I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 232

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Chapter 232

“Aaah! I don’t want to hear it!”

She felt like she shouldn’t answer the phone. The expected words were obvious.

“Writer, our <Great Garland> Chinese investors fled. So the Korean investors fled too. So it’s ruined. You know?”

An Junmyeong couldn’t escape from the unavoidable natural disaster and clutched her head. As she flattened herself like in an earthquake drill, the vibration stopped.

Buzz.

Then a short message arrived.

“This damn curiosity… Ah…”

An Junmyeong squeezed her eyes shut and touched the screen. There would obviously be a message there.

“Please, please, please… Jesus, Buddha. At least one of you, please help me.”

An Junmyeong, who despite being non-religious only sought gods at times like this, slowly opened her right eye as thin as a thread.

“Huh?”

And immediately opened both eyes wide.

“What is this?”

An unbelievable message had arrived.

[Writer An. This is Ji Haebeom. You seem busy, so I’m messaging instead.]

[I will proceed with investment in <Great Garland>.]

“Huh? What is this?”

While Writer An was dumbfounded, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. Her cell phone rang like crazy. This time it was Director Ja.

“Hello? Director, no, Mr. Ji Haebeom…”

“Writer An! We made it! We made it! We’re saved!”

Director Ja, as always, only said what he wanted to say. His overwhelming voice exploded like confetti in Writer An’s eardrums.

“Investors from Taiwan came in too!”

If this were a movie or drama, this moment would probably be the climax, Writer An thought.

* * *

24 hours earlier.

After finishing his shower, Ji Haebeom lightly shook his hair with a towel. A gray-furred cat came to Ji Haebeom’s ankle in his robe and rubbed its head all over him.

“Mmm. Were you bored.”

Ji Haebeom took out a bottle of sparkling water from the refrigerator. Even his footsteps walking to the sofa were calm. He felt no particular regret even though the drama he was starring in was wavering.

He was still Ji Haebeom, a top star, and he could just choose one from the pouring scenarios.

‘This might be for the best.’

Crisis is opportunity, they say. Ji Haebeom could become an actor who remained steadfast even in shaky circumstances.

Investors wouldn’t want any more crises than this, and Ji Haebeom was truly the perfect ‘safe bet’ choice.

The dark TV screen turned on, and the movie Ji Haebeom chose began playing. The actors’ voices flowed from the Paragon audio speakers.

‘Still, it’s a bit regrettable…’

Honestly, it was fun. The first shoot, the audition too. Ji Haebeom recalled the much younger junior who limped slightly as she entered the audition hall.

Han Yeoreum, who instantly saw through even the symbolism of pear blossoms that no one knew about.

He recalled when they reset the shooting angle and filmed the scene of Taeseok looking at Huijae. It was a few days ago, but it was as vivid as if it had just happened.

Huijae walking out of the photo studio, Huijae getting into the black car lifelessly, Huijae being transported like cargo and briefly looking out the window, and himself who could only watch from across the way.

“…”

The Huijae he had pictured in his mind was right before his eyes.

With short hair that gently touched the tip of her chin. The moment Huijae’s gaze briefly touched Taeseok, the car departed. Taeseok was left standing there alone.

Their interlocked gazes lasted only a brief moment.

But that alone made Ji Haebeom feel as if he had completely become Gi Taeseok.

Ding-dong-.

That’s when it happened. The doorbell of Ji Haebeom’s house was pressed. There was no one who would come at this hour.

Ji Haebeom was about to pick up his cell phone from somewhere to check if it was his manager, but gave up. If it were his manager anyway, he could come right in after pressing the doorbell.

Ding-dong-.

But the bell rang once more. Ji Haebeom looked at the actors beyond the screen and thought to himself.

Who could be beyond the door. There was no one in particular who came to mind.

Ding-dong-.

It was the third time. Ji Haebeom got up from the sofa to check the face of the uninvited guest. The cat sitting on his lap jumped down.

Ji Haebeom looked at the intercom.

“Huh?”

Beyond the screen stood an unexpected figure. A face that made even CCTV high-definition, Gi Taeseok’s child actor.

“It’s Mr. Myeong Jeha.”

Han Yeoreum’s classmate, Myeong Jeha, was there.

Myeong Jeha looked around the unchanged interior of Ji Haebeom’s house. The unfriendly cat came to his feet and acknowledged him.

“Ta-da.”

Ji Haebeom said playfully as he set down a glass of water. It was still like a house that didn’t receive guests.

“Sorry. There’s nothing to drink but alcohol…”

“No, thank you.”

“But I put ice in it?”

Ji Haebeom didn’t ask any particular questions about Myeong Jeha’s sudden visit. His habit of trying to understand and draw conclusions was the same.

Myeong Jeha spoke first.

“How was Huijae?”

“That’s what you came to ask at this hour?”

Ji Haebeom looked at Myeong Jeha with surprised eyes.

“I don’t want to get involved in kids’ love triangles…”

“Not that, her acting.”

When Myeong Jeha tried to bring up the main point, Ji Haebeom stopped answering for a moment. Then he very slowly examined the young junior before him.

Unlike when he was joking just before, his gaze was sharp. Myeong Jeha met his sunken eyes.

“Isn’t it too regrettable for this to fall through? Haha.”

“It is regrettable, but… we’ll meet again when there’s an opportunity.”

When Ji Haebeom took a step back, Myeong Jeha stepped forward.

“Senior, please just flip the market once.”

“How.”

“If you put investment money into <Great Garland>.”

It was an unprecedented situation. Every move of a top star was bound to become news material.

Especially if it was someone of Ji Haebeom’s caliber.

If Ji Haebeom dropped anchor in a work that might fall through, it wasn’t difficult to predict the butterfly effect that would occur from his single word.

The actions of investors who were clamoring to withdraw money, hesitating at enormous losses, would stop. They would seek to export copyrights to countries other than China. They would replace the empty spots with investors from those countries.

Thus, the suspended filming would resume.

“I don’t like things getting complicated…”

He thought this kind of answer would come.

After <Great Garland>, every work he joined would invite investment for publicity, thereby increasing unnecessary promises and requests.

Also, if such investment failed, he would even hear mockery that a work chosen by <Ji Haebeom> had failed. Unnecessary image consumption had to be avoided.

“Even without me, no one would let a work of this caliber easily fall through.”

Ji Haebeom smiled as he brought the glass in his hand to his lips. As he swallowed the cold water, his Adam’s apple bobbed. Myeong Jeha added an explanation without touching his glass.

“Do you think Han Yeoreum will stay in that position while filming is suspended?”

At those words, Ji Haebeom’s Adam’s apple stopped for a moment.

“It’s a 4-episode child role… Originally playing a character with no weight, if other work schedules overlap, dropping out is commonplace. Haha.”

The sound of ice melting and clinking arose from inside the glass.

“Then Yeoreum leaves.”

Above Myeong Jeha’s head glowed.

Analysis: S++

Sure enough. Ji Haebeom’s greatest interest was Han Yeoreum. If that Han Yeoreum he saw at the audition quit acting, he could never see that kind of acting ability again.

‘Ji Haebeom knows.’

There are irreplaceable areas for box office success.

To attract early viewers and solidify them as a fixed audience, Han Yeoreum was needed.

“Myeong Jeha really…”

Ji Haebeom set his cup down on the table. Myeong Jeha was certain.

“Your mind works too well for your age.”

From now on, the Asian investment market will change. Starting with Han Yeoreum.

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