"So, the story starts with the original Han Sung-Jun of this world debut in the group Resonance at the age of 16. He goes on to become a global idol within five years before losing his ability to sing after an unfortunate car accident.
After that, his life takes a turn as he pursues his studies, eventually making him become a world-renowned scientist named Dr. Mac by the time he turned 45. He creates the world's first super A.I. named Aria, a sentient A.I., which is at least 10000 times faster than a quantum computer and is also capable of hacking satellites and missile launch codes of any country.
Believing that organizations and governments will try to snatch it away, he keeps the matter secret and uses the Super A.I., for aiding his lifelong research, the time travel so that he can travel back to the past and save his parents.
Eventually, he ends up being successful in making the time ship. However, his body couldn't travel through time and vaporize on the way.
Meanwhile, the time ship lands in the wilderness nearby Mt. Jiri in the Year 2013 and self-destructs, right away due to technical issues. On the other hand, Aria successfully escapes the tragedy through the radio waves. The Super A.I., then, goes on to search for its owner who is still a teenager.
It successfully finds the young Han Sung-Jun who was about to debut as a K-pop idol.
With its help, Han Sung-Jun would voluntarily give up his dream and try to become something greater, rewriting the timeline.
He goes on to become the greatest inventor of the century. But, Han Sung-Jun's heart is still filled with regrets about giving up the music.
So, he modifies the Super A.I. and creates a type of system, which can latch onto his younger self's consciousness and help him become the global idol to rewrite the timeline, once again. At the same time, to prevent the discovery of the time ship, he also adds a self-destruction option, so that, it destructs itself into ash as soon as it lands in 2013.
However, he miscalculates the timing.
He never expected that Aria would latch itself onto Sung Jun's younger self at a time when he was going through a break-up and became a witness to a crime. Because of one abrupt notification screen that pops out of nowhere, Han Sung-Jun eventually faces an accident and ends up losing his life.
Here is where I or we come in. As Han Sung-Jun passes away, for some reason, my soul would occupy his body and meet with Aria just like you did.
It takes 4 years to synchronize my soul or should I say, my consciousness to his body, thereby, waking up from the vegetative state. As for how it is possible, it's a complex process that the current you have no use of.
Anyway, with the help of Aria, or more like her Kpop system, I get to fulfill my dream. But this timeline, I wanted to keep that way.
For that to happen, the original Han Sung-Jun must die. It's quite evil but our existence depends on it. If he doesn't die, who knows whether we even reincarnate or just float like a ghost or just disappear. The unknown was really scary.
So, I need to repeat what happened.
I sent Aria in the timeship, trying to repeat the exact same thing. From there onwards, it turned into a classic egg and chicken scenario.
You get to take the help of Aria, become a global idol as well as a scientist, create a replica of the Super A.I., then, send it to the past, which will repeat over and over again.
This is the mystery behind the kpop system in your mindscape.
I don't know which version I am now but from the previous versions of me, I learned that the death of mom and dad are imminent. I heard that in one version, she met with an accident, and in another version, she died in a plane crash. As for me, sigh... I ran away and went to Somi's place to spend the night there.
As for why I'm stuck in that situation, it is a long story and there's no need for you to know either as it won't be the same if you make a different choice in the past.
What you needed to know is that your life isn't yours, Jun. Your soul might be yours but your physical body was given by your parents. Your knowledge was nurtured by your experiences in society.
So, if you take something, isn't it obvious that you have to return the favor? I ask you now. What did you give back to dad? What did you give back to mom? What did you give back to society?
I'm not sure whether you regained all of your memories of middle school but at the very least, you have full memories of dad, right? I know that you do because when I woke up from the Vegetative state, I remembered them.
Then, by giving up your dream, doesn't that mean you aren't also giving up dad's dream for you? Come to think of it, why does Han Sung-Jun even want to become an idol and had forsaken baseball?
Is it only because he wanted to make money or is it because his... our dad's last wish was for you to become a singer? You already know the answer, don't you?
It is not wrong for blaming yourself for mom's death because even I did it too and until now, I still regret arguing with mom and runaway to Somi. It only gave me nothing but heartbreak. Well, I would apologize to you if you are back with Somi but if you do, all I can say is that it doesn't work out, not because of you but it is because of her profession.
Sooner or later, you will have to let her go. Ugh, I feel a bit guilty for trying to give a piece of advice to myself to break up with the girl who I love.
When my future self gave the same advice to me, I didn't follow it and stubbornly stayed with my decision.
Do you know what happened?
I won't go into details but I lost my love, my only family, my store, my money, everything was gone before I even turned 30. What saved me was the music and the system sent by the future self.
I couldn't go on to become an idol because of my age but I was able to become a lyricist and producer. After getting enough fame, I started to sing for the dramas too. Eventually, I met my destined love of myself. According to my future self is the same one in all the alternative futures too. Unfortunately, I cannot say her name now because I don't know your exact situation.
Anyway, I'm now 45 and I consider myself an accomplished guy. Everything will be alright during the day, but during the night, between closing my eyes and falling into sleep, there's this pain that disturbs me even today. What if I had listened to my future self and chosen the path of an idol? How would my present be? Unlike others, I have the system to assist. Why did I make an idiotic choice?
I know that I cannot turn back the time but you can change your future, Han Sung-Jun. But, what will happen to me then? Will I disappear? Well, technically you are me and I am you. But, don't worry, you will just create another branch of time. I won't disappear. My current research is to connect to the other branches of time and meet myself. Who knows we can even meet someday. All we need to adjust the temporal displacement with gi... Well, let's not go into that topic and come back to the current situation.
There's not much I can say to you but I beg you to reconsider the situation so that you don't have any regrets like me.
And even if you take the same path as me, please don't forget to indulge yourself in academic studies. After all, our existences depend on it.
Think about it. Suppose you give up this dream and also fails to send the super A.I. in the timeship, what happens? You will be removed.
If you remove yourself from the equation, then, it'll be just young Sung-Jun will go ahead and create Aria, then, send it back to the time, then, die. He will just live in a time loop without ever getting reincarnated and there's no guarantee that mom lives.
As a person who took over his body, who took over his life, who took over his system, the least you can do is to fulfill his dream and protect his family.
Fulfilling Jun's dream is your responsibility. Dahyun is your responsibility. Fulfilling Dad's wish is your responsibility. Looking after your paternal grandparents is your responsibility.
Think about it and make the right decision.
The rest is your wish. I had saved three messages. The other two will be unlocked when the system reaches rank-4 and rank-8 respectively. Goodbye."
Jun's older self waved his hand with a smile and the video was cut off, leaving Jun in a daze for a brief amount of time before a determined expression appeared on his face.
It didn't even take 2 minutes for Jun to make his decision.
He made a call to YG.
"Jun-ah!" YG sounded a bit excited as he received a call from Jun, very sooner than he expected.
"I apologize for cutting off the call like that." Jun slowly said to him.
"It's alright. So, what do you think about the matter?" YG didn't lose the hope and never intended to lose it until the last second.
This time, Jun answered him differently, "YG-nim, let's talk about the terms of the contract. Should I come to the agency?"
"No, let's meet at Corseque restaurant in your neighborhood for the lunch. We'll talk the details."
After agreeing to the place, Jun disconnected the call.
It was then that a familiar holographic screen popped up once again, taking him by surprise.
*Ding! A hidden event has been triggered. You received a Life Quest, Father's Last Wish.
*Ding! A hidden event has been triggered. You received a Life Quest, Will of Jun.
*Ding! The life Quest tab has been added to the Quest list.
LIFE QUESTS:
Life Quest I: Father's last wish
Description: Achieve the status of the most influential celebrity in the Korean Entertainment Industry
Reward: Unknown.
Life Quest II: Will of Jun
Description: Achieve the status of global idol and fulfill the dream of the previous owner of the body
Condition 1: Popularity in at least 15 countries. (At least 10,000 fans in each country)
Condition 2: Most popular celebrity status in at least 1 country other than South Korea.
Condition 3: Becoming one of the top 10 popular celebrities in at least five countries.
Reward: Unknown