Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 149

Music Monster Overnight! Episode 140

“…You really are disgustingly persistent until the very end.”

The son’s face turned cold as he heard his father’s will, which established the Squid game, fueled by immense wealth.

He and his father were different in many ways.

His father reveled in being at the crossroads of choices.

He adored the moments when human selfishness, madness, and greed ran rampant, and people fought over scraps.

Some might say he was born with a gambler’s instinct, but having watched his father his entire life, he knew the truth.

He was simply a gambling addict.

A severe one at that, who only showed interest in bets where lives were at stake, never satisfied with petty money.

The son was very different from such a father.

He was born a lion.

His father casually deceived others about his true nature, but he recognized his father’s essence from a very young age.

That’s why he hid his own disposition from childhood.

If his father knew his son was a lion, he would surely put him on that betting board.

Whether as a player or as a mere chip in the betting game, one thing was certain: his father was more than capable of doing so.

That’s why he revealed his true nature to his father only at the very last moment.

He finally showed himself not as just another well-managed scion [a descendant of a rich and famous family] of the upper class, but as a lion who naturally reigns over all beings.

“Ehehehe…”

His father, Wang Chu, laughed at that sight.

He was truly enjoying himself in Squid, having jumped into it himself before his death. He not only restored the game itself, which could have gone wrong, to its original state, but the death game he directly participated in was more thrilling than anything else.

But even such a death game couldn’t quench the thirst of a severe gambler like him.

It was only natural.

His brain, ruined by a lifetime of gambling, could not be satisfied by anything.

Just as he was facing his death.

He realized.

“!!!”

His son, whom he had regarded as just another trophy from the gambling table, was actually the epitome of the stimulation he had been seeking all his life.

That’s why he laughed.

He knew why his son had hidden such a disposition from him.

His son, who had given him no particular emotion apart from being his bloodline, knew that he would ruin him.

And that was also the best quality as a gambler.

So he changed his will.

His assets, which would have been used for various organizations related to Squid and the work he had done, were to be returned to his son.

However, there was a condition.

He was to bring Squid, his life’s work, to the world stage.

When the son, having heard the will that sought to bind him until the very end, came to see his father, he had already met his death.

His peaceful face seemed to show that he had won this time as well.

The son was furious at his father, who tormented and loathed him to the very end.

Thus, the sleeping lion showed its anger and revealed itself to the world.

-…-

The camera director blinked rapidly and checked again at the sight of the angle filming the son of the Squid mastermind shaking, as if disturbed, and realized it was his mistake.

-Gulp…-

The illusion was caused by an absurd pressure.

The camera director wasn’t the only one swept up in such an illusion. Everyone on set was holding their breath, watching the furious lion.

They were barely breathing, afraid that the angry lion might harm them.

“Cu… Cut!”

Thanks to this, Director Woo was finally able to give the cut sign very late, and only then did Youngchan, who was playing the son of the mastermind Wang Chu, take off the mask.

‘I was wondering if I overdid it.’

Fortunately, Youngchan was relieved to find out that they were similar to the staff he had worked with during ‘King of Arrogance’.

The role of the mastermind’s successor was not insignificant in the series.

Depending on how the story was unfolded, it could become a character as important as the protagonist.

And through this performance, Director Woo decided how to unravel the mastermind’s successor in the next Squid series.

He was thinking of creating him as at least a supporting character.

“If you don’t feel greedy after seeing such acting… then you’re disqualified as a filmmaker.”

The mark left by the mastermind’s successor, played by Youngchan, was enormous, considering it was just a cameo.

Perhaps the most attention in this Squid would be given not to the male protagonist Cheol-soo or Mihyun, but to the mastermind’s successor.

To unravel the disposition of a lion who was destined to reign from birth like that was something even he, who wrote the Squid script, had not imagined.

But for Youngchan, this role was too easy.

It was merely ‘Jin’ from ‘King of Arrogance’ with added humanity and restraint.

That alone completed the mastermind’s successor, who was born with the disposition of a lion.

Kang A-young hurriedly visited the set after hearing that the CEO had come to the set.

She wanted to see the CEO after a long time, and more than anything, she wanted to see the CEO’s acting, who played ‘Jin’ in ‘King of Arrogance’.

“Ah!”

And Kang A-young, who saw the CEO playing the role of the mastermind’s successor, was mesmerized.

The scene where he changed from an upper-class scion to a being with the disposition of a lion in an instant was so shocking.

She knew very well how difficult this kind of acting was, as she was playing multiple personalities in this work.

She had prepared a lot to digest such acting.

She classified and prepared the habits and facial expressions of Mihyun, Ray, and Jieun. In addition to this, she shared her opinions with the director through lines and actions to draw their past.

Everything was to make the acting more convincing.

And thanks to that, Mihyun of Squid showed more than what Director Woo had in mind.

Perhaps there was no one who could play multiple personalities better than this.

But the acting shown by her CEO, Youngchan, completely twisted her common sense.

She didn’t know that it was possible to show an unbelievable presence just by slightly changing subtle details, including the eyes.

Kang A-young could only laugh in vain, as this was not possible even with camera filters or CG [computer graphics].

“I still have a long way to go.”

She, who had virtually reserved the Best Actress award this year by receiving rave reviews in ‘Return to Spring Day’, was once again praised by many after joining the Squid project.

Thanks to this, she had become more confident in her acting, but this incident unintentionally made her find her original intention.

She nodded as she watched Director Woo, who had seen the results that far exceeded her expectations, fidgeting.

It was because she knew too well what that feeling was.

“I understand. Let’s start with a supporting role.”

“…Thank you.”

Youngchan barely appeased Woo, who wanted to write him as the protagonist, or at least a semi-protagonist, and sent him away.

It was obvious that Woo was disappointed, but Youngchan could no longer concede.

Just touring all the stadiums would take half a year, and in addition to this, there were still two ‘King of Arrogance’ projects left.

If he were an actor, it might be different, but he was a musician who wanted to release at least one album a year.

As such, even taking on a supporting role was a difficult task for him.

But despite that, the reason why he said he would take on a supporting role was because he knew how much influence Squid would have on the world.

The crazy coin market was getting even more intense as the end of the year approached.

The price of Bitcoin, which was recording a higher unit price than in its original history, seemed like a collection of truly terrible madness.

-Click, click-

Even though he could have been tempted by such madness, Youngchan silently processed the coins.

He had already processed 30% of them before November was over, and as he approached the comeback date at the end of December, he cleared out another 50%.

And on the last day of December.

He cleared out all the remaining coins.

He cleared out not only Bitcoin but also Ethereum, which was running even more rampant than in its original history.

As a result, he had 51 billion dollars in his hands.

Even this was an achievement he made by abandoning his greed.

Perhaps, if he had been greedy and followed that madness, he would have earned at least 10% to 20% more of this.

“Of course, the risk would have been that much greater.”

However, since he didn’t know what kind of results that would have brought, Youngchan no longer obsessed over coins.

“Anyway, I’ve already earned more than enough funds now.”

Youngchan decided to reinvest 10% of the money he had earned in coins later and decided to invest half of it in the Miracle Cloud Data Center.

He invested a huge amount of money in purchasing the Miracle Cloud Data Center, as well as expanding and repairing it.

In addition to this, Youngchan, who was still seeing losses at YC Revolution, injected funds and invested the remaining funds in real estate and stocks.

Among these, he increased the proportion of real estate because the real estate market was going as crazy as the coin market.

Squid was being screened later than in its original history, even though it was produced earlier than in its original history.

This was because it was decided to be released after ‘King of Arrogance’ was taken down from theaters.

Internally, it was clear that the topic of ‘King of Arrogance’ would be enormous, so there was a possibility that the topic of Squid would not be able to exert its power properly.

Since ‘King of Arrogance’ would be uploaded to YC Film after being taken down from theaters, it was obvious that the number of YC Film subscribers would explode.

If the Squid project was screened on the foundation created in that way, it would be able to bring in the maximum amount of attention.

As a substitute, Squid was already producing season 2.

Regardless of the success or failure, they poured in almost twice as much production cost in season 2 than before, which boasted an even larger scale and quality than season 1.

In particular, as the story flowed to surviving, Mihyun’s presence, which also appeared in season 2, became even greater than in the previous work.

In fact, she had a presence that was virtually a female protagonist.

“Actress Kang A-young seems to have gone crazy. She was really amazing in the last season too…”

Director Woo and many others were speechless as they watched Kang A-young, who was playing Mihyun in season 2.

As if she had awakened to something, she showed truly divine acting.

In fact, she had awakened after seeing Youngchan’s mastermind’s successor, and that was why she showed such acting.

Her acting exploded at the end of Squid season 2.

Around this time, Youngchan also finished his concert tour and took time out of his busy schedule to participate in the Squid filming, and of course, he filmed a scene facing Kang A-young, who could be said to be the female lead.

The mastermind’s successor, played by Youngchan, still dominated the entire screen with tremendous presence and fear, but surprisingly, Kang A-young revealed her presence even in that.

Director Woo couldn’t help but admire the sight.

Her appearance overlapped with the appearance of the knight of darkness played by Chris in ‘King of Darkness’ when he faced ‘Jin’.

The fact that Chris, who is called the god of acting after the ‘King of Darkness’ project, comes to mind means that she is showing acting in that realm.