I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 251

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Chapter 251

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I couldn’t properly collect my thoughts. My head was filled with one single thought.

If Myeong Jeha interferes with me like this, what can I do when I have no knowledge about the future? Who can I ask for help?

Who would believe the fact that I regressed?

There was only one answer.

Only Myeong Jeha.

The one who could help me, and the one who could threaten me.

“…Mm….”

“It’s hard to believe, but it’s all true.”

So I had no choice but to spill everything from beginning to end. It was the only option given to me.

The reason for my regression, my relationship with Do Gyeoul, the ridiculous Status Window, the missions given to me.

“I’m a bit disappointed.”

When the story was completely finished, Myeong Jeha gently readjusted his grip on my wrist that he had been holding.

“About what?”

“To think you were hiding something so trivial. Is this all our relationship amounts to?”

Myeong Jeha pulled my wrist. I instantly lost my balance and collapsed onto the sofa. Now we were finally at eye level.

“It’s so exactly like what I expected that it’s rather anticlimactic.”

“…You expected this?”

“For me it was a restart without reason, but for you, Yeoreum, it was such good conditions. I’m a bit upset, but… it worked out well.”

What the intimidating Myeong Jeha offered was a brief answer.

‘What is this.’

When you regress N times, do you develop a way of thinking that’s hard for ordinary human minds to comprehend?

‘How can he accept it so quickly?’

Myeong Jeha was like a literal transcendent being who suppressed all emotions and only reached the correct answer.

Even though we were at similar eye levels, I had the illusion that Myeong Jeha was standing far above me.

It was when I felt a distance that couldn’t be crossed in one leap.

“But there’s one thing you got wrong.”

“I told you everything truthfully!”

“You said you regressed once.”

“Yeah. Once.”

Myeong Jeha pointed out another flaw.

“That doesn’t make sense. Every time I restarted, you, Yeoreum, would have gone back too.”

Huh.

“To be precise, the number of regressions you remember is just once.”

The fact I believed in was off. I could see the gap.

“This is just a hypothesis, but… the reason I kept restarting might have been because of you, Yeoreum.”

It seemed like Myeong Jeha had been constantly analyzing as a regressor while observing me over the past few years.

He presented the answer like a clear formula.

“Do Gyeoul succeeds with works you should have done, an error occurs so it restarts, and this repeats again.”

It was a perspective I had never even considered.

“That’s why no matter what I tried, I couldn’t stop it. Should I say I got swept up in your life? Haha.”

Myeong Jeha laughed coldly like before. A heavy silence fell for a moment.

Myeong Jeha stared at me intently. The emotion contained in his calmly settled gaze was of a kind that was hard to read.

“…I’m sorry, sir….”

“It’s not something you need to apologize for, Yeoreum.”

If the prediction was correct, Myeong Jeha was no different from being swept up in the natural disaster called Han Yeoreum.

‘Inexplicable misfortune repeated endlessly….’

Myeong Jeha doesn’t resent me. He doesn’t get angry either. He was just looking at me.

Like throwing a small pebble into a dark sea of unknown depth. No waves formed.

Somehow I felt responsible for Myeong Jeha’s emotions being worn away. I seriously raised one hand.

“Still, I’ll really take responsibility and end it this time. Trust me, sir.”

Myeong Jeha lightly nodded his head. It was a posture that seemed to say, let’s see you try.

“I’ll definitely clear all the missions. Do you remember what you said before I dropped out?”

“…I did?”

Myeong Jeha looked at me as if asking what I was talking about.

“When I dropped out, what you said… don’t you remember?”

In some scene of life, there are memories that become intense moments, though brief, that you simply cannot forget.

“You’re dropping out, Yeoreum?”

“…Yeah.”

“Why?”

“No particular reason.”

“You’re good at it though. Acting.”

I remember that exactly. It was a conversation I revisited many times while enduring my unknown days.

“Well… I don’t really remember.”

But was it nothing to Myeong Jeha? My pride cracked.

“What did I say?”

“I’ll make you remember that later. You’ll have no choice but to remember, right? Ha! Really!”

“Alright. I’ll look forward to it.”

When it comes to Han Yeoreum, ‘good at acting’ basically comes attached, and he forgot that? I clenched my fist.

“Just a while ago you were trembling and scared, but it seems you’ve relaxed now.”

“Well… if your guess is right, then you can’t interfere with my success…?”

Myeong Jeha made a ‘look at this’ expression.

“I thought you were stupid, but your head works surprisingly well.”

“Please just keep thoughts like that to yourself, sir.”

“You, Yeoreum, never even thought about such things. You were satisfied just acting, right?”

It was an accurate point, so I had nothing to say.

“You didn’t even care about regression… you never once assumed you might fail midway, and never thought about how to end it without restarting.”

Honestly speaking, that’s right. It’s true.

I thought about how to act well, but I never thought about needing to end the regression.

‘Of course, because I never thought there would be another regression.’

Because my head was filled only with acting.

“Do you like acting that much?”

Myeong Jeha asked an obvious question.

“…Yeah. I like it.”

Even though there was only one answer to give.

“I really like it.”

At my answer, Myeong Jeha briefly turned away his gaze that had been locked with mine. He lowered his head once, then changed direction and turned to the side. Then he exhaled deeply.

Myeong Jeha, having regulated his breathing, opened his mouth.

“Variables that arise midway, possibilities of things going wrong, unexpected accidents.”

Myeong Jeha had an indifferent expression, befitting someone who had solved all those problems alone.

“When those pile up, the worst situation comes.”

“What kind….”

“What if you restart again without memories of this regression, and start again, and start again?”

It was literally the worst. Goosebumps rose all over my body. Myeong Jeha, who observed my reaction, smiled slightly. As if that was enough.

“So don’t keep secrets from me anymore. Got it?”

“….”

“I’m asking.”

“Yes….”

Myeong Jeha leaned back against the sofa with a posture that said there was no further room for compromise. Fatigue showed in his gesture of sweeping back his bangs.

“Ah… my throat is dry from all that threatening…”

“Here’s the water you were drinking, sir-“

“Make me some tea.”

“Yes.”

But wait, isn’t this his house? Then shouldn’t he be making tea for me? I thought rebelliously in my head, but I didn’t have the guts to act up in front of an N-time returner.

‘To be honest, that threat earlier wasn’t acting at all.’

I was just pretending it was to smooth over the current atmosphere.

If I hadn’t answered his questions properly, we definitely wouldn’t have this kind of atmosphere now. Myeong Jeha’s attitude suggested that only results mattered to him.

‘As expected of an N-time returner…’

He was skilled at controlling emotions. I could see why his Analysis had upgraded beyond its limits.

“Alright, let me organize this cleanly for you.”

Myeong Jeha took a sip of the tea I made and said.

“Share exactly what needs to be completed. Without hiding anything.”

“Yes…”

“Promise.”

“Yes…”

Myeong Jeha seemed satisfied with my answer and picked up the shopping bag that had been placed at his feet.

“Then I’ll bring you works that suit you as much as possible, Yeoreum. Just like now.”

Before I knew it, two scenarios were placed in front of Myeong Jeha.

“Everything up to now was just playing around. This is the real gift.”

I picked up one of them first.

“【Unfair Trade】…”

It looked similar to 【Faster Than Law】, but it was a detective drama scenario with completely different undertones.

It was a story about two detectives, one physical and one cerebral, helping each other with investigations. It earned high praise not only from seasoned drama fans but also for its artistic merit alone, thanks to its fresh setting.

Because the cerebral detective was a sociopath.

“This is definitely…”

But something was different. I looked at Myeong Jeha.

“Right. It was originally a two-top male lead production.”

Myeong Jeha raised the corner of his mouth as if asking whether I thought he wouldn’t know that.

“Not anymore.”

Myeong Jeha could even change the protagonist’s gender if he wanted to.

“From now on, it’s yours.”

I turned the synopsis page as if entranced.

【Unfair Trade】

Still, the living must live on.

Violent Crimes detective Gam Seonghwan hated this phrase the most.

Those who lived lives that didn’t seem like living were bound to carry death in one corner of their hearts.

In 1996, a horrific murder occurred in a residential area of Seoul. The victims were a housewife and her four-year-old daughter. They were Seonghwan’s mother and younger sister.

The case shocked the entire nation, but soon the media turned their attention to new entertainment news, and the investigation fizzled out without even identifying a suspect. Twenty years passed, and the case remained permanently unsolved.

Violent Crimes detective Gam Seonghwan catches a familiar scent at yet another crime scene. Just like that unforgettable incident from that day.

It’s him.

That bastard is still alive.

Lee Seorhae

“Is it because criminals are smarter than detectives that they don’t get caught? No. It’s because there are too many bastards in this world.”

IQ 160. Emotional deficiency. Zero empathy.

But a sociopath with exceptional understanding of criminal psychology.

An analysis expert with natural investigative instincts.

The arrogance that only she represents justice is her standard for analysis.

A genius who had been incompatible with ordinary people since childhood. Now she lives to catch criminals .

It’s not because she’s wrong that no one understands her. It’s because this world is wrong. That belief made Lee Seorhae into a legendary analyst.

But at some point, she starts clashing with Gam Seonghwan, who was the most incompatible type for her, and ironically, the emotional Seonghwan understands the rational Seorhae the best.

It was a scenario that any actress would covet. A detective story with action, a two-top with a male lead, and solid character development.

“And one more thing.”

Myeong Jeha pointed to the remaining scenario as if it was too early to be moved yet.

“…Hey, this is…”

There was an unbelievable title written there.

“Right. Production is about to begin.”

It was the work said to have opened the floodgates for Netholics Korea. A zombie story set in Seoul.

【Seoul Metropolitan City】

“Are you crazy!”

I’m going to be in this? On Netholics? In one of their biggest hit works?

“Sir… this is truly the best birthday gift…”

Myeong Jeha added to me as I picked up the scenario.

“By the way, there’s no way Netholics would leave out Do Gyeoul when producing an original.”

The woman of Netholics.

He was saying I’d have to properly compete with Do Gyeoul, who held that title.

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At that moment, Director So moved her fingers as if entranced. When she thought of the three leads’ faces, she could see the campus beyond without realizing it.

The last lead for 【Youth Disqualified!】 had finally been decided just a few days ago.

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