Han Ji-woon then starts to train himself like an idol, training for his vocal and dance skills, while taking care fo his appearance.
He also realizes Kim Ji-woon is jobless, so he goes to look for a part time job as a cashier to support himself a bit.
Then Han Ji-woon thought of something while taking his break.
'What if i could raise my vocal,dance,charm, and appearance like that idol manhwa!'
'System..'
'Yes •v•, i overheard and yes you can! I will display for you.'
'Very well! Let me see how this works..'
The Status screen shows the four stats with varying ranks, he sees he has 20 stat points from his accumulative training like an idol.
'I guess i just put the points in whichever area i want.'
'These are the before and afters!! •v
Before:
Vocal: B-
Charm:A++
Appearance:S
Dance:D-
After:
Vocal:A-
Charm:S-
Appearance:S+
Dance:A++
'I feel so overpowered with this range..'
'Hm..looks like my break is over let me get back to working..'
While walking out, Han Ji-woon's junior sees him.
"Oh my! Hyung..."
"Hm..?"
"How did you...become more beautiful?! Just after one break you became more beautiful!! What is your secret tell me now!!"
"Huh ..what do you mean?"
The female junior then shows his reflection on her mirror.
Han Ji-woon is greatly shocked at his beautiful looks he wonders if it really is him, its as if he just got sculpted by the goddess of beauty.
Han Ji-woon only smirks at the female junior and says.
'It's a secret'
The female junior hearing him say that throw some soft punches at him.
Then awhile later, while Han Ji-woon is working and being complimented and adored by customers because of his beauty, he remembers that in the "Live like an idol!" webnovel, around this time the audition for the bottom male lead to join in will be released.
'Hm..i should really go and quickly list myself in the audition'
Then using his breaktime, he goes and join the audition.
***
In "Live like an idol!", the audition is called "Flower Patch".
"Flower Patch" is about a beautiful girl starving and almost dying near a flower patch because she was poor, but some flower fairies quickly took care of her and saved her from starvation.
The girl starts to bond and charm the flower fairies, making the flower fairies fall in love with her. But the girl suddenly tells the flower fairies she will be leaving them to go and become succesful in the city, but only 7 flower fairies can come with her. So the flower fairies try to win her over so they could go with her!. Will the flower fairies get a chance to be chosen and go with the girl?
Is what Han Ji-woon remembers reading about the audition, there he looks at his old phone screen with the screen showing "Flower Patch".
He then moves his two fingers to start writing his information on the audition.
Then after he is done with his part time job and waves goodbye to his juniors and seniors he walks back to his apartment room.
He used to live in a run down room but changed to a much more nicer room with the help of his neighbors and the nice landlady.
After opening his door to his apartment, he lays down to his bed after an exhausting day of work.
He opens his phone screen and sees a notification.
The notification is about him needing to go to a building to undergo the audition.
He then grumbles but has to do it since the system earlier when he was taking his break popped up the window showing.
"Win 1st place in the idol audition and debut with the chosen Top male leads!"
"Time: 365 days"
"Penalty:Death"
Han Ji-woon sees it and starts to go hysteric inside.
'Is this system really copying that manhwa?' he says with a resentful smile.
•••
Next day.
Han Ji-woon wears a yellow cardigan and brown pants since its the outfit code for the audition.
He then arrives at the building and opens the door.
"H-hhello?" He says stuttering. It could be because of the tense atmosphere or his shyness towards strangers but he has now become very socially anxious.
A woman then greets him.
"Ah! Hello!~ you must be contestant "Kim Ji-woon" right?"
"Uhm, yes ma'am"
"Please put this on your chest!" She then hands out a sticker with his identity and contestant number.
Han Ji-woon then grabs the sticker and quickly sticks it to his chest.
He then looks around and sees a waiting area with other contestants nervously waiting.
Han Ji-woon then sits around a person, the person is pretty beautiful and reminds him of a timid rabbit.
The person then shyly looks at him and stutters to introduce himself.
"h-hello.. i am Shin Yun.."
Han Ji-woon then introduce himself too.
"Nice to meet you.. im Kim Ji-woon"
Shin Yun then looks at him for a moment before mumbling something that Han Ji-woon heard.
"y-yyour.. very pretty..."
"y-your cheeks.. remind me of strawberry mochi.."
Han Ji-woon only stares at him akwardly at realizes he has charmed a candidate top male lead. The kind that is a pretty shy top and is very gentle.
Then after other contestants are done with thier audition performance, Han Ji-woon gets called up with Shin Yun encouraging him.
"You are contestant "Han Ji-woon"?.."
"Yes i am."
The judges start to murmur to each other.
"Wow he is so beautiful!"
"i wonder how he got that pale milky skin!!"
"His eyelashes are so beautiful~!"
One of the judge seeing Han Ji-woon being a bit impatient lets him start his performance.
Han Ji-woon picked a pretty solid idol song called "Summer Sunflowers" that had pretty hard singing lines. But he overcame those and sang beautifully with his A- Vocal stat.
Without you, how could i ever ~
Your my sunflower!
That shines the most in the summer~
He danced gracefully according to the original "Summer sunflower"'s choreography.
He then ends with a gracious ending pose.
All the judges only watched with their mouth open wide as if flies can just go in and hangout.
Then all the judges clapped. One commented
"Very nice! Your visuals even make it more better!!"
Han Ji-woon only looked stonefaced and thanked the judges and left the stage.
He then gets greeted by Shin Yun who keeps praising him.
"y-your so good! You d-definetly be debuting..!"
"I don't think so.. who knows if i can be overthrown by other genius contestants here?"
"T-that will n-never happen..!"
Then Shin Yun hands him a protein bar to eat as anmeans to encourage him.
Han Ji-woon accepts it seeing it as an offering from a very determined rabbit.
They then exchange phone numbers so they can talk to each other.
After that, he only needs to wait for his acceptance or not.
'Since its a reality TV idol show, im probably gonna be accepted'
'Though.. why did "Flower Patch" suddenly have a pay-to-vote system just so their chosen contestant can debut...'
'Well whatever..'
Han Ji-woon then rushes to sleep after a long day.