Chapter 621: Chapter 620:

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: AgRoseCrystal

Chapter 620

Saturday morning.

Cocoa Entertainment.

“So, today,”

Ahn Da Ho paused for a moment and continued.

“Seo-jun and Tae-woo. How about you two go together?”

Gasp!

Choi Tae-woo’s sharp intake of breath was audible, and Ahn Da Ho smiled.

He suddenly remembered the first time he took charge of Seo-jun’s schedule. Back then, Seo-jun was still young and his parents accompanied him, but Seo-jun was now an adult who had even completed his military service, so it should be fine.

“You can stop by Seo-jun’s house to pick him up and then go to SBC.”

“Yes, yes.”

“I’ll be near the broadcasting station for another matter, so contact me right away if anything happens. There shouldn’t be any problem inside the broadcasting station, but the security team will be on standby as well.”

“Yes.”

Choi Tae-woo nodded with relief at the following explanation.

He felt nervous as he was about to do Seo-jun’s manager work for real.

“Then, I’ll leave Seo-jun to you. Tae-woo.”

“Yes! I’ll do my best!”

Choi Tae-woo answered stiffly, like a new recruit who had just joined the army.

***

On the way to the recording studio of [Jung Yu-na’s With You Right Now], passing through the SBC underground parking lot.

Choi Tae-woo was on high alert, his eyes blazing as he scanned the surroundings, and Seo-jun smiled softly as he watched him.

“Relax a bit. Tae-woo hyung.”

“Huh? I am relaxed.”

Your shoulders are so tense.

Seo-jun laughed again at Choi Tae-woo’s creaky movements.

“Why are you so nervous?”

“Well… I heard from the team 1 staff that the PDs might give us a hard time at the broadcasting station. But it’s quieter than I thought.”

Choi Tae-woo slowly relaxed his shoulders as he saw the quiet hallway. Seo-jun also tilted his head at the calm atmosphere of the broadcasting station. Ȑä

“That’s true. Maybe it’s because I’m with you.”

He realized that wasn’t the case when he arrived at the radio recording studio of [Jung Yu-na’s With You Right Now].

***

A little while ago. SBC broadcasting station.

[Jung Yu-na’s With You Right Now] radio recording studio.

The production team was busy moving around as the live broadcast was approaching.

The host of the live broadcast, singer Jung Yu-na, was restless and kept reading the script. No, she looked half out of it.

“Are you okay? Yu-na?”

“…No. Not at all. But it’s okay. I’ve been like this since the article came out last week.”

“Ha. Ha. Ha.”

She spoke with a not-okay-at-all expression, and the other production staff had similar faces. They also thought ‘…Is this a dream?’ every morning when they opened their eyes.

“There were a lot of articles today too.”

“It’s been like that all week. One promotional article leads to hundreds of times more articles. It’s a miraculous phenomenon.”

They didn’t even need to promote it themselves, as it was being promoted everywhere. It was an amazing buzz, making them understand why people preferred star marketing.

“There will be a lot of listeners since there’s a lot of promotion, but it’s okay if you make a little mistake. Just relax. We.”

“Yes!..We?”

“Actually, I’m also nervous and I might make a mistake too.”

Jung Yu-na smiled faintly at the sincere words of the PD.

“Then we’ll go buy some drinks and snacks!”

At the words of the youngest writer, the PD who was talking to Jung Yu-na quickly took out a card from his pocket. It was a card that the radio station director had handed over with a wide grin.

“Here’s the card. Buy everything you can.”

“Make sure you buy orange juice!”

They didn’t forget the drink that actor Lee Seo-jun liked.

“Yes!”

The youngest writer and staff took the card and left the recording studio, heading to the lobby on the first floor.

“…But why does it seem like there are a lot of people?”

“Right.”

There were people everywhere in the hallway today. They weren’t heading to a specific destination, but just strangely walking back and forth, circling around the same spot. And they were unfamiliar faces.

They weren’t radio station staff.

“

“It seems like that…”

They were people from the drama and variety departments.

The drama department PD who met the eyes of the two youngest smiled awkwardly and avoided their gaze. The PD’s hand was holding a fairly thick pile of paper. So were the others.

“Are those scripts?”

“Or variety show proposals.”

Like the director Min Hee-kyung’s story in [Flowing Away], they might have been thinking of sprinkling them on the steps of the precious guest who would arrive soon, while showing off their awkward acting and saying ‘Oops. Mistake.’

“A path of scripts instead of flowers… But they’ll be caught right away.”

“Right. The other party is actor Lee Seo-jun.”

They wondered if they were only showing bad things to the actor who had reached the top with his acting skills.

Like NPCs in a game, the drama and variety department people who were only moving in place passed by and they tried to get on the elevator, but the elevator stopped. Oh! They were happy, but the two youngest who were about to get on the elevator stopped and backed away.

The wild drama department director and variety department director appeared from inside the elevator.

“Eek!”

A sound of inhaling sharply was heard.

“The broadcasting station is doing well.”

“What are you all doing here?”

The two directors looked around the staff with displeased eyes, and the youngest writer and staff quietly held their breath and shrank their bodies. They were scared, even though they weren’t their bosses.

The drama department director frowned and said.

“Don’t ruin the image of the broadcasting station for nothing and go back quickly.”

“But if we only cast Lee Seo-jun…”

“And the manager is new too…”

“Buts and ifs. You came here to record the radio, but you’re all crowding here and asking him to appear on your shows, or read them once. How do you think Lee Seo-jun would feel? What about his agency?”

“And if the manager is new, what? Do you think you can easily persuade Lee Seo-jun? Did you forget that he has 15 years of experience?”

The sharp words of the variety department director made them all lower their eyes.

“No matter how much Lee Seo-jun has a lot of decision power, there’s an order. How do you think he’ll feel if you don’t go through your own people and contact him directly?”

“The ones below who would make a fuss if they did that…”

The two directors trailed off and sighed at the sight of the deflated staff. They didn’t feel good. It was all for the sake of the broadcast, right? To be honest, the two directors were also tempted.

“You two over there.”

“Yes? Yes!?”

“Are you the staff of J.D.H.?”

“Yes! We are!”

The two youngest staff members, who were suddenly called out, stiffened and answered.

“Then can you deliver this to actor Lee Seo-jun’s manager?”

“Huh?”

If the method was wrong, they could change it.

The drama department director gathered a few scripts that the PDs were holding and handed them over to the youngest writer. The young writer blinked his eyes at the heavy weight. Oh, the entertainment department director, who exclaimed in admiration, quickly brought some proposals. The PDs, who were only showing question marks, quickly gathered the papers they were holding in one place.

Soon, the piles of paper were all in the hands of the youngest staff members.

“Then I’ll leave it to you.”

“Huh?”

As the two directors got on the elevator and disappeared, the PDs became noisy.

“Please do me a favor.”

“Put ours on top!”

“Should I color the front page? To make it stand out.”

“Pen… Anyone has a pen!”

A moment later.

The PD, who went out to look for the youngest staff members as if he had gone to an orange farm to pick oranges, blinked his eyes at the sight of the youngest staff members holding piles of paper in both hands and making a gloomy face. (Other PDs also came after hearing the story.)

***

“I gathered them here because it would be uncomfortable if many people came.”

The PD, who hid the detailed behind-the-scenes story for the image of the broadcasting station, said to Seo-jun and Choi Tae-woo, who nodded their heads at the piles of paper stacked on the table. It would have taken a long time to walk down the hallway just to exchange greetings, let alone this many casting requests.

“I’ll move this to the car later. Seo-jun.”

“Yes.”

Seo-jun, who was looking at the scripts with satisfaction, nodded his head at Choi Tae-woo’s words.

***

After having a brief meeting with the production team and Jung Yu-na, Seo-jun entered the recording studio with DJ Jung Yu-na as the live broadcast time approached. In Seo-jun’s hand was the orange juice that the production team gave him.

“You can wear headphones if you feel comfortable.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Seo-jun, who hung a white headphone around his neck, looked around. The radio recording studio had a similar atmosphere to the singer team’s recording studio, but it felt brighter and wider. Cameras were also visible here and there.

There were three pop-up windows on the monitor on the desk, one of which was a notepad where the scripts that the production team and writers outside the recording studio would show to Seo-jun and DJ Jung Yu-na would come up, another was YouTube where the live video would be uploaded to the YouTube channel [SBC], and the last one was the SBC radio app.

When Seo-jun was looking around the radio recording studio, the production team of [J.D.H.] also looked at Seo-jun with a curious face.

“Is this not a movie shooting?”

“Right. It feels like I’m watching a movie.”

They couldn’t believe the sight of Seo-jun sitting behind the large glass window. They felt like they were still wandering in a dream or they had come to watch a movie.

“But is that headphone ours? The design looks different.”

Something, it felt luxurious.

Was it because Seo-jun was wearing it? The main writer tilted his head, and the PD answered with a smile.

“It came in this morning. Thanks to actor Lee Seo-jun. That’s a very expensive brand.”

“Ah.”

The main writer nodded his head.

When this broadcast went out, it would be a sure-fire advertisement effect as ‘Lee Seo-jun’s headphones’.

But the PD’s words were not over yet.

“I also changed the microphone.”

“…Yes?”

“Doesn’t the sound quality differ? The previous one was a good microphone, but this one was better. And I also changed the monitor, desk, and chair. You can just think that I changed everything in the recording studio. You don’t know how hard it was to work this morning.”

“Heh.”

The writers’ mouths opened wide at the nodding staff.

“…There’s no separate billboard.”

“It’s actor Lee Seo-jun. He just has to wear it and it will cause a sold-out frenzy.”

At the praise and admiration of the production team, Choi Tae-woo, who was reporting to the 1st team and director Ahn Da Ho about the piles of paper on the table, chuckled.

***

A video popped up on the YouTube channel [SBC].

[Visible Radio/Jung Yu-na’s With You Right Now(with actor Lee Seo-jun)]

-It’s out!!!

People who were waiting for the live broadcast rushed in. But when they clicked, there was only a message saying that it was preparing on the still black video.

-When does it start?

-10 o’clock! There is still time left.

-I’m waiting with the portal clock.

-I’m watching it connected to the TVㅎㅎㅎ

-22 You have to watch the good thing big and clear.

-Watching Seo-jun live…I’m so happyㅠㅠ

-I wish he would do YouTube live sometimes.

-That’s

-Can I send a text?

-2 You can, but you won’t see it.

-33 It would be like a grain of sand on the beach.

-But why are you all here? SBC radio app?

-It’s already broken. There’s no sign of recovery.

-

Jung Yu-na read the YouTube comments that appeared on the monitor. At this speed, she thought she could see one or two in her eyes even if she couldn’t read them all…

‘…Why did it get so fast?’

As the live broadcast time approached, the speed of the comments increased.

She couldn’t read anything as the comments passed by. Jung Yu-na looked at the production team sitting outside the recording studio with trembling eyes. But the production team seemed to be flustered by the speed beyond their imagination.

Seo-jun also looked at the comment window.

-I’m being swept away~~~

-I can’t see it either, and Seo-jun won’t be able to see it eitherㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ(Not funny)

-W-h-a-t???

-Save me~~~

-I can see the hearts♡♡♡

-I just came in and what is thisㅋㅋㅋㅋ(Not funny)

-It’s good enough that the broadcast doesn’t break.

“It’s good enough that the broadcast doesn’t break.”

“…Can you see that?”

Jung Yu-na blinked her eyes at Seo-jun’s words. The production team outside also heard it and looked surprised.

“I have a good dynamic vision. I can’t read everything, but I can read some.”

Actually, he could read them all.

Wow, Jung Yu-na admired Seo-jun’s smile and continued.

“I’ll read the comments.”

“Then I’ll ask you a favor. You don’t have to read them all, just a few short ones. If you have any impressive comments, you can read them too.”

[We will help you too.]

Seo-jun nodded his head at Jung Yu-na and the production team’s words. In the meantime, the YouTube chat window was updated quickly.

[The live broadcast will start soon. It’s okay to make a little mistake, so please talk comfortably with Yu-na and Seo-jun.]

“Yes.”

“I understand.”

DJ Jung Yu-na and Seo-jun, who answered with a smile at the PD’s words, waited for the broadcast to start.

[3 seconds]

[2 seconds]

The red electronic clock in the recording studio changed by one second following the voice of the production team.

[09:59:59]

[10:00:00]

The opening music of [Jung Yu-na’s With You Now] flowed out, and Seo-jun’s first radio broadcast began.