The Villainous Member Has Returned! Episode 92
At the same time.
Through the large TV installed in the lodging, Jeong Yeonu, who had been watching the final stage of the live broadcast of
“Haha, they’re dropping out, so why is their tongue so long… Truly fascinating.”
At the absurd scene on the screen, he let out a snicker without realizing it.
“Uh, Yeonu hyung. Do you know why that trainee is dropping out? Isn’t he AG?”
“Hmm.”
To the question of Juyeong, who was keeping by his side today as always, he lightly scrunched his nose once.
Certainly.
From the start, Jeong Yeonu had no reason to know much about a trainee named Liu Wei.
Because he wasn’t someone he could keep by his side and keep in line like the Sladix members.
All he knew was how Liu Wei danced, how his vocals were.
Furthermore, even how he treated the other trainees on screen.
‘They did cover it up somehow in the editing, but his attitude wasn’t exactly good. That was the extent of what I grasped from the screen.’
However, it was also true that there were parts which caught his attention.
Thanks to a certain trainee who had dyed his hair bright red, as if in rebellion against his suggestion to try dyeing it pink once.
“How can I get what I want from someone who doesn’t want my help?”
“…….”
“Although you said you would help me, the person who has what I want is someone else, haha. So I was hoping you could give me some advice….”
Though he feigned composure, he asked with a face full of tension. For someone as perceptive as Jeong Yeonu, it would have been stranger if he hadn’t sensed that something was brewing internally.
‘Really… quite naive.’
If it were Jeong Yeonu, rather than circling around to dig at the opponent’s weakness, he would have just smashed their face head-on with a crowbar.
Whether as a metaphor or for real.
Well, it was precisely because they were different in that regard that Jeong Yeonu had taken a liking to him.
Recalling the whining message that had arrived just yesterday—[wow thank you so so much for the song senior]—Jeong Yeonu smiled faintly and answered Juyeong.
“…Roughly speaking. No need to sympathize. It’s his own karma. I’m not really interested in people like that either.”
“…Urk.”
‘If hyung is talking like that, just how much of a scumbag move must he have pulled? He must really be something else.’
Juyeong, who flinched slightly, rolled his eyes frantically and spat out excuses that weren’t really excuses.
“No, well. I wasn’t thinking of pitying a trainee who hasn’t even debuted or anything… I’m saying this because you’re even watching the live broadcast, hyung. If it’s not because of him, why are you watching? It’s time to go to the studio now, normally.”
“Ah, I gave them a song as a gift. It’ll probably come up next.”
“Ah, a song gift… what?!”
Juyeong, who had been nodding nonchalantly trying to move on, belatedly realized the meaning of those words and couldn’t help but be shocked once more.
That Jeong Yeonu had given two songs he wrote himself to trainees who hadn’t even debuted?
‘When I asked for just one solo song from the last album, he said absolutely not!’
Suppressing the injustice that suddenly welled up inside, Juyeong treaded carefully and spoke in a roundabout manner so as not to rub Yeonu the wrong way.
“Th-those trainees must have seemed like they’d do well. If that’s the case, I can understand why you’d do that. Haha! That could happen!”
“Hmm, well. Honestly, I can’t guarantee it.”
“…Then why did you give them the song?”
However, after staring once at Juyeong, who eventually let out a disgruntled voice, Yeonu let out a soft sigh and ran his hand through his hair.
“Just….”
Because I thought it’d be fun.
And those cryptic words contributed to Juyeong’s complaints bursting out like rapid-fire.
“Hyung, you’ve been really… strange lately, you know. Not going out for drinks, changing your routine bit by bit! Is it because of that program?
“Go back to normal….”
Jeong Yeonu lightly chewed over the words Juyeong had spat out and turned his gaze back to the screen where a VCR was playing.
As the individual interview from the previously filmed mid-rank announcement flowed out, the face of Kim Chunyong from the days when his hair was still black, unlike now, appeared as well.
- “Haha, it’s nothing much, but I’m in 8th place. I’m not disappointed at all. Because I know there are fans who work hard for me. Rather, I think my role right now is to prepare a stage to repay them!”
- If so, what is trainee Kim Chunyong’s determination for the live broadcast where the rankings will be announced?
- “Of course, it’s debut. Through effort, and effort. I definitely….”
“…want to keep standing on stage….”
“Yeonu hyung, what? Do you remember that I was talking to you just now?”
“…Of course. Obviously.”
Yeonu, who had muttered the last line of the interview Kim Chunyong gave on screen, replied to Juyeong with a refreshing smile.
“If things go my way, I’ll maintain my current routine. Otherwise, well. I’ll go back to how I was before, as you wish.”
“…There’s never been a time when things didn’t go your way.”
“Right. That’s unfortunate news for you, Juyeong.”
Because Jeong Yeonu’s routine had changed in the first place, Juyeong was finding it hard to schedule dates with Billy.
‘Ah, honestly I’m sick of meeting only in the car now. I want to see each other outside too…!’
Juyeong, blinded by love and unable to even properly tell right from wrong, eventually groaned, “Ugh,” and scratched his cheek.
“…At least, can’t you tell me just what you’re thinking right now?”
“It’s not a difficult thing, but well. For now….”
After glancing once at Juyeong’s phone, which had been blinking continuously for a while, and once at the TV screen that was gradually darkening, Yeonu leaned his neck back comfortably against the sofa and closed his eyes.
“Let me just finish watching what I was watching.”
“What do you mean watch with your eyes closed, really?!”
And soon, the song he had written like a madman in the studio for days began to flow from beyond the screen.
“Ah, Yeonu hyeeung!”
“Hmm, hmm….”
Yeonu lightly ignored Juyeong’s scream-like non-scream and hummed along familiarly.
To him, this song was already on the verge of getting boring, but well.
The story that would unfold in the ensuing live broadcast was still of interest to him.
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The bomb Liu Wei dropped on the live broadcast caused considerable waves not only on site but also within SNS and online communities.
[Wait what’s with Liu Wei? Suddenly deciding on his own whether to drop out or not? He said it was health issues lolol I mean if a kid who’s supposedly not healthy gets on the final stage, that’s clearly a lie ;]
[⎿ Don’t you get it yet? He said he decided to get married to his fiancée]
[⎿ Seriously, I’ve gained great enlightenment. So that’s what it meant]
[⎿ Wow shit announcing marriage on the live broadcast stage ㄷㄷ that’s something you’d see in dramas, no? lolol]