Save a Failed Idol’s Life

Chapter 228:

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: NicoleTempest

Chapter 228 Seeing is Believing

“What is this?”

Seon-woo approached me with curiosity and excitement in his eyes.

“I made four different kinds of salads. Which one do you think you’ll get tired of the least?”

I was planning to take all four kinds anyway. But I wanted to get the opinion of the closest consumer first, so I handed him a survey that I had prepared in advance.

“Wow, this is so professional!”

Seon-woo exclaimed as he looked at the data that I had made. It allowed him to check the amount of sauce, sweetness, acidity, greasiness, and other indicators with numbers.

“Yeah. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, but I was too busy with the comeback and stuff. I’m still busy now, but I wanted to get it done while I had the idea.”

Of course, as soon as I started this seriously, I would have more work than I could handle in a day or two.

But it was better to start sooner than later if I had a plan anyway. The market was all about getting ahead of the competition.

“I don’t know what this is, but I’ll try it!”

Seon-woo nodded his head as if he didn’t understand but it looked delicious anyway. He picked up a fork and took a bite.

Crunch. The sound of lettuce coated with a thin dressing and topped with various ingredients filled his mouth.

“Wow, this is really good!”

Seon-woo’s eyes sparkled, which had been dull and ordinary until a moment ago.

“Can I try the others too?”

Of course, I showed them to you so you could eat them, not just look at them. I nodded my head generously and Seon-woo moved his fork to another bowl with a happy expression.

“This one has a hint of pepper that adds a spicy kick to the aftertaste. This is really nice!”

They say that even a dog can recite poetry if it watches for three years. Seon-woo was analyzing the taste in his own way, which made me laugh.

“Take your time, take your time. I won’t take them away from you.”

“Okay!”

While Seon-woo was enjoying the samples with a blissful face, Yi-jun came to the kitchen, lured by the delicious smell.

“Oh, what’s this? A sudden salad buffet?”

He casually took a fork from the counter and it looked as natural as water flowing.

“Can I eat some too?”

Before I could even answer, his fork was already heading towards the salad.

‘You’re going to eat it anyway, even if I say no.’

I didn’t mind, since I had enough for all four of us to take the survey. The more samples, the better.

“Eat and fill this out too.”

I handed Yi-jun the same survey and he let out a short exclamation. He nodded his head and picked up a pen.

“Oh. Okay, okay. I think this one is the best.”

Yi-jun pointed to the salad with the most meat toppings and mumbled with his mouth full.

Yeah, I thought you would like that one. I asked Kyunghwa and Seong-won, who came out later, to take the survey too and checked their preferences and feedback.

Then I started preparing for tomorrow’s operation.

The next morning. I was originally going to send only Kyunghwa to the shooting today, but I visited the set with him to put my plan into action.

“Hello!”

As we entered the set with a cheerful greeting, the staff’s eyes turned to the huge volume of mini lunch boxes that Kyunghwa and I were holding.

“Please take one if you want to have a salad for lunch.”

I was most worried about Henny, but… Kyunghwa had misunderstood something yesterday. I didn’t want to be suspected of having ulterior motives.

Anyway, my goal was to make him eat something less burdensome than that weird shake, even if it was a salad.

If I didn’t want to look like I was doing a favor for a specific person, I just had to increase the number of samples I offered.

“Wow, is this that thing? The one that Seon-yeong posted on SNS last year and caused a sensation?”

I answered the staff’s question with a smile.

“Yes. That’s one of them, and they have different flavors mixed in. If you don’t mind, could you please fill out the survey that’s attached to the package?”

I pointed to the survey that was stuck to the mini lunch box.

I remembered the trouble I had printing them on labels and sticking them to each lid at dawn.

I had to collect and dispose of the packages anyway, so I wanted to get the opinions of ordinary people who actually ate them when I separated and collected the packages.

‘But it’s better to do it right if I’m going to do it.’

The staff’s admiration for the salad was short-lived. As the director came to the scene, they all got busy with the shooting preparation.

“You’re really working hard for this.”

Kyunghwa looked at me as if he thought I was doing too much to impress the scene.

“Yeah, I have a good reason for it.”

“You don’t mean…”

I frowned as I sensed that Kyunghwa was making another disgusting assumption.

“No.”

But I was very interested in whether Henny would eat that weird shake for lunch today, or the salad I had prepared.

‘Please let it be lunchtime soon.’

As I glared at the salad packages, the shooting began.

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A little later. Finally, the slate sound announced lunchtime, and one by one, three by three, they came to get today’s lunch box and salad.

‘There won’t be anyone who only eats salad since there’s rice too…’

I watched nervously as the amount they took was all gone and I felt relieved.

“Wow, I was really curious about this. I’ll enjoy it~!”

As I opened the lid of the salad lunch box in the waiting room where the celebrity cast gathered to eat, Jun-ki, who was sitting next to me naturally, poured dressing over his share of the salad.

“It smells really good. Do you like cooking?”

Jun-ki asked me a question that had become quite unfamiliar to me, as if he had never looked for me or anything.

Since Climax Jaekon had become known as a web variety show that even ordinary people would laugh at, most of the people I had met so far knew that I was good at cooking and that I was sincere about eating.

“Yes. I like it. And I’m good at it.”

Jun-ki, who had put a kale full of dressing in his mouth, made a face of surprise and delight at the fresh and sour taste.

“Wow, this would be really good with bread! Oh, it’s good now too.”

At Jun-ki’s innocent remark, I quickly handed him a small amount of protein bread that I had wrapped separately.

Actually, I didn’t really like this kind of protein supplement diet food. But I was considering offering it as an option to suit the needs of the customers who wanted salad.

“Haha, you’re like Doraemon. Thank you. I’ll enjoy it!”

As I chewed the salad with Kyunghwa and Jun-ki next to me, I could see that Henny was reaching her limit of patience as she sipped the shake out of courtesy.

‘She’s going to starve herself again today after barely eating that.’

I couldn’t force her to eat when she said she wouldn’t, and I felt awkward since we weren’t close. At that moment, Henny’s manager seemed to have prepared a mini lunch box and handed it to Henny.

‘Oh…’

But unfortunately, Henny shook her head right away. The manager put the mini lunch box next to Henny and went back to where the staff were.

Well… It was a pity, but that was all I could do.

Anyway, I was able to gather various opinions from the staff on the scene, so that was good. As I thought that.

After the manager left and some time passed, Henny reached for the lunch box.

‘Is she eating?’

Henny, who had been looking at the salad with a very distrustful expression at first, stabbed a lettuce with a fork, dipped it in the dressing, and put it in her mouth, and her expression turned to astonishment.

She must have intended to eat less dressing on purpose. Anyway, since it had a taste, there was no way that the fork that had gone to the salad once would only go once.

But maybe the amount itself was small, so she closed the lid completely after emptying half of it.

‘I guess I should be satisfied with the fact that she didn’t just eat the shake and starve.’

As the staff thanked me for collecting the lunch box packaging, I felt a pang of regret for the half-success.

‘Why… I made it so that it would be filling, but it wasn’t too much to eat at once.’

As I kept feeling uneasy, I noticed that Henny disappeared somewhere during the breaks in the shooting.

And a little later. She brought me an empty container.

“I ate well. Thank you.”

It was a dry and businesslike tone, but she seemed sincere in her gratitude.

“Oh, yes.”

I didn’t want to cause any misunderstanding, so I greeted her curtly and checked the survey. The item that indicated the degree of fullness was marked with 10 points.

Was her stomach so shrunk that she couldn’t eat that much at once?

It was strange, but that was all I could do.

And after the shooting was over. This time, posts tagged with Cheon Ise Salad instead of Na Seon-yeong Salad were uploaded.

From the director to the camera director, the writer, and various staff, to Jun-ki, they thanked me for the salad I had prepared and praised it.

It was delicious, of course. The community was turned upside down by the testimonies that came up.

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[Title] Today’s thrilling secret romance, the warm shooting scene

[Body]

A shooting scene that looks ordinary in many ways.

It doesn’t look much different from other scenes.

Finally, lunchtime.

It still looks ordinary.

What’s piled up next to the main lunch box?

Salad?

Let’s take a closer look.

[Thank you for looking at us nicely :). We look forward to working with you. – Climax Crew – ]

Fan support (X)

Idol bought it (X)

Idol made it (O)

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

This is the salad made with the same recipe that Na Seon-yeong tweeted last year and the leader personally developed!

The staff posted testimonies after the shooting.

They said it was so good that they wanted to eat only salad even with meat. I want to eat it too ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Please sell it, CEO Cheon ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Photo source: Staff SNS

[Comments]

• • I wanted to eat this when Seon-yeong posted it too ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅠㅠㅠㅠ It’s a public recipe, but it doesn’t taste the same when I make it. What’s the problem?

ㄴ It depends on what kind of vinegar you used for the oriental sauce, what kind of soy sauce, and even the garlic and oil. The taste changes a lot depending on those ㅜㅜ It’s safer to buy it than to make it at home and ruin your tongue…

ㄴ It’s meaningless if I can’t follow the recipe even if it’s public ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

• • Please sell it 222222 I’m seriously looking for a job opening at the web drama shooting site

ㄴ Ha ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Is Composition still hiring people? I want to go to the interview and eat instead of paying the fee

ㄴ Why are you so extreme ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You have to appreciate that Koreans are serious about eating

ㄴ If Composition offers a benefit like a meal from the CEO once a month instead of some weird vacation system when they hire people, they’ll get applicants in no time

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The promotional effect was better than I thought. I dragged the empty lunch box package that I had finished eating and put in a kimchi bag for recycling, and the members greeted me with a surprised expression.

“Why did you bring this?”

I didn’t feel bad at all because of Seong-won’s puzzled expression.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.”

Sniff sniff, as Aeongi, who came out of Seong-won’s room, smelled the bag, Seong-won took Aeongi back into the room as if he was scolding him.

I got a satisfying reaction, so now it was time to fish when the water came in.