Idol of the Heavenly One - Chapter 22.1
After our debut stage ended safely and we said goodbye to the fans, what began was an endless wait. I thought we would head straight back to the dorms after the recording, but it turned out we had to stay until the 5 p.m. broadcast aired and even wait through the number one award before we could leave.
That did not mean we simply sat around doing nothing. We filmed challenge videos with other groups. A week before our debut, our company’s senior group, Differ, made their comeback with a new song, so we filmed their challenge too. Time passed quickly as we also joined the challenges of several other groups.
“Let’s film Differ’s new song challenge. I-rip, Hee-min, Cheonmyeong, please come out.”
“Let’s film Freeone’s new song challenge. Hee-min, Cheonmyeong, please come out.”
“Let’s film J9’s new song challenge.ISUNE, Cheonmyeong, please come out.”
“Let’s film Swan’s new song challenge. I-rip, Hee-min, Ji-hak, please come out.”
“Let’s film U&Us’ new song challenge. I-rip, Cheonmyeong, please come out.”
What surprised me was that, when filming Differ’s challenge or other groups’ challenges, I thought Baek Jae-heon would be called out every time. But unexpectedly, I, Joo I-rip, and Go Hee-min were chosen a lot.
So I wondered if maybe we were better than we thought, and that made me happy. Then I learned something that hit me like a thunderbolt.
“Why doesn’t Jae-heon hyung ever film?”
After filming U&Us’ challenge, we came back, and Ji-hak, who was following behind me, asked the sub-manager in the waiting room why Baek Jae-heon was never called. The sub-manager looked a little flustered, glanced at us, then finally spoke. What he said was ridiculous.
“Differ asked for three members with similar height. Freeone is a girl group, so it was for that reason. J9 wanted two members with a cute image because of the song’s mood. Swan and U&Us also wanted members with similar height.”
So that meant…
“What’s your height, I-rip?”
“I’m 175. But Cheonmyeong, I told you, I’m two years older than you.”
“Hee-min, you?”
“174.”
Similar height members. So… the reason I-rip, Hee-min, and I were always being called was because our heights were close?
“What about you, Myeong-hyeon hyung?”
“…176.”
“Hyung, that’s not short!”
“How tall are you?”
“184!”
This was frustrating.
“Soonbok, your height?”
“Ah, ISUNE…”
“ISUNE, how tall are you?”
“I… I’m 182.”
Wait, what? I always thought Lee Soonbok and Kwon Ji-hak were not much different from me, but they were that tall? They always seemed at my eye level.
“…Baek Jae-heon?”
Then how tall was Baek Jae-heon, the one who seemed a little above eye level compared to me? I asked him, sitting at the end of the sofa.
“187.”
He glanced at me and answered calmly. Hearing that number, my mouth fell open. He was 11 centimeters taller than me? I never felt that. I thought at most there was a difference of three or four centimeters.
“Even the heavens are indifferent. They gave him the looks and also the height.”
Without realizing it, I muttered about how everything could be poured into one person so perfectly.
“Cheonmyeong’s grumbling is funny.”
“He even took what should have been mine.”
“Myeong-hyeon hyung is still handsome in his own way.”
“Ah, Myeong-hyeon hyung is cute!”
The members chimed in, maybe to comfort me. I nearly laughed at Go Hee-min’s words, but then I heard ISUNEsay “in his own way” and my smile disappeared instantly. In his own way?
“You look good.”
Just as my mood was starting to turn complicated, Baek Jae-heon, sitting a little farther away, spoke quietly. “You look good.” If the others had said it, I would have still felt strange, but hearing it from Baek Jae-heon, who was beyond just “looking good,” made me feel a little better.
“You look good too, mister.”
“Huh?”
Had I heard someone tell me I looked good before? A faint memory drifted up in my mind. I had definitely heard it somewhere. When was it? Since the word “mister” was in there, it must have been in my past life…
In my past life, was I considered good-looking? Well, thinking about how I kept receiving marriage proposals, I probably did not look that bad…
Wait. What did I even look like in my past life? Was it just that it has been too long? I tried to recall my face back then, but nothing came to mind. Did I look different from how I look now? Maybe I looked similar. But back then I wore glasses, while now I do not. Maybe my appearance had been entirely different.
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