Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 689

As the curtain fell, Seo-jun, who had returned from being ‘Prince Seongnyeong’ to ‘Lee Seo-jun’, let go of his hands from the ajeng.

He also deactivated his abilities. 

The nine tails of the Taebaek gumiho, which matched well with Seo-jun in his hanbok, swayed and then disappeared like smoke.

“Hmm.”

With a very small voice, Seo-jun checked if the microphone was turned off properly and smiled at the musicians sitting next to him.

“Good job, everyone.”

At Seo-jun’s smiling words, the musicians finally relaxed their stiff backs and let out a sigh of relief.

“Ugh, my body is sore.”

“Me too. Ugh!”

It sounded like their bones were cracking. 

They hadn’t been sitting for too long, but they had been playing with so much tension that they felt stiff.

“Stretch. Stretch.”

The musicians, who knew that this performance was really the last one, got up from their seats and stretched or packed their instruments. 

The staff also came up to the stage and helped them.

Seo-jun, who had been playing with his legs crossed, also got up from his seat and did some light stretching. In the meantime, Ahn Da Ho came up to the stage. He had a water bottle and a bag to store the ajeng in his hand.

“How’s it outside, Da Ho hyung?”

Seo-jun opened the cap and asked as he took the water bottle.

“It’s fine. There are a lot of guides, so there won’t be any accidents.”

As Seo-jun drank water, Ahn Da Ho answered as he put the ajeng in the bag.

“I also checked the gifts we prepared. We have plenty of backups, so we won’t run out.”

Gifts.

Seo-jun laughed.

“I hope they all like them.”

Seo-jun’s surprise was not over yet.

***

The sprouts started to come out one by one from the various exits of the fan meeting hall. Among them were Song Yu Jung, Lim Ye-na, and Kang Tae Young.

“I feel like I’ve exhausted my emotions today.”

Crying, laughing, and then sobbing again.

No movie or drama would be this dramatic.

“Right.”

“But it was fun, right?”

That was true.

Song Yu Jung and Kang Tae Young nodded their heads at Lim Ye-na’s words.

“The cookie video… is that what you call it? The last one was good too.”

“I can’t believe Grand Prince Seongnyeong came out again…!”

Kang Tae Young was really happy about his favorite’s reappearance.

The three sprouts talked about the fan meeting until they parted ways outside, but they saw something being handed out at a distance from the exit. Judging by their clothes, they were not sprouts, but fan meeting staff and Cocoa Entertainment employees.

“It must be the gift Seo-jun prepared!”

“We got one last time too.”

“That’s right.”

The sprouts’ hearts were warm from the fan meeting that was full of emotion, but they didn’t intend to leave without receiving the gift Seo-jun prepared.

“Maybe it’s a photo card?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if they took pictures of the fan meeting rehearsal?”

“Adult Grand Prince Seongnyeong…!”

Thump, thump.

The sprouts, who lined up orderly, looked at the paper bags that the staff were handing out with shining eyes. The paper bags with a green sprout drawn in the center looked too cute.

“But why aren’t they leaving?”

“…Yeah?”

The sprouts who had left the fan meeting hall early and received Seo-jun’s gift first stood still in a place not far away.

The guides carefully guided them so that they would not interfere with the movement of other sprouts, and the sprouts, who were ‘sprout-like’, followed their words and moved their steps. But they seemed to have lost their souls.

Something…

Song Yu Jung, Lim Ye-na, and Kang Tae Young swallowed their saliva. A green sprout antenna appeared above their heads like in a cartoon and spun around. The sprouts’ intuition was aroused.

Something… there seemed to be something big left.

“Next sprout, please.”

“Yes!”

Half nervous, half excited.

The Cocoa Entertainment employee smiled brightly and handed over the paper bag he was holding to Song Yu Jung, who raised her hand. Lim Ye-na and Kang Tae Young, who were standing behind her, also received the paper bag with an expectant expression.

“Can you please move over there?”

“Yes! Okay!”

I’m a sprout. A good sprout.

The sprouts followed the guide’s words and headed to a place where they would not interfere with the movement.

“I could just look at it when I get home…”

“I’m so curious!!”

Kang Tae Young nodded his head at the two people’s words.

The three sprouts carefully opened the paper bag.

The first thing they saw was a printed red flower painting.

…Red flower… painting…?

Seeing the same painting wrapped in the same way, the three sprouts covered their mouths at the same time.

…Master?!

“…Huh!”

They were so surprised that they forgot to breathe for a moment.

“It’s the master’s painting from [Fire]… right?!”

“Yes, yes. It is! I saw it at the art museum! It says Unknown here too!”

Under the red flower painting, there was a Korean word written in black brush strokes.

[Unknown]

“…Crazy!”

Song Yu Jung, Lim Ye-na, and Kang Tae Young covered their mouths again. They remembered the independent film [Fire]. The master who couldn’t draw anymore with his trembling arms…!

“He must have been able to draw again!”

“Yeah!”

It was really the master’s, the unknown painter’s camellia painting from the film [Fire].

The tears that they thought they had poured out at the fan meeting started to flow again. They felt like they knew why the sprouts who had left earlier were standing blankly.

“…There’s something else underneath…”

With tears in his eyes, Kang Tae Young said, and Song Yu Jung and Lim Ye-na, who had similar expressions, looked inside the paper bag.

Under the camellia painting, on top of the other wrapped gifts, there was another piece of paper the size of a postcard. This paper was flipped over, so only the white side was visible.

Sniffling, the three people turned the paper over.

They burst into tears again.

The pink petals of a beautifully bloomed hibiscus.

And the signature that said [Unknown].

Another flower that the master had painted, a hibiscus, was inside the paper.

Sob… Sob…

Soon, the fan meeting hall was filled with cries that no one knew where they started from.

***

“…Um…”

Manager Joo Yong Jin, who was driving, glanced at his actor in the back seat through the rearview mirror when he stopped at a signal. 

Kang Tae Young, who was holding a paper bag with a green sprout drawn on it, was sobbing, and it bothered him a lot.

Was it because he was so touched by the fan meeting? But his eyes were too swollen like a goldfish.

‘That’s the face you make when you cry your eyes out…’

He wondered if there was anything to cry about at the fan meeting of his favorite actor, Lee Seo-jun.

“Did you not get into the fan meeting hall?”

That’s how suspicious he was.

“…No. I got in. Sob.”

Then he should be happy and joyful. Like the last time he went to Lee Seo-jun’s fan meeting a few years ago.

“Then why are you crying.”

He asked bluntly, unable to guess, and Kang Tae Young chuckled and answered between sobs.

“Seo-jun is so cool…!”

Wow.

Joo Yong Jin thought he had worried for nothing.

The other sprouts were in a similar situation.

“…You said you went to Lee Seo-jun’s fan meeting? Why does your face look like that?”

“Hehe. That’s because! Seo-jun, Seo-jun… He’s so… Sob!”

“?!?!”

The families were surprised by the sight of the sprouts who said they had gone to the fan meeting, holding the paper bags preciously and laughing and crying with their swollen eyes.

***

Lee Seo-jun’s fan meeting was over.

Soon, [From Sprout] started to fill up with fan meeting reviews. 

The sprouts who had gone to the fan meeting wanted to share their excitement and gratitude with the other sprouts.

“I’m curious, but…”

The moviegoer who was browsing [From Sprout] shook his legs. He also wanted to join in the excitement and gratitude, but the notice bothered him.

[Notice: Sprouts who are going to the fan meeting, please be careful of spoilers.]

[Notice: Please mark (spoiler) on your fan meeting reviews.]

The moviegoer scratched his chin.

“Why do they write such a notice on the fan meeting reviews?”

And even the sprouts who had already gone,

[Lee Seo-jun’s fan meeting review(spoiler)]

[I’m so glad I went(spoiler)]

[Unboxing the gift from Seo-jun!!(spoiler)]

[Sprouts who are going to the fan meeting, please don’t know anything and go!(spoiler)]

They wrote like this, so the sprouts who had succeeded in ticketing for the 16th and 17th fan meetings couldn’t help but be curious.

Should I read it or not, he wondered, and then headed to the temporary board where the sprouts who were waiting for the fan meeting gathered.

-I want to read the reviews, but I don’t want to

=22 The atmosphere seems serious, right?

=It feels like I shouldn’t see any spoilers.

-Isn’t it like when Lee Seo-jun’s movie came out?

=22 It seems like the content is full of surprises.

=33 Like when Evan and Rachel appeared in Escape!

That’s what I’m saying.

“It seems like it would be more fun to watch without knowing anything.”

-Spoiler-free review found! (link)

“Ooh!”

The moviegoer quickly clicked.

There was a risk of being a clickbait, but he trusted ‘sprout’.

[Title: Lee Seo-jun’s fan meeting first day review! (spoiler-free)]

It’s really… beyond imagination.

No. I couldn’t even imagine it Oh my…!X1000 I shouted.

I can’t say more because it’s a spoiler, but I really recommend you to go to Seo-jun’s fan meeting without seeing any spoilers!!

He plays the violin and acts too.(He did that in the last fan meeting, so it’s not a spoiler… right?)

He gives out gifts when the fan meeting is over!

We got chocolate because it was February 15th fan meeting! Maybe it’s because the day before was Valentine’s Day!(Chocolate from Seo-jun!!) I think he’ll give it out on the 16th and 17th fan meetings too!

He also wrote a letter himself (of course, it’s printed). He also has photo cards with the costumes (important!) he wore during the fan meeting performance! And there are more gifts

This fan meeting is awesome

I would have regretted it so much if I hadn’t seen it. Really I heard from the scene that they might sell it on DVD! I’m definitely buying it!!

+)Bring tissues

++)You’ll hate one person so much as you watch… Eugh.

-Thank you for the spoiler-free review

=22 Violin/acting/photo cards! I’m looking forward to it

-I went to the fan meeting and you wrote it well without spoilers

=22 That ‘one person’ there is also an important point

=I can feel the sincerity from eugh

“I wonder who that ‘one person’ is… I’ll have to mention it when I review it later.”

And the moviegoer, who didn’t know if he was that ‘one person’, made a note so he wouldn’t forget.

***

While the sprouts who had succeeded in ticketing were happily worrying, the sprouts who had failed miserably read the fan meeting reviews full of spoilers without any restrictions (why the tears…) and shed tears of blood.

-Adult Grand Prince Seongnyeong! I should have gone to this fan meeting!

-Oh my. Hyun Woo!! Our Hyun Woo! He played the violin!

-Joo Won ahhhh!!

-Garam is alive! He’s alive!!

-Jin Ah. Jin Ah

=To be honest, Jin Natura was scary.

=But Jin playing the piano

-I want to see Seo-jun playing the piano too

-Kwahh!! Give me the master’s painting too!!

=22 Camellia! Hibiscus! Are you crazy!

-I should have succeeded in this fan meeting…(tears of blood)

And Lee Seo-jun’s fan meeting reviews, as always, flowed out of [From Sprout] and into other sites.