Bedroom Genius Actor - Chapter 82

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Episode 82

 

“Ji-hu?”

 

The moment Kim Ji-hu saw Yun Se-ra, countless thoughts flooded his mind.

 

‘Uh, how long has she been watching?’

 

Kim Ji-hu had been wearing a mask just seconds ago.

 

Did she see everything?

 

Kim Ji-hu’s face turned pale white.

 

Then Yun Se-ra spoke.

 

“If you came, you should have at least contacted me!”

 

“Huh…?”

 

“Then I could have bought you a meal. Oh, if you haven’t eaten yet, should we go now?”

 

“Uh… should we?”

 

Kim Ji-hu nodded absentmindedly.

 

If he made a wrong move here, he might get caught.

 

“Then where should we go… There are lots of good restaurants near the company. Is there anything you want to eat?”

 

“Oh, I eat anything well…”

 

“Then… let’s go for pasta! The pasta here is really delicious.”

 

Yun Se-ra said in a bright voice.

 

‘Oh, did she not notice?’

 

Just as he was about to feel a bit relieved, Yun Se-ra asked.

 

“But did you come to RT Entertainment?”

 

“Huh…?”

 

“There’s nothing else around here except RT Entertainment that you’d come for.”

 

Indeed, there was nothing else around here that Kim Ji-hu would come for besides the RT Entertainment building.

 

Would Kim Ji-hu go around to restaurants alone, or visit aesthetic cafes?

 

Cold sweat ran down Kim Ji-hu’s spine.

 

‘I need to say something…’

 

He quickly thought of a reason.

 

“I… came to see the Armchair Reviewer…”

 

“…The Reviewer?”

 

“Yes… to see how he’s doing…”

 

“Then where is the Reviewer by any chance…”

 

“He… left first. Said he had a schedule.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Yun Se-ra smiled softly.

 

“Then let’s eat together, just the two of us. Shall we go? I’m hungry.”

 

“Oh, yes…”

 

***

 

“It’s delicious, right? This place is really a hidden gem.”

 

“Yes…”

 

I don’t know.

 

Whether the pasta is going into my mouth or my nose.

 

Surely if it’s Yun Se-ra, she’d bombard me with questions about the Armchair Reviewer.

 

I was so busy thinking about expected questions related to him that I couldn’t focus on the food at all.

 

“Doesn’t it suit your taste?”

 

“Huh??”

 

“You don’t seem to be eating well.”

 

“It’s, it’s delicious. Haha…”

 

Yun Se-ra looked at him with slightly suspicious eyes.

 

“Ji-hu, did you do something wrong to me?”

 

“Huh??? No, no.”

 

Yes. And it’s a lie I’ve been carrying on for almost half a year.

 

“Something feels different from before. We haven’t met in a while, but we’ve been in contact continuously.”

 

“Right… It’s just… a bit awkward.”

 

“Ah. You’re the type who gets awkward when you don’t see someone for a long time.”

 

“Yes…”

 

“I understand perfectly. This won’t do. I’ll have to see your face occasionally.”

 

Yun Se-ra said this with a bright smile.

 

I never knew that my usual shyness and poor social skills would be helpful at times like this.

 

‘But she doesn’t seem to suspect that I’m the Armchair Reviewer.’

 

She probably didn’t see me taking off the mask.

 

Then Yun Se-ra asked.

 

“But if you met the Armchair Reviewer, didn’t he say anything about me? I did what you told me to do!”

 

“Uh… he didn’t say anything particular.”

 

“Really? Hmm. Was this a strategy that worked because it was you, Ji-hu?”

 

“But, but he did say you seemed like a decent person.”

 

“Really!! That’s a relief. As expected of you, Ji-hu. You know the Armchair Reviewer well too… Hmm…”

 

Yun Se-ra pondered for a moment, then furrowed her brow.

 

“But how do you know the Armchair Reviewer, Ji-hu?”

 

“…Huh?”

 

“It’s just that you haven’t been an actor for very long, and it doesn’t seem like you’d have much connection. If anything, maybe when he reviewed your debut work?”

 

That was true.

 

There was no real connection that actor Kim Ji-hu and the Armchair Reviewer would have.

 

But I had prepared this excuse in advance.

 

“He’s, he’s a school senior.”

 

“A senior? The Armchair Reviewer?”

 

“Yes…”

 

I thought it was a well-made lie, but she still seemed a bit suspicious.

 

“You still talk with a school senior, Ji-hu?”

 

Of course, in a slightly different way.

 

“I… I do have people I know…”

 

Of course, I didn’t.

 

I never went to university, dropped out of high school, and wasn’t in my right mind during elementary and middle school, so I had no friends.

 

“Well, even you would have friends, Ji-hu. Where is there a person with absolutely no friends?”

 

Thanks to Yun Se-ra’s extroverted way of thinking, it seemed to pass easily.

 

Though her last comment made me quite sad.

 

“Still, it’s fortunate. That the Armchair Reviewer thinks well of me.”

 

Kim Ji-hu stared at Yun Se-ra and quietly asked.

 

“But… do you want to become close with the Armchair Reviewer?”

 

“Huh?”

 

“If you like the blog, you don’t necessarily need to become close with the Armchair Reviewer himself.”

 

I had a small question.

 

Yun Se-ra didn’t like the person called the Armchair Reviewer, but rather liked the blog posts.

 

Then there was no need to become close with the person, right?

 

“Hmm… I haven’t thought about it deeply. You know how it is. Even among actors, there’s that feeling of wanting to become close because you like that person’s work.”

 

“Is, is that so?”

 

“Yes, and since he’s my favorite reviewer, I want to become close with him.”

 

Kim Ji-hu felt relieved inside.

 

Actually, the comments Yun Se-ra used to leave and the messages she sent were a bit scary.

 

‘The scariest part was her saying she’d make him write reviews while only feeding him dumplings…’

 

What would happen if they really confined him and made him only write reviews, then failed to meet the system’s conditions.

 

‘But, but I’m probably overthinking this.’

 

Having observed Yun Se-ra for almost half a year, he knew well that she wasn’t that kind of person, so he thought he might have worried for nothing.

 

“Oh, and.”

 

However.

 

“If we become close, I can occasionally nag you when reviews aren’t posted, right?”

 

Her mouth was definitely smiling, but her eyes were cold as ice.

 

“I… see.”

 

His determination to try his best not to get caught became about three times stronger.

 

.

 

.

 

.

 

‘It was fun chatting with Ji-hu after such a long time.’

 

Yun Se-ra returned home with a pleasant expression.

 

She had talked with Kim Ji-hu about the Armchair Reviewer, and afterward they had discussed acting and recent projects.

 

Certainly, when talking about projects with Kim Ji-hu, she found herself opening up without realizing it.

 

‘Maybe it’s because Ji-hu has such a comfortable atmosphere.’

 

To put it metaphorically, it felt like being with a friendly neighborhood dog.

 

There was no need to put on airs or hide anything when talking with him.

 

Moreover, since Kim Ji-hu had deep insight into projects, she often felt like she was learning something when talking with him.

 

‘But what was that about.’

 

When she discovered Kim Ji-hu.

 

He was putting a mask into his bag.

 

‘Did he have some kind of masked meeting with the Armchair Reviewer or something.’

 

Since the Armchair Reviewer usually wore a mask, maybe he wore a similar mask too.

 

Come to think of it, Kim Ji-hu’s popularity was growing day by day these days, so he would need to be careful when going out.

 

Of course, Yun Se-ra never even considered the possibility that Kim Ji-hu was the Armchair Reviewer.

 

***

 

“Aaaah!!! This is so great!!!”

 

Kim Ji-hye ran around here and there.

 

Moving day. They had less stuff than expected, so the move finished quickly.

 

“….”

 

Kim Ji-hu looked at the house with deep emotion.

 

Actually, Kim Ji-hu hadn’t felt it was real even when buying the house.

 

But once he entered the house, he began to truly feel that it was his own home.

 

‘Really… I’m feeling so many emotions.’

 

Who would have thought that after suddenly becoming an actor, he’d even buy a house with that money.

 

Until now, he had only resented the system that gave him strange abilities and made him suffer, but now he felt somewhat grateful too.

 

‘If I hadn’t become an actor, I would have continued living the same way.’

 

Even so, he still thought threatening him with the blog was too much no matter how he looked at it.

 

‘Well, I guess good things are good things.’

 

When Kim Ji-hu was having such thoughts.

 

“Ji-hu.”

 

Grandmother called Kim Ji-hu.

 

“Yes, Grandmother, is there anything uncomfortable…?”

 

Grandmother hugged Kim Ji-hu tightly.

 

“You worked hard. You really worked hard.”

 

“…No, Grandmother. You worked hard too.”

 

Kim Ji-hu smiled and hugged Grandmother back.

 

Then Kim Ji-hye shouted.

 

“Grandmother! Hug me too!”

 

“Yes, my dear. Come here.”

 

Grandmother smiled and spread her arms, and Kim Ji-hye threw herself into Grandmother’s embrace.

 

“Grandmother, let’s not suffer anymore and live happily! Brother and I will make you happy, okay?”

 

“Yes, thank you. My dear children.”

 

After spending such a heartwarming time with family.

 

‘To keep living like this, I need to work hard and earn money too.’

 

Now there was no turning back.

 

He didn’t know how long the system window would give him this ability, but during that time he had to work hard as an actor.

 

That way he could pay off the loan and support Grandmother too.

 

Normally he would have hummed “I’m tired from moving, so let’s watch some videos~,” but he headed straight to the company.

 

He had something to do today anyway.

 

‘Today is the day the YouTube video gets uploaded.’

 

The video was already fully produced with nothing to touch, but they had agreed to monitor the situation together.

 

“Ji-hu, did the move go well?”

 

When Kim Ji-hu arrived at the Hanbit Entertainment office, Choi Tae-geon welcomed him.

 

“Yes, it went well thanks to you. I should thank Team Leader Han Jin-hee too…”

 

“Team Leader Han Jin-hee took a half day off today, so it would be best to just give her a call.”

 

“Yes…!”

 

“More than that, you must be tired… You should have just rested today.”

 

“It’s a schedule we arranged in advance, so I can’t skip it just because I’m tired.”

 

“Ji-hu…!”

 

Choi Tae-geon seemed moved by Kim Ji-hu’s sense of responsibility.

 

“Then the video should be going up soon, so let’s monitor it together.”

 

They had uploaded the video using YouTube’s premiere feature.

 

They had gathered to check the viewers’ real-time chat as it went live.

 

Though the people gathered were just Choi Tae-geon and a few Content Team members.

 

“1 minute until release!”

 

Hearing those words, Kim Ji-hu swallowed nervously.

 

Actually, compared to other work, this was a minor thing, but somehow it felt more nerve-wracking.

 

Maybe because it was his own channel.

 

‘I hope it goes well.’

 

If YouTube went well, there would be additional income too. As Kim Ji-hu was thinking that.

 

“The video has been released!”

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