Bedroom Genius Actor - Chapter 55

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Episode 55

-Well, I looked into it to some extent, but it seems like that manager is taking all the blame. The main body seems to have cut ties and fled long ago.

Baek Do-kyung clicked his tongue upon hearing this.

“It looked full of holes, but you can’t catch them?”

-The management itself does have many loopholes, but the main body is different. For now, the company is registered under that manager’s name, and the call records and money trail from their side are ambiguous.

When Baek Do-kyung first investigated Recal Entertainment, he thought it was just a paper company for tax evasion.

But hearing this story, there were more than a few suspicious points.

‘What the hell are these guys doing?’

If even the Tax Office says it’s hard to find them, that means it’s professional work.

‘This is not good.’

Actually, to dig into this kind of thing, you shouldn’t make a fuss.

You need to quietly sweep them all up.

But thinking it was an ordinary paper company, he had turned everything upside down, so the main body would have already disappeared without a trace.

‘This could put Ji-hye in some danger.’

Since the company collapsed right after Kim Ji-hye left, the main body would realize this incident was connected to Kim Ji-hye, unless they were idiots.

Then retaliation might come.

Baek Do-kyung pressed his brow firmly.

‘Maybe I unnecessarily stirred up a hornet’s nest.’

Of course, he wasn’t scared or anything. Neither Baek Do-kyung himself nor Hanbit Entertainment were soft enough to be taken down by some thug companies.

But Kim Ji-hye was the problem.

‘Other management companies will definitely be reluctant to sign contracts if they know this fact.’

Kim Ji-hye certainly had tremendous skills, but it was hard to see her as an icon of the times.

In other words, she hadn’t shown enough value for management companies to throw their whole bodies into protecting her.

Not knowing how big the opposition was, a company could be shaken if things went wrong.

Management companies willing to take on a potential bomb for a promising talent could be counted on one hand.

After pondering for a moment, Baek Do-kyung picked up his phone.

Then he called one place.

“Hello, CEO. It’s been a while.”

-Oh~ CEO Baek~. What’s the matter~. You’re actually calling me.

“There’s something I’d like to learn from RT Entertainment.”

-Something to learn? Are you going to learn something and then stab me in the back again?

The person speaking in a clear voice.

The place Baek Do-kyung called was the CEO of RT Entertainment.

Before creating Hanbit Entertainment, the place he had worked at was RT Entertainment.

And it was Baek Do-kyung who had built RT Entertainment into one of the biggest management companies today.

That’s why Baek Do-kyung was inevitably a person who made the RT Entertainment CEO’s stomach burn.

Still, there was a reason Baek Do-kyung called.

“You know the music side well, CEO. I’d like to learn about that.”

Baek Do-kyung’s request was quite shameless and bold.

***

Kim Ji-hu pondered alone at home.

‘But improvising like last time probably won’t work…’

That was his concern about how to handle Oh Jin-woo’s ad-libs.

He was lucky last time, but there was no guarantee it would happen again next time.

‘But thinking about what CEO Kang I-wook said, I feel like I’m getting some sense of it.’

He said it was possible because Kim Ji-hu, who used to do ‘acting without himself,’ had ‘put himself in.’

‘He said that was Oh Jin-woo’s style of ad-libbing.’

Ad-libs that make the existing script characters richer.

Kim Ji-hu only knew it instinctively, but hearing it explained in words made it feel more certain.

“Then what should I do…”

Kim Ji-hu thought.

Ad-libs that could support Oh Jin-woo.

‘Should I try what CEO Kang I-wook explained?’

He said that being able to respond to ad-libs impromptu last time was possible because he had put ‘Kim Ji-hu’ himself in.

‘Then should I try that method?’

Acting by putting Kim Ji-hu himself in. He decided to practice with that methodology first.

Kim Ji-hu soon focused and picked up the script.

Had he been staring blankly at the script for about 10 minutes?

‘But, but that… how do you do it?’

However, Kim Ji-hu was blocked from the very beginning.

***

A few days later.

The actors of ‘Office Apocalypse’ gathered for a reading.

If last time it was a small number with important scenes, this time quite many actors had gathered.

‘…Ugh, suffocating.’

Kim Ji-hu, sitting in the middle and receiving all the actors’ gazes, felt like he might get indigestion.

The staff did this last time, and now the actors were doing it too, so he wondered why this was happening.

‘Oh Jin-woo, please come quickly…’

When Kim Ji-hu was desperately looking for Oh Jin-woo, someone got up from their seat and approached Kim Ji-hu.

‘Why, why does it seem like they’re coming this way?’

Kim Ji-hu hung his head low and tried to ignore the person approaching him.

‘Please, please say you’re looking for someone else…’

But contrary to his prayer, that person stopped in front of Kim Ji-hu. Kim Ji-hu squeezed his eyes shut.

‘It won’t be…, it won’t be…’

Then the person who stopped in front of Kim Ji-hu opened their mouth.

“Ji-hu?”

“Eek…”

Kim Ji-hu made a strange sound like he’d been harpooned and flinched his shoulders.

“Do… do you remember me?”

“Huh?”

At those words, Kim Ji-hu raised his head and looked at the face.

It was a familiar face.

“Go Jun-tae?”

“Yes! You remember me! Nice to see you!”

It was Go Jun-tae, who had taught acting together with Song Jae-hyeok during ‘Trauma.’

His memories of Song Jae-hyeok weren’t very good, but Go Jun-tae was decent enough.

He wasn’t good at acting, but his earnest attitude was nice to see.

Kim Ji-hu’s expression improved considerably upon realizing it was someone he knew rather than a stranger talking to him.

“How, how have you been?”

“Haha! I’ve just been doing projects and such. Thanks to you, I got good reviews in ‘Trauma.'”

“That’s good to hear…”

“You seem to be doing well, Ji-hu. I really enjoyed watching ‘My Little House,’ and I also saw you singing with your sister this time!”

Kim Ji-hu smiled awkwardly and scratched his head.

“Th, thank you.”

As they were having this conversation, an actor sitting nearby spoke up.

“Did you two know each other already?”

“Ah, yes… We appeared together in ‘Trauma.'”

“Ah! I remember! I’ve been watching all of Ji-hu’s works too!”

At the same time, other actors began gathering one by one.

“Hello, I’m…”

“I’m actually a huge fan of actor Kim Ji-hu.”

“This is a drink…”

Everyone reacted as if they had been waiting for this opportunity.

As more people gathered around, Kim Ji-hu’s face began to turn pale.

‘Th-they were all waiting to talk to me?’

Kim Ji-hu had been sitting with such a wall around himself that people hadn’t been able to approach him.

‘Go Jun-tae was nice to see, but… this is a bit…’

His eyes spun around dizzily.

People’s words poured down like a tsunami, and Kim Ji-hu’s consciousness was being swept away by those waves.

Although Kim Ji-hu had become somewhat natural at conversing with people lately, that was limited to people he knew. With so many people talking at once, his pupils naturally dilated.

While Kim Ji-hu was stammering like that.

“That’s my seat, could you move please.”

“Ah…!”

The person who said that was Oh Jin-woo.

Since Oh Jin-woo’s seat was next to Kim Ji-hu again this time, he had asked them to move.

At the words of master actor Oh Jin-woo, people instantly stepped back and headed to their own seats.

‘Th-thank goodness…’

Kim Ji-hu let out a sigh of relief.

The seat next to Oh Jin-woo was definitely a prime spot.

He had driven everyone away with just one phrase: “That’s my seat.”

‘Should I live with that kind of attitude too…’

Then he wouldn’t experience situations like just now. Actually, he suspected that Oh Jin-woo’s attitude might be an act too.

During ‘Armchair Reviewer’, Oh Jin-woo had seemed like someone who would casually throw around jokes.

Of course, right now his atmosphere was consistently cold throughout.

Just then, Oh Jin-woo looked at Kim Ji-hu sitting next to him with indifferent eyes.

Oh Jin-woo stared at him intently without saying anything.

‘Hmm…’

Kim Ji-hu smiled awkwardly.

Seeing Kim Ji-hu’s smile, Oh Jin-woo frowned deeply and turned his head away sharply.

‘Why is he acting like that…’

Kim Ji-hu could only wonder when exactly he had gotten on Oh Jin-woo’s bad side so strongly.

The temperature difference between how he treated ‘Armchair Reviewer’ and Kim Ji-hu was this severe.

‘Does he not like my face?’

Kim Ji-hu touched his own face.

While he was doing that, Director Cheon Yeong-hu and several staff members entered the meeting room.

Director Cheon Yeong-hu spoke in a low voice.

“We’ll start the reading right away. Please prepare.”

Director Cheon Yeong-hu started immediately without any particular greetings or conversation.

‘Could Director Cheon Yeong-hu also be…?’

During the first reading, he hadn’t noticed because of his neat appearance, but now with his gaunt face, worsened turtle neck posture, and that attitude of getting straight to the point.

‘A comrade…!’

It was the characteristic appearance of a hikikomori like himself, a social misfit.

Still, Kim Ji-hu actually felt a sense of kinship with that appearance.

‘It’ll be even better working together. There probably won’t be many company dinners like at the last set!’

Usually, the atmosphere on set follows the director.

So this was actually fortunate.

As Kim Ji-hu looked at him with sparkling eyes, Director Cheon Yeong-hu just tilted his head in confusion.

“Then we’ll start the reading right away from the first scene of episode 2.”

“Ah, understood!”

Kim Ji-hu opened his script and exhaled.

‘Let’s try acting once…’

This wasn’t the time to think about what the set was like or about other people.

Good acting came first.

Until now, he had been able to act easily thanks to his abilities, but now he needed to concentrate more.

Kim Ji-hu closed his eyes, opened them, and began synchronizing.

Director Cheon Yeong-hu confirmed this and said.

“Action.”

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