I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 47

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Episode 47

Yeoreum showed signs of having become somewhat accustomed to rural life. Her folded-down sneakers were telling that story.

“Then let’s look at the blocking once. Rehearsal begins-!”

Yeoreum, wearing a white T-shirt with a loose check shirt and jeans, tied her hair roughly into a ponytail and entered the village hall. She was unmistakably the appearance of Jeong Yeondu, exhausted from miscellaneous tasks.

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“So cute!”

This is why they call it small healing, small healing. Director So had a natural sense for it. A puppy that fit perfectly with the countryside screen was bouncing toward me, wagging its tail.

“This is Boksuni… A puppy born last month from the Village Chief’s dog…”

I hugged Boksuni tightly. The puppy smell was overwhelming. Boksuni enthusiastically licked my face, showing how happy it was to see me.

“What should I do. I have to get angry at this little one. Director, what if Boksuni doesn’t like me?”

Boksuni was playing the role of a puppy that eagerly follows Jeong Yeondu as she comes out of the village hall irritably.

“It’s okay… Yeoreum. Just act like Yeondu.”

Act like Yeondu. It was a vague direction.

Palm-sized Boksuni was soft, fluffy, and warm. It seemed like the only living creature that had made me feel this sense of rest since coming to this rural village.

‘Like Yeondu…’

I went inside the village hall as planned for the rehearsal. I grabbed the door handle and waited for the action sign.

Then I heard the sound of the slate clapping.

“Action!”

I opened the village hall door and came out. As soon as there was a sign of movement, Boksuni came running with its tail wagging. Then it clung to my legs, whimpering as if asking to be petted.

“….”

If it were Han Yeoreum, I would have petted it right away, but right now I’m Jeong Yeondu.

‘Let’s start with Facial Expression Control.’

No matter how much this white, round ball of fluff rolled around, I’m currently annoyed by everything in the world. I had just finished solving digital certificate problems on the grandmothers’ cell phones.

‘I don’t want to create more work here.’

If I play with this puppy for a bit, I might get caught by the grandmothers again. Then I’ll have to listen to a long persuasion about becoming the village chief.

‘Everything’s annoying. I’m going to run away.’

I turned my steps without hesitation and turned my back on the village hall.

I could see the cameras capturing me. I walked forward without making eye contact with them.

‘I think I kind of get it…’

But something very minor was bothering me.

It wasn’t something that bothered me greatly, but something that interfered with perfection.

I could feel Boksuni whimpering and following me.

Even though I hadn’t petted it once or spoken to it, it approached wanting to play together.

‘Ah. Now I understand.’

I thought of something Jeong Yeondu would do.

“Director, just a moment. Would it be okay to modify the blocking?”

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Director So adjusted the camera positions and marveled once again.

‘…This wasn’t in my expectations.’

Director So’s expectation was Jeong Yeondu looking at Boksuni indifferently but then smiling slightly as if she couldn’t help it. She hadn’t thought Yeondu’s heart would be recalled so earnestly.

“I want to run away, leaving Boksuni behind.”

“Why…? How come…?”

“Because I think she’d want it to follow her. Yeondu would.”

Han Yeoreum’s interpretation had aspects that even Director So couldn’t pinpoint.

“Yeondu was crushed by responsibility, but she seems to feel her sense of existence by helping others. Otherwise… there’s no way she’d fulfill all the requests from people she’s meeting for the first time.”

The camera blocking reset was completed. Yeoreum went back inside the hall, and Boksuni was temporarily held by a staff member. The frame was set a bit wider than before. The countryside scenery was captured refreshingly in one shot.

“…Action!”

Director So called for Yeoreum again. The closed village hall door opened without hesitation.

“Woof!”

As soon as the staff member loosened their grip, Boksuni ran over.

Just like before, it wagged its tail uncontrollably as if it couldn’t contain its joy at meeting me. It clung to my legs, bouncing up and down, and even showed its belly asking to be petted.

“Even without providing any help. I think she’d be weak to someone who shows affection from the beginning. Instinctively, such an existence would be unfamiliar, so she’d want to run away.”

An existence that wasn’t in Jeong Yeondu’s life. A puppy that was happy to see her without any conditions.

Yeondu looked at such Boksuni for a moment, then turned her back. Her steps quickened.

“Go away.”

Yeoreum walking coldly and Boksuni eagerly following were captured in one frame. Green leaves swayed in the wind beyond the unpaved dirt road. The harsh summer sunlight shone freshly on the two of them.

“I said go!”

Yeoreum gradually walked faster and eventually started running. But because of her folded-down sneakers, she couldn’t pick up speed.

She was quickly caught up by Boksuni. In front of Yeoreum, who had stopped running for a moment, Boksuni showed its belly again.

“…So annoying, really.”

Only then did Yeoreum bend her knees and extend her hand to Boksuni.

Her hand movements were awkward, as if she hadn’t petted dogs much. It was clearly different from the touch when holding a screwdriver to turn screws or operating a banking app. It was utterly clumsy.

“Why do you lick my hand so much.”

Boksuni kept licking Yeoreum’s hand.

Yeoreum, who would normally have pulled her hand away saying it was dirty, looked down at Boksuni and muttered.

“Are you hungry?”

Just then, Boksuni whimpered as if answering.

“…Okay.”

Director So quietly signaled the end of the scene.

“Director! Should we get ready again?”

The camera director who had been running with the camera asked.

But it was a meaningless question. Director So shook her head.

“No need to reshoot…”

Okay in one take. It was truly perfect.

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“Then I’ll begin the presentation.”

At that time, a presentation for the second half performance began at JC ENM. Thanks to the unprecedented success of the newly launched ‘web content’, the game had been newly arranged.

“If you look at the final episode of 〈Facehi〉 currently, it has exceeded 6 million views and the graph is steadily rising toward 7 million views, and after checking at INTUBE Studio, the initial viewer playback time is around 5 minutes and 35 seconds-.”

A world had come where viewers who watch a video to the end after turning it on were much rarer. It’s different from TV where you can leave it on and do other things.

‘Because cell phone screens have too many options.’

After turning on a video, if there’s no interest, you could switch to other SNS, reply to overdue messages, shop, or play mobile games.

High accessibility meant it was just as easy to leave.

‘But an average playback time of over 5 minutes.’

The fact that a viewer base had emerged that watched web dramas, which are snack culture, for such a long time meant one thing.

“Now the indicators are telling us that we need to produce new content that goes beyond ‘snack culture.’ In response, our Web Content Department is moving in the direction of producing web dramas consecutively in the third and fourth quarters-.”

The flow of society was changing. Now viewers would become more accustomed to new content produced on Intube. Jegal Rok nodded his head.

“There’s also a continuous trend of subscribers wanting 〈Pachehi〉 spin-offs. Looking at SNS reactions, named Drama Fans with many followers are interpreting 〈Pachehi〉-.”

No one watches a 10-minute video over and over again to interpret it. It’s better to spend that time going to watch the next content.

But viewers remained even after the drama ended. They even interpreted and obsessed over it like dramas created by broadcasting stations.

‘What if second and third 〈Pachehi〉s emerge, and web dramas receive as much attention as cable-produced dramas.’

Jegal Rok tapped away at his calculator. If they could advance quickly to a broader world without even needing to discuss overseas distribution rights.

“Among the web drama scripts that came in, can you show me the ones Team Leader Seong thought were decent?”

“Yes. Currently, we have scripts called 〈Seventeen Fragments〉, 〈Sunday Library〉, and 〈Graduation Ceremony〉 on our shortlist, mainly school-themed works similar in tone to 〈Pachehi〉.”

The screen switched to the PPT that had been prepared for the second half production push.

Jegal Rok thought of Han Yeoreum once again. He couldn’t recall a clear reason. His intuition was simply pursuing Han Yeoreum.

“What happened with that in-house content production matter we discussed last time?”

At Jegal Rok’s question, Team Leader Seong pressed the remote control. Then the beam projector screen changed.

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