Save a Failed Idol’s Life

Chapter 105

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: NicoleTempest

Chapter 105 An Unexpected Event

The group name that everyone thought would never be there was written on the billboard.

[The Way to You – On8]

[Sugar plus! – Maybe Pink]

[Drink me – Climax]

On8 was the boy group that competed with Floss for the first place two weeks ago, and Maybe Pink was the girl group that won the first place last week.

The third candidate was supposed to be the solo singer who was second last week, and no one doubted it for a moment.

“Wow… wow?”

Yi-jun started to admire his own face on the first place candidate list with confidence.

They couldn’t make a big fuss because it was live, but the other members also looked surprised.

‘What’s going on?’

We exchanged glances for a moment, and the female MC continued the show.

[Now, shall we check the detailed scores?]

Following the cheerful guidance of the female MC, the digital single scores were revealed first.

It was impossible to know what criteria they used to score, but it was obvious that Climax’s score was miserable since their song came out on Friday.

[The Way to You – 3130 points]

[Sugar plus! – 2610 points]

[Drink me – 1120 points]

At this point… don’t we feel a bit weird being there? I clenched my fist and waited for the rest of the results.

[Next, we will announce the broadcast scores!]

[The Way to You – 2310 points]

[Sugar plus! – 3760 points]

[Drink me – 580 points]

Why… Why are we there? I looked at Kyunghwa’s face, hoping he would know the reason, but even he looked confused.

[Next, we will reveal the album scores!]

The MC’s voice was cheerful, but we were in pain.

[The Way to You – 3320 points]

[Sugar plus! – 2110 points]

[Drink me – 0 points]

Please… stop it. We knew our score was low.

We had no idea why such a cruel public execution was taking place.

The viewers must have been baffled by our presence in the third place, but so were we.

[Now, only the viewer votes are left! Seon-woo, do you have any idea who will win the first place of Music Safe this week?]

The male MC, who was half a head shorter than Seon-woo, asked him a very difficult question.

He was still happy with being on the first place candidate list, and hesitated for a moment before answering.

[I hope Climax will win, of course!]

But no matter how the viewer votes turned out, everyone expected that Climax would never win the first place.

Seon-woo must have known that too.

He continued the show awkwardly.

[Ha ha, that was my wish! Both On8 and Maybe Pink gave such amazing performances that I wouldn’t be surprised if either group won first place!]

The female MC smiled and skillfully took over the show.

[Music Safe for the fifth week of October! The long-awaited first place, we’ll reveal it right now!]

The moment the fireworks exploded on the screen. Everyone held their breath and checked the scores.

[We, we’ll, re, re, reveal the viewer, vo, votes, now…!]

The voice of Sunwoo, who was in charge of announcing the viewer votes, trembled like a quivering reed. It was understandable. The numbers on the screen were unbelievable.

[The Way to You – 1540 points]

[Sugar plus! – 740 points]

[Drink me – 8920 points]

[Music Safe for the fifth week of October! The first place goes to! Climax, congratulations!]

What was this? It was surreal. Was this some kind of Truman Show?

[Sunwoo, your wish came true! How do you feel?]

His expressions and words were both ridiculous. He looked like a kindergarten kid who was terrified of being robbed by college students.

[Is, is, is, is, is, this, re, re, really, we, we, we, we, won, first, place?]

Seon-woo’s voice shook like a goat as everyone covered their faces and laughed.

The On8 members, who had unexpectedly lost the first place, were also the same.

At first, they wondered why the scores were like that. They looked like they were going to protest as they stepped forward, but they quickly turned their heads away from the camera and laughed at Seon-woo’s reaction.

When Seon-woo asked if there was some error, a staff member came up from below and whispered something in the MCs’ ears.

[We confirmed that there is no problem with the scores! Wow, Climax, you received an unprecedented amount of love from the viewers! Congratulations!]

[Now, let’s hear your acceptance speech…]

The male MC, who was going to pass the microphone to Seon-woo first, made a strange noise and lowered the microphone.

[Gasp…! Pfft, snort… Cough…]

Our youngest was making a face that no idol had ever shown on TV, squeezing out tears and snot.

[Wahh, wuuuhh… Huhh… Sob…]

Thanks to him, all the performers on stage were doing a laughter challenge because of Seon-woo.

Some of them couldn’t stand it and hurriedly left the stage before the speech was over.

[Seon-woo, calm, calm down, sniff…! Cough! Calm down and, uhaha… Calm down and, come forward, Climax!]

As the MC, who seemed to need to calm down himself, called him forward, the other participants moved aside and made way for him.

I quickly snatched the microphone from Seon-woo.

[Thank you so much for giving us this unexpected and glorious award today. We never thought we would get such a high score from the viewer votes, so we were very surprised too.]

I felt like I had to explain that we didn’t know either, before we got accused of rigging or bribing the production team.

[We are more surprised and touched by this unexpected award. Thank you.]

Was there anything else to say? No. We didn’t prepare anything, and we never practiced an acceptance speech before.

Just as I was about to cut it short and return the microphone to the production team, Kyunghwa swiftly grabbed the microphone from my hand.

[We never imagined that we would win our first music show today, but thank you for giving us this happy experience. Thank you and we love you, our Rise, for making the five-year-old rookie Climax shine.]

And then he bowed deeply in front of the camera.

I couldn’t believe this situation, but anyway, an excited Yi-jun tried to take the microphone from Kyunghwa, but it didn’t happen.

“Oops, the microphone is gone.”

While I was stunned, the staff took the microphone that was in Kyunghwa’s hand.

And then they brought a live microphone for the first place live.

“Seon-woo, stop crying.”

Seong-won, the most calm and composed among the five of us, didn’t know what to do with Seon-woo.

“Stop crying, I said.”

“Sniff, sob, hic, huuu…”

He would cry more if he knew he was being scolded. He was a guy who had no talent for comforting others.

Since Seon-woo, who had to sing the first verse, was like this, I had no choice but to start.

[A siren rings in my ear ring ring]

The long day was coming to an end.

Meanwhile, the main activity period ended two weeks ago, and the Floss fans who were betting on who would rob the empty house this week were speechless by the unexpected incident.

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Vote for [Climax] on Music Safe today and get prizes!

gives you iPad, AirPods, chicken, gift cards, and coffee!

If you text, vote and verify, we will send you a gifticon to all participants!

1 winner – iPad

3 winners – AirPods

300 winners – chicken gifticon

1000 winners – coffee gifticon

All participants – 3000 won gift card

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What is this? This is not the first time that fans have raised funds and encouraged text voting.

It was already a fan event that no one would not do if they had a decent fandom size and a debut angle member in the survival program.

But this, which crazy fandom did this, not on the final stage where the debut was at stake, but on the music show.

It was an event that would cost at least 20 million won.

They even offered a gift to all participants, so even those who didn’t buy idols would flock to get a gift card once.

Can they afford that budget? Does Climax have that many cores?

It was unrealistic no matter how I looked at it.

To participate in the Music Safe viewer vote, you have to pay 200 won per information usage fee.

Until then, the score difference that decided the game mostly came from the album score and the sound source score, so no one cared much about the viewer vote score.

It was a program that no one would watch unless they were some idol fans.

Even those passionate viewers mostly searched for their own clips on YouTube or linked platforms, and didn’t bother to watch the text vote.

Thanks to that, no matter how powerful the fandom group came out, the viewer vote score never exceeded 2000 points.

For the first time, a national vote-level text was sent to such a meaningless vote… It was perhaps natural that a score that had never been seen before and never thought to come out came out.

[Music Safe in the 5th week of October! The long-awaited first place is! Climax, congratulations!]

As the news of Climax’s first place was announced, SNS and even the chat rooms, the entire Floss fandom was shaken.

Isn’t that rigged? Some people had a negative view at first… All Floss members were beneficiaries of the same voting encouragement event.

If it was wrong to use the ‘fake fans’ to mess up the original purpose, then they were also guilty of it.

‘You know it’s easy to give my idol a music show trophy with just 3,000 bucks.’

Although the ranking had dropped now, Climax had hit number one on the real-time chart on the day of release, and their fancam had made it to the single digits of the most popular videos.

That momentum continued to the Muggle Pick, where they seemed to be doing quite well.

They said the group had a long period of obscurity, so their desperation was evident.

Who do you think made a digital streaming team and ran it like crazy to make my idol the top one without any desperation?

All this time, they were just annoyingly lumped together because they were from the same agency.

It was the moment when the wall of my heart that had denied the difference in ‘class’ that was too obvious to compare collapsed.

‘Are they really catching up?’

At the moment when my heart was stained with anxiety and nervousness, one aggro post on Enter Talk Talk pierced and stuck in my heart.

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[Title] Don’t you think it’s time to push Climax over WePlanet?

[Body]

There’s only half a year left for Floss’s activities

Honestly, you can see the members who are ready to bail

I would rather push Climax, who have nowhere to go except WePlanet and have all the IP, than the project group that will betray me and not extend

[Comments]

[- Floss is on the decline and Climax is on the rise. It’s not a matter of days or hours before the project group disbands and they all become flops]

[- I still thought Climax was not on the same level as Floss, but I was shocked to see them win Music Two today. They must have a lot of core fans who clenched their teeth and endured the long period of obscurity]

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What the hell are you talking about, Xbal.

Don’t fall for this kind of aggro post. Just look at the popularity poll of the biggest entertainment community in Korea, and it’s obvious that Floss is number one, and the top nine individuals were all Floss.

Do you think they’re going to crumble like this with half a year left in their activities?

The fans who checked the weekly idol popularity poll (boy group individual) with a snort of their nose had to fall down and grab their necks again.

6th – Oh Yi-jun

8th – Son Seong-won

13th – Cheon Ise

15th – Na Seon-woo

27th – Ryu Kyunghwa

Although there was a big gap between the members, there was a crack in the legend of Floss, the undisputed top one.