Genius Composer Who’s a Dedicated Fan

There are about twenty more songs of similar quality to the ones you just heard.

“W-what did you say?!”

At Ryu Won’s nonchalant statement, the managers wore expressions of utter disbelief.

And it wasn’t just the managers showing such reactions.

Even Kang Beom-joon, who had been closest to Ryu Won up to this point, and Baek Yerin sitting next to Ryu Won, were both wearing shocked expressions this time.

In the midst of this confused atmosphere, Kang Beom-joon urgently asked Ryu Won.

“R-Ryu Won. You misspoke just now, right? Has my hearing gotten bad lately? Haha.”

“You seem fine to me. As I said earlier, there are about twenty more quite good songs. If we arrange them to suit Yerin, they’ll all be of a quality that’s perfectly suitable for release as audio files.”

“Really…?”

The songs of Ryu Won’s they heard earlier were each at a level that could be called a ‘hit song’ if released in the music market.

And of course, creating such hit songs is an extremely difficult task.

It’s so difficult that some might barely manage to create one song in a lifetime, or might not be able to create any at all due to the wall of talent.

But there are twenty more such songs? Even for a genius, at the mere age of a middle schooler?

Ryu Won’s statement was hard to believe even for professionals.

“I’ll go get my laptop from the CEO’s room for a moment.”

Then it was just a matter of showing the results, not ending with words.

“G-good heavens…!”

It was a total of ten songs.

The rest of the songs that Ryu Won had made whenever he had time.

In fact, from his perspective, he had merely brought over songs he had composed in his previous life or slightly revised parts that were lacking.

But there was no way for the people in the meeting room to know that fact. To their ears, all ten songs sounded just like the ones showcased earlier.

Yes. Ryu Won’s words that they could all be released as audio files without any problem were not wrong.

And Ryu Won had clearly said twenty songs.

“Then the remaining ten songs…?”

At Kang Beom-joon’s cautious question, Ryu Won didn’t bother to answer with words. He just accessed the composition program on his laptop.

It took 30 minutes like that.

The composer named Ryu Won completed a song including lyrics in just 30 minutes.

There was not a single moment of hesitation or stumbling.

As if he had simply pasted a song stored in his head…

“You really… have twenty songs, huh.”

“Yes. I had made them before, but all the files accidentally got deleted. Still, I remember them all.”

Kang Beom-joon had no way of knowing whether those words were true or not.

But one thing was clear.

It was that Ryu Won wanted something from Kang Beom-joon.

Otherwise, given his personality, he wouldn’t have revealed such an amazing card he had hidden at this timing.

“Ryu Won, what exactly do you want to do?”

Kang Beom-joon asked the boy whose thoughts he simply couldn’t read.

The boy just answered like this:

“There’s something I want to ask.”

“Right. I thought you might say something like that. Is it something you think is unreasonable?”

“This time it might really be.”

At the boy’s affirmation, Kang Beom-joon gulped, and the boy went on to explain his request.

“I want to release a full album, not a mini-album, for Yerin’s debut.”

“A full album?”

“Yes. There won’t be a problem if we arrange according to the album concept.”

But he made a request that was quite within common sense compared to what Kang Beom-joon had imagined.

No…

Rather, from the perspective of the boy who wants Baek Yerin to shine brilliantly as an artist more than anyone, it might be a truly appropriate judgment.

Let’s think in reverse.

With the popularization of music streaming platforms in the digital age, instead of purchasing entire albums, people often choose to listen to specific songs.

Because of this, releasing albums has become rather inefficient, and especially for rookies, the bold attempt to release a full album has practically disappeared.

But if some unknown rookie boldly releases a full album from their debut, going against the current trend?

It was clear that this alone would already receive tremendous interest and attention.

Moreover, a full album was also a symbolic ‘record’ for an artist.

The title of a ‘1st album singer’ at the young age of a middle schooler would create a truly exceptional image.

And in the current situation, it wasn’t a difficult task for Baek Yerin to release a full album.

The process that consumes the most cost in making a full album…

That is, the problem of acquiring songs to fill the album had completely disappeared thanks to someone.

Therefore, Kang Beom-joon was even more confused. Which part was supposed to be unreasonable?

Unfortunately, his confusion didn’t last long.

“But isn’t releasing just one full album a bit predictable?”

“What…?”

The boy… no, Ryu Won provided a clear answer.

“Usually, a full album contains 8 or more songs. But we happen to have twenty-five songs that are good enough to release as audio files, right?”

“Wait… you don’t mean!”

“Yes. Let’s release not just the 1st and 2nd albums, but all the way to the 3rd album at once. It’s already special to release a full 1st album in this era. Then how would releasing a 2nd album in succession be treated? And what about a 3rd?”

“…!”

“CEO, let’s try to surprise the world. And firmly imprint it. The arrival of the singer named Baek Yerin.”

At Ryu Won’s statement, Kang Beom-joon was so shocked that he realized what a thrill truly was.

Releasing a full album from debut is quite exceptional in the current market situation.

But to release not just a 2nd album but all the way to a 3rd album at once? This was indeed unreasonable beyond just being exceptional.

And Ryu Won was actively encouraging them to commit such an unreasonable act together.

And that…

“What do you think? Sounds like it’ll be quite an interesting picture, right?”

With a smile so pure it made him look like a child.

Kang Beom-joon let out a hollow laugh seeing that smile.

He had known for a while that the composer named Ryu Won was crazy in many ways.

But this time, he felt like he really had to throw up his hands and feet in surrender.

Kang Beom-joon took his eyes off Ryu Won and surveyed the atmosphere in the meeting room. It was to check the managers’ reactions.

Everyone was wearing bewildered expressions at Ryu Won’s words, but slowly, something new was blooming in a corner of their hearts.

It was probably…

‘Excitement.’

That’s how geniuses are originally.

They easily flip the world with ideas that ordinary people can’t even dare to think of, and lead people’s hearts like now.

“It seems I was a person far from the position of CEO after all.”

This was the same for Kang Beom-joon as well.

He was supporting Ryu Won’s idea more than anyone else in this place, and wanted to see what kind of picture the boy had drawn.

“Our first artist wants to unfold not just a simple business, but romance. And wouldn’t it be a bit disappointing if romance is missing from music? So I’m in a position to fully grant the request of the composer named Ryu Won.”

At Kang Beom-joon’s support, the managers began to look at each other.

But perhaps the answer had already been decided from the moment they heard Ryu Won’s speech.

“I agree.”

“Let’s give it a try. It’s not like we’ll die or anything.”

“We might die from being too busy.”

“Haha. Maybe that really might happen.”

* * *

Mid-March.

The cold winter passed in an instant, and the season of spring (春) had arrived.

What image does the season of spring usually give?

Many will think of it as a time when flowers bloom, new buds sprout, and it gradually gets warmer.

But this year’s spring was a bit far from the word ‘warm’. Perhaps it would be more correct to describe it as ‘hot’.

The starting point was clear.

It was from when a new agency called RT Entertainment began promoting their rookie singer.

They promoted their rookie singer like this: that they would release a full album simultaneously with their debut.

People thought:

“It seems like RT Entertainment’s CEO Kang Beom-joon has brought in a proper talent?”

From the start, Kang Beom-joon is a person who has already experienced musical success. Even if he took a break from activities, that sense wouldn’t have disappeared.

And most people know how crazy it is to invest in a full album for a mere rookie debut in the current music market.

On top of that, they didn’t even do pre-orders or pre-releases for the album.

People were curious:

“What kind of confidence are they acting with?”

It didn’t make sense even to think all this was part of noise marketing.

Even experts who heard the news judged that this wasn’t confidence, but ‘recklessness’.

Amidst such mixed reactions of expectation and negation from people, the rookie singer named ‘Baek Yerin’ and her album were released.

[The assistant has omitted translating the album and song titles to avoid potential copyright issues.]

With no less than 3 albums, not just 1 or 2.

People were bewildered.

Where did the 1st and 2nd albums go, and why did the 3rd album come out first?

And as if to instantly erase such doubts…

[The assistant has omitted translating the album and song titles to avoid potential copyright issues.]

The day right after the 3rd album was released, the 2nd full album was revealed.

Regardless of whether the songs were good or bad, people gradually began to have a certain intuition.

It seemed that RT Entertainment was planning to commit an unreasonable act.

That’s correct.

For the past few months, RT Entertainment had poured everything into this moment alone.

So…

[The assistant has omitted translating the album and song titles to avoid potential copyright issues.]

Now it’s time to watch what results their sincerity will bring.