≫ I’m hungry

People living alone don’t have aged kimchi lying around....

And if I want a bunch of winter spinach, I have to put on a long padded coat and walk to the grocery store....

└ They only used what was already there, but it looked insanely goodㅠㅠ That kimchi colorㅠㅠㅠㅠ

└ The ssamjang looked incredibleㅠㅠ Aren’t they sharing the recipe????

└ Go check Woo Yoonjae’s Insta! He’s uploading the recipe step by step right nowㅋㅋㅋ

≫ I really liked how nobody slacked off on this week’s Let’s Eat Together

Iwol’s always like that anyway, but Yoonjae and Jahan sunbaes were seriously unexpectedㅋㅋ

I thought Gu Jahan would be prickly, but he’s just a down-to-earth workhorse, and Yoonjae is... just unbelievably gentle....

Them making ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) a sled just to pull the youngest around was hilarious too

And they kept eating sweet potatoes

Constantly

└ Sweet potatoesㅋㅋㅋㅋ They seriously ate them the entire time. Except for Kim Iwol, the other two literally carried sweet potatoes around like hand warmers

└ I hope Woo Yoonjae appears on more variety shows please

└ The way they poured hot water over each other’s hands while washing dishes because the water was icy was so warmㅠㅠ Just the two of them standing there completely filled up the kitchen and it was hilarious

└└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋMaybe because they’re actors, they’re all so lankyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

≫ The conversation topics all three of them share are weirdly similar

And wholesome

Exercise, supplements, memorizing scripts, exercise, supplements again....

└ And among them, the youngest works out the most

└ By a landslide

└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

≫ Collection of Let’s Eat Together Kim Iwol youngest-member moments for people who love them!!

All the sunbaes showed up in thick padded coats while he alone wore a regular coat, so he got wrapped in a borrowed scarf

After bringing hoes to the sunbaes, he realized there wasn’t one left for him and ended up digging sweet potatoes by hand in the corner

They told him to bring back just a little firewood, but he returned carrying a rubber basin filled to the brim

Melting on the heated floor

Sweet potatoes

Sweet potato rice nom

Giving handwritten letters to the sunbaes at night

Getting scolded first thing in the morning for going out jogging

Cabbage wraps nom

Sweeping the wooden floor

Sewing up his sunbae’s ripped pants

└ There’s not even an explanation for the sweet potatoesㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ “Sweet potato rice nom”ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ But honestly nothing explains it betterㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ Since when did our cool-type elite eldest hyung become a giant baby tree stump

└└ I’m not even joking, this is the first time I’ve seen fans give their idol a nickname like giant baby tree stump

└└└ Sparklers just call them whatever pops into their heads....ㅋㅋㅋ

└└└└ The official names are already things like “Cutie Pretty Visually” and “Center Emperor”

└└└└└ How are those official namesㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

≫ Kim Iwol go to sleep already!!!!

Seongbin-ah!!!!!!!

└ @ Seongbin-ah!!!!!!!!!!!

└ Sparklers have now chosen to summon the leader instead of writing long lectures

└ Fastest and most effective method.

└ He’s the type who always comes out and does something whenever there’s an overnight shoot, but the fact that he stayed perfectly still because Jahan sunbae said cold air would come in was cuteㅠㅠ

≫ Am I the only one noticing the difference in attitude depending on the project they worked on together

Manager-Young Master: comfortable / they take amazing care of each other / the manager keeps trying to fuss over the young master like he’s some delicate greenhouse flower, but the young master’s already become too competent an adult and just handles everything himself

Team Leader-Employee: formal / it’s obvious they aren’t unfriendly and the superior is like “Hooh...... quite the capable employee,” but the subordinate alone is acting like “How does the professor know my name?”

└ Best comparison of the yearㅋㅋㅋ

└ Aren’t In My Office or Exclusive Report getting season 2sㅠㅠ

└ Exclusive Report would probably be difficultㅋ큐ㅠㅜㅠ The ending was completely closed off

The unconventional combination I’d worried might end up awkward had turned out to be a success. Everyone loved this gathering of simple-hearted people who nevertheless took food more seriously than anyone else in the world.

There were even arguments breaking out between people wanting us to invite guests next time—Choi Jeho was mentioned overwhelmingly often—and people insisting they wanted just the three of us together again. Personally, I’d go if they invited me. As long as they didn’t tell me to bring Jang Junho.

≫ Iwol’s age gap with his older sister is huge

Eight years....

└ Wouldn’t that mean she’s already thirty-one

└ So she’s spent thirty years not even knowing she had a younger brother.... damn

≫ It’s already hard enough finding someone who does resemble a person, so how are you supposed to find someone who doesn’t resemble themㅠㅠ

└ Didn’t he just mean he had a feeling they wouldn’t look alike?

└ The guy who can identify other people’s ancestral hometowns isn’t going to fail at recognizing his own sister’s face

└└ That’s... persuasive!

There were a lot of posts mentioning my sister too. Even my speculative comments had gained considerable credibility because of the things I’d shown until now. You really never knew how life was going to turn out.

After spending our time eating and messing around at the filming site, recording day was suddenly right around the corner. I started rolling like a hoop again, endlessly spinning from task to task. Since this was a concept I’d pushed forward myself, I couldn’t just dump it on everyone else and pretend ignorance.

I was still the person who understood best how to present Spark in the coolest possible way, so until people started saying Kim Iwol’s sense had completely died, I had no choice but to work myself to the bone.

Kang Giyeon was in the same situation. He nearly tore his hair out trying to choreograph something that fit the new concept, which was even more vicious than “MISSION.”

"Hyung, this is absolutely getting flagged by the review board." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Is it?"

It didn’t help that our collaboration partner happened to be Choi Jeho, a walking censorship violation.

Is this even going to make it to broadcast....

Watching Choi Jeho and Kang Giyeon yell at each other nonstop made it painfully obvious that we’d be suffering for a while.

Even amid the chaos, there was good news too. The biggest was Lee Cheonghyeon getting accepted into university.

At first, he didn’t say a word about whether he’d passed or failed. Even though everyone obviously knew it was announcement day, he didn’t even look at his phone or laptop.

Not that there was any chance the result would be bad. I’d checked the acceptance cutoff ages ago.

"Cheonghyeon, aren’t you checking the acceptance page? You need to confirm the registration period."

You’ll end up like me if you let your guard down. I warned him with the desperation of someone coughing up blood, and his expression turned strange.

"Ah, right, I should!"

Then he immediately ran over to Kang Giyeon, who was still in the middle of a brutal battle with Choi Jeho. The reason for his weird behavior came from someone else’s mouth instead.

"Well...."

Even Jeong Seongbin hesitated heavily while saying it.

"I think he’s worried it might look like he’s bragging too much."

"Why shouldn’t he brag? It’s an achievement he earned through his own effort."

Jeong Seongbin looked troubled. I only understood why a moment later.

"Ah."

They felt uncomfortable celebrating university acceptance in front of me, the person whose own admission had vanished because I’d failed to register. Even though none of it had been their fault.

"Cheonghyeon has to get accepted or my college admissions consulting portfolio disappears."

"Would an idol even need a portfolio like that...? Though maybe...? Hmm."

Jeong Seongbin, who had various idol moral standards drilled into him, was eventually persuaded by me. I even assigned him the extremely important mission of helping his younger member stop walking on eggshells.

A few hours later, Lee Cheonghyeon appeared proudly wearing the acceptance certificate printed from the office attached to his forehead.

"Didn’t I tell you not to stick random things to your face?!"

Literally! To his forehead! I had no idea what he’d even used to attach it!

"It’s attached over the headband, hyung!"

"I told you to completely avoid anything that could leave marks on your face unless absolutely necessary!"

"The mark from the band disappears after a little while...."

"Don’t! Put! Pressure! On! Your! Skin!"

If that fluttering acceptance certificate scratched his face, I’d never be able to face the fans. While I stood there unable to do anything, Lee Cheonghyeon laughed hysterically for a long time before finally taking off the band.

"So where did you get accepted?"

"Wow, so nobody actually listened to me."

Lee Cheonghyeon sounded impressed by Choi Jeho’s indifference.

Though honestly, did you need to hear it? I already recognized the logo.

"You’ve got tuition money, right?"

"I do."

"If you don’t, tell me. I’ve got emergency savings. If your account has transfer limits, raise them in advance too."

"I have it! I said I have it! You saw the settlement statement!"

"Pay the tuition no matter what and keep records of it. Call the admissions office before the deadline passes and confirm too. Seongbin and Juu both did the exact same thing."

"Okay, okay."

Lee Cheonghyeon completed his preparations to become a proper freshman.

Spring was coming.

"Let’s check the footage!"

At the cinematographer’s words, all of us rushed over to the monitor. The screen glittered brilliantly. Even a jewelry store advertisement wouldn’t sparkle this much.

"This scene was storyboarded as a group shot, right? But I think it might also work if we frame it only up to the bust. It’d be a waste to shoot it only from far away when the outfit details and composition look this good."

"If the directors are okay with it, should we at least try filming it?"

The directors who’d worked with us on “End” and “On A High Note” were with us again this time. Apparently they’d even posted on Insta saying the rainy ocean scene had become a career-defining work for them, and they’d really wanted to film this storyboard too.

Even though this music video doesn’t really have the same narrative symbolism or layered meaning as before?

They got attached to the title.

And then Jukyung showed me the final storyboard she’d passed along to the directors....

[Music video created solely to show the most beautiful scenes in the world]

They used that without changing it?!

We figured there wasn’t any copy that captured the core concept better than that.

...The temporary document title I’d written down as a placeholder had gone through completely unchanged. Thanks to that, my embarrassment stat had risen another level.

They said they’re going to film it with everything they’ve got!

Jukyung winked at me.

Because I’d somehow survived dying of embarrassment back then, I was now still alive and filming this dazzlingly extravagant music video. Stay strong, me.

"Let’s keep moving. We need to shoot as much as possible while there’s still natural light."

At the PD’s signal, everyone returned to their places.

Sunlight filtered through the luxurious gold lace curtains, illuminating the golden set brilliantly.