Rebirth: King to Superstar

As the three walked out of the restaurant, Hea-Jung received her keys and stepped into the car, along with the other two. They made their way through the city, and the car stopped before the university gates. Joon-won and Jung-hwa quickly got off and Hea-Jung drove off.

Joon-won looked at the time and said to Jung-hwa, "Let's go, the results might be out. Let's leave after checking those." To which she agreed, and both made their way towards their class. The results would be posted on the class notice board.

As both of them walked, Joon-won noticed Jung-hwa being completely silent, which was very weird. He turned and noticed her thoughtful expression. He waved his hands in front of her, but got no response.

Shaking her a bit, he asked, "What are you thinking so hard about?"

"You know what. Hit me. Listen to me and hit.." before she stopped and gripped her head from the pain.

"You don't need to tell me twice. Now, why did you want to be hit?" As he rubbed his hand. He chopped her head before she could complete her sentence as she asked for it.

"Ugh, you have no feelings. How could you hit a girl like that? You didn't even ask me what was wrong. You should be a robot." She groaned and rubbed her head a little more. She thought the guy would at least be a bit thoughtful and ask why she asked him to hit her but he didn't care and didn't even allow herself to complete her sentence, she was regretting asking him.

Joon-won looked at her like an idiot. It was she who asked him to hit her and now she was complaining that he did. He couldn't help but think that he would never understand girls properly even after experiencing one whole life.

"Alright, I didn't even hit that hard. The pain will go away. Now tell me, what were you thinking so hard about, that you wanted to be hit." He quickly changed the subject.

And Jung-hwa fell for it as she forgot the pain and said, "I thought this was all a dream. This past week was so magical and things turned out to be so different. My original aim was to get into the Star Batch and that was what I was aiming at the whole year, but now I have an offer to join an agency in my hands. It's so surreal. I would never have thought that this chance would come to me." As she rubbed her pocket, in which was the paper Do Hwan gave her.

"Well, you are not hallucinating at all. It's all real, and you got this chance with your own hard work. So just try to keep improving so that you will prove your worth and get into that agency." Making her nod.

They finally reached the classroom and opened the door to see everyone standing in front of the notice board. All of them seemed shocked and murmuring to each other until one of them noticed them come in.

"Cheo Jung-hwa is here." Pointing at her. Joon-won silently went to the side when he saw her friends rushing towards her. He didn't know what was going on and didn't want to get too involved in it.

"Jung-hwa you got the first rank in the test."

"Give us a party tonight."

"How did you do it, Jung-hwa?"

As her friends bombarded her with questions, she got more confused. She asked them what was going on and it seemed like she got the first rank in the final exam, even above Hyeong Myung. Her eyes went wide, as she wasn't expecting that result.

Joon-won slowly went to the notice board and checked for his own ranking. He found it right in the middle. He was 20th and after taking a look he turned around, not caring about it much. The rank didn't matter to him. The drama was important because it was his first after being reborn into the new body and it was after a very long time.

He quickly noticed both Hyeong Myung and Roh Ji didn't have nice expressions and that Roh Ji was almost about to blow off. He didn't want to deal with it, so he quietly walked out before texting Jung-hwa that it would be better if she did the same. As he walked out of the building, he heard footsteps behind and noticed it was Jung-hwa running.

She stopped next to him and said while gasping for more air, "You should have told me there instead of texting me. That Roh Ji was almost about to start her rant before I came out here. If I didn't see your text I would have been caught in her anger again."

He nodded and continued to walk again before asking, "So, are you going back tomorrow?"

She nodded and replied, "Yes, I will be going back tomorrow and you still didn't tell me what you want me to do?"

"I'll tell you when I need your help. So when are you going to come back now that you have the chance to work in the drama house"

"Well, originally my plan was to stay at home for two weeks and come back here before trying out some auditions like you are going to. But now Mr. Dwan gave me this chance, and he also told me that I might need to report there next Monday, so I'll come back by Sunday."

The university gave everyone 2 months' holidays and had them report back by the 1st of June for their next year. So everyone had many plans on how to spend the summer, unlike them.

"Oh, are you still going to the Star Batch? You did get the first rank, after all, they will give you a chance for sure."

She shook her head and said, "No, I'll remain in the normal batch and improve through the drama house and the various drama assignments they will give next year. The Star batch doesn't seem that appealing anymore."

He nodded, and both of them went their separate ways. He reached home quickly and sat on the sofa before calling out for the system once again.