I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 210

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Episode 210

Conversation is something two people do together, so creating the situation is important.

Victim and perpetrator, friend and enemy, lovers and employment relationships – when one side breaks away from the predetermined path, everything can change.

‘This is my specialty.’

She’ll probably follow my lead this time. She’ll maintain a similar state of conversational inability while gauging the situation. I can see the camera lens pointed toward me.

‘Not enough.’

System

[30]% of the audience begins to focus on you!

Current audience: 52

Looking at the floating status window. Originally, when doing this kind of forward acting, speaker A should lay down some extreme setting to make it interesting.

‘I should have started with something that would allow speaker B to make dramatic gestures.’

A luxurious friend who owes hundreds of millions and won’t pay back, a younger sister who stole an old boyfriend, a bullying perpetrator.

‘I can tell which direction her head was turning… but her understanding of the scene is lacking.’

Can’t be helped. I’ll definitely draw attention with this performance. I need to create at least one scene worth using as an Intube clip.

Intube

[Acting practice at school? KNUA’s stage where they only speak four words! Please support M Headquarters] 02:21

Views: 420,000

-Wow, so that’s the kind of thing Daeyejong does ㅋㅋㅋ That’s interesting

-There’s definitely a difference between debuted and non-debuted rookies.. Only one side looks professional

-Never even thought about it ㄴㅇㄱ Midsummer acts really well, seems like people just have different basic quick thinking? intelligence? stuff like that

This is exactly… the taste of being the protagonist…

‘Sweet just thinking about it.’

We sat down like before. Now it was time to act in reverse roles.

“Alright! Let’s begin!”

As soon as the Professor finished speaking, Jin Eunsul tilted her head sideways. She seemed to avoid making eye contact with me.

“Eunsul.”

She doesn’t look even when I call her name.

‘Not deviating from expectations.’

Jin Eunsul, thinking she couldn’t show her ‘real’ acting in her flustered state just now, chose conversational disconnection.

She seemed ready to act depending on what attitude I showed.

“Eunsul…”

I called Jin Eunsul’s name once more.

Bang!

Eunsul used a similar method to what I did earlier. She deliberately made loud noise to draw attention, and swayed side to side as if struggling to forcibly keep her body steady.

‘Ah, she’s playing a drunk person.’

If she’s drunk, she doesn’t need to say four words. This was a fight Jin Eunsul would win.

‘She can just repeat yes and no.’

What could you expect from a drunk person? Smart thinking.

But if you don’t answer properly, I have my own ideas too.

“…I heard something. But…”

I covered my voice, which sounded afraid of what answer might come back, with forced laughter. I let out several short, rapid breaths to hide my sincerity. To make the viewers anxious.

“That’s not true, right?”

An expression of not knowing what I was trying to do briefly crossed her face. Having blocked all information beforehand, all that remained was maintaining silence.

‘This is what I wanted.’

First method of turning your opponent into a folding screen.

‘I take all the narrative.’

I knelt down to meet the eyes of Jin Eunsul, who had lowered her head, not knowing what expression to make.

Deliberately positioning myself to be clearly visible to the camera and audience.

I abandoned my pride as if to support the swaying Jin Eunsul.

‘Just one action makes me look pitiful.’

I took Jin Eunsul’s hand and buried my face in her thigh. I could feel her tense up in confusion.

“…You didn’t get a boyfriend, right. Right…”

Adding romance to any narrative doubles the poignancy. I acted as a woman who was only used and abandoned.

System

[60]% of the audience begins to focus on you!

Current audience: 52

Double the attention immediately followed. Okay.

“You said you liked me… You can’t do this to me…”

I lifted my face from Jin Eunsul’s thigh and raised my chin to look up. At my desperate attempt to make eye contact, Jin Eunsul opened her mouth for the first time.

“I’m sorry.”

She seemed to realize she had to act out separation and betrayal. But it was already too late. All eyes were on me.

“You don’t like me? Huh? From the beginning? That’s not true, right? Right…”

As tears streamed down, the density of gazes became noticeably heavier. I deliberately gripped her hand tightly. So each fingernail could dig into the flesh.

“Ah!”

Jin Eunsul let out an annoyed scream. Words other than yes, no, thank you, I’m sorry. But still within the acceptable range.

‘And it makes my narrative seem more pitiful to the listeners.’

Jin Eunsul became trash who got annoyed when a woman she had only used and abandoned clung to her while crying. She even instinctively shook off my hand.

‘She’s looking at the camera.’

Instead, showing some intelligence, she turned her head to show her face to the camera and audience. I don’t know what expression Jin Eunsul on the opposite side is making right now.

‘She can’t cry too.’

Then it would make people think maybe she wasn’t just using and abandoning me, but had some story of her own.

‘That can’t happen.’

I stood up abruptly. I had to block before losing their attention. I walked behind Jin Eunsul.

‘On stage, eyes follow movement.’

I deliberately put force into my heels as I walked, making my footsteps echo loudly. Instantly, all attention turned to me.

I spoke with my head down, as if denying reality.

“What am I lacking?”

I deliberately made my voice tremble. Jin Eunsul answered.

“Nothing.”

“Then why are you doing this? I can just do better. I’ll think you just made a mistake. I’ll just cover it all up and move on. I won’t bring it up ever again.”

Bang bang bang bang. I hurriedly approached Jin Eunsul from the front. I pulled the face of Jin Eunsul, who was still sitting, into my embrace.

‘No matter what I say now, Jin Eunsul won’t be visible.’

It would be nice if she struggled and pushed me away, but she probably knows that would only make me look more pitiful.

‘Her mouth is blocked.’

Let’s end this appropriately, Eunsul.

“Really not? I’m not good enough? Does it have to be a man? Can’t it be a woman?”

“I’m sorry…”

“Not those words, okay? Say something, anything. If you really hate me, say you hate me. If you’re sick of me, say you’re sick of me, just say something.”

The longer time went on, the camera only showed my back, only heard my voice, only focused on my narrative.

‘You need to cut it off, Eunsul.’

When I had completely blocked Jin Eunsul, thinking it would be better to end it early, I finally heard a voice trying to wrap things up.

“I’m sorry.”

Jin Eunsul was crying. But the timing was too late.

‘Crying here would be more counterproductive.’

The emotions had already been transferred entirely to me, and Jin Eunsul was trash who cheated on a devoted lover and was even crying. The epitome of someone with extreme avoidance tendencies and patheticness.

‘And pretending to be drunk to counter my pretending to be hurt was the fatal blow.’

You even drank in this situation? Then people would naturally think she drank with ‘that man’ I mentioned in my lines.

“…Okay. I understand.”

I didn’t let go of Jin Eunsul until the very end.

‘I can’t let her face show on my camera.’

That’s mine. It belongs to Han Yeoreum. I pulled Jin Eunsul’s face close and murmured.

“Still, just a little more… Let’s stay like this.”

“…Sob…”

Jin Eunsul deliberately made her crying sounds louder. Desperately trying to steal the narrative somehow. Not happening. I had now transformed from a tragic older sister who was merely used into the Virgin Mary.

“I know you must have been scared. Your sister knows. But I was still greedy… I understand you, I don’t hate you at all.”

My voice trembled pitifully as I held back tears. I deliberately mixed in hiccupping breaths.

“But this is the end, this is our last moment – don’t you have anything to say to your sister? Not just yes, no, I’m sorry. Something else? Anything would be good.”

“…”

“Just say one word that your sister can treasure… Please?”

There’s one thing Jin Eunsul overlooked. When you give various options for an answer, it’s actually easier to escape.

“Even if it’s a lie, just say you love me once. Then I think your sister will be okay with everything.”

Like me, forcing someone to blurt out one of two choices has a much higher success rate. Now that Jin Eunsul had even cried, she had to create a beautiful ending somehow.

System

[90]% of the audience begins focusing on you!

Current audience: 52

“If not love, if you can’t say that… just ‘thank you.’ Can’t you do that for me? Can’t you say you’re sorry instead?”

Now, obediently say ‘thank you.’ Jin Eunsul, held in my arms, fell silent for a moment. She seemed to know she had lost.

But what Jin Eunsul chose until the very end, instead of saying ‘thank you,’ was,

“…I’m sorry.”

Fool. Stubbornly refusing to lose until the end and going against the emotional flow – what’s the point? It only made Han Yeoreum’s character’s pure devotion stand out more.

“Alright! We’ll end it here!”

Seeing no sign of it ending, the Professor clapped his hands once sharply. Jin Eunsul silently hung her head.

“You must have felt it from that exercise just now. Lines, gestures, expressions. All of it ultimately connects to create a narrative! Acting is about letting the audience understand what situation is unfolding.”

The earlier performance would probably be edited to show the expressions of the sitting students and Professor, along with the panelists’ comments, instead of Jin Eunsul’s expressions.

‘It’s not the type that viewers would find entertaining.’

No professionals are as sensitive to sluggishness as variety show producers. Jin Eunsul would serve as a taste of the ‘KNUA classroom atmosphere,’ giving the panelists material to ask me things like whether I always attend classes like that, and how interesting it must be.

‘And naturally, the editing effort will focus on the latter.’

System

[100]% of the audience focused on you!

Current audience: 52

The stage has been successfully completed.

Attention battle: Han Yeoreum’s complete victory.

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