Bedroom Genius Actor - Chapter 93

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Episode 93

 

“Min-sik.”

 

“Yes, hyung-nim.”

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

At a pojangmacha.

 

Only empty soju bottles were piled up in front of PD Seo Min-sik and Drama Department Director Kim Deok-chil.

 

The only side dish was a single bowl of udon broth.

 

“How long have we known each other now?”

 

“This year marks 23 years.”

 

“Right… time has already passed like that.”

 

“…”

 

An announcement from the higher-ups.

 

It was an announcement to end the drama ‘Your My Love’ early and to stop all in-house production.

 

That meant nothing less than disbanding PD Seo Min-sik’s team, SBC’s only in-house production team.

 

“What are you going to do now?”

 

“I don’t know. My mind feels numb.”

 

For someone of PD Seo Min-sik’s age, being told to go to another team was basically the same as being told to quit.

 

Quitting SBC after 23 years was something he had never even considered.

 

“I can’t face my wife.”

 

In truth, Director Kim Deok-chil had scolded PD Seo Min-sik,

 

but he never intended for it to go this far.

 

The scolding was just for show for the higher-ups, since PD Seo Min-sik caused so many incidents, and it would be strange to stay quiet after he caused trouble.

 

“What do you think, hyung-nim? Do you think in-house production… is now outdated?”

 

“The world has changed a lot. Now you could join other studios and upload works to Netflix… Since we have connections, you could supply to our side too.”

 

Director Kim Deok-chil tried to package it nicely somehow, but it wasn’t comforting words that reached PD Seo Min-sik.

 

“I… I think I’ll just stay at SBC.”

 

“What? Don’t you know what happens to team leaders after their teams are disbanded?”

 

“I’m going to stubbornly hold on. What would I do going out at this age? I don’t have that energy or passion anymore.”

 

The early termination was a big wound for PD Seo Min-sik.

 

No matter how poorly the actors performed, if he had done better, couldn’t they have avoided early termination?

 

Had he given up too much?

 

Wasn’t it time to step back into the background?

 

Such thoughts occurred to him.

 

“And I’ve been at SBC my whole life, where would I go? I want to be buried here and die here. If I go somewhere else and fail, what would happen to my kids?”

 

PD Seo Min-sik had two children.

 

The first had just entered elementary school, and his daughter would enter next year.

 

There were many places money went – academy fees, house loans, and various other things.

 

In the midst of that, he couldn’t gamble on starting another studio or something like that.

 

Director Kim Deok-chil listened to his words quietly and then opened his mouth.

 

“I’ll try talking to them once.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“I’ll go have it out with the higher-ups.”

 

Director Kim Deok-chil stood up from his seat.

 

“I was also in the in-house production team, and the production team are all my guys, aren’t they? I didn’t come this far just to bow my head to the big shots upstairs.”

 

PD Seo Min-sik’s eyes widened.

 

“If, if you do that, hyung-nim will also be in big trouble! Please don’t do that.”

 

“What big trouble could happen other than getting fired? Well, if things go bad, I’ll start a studio. I’ll take the whole team with me.”

 

“Hyung, hyung-nim!”

 

“Damn it, let’s try it once. And you should know this. I said to remove all the sponsors and PPL.”

 

When PD Seo Min-sik was protesting like that, Director Kim Deok-chil wasn’t just sitting still either.

 

Although he spoke strongly to PD Seo Min-sik that it couldn’t be done, he had been continuously appealing to the higher-ups.

 

Even though they were divided into the Drama Department, as long as they belonged to SBC, they had to get approval from above.

 

The drama itself operated on capitalist logic, and they didn’t have the power to overcome pressure from the general manager or president.

 

“I’m tired of living with my head bowed. Let’s try it once.”

 

***

 

“Uuuuuu!!!!!!”

 

Goal Achieved

 

Reward: 1 week rest, 1 blog protection right, ???

 

In the room full of mannequins, Kim Ji-hu shouted.

 

“I did it!!!!!”

 

To think he pulled this off.

 

Even now he was dazed, but the sense of achievement from protecting his blog came first.

 

“Thank goodness… I got through this time too…”

 

Today marked 2 weeks. He had met the conditions the System gave him.

 

‘This time was really the hardest…’

 

Various things had happened, and it was much more difficult than the previous conditions, so it was natural.

 

Most of all, it was encouraging that he achieved the mission and obtained a blog protection right.

 

“Reeeeally thank goodness…”

 

Now it was okay to fail once.

 

‘I’m human too, so I could make a mistake once in a while.’

 

That aside, there was one thing that bothered him.

 

“What are those question marks?”

 

He wondered if it was similar to the previous reward box.

 

Still, after getting the shoes, Kim Ji-hu could do many more things.

 

He was grateful that embarrassing situations had also decreased.

 

He wondered if this time they would give him a similar ability or something.

 

“But will a box fall down like last time?”

 

But this time nothing appeared.

 

Just one screen appeared before his eyes.

 

There was one button on the screen.

 

[Receive Reward]

 

“…Am I supposed to press this?”

 

When Kim Ji-hu carefully pressed that button, intense light leaked out.

 

“Wha, what!”

 

Then the screen had changed.

 

We give you 3 question rights.

 

We will answer anything.

 

“…What?”

 

Question rights.

 

He made a dumbfounded expression at the unexpected reward.

 

He thought they might give him something that enhanced his acting ability like last time, but question rights.

 

‘Wait… but… they’ll answer anything?’

 

Kim Ji-hu had countless thoughts.

 

Why he was receiving this synchronization ability and tests.

 

And why Mother had to die.

 

Who Park, the President was.

 

How his future would turn out.

 

Even ways to make money like stocks.

 

From such personal things to grand stories like whether the afterlife exists, whether God exists.

 

‘Doesn’t that mean they’ll answer everything?’

 

Kim Ji-hu hesitated for a moment, then quietly opened his mouth.

 

“Can I ask a question right now?”

 

Then the screen changed.

 

Would you like to use a question ticket? (Current amount: 3)

 

“….”

 

Seeing that screen, Kim Ji-hu grabbed his head and shook it.

 

“No! I need to save these as much as possible!”

 

Who knows what might happen later.

 

He should use it when it’s really urgent. With the blog protection and his stable life now, there was no need to use it.

 

‘But even when playing games, I often end up not being able to use items because I save them too much…’

 

However, given Kim Ji-hu’s personality, he couldn’t just use it right away.

 

He was already sufficiently satisfied with his current life, and if something happened, he could respond with that.

 

‘Besides, I could use it to catch that Park guy.’

 

Since he still knew nothing about Park, the President, using a question ticket was dangerous.

 

Moreover, even if he caught Park, the President, it would be meaningless if his blog got deleted, so he planned to use it when he had various abilities like this.

 

Then a thought suddenly occurred to him.

 

‘But… if I fail, will the synchronization ability disappear too?’

 

All this time he had only thought about protecting his blog, not about the abilities.

 

He had just been thinking of them as abilities that would disappear someday.

 

‘I wonder if the system will keep giving missions…’

 

He had similar doubts before, but in the end, that wasn’t what was important, so he had focused on what he was doing.

 

But if he used this question ticket, couldn’t he find out the answer?

 

In the end, he could learn about Park, the President, and other things through effort in reality, but this was information he couldn’t know even if he became a millionaire in reality.

 

‘Then how should I phrase the question…’

 

After long deliberation, Kim Ji-hu decided.

 

“…I’ll use the question ticket.”

 

Would you like to use a question ticket? (Current amount: 3)

 

“Yes.”

 

Used. Please ask your question.

 

(You cannot ask two questions at once, and you cannot take it back after hearing the answer, so please ask carefully)

 

“Will this synchronization ability disappear when the missions given by the system end?”

 

This was the question Kim Ji-hu decided on after much thought.

 

What Kim Ji-hu ultimately wanted to know was whether the missions given by the system had an end, and whether the synchronization ability would disappear when the missions ended.

 

So if he asked whether the synchronization ability would disappear when the missions ended, couldn’t he hear that conclusion?

 

In response to Kim Ji-hu’s question, text began to appear on the screen.

 

Kim Ji-hu squinted and carefully read it.

 

If you succeed in all missions, the ability will not disappear.

 

(Using protection rights is an exception)

 

***

 

“Please withdraw the decision to disband the in-house drama production team.”

 

At the director-level meeting, with the division head and president present, Director Kim Deok-chil spoke confidently.

 

“Do you know why this meeting was called and you’re saying this?”

 

Division Head Seo Ji-hwan glared at Director Kim Deok-chil as he spoke.

 

The reason today’s meeting was called was because of the early termination of ‘You Are My Love.’

 

Since the originally scheduled program had been shortened, they needed to discuss how to fill this gap and future policies.

 

“Yes, our Drama Department reported several times that the sponsors and PPL for this work would be a hindrance. But the Broadcasting Division completely ignored this.”

 

“Do you think production costs come from digging the ground? Since we can’t cover it with money from the Drama Department, we had no choice but to include such things.”

 

“I think we made a lot of money from the recent success of ‘Trauma.'”

 

“That’s right. Thanks to that, we covered the previous failures.”

 

“Instead of covering failures, shouldn’t we use success as a foundation for reinvestment?”

 

Division Head Seo Ji-hwan clicked his tongue.

 

“Tsk. There’s something called market trends. Market trends. As the Drama Department director, you should know better why all those production teams disappeared.”

 

“I know. In-house production teams become complacent with reality and fail to create good works. But PD Seo Min-sik is a talent who remained until such dire circumstances.”

 

“Whether he remained or had no choice but to remain. You can tell by looking at this work, can’t you?”

 

At Division Head Seo Ji-hwan’s words, other directors around said:

 

“Let’s just finish this quickly. We already have a mountain of work to do.”

 

“Who created this mess? The person who should be acting like a sinner is making a big fuss.”

 

“It’s not like we’re firing him, just disbanding the team. Why such an overreaction?”

 

Further opinion disputes seemed meaningless. They clearly had no intention of keeping PD Seo Min-sik.

 

It was as expected.

 

Neither the strict Division Head Seo Ji-hwan nor the others would want to keep someone who had failed.

 

So Director Kim Deok-chil had prepared his trump card.

 

“Then how about giving him one last chance?”

 

“What? Last?”

 

“You want to do in-house production one more time?”

 

“Beyond early termination, next time it’ll end completely unfinished?”

 

As other directors shouted, Division Head Seo Ji-hwan stopped them.

 

“Now, now, calm down everyone. If you’re going that far, you didn’t just say it casually, right?”

 

Director Kim Deok-chil said:

 

“If this work also fails, I’ll step down.”

 

Director Kim Deok-chil was truly playing his strongest hand.

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