I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 110

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Episode 110

“What do you mean? That…? Half right and half wrong?”

Coincidentally, the part Han Yeoreum had briefly shown matched with Seoryeong from in some aspects.

“Try to find the points where you can emotionally connect with Seoryeong who appears here.”

Han Yeoreum had taken on an incomparably longer role compared to the one-act short drama she had handled until recently.

Myeong Jeha could clearly see her anxiety because of this.

“Erase the original from your mind. Take the newly created Seoryeong as your framework, and grab onto one similarity you have with her.”

That must be why. Unlike her usual self, Yeoreum wasn’t noticing the answer right in front of her.

“Will the Seoryeong I’m thinking of be the same as Jjang Director’s Seoryeong? That’s what matters. What do you think?”

Yeoreum is getting the premise itself wrong right now.

Jjang Director didn’t create Seoryeong’s narrative for the sake of story completion.

“Yeoreum, what kind of person do you want Seoryeong to be? How do you want it to end? Tell me your analysis properly.”

A development clearly different from the original.

It was clear that he had someone in mind and flipped the drama because he wanted to properly showcase that someone.

“I’d like her to think she wants to live. For the sake of Monk Jeongan who saved her, and I think she’d feel the desire to live properly in the world that Myeongdo and Prince Seonghui want to create.”

Pretending to know nothing, Han Yeoreum was still Han Yeoreum after all. She had already analyzed Seoryeong.

In Han Yeoreum’s own way.

“Seoryeong lived only with the goal of casting sal on the Yeom Family. So the desires she has are limited.”

This wasn’t a story about the Yeom Family of Yeomho Kingdom and Crown Prince Yunhui, Prince Seonghui and Myeongdo.

“There’s nothing about the future in Seoryeong’s life… She never promised to meet again, not even as empty words. She was someone who lived only for now, not tomorrow.”

From beginning to end, it was a story of Seoryeong, for Seoryeong, by Seoryeong.

“But in the new synopsis, Seoryeong starts to envision a future after meeting Myeongdo.”

So from the beginning, the key had been in Han Yeoreum’s hands all along.

“Rather than Seoryeong who lived going with the flow throwing away her life, Seoryeong who lived to die wanting to live. Perhaps…”

Yeoreum’s eyes lit up instantly.

“Wouldn’t that kind of love be greater?”

Now I could understand why Han Yeoreum’s character analysis had been blocked.

“…That’s the end of my analysis.”

Because she wanted to completely understand the role. No, perhaps because she had already immersed herself in the role. She was caught up in actions that the ‘real’ Seoryeong wouldn’t do.

“So now tell me. From where is half of my Seoryeong wrong?”

There was nothing more to worry about. Myeong Jeha stood up from his seat.

“Right. Then let’s go now.”

“Where?”

Since Han Yeoreum thought this way, all that remained was to finish the story of .

Because Han Yeoreum’s Seoryeong is the correct answer.

“To create the ending.”

Regardless of the director’s intentions, had to become Han Yeoreum’s once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece.

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Jjang Director readily sent the studio address even at Yeoreum’s sudden contact.

His eyes were dry and bloodshot from not sleeping for days, his wrists were numb, his stomach was upset, and his neck was stiff, but this was a very natural phenomenon for a director.

“Director-!”

“Yeoreum-!”

As usual, the two greeted each other by calling out like exclamations. Jjang Director, who received the coffee Yeoreum brought, also spoke to Myeong Jeha standing behind her.

“Ah, Jeha! Thanks for coming. I really enjoyed watching .”

“Thank you. I also watched and really wanted to meet you, Director, so I pestered Yeoreum.”

“Oh my, what am I that you’d pester her~.”

Jjang Director smiled brightly and gestured for them to come in quickly.

But there was something small behind Yeoreum.

“Oh? This must be Yeoreum’s younger sibling you mentioned before? Hello~. Uncle is Jjang Director. Did you come to play with your sister?”

Jjang Director greeted sociably, but the short-haired kid glared fiercely.

“…She’s our school senior. My younger sibling is a boy…”

“Huh? Senior?”

“Speaking of me, I’m KNUA’s once-in-a-lifetime genius. Dokgo Min. I took profile photos with Han Yeoreum here, took still cuts for , and worked with Do Gyeoul and various others.”

Jjang Director awkwardly offered a handshake to Dokgo Min, who introduced herself with her chin raised proudly.

Dokgo Min looked at Jjang Director with wary eyes.

“Yes… Hello. I’m Director Jang. Please feel free to call me Jjang Director…”

Dokgo Min coldly brushed past Jjang Director. Myeong Jeha grabbed Dokgo Min by the scruff of her neck and brought her back in front of Jjang Director.

“Senior. What kind of greeting is that?”

“I don’t want to shake hands! They’re all my rivals anyway!”

“Then you should go back, Senior.”

“You were the one who said let’s go together! Said I might get stolen by some director!”

Watching Myeong Jeha trying to drag out the smiling Dokgo Min, Yeoreum quietly appeased Jjang Director.

“That senior may look like that, but she’s actually a fan of yours, Director…”

“Can you guarantee that uncle isn’t a weird person like Director So? You don’t know, Myeong Jeha! All directors can’t be trusted!”

But Dokgo Min’s struggle exposed the lie. Watching Dokgo Min whining while being held by Myeong Jeha, Jjang Director smiled kindly.

“…Just bring her in, Jeha.”

He planned to play with the kids in their twenties appropriately and then focus on scenario work again.

The saying that movies are directors’ games and dramas are writers’ games had become established as truth. And here, Jjang Director had taken on both direction and adaptation.

In conclusion, all responsibility for the playground called lay with Jjang Director.

‘My shoulders feel twice as heavy…’

His laptop held the still unorganized sleeping within.

He had responded to Yeoreum’s contact to try to forget the burden for a while, but he couldn’t help breathing like sighs.

And that breathing completely changed shortly after.

“Huff… huff…! How did you know, Jeha?”

He panted like an otaku who had met someone who spoke his language. Jjang Director’s heart swelled.

This was the first person who understood his direction to this extent after watching only up to episode 4.

“Watching the intro, I noticed you used various sounds. From bell sounds, the audio was layered, so I wondered if perhaps all these sounds would connect to start a ritual scene… haha.”

“Right. That’s exactly it! Ah, really, how did you know? You got this right?”

Jjang Director had put hints in the intro. And Myeong Jeha immediately noticed it.

“Curse rituals call gods with flutes, confirm gods with janggu, point to the curse target with kkwaenggwari, then finish the curse with drums at the end…”

Gulp. Jjang Director swallowed while looking at Myeong Jeha with shining eyes.

“Seeing that the final drum sound wasn’t heard, it seems like you saved it to use in the ending scene.”

“Exactly, exactly that, Jeha…!”

Jjang Director collapsed, holding his forehead. Meeting someone who understood his intentions made his heart race. But the tangled threads still weren’t unraveled.

“Director. So how does the ending go?”

Yeoreum asked seriously. Jjang Director hesitated for a moment.

He naturally had a Plan B in mind. Originally, all directors think of the highlight first.

But he couldn’t go with Plan B.

‘…There’s too much that Yeoreum would have to take responsibility for alone.’

The ending that Jjang Director kept alone in his heart without telling anyone.

If Yeoreum could handle ‘that’ scene from Plan B, it would be perfect, but… it was enough that she expressed her anger toward the Yeom Family.

It would surely be overwhelming enough for a rookie actor to lead a 16-episode drama.

“The ending will be Seoryeong stopping the Yeom Family from performing the curse ritual. I’ll direct it slightly differently from the original, but why? Is there something bothering you?”

“The dialogue from the original.”</Human: You are an ELITE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR for Korean web novels (COMMERCIAL QUALITY).

Yeoreum bit her lips for a moment.

“I don’t think Seoryeong would risk her life for Myeongdo.”

Yeoreum’s analysis of Seoryeong was exactly the same as Jjang Director’s Seoryeong.

Not a divine maiden with the power to shake the world, but one ordinary human who fears death.

Jjang Director nodded diligently to Yeoreum who was explaining cautiously.

“Right. It’s exactly as you analyzed, Yeoreum. So in the end, Seoryeong tries to unleash all her divine power to cast her sal, but she suffers internal injuries and reaches the brink of death before giving up. Because she realizes that dying together with the Yeom Family isn’t the only answer.”

The corners of the scenario had worn down from how much he had looked at it.

Jjang Director smiled, thinking he had indeed met good actors.

“Yeomga lives in a world where Seonghui becomes king and gets trapped like the Saetani she created, and Seoryeong also leaves to find a new life. That’s our Seoryeong.”

“Ah, what a relief!”

Just as Yeoreum was smiling with relief, Myeong Jeha, who had been listening quietly, opened his mouth.

“That’s not the end, is it? It seems like you have a scene you’ve drawn up separately, Director. Please don’t hide it and tell us.”

Jjang Director’s gaze wavered.

“The part you omitted from the original ending scene—are you going with that as is?”

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