TL by Myoni
Edited by Myoni & Yoni
No, I can’t let it go on like this. I can’t let all my preparations go to waste.
“My brother is 10 years older than me.”
Hyunjo sighed as he heard my words.
“So you’re the youngest by a large age gap. Being the youngest with such a large age difference, you must have gotten pretty spoiled growing up. Then this kind of work would be hard for you…”
It was a common misconception.
You must have been well-cared for. Everyone must have spoiled you. I can tell you’re the young master type just by looking at you. You probably don’t have any guts.
Comments like these. I had heard plenty of them in the army.
However, I found this unfair.
“My brother married when I was in middle school.”
“Pardon?”
“The following year, when my sister-in-law went to the pregnancy clinic, they found out that she was pregnant with quadruplets. “
“What…”
I still remembered the day our lives were flipped upside down. It was hard to tell if my brother, who was always quiet and dull as dried fish, was laughing or crying.
Mother, father, they said quadruplets. Hahahaha… ha…
Hyunjo and Gunyoung looked at me with wide eyes.
“My sister-in-law was planning on quitting her job to focus on the baby, however with four babies, she couldn’t quit. They needed both of their incomes to barely cover the cost of baby formula.”
“Th-that’s true. With four kids, just the cost of diapers and formulas would be incredible.”
“So eventually, the babies were left with my mother, but she was unable to take care of them by herself.”
“Ahhh…”
“So I ended up helping out. During middle school, I spent my time changing their diapers and soothing them, during high school and university, I was pretty much a constant babysitter. Because my body constantly smelled of baby formula, my nickname was once ‘JungJumma[1]’. Hahaha.”
“Uh…”
“So it’s true that I am the youngest, but I didn’t grow up with that sort of treatment.”
“Yaah… You must have had to endure quite a lot. If you raised four kids, taking care of the members of a girl group must be nothing to you.”
It was as planned.
With this, I was able to avoid the bad first impression I had in my dream. In some ways, it was a relief. If I didn’t have that dream, the only thing on my mind right now would have been, ‘girl group? I’m screwed, screwed, so screwed, what do I do?’
But I really was screwed.
I was still shocked and dazed by the fact I was assigned to a girl group. However, I couldn’t just quit because I was unhappy.
W&U was the best out of all the companies I applied to.
Compared to other companies, the salary was good and there was much to learn from the way they tried to develop themselves in a foreign market while accounting for failure.
Above all, their system for promotions for road managers was much more systematic and stable. This was the biggest advantage. In those hit-or-miss companies, there were rumors that managers might simply drive for several years without a promotion.
There was no guarantee that if I quit, I would be able to find a better job and since it was already decided, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to check out the music and entertainment fields beforehand. Many actors would end up appearing on entertainment shows anyways. While assigned to the girl group, I could gain experience and there may be a chance to get assigned to an actor later on.
Might… damn it.
I picked up the profiles for Neptune.
Girl group. The unfamiliar pronunciation rolled off my tongue. The girl groups I knew were the incredibly famous ones or the ones I saw in the army. Besides those, I knew of the few that appeared in various movies or dramas.