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News of my comeback spread rapidly through various media outlets.

Two years—a long time if you call it long, and a short time if you call it short.

People still hadn't forgotten me at all.

Since I hadn't been gone for ten years or anything, the reaction to my comeback was immediate, to put it mildly.

It took only a week not merely to occupy every entertainment-news headline, but also to conquer trending posts across all kinds of online communities and even social-media algorithms.

With the pandemic drawing to a close and society gradually regaining its vitality, news of the comeback of a girl loved by the entire nation must have felt like a spring breeze.

As always, the entertainment industry was, at its core, an industry built to make money.

Blue Sky Entertainment moved quickly alongside my comeback.

The company had now grown into a respectable mid-sized outfit, and instead of handling things sluggishly as it had in the past, it had become capable of swift planning and execution.

Most notably, it had spent two whole years managing Noiris and Blooming, artists of a caliber that would have been difficult for a mid-sized agency to handle...