When she clicked on the music video, the title of the video caught her eye before the 5-second commercial.

'Gasp, it's already 22 million.'

It was 20 million when she saw it a while ago, but even though it has been a week since its release, the number of views was accumulating quite quickly. Even the time it took to reach 10 million was also a new record for the group.

'Well, I'm also watching it again.'

The graduate student shrugged as she thought it deserved the views. It was because TeStar's music video this time was a little different from the previous ones.

"Ah, it's starting."

At that moment, the commercial ended and the music video started.

An antique phonograph covered in dust and cobwebs was captured on the screen. A pale hand appeared from a corner and pressed the needle on the phonograph.

Tu-tu-tuck.

The cobweb broke off, and a slow, crackling melody began to flow out. It was a lo-fi jazz melody that deliberately had the sound quality lowered. A romantic and sad piano was playing.

Before she knew it, the scene changed to the entrance of a mansion. Although old, the structure still had a luxurious trace and displayed greatly beautiful visuals on the captured frame.

And among them...

Under the dusty, glowing chandelier, the focus was on the figures of seven people sitting in formation.

The song started.

The choreography unfolded.

The elements of modern dance and waltz were prominent. It was an elegant and complex choreography with a lot of movements using the whole body to support each other.

The long hem of the sleeves swayed.

There were no repetitive movements that would be easy to follow or memorize. The movements were solely aimed to make people watch with their mouths open.

The structural lines were held long under the light of the chandelier.

The video changed the background from an old and luxurious entrance hall to a classy study in the rain, a huge dining table lined with rusty bird cages, and a bathroom full of red scented candles. Each time, the hair and clothes also changed their form and color, and the background assimilated naturally in an instant.

The visuals were insanely beautiful.

Then the background became a bedroom where golden blue butterflies flew around.

The evolution of outfits, which seemed to have no end and were based on colorful suits, came to a halt.

They were wearing vintage lightweight shirts.

On the spine between the shoulders, you could see a spinning clockwork.

The final chorus' fully blooming choreography.

Butterflies gathered at each change in formation and sat on the clockwork, like birds perching on a spinning wheel.

The shadows on the floor stretched, casting long butterfly wings.

There were no significant cut scenes, acting, or projected narratives.

The video, which consisted solely of choreography and proper close-up shots, swallowed up time in an instant. It was a music video with beautiful and enchanting visuals and a song that went well together with it.

The lyrics ended like that. All sounds stopped for a moment.

The last instrumental resumed faintly.

While the piano and contrabass were playing, a pale hand appeared like in the first scene. However, this time the camera moved up the arm.

The owner of the pale hand was Seon Ahyun.

Seon Ahyun, who got out of the choreography formation, headed to a wall clock in one of the bedrooms. Then he ripped off the lower right wing of the taxidermy blue butterfly hanging over the clock.

In the glass beneath the wings, diagonal cracks were revealed.

The video ended with a delicate caption in cursive appearing over the re-captured clock from the front.

'Phew!'

It was great to watch it again!

The graduate student couldn't control the corners of her mouth and turned the last verse to catch a close-up of Moondae.

Blue butterflies flew around his temples, and Park Moondae's toned face, staring slightly upward, was really the best.

And there was the icing on the cake.

'The choker on his neck!!'

Although the choker material and the atmosphere were completely different, she liked it even more because it reminded her of the second team match of where she first saw Park Moondae.

Even though the graduate student had already done it, she took a screenshot of the scene one more time.

'Ah, I like this music video so much! The song is also nice to listen to!'

It was her liking to let herself enjoy four minutes of enchanting beautiful visuals and a song that was easy to listen to without having any question marks floating around in her head.

And that point was revealed right away on the thumbnail.

Before TeStar had used their hands, the scenery or props to create some meaningful narrative on the thumbnails ever since 'Magical Boy'. However, this time they openly put a close-up of a member's upper body on the thumbnail.

It was Kim Raebin.

"Hmm."

It was a pity that it wasn't Park Moondae, and she had a pretty bad impression of a Kim Raebin fan she met for the first time, so the graduate student felt strange about this.

But the thumbnail picture itself was art.

'...Raebin is handsome.'

The soaked picture of Kim Raebin with a corset choker around his neck showing a blue butterfly under his chin was stunning.

And he was also the perfect person for this song.

The concept was very languid and luxurious so Kim Raebin, who had a slightly decadent impression, suited it well.

The music video also had a world-building and it was also a way to bombard the viewers' sight and hearing.

'Ah, it's over.'

While she was lost in her thoughts for a moment, the video that was playing again ended, and a related video was played by the automatic playback.

It was the first performance of 'Midnight and After' at the concert.

The screams made it difficult to hear the song.

'Ah right! Everyone was like this!'

She giggled as she recalled the situation.

Her friend, who was Park Moondae's homepage master, had sent her a link to the fan cam video, which had a neatly edited sound, so she forgot about it.

According to her friend, it was even more chaotic because the concept photos were released just before without any hints.

'Well, come to think of it, it's just a pretty picture! I'm looking forward to it! I think it was like this.'

That's right.

For a more dramatic impact for the first performance, TeStar and the company accepted Park Moondae's suggestion and took a lot of concept photos and teasers.

It was just a moderately good-looking shoot using a suitable suit and a mansion.

The graduate student didn't know much about it, but the clear reaction under the water was this much.

But the moment the concert came out, everything turned upside down.

TeStar even came out really wearing an outfit that could have been seen as too much as they wore something similar to the butterfly tail model on the clockwork. Since a lot of capital was put into this, the outfit did not look awkward even if it was that much excessive.

After that, a special photo with the concept of the music video was added exclusively for the album, and some were uploaded on TeStar's social media, which was perfect.

However, the graduate student was just happy without thinking about such detailed calculations.

'Okay, let's watch Moondae's fan cam too!'

The graduate student excitedly put in the search word on WeTube and found Park Moondae's new music show fan cam.

The hairstyle that only exposed half of the forehead and the loose stage suit matched him really well.

'Blonde is the best...!'

She watched the video happily and suddenly opened the comment section.

Of course, she knew from experience that the best comments were written in English, but she was happy to find one or two comments in Korean.

Looking at the comments, she also wanted to add something.

"Hmm~"

The graduate student was happily scrolling down the comment section, and she finally found a Korean comment.

But... they weren't the kinds of comments she was expecting.

"...?"

...She felt uncomfortable.

This concept was based on coolness and elegance, and even a little sexiness... It could be felt that each element was focused on artistry. And Park Moondae was a genius idol who perfectly pulled off the concept, neither excessively nor falling short!

'But instead of talking about the performance, why are these comments on top?'

Of course, she didn't feel bad about it since it was also a good thing.

It was just that... her excitement had cooled down.

The graduate student just skipped over the comments and scrolled down. Fortunately, she was soon able to find comments that she could relate to.

'This is it!'

The graduate student smiled and enjoyed it.

Her discomfort was quickly forgotten, but now she seemed to have an understanding of what her friend was feeling uneasy about.

'They are more interested in Moondae being kind than Moondae himself...'

Of course, she wasn't saying that most people were like that but she was no longer happy that there was such an atmosphere.

'I want to hurry up and watch the variety show with Moondae in it.'

While waiting for the variety show, the graduate student watched the videos of them preparing for the unit stage of the last concert and the fan cam of the unit stage every break.

And on the day of the airing of .

She choked on her water from the first appearance of Park Moondae and Keun Sejin.

"Keuheugh!!"

It was because Park Moondae and Keun Sejin... were wearing baby pink fairy wings.

"...?!"

The two started dancing to the music on the stage that looked like a music cafe in the 80s.

Wearing overalls, he obviously looked cute and handsome.

However, the pink fairy wings stole the viewers' attention.

Captions also appeared.

It was a new comment from the DJ.

'Why... why are they wearing something like that?'

The graduate student looked at the screen in confusion, and she immediately realized.

"Ah, a butterfly!"

It seemed that they were aware of the fact that this new song was secretly called 'Butterfly Boy' among fans!

'So cute!'

It was a big picture for a gag and publicity, but the fans were happy to see it anyway.

"Ahaha!!"

The graduate student laughed and turned up the volume.

And at the same time, TeStar was doing the same thing.

* * *

"Ahahahaha!!"

"Kuh, huhahap!"

The guys had gathered in the living room and were bursting out laughing after saying that they would monitor .

'I knew it would be like this.'

I was a bit embarrassed, but... I haven't gone through all the bizarre things so far for my composure to be broken by something like this.

"Is it that funny?"

"Yes!!"

When Cha Yujin answered, Bae Sejin toppled over. Even that answer seemed funny.

'...Let's put up with it.'

I stared at the remote control.

...But when the scene of me and Keun Sejin dancing around the DJ booth came out, I couldn't stand it any longer.

On the screen, I was shouting.

Tick.

I pressed the mute button.

"Huh??"

"Hey, why~"

"Moondae, it's fun! It's okay!"

It was not okay.

I bitterly looked at the screen.

I was really looking forward to the second half of the shoot.