Save a Failed Idol’s Life

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: NicoleTempest

Chapter 266 Even if it’s a short moment (2)

“Oh, you still have a friend here?”

Vice Chairman Ahn, who looked worried, greeted Yu-geon in a dark suit, as if he had just come from the office.

“He’s the friend who came to visit me at home last time, right? I couldn’t treat him well because I was in bad shape…”

His son, who he thought would be lying still today as well, met Vice Chairman Ahn’s eyes. He straightened his body, using the pillow as a backrest.

Vice Chairman Ahn, who was startled to see me, dropped the bag he was holding.

That thing must cost as much as a decent car. As I flinched at the bag that fell to the floor, Vice Chairman Ahn looked at me as if he had seen a ghost.

He ran over to me, regardless of whether there was someone else next to me or not, and fumbled with my face and shoulders, not knowing what to do. I felt embarrassed.

“Yes, I’m fine now. Don’t worry. I’m sorry for surprising you.”

I calmed down my awkwardness and introduced Yu-geon to Vice Chairman Ahn, as if to remind him that he was there.

“You’ve probably met him before. He used to be with Wiplanet, but he came to our side when we established this label. He’s a year younger than me.”

Then, Vice Chairman Ahn, who had barely regained his senses, answered with a flushed cheek, rubbing his hands.

“Oh, my. I’m sorry. I made a fool of myself. You’re Yu-geon, right? I didn’t know you were younger than Ise. Nice to meet you.”

He seemed to have no ulterior motive, but I couldn’t help but laugh at his subtle greeting.

“Pfft, haha…”

“Huh…? Did I say something wrong?”

I waved my hand and reassured Vice Chairman Ahn.

“No, no. I just found it funny. I talked to the doctor earlier and he said I could be discharged tomorrow if nothing goes wrong until today.”

“Okay, then you should stay here for today. Will you come back home when you’re discharged?”

Oh, right. If he asked me how I was going to live from now on, I was planning to go to the dorm, but until I was admitted, ‘Cheon Ise’ was staying at his parents’ house. ŗ

Hmm… Maybe it would be better to stay at home for today, just to reassure Vice Chairman Ahn and other family members.

I looked back and forth between Vice Chairman Ahn and Yu-geon, who were waiting for my answer, and said.

“I’ll go home tomorrow. I think I’ll pack my stuff and go back to the dorm soon. I have to start working again, and I have to start preparing for the album seriously.”

Then, Vice Chairman Ahn’s face was immediately filled with regret.

“Don’t worry too much. I won’t collapse or anything like that.”

“I’m just sad. I was worried that you had a fight with your members when you suddenly came home, but I was also happy…”

Ugh. I felt guilty seeing Vice Chairman Ahn’s expression full of resentment, but it wasn’t wrong. I tried to soothe Vice Chairman Ahn and hinted that he should go.

“I’m sorry. I’ll come back home when I finish my work. I’ll be back tomorrow after I’m discharged, so please go home today. You must be tired from working today.”

When I gently said ‘please go home’, Vice Chairman Ahn reluctantly got up from his seat.

“Alright, the members came to visit you earlier, right? You must be tired too. Call me before you go to bed, okay? Mom is worried.”

“Haha… Yes, I’ll call you.”

After a long struggle, Vice Chairman Ahn finally closed the sliding door and left. At the same time, a long sigh burst out.

“Ha…”

As I barely brushed my chest, Yu-geon looked at me as if to say, ‘tell me now’.

“So, to explain, the original owner of this body, Cheon Ise, was alive but his soul was dead, and I was dead but my soul was alive, that’s how you can see it.”

I turned on the memo app on my phone and drew a rough diagram with my finger.

The picture was clumsy, as I had no talent for drawing and no pen, so I drew it with my finger.

“Pfft… Okay, well… I get it.”

He seemed to be laughing at me inside. I narrowed my eyes and glared at Yu-geon, then continued the explanation.

“So, it’s not a big problem for me to live in this body, but Cheon Ise, whose soul was already dead, kept wandering around and trying to come back to this body, and that’s what happened until yesterday, I think…”

Then, Yu-geon put his hand on his chin and asked after thinking for a while.

“So, even after he regained his body, he couldn’t do anything and just lay there like a corpse, because he wasn’t a living person but a dead person?”

I nodded.

“Something like that.”

Yu-geon still looked unconvinced and asked.

“Then how did you come back now?”

That was still a shock to me. The system said that Cheon Ise had voluntarily withdrawn… Does that mean he gave up on staying in the body and chose to disappear on his own?

Now that I wanted to ask what exactly happened, I couldn’t get any help from the system.

“Cheon Ise chose to disappear on his own.”

“…”

The atmosphere was awkward and solemn, and we were speechless for a while. Yu-geon muttered.

“What a mess.”

“Hey.”

Even though I was irresponsible to myself and everyone else at the end of my real life, and even after I came back, I kept hurting many people.

But I don’t think it was a malicious act. I just didn’t know how to do it. There was no one to teach me. I didn’t know how to work hard, how to make friends, how to be a grown-up. I was just a child, not much different from a four-year-old.

If only I had been born in a normal family, people wouldn’t have thought of me as difficult or distant because of money or status.

Of course, they wouldn’t have left me alone to become a tyrant either.

‘How did he get a new chance?’

I wondered if he had done something like reincarnation. But it was too late to ask him now. I just hoped that he would do his best this time with the opportunity given to him from somewhere.

“Don’t think too badly of him. He didn’t mean to hurt you…”

I tried to console him, but Yu-geon frowned and retorted.

“It was bad for me. I had to worry about going to a hotel because he kicked me out of the house.”

“Well, at least you got a place to stay and had a good time.”

As I thought that far, a question popped into my mind. Who did he share a room with?

Cheonise had packed up his stuff and gone back to his home, but I don’t think he told him to use my bed.

There were other empty beds, but…

‘Could it be…’

I asked with a strong suspicion of Seong-won.

“Who did you share a room with?”

When I asked him out of curiosity, Yu-geon suddenly looked sour and said, “Why?”

“With Seong-won? Why?”

“Yeah, is there a problem?”

No, there was no problem. I was just surprised that he didn’t fight with him, considering his personality. I couldn’t imagine what the atmosphere in the room was like.

“Wasn’t he super sensitive and picky, and always giving you a hard time if you made any noise?”

Yu-geon shrugged his shoulders as if to say, what are you talking about?

“Not at all. He just wore noise-canceling headphones and did his own thing.”

Really… that’s also annoying, isn’t it? But I was glad that they didn’t have any trouble.

“So, do you want me to clear out my studio and get you a separate place at Swift? If Naru has to move out of his house soon, it might be better to get a place for him too.”

Yu-geon immediately objected.

“Hyunjin, you already live in your own house, but if you get us a place, it means Naru and I have to live together. I don’t like that.”

“Aren’t you guys kind of close?”

He shook his head when I asked why he changed his mind.

“We can cooperate, but we’re not friends.”

“I see.”

It wouldn’t be bad to keep staying there, since the room wasn’t too small. But I had to deal with Naru anyway…

It wasn’t an urgent problem. I didn’t have any restrictions like quests anymore, so I could take my time and think about it.

“Anyway. I’m going to be here until I die. So don’t say anything weird to the kids. I don’t want to be treated like a crazy person if I try to explain now.”

Yu-geon still didn’t seem convinced, but he nodded as if he understood.

“Okay.”

“Good. Then you should go too.”

I had been tormented by the Climax members before I fell asleep, and then by Vice Chairman An and this guy.

Even though I had been asleep all along, I felt a new fatigue piled up in an instant.

“You’re not going anywhere, right?”

Yu-geon straightened his wrinkled coat and asked with a lingering doubt.

“I’m not going. Go and rest, and don’t worry about anything.”

I needed some time to sort out my thoughts. Now that my goal of success as an idol was gone, I had to think about what I could do and what I had to do.

And then…

‘I have to thank them.’

I had to repay the people who had taken care of the place while Cheonise had left his work behind, like Seonwoo’s sister and Henny.

‘I have to repay them, even if it’s not with money.’

I wanted to give the Composition people a vacation if I could. But that was probably impossible. When the album work was done, I thought about taking them to Jeju Island for a reward trip, even if it was hard to go abroad.

‘No… going on a trip as a group is not a vacation, but just an extension of work. Money would be better.’

The only ones who liked traveling with their coworkers were old bosses who hated going home.

I nodded to myself and thought I had some time, and then I wondered how the company was doing… when I suddenly screamed, “Oh, my laptop!”

‘It must still be in Jinwoo’s hands.’

I had asked him to send the laptop to the Composition company if he couldn’t contact me after a week, when I gave him the data to expose to Director Kang.

That deadline must have been a week or so.

I immediately remembered Jinwoo’s number and tried to dial it, but hesitated.

To Kang Jeonmoo, I’m just a random celebrity he doesn’t know well.

Even if I reveal that I’m Lim Hyun-seong, he won’t believe me.

Ah…

What should I do? Should I pretend to be someone he knows, or someone who helped Lim Hyun-seong? My head hurts again.