I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 290

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Chapter 290

Someone called out a name from somewhere, and someone else took out their cell phone and pressed the camera shutter.

“Please greet us starting from the right-.”

“Hand heart! Please give us a hand heart!”

The pouring shutter sounds made it possible to guess her popularity. Customers passing by also stopped in their tracks at the noise.

Han Yeoreum’s figure standing under the brilliant golden star shone together with D Company’s logo.

[Photo⎜Nation’s First Love Han Yeoreum, Lovely Hand Heart]

[Actress Han Yeoreum Shows Off First Love Visuals with Hand Greeting]

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‘This is… the taste of being an ambassador…?’

After entering inside and naturally standing in front of the camera lens, I pretended to look at this season’s new product in my hand.

“This looks really good right now-. Let me have you turn your head slightly just once.”

It doesn’t take much time. The concept is for invited celebrities to take a look around the store interior while wearing or holding new products.

‘I want to stay longer and leave later…’

Since 【The Great Garland】, I’ve had schedules standing in front of cameras every day.

Interviews, photo book shoots, commercial shoots. And I’m not sure if this counts as a camera, but I film vlogs with my cell phone every time we have 【Youth Disqualified!】 ensemble practice.

‘But I haven’t received this level of attention…’

Once you get a taste of it, you can’t resist. Since the fan signing event, I’ve been thirsting for this kind of pouring attention.

“Let me try wrapping this muffler around once.”

“Yes-.”

I looked in the mirror and wrapped a light yellow muffler around myself. After shooting in short bursts, I had already made a full round.

‘I want to ask if I can please go around one more time.’

I want to feel more of the ambassador experience, but not knowing my feelings, the D Company staff and Le El staff smiled brightly and said.

“Wow! The shots came out so well-.”

“Exactly. We can wrap up here, right?”

Please don’t wrap up.

“Yes… Then I’ll be going now. It was so nice to see you today.”

“Actress, when you leave, this is a gift prepared by D Company. Please hold it so the logo shows well.”

“Wait a moment. We didn’t attach the star to the handle. When you upload to SNS, please make sure to photograph this star prettily too.”

For one more shoot when leaving, I was given a shopping bag decorated with gold leaf for the Christmas season.

As soon as I exited the popup again, flashes and shutters poured down. There was an even bigger crowd gathered than before.

“Han Yeoreum!”

At the voice calling my name from somewhere, I turned my head and quickly waved my hand.

I wonder if any of my fans who came to the fan signing event are here? I quickly scanned around.

‘They didn’t come…’

One corner of my heart feels a little lonely, but still, not being here at this time means they’re focusing on their main jobs or studies, so that’s a good thing…

‘It’s disappointing but can’t be helped.’

Though not my fan, I threw a hand heart toward the lens of Reporter Wi, whose face was familiar. For the summer days who would see today’s Han Yeoreum through articles.

But I couldn’t see the finger pressing the shutter. As expected of a professional.

‘They don’t miss the best shot.’

I want to greet more people, but now it’s really time to exit. Manager Choi made an X sign with both hands.

I bowed my head to the right, front, and left. After finishing greetings once each, I stepped away from the photo wall.

I took a few steps forward to go back the way I came in.

That’s when it happened.

‘…Over there…’

Someone coming from far away with guards.

A person who could steal away all the surrounding gazes just by passing by was coming.

Before I could realize who that person was, names burst out from here and there.

“It’s Eun Baekhap! Eun Baekhap!”

It was the first face I’d seen since the script reading. My gaze briefly met with Eun Baekhap, who was as bright as a flower.

Eun Baekhap looked at me and leisurely smiled, lifting the corners of her mouth.

Countless amounts of attention poured down on Eun Baekhap standing at the photo wall.

Click-! Click-! Clickclickclickclick-!

Shutter sounds echoed as if saying this is what a real top star is. It was incomparable to when I had stood there just moments before.

Just raising her hand once to greet made people unable to take their eyes off her.

Eun Baekhap’s natural aura made it so.

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“Wow, look at Eun Baekhap…”

The senior next to Reporter Wi whispered quietly. Reporter Wi also roughly understood the meaning of what he was saying.

“She deliberately changed the time slot, right?”

“What do you mean, words. You know how it is when you know.”

Originally, Eun Baekhap’s appearance order was supposed to be last.

But who was Eun Baekhap? Among all the celebrities coming to this event, she was a top star who would be counted within three fingers.

Moreover, she was the ambassador chosen by D Company. She had enough clout to change schedules as she pleased.

“Obviously she must have said she needed to move it up because of drama filming…”

“And it just happens to be right after Han Yeoreum.”

Comparison is something that can be done plenty even when not right next to each other.

Just coming to the same place is enough, but through the fact that there wasn’t much time difference, reporters could clearly tell.

“She’s showing off.”

“That she hasn’t made it up here yet?”

“Right. This isn’t an important event like an awards ceremony, but… from the receiving end’s perspective, it would be different.”

Even after Eun Baekhap’s exit, many celebrities visited. Models, actors, idols. But the initial firepower didn’t come out.

Because that Han Yeoreum who’s currently raising her stock price the most and Eun Baekhap had shown their faces consecutively.

But Han Yeoreum doesn’t know. That her shutter sounds were twice as loud as what others received.

“If she loses Best Couple too, her spirits will be crushed…”

Reporter Wi sighed. Eun Baekhap was already nominated for Best Actress.

After the railing scene in We Land, KBC’s Best Actress award was already practically decided to be Eun Baekhap’s. Best Couple was obvious too.

“Don’t you know that?”

Then the senior who had been listening to Reporter Wi’s words opened his eyes wide.

“Know what?”

“There’s no way she’ll lose it. Who’s the opponent?”

“JC…?”

“Right. That JC.”

He pointed somewhere with his finger. Small stands selling cute Christmas items could be seen.

“A popup is coming in there.”

“What? What popup?”

“What else.”

The senior reporter grinned.

“【The Great Garland】 goods are coming out.”

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Time goes back to when 【The Great Garland】 episode 3 aired.

When episode 1 burned with the Joseon controversy, episode 2 turned even angry viewers who flocked in into Huijae moms, and episode 3 finally made everyone completely fall in love. JC ENM didn’t miss this timing.

They sent an email to KBC.

Hello.

This is Ma Suyeon from JC ENM Marketing Team.

=Hello beggars? You know me, right?

As this work has successfully settled in from the early broadcast period with hot viewer reactions and high topic buzz, we would like to send this email to propose goods planning and joint distribution as part of an IP expansion strategy to continue this flow.

=We all know you’re broke after messing up two dramas in a row

Goods items: Postcard sets based on drama main characters, filming location postcards, famous line paperweights, newspaper reproduction + mini poster sets, drama film cuts, drama military dog tags

=Let’s make money

“Hehehe… This is why experience is so important for people… Right, Manager Hong?”

“Exactly. Since they’re not high-maintenance goods like dolls or light sticks, we can move quickly.”

JC ENM already had experience making profits from drama goods twice before. 【Pachehee】 and 【Strange Tales】 were very successful projects.

So they couldn’t miss out on 【The Great Garland】 either.

[The Great Garland Gallery]

[Pop-up store schedule and goods list is out]

Seems like they priced it reasonably? I absolutely have to buy Taeseok’s military dog tags and film cuts or I’ll die

Anonymous (17.117) What the fuck, they’re giving this out while it’s airing? These bastards have lost their damn minds

ㅇㅇ(1.234) If they’re gonna provide mental health treatment like this, I gotta open my wallet lol

ㅇㅇ(85.152) Wait, what the hell is this? Random gift with purchases over 100,000 won

JC ENM couldn’t lose when it came to voting.

“Our cutie still doesn’t have enough seniority to challenge Eun Baekhap… Sadly…”

“Hey. She’s only in her third year since debut, how can she compete with a top star? Do you know how fired up their fans are?”

“Still, we’re lucky we have seniority. Right?”

“Exactly. If we can’t win with vote count, we just need to make the vote count itself meaningless.”

They were a company with a history of extorting 100 won from every citizen through the devious system of text message voting.

*Random four-cut photo gift for purchases over 100,000 won

1. Young Taeseok + Young Huijae

2. Young Taejin + Young Huijae

3. Adult Taeseok + Adult Huijae

4. Adult Taejin + Adult Huijae

When giving out photos in equal quantities, whether viewers would be desperate for couples with upcoming plot hints or couples without upcoming plot hints was an all too obvious result.

“Great! There’s another big moment next week. Before then, the internet will be flooded with posts saying ‘Will trade Eun Baekhap photos for Han Yeoreum photos’!”

“KBC would be stupid to give the Best Couple Award based on vote count alone! Let them add internal judging too!”

Manager Ma and Manager Hong laughed wickedly.

No one could match JC ENM in pure public opinion warfare.

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Aetami’s hands were trembling.

“These… these crazy bastards…”

No matter how popular a drama was, there had never been goods sold in the middle of broadcast like this. At most, they’d release a few types only after a successful conclusion.

“Just when did they start preparing this?”

But the opponent was JC ENM.

Having a track record of creating all kinds of goods, they acted faster than anyone else.

“What we wanted was the scenario book and Blu-ray…! This is so unfair, really…”

They were selling those separately, and their firm intention to sell goods first was clearly visible.

“If they release it now, we can’t not buy it…!”

【The Great Garland】 viewers were literally ecstatic.

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