'Midas Touch' | Aespa Winter x Male Reader

Act 1 | Year 2021: Birth of Babylon Garden

December 2021,

Melon Music Awards.

The Melon Music Awards is a major music awards show that is held annually by Kakao Entertainment through its online music store Melon. The award shows uses digital data from the Melon music platform along with online voting and judges evaluation.

To base its awards to artists who have had exceptional performance during the year. This year's ceremony was being held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul and being hosted by multiple artists. This will be our group's first award ceremony and it was a given that some of us were feeling nervous.

Tobio: Hyung, do you think we really deserve if we win any award?

Muchen: It doesn't matter to be honest. I see it as a milestone for all of us. Seeing them on stage can raise our motivation to be better.

AJ: What he said. Plus, our group are being received very well by the public. If we win something, it's not going to raise a scandal or some sort.

As our members discussed at the back. I thought back what Muchen had said. After debuting, the comments that we had were more positive than I thought.

[565, -778] 5 singers, 5 rappers, 5 dancers, 5 visuals. PLEDIS ain't fooling around with these guys.

[998, -331] PLEDIS Entertainment literally hit the jackpot with these boys.

[775, -821] I can say that SEVENTEEN's legacy is in safe hands with this group. Angels! Make sure to take care of your group! We Carats put our trust in you guys!

[101, -048] PLEDIS, now we demand a collab between these two groups!

I smiled at the wholesome comments made by the netizens. It's because of this, we want to pay back them with the fullest. Looking at the window, we saw the huge building as we walked out from our van.

Cameras flashed right onto our eyes. Leading our group, we stand side by side as we posed for our first photoshoot at the red carpet.

Manager: All right guys. Let's go to your first ever award ceremony.

Following our manager, we were brought to the break room to finalize any related matters. As we passed by, we bowed and fanboy (A little bit) seeing the other idols that we always see on TV.

Jaewoo: Wah. There's TWICE sunbaenim! Oh that's EXO!

AJ: We always see them on TV. But today, we're sharing the stage with them.

Tobio: We achieved our dream guys.

I smiled as they were in awe at the atmosphere. a chuckled were heard from our manager beside me.

Manager: I can't believe that I'm seeing the kids that I took care reached here.

Muchen: Aww don't be like that manager-nim. It's because of you we're here.

Me: Yeah. You took care of us like we're your own children. You remind us to eat, sleep and get enough rest. So please take some pride in you.

Manager: T-Thank you for your words. Now, make sure to win out there!

I smiled as we hugged our manager before entering the break room. Opening it, we were greeted by a lot of other artists from the 4th generations. Ranging from ENHYPEN, (G)I-dle, The Boyz and Aespa. We greet them formally and introduced ourselves yet everyone already know us.

Karina: You guys made it!

Me: Anneyeoung unnie. We're very honoured to be here.

Karina: Nonsense! Come come, Minjeong won't stop talking about you.