♪ • Trashy PD Surviving As An Idol ★°•

Chapter 2

To sum up my life, I would say that I was like a dragon born in a time of peace.

My family was moderately happy, but we weren’t wealthy. Once I became an adult, my parents died in a car accident. After a difficult recovery, I had to raise my ten-year-old brother, Seo Hojin.

“Seo Hoyun, why do you live so harshly?”

“I want to live well and eat well.”

To survive in this harsh world and not be separated from Seo Hojin, I had to be ruthless and not back down from anyone.

When I passed the broadcasting station’s open recruitment as a PD, I felt like I had the world at my feet. I studied diligently, spoke fluently in front of interviewers, and worked on various news and entertainment programs. I earned the nickname “the most ruthless one” despite being a rookie and not a career PD.

Was that all? At 33, I made a small competition program called Pick the One, which surprisingly became a huge success.

– “Wow, isn’t the trailer insane?”

– “Won’t they face editing sanctions for this?”

The program captured the hearts of Koreans living in a competitive environment with trendy editing, appropriate MSG, tear-jerking stories, and a never-ending competitive format. As a result, I received numerous requests to transfer to various broadcasting stations and got to negotiate higher salaries.

That genius PD was me, Seo Hoyun.

“Hey, did you really become an idol, hyung?”

But then my career took a nosedive.

I became an idol.

It was unexpected.

“… Please repay my hard work.”

“But hey, hyung, you’ve really aged.”

“Be careful, you punk.”

I stood up and shook Seo Hojin’s shoulders, realizing that I had been overly protective of him, seeing that he was trying to stand up to me.

“Has anything changed about you?”

“No, why do you ask?”

Seo Hojin frowned and searched through his phone. He explained that his homework and the news were still the same. After searching for another five minutes, he came to a conclusion.

“Nothing has changed except for you.”

“Is this some kind of prank show?”

“Do you think I would do something like that and risk getting killed by you, hyung?”

I took Seo Hojin’s phone and searched for the Unknown Idol Tycoon game he had installed, but it was nowhere to be found.

“What is this…”

Ding!

A system window appeared on top of Seo Hojin, but he seemed unable to see it.

[Quest: You are now trapped in Unknown Idol Tycoon!

We have provided a guide for those unfamiliar with the game.]

“…A guide?”

As I said it, the system window began to scroll through, and I urgently read the explanation that appeared.

[As PD Seo Hoyun, you ruined other people’s lives, so you have been trapped in Unknown Idol Tycoon. Apart from your family, Seo Hojin, and a few others, no one remembers you as a PD. Simply put, it’s better to consider it a parallel world.]