I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 241

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Chapter 241

“To be honest, it’s true that I acted petty and pathetic, and it’s true that I tried to show territorial behavior, but in the end, Han Yeoreum’s genius ad-lib created a perfect stage, so everyone should just remember that… Ah, what am I saying. Anyway, let’s call it quits here. The end.”

I poured alcohol into an empty soju glass. I filled it myself and drank it straight down. The alcohol tasted sweet today.

“What would I need to do to perform like you did today?”

Tak Jeongyun asked me another question. As always, the conversation topic flowed toward acting.

“Right. How do I look to you?”

“What is it about me that makes you want to share the stage with me?”

“How do you do your voice projection? You know, those scenes where you speak quietly. Even there, your pronunciation doesn’t get slurred and your vocal strength stays the same?”

A cheap frozen pork belly restaurant where smoke vibrated from the grill. The tables were sticky, the menu boards hanging on the walls were all worn out, and the tables were packed so closely together that you could vividly hear the conversations from neighboring tables.

Let’s succeed.

Let’s really throw away all actor’s disease and succeed quickly somehow, so we never have to come to places like this again.

The thoughts I had resolved right after my regression seemed colorless compared to how much I had missed this.

“Senior Tak is good at everything. Good at everything, but-!”

We clinked glasses for a long time like that. It was a night where I could feel relief that my newly started life was real, and at the same time feel the stability of having returned.

I wanted to quickly build the Han Yeoreum fam. If I filled my surroundings with famous and powerful people so that no one could touch me, there would be nothing more I could wish for.

But the more I made such calculations, the more these people came to mind. When I really had nothing. When no one knew me, when things were so difficult I couldn’t even speak. The only people who recognized me.

At the frozen pork belly restaurant where I cried my eyes out countless times while drinking, I no longer cry.

“Hey! Han Yeoreum! From now on, you’re… huff… our, our little sister! Got it!”

“I got it. Unnie, try to get up.”

“Got it, didn’t got it!”

“Let’s go home. Let’s go home!”

…Actually, I want to cry a little. I dragged four people home in the late dawn and faced Han Taeyang with an expression I’d never seen in my life.

“Hey.”

“…”

“Do you know what time it is right now?”

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Myeong Jeha opened So Yesol’s script. It was that work Han Yeoreum had received recently.

“Haven’t seen this before.”

The script without a title written on it had unfamiliar character names from the start. For Myeong Jeha, it was a new work he was tasting after a long time.

A work that had never appeared in his previous life. That meant Han Yeoreum was having that much influence on this world.

Na Yuna (23 years old)

“I thought everything would work out once I got to university.”

A prestigious university she entered after three retakes. She thought she could finally say goodbye to the breathlessly racing moments. She thought fanfare would burst out the moment she entered the finish line, but that was brief. Having come out to a bigger world, her second freshman year, where she only painfully realized her own shabbiness, was just dry.

As a long-term student who was a freshman but not a freshman, she couldn’t enjoy the romance of university life. She felt out of place wherever she mixed in.

The freshman look she had wanted to wear so much had gone out of style, and the bamboo forest where people used to tag each other had completely changed to anonymous apps.

It was strange. Everyone said twenty-three was young, that it was youth. But Yuna’s world was gray.

The hardest thing about freshman life that felt like becoming a high school senior was the inferiority complex. She felt unknown emotions watching Heejeong, who shone pink unlike herself, and Yunkyo, who was surrounded by gold.

Jeong Heejeong (23 years old)

“I don’t need anything else, I just want to get married. Marriage, not dating.”

The problem started with her name. Since it had “jeong” twice, she got entangled in petty affairs. Having a lot of “jeong” meant constantly expecting things, and constantly being disappointed. And it also meant constantly wandering around looking for someone to share something with.

Anyway, it was all because of “jeong.”

Middle school for girls, high school for girls. In a society that had always been composed only of women, Heejeong made a firm resolution. Once she got to university, she would date. As resolved, Heejeong started dating as soon as she entered. Once with a wonderful returning student senior who seemed to know everything well, and once with a classmate she could lean on after breaking up.

After two relationships and two leaves of absence, all that remained for Heejeong was the title of “synonym for CC.”

She had definitely loved so much, but she just wondered where all that love had gone.

She felt secret heartache watching Yuna and Yunkyo, who unlike herself belonged to normal families.

She wanted to get married soon and become a good mother herself. Not like her mom who had introduced countless new men as new dads since childhood. A real mom.

Ko Yunkyo (23 years old)

“I like Seoul. No one here really knows me.”

Ko Yunkyo could be explained in one phrase.

One phrase was enough.

She lives alone in an apartment.

Three rooms, two bathrooms. Everything in Ko Yunkyo’s house was expensive. Every towel, every fork was a luxury item from overseas. Ko Yunkyo, who didn’t even do housework with her own hands, let alone part-time jobs, was obviously a hothouse flower. A rich family’s daughter who grew up receiving lots of love.

So no one knew.

That Ko Yunkyo could set up an ancestral rite table all by herself. That she hadn’t dropped a spatula from her hands since she was eight years old. That her two leaves of absence were to care for her younger brother who had an accident while riding a bike.

She had no intention of telling them. There was no need to let them know what it was like to live as the eldest daughter in a family with many daughters and few sons. Yuna, an only daughter, and Heejeong, who had an older sister, wouldn’t know, but Yunkyo just wanted to be seen as a precious family’s daughter.

If the previous 【I Don’t Care At All】 was a healing drama for tired new members of society, this script was similar but had a different texture.

It had a gap from the youth commonly spotlighted in media.

“That makes it more realistic.”

Myeong Jeha recalled the current atmosphere of MBS’s drama department. With consecutive failures and even the Korean ban overlapping, they would be more anxious than ever.

“They’ll push the schedule as much as possible.”

It was obvious they would immediately produce up to episode 4 to start casting, and begin filming as soon as episode 8 was completed.

“If things go well, they might overlap…”

Myeong Jeha picked up the script he had prepared with his other hand.

“I wonder if our Yeoreum can handle both a sociopath and a university student at the same time.”

Laughter was mixed in Myeong Jeha’s voice. The corners of Myeong Jeha’s mouth, who was estimating the schedule, rose loosely.

Every time Han Yeoreum got involved, things went off expectations. Everything he had known in advance got twisted. Still, it wasn’t bad. Rather, it was interesting.

“It looks like this year will be busier.”

Han Yeoreum was a card that could stir up South Korea’s drama scene, which was frozen by the Korean ban.

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[Do your part… Premium theater that made Daehangno cry, 【Intern Academy】 newly opens the door to Daehangno box office success]

“At this level, it’s not comedy but documentary”

The play 【Academy of Intern Academy’s Academy】, which depicts the tearful social entry period of MZ generation office workers, is causing an unprecedented sensation in Daehangno’s small theater district. Starting with its premiere on the 17th of last month, it set a new record of selling out all performances, and the performance of actor Han Yeoreum, who played the main character ‘Jin Jinjoo’, is drawing attention. Han Yeoreum debuted with 【The Cherry on Top of Parfait Belongs to the Heroine!】 and…

[Would you like to dislike this?]

Click.

Eun Seol pressed dislike on every article related to Han Yeoreum. As always, she didn’t like that articles about Han Yeoreum were uploaded on portal sites at all.

From some point on, even if it wasn’t a main article, Han Yeoreum’s name was always embedded somewhere in a corner.

“Annoying… Annoying, annoying, annoying…”

Her thumbnail holding the mouse dug into her flesh from biting it countless times.

“It’s because of 【M Couple】’s ratings, that’s all. Why is terrestrial broadcasting promoting a play? Really.”

Not only on SNS, but even in communities, favorable reviews of Han Yeoreum’s play were lining up. Eun Seol, who monitored everything, busily moved her hands each time.

Input: It’s fucking boring but the viral marketing is so bad ㅠㅠㅠ Everyone around me said the same thing about wasting their money

Input: lol she’s only tolerable in dramas but when she went to theater her lack of skills really showed ㅋㅋㅋㅋ let’s be real, TV shows are all scripted and heavily edited anyway

Input: I’m a housewife in my 40s. I went to see a play with my kids after a long time but only came back disappointed. If I knew this would happen, I should have watched Studio Apartment Cat~~ Tsk…

The faster she typed, the more a smile formed on Jin Eun Seol’s lips.

“Everyone should just go watch dramas, why bother with cheap plays?”

Jin Eun Seol did everything she could while hiding behind anonymity. She wanted to scratch Han Yeoreum somehow.

She operated not only communities but also a separate Yusta account she had created. Jin Eun Seol’s timeline was filled with Han Yeoreum and Do Gyeoul.

“Maybe if it were Gyeoul, maybe if it were really Gyeoul!”

【Fuse】 saw its ratings shoot up as soon as it aired episode 1. While other works in the same time slot were swaying due to the Korean ban, it quickly surpassed episode 10.

Do Gyeoul’s acting transformation also continued to receive favorable reviews. Her previous work 【Beyond the Closed Door】 was a romantic comedy, but this time it was an authentic romance. The added weight made the desperate emotional lines stand out.

While watching 【Fuse】 live, Eun Seol thought many times.

That only Do Gyeoul was an actor she could acknowledge.

“What is Han Yeoreum anyway.”

She wanted to reach Do Gyeoul quickly. She wanted to take that position instead of Han Yeoreum.

KNUA’s class of light.

She wanted to put Jin Eun Seol’s name there.

Ring-. Ring-. Ring-.

It was then that Eun Seol’s phone rang.

“Ah, yes. PD!”

Eun Seol adjusted her voice and immediately answered the phone. The PD on the other end of the receiver greeted her kindly.

“Of course. I remember. Filming starts tomorrow at 10 AM. Yes. I’ve memorized the entire script. My condition is naturally great~.”

Tomorrow was finally the day of Jin Eunsul’s web drama filming. Jin Eunsul hung up the phone after hearing a few brief instructions.

Han Yeoreum was still displayed on the laptop monitor.

‘Right. My turn is coming soon too.’

Jin Eunsul closed the laptop. Tomorrow was finally the day Jin Eunsul would become the lead.

The moment when the focus would be on Jin Eunsul, not Han Yeoreum.

‘Once I make my face known through this web drama…’

Eun Seol went to bed early. Her accumulated followers had reached 5,000 at some point.

Thanks to that, she didn’t need to worry about hair and makeup costs before filming the drama. She could receive sponsorship items.

As the view count of 【M Couple】 Han Yeoreum clips increased, Eun Seol’s followers also grew. The more she looked at her follower count, the more Jin Eunsul’s inferiority complex swelled.

‘Later, I’ll… on 【M Couple】…’

That day, Eun Seol dreamed of all the cameras that had followed Han Yeoreum turning toward her instead. Deeply asleep, Eun Seol barely stirred.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

Even though her cell phone vibrated several times, the sweet dream held Eun Seol tightly bound. Missed calls piled up.

In her dream, Eun Seol was busy doing web dramas, movies, single-episode dramas, dramas, then movies again, and eventually theater.

All of them achieved better results than Han Yeoreum.

[Anonymous board for people in their 20s/ YouStar is going crazy right now lololol forced phone number verification]

Because of the update, everyone running secondary accounts got exposed… You guys should check too

-Damn, I had this frustrating person around me who was like “isn’t that enough to be called angel disease?” but they had a burner account following all the celebrity hate accounts lmaooooo

-Our team manager has a girlfriend and I want to tell her; his secondary account showed up for me and I was fucking shocked

-My Twitter mutuals’ fan accounts all got wiped out.. what do I do about this ㅜㅜㅜㅜ

And at that very moment, Eun Seol’s followers were rapidly increasing.

[HOT/ Aspiring actress who ran hate account against celebrity friend]

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