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Chapter 8 Past, Present, Future

"I haven't seen you come together for a long time... I always come to eat separately. Are you very busy with work?" After finishing the work in my hand, the aunt looked at the two and asked, "Why didn't you see another one today?"

"Xianwu has something to do, so I guess he won't come back tonight..." Junshang, who has been taciturn, took the initiative to answer the aunt's inquiry, "His new musical will be performed tonight. I heard that the script is very good this time. I received the invitation ticket for tomorrow. Don't you want to go and see it?" The next sentence lowered, obviously for K to listen to it.

"Are you showing off to me on purpose?" K smiled and glared at Junshang, "How can I appear in the guest seat in the first week now? Even if Hyun-woo wants, the director and the producer probably won't agree... The first show of the second week, anyway, it's the same when to watch the musical..."

Facing K's familiar smile, Park Junshang kept his face tense and was silent for a long time. It was not until the aunt brought the second bottle of soju that he slowly asked: "Are you going soon? I remember it should be summer..."

"Well..." K responded in a low voice and replied slowly: "Eighteen days...there are still seventeen days in five minutes."

He held the wine glass in his hand hard, and Park Junshang looked at his former captain seriously, "What are your plans? You know, I can prepare it for you..."

"Your company only has two artists, one is a comedian. As far as I know, your connections in music are similar, right?" K shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't worry! I have done something unprepared. I even settled your scandals..."

"Why are you talking about these things..." Park Junshang seemed extremely disgusted with recalling the past, and immediately interrupted K's words, with no expression on his cold face, and drank the soju in a glass of wine. "Are you sure you are going to attend Brother Ren Changding's party?"

"Well..." K nodded, "He calls me to go every year, and it's not good to be absent... and now I need to participate in a few more parties like this. It's always a good thing to show off my face..."

"What a coincidence..." Park Junshang breathed a long sigh, and a playful expression appeared on his face. He looked at K opposite him and said slowly: "I heard from him that Jane Mi-yeon happened to be back from China and was going to attend this party. You... have not met in about 10 years, right?"

"Hmm?" K showed a surprised expression for the first time tonight. Looking at Park Junshang's meaningful smile, he couldn't help but think of the unforgettable beautiful figure from more than ten years ago. Is she still okay now? How are she doing these years? One question after another quickly appeared in his heart, and was wiped by K's helpless bitter smile.

When he was twenty, he could be crazy for love, but when he was thirty, he could only see love in a crazy state. K, who had already stepped into the threshold of thirty years old, knew that his farewell without saying goodbye had already cut a huge wound between the two that could not heal.

If a wound that has lasted for ten years is not touched carefully, he will no longer feel the pain that is heart-wrenching. He will just be quietly thrown at the farthest point, waiting to rot...

The night was a bit long. While the grocery store aunt was sleeping, two silent men drank glasses after glass, as if they wanted to make up for the drunkenness that had been missed for various reasons in the long years. It was not until Park Junsang's previous agent's worried urging that the two nearly unconscious people ended the brief gathering.

"Brother..." Jun Shang's "Brother" came quite suddenly, and K, who was about to get in the car, stopped his movements and looked at Jun Shang curiously. In his memory, the other party had not called him "Brother" for ten years...

"Hyung and I hate you very much... until now!" When Park Junshang said this, his eyes changed because of alcohol were completely different from before, and he was no longer as cold as an iceberg. K smiled, as if he had seen Junshang who had been having sex with him for all night for more than ten years ago. "I know, so you have agreed not to contact me on your own initiative, even when you go to see the Exorcist Dao, you should avoid me... Such a big person, he is still doing things like a child..."

"You forced us to do this!" Jun Shang, who had always been steady, was very excited at this moment. His agent, who had been with him for many years, tactfully helped K to help the former into the car, and then carefully closed the car door. He stood far away and did not want to disturb the most frank communication time between the two.

"We were kicked out of the group by you!" Jun Shang's hand kept holding K's clothes tightly, as if he was afraid that the other party would avoid his own voice. "You are so cruel... I promised the bastard's terms on the back, a ten-year contract! How could you sign that damn contract without discussing with us!"

"Junshang..." Perhaps he could avoid the past when he mentioned the past with the little girl Shunkyu, but facing Park Junshang, his brother who had experienced that period of time, K seemed a little powerless. He wanted to turn around and get out of the car, but he couldn't get away from Junshang's tightly holding his hand.

"The one who owes the old man has already paid back, why do you agree? Let us leave? Do you think that I and Xianwu have been happy in the past ten years? What is the importance of the name Son of Music! If the three of us leave together, ten years will be enough for us to achieve better results than Son of Music!"

"But we are four people... we can set out again, what should we do?" K's sigh made Park Junshang calm suddenly. After a long time, he finally couldn't help sobbing in a low voice.

You can don’t want the son of music, but what about the little brother Xiandao, who is the common one of the three? What should Zhang Xiandao, who shouts all day long, do?

"Brother... Xianwu and I have been waiting for you for ten years, and it may be difficult for us to wait any longer..." Junshang slowly let go of his hand holding the other party and murmured: "Next, it's time to ask you to catch us..."

"Well..." K agreed seriously, "Wait! I won't let you wait too long..."

"Ah! If you drive me away, can you drink it alone?" At noon, Kwang-soo looked at K who was lying there in a smell of alcohol and shouted angrily: "Brother! It's time to get up! Today we have to run for a promotion! You can't get up? You just know that you are carrying me on your back..."

"Are you not tired after shouting for so long?" K, who was finally awakened by Kwang Soo, stopped the other party's nagging helplessly, rubbed his messy hair hard, and walked to the bathroom to wash. Looking at his wasted back, Kwang Soo couldn't help but sigh, "Every time I see you getting up, I'm scared. Will I look like this when I'm 30?"

"Ah... you don't have to wait until you are thirty years old... You are already worse than me now!" K, who was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, poked his head out to look at Kwang Soo, and he didn't bother wiping the foam from his mouth and began to mock his agent.

"Yes! It's all you!" Kwang Soo was a little embarrassed when she was told by the other party. "I should really take a picture of your current appearance and post it online, so that the female fans who are still obsessed with you will give up!"

The only thing that can respond to yourself is the sound of running water when K washes...

After finishing up, K, who returned to his glamorous appearance, began to ask about his itinerary today. A third-tier commercial performance event was almost the main theme of the event for K. Local promotional festivals require artist performances, but today there happened to be a performance held by KBS. Most of the first-tier artists who are in the publicity period have accepted the invitation of the TV station's performance, and second-tier artists also actively want to participate in it. The local celebration commercial performance was out of mind, and Kwang Soo took on the itinerary without hesitation.

In South Korea, performances can be divided into two categories: performances and commercial performances. Generally speaking, the cost of performances is much lower than that of commercial performances of the same level, but performances are generally held by TV stations or governments. The performances will be widely promoted through TV and other media. Therefore, during the publicity period, first-line artists and countless second- and third-tier artists who want to increase publicity opportunities will actively respond to the invitation to the performance.

Commercial performances are divided into four levels: concerts and first, second and third tiers. There is no need to say much about the concerts. Artists who can be concerts are popular or top artists. Even if they encounter pressure from the performance, they don’t need to worry about the adverse effects caused by rejection. First-line commercial performances include large-scale commercial concerts or promotional activities of large enterprises. If such commercial performances have been scheduled, they will not cause trouble to the artists when they collided with the performance.

As for the second and third tiers, it is generally miserable. There are often appropriate adjustments to the artist's itinerary. The second tier is not bad, but the third tier commercial performances are not much money. Once you encounter a performance activity, there is basically no one available. Moreover, artists generally resist participating in the third tier commercial performances, because you not only have to perform, but also do publicity.

K is very famous in the circle of second- and third-tier commercial performances. In recent years, more importantly, artists like K who are powerful but have no airs are getting more and more important is that they are cheap and willing to join the third-tier commercial performances are almost extinct. Therefore, Kwangsoo, with his creed of "no one to refuse" K has won unanimous praise from the planners of third-tier commercial performances.

"What is the promotion today?" K looked at the funny slogans in the planning and asked helplessly. Kwang-soo chuckled and explained positively to K, "Busan's Fisheries Festival could have been at the second-tier level, but this time the organizer wanted to open more citizen performances, so he didn't pay much attention to the artists. It's great! The money is a lot, and the publicity is much higher than that of the average third-tier. If there weren't a large-scale performance today, there would probably be many artists willing to participate... By the way, Han Zhenzai called this morning and asked me about the content of today's itinerary..."

"Oh?" K couldn't help laughing after hearing Kwang Soo's words. While tidying up his clothes, he instructed: "I have to perform well today. Don't forget to bring the information I asked you to prepare!"

"Why do you bring information on the performance?"
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