I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 279

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Chapter 279

“Three at once?”

She was already in a state where her heart hadn’t recovered from watching episode 4 of 【The Great Garland】 like that.

“If it’s apocalypse, does one of them die again? No, do they even get paired up first…? If it’s Netflicks style, there’s a high chance they won’t even meet… Ah…”

Aetami was already clutching her pounding heart.

“But? It doesn’t matter if they don’t meet.”

She hoped their narrative would come out as some kind of hint again, but Aetami was a drama fan.

Deudeok.

They were originally a vicious type of otaku who would create their own content if there weren’t any hints to consume.

That’s how actor fandom originally worked. When one work came out, you had to brew it over and over again, savoring it carefully over several years to avoid starving to death.

“I can pair them up somehow anyway.”

If you collected their appearances in other works and edited them together, you would unconditionally accept them as Taeseok and Huijae. This was the basic literacy of drama fans.

“Then shall I upload it now.”

Aetami dragged the video she had finished editing with blood, sweat, and tears to the InTube upload section.

[TaeseokXHuijae Turn Back Time/ The Great Garland Couple Video] 03:27

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“….”

IP 85.152 clicked on a post uploaded to the gallery. The number of comments was unusually high.

The post was an external link leading to InTube, and just looking at the thumbnail, she had no choice but to go watch it.

Myeong Jeha wearing hanbok in 【Rampage】 and Han Yeoreum wearing hanbok in 【Strange Tales】 were captured in one frame.

“They’re using it like this. Crazy…”

It was a fan-made video that connected cuts to match the song lyrics.

-What should I do? What on earth should I do, I ask.

She heard Myeong Jeha’s lines when he appeared as Crown Prince Sado.

-Insolent…

And what followed was Han Yeoreum’s line when she appeared as Seoryeong. The two were starting as enemies from the beginning.

The scene of the Crown Prince walking alone through the vast palace and Seoryeong sitting quietly beside Jeongan’s cold corpse connected amazingly.

As if they had been from the same universe from the start.

After Myeong Jeha’s profile gazing somewhere, came the scene of Seoryeong wearing a skirt for the first time.

-No, right?

This time, Han Yeoreum’s line from 【M Couple】 was included.

-You said you liked me… You can’t do this to me…

Coincidentally, both Huijae from 【The Great Garland】 and Seoryeong from 【Strange Tales】 were characters who mainly spoke informally. It was excessively natural.

Han Yeoreum spoke with a choked voice as if begging for love.

-You don’t like me? Huh? From the beginning? No, right?

Myeong Jeha kneeling in the rain in the middle of the palace and Han Yeoreum crying in the rain under an old tree were captured.

-That’s right…

It really looked like they had filmed an intense historical melodrama together. Han Yeoreum’s voice added realism.

-Really no? Am I not good enough?

The Crown Prince reading a book and the shaman imprisoned in jail matched well with the song lyrics.

The song about wanting to meet you even if it meant turning back time countless times was particularly sorrowful with the haegeum performance.

-Why, why, why on earth…!

The Crown Prince was shown drawing his sword and destroying the furniture in the spacious room. And what appeared next was Seoryeong desperately running somewhere.

-Don’t lose me!

With Huijae’s bright voice, Seoryeong stepped onto the ritual ground. Seoryeong vomiting blood and rolling on the floor overlapped with the Crown Prince being trapped in the rice chest.

Then blackout. The song ended.

“….”

IP 85.152, who had been attacked by another psychopath after Ja Seokhwan, stared blankly at the screen.

“…What is this?”

But didn’t they say love is self-harm? If IP 85.152 had to be honest, she loved the work called 【The Great Garland】, which properly depicted the pain of Korean history and the history of this country that grew despite it, and the seemingly real characters Yeonhuijae and Gi Taeseok just a little. She definitely wasn’t watching it again because she was a fan.

IP 85.152, who watched the fan-made video one more time, suddenly realized.

“I can’t see them anymore?”

Musicals and plays could reach the end of the story in two to three hours. But dramas were different.

You had to keep waiting an hour twice a week. Since there wasn’t a separate original work, you couldn’t predict the content either.

Moreover, she could no longer see Yeoreum and Jeha’s Huijae and Taeseok.

She would have to live forever with that boy and girl buried in her heart.

“But is it really the end?”

She couldn’t accept it at all. She couldn’t understand who decided to make the stage so short and bring down the curtain.

“You’re not lying that I really can’t see them again?”

IP 85.152 watched episodes 1 through 4 of 【The Great Garland】 over and over again like being trapped in an eternally revolving door, but somewhere in her heart felt desolate.

“It’s probably because the weather is cold…”

That’s why. She purchased the long padding from N Company. It definitely wasn’t because she was a fan of Han Yeoreum.

Purchasing long padding for her parents and younger sibling from the same brand was because this padding had particularly high duck down content and the design and color were of good quality compared to other brands…

“But when will the fan signing event lottery results be announced?”

Anyway, that’s how it was.

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“Oh! Our cutie! I’m so proud I could die!”

Recently at JC ENM. Marketing team’s Manager Ma stretched both arms up into the air while looking at the shared statement.

As work piled up like crazy, every cell in her body was jumping with excitement.

For the past month, she had repeatedly set up, torn down, and set up plans again in response to the endless love calls coming for Han Yeoreum.

Manager Ma’s head spun round and round for the best choice.

Predicting the future, calculating probabilities, and reaching the best conclusion. This was what Manager Ma loved most.

“Now if we just get the D Company ambassador deal, it’s over!”

She deliberately minimized CF shoots to avoid offending high-end brands. Image consumption was one of the things luxury brands avoided most.

Top quality. Luxury marketing meant bundling longing and ideals together and placing them in unreachable places.

To be honest, Han Yeoreum had many disadvantages.

“First of all, our cutie is too young.”

Han Yeoreum, in her early twenties, wasn’t an age that would appeal to high-end brands’ target demographic. The fact that she hadn’t built up much experience since debut also played a part.

She was a rising star who had blown up all at once, rather than slowly building recognition.

Currently, the luxury market’s consumer age range was at least in their thirties.

“But my prediction will be right this time too.”

However, Manager Ma thought differently. In this era of developed SNS.

In this era overflowing with the desire to express oneself more than anyone else, even young professionals could easily open their wallets.

There was no way the marketing teams of luxury brands wouldn’t catch this subtle change.

A model who could appeal to people in their twenties. The most eye-catching celebrity right now.

Manager Ma judged that Han Yeoreum’s weaknesses would soon be offset by her strengths.

“The reaction to the D Company clothing alteration scene was good too.”

Huijae becoming a Seoul lady had torn the hearts of 【The Great Garland】 viewers to shreds.

As the impact of episode 4 was significant, photos of Han Yeoreum wearing D Company clothes spread widely as articles.

“Contact me quickly, quickly…!”

It was when Manager Ma was half-lying in her chair.

“Hey! Manager Ma!”

PR team’s Team Leader Hong’s face had turned pale.

“What is it?”

“…Listen carefully… Eun Baekhap…”

There’s a common balance game. My enemy gets 1 billion won and I get 100 million won VS Both my enemy and I get 0 won.

“Eun Baekhap is targeting D Company…”

The only thing wrong in Manager Ma’s calculations was that Eun Baekhap was the type to choose the latter.

“No! What about C Company?”

The perfect fit that completely matched the direction luxury brands were currently pursuing.

A true top actress, Eun Baekhap could easily block the path of any rising actress.

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This was Taerandang, located in Jongno-gu. The custom hanbok brand that collaborated with the Seoul Hanbok Promotion Center was busy as usual today.

“What sponsorship?”

The office worker asked her classmate who was checking the costume room.

“This time it’s 【The Great Garland】, you know that one?”

It happened to be the drama the office worker was following in real time. Watching it without question after hearing Han Yeoreum would appear in it had been a stroke of genius.

【The Great Garland】 was breaking legendary records with each episode.

The scene where the child actor transitioned to an adult didn’t just touch viewers’ hearts but gripped them so tightly that ratings climbed with each episode.

“Of course I know it!”

“No, I don’t mean whether you know the drama.”

Her classmate said with a smile.

“Eun Baekhap wearing Teacher Park Sulhwa’s clothes, you know about that?”

“Really?”

“Yeah. There were already plenty of places wanting to get sponsorships in there, but Eun Baekhap specifically pointed to hanbok styling.”

In 【The Great Garland】, Eun Baekhap wore the attire of a Seoul lady from that era. A neat blouse with a flare long skirt, jeweled headbands or sparkling brooches, and thick wavy perms.

But the sudden mention of hanbok styling made the office worker curious.

“What kind of outfit is it?”

“This one. It suits her perfectly.”

It was a skirt with a large floral pattern. The color and tone reminded one of hanbok, but the feeling would change depending on how the top was matched.

“At this rate, isn’t Eun Baekhap going to become the hanbok ambassador? It seems like she’s calculating and aiming for it.”

Her classmate predicted the hanbok ambassador position that would need to be newly announced around the end of next year.

It was a role that could be called the entertainment industry’s national representative, needing to be shown not only domestically but overseas as well. It wasn’t a position just anyone could be selected for.

First, one needed a good public image, had to receive positive evaluations from the public when wearing hanbok, and even the impact on overseas audiences had to be calculated.

“Eun Baekhap… Eun Baekhap is good.”

If you were to name the troika of actresses of this era, Eun Baekhap would definitely be first place.

Not only did she have a good image, but hanbok suited her well. She had even grabbed attention with hanbok photo shoots before.

“But why that reaction? It is good, right?”

“I think there’s someone who suits it even better than Eun Baekhap though.”

“Who?”

The hanbok otaku office worker thought of someone. A person who had worn hanbok so often it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she’d tried on hanbok in every color. Someone whose comment sections were flooded with praise about how well hanbok suited her in every episode.

“Han Yeoreum.”

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