I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 196

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Episode 196

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The hall filled with silence. Seoryeong and Myeongdo on the screen were saying something, but only their mouths moved wordlessly. It had to happen during the most important scene.

‘Why during the scene where Seoryeong and Myeongdo’s feelings deepen…!’

Fans who attended the fanmeeting would be core supporters of Seoryeong and Myeongdo. At this rate, their immersion would be completely broken. The farewell scene at Baek Yeongji was right around the corner.

‘This is terrible…’

The staff backstage all panicked at once. They hadn’t anticipated this kind of audio malfunction.

“Should we turn off the screen for now?”

“Is it just the video, or are the speakers completely down?”

“Check speaker number 1! Left side!”

The sound staff were rapidly communicating through their radios when the climax scene appeared.

And Han Yeoreum picked up the microphone.

“You asked what my name was!”

It was identical to the drama’s dialogue. The audio quality was so clear it sounded like it had been freshly recorded right here. Han Yeoreum’s unique power. She changed the entire atmosphere with just her voice.

“Huh? What’s that?”

Yeoreum’s voice pierced the ears of the sound director who had been trying to fix the problem.

Heavy concentration settled over the previously restless venue. Every gaze focused on one person.

“My name is Seoryeong. Auspicious Seo and bell Ryeong !”

The sync was amazingly perfect. The voice of Seoryeong on screen and Han Yeoreum holding the microphone came out at exactly the same timing.

The sound director wearing headphones unconsciously opened his mouth.

“Long ago, Jeongan gave me that name…! Back then I really pretended to hate it!”

Han Yeoreum didn’t stop. As if she had prepared for this, without a single stumble, she continued the dialogue exactly as it had been in that the seated fans had watched.

So the audience could cover their mouths and enjoy the live unfolding before their eyes.

‘This is the scene Yeoreum picked as a famous scene earlier.’

Aetami was a drama fan who got excited when actors showed love for their own work.

When actors displayed that characteristic attitude of having pride in their filmography, those works tended to remain with drama fans for a long time.

‘I didn’t know she loved it enough to match the sync.’

You can’t achieve this quality with just monitoring once or twice. It would be difficult even with advance preparation.

‘Yeoreum…’

Feeling that Han Yeoreum loved even more than she had expected, Aetami decided she would rewatch every summer for the rest of her life.

‘Han Yeoreum really needs to be heard in person.’

Next to Aetami, IP 85.152 felt the thrilling sensation in her eardrums for the first time since .

‘A voice that resonates softly throughout the hall.’

During Juliet, even without projecting loudly, there was an appeal that came through clearly, but now it was different again.

‘It’s even better when she shouts loudly…’

The voice echoing inside brought back memories of Seoryeong. IP 85.152’s heart ached with sympathy at Seoryeong’s brave voice as she tried to act like everything was fine.

‘Why is there only one fanmeeting!’

IP 85.152 wanted to become a revolving door audience member for fanmeetings too. She felt the urge to attend multiple times, again and again.

‘Wait a minute. This is, right now…’

Manager Ma, who was backstage, noticed something strange.

Seoryeong back then was barely holding back tears. She had spoken with a choked voice as if she was about to burst into tears at any moment.

“…Anyway, my name is Seoryeong!”

But Yeoreum reproduced that exact voice in just a few seconds, the moment the audio was delayed. The trembling voice and lip movements matched perfectly, like one intended direction.

‘Without the music, it’s actually more vivid.’

Seoryeong speaking resolutely with a trembling voice was more pitiful, and therefore more touching. Even her anxious breathing was vividly conveyed.

A beautiful scene unfolded on screen. It was the scene where Seoryeong set off alone on her journey.

‘Normally music would play here.’

This time silence took its place. The audience’s anticipation filled the void left by the music.

Since everyone already knew who would come to stop Seoryeong as she walked down the mountain path, they all waited for his appearance.

A river appeared before them, shimmering enchantingly. The moment when the river, glowing warmly with melted sunlight, came into view, and Seoryeong’s face was captured as she took one last look at such a river.

“Seoryeong!”

Myeongdo’s cry was heard. Screams burst out from here and there as if they had been waiting.

‘Fortunately, no sound could be heard during this part.’

The sound director could only think it was divine timing. When the accident happened, everything went dark, but in the current situation, this was much better.

‘It’s like an event that was deliberately orchestrated.’

The combination of the original work and the vividness of the fanmeeting venue created an insane level of audience immersion.

“…How did you get here…”

Seoryeong’s tearful voice was heard,

“Where are you going?”

Myeongdo’s breathless dialogue followed.

‘Kwon Junhyeok too?’

Manager Ma clenched her fist at Kwon Junhyeok’s unexpectedly natural ad-lib. She couldn’t help but tense up. The lip sync wasn’t quite as good as Han Yeoreum’s, but it wasn’t bad nonetheless.

‘Since his voice is low, it’s the type that resonates better in a live setting.’

Manager Ma immediately came up with a headline for the press release. All kinds of positive keywords came to mind.

‘Following their first overseas fanmeeting, these two rookie actors handled the situation so well on site… I can already see the best comments…’

-Wow, if they had messed up, it would have been so awkward lol but they were amazing

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Why is Midsummer so quirky, why is she so much like my girl

-She must have been so nervous..^^ The hard work of countless staff members was about to go to waste in an instant, but thanks to actress Han Yeoreum, it ended with applause and cheers. A rookie actress with a promising future~ I support you.

This wasn’t the time for that. Manager Ma immediately shouted to the interpreter.

“Tell them to turn off the screen! Slowly fade out!”

“What?”

“And use pin lighting to illuminate just the two of them. Hurry!”

When the interpreter relayed the message through the radio, the screen on stage slowly turned off.

Along with the scene of Myeongdo and Seoryeong naturally moving apart, the audience’s attention focused on the two people before them.

‘What is this?’

The one who noticed the change most keenly was none other than IP 85.152. Watching the stage direction, she bit her lips.

‘It’s like a spin-off…!’

The two happened to be wearing clothes that reminded her of Seoryeong and Myeongdo.

‘The taste of “what if” given by the official source… so sweet…’

Yeoreum in her yellow dress and Junhyeok in his blue shirt felt like the reincarnation of Seoryeong and Myeongdo.

“Then will you marry another man instead of me?”

“Ah, I don’t know.”

Before they knew it, the screen had darkened like a backdrop. Seoryeong and Myeongdo were looking at each other and smiling. It was a natural and comfortable smile.

“Where shall we go from here?”

“You can go wherever your heart leads. I will follow.”

The dialogue should have continued further. But Han Yeoreum cleanly wrapped it up here.

Wherever the heart leads. As if the place Seoryeong had arrived at was right here.

Clap clap clap clap-!

Applause burst out from somewhere in the audience seats. The determination to somehow convey the emotion they were feeling was evident.

“Han Yeoreum-!”

Aetami called out Yeoreum’s name while clapping. Yeoreum’s gaze moved toward the person calling her name.

Yeoreum’s round eyes, which looked surprised, soon gently curved into crescents.

‘Yeoreum, you… do you recognize your sister right now?’

Aetami covered her mouth with one hand. If she didn’t do this, it felt like her heart would burst out.

‘I will love only Han Yeoreum until the day I die.’

Aetami buried deep in her heart the words she had been about to take out her cell phone and type at this very moment.

The audience sitting inside the hall sent enthusiastic applause toward the two of them. The massive interior resonated with sound.

The applause did not die down even as time passed.

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