Bedroom Genius Actor - Chapter 50

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Episode 50

-Ji-hu, Vivid Studio sent over the script! Could you take a look at it?

At Choi Tae-geon’s message, Kim Ji-hu checked his email.

“That’s right. ‘Office Apocalypse’.”

The title of the work the System had presented matched the title of the script Vivid Studio had sent.

Since this was somewhat expected, he just accepted it and moved on.

-Manager, could we talk on the phone for a moment?

-A phone call? I’ll call you right now!

Within seconds of sending the message, Choi Tae-geon called him.

“Hello?”

-Ji-hu! Is something wrong? Are you feeling sick or something?

“…What?”

Kim Ji-hu looked puzzled.

-You never ask if you can call first, but suddenly you did… I thought maybe something big happened… so I…

“Ah, it’s nothing like that, so don’t worry.”

-I see! Then what’s this about?

“There’s something I wanted to ask you. Do you happen to know about Recal Entertainment?”

At Kim Ji-hu’s question, Choi Tae-geon thought for a moment before speaking.

-Recal… I have heard of it. Isn’t Ji-hye affiliated with them?

“Ah, that’s right. Did you find out about it while looking into Ji-hye?”

-Yes, but is something wrong?

Kim Ji-hu told him about what had happened recently.

About the situation the Content Team and Kim Ji-hye were currently experiencing.

“I’m wondering if I might be worrying over nothing…”

-No, there’s definitely a problem. Especially if it’s practically a one-man management where Ji-hye is the only famous person.

“But it might not be accurate… Ji-hye might have turned down everything herself.”

-That’s possible too. She seemed to have a similar personality to yours, Ji-hu.

Choi Tae-geon thought for a moment before speaking.

-Let’s do this then. I’ll look into Recal. Since they have a Content Team, they must be of a certain size.

“Thank you… I’m sorry for asking you to do something like this.”

-Not at all. It’s our job to help you focus on your work, Ji-hu.

Hearing that made him think he had chosen his management really well.

‘Since PD Seo Min-sik recommended them. Come to think of it, what is PD Seo Min-sik up to these days?’

There had been no contact since their last phone call.

Since Kim Ji-hu wasn’t the type to reach out first either, he figured no news was good news and was waiting for now.

‘PD Seo Min-sik did tell me to focus on my work for now. Then should I focus on the script?’

After ending the call with Choi Tae-geon, he opened the script Vivid Studio had sent.

The content was roughly about office workers dealing with a zombie outbreak at their company.

‘And the role I’m playing is… the protagonist’s colleague?’

According to what was written in the script, the protagonist was Oh Jin-woo, and Kim Ji-hu was playing a colleague who was doing better than the protagonist.

However, such things became meaningless once the zombie apocalypse broke out.

As Kim Ji-hu slowly read through the script, he could clearly feel it.

‘Th-this is incredibly interesting???’

Kim Ji-hu had planned to just skim through it today and read it properly later. However, he read for an entire hour without moving from his seat.

And without changing his posture even once.

‘I can see why Oh Jin-woo called it a major project.’

Moreover, the more he read the script, the more he could tell how much money would go into it.

Just from the background descriptions, surrounding characters, and zombie descriptions, it was full of places that would cost money.

‘This is a scale that couldn’t be produced without Netflix.’

Just being selected for a Netflix Original could get you several times more investment than what you’d receive domestically.

That’s why these days, when works needed tremendous scale, they would make them with Netflix involved.

‘With a work of this caliber, it might really be possible…’

The Quest the System had presented: ranking first for 2 weeks.

Though he was still only in the early-to-middle part of the script, he thought it might be enough.

Ding.

It was time to go work out.

Based on the script content, there would be a lot of physical movement, so he’d need to exercise even harder.

***

“This is kind of strange…”

After ending his call with Kim Ji-hu, Choi Tae-geon immediately looked into Recal Entertainment.

However, there wasn’t much information available.

That was even stranger.

According to what he heard from Kim Ji-hu, wasn’t it an entertainment company that even had a Content Team?

Yet he couldn’t find proper information about such a place.

‘Then it’s one of two things. Either it’s just completely incompetent…’

Or they’re scammers.

There are various companies in the entertainment industry. Since artists have such diverse characteristics, management also develops various characteristics to handle them.

Naturally, this creates an environment where scammers can thrive.

With such diverse characteristics, even if something seems a bit odd, people tend to overlook it, allowing them to escape attention.

‘But this case is a bit different.’

Usually scammers try to exploit singers or work them extremely hard to continuously drain profits, but they rarely neglect them.

After all, the artists need to work for them to make money too.

‘Then…’

One hypothesis came to mind. Honestly, it was a bit strange, but nothing else could explain it.

That was:

“Is this a shell company?”

Choi Tae-geon considered one possibility.

Companies established for purposes other than entertainment.

And to maintain the facade of being an entertainment company, they invite not-very-famous trainees to join as an entertainment company.

By chance, a ‘real’ talent like Kim Ji-hye got mixed in there and hit it big.

Given Kim Ji-hye’s personality, she probably didn’t know much about what entertainment companies do,

and the shell company creators, not knowing how to manage artists, just muddled through until now.

‘This would only be possible if we assume it’s really a shell company.’

But to confirm this was beyond Choi Tae-geon’s capabilities.

He was just an experienced manager. He didn’t have the connections or ability to investigate something like this.

‘There are specialists for this kind of thing.’

Choi Tae-geon immediately got up and headed to the CEO’s office.

Knock knock.

“CEO, this is Choi Tae-geon. May I come in?”

“Yes~ Come in.”

CEO Baek Do-kyung was sitting at his desk wearing a neat suit.

“Is something wrong? Did Ji-hu cause some trouble?”

“Ahaha… No. It’s related to Ji-hu, but it’s not about him personally.”

“Something related to Ji-hu?”

“It’s about his sister, Kim Ji-hye.”

At those words, Baek Do-kyung slowly smiled and spoke.

“Could you… explain the situation?”

***

“You couldn’t even handle one person and made things this complicated?”

“I’m, I’m sorry…”

“I told you to just keep the company running, but suddenly you debut a real singer, and now you can’t even handle simple content collaboration. What exactly can you people do?”

Recal Entertainment Office.

Inside, a tattooed man was venting his anger.

In front of him, Kim Ji-hye’s manager Kong Min-gu bowed his head.

“B-but now that we know Kim Ji-hye is Kim Ji-hu’s sister, couldn’t we somehow hold onto her?”

“Don’t you get it yet? That bastard Kim Ji-hu noticed something was off, so he ran away.”

“It didn’t really seem like he noticed anything… And since they lived apart for over 10 years, he probably doesn’t know about us either.”

“Still, if he finds out his sister is signed to this shitty company, he’ll try to get her out. And you guys screwed up the contract too, didn’t you?”

“Pardon?”

The suited man standing behind the tattooed man handed forward a tablet.

Kim Ji-hye’s contract was displayed on the screen.

“What! Kind! Of! Manager! Doesn’t! Set! A! Contract! Period!”

“S-sorry! It was… just a roughly put together contract for appearances…”

“Appearances? What appearances? A contract without a period is appearances?”

“I’m sorry…”

The tattooed man pressed his temples hard.

“It’s my fault for leaving it to idiots like you. My fault.”

Kong Min-gu cautiously spoke up.

“Th-then should I tell Kim Ji-hye we need to rewrite the contract…? Say there are missing parts.”

“You think she’d agree??? She’d just get suspicious and run away.”

“…”

“Anyway, let Kim Ji-hye escape. No, actually help her escape smoothly.”

“What? What do you mean…?”

“That way we can at least score some points. And she won’t find out about the company’s behind-the-scenes work.”

“I see…! You’re brilliant as always, sir…!”

“Our target is Kim Ji-hu anyway, so score some points and later bring up this favor when asking him to work with us.”

“Understood!”

The tattooed man clicked his tongue.

“Tsk, why do I have to give instructions for every little thing? Use your heads a bit.”

As he was saying this, the suited man behind him quietly spoke.

“You need to leave now.”

“Right, right. Everyone just do as you’re told, okay?”

“Yes sir!”

The tattooed man left the office, and the suited man asked him.

“But do you think Kim Ji-hu will fall for something like this?”

“Will he? We’re just testing the waters.”

“Then what are you planning to do?”

“Well, we’ll have to watch and wait for now. Maybe redirect through Park, the President or something like that.”

The tattooed man smiled sinisterly.

“Oh, and send Kim Jeong-won some good liquor. As thanks for the information.”

“Understood. Should I send Blue Label?”

“Blue Label is so old-fashioned. Something decent… with high age.”

“Yes, sir.”

***

Vivid Studio Office.

“Now that the actors are cast too, shall we start preparing?”

CEO Kang I-wook grinned widely.

Vivid Studio’s make-or-break masterpiece ‘Office Apocalypse’.

Preparations for filming were beginning.

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