Top Star: Journey to become a Global Star

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Chapter 1. Return

"Um.....let....me...sleep...."

Ren groaned as he felt something shaking his shoulder. His eyes were exhausted. He just wanted to sleep for eternity.

He barely opened his eyes as he noticed that the hand that was shaking him was getting stronger.

"Wake up Ren. It's already 8 in the morning."

The voice was loud, but Ren felt familiarity from the voice. It was a voice that he hadn't heard for a long time.

"Ren, you are going to be late for the shoot if you keep sleeping like this."

"Shoot.....what shoot?"

Ren's mind jolted awake when he heard those words. He quickly kicked up his blanket and got up from the bed.

"This is my......room?!"

The first scene he saw after opening his eyes was his room. He was confused as to why he was in his bedroom.

He had already left this house and started living independently. He wasn't able to understand why he was here.

"What are you looking around for? Did you have some sort of dream?"

Ren finally noticed the woman in front of him. She had black hair, and her face was full of wrinkles. She also looked a bit pale.

"Moth....Mother!!"

"Who would it be If not your mother? Did you have a weird dream or something? Ah, what are you doing?"

Before he knew it, Ren already had his mother into a tight embrace. Tears were flowing down his cheeks, but he simply continued to hug his mother.

"Ren, what happened to you? Why are you hugging me like this?"

His mother tried to shake him off, but she was unable to do it. Her son was hugging her tightly as if he would never let her go.

She wasn't able to understand why her son was showing such strange behaviour.

"Why....No, how are you here, mother?"

After a while, Ren finally released her from his embrace and calmed down.

"What do you mean by that? You are acting weird today. Are you okay?"

Although his mother said that like nothing had happened, Ren's mind was in a mess.

He clearly remembered that his mother had died after she was diagnosed with a heart disease.

At that time, he had no money to pay for her operation, so she had died because of that. He still blames himself for that.

"I don't know what happened to you but wash up and come for breakfast."

His mother said that and left the room, but his mind was still a mess.

He pinched his face several times to confirm it, and he was sure that it wasn't a dream. It was too real for it to be a dream.

Ren went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on his face several times to calm his mind.

'I look young again.'

As he looked into the mirror, Ren noticed that he was looked at least 20 years younger. There were no wrinkles on his face, and his body was youthful again.

Ren wasn't able to understand what was going on. The last memory he had was of him driving his car while he was going to an audition when suddenly a truck slammed into him...