Chapter 251
While the members were chatting about each other's appearances, celebrities were also watching the same commercial and admiring it.
-Our Yoon-chul looks so so so good in glitter....
└ Change purchase target
└ The God of Glitter, [Descent]
└ How far will Yoon-chul's legs grow?
└ Ambassador of the Republic of Korea ㄱㄱ
└ I should have really given birth to him
-(Photo) This is the first time I've seen Heo Yu-bin show this much exposure ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ Baby angel Yubin, whose two buttons are the most exposed part of his life...
└ But surprisingly, the red lips aren't weird and go well with him
└ ㅋㅋㅋ It seems like he was really scared of the Doberman during the shoot
-(photo) and he's really a cool guy. He has a cool vibe so he fits the concept really well
└ Kamen
└ I can't stand idolatry
└ Become a girl
-The color is pretty. I hope the texture is okay
└Sleeveless ㅅㅂ
└Hot test failed
└My arm muscles are also nicely sore so it's really real
└The one who made him wear the sleeveless is seriously a pervert but it was so good ㅋㅋㅋ 우따ㄷ따ㅏㅏ
When news first spread within the fandom that Seleste was filming a commercial, everyone was very curious to see what the members would look like.
In particular, when news came out that they had filmed an advertisement for the cosmetics brand Ignis, curiosity and anticipation grew even more.
It seems like it would go well together since male idols are also filming a lot of cosmetics advertisements, but the image changes depending on the concept they come up with.
In conclusion, the combination of Seleste and Ignis, who chose a strong and impactful concept, was a huge hit.
It was a natural result for a brand that is popular among young consumers to have the best idol in its class as its promotional model.
In addition to the advertisement, Ignis also tried various things with the Dominant line products.
One of them was a promotion where they gave away photo cards of Seleste members when pre-ordering the Dominant line and randomly selected a certain number of buyers to receive Dominant cosmetics autographed by themselves.
Seleves had no choice but to pre-order like lightning when the unreleased photo cards appeared.
Even the Dominant Line lip balm was released with the members' photos engraved on the bottom as a limited collaboration event, which resulted in huge profits.
Also, the fans who actually tried the Dominant line got favorable reviews, so the rumor spread to the general public, not just Seleves.
Ignis had been popular among the young generation in Korea since the beginning, but the collaboration with Seleste gave a huge boost to its enormous sales.
The news that sales had skyrocketed was good news for Ignis headquarters, but it was also very special news elsewhere.
"Guys, the first settlement will be made next week!"
We watched Manager Hyung wave his hands and look moved for a moment.
The unexpected words that came out of his mouth made us all look dazed.
"Guys? You're going to get the settlement next week?"
"...Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I heard wrong."
"Really? Are we really getting the settlement?"
Yoo Min-ha powerfully stepped forward and roughly grabbed Manager Hyung's arm.
"If it's that hard to believe, should I show you the message the team leader sent?"
"Yes!"
"Uh, yes."
Manager Hyung, who didn't know Yoo Min-ha would answer like that, was a little flustered, but as promised, he showed the message he had exchanged with the Sigma Entertainment financial management team.
We gathered together and checked the cell phone screen, and finally, one by one, we began to feel excited.
"Wow, it's real. It's a real settlement."
"Then, will we have money in our account next week...?"
"We, uh, what? We didn't have to pay back the light or something? Production costs, etc."
Chae Eun-gyu and Song Hyung-bin seemed to know a little bit about how idol agencies work.
The structure is that the artists are paid only after all the money is recovered from various expenses, such as education fees received from the agency before the idols debut, investment costs for album and music video production, etc.
It seems that everyone can't believe that we will receive the settlement after about 7 months.
"Not to mention the accumulated album sales, I think the advertisement this time was very effective. And most of all......"
Manager Hyung reminded us that we were a group formed through an external project.
It meant that we were a group formed through a survival program, not a group that was raised and debuted within an agency for several years, so the cost to recover was small.
Since complex fields like management and business were not our specialty, I don't know the details.
One thing was clear.
.... Is it really an astronomical amount of money coming in?
The other members must have had similar thoughts in their minds.
However, it didn't fully sink in until we saw it with our own eyes.
"Eek."
Next Monday.
The morning our settlement money arrived, we gathered in the living room and heard Heo Yu-bin screaming like a dolphin.
"How, how many zeros are there in this? One, two, three......."
I also checked my bank account balance on my phone.
I was speechless for a moment at the amount I had never seen before.
One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million... 100 million.... Far beyond that, hundreds of millions.
We all had the same expression with our mouths wide open when we saw the hundreds of millions of dollars in our bank account.
...... If this amount were converted into gold, it would be enough to feed every soldier in the 1st Corps for at least six months.
At first, I was so out of touch with reality that all I could think was this.
But soon, as the members began to open their mouths little by little, reality slowly began to return.
"This, this is really my money, right? Right?"
"Hyung, you've been repeating the same thing since yesterday."
"Hey bro, you've been doing that since yesterday!"
"Hyung, you've been doing the same thing!"
While Heo Yu-bin and Kang Si-yoon were laughing and bickering, the eldest brother line was extremely quiet.
Especially when I turned my eyes to Chae Eun-gyu.
I could see tears welling up in his eyes.
"Sob.."
"Eun-gyu hyung?"
"Hyung! Are you okay?"
Soon, Chae Eun-gyu started to breathe hard and shed tears, and his brothers all ran to him.
Chae Eun-gyu tried to smile and wave his hand, saying that it was okay, but Ji Yoon-chul ignored him and brought him a bunch of tissues from the kitchen.
"Thank you, Yoon-chul. Oh, seriously, why am I crying all of a sudden?"
I thought I knew his heart better than anyone else.
Chae Eun-gyu, who was very old for an idol trainee, thought that
He must have been very afraid of failure, since he had even experienced his team collapsing on the threshold of debut once.
That pressure weighed on his shoulders so much that he even burst out in emotion during the survival show.
Chae Eun-gyu, who had always suffered from a burden that others could not describe, was now seeing it before his eyes for the first time in his life.
A clear result.
The fruits of his efforts.
Not something abstract, but something very concrete.
'.... I understand this well because I am in a similar situation.'
I patted Chae Eun-gyu on the shoulder and smiled faintly to myself.
An amount of money that I could not even dream of when I was living as Han Ji-hyeok.
After running away alone because my family was on the verge of collapse, I struggled to make ends meet and lived frugally to save money for my dream.
I somehow thought positively that my current life would be much better after I debuted as an idol.
The failures that followed broke my will at the time.
However, after being summoned to the world of
After being possessed by the crown prince's body.
After debuting as an idol while still possessed.
Things that I couldn't achieve before began to come into my hands one by one.
As if telling me to enjoy more than I could in my previous life.
Since I personally experienced this kind of mental anguish, I think I can understand Chae Eun-gyu's feelings better than anyone else.
"......Guys."
After shedding a lot of tears that he couldn't control, Chae Eun-gyu spoke to everyone in a slightly choked voice.
Was it because of the tears? His eyes looked much wetter than usual.
However, his eyes seemed to be filled with emotions much stronger than tears.
"Let's continue to work hard in the future. Never lose the original intention that we always talked about."
Chae Eun-gyu's determined words seemed to bring a cool breeze into my head.
And the other members also nodded vigorously after hearing their eldest brother's words.
"Of course, hyung!"
"I've never seen Eun-gyu hyung so emotional."
"Hyung-bin hyung should have seen you during Starburst."
"Hey, that happened a long time ago!"
"Eun-gyu hyung cried a lot back then too!"
When the younger members playfully brought up old stories, Chae Eun-gyu intentionally got angry and made everyone laugh.
I also smiled happily while looking at that sight, and then I turned my gaze down at the sound of a status window being created in my ear.
[Hidden Achievement Achieved!
[Reward: 3 Lucky Draw Coins]
[I congratulate you on your first settlement, possessor-nim.]
Even the system joined in on this joyful atmosphere.
The Lucky Draw Coins that disappeared from my balance after purchasing the 'Mental Communication' item last time, felt good to receive as an achievement reward.
There will definitely be a day when I can use it again at the Lucky Draw Shop.
After checking the system window, I listened to the members again, and the younger ones were cutely chatting.
"Then can I go to AXXH Steakhouse without worrying? I'll go and pay it with my credit card?"
"I've always wanted to do that! Go to the school cafeteria and say, Give me everything from here to there!"
When they had a billion dollars, the first things that came to mind for Heo Yu-bin and Yoo Min-ha were probably a steakhouse and a school convenience store.
Meanwhile, Ji Yoon-chul, the youngest member of the group, was relatively quiet.
"Yoon-chul, aren't you happy?"
"Yes? Oh, yes. Of course I'm happy."
"Do you have something you want to do with the money?"
"...hmm."
Ji Yoon-chul blinks his eyes quickly several times and tilts his head after hearing my question.
If I think about Ji Yoon-chul's personality that I've seen so far...
I wonder if he'll say something like he's going to start collecting rainbow dolls in earnest.
"Honestly, I don't really have anything I want to have......."
"Wow."
"And I feel a little bad about holding this much money myself, so I'm just going to ask my parents to take care of it."
Ji Yoon-chul's words are the most correct.
When you suddenly have this much money, it's hard to figure out where to spend it.
In times like this, leaving it to your parents, who are good at managing money, is the best option.
I felt like I should do that too, but when I actually thought about it, my parents are currently in Estonia.
...... I'm not sure if it would be easy to send hundreds of millions of won overseas.
If this much money suddenly goes overseas, there could be problems. For now, I think it would be easier to just keep it in my bank account.
While my younger brothers were having these cute thoughts, there were also guys who started to really get going.
Kang Si-yoon and Song Hyung-bin spoke loudly with excited eyes.
"Tomorrow, right to the shopping mall?"
"Ah, I can finally buy with my credit card what I wanted!"
However, the next day, the two of them left the dorm with proud steps and came back empty-handed without having obtained anything.
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