cursed part of being human. The fact that we have to choose while living, the fact that we are not protected from anything and are simply thrown into it, is truly cursed.

“Hyunjae-yaaaaa, the sky is spinning around.”

“Hyung… we’re indoors… Stop it…….”

“Hyunjae! I love you! Our youngest! My brother!”

“The one you’re hugging right now is me, Jun.”

“Donghwa hyung…, it’s too much to only bully me…….”

“Ryu Eden has the highest frequency of bullying.”

“Still, hngh, I love you, our Donghwa!”

And if all these moments lead us to some future again, I’ll have a brick in my hand, and these four beasts will be taken to the emergency room with ruptured occipital bones, and then the scene of me being taken away will be broadcast on the news desk on TV.

“Donghwa hyung is, he’s a really good person, but, really…, he treats me too much like a kid, and also…….”

The problem was that I had a very wicked curiosity about ‘What kind of drinking habits do Jun and Hyunjae have?’ since we were drinking anyway.

It was wrong from the start to have the absurd idea of setting up a camera on one side and filming everyone getting drunk, since it’s the dorm anyway and there won’t be any gossip.

Thus, we have revealed all the members’ drinking habits to each other. Ryu Eden is a confession of tears, Chae Hamin is a mental breakdown, Seok Jun is the Wizney-fication of all things, and Lee Hyunjae is a vicious monologue.

On the other hand, unlike these beasts, I have a very noble drinking habit of ‘being honest with my feelings,’ so how much.

Looking at Lee Hyunjae, who is still next to me, holding my arm tightly and complaining without a moment’s rest, I could tell.

‘Tomorrow morning, I have to make dried pollack soup [a Korean hangover cure] no matter what.’

And because I was cleaning up after these things, I couldn’t know. That fans on the internet were diligently uncovering the identity of ‘Sinclair’.

The morning sun is always warm. Regardless of the season. I woke up feeling refreshed.

In this damn living room.

“Ugh.”

Lee Hyunjae, who was hugging me from the side, rolled over. Then he hugged Seok Jun tightly and fell back into a deep sleep.

I just couldn’t move them all to the bed. The reason why yesterday’s frenzy of drinking came to an end was simple. After a few more drinks, all the members collapsed and it was over. I tried to move one person, but Lee Hyunjae grabbed my leg and wouldn’t let go, so I failed.

Everything became troublesome, so I struggled to get Lee Hyunjae off and brought blankets to cover them one by one, which was all I could do with my strength. These guys are quite heavy.

Come to think of it, Lee Hyunjae has recently grown taller and is now taller than me, damn it. Thus, the team’s shortest member is confirmed. 178cm wouldn’t be considered short anywhere else, but what is this.

Should I be reborn, or should I put these guys on a 178cm Procrustean bed [an allusion to the Greek myth where Procrustes stretched or cut off his victims’ limbs to fit his bed]? Then we could realize a fair modern utopia in Blossoms. Wouldn’t Marx cry?

While I was having all sorts of ridiculous thoughts, Chae Hamin, whose wake-up time was earlier because of me, got up holding his head. Chae Hamin drank a whopping five bottles of soju last night.

“Ugh, ugh, head, my head hurts…….”

Oh, dear, I’ve never felt it before so I don’t know well, but he must be suffering from a hangover. In the first place, Chae Hamin’s sin of drinking so much that he couldn’t break it down is great.

“Ah, I feel like I’m going to die, Donghwa, save me…….”

“Drink some water first.”

“Ah, I shouldn’t have bet with Eden hyung yesterday……. I was an idiot, ugh.”

Convinced that Lee Hyunjae had a stronger tolerance than the two of them, they started a bet on whose tolerance was the weakest. Ryu Eden drank 4 glasses and collapsed, solidifying the fact that ‘Chae Hamin is below Ryu Eden’.

“You won.”

I smiled as I took out a pot from the cupboard. I’m so excited to tease Ryu Eden. The most contradictory guy in Blossoms, with the most power and the weakest tolerance.

“Ah, I’m excited.”

Chae Hamin tilted his head once as if he couldn’t understand, then collapsed, clutching his head at the oncoming headache.

* * *

[Once Ji Donghwa gets married and has kids, the kid will be happy]

While watching yesterday, I didn’t see or hear anything about whether his wife would be happy, and I don’t want to see it, but once he has a kid, I thought, that kid would be happy…

He listens carefully to questions, encourages the child to think alone, pretends not to know even though he clearly knows, and boosts the child’s morale, and doesn’t deny anything he says, and says, ‘That could be the case.’ Honestly, I was a little envious while watching. ㅇㅇ It might be a rude thought, but I think Mokhwa would have been happy too. Because he grew up with a hyung like that comment

―Dog-like charm

└22222 Hit harder than an 8-ton truck

└333 It was so amazing, I almost died from excitement

―His image has changed ㄹㅇ I became a fan with Hamin, so I thought he was just cold but warm-hearted, but he’s just ㄴㄴㄴ unbelievable. I feel like I’m going crazy and I don’t know how many times I’ve slammed my head into the pillow ㄹㅇ ―He lightly surpassed the boyfriend idol and became a dad idol… He might treat other people coldly, but he’ll be warm to my child…

└What would this man be like in the childcare room…?

└The bed scene passed by lightly ㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

―There must be a reason why Hyunjae follows him like a real dad ㅇㅇ He said on the w app that he was excited that Hyunjae seemed to have done well on the college entrance exam, and if you think about how he taught him like Bongju teaches the piano, my nose bleeds and covers my eyes ―I also started thinking about what Eden would be like in the childcare room. A playful dad would play so well with the kids └It would be nice if Donghwa did the education and Eden played with them, but, well, how about a polyandry system?

└Social reform starting in Blossoms

―In the meantime, Jun, who communicated with the kids… A name that makes my brain feel younger when I call it…

└Lee Hyunjae, who was more mature next to him, was the kill point ㄹㅇ When Hamin saw Donghwa taking care of Bongju, he saw him handling all the other kids, and I thought, wow… I just thought he was a little young, but I realized he wasn’t at all, and anyway, it was legendary..

└When I think about it, Hamin was definitely needed to make Bongju and Donghwa’s legend… ㄴㄴㄴ A kind dad… He’s the type who would take his kids to amusement parks…

└Then Ji Donghwa would be reading books together in the library

└If the two of them have a family gathering in the far future, they’ll just film the Ji Donghwa Chae Hamin relationship in the kid version one more time ㅅㅂㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋMokhwa, who is calling himself Ji Mokhwa, smiled with pride.

Of course, he had already noticed that Donghwa hyung was close to being a non-marriage advocate, and he himself was planning to choose non-marriage because he couldn’t bear to see his hyung die as a lonely old man, so it seemed unlikely that he would have children.

But if he were to have children, what a blessed human he would be, he could solve all of his child’s ‘great-uncle, grandfather, and home teacher’ with just one human being, Ji Donghwa! What kind of investment efficiency is this. How many people can be born as the younger brother of such a hyung?

Ji Mokhwa is reminded of that fact every time he sees the amount of allowance his hyung sends in his bank account balance.

“If I get more popular this time, I’ll definitely make people call me Mokhwa’s younger brother.”

That way, even if he gives me an allowance, he won’t say anything, no, that hyung will definitely make a fuss. Unless I come up with a way to force him to receive the money, it won’t be easy to achieve the feat of giving me an allowance even if I die and come back to life.

“Mokhwa, what are you doing?”

Mokhwa smiled proudly at Kim Hyun Jin’s question as he was fiddling with his phone next to him.

“Checking hyung’s broadcast comments.”

“Ah, I was wondering what you were watching when you went home yesterday……. Did you see that ‘What is it’ thing?”

“Yeah, my hyung is so cool.”

“When will you fix your brother complex, no, Donghwa hyung couldn’t fix it, so it’ll be hard to do it on your own. Should I hit you a little?”

Mokhwa just focused on his phone without saying anything. The people of the world are praising his hyung, so it’s a good thing his hyung was planning to become an idol.

“More than that, did you see this?”

“What is it?”

Mokhwa received the phone that Kim Hyun Jin handed him without much thought and read the article.

[No matter how I look at it, Hoppin’s new song this time is Donghwa’s style.]

I didn’t really know about the last song, but I felt a little more certain while listening to this song, and above all, the sample that Donghwa uploaded this time feels like an early draft ㅅㅂ It’s not that the songs are similar, but the style is similar, you know, people who have been doing 덕질 [being a dedicated fan] for a while will immediately react sensitively, ‘Oh? Is this Dion’s song?’ I’ve been 빨면서 [being a hardcore fan] K-pop DNA has been slowly encroaching on Ji Donghwa since Blossoms’ debut, so I have a feeling of ‘Oh? Is this Donghwa’s song?’, but I just thought so when I heard Hoppin’s teaser, but when I heard the sample, I thought, ‘Ah, something… is like Ji Donghwa…’ comment