Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 184

184. Inviting You (2)

2022.05.03.

-I’ll invite you.

It was an invitation.

“You don’t… hate the idea of meeting up again right after parting, do you?”

Yeonwoo smiled, his eyes crinkling.

“Secrets should be kept secret… I’ll give you an invitation so only we know.”

Once again, the screen showed a piece of paper.

More precisely, an ID written on the paper.

“Then, let’s meet again now!”

As Yeonwoo waved his hand on the screen, the tension in the dorm reached its peak.

“Live streaming starts in 1 minute.”

“30 seconds left.”

“10 seconds left.”

“Starting the countdown.”

“10. 9. 8. 7……”

“Surge of 접속자 [accessors/users].”

“5. 4. 3. 2. 1.”

“Cue!”

A red light turned on the camera filming Yeonwoo.

At the same time, the YouTube live streaming began.

*

“Hello. We meet again so soon. Nice to see you.”

Yeonwoo, dressed comfortably, looked at the screen and waved.

On one side of the screen, numerous people were entering.

-?????

-????

-Is this a gathering……?

-??? Surprise???

-???? ???? ?????

However, the reactions of the people who entered were all strange.

-OMG! Is it real? I cannot believe……

-Look who’s here! Oh my……

The same was true for the people who came in later.

The chat window on one side fell into chaos.

Regardless,

Yeonwoo simply smiled and continued to greet.

“Wow. So many people came. I’m happier than I thought you’d be.”

-Excuse me? Is this a hidden camera or something?

-Yeonwooㅠㅠㅠ I ditched my overtime because you told me to comeㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Hey guys, ENG PLZ:(

People were pouring out their own words.

Seeing those reactions, the production team monitoring let out a sigh of relief.

Less than 10 minutes after the broadcast started.

However, the number of concurrent viewers for the live stream was already over 10,000.

“You must be very curious right now. Why a sudden streaming? I said I would tell you a secret, right?”

Yeonwoo smiled.

“This is the secret I wanted to tell you.”

The production team watching clicked their tongues.

“Yeonwoo knows what he’s doing.”

“He knows how to unravel it tantalizingly.”

As if he’s about to tell, but not telling, while subtly showing a part of the truth.

People who are already dying of curiosity can’t help but be anxious.

They’re dying to know, but there’s no satisfying answer.

And there are even foreigners mixed in.

Besides, there was something even stranger.

-Why is Kang Yeonwoo here???

Some of the people who came in with their eyes burning were feeling a sense of unease.

It was natural.

No matter how they looked at it, the YouTube page they entered seemed strange for Kang Yeonwoo to be on.

-What is this? Explain;;;

-Crazy; What’s going on;;;

Those who questioned it like that,

-Who are you to order our Yeonwoo to explain?

Were thoroughly beaten by the fans who were already sharply on edge.

-ENG plz 🙁

-You can’t even learn Korean and come here, yet you’re speaking English?!

Thanks to that, even the foreigners who couldn’t understand were scolded together.

In the meantime, Yeonwoo continued his gentle communication.

“Um. It’s okay. Thank you for worrying.”

“I don’t hurt anywhere. You say my face looks bad? Oh dear. I have to look better…… Is it because I’m bare-faced? Ah. You say I don’t need to put anything on?”

“Welcome. You came to the right place. It’s really nice to meet you like this after a long time.”

Even though he could have been flustered by the sudden influx of people, Yeonwoo skillfully led the progress.

“You enjoyed the reality show? Thank you. Yes. I wake up like that every day. It’s also a habit…… When the filming isn’t tightly scheduled, it’s almost the same.”

“Ah……. Why is Kwon Seonghyun’s room there? He often comes over to see the script together, so it turned out that way. Both the senior and I have personalities that get deeply immersed once we fall for something. I feel sorry to kick him out to sleep in the early morning. He says his house is close, so it’s okay? Um…… Then I’ll try telling the senior that. Ah, don’t do it?”

Of course, the progress was smooth, but the chat window was not.

People were still coming in, and every time they did, there were more than one or two people who paused when they saw Yeonwoo.

‘At this point, it’s about time to proceed.’

Glancing at the clock, roughly 20 minutes had passed.

‘By now, those who can roughly sense it will have sensed it.’

As expected.

-Isn’t this that composer’s account……?

-Anyone came after seeing the playlist??

-Why is Kang Yeonwoo on the composer’s account?? Anyone know?

People who realized the secret of the ID Yeonwoo wrote down were panicking.

That’s right.

The ID that Yeonwoo wrote in the handwritten letter at the end of the reality show.

It was none other than Yeonwoo’s YouTube account that he uploaded anonymously.

When Yeonwoo first came up with this idea.

The production team was so surprised that they only blinked.

-Are you going that far?

-Yes. Since we’re revealing it, it’s better to reveal it properly and surely, isn’t it? That way, the noise will be cleanly gone too.

-Yeonwoo is right, but…….

-Going this way is the cleanest. And…….

A smile hung on Yeonwoo’s lips.

Clearly different from what he shows the viewers.

A very fierce-looking smile.

-This way, the shock therapy will work properly too.

Indeed, it was as Yeonwoo thought.

Dragging out the time was also intentional.

If you give a shock, you need time to accept it.

‘You need to grasp the situation to know your position.’

If they were humans who would resolve misunderstandings just by feeding them the truth, they wouldn’t have followed all the way here, grinding their teeth.

Seeing is believing!

Isn’t there an old saying that seeing once is more certain than saying a hundred times?

“Some of you may have noticed something strange while coming here. If you are familiar with this account, you will feel even stranger.”

-Finally talking about it;;; What the heck is Kang Yeonwoo; Why is he on the composer’s account;;;

-Excuse me…… Please explainㅠㅠㅠ Are you two perhaps acquainted?

-Perhaps he wants to say that he received a song because he knows the composer?

Once again, all sorts of speculations poured out.

Among them, there were some plausible stories.

But it was just wishful thinking.

“First, shall we move?”

As Yeonwoo got up from his seat, the camera followed along.

-Why suddenly the studio?

-Ooh, that’s the studio that they say cost hundreds of millions to build……

-Perhaps the composer is here???

“It’s the first time since I introduced the dorm. As you know, this is where I mainly work. It’s often noisy, so I only work here in this soundproofed place.”

“Huh? Hyungnim [older brother/term of endearment for a close male friend]?”

“Jerry. Say hello.”

Without any prior notice, Jerry, who was looking at the monitor, was horrified and stood up.

“Aaaah, hello? B-b-but you didn’t say you were c-c-coming here?!”

-Broke down

-It’s broken;

-It’s broken……

“That’s how it is.”

Jerry is so timid that he didn’t tell him on purpose.

If he had told him, he would have read from a textbook like during the first filming.

Rather than acting awkwardly as if it were planned, it would be better to show 100 percent pure embarrassment.

“Jerry. Bring up the work list file.”

“I-is it okay, okay to do that?”

“Yeah. It’s okay.”

Jerry hurriedly opened the backup folder.

Inside, there were files neatly organized.

As the camera captured it, the chat window went wild.

-헐 [gasp], Is it real?

-The composer really knew Kang Yeonwoo?

-Acquaintances came out. Game over, right? Those bastards who framed him for plagiarism have to burrow, right?

-Come to think of it, I heard he graduated from Berklee College of Music?

-He said he was an engineer?? Which one is right?

At Yeonwoo’s signal, the music that Jerry moved the mouse and played began to flow.

“It’s the song I first revealed on the reality show. It’s the arranged version of the original song.”

It was the MR [music recorded/instrumental] version without vocals.

-Seeing the MR come out, it’s certain;;;

-Crazy, they were really acquaintances……

-No ㅅ1ㅂ [swear word] If you’re acquaintances, you should have said you were acquaintances;

Regardless of what they were saying in the chat window that had misunderstood properly.

Yeonwoo hummed along to the MR and slowly started singing.

“Wandering footsteps in the dark fog…….”

The song started quietly.

The effect of receiving vocal training for a short period was very great.

The already appealing voice had an even deeper resonance.

Even,

-Ting!

[Condition met!]

[‘A fascinating vocal cord [A] that is hard to escape once you hear it’ is upgraded!]

The A-grade stat was upgraded to A-.

Was it because of that?

Yeonwoo’s voice, with the upgraded stats added, fascinated people like a deep sea that you couldn’t help but jump into.

The effect was certain, as the chat window was in a temporary lull.

“I can’t miss it, I followed it, but there’s nothing there, only me…….”

The voice that draws people in made the heavy lyrics even more touching.

Before, there was more of a tendency to empathize with Yeonwoo’s emotions when he sang, but now it was a little different.

The magic of the voice made people completely immersed in the music itself.

The effect of vocal training was not the end of it.

“Just one word. Tell me. With your one word, I can stand again……!”

A more smoothly rising, stable high note.

The explosive volume added to it caused chills properly at the climax.

-Crazy…….

-Our Yeonwoo is taking a legend today……

-Who is it, who is it that’s spouting nonsense that our Yeonwoo, who sings this kind of song, is pushing an artist gimmickㅠㅠ?!

A voice that anyone with even the worst ears would have to admit when they heard it.

At least those who saw this streaming will not be able to deny it.

The evaluation that it is just imitating is an insult to Yeonwoo’s song.

“My choice…… was not wrong.”

When the song ended, the surroundings were quiet.

Even the chat window was quiet.

“How was it. It wasn’t bad, was it?”

When Yeonwoo threw a playful word, the reaction exploded.

It had already been broadcasted once on the reality show, but the feeling was different from doing it live in real time.

How could the PD even be holding up the index fingers of both hands?

It was the production team’s own praise that could not intervene in the broadcast.

“This song was made possible by this friend here.”

Yeonwoo casually put his hand on Jerry’s shoulder, who was spacing out next to him.

Then Jerry jumped.

“Aaaah, no?! What are you talking about?! Why is this what I struggled with?!”

-Huh? What? That person is the composer?

-Huh? What is it?

-Is this that? Korea’s unique modesty……? But isn’t he an overseas派 [faction/group]?

“Everyone, everyone. Hyungnim is saying something that could cause a really big misunderstanding, but absolutely, absolutely, absolutely I didn’t struggle!”

He pours out words so quickly as if he was very embarrassed.

“All I did was arrange it!”

“It was a song that couldn’t have come out without the arrangement.”

“There’s no arrangement without the original song!”

“Still, you were the biggest help. The original song didn’t have this feeling.”

“S-still, how could I dare say that I did this?! I know my place well! I’m not that kind of shameless person!”

“Shameless.”

“Ah. My tongue got twisted because I was embarrassed.”

It was the moment when the four-character idiom 파렴치한 [shameless] was about to become an English word.

The chat window fell into another maze at Jerry’s jumping reaction.