I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 295

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Chapter 295

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Huijae’s sewing business seemed to be progressing smoothly. Until then, at least.

“What? There’s… a problem?”

The factory manager avoided Huijae’s gaze with an awkward expression. After clearing his throat several times, the factory manager sighed.

“Since they can’t read, work isn’t progressing at all. We can only give them menial tasks.”

The Koreans that Huijae met again had never learned to read. Being caught up in making a living, it couldn’t be helped.

Until now, work had somehow rolled along, but problems were bound to arise.

“We can do well even without reading…”

“If you just show us how to do this a few times, we’re all confident we can memorize and do it.”

Watching the people speak urgently, worried her mind might change, Huijae picked up the papers placed in front of the factory manager.

They weren’t difficult words.

Work date and instruction date, quantity, product name written as polka dot blouse, fabric type, simple sentence saying to sew from the shoulders, thread is white number 40, number of buttons.

Just because they couldn’t read this much, the work got tangled up from the middle.

Thinking further, since they were illiterate who couldn’t read, they might not have received proper wages despite doing hard labor all this time.

The worlds of those who know letters and those who don’t are worlds apart.

“What’s wrong with not knowing some letters?”

Among the Koreans hanging their heads like criminals, someone spoke sullenly in a young voice.

“Hey, Minji. Shh…!”

“What good does knowing letters do? That lady also keeps saying Joseon, Joseon when it’s been South Korea for how long now, not Joseon…!”

It was directed at Huijae. The child who spoke had a face flushed red with emotion.

Huijae slowly walked toward the young girl. Her expression was already sullen, wondering if she’d get scolded.

“You’re right. It’s been a long time since it became South Korea. But do you know when that started?”

“…”

“August 15th, 1948.”

Huijae slowly took the young girl’s hand. The girl who couldn’t bring herself to shake it off flinched.

“If it’s only passed from mouth to mouth, so much gets lost. So much gets forgotten too.”

“…”

“Yes. Now it’s South Korea, not Joseon. Thank you for reminding me of what I had forgotten.”

Huijae’s clumsy speech from when she first learned Korean was all in the past. The current Huijae was instilling courage word by word into another Korean with clear pronunciation.

“Letters are necessary so we don’t lose things, so we don’t forget.”

Huijae looked intently at the young girl. She seemed to be around the same age as when Huijae first arrived in Joseon.

“But… during the time we’re learning letters, we can’t work…”

In the end, money was the problem again. Huijae shook her head.

“No. I’ll open a night school.”

“Night school? Then… who’s going to come teach us letters?”

“I will.”

Her fine attire that didn’t suit this kind of factory. Huijae’s eyes, sparkling from head to toe with expensive things, shone brightly.

“I’ll teach you.”

The girl who once studied Korean alone and lonely in her room had grown up and was now teaching letters to other Koreans.

The sewing factory was busy making clothes during the day and busy studying letters at night. Despite being stuck in the factory all day without rest, no one complained.

“This is my name. Isn’t it pretty?”

“My goodness. How wonderful!”

The Koreans who attended the sewing factory were soon smiling brightly.

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Ah, so fucking precious

-This is the only healing time in the mentally ill-filled Wireland, damn it

-Our baby grew up well, mastering a language through self-study without even going to language school, isn’t she a genius? Crazy

IP 85.152 monitored the Fire Board’s reactions while watching Eun Baekhap’s Acting Ability.

‘Eun Baekhap deliberately eliminated the clumsy pronunciation to erase the past Huijae.’

It was probably for this scene. So viewers could be moved by the sight of the perfectly grown Huijae leading the Koreans.

‘But rather, that point makes people think of child actress Huijae even more.’

This was exactly the factor IP 85.152 thought would make Eun Baekhap lose.

From adult Huijae standing firmly on both feet, people would once again recall child actress Huijae standing precariously on tiptoes.

Taeseok, who had been watching Huijae diligently running the night school from behind with his arms crossed, found himself smiling without realizing it.

All he was allowed was to steal glances from this distance. But even just that made him happy.

Taejin, who came to pick up Huijae from the factory that had lights on until late at night, discovered these two people. It was a perfect triangle – Huijae looking at the people, Taeseok looking at Huijae, and Taejin looking at that scene.

-What the fuck is this unsettling OST ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Why is Huijae getting crushed here;;;

-They noticed, they totally noticed ㄷㄷㄷㄷ

That’s when the OST started playing. Taejin quietly took in Taeseok’s face, then slowly muffled his footsteps and returned to the car.

“Where did you say CEO Gi was from?”

Subtle anxiety showed on Taejin’s face as he asked the driver the question.

“He said Jinhae. The newspapers wrote about his success story from the deep countryside, calling it great.”

“Jinhae…”

-I’m about to get five-line bingo if I play mental illness bingo right now

-This is the first time I’ve seen Taejin’s face harden like that, it’s so fucking delicious, give me more

-So now Taejin is going to cheat…?

ㄴ The suspicion that still hasn’t died down, damn it ㅠㅠㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

When the scene ended with Taejin’s hardened expression on screen, Wireland’s regular viewers thrilled at the signal flare of a full-scale love triangle.

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Eun Baekhap was confident she could take both first and second place once the full-scale love triangle appeared. But the results were different.

2nd place. Myeong Jeha Han Yeoreum (The Great Garland)

Shin Seojin Eun Baekhap couldn’t climb up in the voting. The effect of the OST that grabbed the chart’s first place was still powerful.

INTUBE

[(Emotional Warning) Baekhap teaching the Joseon people and Haebeom watching her⎜The Great Garland]

Views: 1,130,876

-It feels like just yesterday when Heejae was studying while talking to herself ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ You’ve grown up so well, kiddo

-Seriously, whenever these two appear together, the immersion is insane… Maybe it’s because you can feel their love even without a single line of dialogue, but if they were properly paired up, imagine how amazing their chemistry would be ㅎㄷㄷ

-Did Taejin’s dark turn button get turned ON? Ha, please make our sub-male lead hunting team happy

-3:27 This part really brings tears to my eyes. Huijae, true to her name, approaches the Joseon people as joy itself, making my heart heavy. I’ve seen countless dramas~ but there’s never been a character that touched my heart like Huijae

The public recalled the previous Huijae while watching the current Huijae.

It was inevitable. Because the most important foundation for Huijae’s growth and narrative was the pain that child Huijae experienced.

‘Fuck. She has a talent for making this feel shitty…’

It had already been over 10 years since her debut. During that time, Eun Baekhap had fought fiercely with other actresses to climb to this position.

It was a top position she had grasped by suppressing, overtaking, stealing, and being stolen from.

‘Has there ever been a bitch who made me feel like this?’

Eun Baekhap’s expression hardened as she slowly traced back through the past.

Eun Baekhap didn’t have good matchup luck. So whenever she faced someone else, she always thought she could do better.

If that scenario had come to me, if I had taken that role.

Different paths always unfolded in her mind like that.

‘But…’

Had she ever thought that way while watching Han Yeoreum’s acting? No. Not even once. She only thought about how to surpass Han Yeoreum’s Acting Ability.

She couldn’t see a new path. As if someone had blocked every alley.

Eun Baekhap, who closed her eyes and recalled Han Yeoreum’s Acting Ability again, bit her lips feeling like she had reached a dead end.

There was no other path. No matter how much she thought about it, 【The Great Garland】’s Acting Ability could only be Han Yeoreum’s Acting Ability.

‘How could this be…’

How many rookies debut in a year, how many actors are newly discovered, and how many entertainers from other fields switch to acting.

‘How many have I crushed so far.’

There were many, many post-Eun Baekhaps. That’s what a top star’s name value was.

If there was even the slightest similarity, they were desperate to include Eun Baekhap’s name to get even one more article out.

‘But… I…’

Post-Eun Baekhap, those words that had only been tiresome, approached her threateningly for the first time.

“How dare such a young thing.”

Eun Baekhap’s eyes sharpened at the thought that this time it might actually be real.

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“This is incredible! Ah, this is Dokgo Gyeol’s masterpiece that will never come again… When I die later, put the photos I took today on my ancestral altar instead of rice. Just looking at them will fill me up.”

The busiest day of the year. Dokgo Gyeol, whose under-eyes had turned black from consecutive all-nighters, clapped toward Yeoreum who was looking in the mirror.

“As expected, the best makeup artist. Five thousand stars.”

“Honey. Am I only worth that much?”

“I forgot to multiply by one million.”

“Okay! Perfect.”

Today is the day of the KBC Awards ceremony. I looked in the mirror. Finally, I’m going to the terrestrial broadcasting awards ceremony that I had only dreamed of for so long.

How many things had happened before this day could come. My fingertips trembled slightly.

‘Today, I step on the red carpet as Eun Baekhap’s child actor…’

But that’s only until today.

From now on, I’ll make it so no one can call me Eun Baekhap’s child actor. I’ll make the name Han Yeoreum become much more familiar.

“Yeoreum! Let’s go now!”

Today I’m going to grab trophies in both hands – the Rookie Award and Best Couple Award.

Well then, shall I return with heavy hands.

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Aetami stood in the red carpet waiting line with a camera hanging around her neck. Though it was below-freezing weather, Aetami’s body and heart were warm.

Around her neck was wrapped the light yellow muffler that Yeoreum had worn as airport fashion not long ago.

Click-! Click-! Click-!

Every time a car stopped in front of the red carpet, celebrities entered. While flashes burst and shutter sounds continued noisily, Aetami’s mind was focused on only one place. In her hands was a heavy camera.

‘Maybe this was going overboard…’

Except for borrowing Reporter Wi’s camera to shoot the 【Romeo and Juliet】 stage, she had never properly photographed Yeoreum before.

‘It was always with a phone camera.’

But somehow today she really wanted to capture it. Aetami’s heart pounded with excitement.

‘Especially since today is the day she receives the Rookie Award!’

The most anticipated rising star at the KBC Acting Awards would be Han Yeoreum. This was an undeniable fact that no one could refute.

That’s when it happened.

Clickclickclickclickclick-!

As soon as someone got out of the van, the shutter sounds exploded.

“Han Yeoreum!”

It was the entrance of the protagonist who led KBC dramas to success.

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