I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 266

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Chapter 266

“Excuse me, ajusshi.”

Taeseok hesitantly called out to the ajusshi who had introduced him to the alcohol lees delivery job. Taeseok had never taken a day off work, not even when he was sick or humiliated.

But was it really okay to skip a day just to go see flowers? Taeseok’s voice grew smaller.

“What is it?”

“Well, tomorrow… could you possibly cover my work for just one day…?”

The boy’s attitude was cautious as he spoke. He kept clenching and unclenching his hands clasped behind his back. Seeing Taeseok like this, the ajusshi burst into loud laughter.

“Hey! What’s a young man like you being so embarrassed about? I’ll cover for you. It’s not a difficult thing.”

“Thank you.”

“That bastard over there slacks off all day long, but ask him to cover my work just once-. Hey! You should watch and learn from Taeseok here!”

“Why are you dragging me into this again?”

The ajusshi playfully nudged Taeseok’s shoulder with a cheeky grin.

“It must be tough.”

“…No, it’s not.”

“You need to rest sometimes. You made a good decision.”

Taeseok bowed his head. Then he quickly pedaled back to his crumbling house.

“This won’t do… and this too…”

Taeseok pulled out all the clothes in his house. He was trying to find the best one among them.

After carefully examining each piece and smelling them, Taeseok sighed.

Somehow, none of them were decent. After pondering, Taeseok pulled out a pure white cotton cloth that had been hidden deep in the storage.

It was the finest thing in this house.

Taeseok took soap and washed the cloth. Under the dim night sky, splashing sounds came with every movement of the boy’s hands.

“All done…”

After wringing out the water thoroughly, Taeseok held the cloth that smelled of fragrant soap and smiled with satisfaction.

He spread it wide on the warmest part of the floor so it would dry well.

-Holy shit this is their first date, Taeseokhee!!!

-Myeongjaeha please keep your short hair forever, your forehead looks so refreshing and coolㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

ㄴ Agree, he has a powerful face

-The child actors end tomorrow? That’s ridiculous, I can’t let them go

At that moment, Huijae was also choosing clothes.

Huijae, who usually wore whatever the nurse picked out, spread beautiful clothes on the floor and held them up one by one. Standing in front of the mirror trying on clothes, Huijae muttered.

“…じゃない、かな…ってる？(It’s not strange, is it… Does it suit me?)”

She simply couldn’t hide her excitement. Having chosen a pink sweater and navy skirt, Huijae lay on the bed and looked up at the sky again.

It felt like the twinkling starry sky had entered her heart.

Like fireworks bursting forth, stars were bouncing around inside her heart, making it impossible to fall asleep.

Taeseok woke up before sunrise and took out the white cotton cloth he had washed yesterday. Then he wrapped it tightly around the back seat of his bicycle. Inside, he stuffed his own clothes to make it soft.

In his own way, a seat for Huijae was complete.

Taeseok washed his face more carefully than usual, put on the least worn of his usual shirts, then kicked the bicycle stand with his foot.

Today it made a particularly cheerful sound.

Huijae saw off Hanamura as usual, then hurriedly returned to her room. She put on the pink sweater and navy skirt. She wore white socks and applied the lip rouge from her vanity table.

“ちょっとすぎる、かな…？(Is it… a bit too dark?)”

Concerned, Huijae repeatedly wiped off her lips and reapplied the rouge. Huijae’s cheeks in the mirror were flushed.

Taeseok, who had arrived early, paced around the wall area restlessly. He couldn’t stay still.

While waiting like this, suddenly the young girl appeared, peeking out.

“Taeseok!”

Taeseok, who had been circling the same spot, quickly turned around. Clear eyes were fixed directly on him.

“Step on this to climb up.”

Taeseok handed the young girl a wooden box he had prepared in advance. With the large box placed below, Huijae appeared over the wall.

It was different from her face that usually showed only precariously and partially.

But after all, a box was just a box. It wasn’t a ladder, so she couldn’t easily climb down. That’s when the boy reached out his hand.

“Just grab onto me.”

“But…”

“I’ll catch you.”

Broad arms were waiting for Huijae. After hesitating briefly, Huijae closed her eyes tightly and leaned her upper body forward. She grasped the boy’s shoulders.

Taeseok, who had grown quite tall, caught Huijae’s arms. The moment he supported her weight, the apple box she was standing on tiptoe wobbled.

The young girl flew like a butterfly over the wall that had seemed so high.

Her navy skirt hem fluttered.

Taeseok froze for a moment while holding Huijae in his arms.

Thump, thump, thump…

The heartbeats of the two people touching overlapped. Taeseok briefly held the young girl tightly in his arms. Had there ever been such a good thing in his life? How could a person be so soft and fragrant? The boy’s Adam’s apple bobbed. The young girl’s hand gripping his shoulder trembled.

“Um…”

“Ah. I’ll put you down.”

Taeseok gently set the incredibly light young girl on the ground. Then he bent his knees to check on her.

“Did you hurt your arms or legs?”

“Hurt?”

“Are you injured? Does it hurt?”

“I’m very strong!”

The young girl with a reddened face answered with a smile. Taeseok gestured toward the back seat of his bicycle.

With Huijae carefully seated on the bicycle behind him, Taeseok gripped the handlebars tightly. It was because of the hand holding onto his collar from behind.

“…Here we go.”

Clang-!

Kicking away the stand and pedaling, Taeseok pressed his lips together firmly. It was strange. Everything was just strange.

Every fingertip, his waist, along his ears, everything was pounding with his heartbeat. He couldn’t even feel the weight of the young girl sitting on the back seat.

Bump.

The bicycle jolted briefly due to the bumpy dirt road. Huijae, who had been holding onto Taeseok’s collar, unconsciously buried her face against his back.

“Ahhhhh!”

“That’s it, that’s it!”

“Ah, so cute!”

The staff members watching 【The Great Garland】 with Director Ja screamed. Even though they had filmed these scenes themselves, they couldn’t bear how heart-fluttering it was.

The viewers’ reactions would probably be no different. No, they would be even more enthusiastic than the staff who were already going wild despite knowing what happened.

-Please just kiss already

You crazy bastard hahahahaha

-I’m so overwhelmed right now I’m just staring at the ceiling.. There will never be another legendary scene like this in K-drama history fuck ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Why is the man so big and the woman so small? Why are the man’s hands so rough and the woman’s hands so soft? Why is the man so stoic and the woman so baby-like??????

What is this again ㅜㅜㅜ Crazy, Weland is really looking out for a few people, damn

The screen changed to Hanamura’s House. The atmosphere of that house, which had always been rigid somewhere, had become gentle at some point.

“Should I give you more rice?”

“Too much. Ah, I’ll get indigestion!”

Even after that day, Huijae would often come to the kitchen with the excuse that there was no water in the kettle, showing off the Joseon words she had learned, a word or two at a time. When she said ‘You’re working so hard,’ everyone held their stomachs and laughed.

“I’m going in-.”

The woman carrying the meal tray into Heejai’s Room opened her eyes wide. The room was completely empty.

“Miss? Miss? Huijae?”

She called for Huijae several times in the spacious room, but there was no response. That’s when something caught her eye.

I will go and come back safely

It was a note Huijae had left behind. It wasn’t written in neat, pretty Japanese, but in clumsy, crooked Joseon words.

“Oh my…”

Holding the note, the woman smiled gently.

“Our Huijae has gone out on a lovely outing-.”

The lavish room decorated by sucking the lifeblood of Joseon people. That lonely and desolate room was now different from before. It looked warm.

As if this was all Huijae truly wanted among all the expensive and precious things filling that room, the edge of a worn Joseon language textbook was peeking out from the drawer.

-Please stop it you crazy bastards don’t make us cry

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Why do I keep tearing up over something like this

-Our baby Huijae is so precious Episode 1 sorry unnie misunderstood our Huijae I love you stay healthy be happy..

By the time they climbed halfway up the mountainside, the sky looked ominous. It wasn’t cloudy because of dawn. The sky was full of clouds.

Rumble….

An ominous sound came from the sky like a warning that rain would come. Sure enough, soon came the sound of pouring, and rain fell mercilessly.

“Here, put this on.”

Taeseok didn’t hesitate to take off his shirt and hand it over. In that short time, Huijae’s hair was already completely soaked.

Taeseok wrapped around Huijae and ran to find a place to take shelter from the rain.

But his expression twisted after repeated failures. It wasn’t easy to find a place to shelter from rain in the mountains. Huijae was getting more and more soaked.

“Go in there.”

When a space appeared under the sheer cliff where they could shelter from the rain, Taeseok looked at Huijae. Huijae’s completely soaked face was pale.

The sight of the young girl trying to smile with her rain-soaked face pierced the boy’s heart.

“…When the rain stops in a bit, let’s go back down.”

“….”

“I don’t know what I was thinking dragging you all the way here. There’s nothing special even if we go up.”

Taeseok turned his head away and didn’t look at Huijae. All that caught his eye was the dreary trees and the path with muddy water flowing.

The only place he could bring her to in his situation would only leave the impression of such a shabby location.

“I’ll take you home. Bear with the cold for a bit.”

“Home?”

Huijae, who didn’t quite understand what he said, stayed quiet thinking Taeseok seemed angry, but she understood the part about taking her home.

Huijae grabbed around Taeseok’s waist like she had held onto him on the bicycle earlier.

“I want to see it.”

The boy was also cold and soaked from the rainwater. Warm warmth reached him through the wet fabric.

“Still, I want to go see it.”

Director Ja looked at Yeonhuijae’s face in close-up. That line was Han Yeoreum’s ad-lib.

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