A Genius Director Who Dominates OTT Platforms - Chapter 110

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The Genius Director Who Dominates OTT

Episode 110

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A few hours after barging into Team 3 and taking 【Unknown】.

I was ignoring the employees who were still whispering while looking at me and preparing to leave work, when suddenly Kwon Cheol, Noh Jae-uk, and Chae Seo-hui came running into the office.

What? Why did they come?

“Why did you come to the company? Weren’t you supposed to go home straight from the set?”

The three of them were out on business related to Kwon Cheol’s undercover work 【Dark Adaptation: The Law of Evil】 scheduled for filming next week.

To be precise, I had sent them out on business.

I was planning to barge into Team 3, and it would be awkward if the three of them remained at the company.

Not that I would be awkward, but I was worried their position would be awkward.

It would be weird for them to barge into Team 3 with me, and it would also be awkward to just stand around in Team 4, right?

Then Chae Seo-hui came running over and smacked my shoulder.

“Did you really confront the Team 3 leader? Saying he has no eye for talent and will fail?”

“How do you know so accurately?”

Reporter Chae Seo-yeong isn’t covering our company, is she?

“Are you really crazy?”

Then Noh Jae-uk glared at the Marketing Team and grabbed me and Chae Seo-hui.

“Let’s not do this here and go to a cafe or something.”

True, if anyone would leak Team 4’s script information, it would only be the Marketing Team.

Should I confront Director Jeong Seon-yeong about this too?

“It’s not time to leave work yet.”

“I’ll get permission for early departure from the senior.”

Noh Jae-uk, who said that, looks at me.

Oh, right. I was the senior.

It still doesn’t feel real since it’s a position I fought for to confront Ju Yeong-hun on equal footing.

“Okay. Permission granted.”

“Let’s go.”

So I was dragged by Noh Jae-uk and Chae Seo-hui’s hands and arrived at a cafe quite far from the company.

It wasn’t a room-style setup, but there were no SSK employees among the cafe customers.

“Now tell us. Why did you do that?”

“Should I have just endured it?”

“You should have endured it. You’re a senior!”

“I’m also a senior. Didn’t you see the personnel announcement?”

“Even so…”

Leaving Chae Seo-hui trailing off, I looked around at Kwon Cheol and Noh Jae-uk.

Honestly, in terms of human affection, these two people can’t compare to Chae Seo-hui.

Chae Seo-hui has been with me since I was being mistreated at Accomplice.

Moreover, Noh Jae-uk, who came over from Team 2, even showed signs of being wary of me until he joined Handtip Crawl.

But quite a bit of time has passed, and I think we’ve developed a fairly deep bond.

At the very least, I believed these people would love Team 4 more than Teams 1, 2, or 3.

Having made my decision, I opened my mouth.

“This isn’t a matter of whether to respond or not. It’s a matter of how much to respond.”

“Why?”

“Because Team 4’s survival depends on it.”

Think about it.

Team 3 took Team 4’s script but there are no consequences?

There’s no guarantee that Teams 1 and 2 won’t pull similar stunts in the future.

Team 2 is especially dangerous.

Team 1’s schedule is packed just with the scripts they’re holding, but Team 2’s isn’t.

That 2nd Team Leader, that sinister guy, won’t fail to read the room.

So this was something that had to be repaid one way or another.

“Even if it means getting back the historical drama script and dropping it with our own hands, we can’t just sit still.”

Of course, I’m not unhappy that Park Jeong-su, that crazy bastard, went over to Team 3.

No, I feel relieved.

You never know what guys like that might do, and now he won’t be professionally involved with Chae Seo-hui anymore.

But this is my feeling as a colleague, and as a senior, I have to respond.

“Hmm… But Director Do. No, Senior?”

“Since seniors are also CEs, let’s stick with CE.”

“Good. Director Do. I understand the circumstances are very suspicious, right? He moved to Team 3 right after confessing to Seo-hui and getting rejected. There must have been prior communication.”

When I looked at Chae Seo-hui at Kwon Cheol’s words, she shrugged.

“I told them while we were all coming to the company after hearing the news.”

“Don’t worry. We absolutely have no intention of telling anyone else.”

“Mm, yes.”

“Anyway, I understand it’s suspicious, but didn’t you cause too big a scene based on just suspicion?”

“There was testimony.”

“Testimony?”

“Yes. I can’t tell you who, but someone testified that Senior Ju Yeong-hun intentionally stole writer Park Jeong-su’s script.”

It’s not a lie.

I really did get a phone call.

Though it was from someone completely unexpected.

“Did someone who wants to come to Team 4 suck up to Director Do?”

“No. That person has no intention of coming to Team 4. They just judged it was crossing the line in their opinion.”

“Really? There’s someone like that in our company?”

“Let’s stop this conversation. The whistleblower’s identity must be protected.”

Then Chae Seo-hui, who had been listening quietly, spoke up.

“Even so, wasn’t acting too aggressively when everyone was watching? Your reputation going forward, Director Do…”

“CE Chae.”

“Yes?”

“I understand you’re blaming yourself and worrying because it seems like this happened because of you, but think about it coldly. Would I really have done that for no reason?”

Despite giving such an obvious hint, Chae Seo-hui, Noh Jae-uk, and Kwon Cheol tilted their heads in confusion.

Why are these people so innocent?

“Of course, it’s true that I was angry. And it’s true that Senior Ju Yeong-hun crossed the line. But confronting him when everyone was watching wasn’t just venting anger.”

“Then what?”

“I made it so Ju Yeong-hun can’t back out.”

“Back out?”

“By now, Ju Yeong-hun must be extremely flustered, right?”

I guarantee that Ju Yeong-hun, who stole the script after hearing me say “jackpot,” must have been greatly flustered.

Because 【The Deposed Crown Prince’s Bodyguard】 was completely different from what he thought it was.

Ju Yeong-hun must have an eye for these things too, so how could he not know that script is a mess?

It’s something that needs to be fixed through a special idea.

Of course, I don’t know what that is either.

If I knew, I would have possessed it.

But judging from my experience with Accomplice and Handtip Crawl, it would need a fairly bold type of idea.

Like adding a time loop to a thriller, or turning a volleyball story into an E-sports story.

The problem was that Ju Yeong-hun had absolutely no talent in that direction.

“Senior Ju Yeong-hun has a safety-first tendency.”

His facial features suggest he pursues free-spirited adventures, but in work production, he’s the type who never takes risks.

He prefers writers with long careers, and when organizing material, he always chooses orthodox methods.

That’s how works like Gyeongseong Bakery that collapse hopelessly come about.

When a drama filled with orthodox methods starts becoming boring, it becomes endlessly boring without any limits.

However, unless it’s a case like Gyeongseong Bakery, it generally creates works that don’t collapse easily.

Oxygen Warning also didn’t show obvious signs despite its broken balance because it only chose orthodox methods.

So the conclusion was this.

“Ju Yeong-hun can never make that work successful. But because of what I said today, he won’t be able to give up either.”

Would Dohyeon-u give up halfway on a work he boldly claimed could be a huge hit?

That would be admitting his own lack of ability.

In other words, whether it turns to porridge or rice, he has no choice but to run to the end.

This was the second reason I barged into 3 Team.

However, as soon as I finished speaking, people’s reactions were strange.

Why are they rubbing their arms?

Are they cold?

Why did they get goosebumps?

“Wow… Director Do, no, Senior, you really are a scary person.”

“You got angry while thinking that far ahead? At that level, aren’t you Jekyll and Hyde?”

What are you talking about?

“Aren’t you all being too innocent? Everyone thinks and lives to this extent.”

“No. Not everyone.”

“Then let’s say you’re all innocent.”

“We’re probably not that innocent either.”

“…”

“Fine. Don’t look so serious. It’s scary.”

Then Chae Seo-hui asked.

“Then what about the script called Unknown? You brought it here bragging loudly that it would do better than the historical drama.”

That’s right.

Even putting on an unplanned show.

This was the first reason I barged into 3 Team.

I panicked when I couldn’t find the title ‘Unknown’ among the scripts Ju Yeong-hun threw, so I searched near the shredder for that reason.

Not only that?

Demanding the senior position from President Han Seong-hun and barging into 3 Team to provoke Ju Yeong-hun was all because of this script.

This was…

A script that triggered the precursor symptoms of supernatural powers.

Then Chae Seo-hui asked.

“Is that really a script that will do better?”

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In my apartment with only the desk lamp on, I looked down at the script, lost in thought.

Unknown.

Episodes 1-16.

I answered yes to Chae Seo-hui’s question about whether this was a script that would do better, but honestly, I’m not sure.

It’s an obvious supernatural agent story.

There wouldn’t be no demand for it, but the production costs seem too high to bet on vague demand.

Still, I would rate this work higher than the 3 Team CEs would.

In my eyes, this doesn’t look like a work to completely drop.

If we reduce the 16-episode script to 8 episodes, remove meaningless fights, and give meaning to the core battles, wouldn’t it be quite decent?

But even then, it’s only at a quite decent level.

Definitely not enough to boldly guarantee a huge hit.

How exactly are the supernatural powers telling me to fix this?

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