If You Raise Three Idols Well, They Will Confess Their Love

68 – You’re Handsome

Episode 68

Winter, who was sitting in the passenger seat, chattering her teeth and shaking, spoke carefully.

“… Teacher Taeyang, why don’t you think again? No matter how much I think about it, I think Autumn and Summer will do better than me.”

Oh my, we’re the real deal.

When Winter first said that, I approached cautiously.

I felt sorry for Winter’s trauma and the resulting lack of confidence in her. Because that child is a child with such pain.

That’s why she went into her reasons one by one and logically convinced me why she should participate in Girls’ 100.

She was not burdened by the repetition.

But that also takes a day or two.

Have some faith. Winter, I have to drag you along. But what if it stays like this until the day of recording?

I started to go to extreme lengths as if everything would happen.

“Winter, why would I send you here when it is neither fall nor summer?”

“I was the only one who filmed my ugly side, so I used that to fool the writers with an entertainment character and provide a dramatic contrast on stage?”

… Why do you do that when you know exactly that?

“There is that, but the important thing is an even simpler fact.”

“… What is that?”

“It’s just because you’re the best.”

“… ?”

Winter looked at me as her body continued to tremble.

“It’s the best?”

There was anxiety and weak anticipation in that gaze.

“… Are you saying that from an objective perspective? Are you speaking from Teacher Taeyang’s subjective perspective?”

She looked at me with a slight twinkle, and as she continued, I began to feel discouraged.

“… Haha, of course it’s just empty words. “I’m sorry.”

Even Winter seems to know that this is an excessive compliment.

I would like to say that it was objectively the best, but I felt like that would be interpreted as a declaration to cheer me up.

For the first time in a while, I need to speak out.

“Everyone cannot see things objectively. Even if each person is confident that he or she will look at things objectively, as their accumulated experience and knowledge are different, they end up evaluating things based on their own subjective objectivity.”

“…”

“In that sense, my objective view is that you look best in winter.”

Winter’s body her stiffened.

There was no more trembling.

“Am I the best for Team Leader Sun?”

“Yes, you are the best. That is my objective and subjective.”

“… “Am I the best of Teacher Taeyang?”

Winter, whose face had turned red, suddenly turned blue again and her hands trembled.

And he muttered in a voice I couldn’t hear.

“… That shouldn’t happen … “Autumn has to help her older sister.”

It looked more unstable than ever.

No, I was just saying this to tell you to relax, but why is my condition getting worse?

Did the extreme praise actually increase the burden?

I thought it couldn’t go on like this, so I parked the car, went into a cafe, and bought Gyeoli’s favorite banana mocha cream frappuccino.

We left with 2 hours to spare before recording, so there was plenty of time for this.

“Eat, winter. “When I eat something sweet, I feel a little more relaxed.”

Winter carefully accepted the Frappuccino and spoke with clearer eyes than before.

I felt like I was able to control my mind a bit while I was alone in the car.

“Sorry. Teacher Taeyang. I swore I wouldn’t show up like this anymore… “I think I’m a really bad person to deny it even though you trusted me.”

Winter hid her slightly shaking hands and looked into my eyes and said.

“It will be different in the future. Not as a timid and dependent Midwinter, but as a talented child whom Teacher Taeyang trusts. I will become the kind of person who can handle things on his own without Teacher Taeyang worrying too much. So that I can pay more attention to Gaeul and Yeoreum.”

“It’s okay if you don’t have to do it yourself.”

“… Yes?”

Why do you try to do it alone when there are people next to you?

The only time you have to be strong on your own is when there is no one around.

“I can’t figure it out myself. My daily routine is to do this and that and leave the cleanup to the boss or Suyeon.”

It was organized like this because they helped when recruiting Gaeul and when negotiating with Baekho Jin at Jingang. Thinking that I would do everything on my own was an arrogance that I had only after returning. I’m not that great of a person.

“So let’s lean on each other a little.” If I lean, winter, you will push me, and if you slip, I will lend you my back. “We’ve done so well so far, right?”

“… I’m not the one who did well. “I was just waiting.”

“I was able to come this far because you supported me.”

Winter. You were my beginning.

“Do you remember when we first met? You said that Winter needed someone to have your back. When I think about it now, I think I needed someone like that back then.”

After meeting Winter and being strangely drawn to it, I met Cheon A-ram, Seo Soo-yeon, Gaeul, Yeoreum, Hye-rin, Seok Hyun-woo, and Song Yo-han.

I changed after meeting them, I couldn’t change, and I didn’t change.

And here I am now.

If I hadn’t met winter right after the return, all of these encounters wouldn’t have happened.

And he must have become a twisted person who was crazy about the strange compensation mentality and only wanted to be above others.

I may have made a little more money, but it wouldn’t have been a good look from the side.

“I like who I am now. And the reason is because I met you.”

Winter looked blankly at me saying that and said.

“Teacher Taeyang must be happy.”

A smile came out from her simple words

How can you hate a child who talks like that?

“Thank you.”

I stroked her hair carefully so as not to damage it.

Winter spoke softly as she closed her eyes and felt my touch.

“… I will make it like that. Definitely.”

***

“How was the intro interview?”

“Ah… “First of all, I don’t think I said anything controversial.”

“Okay, that’s a good thing.”

How much entertainment can be shown in a simple scene where one enters the hallway alone, declares one’s intentions, and says, “Choose your girl.”

As long as you don’t miss your lines or have any accidents, you’ll be successful.

“But I was a little surprised that there were a lot more cameras than I expected.”

“If it airs live, there will be more than that, right?”

“… Wow.”

It was the most painful elasticity in the world.

“But you can do well when the actual broadcast goes on, right?”

“Me?”

“Yes, you.”

The winter I saw was strong in actual combat.

“You’ve never been nervous when you had to dance and sing. “The interview with Cheon Jong-hoon before, or the work at the orphanage.”

She said, slightly twisting one side of her hair as if she were embarrassed.

“When I dance or sing something, I don’t notice other people’s eyes. … No, it looks like a person, but should I say it doesn’t feel like a person?”

Winter said it as if it was no big deal, but it was a very good way to think about overcoming stage fright.

“Do you look like a talking potato like people on stage usually talk?”

“It’s not a talking potato, it just looks like a 2D character.”

“… Oh yeah, that’s amazing.”

I felt like something was a little different, but I thought it wouldn’t matter if it was okay with me.

“But I still feel nervous unless I’m dancing or singing!”

“Hmm… , Then let’s look at it as a 2D character even in everyday life when it is not dancing or singing. Then you won’t be nervous.”

“… Uh, I’ve never done it consciously?”

“If you are already doing it unconsciously, just a little bit of motivation is enough to do it. “Don’t think too hard about it. Let’s try it with myself now.”

“Oh… , Yes. “I’ll give it a try.”

Winter seemed to have listened to me seriously, glaring at me with her eyebrows pressed together.

It seemed like he was concentrating hard, but he just looked cute.

Anyway, he didn’t seem nervous.

I asked because I thought it would have some effect.

“What do you think?”

“… “You’re handsome.”

“… Oh, okay, thank you.”

Winter. I am grateful, but all I can think of is that he is in trouble if he has to flatter a 16-year-old.

At that time, the door to the waiting room burst open.

It looks like other trainees and managers assigned to the waiting room here have come in.

“Hello!” Two Bear Enter, it’s midwinter!”

Winter reflexively bowed at 90 degrees as if she had been trained in advance.

His reflex speed was so great that I thought he might be talented at sports.

Anyway, I was satisfied because I didn’t think I would be called unfriendly anywhere.

I also turned my head after her and said hello briefly.

“Hello. Sun Tae-yang, who holds the title of team leader at Two Bear Entertainment…”

While I was greeting politely, I stopped for a moment.

There was a face there that I could never forget.

“Haha, nice to meet you. This is Flower Entertainment’s manager Bae Sang-cheol, who is accompanying trainee Oh Yuri this time. Thank you very much.”

It was Ban Sang-cheol who achieved first place in contribution rate in stabbing me in the back in the previous episode.