I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 257

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Chapter 257

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“Come forth….”

Whirr- Whirr- Whirr-.

“Sweet complaints….”

Whirr- Whirr- Whirr- Whirr-.

This place where the constant noise from the printer echoed was KBC Drama Center. Complaints were flooding in.

“Center Director! What should we do!”

“What do you mean what to do. We expected this.”

Along with the fax attacks, the complaint board and phones were all on fire.

“Yes. KBC Drama Center… Yes, sir, please calm down for a moment… Yes. Please speak a little slower… so I can understand… Don’t you bastards have ancestors, using terms like Josenjing on a public broadcast… Yes, of course, I understand….”

“We’re sorry. If you could just wait a moment….”

Watching the staff bow and scrape while taking calls, the Center Director wiped away a few tears.

“That bastard Director Ja… he’s a god at stirring up controversy….”

Director Ja was famous for being good at stirring up controversy. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that everything called a cliché first came from Ja Seokhwan’s head.

The scene where he had the protagonist get hit by a truck right before the final episode, making viewers clutch the back of their necks, then in the next episode revealed he had counter-bribed the truck driver who was bribed by the opposing side, fooling everyone, was a betrayal that would go down in Korean drama history.

“Center Director! Three advertisers are considering withdrawal.”

“Leave them be… Tomorrow they’ll withdraw their withdrawal consideration.”

“There’s chaos about concerns over damage to social image.”

“Leave it be… Tomorrow instead of that chaos, there’ll be different chaos….”

The buzz exploded as much as the controversy was stirred.

Not only article headlines but it wouldn’t come down from #1 on Twitter’s real-time trends.

@szq mimimiiii

Watching from heaven, Gaksital oppa, I won’t lose anything again after that day

Retweets 31k Likes 37k

@0percent. 0percentttt

Gathering all these great actors and causing a disaster from episode 1, goodbye, it’s unpleasant so I don’t want to watch

Retweets 5,572 Likes 11k

“Center Director… Right now the Broadcasting Review Committee….”

“Alright… I’ll go….”

Because the firepower was too intense, the Korea Communications Standards Commission’s reprimand came down not long after it aired. But the Center Director stood firm.

“The true value of public broadcasting… will never be overshadowed by controversy….”

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Input: Fuck please give spoilers

Input: People are dying here

Aetami couldn’t focus on work all morning and afternoon. The 【The Great Garland】 gallery was a mess. Even when the moderator cut down concept posts, the controversy continued.

‘Fuck, this is because the director stirred up controversy first….’

She couldn’t blame anyone else. It was all Ja Seokhwan’s fault.

‘Do it with your own face, you bastard! Using our kid’s face to stir up that kind of controversy makes our kid get the hate! I’m really going to die….’

Aetami clenched her teeth.

The 【The Great Garland】 clips that had been uploaded just a few hours ago had a minimum of 80,000 views. At this rate, the clip with the highest views might break 1 million in just one day after airing.

It was buzz that crushed other dramas airing at the same time, but Aetami couldn’t be happy about the performance.

‘Where does that bastard Ja Seokhwan live.’

In this work, Yeoreum’s screen time was less than usual. She was just a child actor after all. You couldn’t put Yeoreum who would carry 4 episodes on the same level as Baekhap who had to carry 20 episodes.

But there was just one thing. There was one piece of original content that revolved around Yeoreum and Jeha.

“Is that really true?”

“It’s really true!”

“Ahhh! I want to join your company!”

InTube content prepared for early promotion of 【The Great Garland】.

Starting with the 【Strange Tales】 reaction video, subscribers to Daily Media’s InTube channel where Reporter Wi works gradually increased. Now it was a whopping 430,000. Among corporate channels, it had considerable influence.

Hahahaha wait for it]

[something big is coming]

Now new original content was created like JC ENM’s first car live and ASMR channels. It was called ‘Last Period’.

Both cast members and guests wore school uniforms, watching clips from their broadcasts together and having friendly conversations.

It was similar content to journalists gathering to do reactions and the response was good.

INTUBE

[Last Period is a Club! Drama Viewing Time with the 【The End is With You】 Team] 31:45

670,000 views

-Wow this really reminds me of high school lol those freaking huge spicy shrimp crackers lololol

-For real, big honey twist bread is the unwritten rule ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Sometimes we’d secretly order tons of tteokbokki behind the teachers’ backs

-They look so comfortable and relaxed, it’s nice to watch. They’re just rambling about random stuff but I also put it on as background while eating lol

-The shamelessness of putting a 62-year-old in a school uniform..

The homeroom teacher must be crazy

And recently, Han Yeoreum and Myeong Jeha from 【The Great Garland】 filmed this content.

They recorded reactions while watching clips from episodes 1 to 4 that only featured child actors. While promotion had mainly revolved around the leads Ji Haebeom and Eun Baekhap, Last Period had no choice but to feature these two due to the nature of having to watch broadcast clips.

“Ah… really please….”

Before long, communities were even arguing that 【The Great Garland】 should be cancelled. Even making a discussion board felt awkward.

Finally at 10 o’clock. Aetami watched episode 2 of 【The Great Garland】 with a nervously beating heart.

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As soon as Taeseok heard those words, his face burned hot. He regretted stopping for no reason. He quickly pedaled and left Hanamura’s house without looking back.

The bumpy road. The old bicycle running over it. His hands gripping the handlebars incomparably more fiercely than before.

If earlier his hands had tensed from nervousness, now they tensed from anger. Taeseok’s chest swelled greatly as he pedaled with emotion. His breathing was irregular.

“What the hell was that….”

Always taciturn, Taeseok gritted his teeth. He felt stupid. He thought of course a girl living in such a house in Joseon would be like that.

Click!

Having arrived in front of the US military base, Taeseok stopped his bicycle. His hands still gripped the handlebars with such force that veins bulged on the back of his hands.

Taeseok’s back looked pitiful as he breathed roughly with his head down. His broad shoulders supporting the old bicycle so it wouldn’t fall trembled finely.

What was so pretty about that thing that made him stop.

There were exactly three moments when Taeseok, who was always running around busily, stayed in one place.

The first day he saw her.

And the moment he stopped his bicycle and made eye contact.

Finally, now.

Somehow, it was all that girl’s fault.

A few days later, Taeseok came to pass by Hanamura’s house once again. During that time he had worked without sleeping properly all night.

From the moment he heard the word Josenjing, his heart had been burning hot and wouldn’t calm down, so he deliberately worked even harder.

This time he absolutely wouldn’t stop. Making that resolution to himself, Taeseok pedaled faster than usual.

“…!”

It was when he was about to reach the end. A stone flew from somewhere.

Clank! Taeseok hastily stopped his bicycle. When he irritably turned his head toward where the stone came from, there was that girl again.

“…What is it.”

What she threw was also a smooth white pebble just like her. That house probably had plenty of such things. That’s why she called me Josenjing.

Feeling a surge of emotion, Taeseok tried to move forward without paying attention again. Then a voice pierced Taeseok’s ears.

“Josenjing!”

He had let it pass last time, but not this time. It was fine if he got fired from his delivery job or got beaten. He still wanted to say something.

Taeseok, having stopped his bicycle, walked with big strides toward the wall.

But this was strange.

The closer he got, the more the girl was smiling.

“What are you to keep-.”

It was the moment when Taeseok, feeling an inexplicable emotion at that face, was about to surge with anger. The girl who had cut off his words opened her mouth again. Watashi mo Josenjing desu. At those words, Taeseok blinked for a moment.

“Josenjing?”

At those words, the young girl nodded her head. She smiled brightly.

The girl, who was a head shorter, went on her tiptoes and went down below the wall before popping back up again.

“Me. Josenjing.”

It was an introduction. Taeseok immediately felt drained. So this was what was happening right now….

“Why do you speak like that….”

At Taeseok’s words, the girl pointed to herself with her index finger as if she didn’t understand.

Thinking that Taeseok hadn’t properly understood what she was saying, she spoke clearly once more.

Watashi! Jo! Sen! Jing!

There wasn’t a trace of malice in it.

“…Who called you that?”

Taeseok’s gaze became subtle. She seemed like a girl surrounded only by precious and good things. Her two hands resting on the wall were so smooth, as if they had never held anything heavier than a tea cup.

-Oh, I think I saw this during the script reading ㅜㅜㅜ

-Ugh, who raised our Huijae calling her Josenjing, come out here, I’ve got a bat ready

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ damn it…

-Wait, but Hanamura is also Joseon people, so he just called his own daughter Josenjing? Crazy bastard

Who on earth had taught her such words? Why was she living in an environment where being called Josenjing was natural for Joseon people? Wasn’t there a single proper Joseon adult around her? Did she not know the term Joseon people instead of Josenjing? Then had she been living in a world where only people who called her Josenjing existed until now?

They say actors speak with their eyes. Myeong Jeha’s Gi Taeseok knew how to express all these emotions without words.

His gaze looking down at the girl was complex.

As if wanting to converse, the girl kept talking to him in Japanese. Taeseok sighed. Then he taught her clearly.

“Try repeating after me. Joseon people.”

The girl blinked her eyes as if she didn’t understand.

“Joseon. People.”

Still, she understood what it meant when the same word was repeated twice.

The girl carefully repeated the boy’s words.

“Jo-o, seon… people.”

At those words, Taeseok took a deep breath.

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