Chapter 251 – #36. Round (6)
After spending the night with Bok-soon noona, I was so busy that 24 hours was not enough to prepare for the musical for several days.
On the night after the meeting, the members gathered together to watch the first season of the Immortal Empire, and discussed how to express and act in a musical.
The time of 4 days went by so quickly.
“I’m getting pretty sick now.”
“I was worried that this would happen because we were running out of time, or that we might be too greedy, but it worked.”
“What can I do? You can do it.”
Preparing for this, we were also very anxious.
It was a preparation process that I wasn’t sure if I could really do in two weeks.
Our dedicated team members helped a lot, but PD Pie’s help was a big help in making the musical a success.
It’s great that I talked to the place that holds the copyright for the Immortal Empire and got permission, but they introduced me to an expert who directs the musical so I could get help.
‘I didn’t know that actively asking for help from the production team would mean this.’
In the first round stage, rather than getting help from the production team, it was more about preparing the stage with our own strength.
Of course, it wasn’t without the help of the production team at all.
In the first round, I received 10% help, but in the second round, I received more than 40% help.
I heard that I could ask for help from the production team, but I didn’t know what they could do for me, but there was a great talent hiding among the production staff.
“Now, all we have to do is practice hard, right?”
“Huh. The costumes have been made, the music has been arranged, and the lines have come out, so the really difficult thing will start now.”
“Let’s work really hard. Doesn’t that sound like a lot of fun? I already get excited when I think of performing on stage.”
Although we received help from many people, we can’t help but look forward to it because we made the framework of the musical stage.
All the members were so sincere on this stage that I wondered what would have happened if I hadn’t done Astar.
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“Hey guys!!!”
Time is not enough even if you put all your mind into the musical stage.
Unfortunately, something unexpected happened.
“Why is that, sister?”
The manager sister showed up making a fuss about her and disrupted her practice.
“I got a call from Olivia Tree!!”
“Why over there?”
“That is what I want to ask. Suddenly, they asked me to work on a song with you guys.”
At the mention of song work, an incident from a few days ago came to mind.
“I heard you were talking about it, right?”
“I did hear the offer. But it has already been rejected.”
“Did you turn it down?! Why?”
“It might be beneficial if we lose, but if we win, there’s no reason to release a song with Olivia Tree.”
“It is, but…”
There is also no guarantee that we will win.
Manager noona licks her lips as if she was very disappointed.
“Then what are you going to do if your eyes meet with that one?”
“Omg! Are you really going to?”
“Because that’s what you suggested. There will be a scandal if you accept that, do you like that?”
“No way!”
He had already been entangled with a woman and had a lot of trouble.
“Look, anyway, so I said it over there. If we win and lose, we will work together. We’ll win, so there’s nothing to do with them.”
“!!!!!”
The manager sister’s eyes grow like her frogs.
“He, did you make such a provocation? Did you really say that?”
“Sure. I said everything without missing a word.”
“Why are you proud!! No, since you’ve heard that before, what else are you proposing?”
“It was kind of like that at the time. How should I say, a battle of pride?”
“Don’t say anything to your brother. I mean, you said something unpleasant about it first.”
“What was the situation? Tell me in detail That way, the agency also has a sense of how to respond.”
When we explained what the Olivia Tree members were doing to us that day and what their intentions were when they asked us to release a song together, our manager sister’s eyes lit up.
“Nice job, my kids!! In the future, if someone comes out that way, do the same!”
“Is that really okay?”
“Yes!!”
The manager’s older sister announced that they were doing such a trick to seduce us, and said that she would come back, and she disappeared like an improvement general.
Thinking things would go well until then, we were happy and focused on practicing again.
There was a member who was awkward with acting, so it was a situation where I made the amount in such a way that I sang for that member.
“Musicals are not easy. I have to act and sing…”
“Someone is coming to see you tomorrow. Ask him anything you want and ask him for help.”
“We were the idiots who said we would do this in two weeks.”
After preparing for the musical in earnest, I felt keenly that it would only be a musical at the level of a school art festival if we did it ourselves.
Even before the practice started, preparations came faster than expected, and they were elated, saying, “We seem to be geniuses!”.
‘It was to the point that I called the director in a hurry, thinking that we couldn’t complete it alone.’
Fortunately, I decided to take the time to come and help.
In order not to be criticized by the director tomorrow, I had to practice really hard today.
If one of the members is lacking, we will all be criticized for guilt-by-association, so we actively practiced giving each other feedback.
Unfortunately, the director’s visit was delayed the next day.
It wasn’t that the director had a problem, it was something that happened on our side.
“Wow~ That’s ridiculous.”
“Why are we so eventful?”
“I’m not dating women!! Please leave us alone!”
“If I had to say people I meet all day long, they’re the only ones!!”
It is none other than the scandalous article that is bothering us like this.
I’ve never met a woman separately, but the article went out.
After understanding the situation, the scandalous partner provided an excuse.
What I’m more excited about here is the opponent with the scandal.
[Olivia, I get excited every day at the thought of meeting him. Who is the demonic man who made her fall in love with her?]
[Olivia Asian this time? It’s been 2 months since I broke up with my cohabitant! Already have eyes on another man?]
[Meet her new boyfriend, Amazing Star.]
[Olivia, are you infatuated with an Asian man? Love call continues. “I want to sing with that man.”]
“From the article, I think her older brother and Olivia are already dating.”
“Isn’t this completely intentional?”
“You said you wouldn’t make a song together, maliciously?”
“Yes!! You can’t get in the way like this! Totally annoying!”
Ki Woo-yeon stamped her feet and couldn’t hide her resentment.
The subjects of the scandal were ‘Olivia’ of Olivia Tree and ‘Haesol Jin’ of Airplane.
Olivia’s side blatantly interviewed me saying that she liked me, so there was a sensational article.
In an interview, she said ‘I like Airplane Jin Hae-sol’, but the reporter understood her comment as ‘I’m dating Airplane Jin Hae-sol’.
To be honest, if I were a reporter and did an interview like that, I would have caused a scandal.
That’s why it’s so blatantly expressive.
“Haa~ Don’t you know that you hate it even more when you approach it like this?”
“It’s not an article, it’s a novel, a novel. I wrote a novel in the news.”
Numerous articles of my photos and Olivia were uploaded, and after checking people’s reactions, it was not a good situation for us.
It was clear that negative articles like this would have a negative impact in the situation ahead of the viewer vote.
“All kinds of aggro was attracted.”
In particular, male fans who like Olivia Tree did not stay still.
“It was a mistake on the other side, but why does my brother have to curse? It’s so unfair!!”
“Is there anything on the other side? Even if you do something like this? Aren’t you supposed to apologize?”
“It must have seemed easy enough for us to do this.”
“Noonaaaaa sister!! Sisters and sisters!!!!!”
The members eventually ran to the manager noona.
I went to the manager noona to see if things were serious, and Yeonju noona was there too.
“Omg! Director!”
“Oh, hello.”
“Welcome. Are you distracted by the scandal?”
The members behaved modestly like a conditioned reflex when Yeon-joo sister appeared.
Seeing her for the first time in a while, she was still a charismatic woman.
“When can I submit a rebuttal article?”
“I’m so curious to see how things are going.”
The manager noona, who noticed Yeonjoo noona at the words of the members, said.
“We were discussing how to respond now.”
“If it’s a meeting like that, can’t we join in? It is right to have a meeting with the person concerned.”
Nam-Gyu’s question was answered by Yeon-Joo’s older sister.
“I didn’t call because I knew you were busy with practice. However, it seems that the practice was not going on because of the scandal. Come and sit down It’s more comfortable when there is a person involved.”
With Yeonjoo’s permission, the members huddled together and occupied one side of the conference room.
Once we are seated, the meeting begins again.
“They seem to be downplaying the scandal on the other side. What is it like? I feel like, but this is actually a cultural difference, so I think it will be difficult to get them to understand. Moreover, the scandal is not entirely harmful to us.”
“Why not harm? Haesol’s image has suffered greatly from this scandal.”
At the words of the staff member, Yeon Joo pointed out with fierce eyes.
The employee swallowed a gulp and answered Yeon-joo’s question.
“Because the scandal has been a pretty good boon to our group, which lacks recognition. It’s the Olivia Tree fans who are swearing at this scandal. The rest are curious about Olivia’s new boyfriend.”
“So.”
“The agency said they didn’t think this scandal was important, so they plan to respond by saying they have nothing to say about the artist’s private life. In the end, it is our responsibility to settle the matter, and if we issue a refutation article, the fuss will end, but in this case, there is nothing to gain from our side. This scandal grew because interest in Amazing Star shifted to contestants Olivia and Haesol.”
The key point the employee was saying was that a good opportunity to raise awareness may not come again.
“Are you trying to drag the scandal a little further?”
“Haesol is not a scandalous opponent, and Olivia Tree can rather elevate her image. I may be insulted for a moment now, but Olivia’s image isn’t bad. First of all, I have a clear image of being the daughter of a rich family, and I don’t play dirty, so my relationship with men is neat.”
Sister Yeonjoo’s expression was getting colder, but the staff didn’t give up on what to say even as she gulped down her saliva.
Perhaps that employee will never know.
That Yeonjoo’s sister was shaking violently between ‘Gong’ and ‘Sa’.
‘Yeonju sister is more jealous than I thought.’
Actually, it’s not once or twice that I almost had a scandal with a woman.
Various celebrities picked me as their ideal type and mentioned me as a man they want to date, and there were many women who said they wanted to date me.
There were even people who pretended to have a deep friendship by exaggerating the relationship they met casually.
Even though there have been so many flirtations, the fact that it didn’t become a serious problem was thanks to the agency’s handling of the media.
‘What if an agency that handles the media well uses a scandal?’
It’s not like the employee took a risk and made a suggestion.
There seems to be a definite benefit, but it would have been a waste to give up.
It was all too common in the entertainment industry to raise awareness by causing a scandal with a low-profile side with a high-profile side.
It was an obvious tactic, but nonetheless it was still effective enough to be used.
“Anyway, denying the scandal right now doesn’t get much attention. Olivia and Haesol are already entangled in people’s minds. How many people will readily agree to a refutation article, saying, “Oh, that’s right?”
“…”
“The other side threw shit at us, and it’s a situation where you can’t even protest, isn’t it annoying? Even if he publishes an article refuting the scandal, Hae-sol is already a killer for Olivia Tree fans.”
