I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 256

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Chapter 256

From episode 5, where Ji Haebeom and Eun Baekhap would appear in earnest, everyone expected stable viewership ratings. At least 10% or higher.

However, the child actor part, which had relatively little screen time, couldn’t be properly measured yet.

“Well, it’ll do well, right?”

“It’s Director Ja, so the basic fanbase is solid…”

“The two child actors are also somewhat famous kids. Aren’t these two representatives of KNUA?”

“Yeah, that’s right. At least they’ll take first place in their time slot.”

They vaguely expected it to do well. Since the trailer had shown its impact, everyone thought it would start comfortably around 7-8%.

“…The viewership rating…”

Reporter Wi looked at his senior seriously.

He too was looking at the beam projector screen with a grave expression. His face showed he was deep in thought about something.

“The viewership rating isn’t what’s important.”

However, the words that came from his mouth were unexpected. It wasn’t the usual answer trying to gauge viewership ratings.

“Then what is important?”

“Ah, Senior! Are you saying that because you can’t predict the viewership rating?”

The first episode’s viewership rating was something that could be sensed through abilities honed from years of journalism.

The director and writer’s reputation, the actors’ face value, public reaction, overall buzz, the flow of the production company and dramas in the same time slot, the SNS firepower of drama fans. But this time was different.

“This… I think it’ll do well overseas.”

What surpassed all of that was intuition. Something not visible to the eye but felt instinctively.

“Really well, too.”

* * *

News that an incredibly wealthy person would be moving in soon spread throughout the village.

“They said the Japanese left, but now another Japanese is coming in?”

“I heard it’s a Joseon person…”

“Oh my, well, anyone moving into such a grand house can’t just be an ordinary Joseon person! Someone who mingles with the Japanese is also Japanese.”

Passing by the grand wall and speculating about the new resident was a small pastime for the villagers. Everyone did it.

“From what I heard, he is Japanese, right? Where was it… Right, Kobe! They say he’s someone who ran a big business there. Been passed down for several generations.”

“He’s Japanese, Japanese! How could a Joseon person have something passed down for generations? At most it would be a measly 10 or 20 years.”

But Taeseok was different.

“…”

With a face that showed whoever moved in had absolutely nothing to do with him, he opened his eyes at dawn and closed them at dawn.

When things got busy, Taeseok’s name was always called first, and Taeseok had to run around instead of walking.

That day was one of those days. A massive ship was gradually approaching from far away, cutting through the dark blue sea water.

“Taeseok!”

“Yes!”

Unloading the cargo packed inside the ship was the workers’ job. Taeseok ran quickly.

When the ship docked and the cargo hold doors opened, the workers moved busily. The workers lined up in a row were as orderly as a conveyor belt made of people.

From left to right, hand to hand, they were moving cargo when an expensive luxury car stopped nearby.

The driver who got out of the driver’s seat hurriedly walked toward the ship. Soon, a man walking with well-dressed servants could be seen.

“Tsk tsk tsk…”

The man who clicked his tongue as soon as he saw the scenery here, displeased by something, was obviously wealthy.

What he wore certainly couldn’t be bought even if all of Taeseok and the workers’ daily wages were combined. From head to toe, he didn’t fit in with this place.

The surroundings stirred. Even the workers who were moving cargo stared at him in a daze. His shiny, polished shoe soles trampled the rough dock.

Taeseok was still focused on carrying cargo until then. It was when he looked up, puzzled by the suddenly interrupted movement.

Seagulls cried out.

“…”

A humid sea breeze blew. Ebony-like hair fluttered at the young girl’s chin. Sunlight poured down over the sea that spread behind her pure white profile. It sparkled so violently it was almost brutal.

Taeseok looked at the young girl.

The young girl walked out without giving even a single glance in this direction.

It seemed like an invisible line had been drawn.

It was as if her whole body was saying this side and that side were completely different worlds.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Taeseok’s heartbeat began to resemble the sound of a ship’s horn. The back seat door of the car opened, and the young girl was swallowed into the black interior. Taeseok stared for a long time at the rear view of the car emitting hazy exhaust.

* * *

Now there was no one who didn’t know that man. Less than a day after moving in, everyone knew him.

A Joseon person, and Hanamura, who planned to start a brewing business here to supply the US military.

“Oh my. He came all the way here to sell alcohol.”

“The distillery was completely empty after the Japanese withdrew. Those American soldiers always had alcohol on their lips, so there’s nothing left but to rake in money.”

Taeseok, who had always looked straight ahead no matter what anyone said, now turned his head slightly. It was barely noticeable, but the office worker could feel it.

“What! I guess he’s curious!”

The office worker, who unconsciously hugged her pillow and smiled brightly, eagerly admired Myeong Jeha’s face.

“It’s a face that creates a narrative no matter what he does, and they poured narrative all over it…”

Even though Myeong Jeha wore old clothes to fit his poor character, his face solved everything.

Rather, since he didn’t pay attention to clothes, his strong jawline and veined hands were even more visible.

-Woo my husband///

-I’m going crazy, I never thought I’d see a living romance novel male lead on public broadcasting, damn…

-No, why is he carrying luggage over there with that face, pleaseㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Earlier, there was a brief moment when the two were captured together from a distance. Even their appearance separated from each other at a far distance made the office worker’s cheeks hurt from smiling.

“Hurry up and let them meet now.”

The office worker wiggled her toes. She couldn’t stand the tickling feeling in her heart.

Hanamura’s brewing business started by captivating high-ranking people on the US military side. He gave expensive alcohol as gifts and built relationships.

“Hahaha! I really like this. Is it okay to receive such a wonderful thing from our first meeting?”

“The first meeting becomes the second meeting, and the third meeting, doesn’t it?”

While Hanamura lived a glamorous outside life every day, Rio was left alone, staying quietly in her room. In the annex separated from the main building, all Rio did was occasionally look out the window.

The sky was the same in Kobe and Joseon, so Rio had eyes that showed she didn’t care where this place was.

Tick tick tick.

She could only close her eyes and move her hands to the sound of the clock’s second hand in the quiet room.

Every early morning, the nurse would enter the room to comb Rio’s hair and dress her. It was for eye candy.

Seeing Hanamura off in the morning with the servants at the door and greeting him late at night. That kind of thing was Rio’s only use.

“I just need to clean up to here, right?”

“Don’t think about doing it half-heartedly, scrub hard!”

That’s when it happened. An unfamiliar language was heard from beyond the door. Rio’s eyes sparkled.

Originally, the work in the annex was the job of servants who came together from Kobe.

Beyond the door was noisy. They seemed to be trying to speak quietly in their own way, but their accent was strong. Rio, who had quietly walked over, approached the door.

The gold leaf embedded in her yukata sparkled with each step. Rio leaning against the wall closest to the door and the servants laughing and cleaning outside were captured together.

With just one door between them, the rich and poor were divided.

But one side was withering while the other was blooming.

“Is this the young lady’s room?”

“Shh. What if she hears… Call her Miss.”

Rio was already close to the door.

Knock knock!

When the knocking sound came, Rio was startled and her shoulders trembled.

“Food! No, no. ご!”

At the respectfully delivered message that food had been brought, Rio slowly, very slowly got up and opened the door.

Not with the face of the young girl who had secretly eavesdropped outside earlier, but with the face of a wealthy young lady from Kobe.

“Well then, yes. Enjoy. おいしく? Yes…”

The woman who appeared to be old enough to be her mother couldn’t hide her excitement as she entered the room. It was because she had never seen such a grand room before. Rio, as if she wouldn’t bother to take in the woman’s movements, turned her gaze elsewhere and was once again trapped in silence.

A proper meal table incomparable to the shabby workers’ meals. White rice with steaming miso soup. Half a fish and pickled vegetables, a pair of chopsticks placed horizontally.

As if the work was finished, the annex was quiet again. No one’s voice could be heard.

“Enjoy…”

Rio, who muttered as if chewing over the words the woman who had just entered had said to her, clasped her hands together once in prayer before picking up her chopsticks. Rio put rice into her mouth, barely enough to feed a bird, and forced herself to eat a few bites.

“…It tastes awful.”

The spoon that wouldn’t even be used seemed just like herself, so Rio pushed away the meal she had barely touched.

* * *

“Taeseok! Come here for a moment.”

Meanwhile, something new had come up for Taeseok.

“Are you still delivering newspapers at dawn?”

“Yes.”

“Don’t you want to try something other than newspapers? Actually, you should. The pay is much better. You know a few guys over at the US Military Base, right?”

Taeseok was assigned the role of delivering alcohol lees from Hanamura’s Factory to the US Military Base. It was because of the vegetable gardens that were often seen within the base.

Just some vegetables. They were supplies that came out of the base in abundance, but a few eccentric higher-ups liked to grow them with their own hands.

Things that someone had to desperately struggle to grow with their lives on the line were nothing more than a pastime for them.

“They said to bring some over for fertilizer.”

The smell of alcohol and the heavy weight too. It was work that most people would avoid, but Taeseok nodded obediently once again. After all, the pay was incomparably better, just as the man had said.

Before dawn broke, under the sky gradually brightening from deep blue, a massive distillery came into view. Taeseok firmly secured the heavy container to the back of his bicycle.

Then he pedaled as usual.

The distillery was quite a distance from Hanamura’s House, but passing by that way was a shortcut.

Taeseok rode over the bumpy road. The bicycle rattled. His grip on the steering wheel gradually tightened.

It was when he reached the end of the wall around Hanamura’s House. Taeseok stopped his bicycle for a moment.

“This rope…”

Muttering, Taeseok brought his hand over the rope that bound the container holding the alcohol lees. Taeseok deliberately retied the firmly bound container once more. That’s when it happened. He heard signs of someone’s presence.

A white hand appeared over the wall, and what came up next was.

“…”

A face so clear and pure white that it seemed to have no connection whatsoever to the blazing sunlight beating down on the sea.

The boy and girl’s eyes met. The sound of birds chirping could be heard.

After a moment of silence, the girl was the first to speak.

“Jo-sen-jing-.”

And then it ended. This was how the ending of 【The Great Garland】 Episode 1 went.

-???

-?????

-What the fuck did she just say??

-What is this lol this is fucking ridiculous

-Call Gaksital you bastard

Naturally, every community exploded.

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