In This Life, The Greatest Star In The Universe

Three years was both short and long.

In particular, men who have served in the army will understand me.

How long is 21 months?

I never thought that just 21 months would feel longer than my six years as a trainee.

‘The army… nevermind.’

I finally understood what Seokhwan hyung meant before we separated at the terminal.

Many things happened during these three years.

I helped my grandmother with her shop and joined the army as soon as I became an adult.

It was because I didn’t want to spend money on food and I couldn’t make a lot either.

At that time, she was worried about my career path.

Frustrated with my childhood dream of becoming an idol, I finally revised my future goals after wandering for a while.

A composer.

I don’t know if it was because I inherited it from his parents, who were musicians, but I had my own musical talent and decided to become a composer to make use of it.

If you can’t become an idol, you can make music for idols.

That’s what I thought.

I thought it would be pretty good to start out as a composer and later become a producer.

So I prepared for the CSAT.

I thought it was essential to enter a good music college to become a composer.

Of course, preparing for the CSAT in the military was not easy at all.

There were many obstacles.

For me, who was obsessed with becoming an idol for six years straight and has neglected my studies, studying for the qualification exam and the CSAT was a huge barrier.

If it wasn’t for the fact that I mastered English and Chinese when I was a trainee, I would still be preparing for the college entrance exam.

Two years of study that started with the mindset that I had to start from scratch.

Fortunately, I successfully passed the qualification exam and now only the CSAT was left.

Winter 2013, now.

Three years after I left the company. Soon after being discharged from the military, I, 21-year-old Sun Woojoo, was ready to take my CSAT.

It was cold enough for me to see my breath.

At that moment, I understood what they meant by ‘every year, it gets colder on the day of the CSAT’.

Uuu, it’s cold.

Since I was discharged from the army, I was walking down the street, browsing the Internet with my new smartphone.

It’s still dawn.

It was still time for street lights to be lit.

[Who is the star taking the CSAT today?]

When I clicked on the article in the entertainment section of the portal site, I saw faces that I knew.

TNT’s Han Taehyun, La Vie En Rose’s Jeon Yubin, etc.

It was packed with faces I saw when I was still at TJ Entertainment.

They’re all familiar faces.

Among them, I noticed TNT’s Han Taehyun.

TNT.

After I was cut and the new member was added, TNT made its debut right away.

The result was a great success.

It wasn’t just any success, but a huge one.

They swept up all the awards, including the Rookie of the Year award. The epitome of the greatest rookie idol of all time was on the front page.

To be honest, I didn’t know it would work that well.

Whatever, it has nothing to do with me anyway.

I took a deep breath and looked at the hill in front of me.

Is it because it snowed yesterday?

There was ice on the hill to the test site.

How can I climb up?

After a moment of my mental breakdown, I turned my head to a strange sound.

Clank–.

It was the sound of a manhole’s cover and a wheel bumping into each other.

The old man pushing the wagon[1] was struggling to climb the hill.

[1] in korean we say rear car, but i don’t know the exact english word, wagon is close enough

Maybe it’s because they were of similar age.

He seemed to overlap with my grandmother in Gunsan.

He was struggling up the hill, it was sad seeing him get swayed by the wind.

Should I help him?

As it was early in the morning, there was still plenty of time to enter. I checked the electronic watch I used in the army.

I’d rather be in the hallway.

But you never know.

Maybe a god in the sky would see me and go ‘you’re a bit of an admirable bastard’ and then bless me.

With that thought in mind, I smiled cheerfully.

“Sir.”

“……”

“Sir.”

“…are you talking to me?”

A weak voice replied.

“Are you tired? I have some energy left so I’ll escort you till the end of the hill.”

“You will help me?”

“Yes.”

“You look skinny and weak though.”

“Don’t worry, though I may look like this I just got discharged from the mili-urgh…!”

As soon as I grabbed and pushed the wagon’s handle, I realized something was wrong.

“…huh?”

“What is it?”

“It’s nothing, haha!”

On the outside I laughed but on the inside of my bubble jacket I felt a cold sweat run down.

Why is it this heavy?

Soon, I realized two shocking facts.

“……”

I thought it was just a box filled with paper, but turns out there was a radio in there.

First. I realized there was a bunch of junk in there, like some sort of waste house.

Second, the muscles in the arms of the old man who was pushing the wagon were alive and breathing.

Plus, every time his pants moved, his bulky calves were revealed.

I felt dismayed for having done something useless for someone who could easily handle this themselves.

“Student, are you okay?”

“This is quite heavy. It looked light.”

The old man bursted into a fit of laughter.

“Aigoo, student. Is there anything easy in this world?”

“You’re right.”

“Not everyone can do this, you need to have expertise.”

“How many years have you been pulling wagons?”

I was out of breath and just said whatever.

“All my life.”

“Pant, pant… that’s amazing.”

A proud smile rose on the old man’s face.

“I’m sending my son to college with this… aigoo, you’re already out of energy? How can a young man be like this?”

When the wagon reached the end of the hill, I grabbed my knee.

Wow, this is insane.

Steam came out of my bubble jacket and beads of sweat flowed down the side of my face.

I learned a lesson today.

Don’t ever ignore a wagon.

“Thank you, student. You weren’t of much help, but you are very kind. You look delicate and very pretty.”

“Yes yes, it was very difficult.”

“Where will you be going now?”

“I’m going to the school in front of us to take an exam.”

“Ah, the CSAT?”

“Yes.”

“Aigoo, an examinee struggled to help this old man.”

I felt warmth when the old man tightly grasped my hand.

“You will be blessed for doing a good deed.”

“Thank you.”

It didn’t seem all that helpful, but it was rewarding.

Is this why people do volunteer work?

After exchanging warm words of blessing with the old man, I bowed my head to greet him and moved on.

Soon, I was at the entrance of the test site.

However, as I was walking with stiff shoulders, I had no choice but to turn around at another strange sound.

Buaaang!

It was a speeding car.

What? Are they out of their minds?

A white sedan was racing frantically on the side street of the school.

The movement was unusual, so it must’ve been a drunk driver.

And the direction in which the car was heading…

“Sir!”

On the route of the car, an angry old man was making a phone call, standing next to his wagon.

I shouted urgently.

“Grandpa!”

[t/n: not as in his actual grandfather, its another title you can use for the elderly]

But there was no response.

He was talking on the phone as if he was yelling, so he probably didn’t hear me.

Meanwhile, the car was heading towards the wagon. My heart began to anxiously beat.

‘No!’

I had no time to think.

Feeling as if time had stopped, I ran with all my might towards the old man.

Meanwhile, the car quickly narrowed the distance within a moment.

“Be– careful–!”

As the license plate approached, I pushed the old man.

Kwang!

The car crashed into the wagon and broke the window of a hair salon.

“I’m alri–”

Fortunately, the old man, who fell to the floor, was in good condition.

The problem was me.

“Ugh–!”

My feet, which ran at full power to push the old man, made a misstep.

Huh?

What’s this?

The cause of the problem was that I stepped on an icy road.

Instantly, I felt the gravity center switch over to my backside as my body fell into a temporary weightless state.

I felt like a viking descending.

Then, in an instant.

Kung–!

My body bumped into something and I rolled down the hill.

When I stopped rolling, the sign of a BBQ restaurant with a cow smiling brightly on it came into my sight.

‘My head hurts.’

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My field of vision dimmed.

‘45,000 thousand won for three sirloins…’

That was my last memory.

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