I Became a Producer Who Rewrites Idols

38 – Suspicious article (6)

Afternoon Sweets manager – Ha Sang-ah carefully spoke to Afternoon Sweets member – Jo Min-joo.

The fact that Jo Min-joo’s mother filed a complaint against Lucky Seven Entertainment to prevent Jo Min-ju from becoming an idol.

Jo Min-joo’s face turned bright red.

“You die and I die…” !!”

Jo Min-joo went to the kitchen and took out a kitchen knife.

And then he walked toward the entrance of the dorm.

Manager Ha Sang-ah held Jo Min-joo’s shoulders firmly with both hands.

“Calm down, Minju! “It’s even worse like this!!”

“Manager Ha, is your mother really that kind of person? How can this be… ?!”

“I understand. Minju’s mother is a bit too much. But just be patient, okay?”

“If I look bad because I smoke when I’m not even 20 yet, I can tolerate it because it’s my fault. But how can I tolerate this?”

Shaking off manager Ha Sang-ah’s hand, Jo Min-joo walked away again.

Blood burst out from my tightly bitten lip.

My neck muscles moved up and down greatly in anger.

The sadness of losing her husband.

I sympathized.

Because Jo Min-ju also lost her father.

Days when I soothe my sadness with alcohol.

I could understand.

Because Jo Min-joo could not appease him.

An order to come and earn money for the drink.

It was hard, but I worked hard because my mom said so.

Now, this person only had Jo Min-joo, her only daughter.

The beating that comes on days when you don’t make enough money.

It was painful, but I blamed the world for not taking care of young Jo Min-ju properly.

Because I couldn’t change her mother.

But after a year or two, when the fifth year came,

It turned into a feeling of skepticism.

Mom no longer drinks to soothe her sadness;

She drank because she had no choice but to stay alive.

So, the day I met producer Lim Boo-gil and decided to become an idol,

Abandoned her mother.

I was just planning to bury it in Jo Min-joo’s past.

But the ghost of that past has now appeared in the form of a civil lawsuit.

For a bright future, while running towards the Iin Samgak with Gu Ga-eun,

My ankle was caught.

I would rather be dragged like this and be sucked into a swamp and suffer.

I will stab her twice with my sword and end everything cleanly.

Jo Min-ju thought.

She shouldn’t just abandon her mother.

In order to break away from her past and move forward, like cutting a chain with a cutter,

It was necessary to sever the link with her mother.

This situation spread because the ending was sloppy.

“U.S., Democracy… !!”

“Get out of the way, Ga-eun.”

Goo Ga-eun spread her arms out in front of her entrance and blocked Jo Min-joo.

“The producer will take care of everything… !! Our producer, you’re good at everything… !!”

“…… How much more should I be indebted to you! Now I’ll take care of my own business. “I have received a lot from you just by leading me this far.”

Jo Min-joo pushed Goo Ga-eun’s body with her shoulder.

But Gu Ga-eun endured.

Instead, he held Jo Min-joo’s arm tightly.

“When you’re in debt, you lose…” !! You can repay me properly later… !!”

“How? He said he didn’t like my body either. “I have nothing worth giving in return, so what should I do in return?”

“I don’t know about that… !! We’re not going to be idols forever… !! When I retire as an idol, the producer will also accept me… !! So, for now, just be patient for the sake of the producer… !!”

“For Uncle Seal… ?”

“Yes… !! If the idol in charge said he killed his mother, the producer would have to go around and apologize for him… !!”

Producer Lim Boo-gil is in trouble.

At those words, Jo Min-joo’s head went cold.

It was just as Gu Ga-eun said.

Going out with a sword was just Jo Min-joo’s self-satisfaction.

“I’m sorry… ….”

Jo Min-joo immediately went back to the kitchen and put his kitchen knife back in its original place.

Manager Ha Sang-ah wiped his sweat and sighed in relief.

“But I guess Minjoo really likes the producer.”

“Because you saved my life.”

“Even though there is a big age difference?”

“I probably would have liked it even if he were a bald old man. If it were my grandfather…. “I’m a bit curious about whether I can stand there with my body or not.”

“Don’t suddenly say something strange, Mr. Minju….”

Jo Min-joo chuckled and said, “I’m sorry.” Did.

Gu Ga-eun tilted her head as if she had no idea what he was talking about.

“But Ga-eun, will I really be able to marry you after I retire from being an idol?”

“Because you have a pretty face and are good at housework, the producer will definitely think you are a good bride… !!”

“Anyway, suspicions of school violence have surfaced, so I just want to be the guy’s wife for speeding.”

“No… !! Then I have to become an idol alone… !! “I know that without Minjoo, I can’t even eat properly!”

“Okay, okay, I can’t starve Ga-eun to death.”

Jo Min-ju stroked Gu Ga-eun’s head.

If you look closely, it seemed like the Cursed Dolls members had agreed to share producer Lim Boo-gil.

I thought there was nothing I couldn’t do, even afternoon sweets.

“Ga-eun, if you happen to like him too, would you like to do 3P together?”

“Yes… ? What… ?”

Manager Ha Sang-ah looked at Jo Min-ju’s face,

“Sometimes, Minju seems like a perverted old man.”

She scolded me.

“Why, does the manager like you too?”

“Oh, not yet!”

“…… “Not yet?”

“Oh, no! “That’s not it!!”

Manager Ha Sang-ah had to be questioned by Jo Min-joo for a while.

***

I summoned the afternoon Sweets member, Gu Ga-eun, to the training room.

This is because we specifically scheduled an audition with Jeil Entertainment.

In fact, from her perspective, she just became an idol because she was scouted by me, but she suddenly received absurd suspicions, and she had to go to an audition, which would be unfair to her.

“I’m sorry that things happened like this, Ga-eun.”

So she first apologized as a producer.

Although she knows that this is ultimately the best path for Goo Ga-eun, she is unfair because it is unfair.

“The producer didn’t do anything wrong… ! So, I have to go to the audition, show people that I’m this good, and get their votes… ?”

“That’s right. Ga-eun needs to prove to herself that she debuted because of her skills, not because of her father’s chance.”

The public cannot see the idol’s abilities through the status window like I can.

There must be a comparison group of other trainees so that Goo Ga-eun can be evaluated on how outstanding she is.

[Name: Gu Ga-eun]

[Vocal: 60 → 65 / Dance: 69 → 72 / Talking: 61 → 64 / Visual: 75 → 76]

After her debut as an idol, she doesn’t have to train much, but her skills increase through her stage experience.

Of course, she is less efficient than when she trained intensively.

In fact, it was difficult to say that Gu Ga-eun’s abilities were very outstanding.

She wasn’t very bad, but she was at the level of an ordinary idol.

Even though she trained intensively, raising her abilities above 80 was a difficult task for her all-rounder brother.

However, the abilities of her six trainees who would compete with Goo Ga-eun were lower.

In other words, among her seven members, including Gu Ga-eun, she was the most skilled.

If singing and dancing were mainly evaluated like a normal idol audition, she would just score the highest.

“Ga-eun, starting today, she will cancel all her scheduled schedules and begin training.”

“Yes!”

Manager Ha Sang-ah, who was next to me, was surprised.

“Producer, if you cancel everything, there will be a penalty….”

“It can’t be helped.”

Manager Ha Sang-ah must have been dumbfounded by my words and remained silent with his mouth open.

… The penalty may be big right now, but considering the money they will earn later, it is nothing.

And Lucky Seven Entertainment is a large entertainment agency, so the company cannot be shaken by such a penalty.

It’s because I ate kusari.

“I don’t know what it is… ! I’ll work hard… !!”

“Okay, then I’ll tell you about the training menu from now on.”

Gu Ga-eun swallowed her saliva as if she was nervous.

Actually, I wasn’t very nervous because I already knew the middle process and the end.

She must be nervous in her position.

“I’m going to practice playing Romeo and Juliet.”

“”… Yes?””

Manager Ha Sang-ah and Gu Ga-eun had the same expression and said the same thing.

Well, that would be ridiculous.

I didn’t have any experience with acting, but they suddenly told me to practice playing Romeo and Juliet.

I couldn’t help it either.

Because it is a task set by Jeil Entertainment, which is in charge of conducting the audition.

This is only announced in advance to Goo Ga-eun and her six competing trainees, and not to me or Goo Ga-eun at all.

So, the producer in the [Idol Producing] Game noticed the filming set while visiting the audition site for preliminary inspection and hurriedly had Ga-eun practice her acting.

But since I already knew the content, there was no need to go to the audition room.

There is no need to hastily train.

Since the trainees had no connection to acting anyway, all that Goo Ga-eun had to do was learn sincerely.

“Teacher, please come in.”

The acting instructor who was waiting outside the training room door was let in.

… In practical terms, it was a bit difficult to find an acting instructor.

The department I belong to is the Idol Business Headquarters Planning Department.

In other words, only trainers related to idols could be called freely.

Or, you can bring it in from outside like a judo instructor.

However, the acting instructor belongs to the Actor Business Division.

Of course, bringing in an outside acting instructor costs money, so we had to hire an in-house acting instructor through the Actor Business Division as much as possible.

I already lost a lot of my budget because of the penalty, but I can’t spend it on external instructor fees….

The problem was that it overlapped with the audition season for a famous director’s new movie, and the acting instructor’s schedule was already scheduled.

Of course, the producers at the Actor Business Division prioritize the actors in charge, so they try not to turn things in my direction.

“Hello.”

“Thank you so much for your time.”

“No, I’m keeping it short because it’s a bit sad to hear the circumstances. “Jeil Enter is truly evil.”

I was finally able to take advantage of the acting instructor’s free time after some hard work.

I, the producer, have suffered this much, but there is no way the trainees, who have much less authority than me, can find an acting instructor.

In other words, you have to practice Romeo and Juliet on your own.

Of course, we have the advantage of having an instructor.

“Ga-eun, I need to say hello.”

“Oh, yes…” ! I’m sorry… !! This is Gu Ga-eun from Afternoon Sweets… !! Please take care of me, teacher… !!”

“Yes, please take care of me.”

The acting instructor and Gu Ga-eun stood side by side in front of the wall mirror and started by stretching.

Goo Ga-eun had a flexible body and had already taken dance lessons, so she followed along without much trouble.

“There is one part that people who are new to acting tend to overlook, and that is walking. Depending on how you walk, the way you convey your emotions changes dramatically.”

“Yes… !!”

Goo Ga-eun is watching the acting instructor’s demonstration closely with sparkling eyes.

As expected, there seemed to be no problem.

“Manager Ha, please take charge of Ga-eun. “I’m going to go deal with Minjoo.”

“Ah, yes!”

Just as I was about to open the training room door and leave,

Manager Ha Sang-ah said, “Over there!” He stopped me.

“Why?”

“Well, that…” . You know Minju. That… …. I guess it was a bit of a shock to be sued by my mother. Minjoo, since you trust and follow the producer the most, the producer… ….”

“Oh yes, I understand. Thank you for letting me know.”

I felt guilty.

For Jo Min-joo’s sake, I deliberately made her sue her mother, but

There was no excuse for hurting her feelings.

Tiriring—.

While I was walking to my dorm, I got a call on my smartphone.

He was the producer of a public broadcasting station that I contacted in advance.

There have been several cases where the political career of a successful politician has ended, and the shocking X-Files of a large company have even made the chairman of a large company personally apologize to the public.

… I was in charge of the exploration and tracking program from the [Idol Producing] Game.

“Yes, producer.”

-We are interviewing Jo Min-ju in Yeouido in an hour, right?

“Yes, that’s right.”

-Just in case, I hope you don’t think of promoting idol groups or Lucky Seven through our program.

“I know very well. “I will tell Minjoo to answer questions honestly.”

-Okay. Well, I’ll see you in an hour.

Perhaps because it is a program broadcast by the PD himself, a former journalist, with his face revealed.

He was extremely strict from start to finish….

Still, I couldn’t say anything because it had a lot of influence.

I took the elevator up to my accommodation.

It’s a short drive from here to Yeouido, so I’ll have a chat with Jo Min-ju before heading out.

“I waited, uncle.”

[Name: Jo Min-joo]

[Fatigue: 75]

Jo Min-ju opened the entrance to her dorm, and she stood leaning against the door frame.

Even without the status window, it looked like he was tired.

Gu Ga-eun must have calmed him down first, but it wasn’t crazy high.

In the afternoon, we went into the suites and sat side by side on the living room sofa.

When I saw her suffering because I had encouraged her mother, Jo Min-ju, I sighed deeply at her guilt.

“… I’m sorry, mister. “Things happened like this because of my mom.”

Jo Min-ju seemed to have misunderstood my sigh.

“That’s not it. “It’s just that I feel so sorry for putting Minju through such a difficult time.”

“What does Mr. Uncle have to feel sorry for me? Rather, I feel sorry for you….”

“I am more sorry.”

“…… You are also quite stubborn. “Then please comfort me.”

“How?”

“Please hug me.”

Jo Min-joo subtly places her hand on the inner skin of my thigh.

Because of her embarrassment, her saree was lifted and she gulped.

“Hey uncle, what were you thinking? “I just want a hug.”

“…… Minju, if you make fun of people too much, you won’t be able to use it.”

“It’s okay. I’m only doing it for you, and more than anything…. “Even if it’s what you think, I think it will comfort me.”

Jo Min-ju looked at me with a grin.

… When something like this happened, it felt like she was older than me, not ten years younger than me.

“Now, please do either one.”

Jo Min-ju spread her arms wide.

Actually, as a producer, it would be right to keep my distance from idols, let alone this type of skinship.

Still, I thought it would be nice if she could heal at least a little of the wounds she suffered because of me.

So carefully,

I hugged Jo Min-joo.

Caressing her soft black hair.

“We will overcome this together.”

“Yes, uncle…” !”