I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 258
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Chapter 258
“That’s right. You’re a Joseon person. A Joseon person, not Josenjing. Say it like that from now on.”
“Jo-seon- person….”
“I am a Joseon person. Say it like this.”
“I am, a Jo-seon-per-son. Say it like this.”
“Don’t repeat the end part, just, I am a Joseon person.”
The young girl repeated it once more. I am a Joseon person. Only then did Taeseok nod his head approvingly.
“I, thank you very much.”
Her pronunciation was half-broken, but her effort was still admirable. Taeseok wiped the back of his sticky neck with one hand. He even stepped back half a step, worried he might smell of sweat.
“What’s your name?”
“What’s your name?”
“…Don’t repeat this one.”
Taeseok smiled for the first time. It was a smile of disbelief, but the young girl, thinking he was pleased, laughed along.
“I’m. Gi Taeseok. You? What is it? . What is it?”
“I am Hanamura Rio.”
Rio answered quickly when he asked using words she knew. Taeseok shook his head.
“Joseon name! Joseon!”
The young girl became a bit flustered when she realized he was asking for a different name. She didn’t know how to read her Joseon name.
After thinking for a moment, the young girl waved one hand that had been gripping the wall. Taeseok approached closer. Then the young girl raised one hand. Taeseok followed suit.
Then the young girl grabbed his raised hand and wrote Chinese characters on his palm full of calluses.
Soft fingers flew around freely. His whole body felt ticklish.
Before he knew it, the sun was slowly rising in the quiet world.
Time had slowly passed since the two faced each other, and the deep dawn had ended. A ray of sunlight touched Taeseok’s palm.
The young girl, who had finished writing her name, asked.
“This is my name.”
“….”
Taeseok stood frozen in place. Unable to respond to the young girl’s words.
“Joseon person, how do you read my name?”
The young girl, tired from standing on tiptoes, disappeared below the wall to adjust her posture, then popped up again.
Taeseok quickly stepped backward.
“Good heavens, there are people who don’t even know their own names. Really… really now….”
Taeseok hurriedly grabbed the handlebars of his parked bicycle. Veins stood out on the back of his hands again. Taeseok kicked the stand and quickly pedaled.
“Stupid fool. Not knowing that name, that name, and touching someone’s hand like that… really… knowing nothing….”
Taeseok ran away. He could feel her gaze from behind but couldn’t turn around.
Perhaps he was the fool.
After delivering alcohol dregs to the US Military Base for fertilizer and returning to the port, Taeseok kept clenching and unclenching his right hand repeatedly.
“Taeseok! How’s the work?”
Someone called Taeseok from far away. Taeseok answered as if suddenly coming to his senses.
“Yes.”
“If they’re well-off bastards, damn it, they should at least give some pocket money, but that son of a bitch thinks he’s some kind of Japanese or something?”
While chatting with the laborer, Taeseok wiped his right palm on his pants. He kept sweating.
That nameless young girl must have done something to him.
“How’s that house?”
Taeseok paused to catch his breath.
As if recalling something.
“…It’s pretty. Incredibly so.”
Wooong-.
A huge ship horn sounded, and Taeseok had to run again.
A smile appeared on the face of the boy hurrying to carry luggage.
* * *
“This is exactly it!”
Writer An was thrilled watching the perfectly made episode 2. Everything was exactly as it had been in his head.
Especially the clip of Huijae writing her name on Taeseok’s hand was expected to exceed 2 million views at least.
“Director Ja… Kuaaaah!”
That scene of just holding hands was literally perfect. The contrast between the boy’s palm covered in wounds and calluses and the girl’s hand was perfect for keeping drama fans awake at night.
“You captured that scene amazingly!”
Writer An crushed his empty beer can and stomped his feet while checking internet reactions.
It was clearly different from yesterday.
[♨The Great Garland Episode 2 Fire Board♨]
-Now I understand why they included that scene in episode 1 where she trembles in fear of her father.. No matter how terrible someone is, calling your own daughter Josenjing for life is just wrong
-It brings me to tears thinking about our ancestors who passed away without seeing liberation..ㅠ
-Director Ja: Hehe get angry
Me: Fucking furious
Director Ja: Hehe cry
Me: Fucking tears
-Looking at writings from that era, children really could only speak Japanese and only knew their forced Japanese names.. The writer just did hardcore historical research
Josenjing. Rio, who only knew that word and had confined herself within it.
Before they knew it, viewers understood Rio. While feeling sympathy for such Rio, they despised Hanamura who denied his roots while scraping together money.
Rio, left alone in the quiet room, lay on her bed as usual. Her life had always been like a fruit or flower used in still life paintings, just placed there, but today was different.
“I am a Joseon person.”
She spoke the clumsy Joseon words.
“Joseon person.”
As if she finally knew who she was.
“Jo-seon- per-son-.”
She repeated it without getting tired. Each time she spoke, a smile spread across Rio’s face. Beyond the open window, the blue sky stretched out again today. Rio raised her hands and folded them over her stomach.
It didn’t hurt like usual. Rather, it was ticklish. Like a swarm of butterflies flapping their wings.
“I am a Joseon person….”
Kobe and Joseon shared the same sky, so she couldn’t tell which was which. But now Rio knows. This place is Joseon. And she is a Joseon person, not Josenjing.
“Joseon person!”
Rio felt like she had become a butterfly flying freely above this blue sky.
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After the woman who always brought meals with a tray closed the door and left, Rio was alone again.
Rio, who had been thinking deeply about something, gulped down the water from the teapot. Soon the small teapot was completely empty.
Rio slowly took the empty teapot and stepped outside. She walked stealthily, muffling her footsteps in case the nurse might hear.
With each step forward, she could hear people chattering noisily.
“Take a breather while you eat!”
“Oh my. You’re sweeping everything up by yourself.”
Whatever was so enjoyable, laughter burst out endlessly. Someone who discovered Rio quietly approaching them was startled.
“Little miss? No, no. The young lady is here.”
“What can we get you?”
They were gathered in a circle having a meal. It was a humble table opposite to Rio’s, but the taste seemed incomparable. Just eating together with spoons seemed to double the flavor of the meal.
“This….”
Rio lifted the teapot she had used as an excuse. After taking in the servants’ table once more, she spoke to the servant who hurriedly poured water for her.
“I am a Joseon person.”
Exactly as Taeseok had taught her earlier. After repeating it several times, she could now pronounce it quite properly. The servants who heard Rio’s greeting made a big fuss.
“Oh my? You can speak our language too?”
“Your voice is so pretty, but you only say two words all day long. Say it again!”
The servants who had kept their distance patted Huijae’s back and shoulders. She was around their children’s age. Rio, holding the small teapot, wiggled her toes.
“You should eat well, but you always eat just tiny amounts like beans. Right?”
“Doesn’t the food suit your taste?”
Words she couldn’t understand.
Still, she could tell that they were welcoming her.
Rio’s cheeks flushed with joy.
Rio quietly entered the room again and sat at the dining table. She turned a pair of chopsticks that were placed horizontally to vertical.
Just like those people from earlier.
Just like the Joseon people who were happy that she could speak their language.
Rio clasped her hands together with a proud expression.
“Deliciously… please eat.”
Every time Rio put down her chopsticks, she muttered the words she had heard earlier. It wasn’t Japanese anymore.
“Deliciously, please eat.”
Not knowing the word ‘delicious,’ Rio simply repeated exactly what the servant had said. It was the most delicious of everything she had eaten so far.
The sweet potato yokan made by a craftsman, the small colorful star-shaped candies, the milk chocolate from overseas – none of those things could compare.
That day, Rio finished an entire bowl of rice for the first time.
-Hee-jae… my heart is breaking ㅜㅜㅜ
-From now on, anyone who attacks Yeonhuijae will be considered as attacking me, touch her and I’ll kill you
-Our baby is smiling so brightly.. just from a few words of conversation, she’s this happy…
-Ah damn, what kind of environment did she live in that she’s happy by herself just copying how chopsticks are placed, Jeong Byeong-o’s family
-Teacher, Heejae is so good at shadowing, damn itㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
It was a famous scene that created 1 million Huijae moms.
“Ah, she’s so damn cute…”
Aetami held her forehead and sighed. The viewers of 【The Great Garland】 had different feelings toward Huijae as if nothing had happened before.
Heartbreaking, endearing, and lovable.
-I watched it because of the controversy but damn, I had no idea it would be this kind of content…ㅠ
Haha Seokhwan, you should’ve told me earlier, you bastard!
There was already a lot of influx due to the controversy from the ending scene of episode 1. Episode 2, encountered in an angry state, instantly melted their hearts.
“What was yesterday’s viewership rating?”
Aetami checked the viewership rating for episode 1 of 【The Great Garland】. 9.7%, quite a respectable record. It was a record achieved purely by name value despite not being able to do proper advance promotion.
The result created together by Director Ja Seokhwan and Writer An Junmyeong, top actors Ji Haebeom and Eun Baekhap, and rising stars Han Yeoreum and Myeong Jeha, came close to double-digit viewership ratings from episode 1.
“At this rate…”
Aetami gulped.
With this momentum, they would surpass double-digit viewership ratings by just episode 2.
“Perhaps…”
Maybe they were making a mark as a national drama. Aetami stared at the screen again with half nervousness and half anticipation.
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