Save a Failed Idol’s Life

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: NicoleTempest

Chapter 264 The One Thing I Can’t Let Go (2)

I felt a surge of anger as I suddenly woke up, without any explanation. I didn’t even know what day it was.

‘Did I return to the year 2017?’

How? By what means? I was sure I was going to face my second death as it was…

I frantically looked for my phone, hoping to find something. At that moment,

“Bro, you’re really awake!”

Seon-woo burst into the hospital room, sliding the door open.

He saw my bewildered expression and followed by Kyunghwa, who clicked his tongue.

“Uh? What’s with the uh? Hey, are you feeling okay?”

They didn’t look much different from the last time I remembered, so it didn’t seem like much time had passed. I was just confused.

“Uh… I don’t think I have any problems right now…”

“You said you had no problems when you were holed up in your house. The tests showed nothing wrong, but you couldn’t get your act together.”

Kyunghwa stared at me with a suspicious eye, as I sat on the bed. Yi-jun quickly ran to me.

“Hey, let’s check if you have any problems!”

He suddenly aimed for my armpit and tickled my inner arm.

“What are you doing!”

I pushed him away with a disgusted look, curling up as if I was going to lose my neck. Seon-woo and Yi-jun both backed off.

“You seem fine, judging by your reaction.”

And Seong-won was watching the commotion from a distance, with his arms crossed. He soon sighed, as if he was disappointed.

“Take it easy. You just regained your strength. The manager is parking downstairs, and your mom can’t come right now because she has an urgent meeting.”

“Ah.”

I listened to Kyunghwa’s explanation for a while, and then I asked, feeling like I couldn’t delay any longer.

“Well, I understand that she can’t come right now. But what day is it today? How long have I been lying down?”

I asked with an anxious expression, as if it was the most important thing. Yi-jun answered casually.

“Well… you’ve been lying down for a long time, right? It’s been more than a week since you went to your house.”

Not that. I wanted to ask how much time had passed since the shareholders’ meeting of Jo Young Food, but if I brought that up here, they would wonder why I was talking about Jo Young Food.

I scratched my head, feeling frustrated, and asked again.

“So, what day is it?”

Kyunghwa shrugged and answered.

“February 23rd.”

“Ha…”

It was two days after the shareholders’ meeting. So what happened after that? I wanted to check my phone right away.

I didn’t walk into the hospital on my own, so I didn’t know where my phone was.

“Did anything happen while I was out?”

I asked, wondering if there was any news I shouldn’t miss. Seon-woo, who was closest to me, rolled his eyes, as if he was thinking hard, and opened his mouth.

“Uh… I don’t think so!”

Then Kyunghwa sighed and pointed out.

“Not nothing. We didn’t have anything, but Ise got her salad funding done and delivered the third batch successfully.”

“Oh. Right!”

Seon-woo nodded a beat late, and Kyunghwa picked up my phone from the locker behind him and handed it to me.

“You can check the details yourself. Seon-woo’s sister and others helped you a lot, so you should thank them separately.”

I laughed awkwardly, listening to the nagging as soon as I opened my eyes, and grabbed my phone. After they confirmed that I was fine, they were soon kicked out of the room by the medical staff who came in later.

“Hmm… you haven’t had a proper meal for a while, so your body is weak, but it’s not a serious problem. But just in case, you should stay in the hospital until today and leave tomorrow.”

I had been weakened by excessive sleep, lethargy, and refusal to eat for unknown reasons, so I couldn’t leave the hospital right away.

I wanted to go back to my place as soon as possible, but I didn’t know how or why I came back to this body, so I couldn’t act rashly.

‘I’m sorry again! Our external program was hacked again! I’ll log out! This way, I’ll disappoint you twice.’

An Bu-hwejang said he could visit me in the evening. After being scolded by the medical staff to rest as much as possible, I was left alone in the room and checked the recent situation.

‘Thank goodness.’

The first thing I found was the news that the Jo Young Food shareholders and their family were arrested.

‘I expected that.’

The incident itself was something that the public would love to dig into, so I expected that. There were articles that made wild guesses, like detectives.

Some of them had some truth mixed in, but most of them were sensational articles that attracted attention by portraying the stepmother who killed her ex-husband’s son for money and the half-brother as the worst devil and psychopath.

The brother went crazy and saw ghosts. Maybe I was the cause of that too. There was even an article that said the stepmother was also shocked by seeing her insane son and cried all day in custody.

‘Why are they all so interested in this story? It’s not even that good.’

They probably wanted to get out of this mess, just like they had buried the investigation of my death by bribing the local police.

But that was impossible, now that they had attracted nationwide attention. And even if they succeeded, they would still be haunted by the relentless pursuit of the netizens.

They didn’t have to dirty their hands and become murderers. They would soon find out how it felt to be recognized and pointed at by the whole nation, living a life that was not worth living. They would pay for their sins when they returned to society.

‘Anyway… as for my revenge as Lim Hyun-seong… I think this is enough for me.’

Since my dead body could not be revived, I had already achieved the best outcome I could hope for.

What would happen to my wish then? I was still puzzled as I checked the salad funding that Kyung-hwa had mentioned earlier.

[C’s Salad in Crisis, Stars Join Forces to Support and Counterattack]

[C’s Salad, Praises Pouring in from Entertainment Industry and Beyond After Third Shipment]

What was this about? It seemed that as the third batch of shipments started, the general community was flooded with positive reviews from people who had actually tried the product and found it very good and tasty.

The Cheon-su Hotel was suing them for business interference and defamation due to the etiquette manipulation incident, but they had already drawn too much attention.

The anti-fans who were obsessed with Cheon Ise, who was too busy with his business to care about his idol career, kept biting and saying, ‘Now that they started shipping, they’re going viral.’ ‘Who would fall for these paid ads?’ But thankfully, Seon-yeong stepped up and helped.

[Hello, Aurora. How have you been? I also succeeded in salad marketing and received it todayㅋㅋ. I felt sorry for eating this delicious thing alone, but now you can eat it too! Don’t doubt and trust Seon-yeong and buy it again ㄱㄱ

#Not_Made_Bought

#Today_Not_Sister_But_Brother

#Cheon_Ise_Salad

#Polaris #Daily #Selfie #Communication #Climax #Cheon_Ise]

Really… Anyone would think I paid them for advertising. But I swear I never gave them any extra money for promotion.

I didn’t know if it looked relatively clean because they managed the comments, but the fans’ reactions below were not too bad either.

[- When will you resell thisㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I missed the salad marketi

[- I wanted to buy this but it sold out in an instantㅜㅜㅜ]

[- Can you let me know before you apply next time?]

[- Wow, it looks so delicious. If I had it at home, I would have torn two packs and stacked them up and eaten them.]

Then I saw another person who was among them, and surprisingly, it was Henny.

‘What?’

She didn’t post anything or anything. She was famous for hating vegetables, and she usually showed herself binge eating or eating various junk foods as a late-night snack on her SNS live broadcasts. But she said she showed herself eating salad for the first time.

If Henny, who hated vegetables so much, ate it, how delicious was it? It became a hot topic in the community, and people were asking them to open the fourth sale.

[You’re eating grass for the first time? Haha, am I that bad? No, I don’t never eat it. I just don’t like vegetables unless they’re really tasty. But this is delicious~. And I think I need to take care of my health now.]

Henny, who looked relaxed in the video, was eating salad with a smile, and the fans praised her in the chat, saying she looked like a rabbit.

I didn’t know what would happen in the future. But anyway, I was glad that her appearance changed a little bit like this.

The hotel staff were having trouble with the guests who asked them to sell Cheon Ise’s salad as room service.

‘…I’m relieved.’

As I sighed with relief and brushed my chest, the system window that had been silent all along suddenly popped up.

[%#@Hardly*%*@!]

What are you saying? I doubted my eyes as I glared at the screen with the broken and distorted letters, and soon a clear status window appeared.

[Special Quest: Congratulations on achieving HAPPY ENDING!]

What? I squinted and opened and closed my eyes. What did I do? Then the system’s explanation continued.

[Due to the voluntary withdrawal of the unauthorized program, the ownership of this repository has been safely restored to ‘Cheon Ise (Lim Hyun-seong)’.]

‘Voluntary withdrawal?’

That meant that Cheon Ise had given up his body on his own will.

‘Then what happened to Cheon Ise himself?’

As soon as I connected, I sat up straight and grabbed the status window, hoping it wouldn’t ignore me with silence again. The status window shook for a moment and answered.

[The corrupted data is being restored and will soon be moved to the recovery center for regeneration.]

The status window showed the same diagram as in the strange space, and it seemed to be preparing to be absorbed by the light cluster that looked strangely warm and cozy.

‘What happens when you gather new data?’

There was no answer this time.

‘Why are you silent!?’

As I asked impatiently, the status window made a nonsense.

[In order to clarify the future rights of the repository, we would like to consult with ‘Cheon Ise (Lim Hyun-seong)’ for a moment.]

‘Don’t you have to answer the question first?’

I snapped at it again, but it didn’t work at all.

[Due to Lim Hyun-seong’s unauthorized interference during the ‘Quest: HAPPY ENDING’, the subsequent quests of ‘Quest: Idol Cheon Ise’ are impossible to proceed. Therefore, we, the Human Happiness System, have decided to permanently revoke Lim Hyun-seong’s system access rights and quest qualifications.]

They’ve been talking as they please since a while ago. I barely suppressed the vein that bulged on my forehead.

‘Well, they lifted the restriction for you. I have to do something, or else I’ll face extinction. Do you want me to just suck my fingers and watch?’

I asked irritably, and the system window shook as if to tell me to wait.

[Read the text to the end and complain.]

Ha. What kind of amazing story are they going to tell me? I crossed my arms as if I was amazed.