I Became a Producer Who Rewrites Idols

32 – Simultaneous Progress (8)

Manager Jeong Song-i said he wanted to have a serious conversation with me alone,

I went up to the rooftop of the company.

The red sunset was burning.

“Producer, first of all…. “Congratulations on passing first place in the afternoon sweets final inspection.”

“Thank you.”

Even though you said you were congratulating me,

For some reason, Manager Jeong Song-i’s expression didn’t look very good.

Rather than saying I don’t like the fact that Afternoon Sweets passed first place,

The face looked as if something more serious had happened.

In the first place, I probably didn’t ask you to meet just the two of us to congratulate you on passing first place in the afternoon sweets test.

“Producer, do you remember what I gave you as a gift on January 20th of this year?”

“January 20th of this year…. Oh, is it my birthday?”

“…… Yes.”

A big problem has occurred.

I guess you’re suspicious of this because I said the wrong birthday last time?

For me, who became a producer on February 3rd,

On January 20th, I couldn’t figure out what Jeong Song-i received as a birthday present from her manager.

A gifticon like the one I gave Jeong Song on her manager’s birthday?

Probably not, if you are asking what exactly it is.

It must be something real.

Something to give to a coworker on his or her birthday….

No matter how expensive it is, I think it will cost around 20,000 to 30,000 won.

“Tumbler… , is not it?”

I never thought I would get it right anyway.

However, the tumbler that I always use as my water cup in office room 302 seemed likely.

Because it’s something I don’t remember.

You can buy it for around 20,000 to 30,000 won.

“No, the producer bought it himself.”

“…… Is it so?”

“What I gave you as a birthday present….”

My heart was more afraid than when I was in front of Executive Director Yeom Chang-ho.

What kind of thing is it?

I don’t think so, because all the items in the house were mine.

“It was a gaming laptop.”

“Yes… ?!”

No, I bought that with my money saved last year?

2.5 Million won.

[MSI] Oh… ….

Oh, wait a minute.

When I thought about it, [MSI] Was also changed to [NSI].

Other than that, the design is the same, so I thought it was just the model I bought last year.

Manager Jeong Song-i bought it for me on January 20th of this year?

“I wonder if the price is…” ?”

“2.53 Million won.”

“… ….”

“I’m still in the process of paying the installments because I made 6-month interest-free installments.”

“Now, just a moment.”

It was strange here too.

I did not have a credit card, so I made a lump sum payment with a check card.

I quickly took out my smartphone and searched through last year’s card payment history.

No.

The 2.5 Million won expenditure details were not visible.

That means,

Really, the gaming laptop in my room is,

It was given to me as a birthday present by Manager Jeong Song-i on January 20th of this year.

I said exactly 2.53 Million won.

Why do I burn 2.53 Million won for just a coworker’s birthday?

It’s an amount that I wouldn’t buy even for my married husband.

“For your information, what the producer bought me as a birthday present last year was a luxury watch. This one.”

Manager Jeong Song-i raised her left arm and showed the watch on her wrist.

It was something I always wore.

It looked expensive at first glance, and it was a brand I knew.

… Maybe it’s because it’s a game world, but the letters are a little different from the brands I know.

The reason why manager Jeong Song-i gave me 2.5 Million won as a gift for her birthday.

I understood it right away.

Because ‘I’ in the past gave something that expensive as a birthday present.

f*ck, what on earth did the ‘me’ from the past do?

If this is the case, the gifticon given to manager Jung Song-i on her birthday looks very shabby.

“That…. Sorry, I was busy this time so I didn’t prepare anything properly….”

“I’m not particularly trying to take issue with the fact that the producer gave me a gifticon. Honestly, I don’t mind the gift itself, even the gifticon.”

“Then…” ?”

Manager Jeong Song-i looked directly at my face.

I continued to look at it for about 30 seconds,

I suddenly burst into tears.

“You…” , Who are you?”

I couldn’t say anything.

How should I say this?

If I explain that this is the world in the [Idol Producing] Game, and that I am the person who became the main character of the game starting February 3rd,

Will you understand?

I think they will only see me as a mentally ill person.

I could not imagine such a case.

Because I didn’t expect to get caught.

“I’ll tell you everything honestly, manager.”

“…… Yes.”

“It’s February 3rd, right? “The day I returned from the sushi restaurant.”

Manager Jeong Song-i nodded immediately.

She probably noticed that I had changed since that day.

“Originally, I was not a producer. “She was just someone who worked at another small business.”

“… Is it so?”

“Yes, I was off duty that day and had a day off, but I was craving sushi. So I went out to go to a sushi restaurant.”

“Yes.”

“But from then on, I suddenly became a producer.”

“…… Yes?”

[Idol Producing] I told the whole truth, leaving out the game.

“Yes… ? Now, just a moment. Then the original producer… ?”

“It’s hard to say this…. He’s probably dead…….”

Manager Jeong Song-i left her mouth open and her chin trembled.

As long as I don’t know where the ‘me’ of the past went,

I had no choice but to assume that the person she knew named Im Bu-gil was dead.

At least I never gave her her expensive luxury watch as a gift.

I bought the gaming laptop with my own money, not received it as a gift.

“Jeez, it’s true…” ? How could that happen…… ?”

“I don’t know either. “I just left the house and everyone around me said I was a producer.”

“It’s not like memory loss or anything…” ?!”

“Well, maybe it’s my mental illness, but…. At least I know where the small business I worked for is located. “It’s in the Gasan Digital Complex.”

“How can this be…?” . Nonsense… ….”

Manager Jeong Song-i lost her balance and was about to fall to the floor.

She quickly grabbed her body.

“I’m a producer… ….”

Manager Jeong Song-i crying freely.

She may feel sad when she hears that her co-worker has died,

It won’t be to this extent.

Then it means that we are not just coworkers.

“Manager, what was the relationship between you and me in the past?”

“Well, we weren’t officially dating, but… ….”

Her head throbbed for a moment.

I could understand it even without listening to the end.

I could understand all the actions that manager Jeong Song-i had been acting like in the meantime.

In the past, ‘I’ liked manager Jeong Song-i,

Manager Jeong Song-i also liked the ‘me’ of the past.

To the point where they exchange expensive gifts with each other.

I never thought that manager Jeong Song-i would like her producer as a person of the opposite s*x.

Because she appeared in the [Idol Producing] Game, she appeared strictly as an assistant to the main character.

Daily login bonus….

“I will tell the manager and have him move to another location.”

“Yes… ?”

“It’s hard to work while looking at my face…” . Moreover, I am no longer the person your manager knows.”

“… ….”

Manager Jeong Song-i didn’t say anything, she just looked at my face and cried.

Does she not even know what she wants to do?

The news that someone you love has died must be so shocking.

To be honest, I wish she would continue to be her manager, but

That must be my greed.

Seeing someone with the same face as a dead person every day would make me quit my job.

I put my hand in my pocket to give him a handkerchief.

… There wasn’t even a handkerchief to wipe Jo Min-joo’s tears as she cried after passing the final inspection in first place.

However, I can’t wipe away Manager Jeong Song-i’s tears by touching her face with my bare hands.

“Just leave work for today. Shall I take you there?”

Manager Jeong Song-i shook his head.

She probably hates me because I am not the ‘me’ she liked in the past.

As far as I know, her house was so close to the company that she commuted on foot like me.

I will tell producer Jeon Geun-young to call me later and ask if I got home properly.

“That… , Can you talk to the manager a little later? “I’ll go home today, think about it seriously, and tell you tomorrow.”

“I understand.”

Just take Manager Jeong Song to the front of the company,

… I started preparing for the afternoon sweets debut in earnest.

I should be happy because I passed the final inspection in first place.

For some reason, I felt down.

***

Manager Jeong Song-i had a bathtub at home but couldn’t use it because she was busy.

I got off work early today, so I got some water for the first time in a while, unpacked the bath salts I bought sometime ago, and took a dip.

“Ha… ….”

We weren’t even dating.

I’ve never even been kissed.

It’s just something that has feelings for each other.

That was all,

I heard that Producer Lim Boo-gil died,

As soon as I heard from the man with the face of Producer Lim Boo-gil, tears poured out like crazy.

When she saw her face reflected in the water, her eyes turned red and swollen.

If this is going to be the case, you should confess first and start dating instead of thinking about things like s*x.

I wanted to look good to Producer Im Boo-gil, so I tried my best every morning to put on makeup, set my hair, take care of my hair, and put on perfume.

I felt stupid for even buying a condom and putting it in my handbag.

‘It’s someone else…’ ….’

There was no sense of truth at all.

That made no sense in reality.

But unless it’s such a surreal story,

There was no way to explain the change in producer Lim Boo-gil.

He didn’t seem to know the details either.

In the end, he could not reveal why his birthday was different from what he remembered.

But one thing was clear.

Whatever the reason,

Producer Lim Boo-gil, whom Manager Jeong Song-i knew, is no longer in this world.

He is capable, but he is not the person she likes.

“It’s too much, really…” ….”

She seduced the subject into liking her,

To die suddenly.

It’s not like an accident, it’s because of something I don’t understand.

The emotions in my heart have disappeared.

In the movie, he cut his wrists with a knife while soaking in a bathtub like this.

He knew that rather than commit suicide, it would be wiser to just resign from Lucky Seven Entertainment.

I didn’t even have the motivation to go through the resignation process.

I dried my hands on a towel and picked up my smartphone.

I looked around the photos I took with producer Lim Boo-gil.

There was a lot of spillage on the rooftop earlier.

Tears were about to come out again.

‘What should I do now…? .’

Except for Manager Ko Kang-tae, no one else noticed much of the change in Producer Lim Bu-gil.

I just became a little more competent.

There was no reason to complain about this, and even though he was dead, there was no way for him to have a funeral.

Is there anyone who holds a soul funeral rather than a soul wedding? .

As new producer Lim Boo-gil said, will he go under another producer?

But for some reason, I didn’t feel like doing that.

Since he looks exactly the same on the outside, do I still have regrets about him whose essence has changed?

I didn’t know that my emotions could not move as I wanted.

“Wait a minute… ….”

Producer Lim Boo-gil changed on February 3rd.

Then what about the girlfriend he said he had been dating for two years?

She was originally his lover, so it was strange that she suddenly started showing off here and there.

I thought about it carefully.

Unusually, the new producer Lim Boo-gil, who changed on February 3rd, has become more aware of the idols in charge.

In other words, as the Cursed Dolls members said, there was a high probability that he would have noticed that the idols in charge liked him.

‘No way… , Fake girlfriend?’

Even if the idol in charge likes him, Producer Lim Boo-gil cannot accept it from his standpoint.

But if you don’t properly draw a line and reject it, the idol in charge might get seriously hurt.

I could have asked you to date me because I would quit being an idol now.

How to avoid making extreme choices while rejecting euphemistically.

It was an unavoidable case because the producer already had a lover.

So he hurriedly prepared a fake photo and set it as his smartphone wallpaper.

If you really had a lover two years ago,

There was no way that Manager Jeong Song-i, who had worked next to me for several years, did not know.

“…… “I don’t know, what does it have to do with me now?”

The person that manager Jeong Song-i loved is dead.

The current producer Lim Boo-gil is just a different person who looks the same.

She soaked her hair up to its tip in her bathroom water.

The hot water was very cold.

***

Two weeks have passed since Afternoon Sweets debuted.

It was midsummer, but office 302 was cool with the air conditioner turned on.

-3Rd place is Berryz’s ‘just for you’. Second place is ‘Please’ by Cursed Dolls. This week’s No. 1 On Music On is ‘my sweets’ by Afternoon Sweets, a new girl group that has recently become a hot topic on the Internet! Congratulations!

Wow, all the idols I produced ranked high.

The Internet response was also enthusiastic.

Lucky Seven Entertainment, which was dying, has made a splendid comeback.

While idols produced by producers other than me are currently achieving ambiguous results,

Only the idols I produced achieved high results.

Director Ko Kang-tae also said that if the current trend continues, he will likely be promoted to senior in the next month or two.

Of course, if a scandal breaks out and causes an uproar, it will be something that has never happened before.

Well, I didn’t think there would be no accidents among the groups I produced.

From the beginning, the game story of [Idol Producing] Dealt with various incidents and accidents.

In a way, it is no exaggeration to say that the core of the story in [Idol Producing] Lies in the process of resolving and resolving the incidents.

… Although it was also a factor that people liked and disliked because the sweet potatoes were harsh.

It’s been about four hours since I turned off the TV and worked on the papers for afternoon sweets.

Squeak—.

The door to office 302 opened.

Producer Jo Hyun-ho, manager Jeong Song-i, producer Jeon Geun-young,

And then Manager Ha Sang-ah, who was appointed as the afternoon sweets manager, returned.

She was a female manager whom I received after requesting from Manager Ko Kang-tae the other day.

Now that Afternoon Sweets is also an idol, a manager was needed.

For Berryz, producer Jeon Geun-young appointed her own manager.

Afternoon Sweets member: It was also to widen the distance between Jo Min-joo and me.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“…… Yes.”

I spoke lightly to Manager Jeong Song, but

As expected, our relationship has become somewhat estranged since our last conversation on the rooftop.

I had no choice.

… When I told him I was sending him to another producer, he said that he liked what he was doing and wanted to continue working there.

“Manager Ha, what’s going on?”

“Oh, no, that’s….”

Ha Sang-ah, the manager in charge of afternoon sweets, had a pale face.

What’s going on?

“Hey, look at this, producer….”

Manager Ha Sang-ah showed me the smartphone screen.

[Afternoon Sweets Cho Min-ju’s school violence suspicion… Testimony one after another]

[Afternoon Sweets’ Koo Ga-eun, fraudulent debut due to her father’s chance?]

Ah, this event is already happening.

It was faster than I thought.