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With the sound of drums reverberating, the opening ceremony began. Dansol, waiting anxiously for his turn, stood backstage.
“Joo Dansol―!”
Several audience members sitting on the side yelled towards Dansol, who was busy memorizing his changed route. Startled, he looked around with wide eyes.
“You’re amazing!”
It was an incredibly loud fan. Even though they weren’t seated in the front row, their voice was powerful enough for Dansol to pinpoint where they were.
For Dansol, who rarely received cheers but often faced jeers or indifference after appearing on RO Match Survival, every fan calling out his name was precious.
Dansol waved enthusiastically at the fan who called his name.
But as the grand music began and the members of Zeus started their sword dance with shouts of concentration, he knew his turn was coming and moved to a spot out of the audience’s sight.
Doo-doong.
As the deep drum sound marking the end of the grand music resonated, signaling Dansol’s entrance, a powerful daegeum (bamboo flute) melody echoed over the piano notes.
As Dansol, portraying the gumiho (nine-tailed fox) that seduces and endangers generals, appeared, Taeoh, turned away from the audience, winked at him.
It was meant to calm the visibly nervous Dansol once he took the stage.
At that moment, Dansol had to fight to hold back tears.
As he focused on the sorrowful music, memories of the members still in the hospital and the unexpected events after his regression flashed before his eyes like a panorama.
Trying not to think about anything else, Dansol concentrated more on his dance.
Though he was just a supporting role in the grand scheme of the performance, he acted as if the gumiho role he played was the protagonist.
In the climax, where the gumiho, who received love from all the generals, inadvertently harmed a human, turning those who loved him into enemies, and eventually meeting death at the hands of the one he loved most, Taeoh, a calculated tear fell from Dansol’s eyes.
The audience applauded Dansol thunderously, even after the gumiho left the stage and another idol group took over to perform the general’s true love story.
The staff, unaware of the circumstances, were also quite impressed by Dansol’s performance.
But in truth, those weren’t just tears of acting but his real emotions.
As he made his way into the waiting room hallway, staff members and those on standby all gave him thumbs up and applauded.
However, instead of basking in the applause, Dansol retreated to a quiet corner of the hallway’s bathroom to cry for a long while.
When Dansol returned to the waiting room, Jisoo was waiting for him, just as he had promised earlier.
“Sol, you did well! Great job.”
“Thank you, hyung. But where’s Daesoo Senior?”
“That guy watched your performance and then left. He had another schedule.”
“Oh… then what about you, hyung?”
Dansol worried that Jisoo was waiting to take him out for a post-performance celebration.
He wasn’t in the right mind for it now; he wanted to rush to the hospital where the members were.
“I waited to take you. Let’s go to the hospital.”
“Oh… I’m fine. I can take a taxi… You must be busy too…”
But, as always, Jisoo read Dansol’s mind first.
“I’m not busy. And if you took a taxi looking like that, the driver might faint.”
Only then did Dansol notice his reflection in the mirror.
His beautifully styled white hair was now a tangled mess from burying his face in his hands and crying in the bathroom, and his eyes, swollen from the red lenses, looked terrifying.
Though he felt burdened by the idea of having Jisoo drive him, he had no other choice.
“Let’s remove the makeup on the way. If we don’t leave now, we’ll get stuck in traffic at rush hour.”
“Yeah… Hyung!”
Following Jisoo , who firmly held Dansol’s wrist in one hand and his bag and clothes in the other, Dansol quietly descended to the parking lot.
How many cars does this hyung have? Looking at yet another different car from yesterday, Dansol silently marveled.
He thought he had seen them all at Jisoo ’s house parking lot, but apparently, he was wrong.
“Sorry for the trouble, hyung. I’ll owe you one.”
“Sure, use me as much as you want.”
[RO Match Survival in Island Portal]
Is that Joo Dansol? Did you see the gumiho?
⤷When the tear dropped, I thought it was a musical… Joo Dansol
⤷He had the shortest appearance but dominated the opening ceremony, Joo Dansol
⤷The concept fits him so well, it’s crazyㅠㅠㅠㅠ
⤷But it was too shortㅠㅠ Can we get a version from the gumiho’s perspective too?
⤷2222 Right, our gumiho had a reason too…!
Did you know about the DinoSoul accident?
Apparently, all the members practiced for today’s performance, but they got into a three-car collision while coming up from Busan. So they had to change the performance at the last minute.
⤷But they did that well? Is Joo Dansol a genius? And then Zeus also changed their choreography? Wow, they’re amazing… How are they so good…
⤷So Dansol’s tears weren’t acting but real? Are the others hurt badly?
⤷ Judging by the news link, it doesn’t seem like there are any severe injuries, but seeing the crushed car leaves me speechless…
Joo Dansol’s dance lines are insane.
⤷ The best among the gumiho I’ve seen.
⤷ Waiting patiently for the year-end awards ㅠㅠㅠ But did you know? Jaegal Minhyuk made the music for this?
⤷ Seriously, I was shocked when I saw the subtitles. Is everything rigged in this industry once something becomes a hit?
⤷ The island is so small that they obviously knew what each other was doing.
⤷ Or maybe not. Someone might think he even went into Chunmong and came out. Stop making baseless assumptions.
⤷ Isn’t it obvious? Have you ever experienced social life? With a scale like that, when multiple people are involved, of course, it’s like, “I’m doing this these days, do you guys want to join in?” Isn’t that normal?
⤷ Is this really an issue that needs to bring up social life… No matter how you’ve lived, we’ve agreed to call that illegal solicitation.
Joo Dansol’s crying skill is something even most actors can’t do.
Sorry for the clickbait title. I captured a GIF because the part where he cries at the end was so beautiful. I know the DinoSoul members had a car accident and that’s why he was on the verge of tears, but it fits the concept so well that just listening to the music makes me tear upㅠㅠ
(Dansol crying skill.gif)
⤷ Yeah ㅠㅠ Joo Dansol should definitely do historical dramas.
⤷ he’d be perfect for historical dramas. he’s already set the whole narrative with a single tear.
⤷ Honestly, I didn’t really get why everyone was raving about Joo Dansol, but now I kind of understand…
At that time, Dansol’s performance was being broadcast in the hospital where the members were taken.
Actually, Dansol had no injuries, but Woohyun had a broken leg.
Even while being taken to the hospital and having his fractured right leg bone set, Woohyun didn’t let go of the video showing Dansol’s performance.
The same went for the other members.
“Ah, ah, wait a minute! Hold on! Time! It hurts too much, doctor!”
The members who didn’t even make a sound of pain when talking to Dansol, fearing they might worry him, were now all making a fuss at the hospital.
“I haven’t even touched it yet, patient.”
“Ah… ah… it hurts even if you don’t touch it! But please let me know when you’re going to touch it. I’m not mentally prepared, ugh!”
By the time Dansol arrived at the hospital, the members and Gilsung had been moved to a ward. They were placed in an 8-person room thanks to the hospital’s consideration, but Gilsung thought they might have been iSolted because the members were too noisy.
“Hey! Are you crazy? I’m watching that, why did you change the channel?”
“I need to watch my drama!”
“Watch it on your phone!”
“I don’t have data!”
Even the manager, Gilsung, wanted to be discharged immediately after sharing the room with them for a short time.
He realized how amazing Dansol was.
When Dansol entered the ward, the members quieted down as if they hadn’t been arguing.
“Are you okay, hyung?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. Just some bruises.”
“You said you weren’t hurt! This is not hurt?”
Dansol pointed at the members, each lying in bed with a cast on one or two places.
Dansol’s eyes looked like he was about to cry. he had gone on stage alone without knowing any of this.
The stage he had always dreamed of performing on with the members as the main act felt like he was enjoying it alone, leaving behind the injured members, making his feel selfish and uncomfortable.
“Hyung! The performance was really awesome!”
Minjae said, trying to comfort Dansol, who was obviously blaming himself.
Dansol shouted back that it didn’t matter right now, but the members were already looking behind his as if they had seen a ghost.
As they stared quietly in shock, Minjae mumbled quietly.
“Ha, Han Jisoo … It’s Han Jisoo !”
“Han Jisoo ? Am I your friend?” (TL: Minjae used informal when he called Han Jisoo so Jisoo was quite dissatisfied because Minjae was not close to him and he was even younger than Jisoo.)
When Minjae pointed at Jisoo in surprise, Jisoo , who had apparently brought a fruit basket, put it down nonchalantly.
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i wish they finally talked things out to resolve their conflict, im proud of dansol’s performance tho hehe