TGCBGA 03
Issue Maker Yoo Yeon-seo
Kim Yi-joon, a member of the boy group ‘One Seven,’ got into a taxi after leaving Yoo Yeon-seo’s hospital room and fell deep into thought.
Kim Yi-joon and Yoo Yeon-seo weren’t close enough for him to visit the hospital. His decision to find Yoo Yeon-seo’s room was an impulsive one.
Since he happened to be passing by, and considering Yoo Yeon-seo’s life was said to be in danger, he went, acting on a 0.3 gram of loyalty. To be honest, the main reason—excluding that 0.3 gram—was largely to mock Yoo Yeon-seo, who he expected to be lying miserably on the hospital bed.
‘I never thought he’d open the door for me just because I showed up…’
By a ridiculous coincidence, Yoo Yeon-seo had regained consciousness after two weeks. Kim Yi-joon expected to be turned away at the entrance, but upon hearing he was there, he wasn’t turned away and was even allowed inside.
“So, why are you here? Without calling.”
“You probably blocked my number, anyway.”
Bandages were wrapped around his head and one arm, and his face was sallow and lacked color. It was certainly not a state one could mock. Honestly, he thought the media was exaggerating a minor injury, but it was clear his condition was genuinely serious.
“…Are you in a lot of pain?”
Yoo Yeon-seo chuckled at Kim Yi-joon’s reluctant question.
“That’s all you have to say after coming all this way? Just be honest. You came here to laugh at me.”
“Yeah, you got me. Honestly, it’s a bit satisfying. Serves you right. Didn’t you hear you’re being overshadowed by supporting actors because you can’t act?”
Kim Yi-joon answered quickly. But, his heart softening, he added a clarification.
“…Still, I’m not so rude as to criticize a patient in this state, unlike some people.”
“Oh, really? Look at the great saint who has arrived.”
Yoo Yeon-seo was sarcastic, but he was secretly pleased. He had almost no friends who would visit him in the hospital.
He recalled the faces of his former teammates whom he’d run into at an awards ceremony. The deep hatred in their eyes, the way they distanced themselves, unwilling to be in the same space. Yoo Yeon-seo spoke as if possessed.
“Are you guys still resentful of me?”
“Of course we are.”
“It’s been five or six years since I left, hasn’t it? That long?”
“It might be a long time for you, but for me and the other members, it feels like it happened just yesterday.”
Kim Yi-joon felt his temper rising. He came to scratch an old wound but was getting scratched himself.
“Hey, Kim Yi-joon.”
“What.”
“You, and the others—stop acting so pathetic.”
“What? Pathetic?”
“Stop focusing on me and just live your lives. Tsk, looks desperate.”
Yoo Yeon-seo looked genuinely confused. Kim Yi-joon fiercely scowled.
“Why would you waste your energy on a ‘runaway bird’ who only worked with you for a few months, not even years?”
“You’re just a runaway bird? We had to endure a hiatus and obscurity because of you!”
“Well, why didn’t you put in more effort during your trainee vocal training? Idols are singers, too… And why is your obscurity my fault? It’s all because of your lack of talent.”
Kim Yi-joon clenched his fist tightly. If Yoo Yeon-seo weren’t a patient, he would have thrown a punch right then. I must be crazy. Why did I come all the way to the hospital for this jerk… I really shouldn’t have come. And yet, my heart softened because we trained for a few months together, because we shared the joy of debut…
“Still, the chart reversal. I admit that. The investment finally paid off.”
“What?”
Kim Yi-joon let out a hollow laugh in disbelief. It had been a full two years since One Seven rose from obscurity through a chart reversal. It was strange why he would suddenly bring up something from two years ago.
‘Seriously, why? Was there something I didn’t know?’
Yoo Yeon-seo paused, as if he had let slip something he shouldn’t have. He had felt strange ever since he woke up. His body felt strangely disconnected, as if it wasn’t his own. It was like he was tying up loose ends just before dying, and his mouth was moving on its own.
“You re-signed the contract, right? Anyway, that jerk of a CEO isn’t going to run off with the money, so you can relax and live your lives.”
“What? What are you even talking about…”
What was this sudden, nonsensical talk? Kim Yi-joon was about to ask, but Yoo Yeon-seo, checking a message on his phone, suddenly shouted.
“Oh, damn it! Hey, the old man is coming! Get out now!”
“What?”
“No, hide! Quickly!”
He shoved Kim Yi-joon under the bed and covered him with a blanket. He then lay back on the bed, closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep. Kim Yi-joon didn’t know that was the moment the ‘real’ Yoo Yeon-seo closed his eyes forever.
And so, he overheard the entire conversation between Yoo Yeon-seo and Chairman Yoo.
‘Chairman Yoo pressured the agency and made him leave the group?’
Kim Yi-joon stopped for a moment before opening the door to the dorm.
Yoo Yeon-seo wasn’t forced out. He left on his own. He thought the third-generation heir, a chaebol with enough money to fill the entire hospital several times over, simply got tired of the idol life he’d chosen as a passing fancy. But it turned out it was due to his grandfather’s pressure?
‘Could it be, for our sake?’
What would have happened if he had stayed in One Seven? The Yoo family might have blocked One Seven’s activities and used threats. The Joosung Group had the power to do that. But…
‘No way.’
Kim Yi-joon shook his head vigorously. That rude self-centered jerk?
Next to the thoughtful Kim Yi-joon, Park Joo-won, a member of the same group, looked at his phone and spoke.
“Did you seriously go to his hospital?”
“No.”
“Then what is this picture?”
Park Joo-won showed him his phone screen.
One Seven’s Lee Joon seen at Korea University Hospital… Did he visit the former member out of curiosity?
Loyalty for a former member? One Seven’s Lee Joon leaving Korea University Hospital
Kim Bok-soon @93_one7
Yeon-seo and Joon are still keeping in touch ㅠㅠㅠ Our boys have a good relationship ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
└93-liners, come back ㅠㅠㅠ
BEBE @BEBEBEBEBEBE
Ah, damn it!!!!! Why would he go there!!
└Seriously ㅠㅠㅠ Doesn’t he have any pride ㅠㅠ Why is he even going there ㅠㅠㅜㅠ
└Yoo Yeon-seo isn’t a member anymore, so please stop associating them.
└How many years has it been since YYS abandoned One Seven? Why are people still milking this?
“Damn it…”
“Why go there and get your picture taken? Well done, well done.”
“What did the manager say?”
“He said we should agree to say you went for a health checkup, not to visit Yoo Yeon-seo.”
The agency was being cautious since there would be no good words from the fandom about being associated with the ‘runaway bird’ who left on bad terms.
At Kim Yi-joon’s voice, the other members emerged from their rooms one by one and gathered around him. Their gaze was more accusatory than curious.
“Why did you go?”
“He probably went to check if he finally died. He hates that jerk Yoo Yeon-seo the most.”
The six members of One Seven didn’t just dislike Yoo Yeon-seo; they were at a level of hatred, and they looked disgusted whenever they accidentally crossed paths.
“So, does he look okay?”
“He hasn’t died, but his condition didn’t look good. He was even having a nosebleed.”
“Oh yeah? The bastard, he has a tough life thread.”
The group name, One Seven, meant “Seven members are one.” But after Yoo Yeon-seo’s abrupt departure, whenever they introduced the group, the six members and the fandom had to quickly invent a story that meant “The six members and the fandom are one.”
“But they say the car accident wasn’t Yoo Yeon-seo’s fault?”
“A drug trafficker drove high on drugs and crash, right in the middle of Gangnam.”
“Tsk, only the manager ended up being pitiful.”
Kim Yi-joon, blankly watching the members tear into Yoo Yeon-seo, said as if in a trance.
“What if, just what if…”
“Yeah.”
“What if Yoo Yeon-seo leaving our team… was due to a reason he couldn’t talk about?”
“Hyung Yi-joon, you’re good at writing fiction.”
The reason they ended up hating Yoo Yeon-seo so much was partly due to his ‘Hell Mouth.’
“What if he quit because of his family’s pressure?”
“Him?”
Yoo Yeon-seo had cheerily ran his mouth, saying he couldn’t stand being with them because they were pathetic, and that if he was going to be an entertainer, it was more suitable to be a ‘respected actor’ rather than an idol, before abruptly moving his things out of the dorm.
“Did Yoo Yeon-seo tell you to say that? How much money did he give you, Hyung?”
“No, that’s not it…”
“Then why are you defending him?”
The One Seven members simply could not understand what Kim Yi-joon was saying.
“…Yi-joon, what good would that do now?”
Yoon Yoo-chan, the leader of One Seven, sighed deeply.
It wasn’t just the meaning of the group name that changed. After Yoo Yeon-seo, the main vocalist and visual, left the team, One Seven suffered a long one-year hiatus for a rookie group.
Following that, there were three years of obscurity. It took them seven years of fierce training to finally spark a chart-reversal phenomenon and achieve their current stability. What difference would it make now if Yoo Yeon-seo had left for the team’s sake?
“Right?”
Kim Yi-joon shook his head vigorously. I was imagining nonsense. That’s right. Yoo Yeon-seo? He’s not the kind of person who would do that.
They had endured a long period of obscurity, they wanted compensation for that time, and they needed someone to blame. It was only natural that Yoo Yeon-seo became that target.
Adaptation to 2018
What was surprising to Kang Jin-hu after entering Yoo Yeon-seo’s body was the ‘surface world.’
“The sky is… clear.”
The news was reporting the highest levels of fine dust all year, but it was just refreshing to the current Yoo Yeon-seo. Humanity in 2207, where he had lived, was mostly confined underground, so there were few opportunities to look up at the sky.
“How do I use this?”
As he was examining and turning the palm-sized, rectangular device, Beta-9 spoke up.
<Good afternoon, Master.>
<Would you like to synchronize the Basic Guide to Living in 2018 based on your current body’s big data?>
Perfect timing. Yoo Yeon-seo nodded.
<However, an excessive influx of information may put a strain on your body, Master.>
What? Why tell me that now?
Yoo Yeon-seo frantically tried to shout “Cancel,” but what came out was blood, not words.
“Cough…!”
His head felt thump-ing as if struck by a hammer. Clutching his stomach from the wrenching pain of his internal organs, blood was not only pouring from his mouth but also from his nose and ears.
<Master approved too quickly…>
<I will be more careful next time.>
Now that I think about it, Alpha is already 13, but Beta is only 9. Those future guys… they gave me an old model… This was Yoo Yeon-seo’s last thought before losing consciousness.
The news that Yoo Yeon-seo had lost consciousness again sent the VIP ward of Korea University Hospital into an uproar. Medical staff checked on Yoo Yeon-seo whenever they had a moment, and staff from the Joosung Group were always waiting outside the hospital room.
Even if Yoo Yeon-seo just slightly raised his hand, the door would open, and they’d ask if he needed anything. They haven’t installed cameras in here, have they?
In any case, Yoo Yeon-seo diligently recovered his health amid the extreme care.
“Oh, our ancestors lived quite an interesting life.”
Yoo Yeon-seo excitedly browsed portal sites using the old-fashioned device called a smartphone. In 2207, where he lived, AI automatically read people’s thoughts and instantly produced results, so using a search engine in this era had a certain charm.
He decided to use this opportunity to find out about this body’s reputation.
[Male Actor] Yeon-seo ㅠㅠ What gives you the confidence to act ㅠ Is it your face? Is it your face? +569
The post author deleted the message because Yoo Yeon-seo’s fandom, Love Letter, was scary, but the screenshot remains.
└Don’t bring up the ‘Grandpa-Beagle’ (a nickname) for no reason.
└Don’t elevate the Grandpa-Beagle.
└Honestly, if it weren’t for the Grandpa-Beagle, isn’t this well-written and spot-on?
└└So many Grandpa-Beagle maids lol
└But I honestly agree with the content of the post.
└└222
└└└33333
Let’s find out about Yoo Yeon-seo, the ‘Human Hot Topic.’
Yoo Yeon-seo again? Yoo Yeon-seo’s Jerk-Talk updated (Feb 27, ‘18)
Yoo Yeon-seo confirmed for the main role in ‘Our Moment’ (Official)
└Ah, damn it, he got the main role with his connections again.
└Is this what the country has come to?
└It was a highly anticipated drama, but I’m dropping it. Bye.
Yoo Yeon-seo to challenge musicals… uploads script for the musical ‘Jealousy’ on SNS, causing a “frenzy.”
└Shouldn’t he be focusing on his main job instead of posting this?
└└Isn’t he trying to protest so they’ll cast him? lol
└└└‘Jealousy’? The one where even the top musical actors got rejected? lol
There was not a single positive reaction—just nicknames like ‘Human Unlikeable Yoo Yeon-seo’ and ‘Issue Maker Yoo Yeon-seo.’ The only positive comments were from his fan club, Love Letter.
Despite lead actor Yoo Yeon-seo’s acting controversy, ‘Our Moment’ viewership soars.
Yoo Yeon-seo on ‘Our Moment’ viewership rise: “Because I chose it.” On the acting controversy: “What’s wrong with my acting? I did my best.”
Yoo Yeon-seo on ‘Our Moment’ writer’s ‘second lead syndrome’ controversy: “I am extremely upset… I will never forget this humiliation until I die.”
└Oh my, how scary.
└Could you have been cast in Our Moment if you weren’t a chaebol… Know your place.
└Yeon-seo’s head seems to be filled with flowers (a compliment that implies simple-mindedness or being delusional) ^^.
“Huh…”
…Let’s stop researching now.
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