I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 65

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Episode 65

Jeong Yeondu asked someone beyond the door in an ominous voice. There was no answer from beyond the door. Yeondu, who had just barely managed to sit down, limped toward the door.

Creak-.

What was revealed along with the squeaking sound of the unoiled door was.

-Finally here, you’re here!

-Such a young person in our village too…!

-Woof!

It was the village elders. The music that had flowed from the train coming to Hyangdo County earlier played once again. The tinkling xylophone sounds bounced cheerfully.

-Welcome!!!

The innocent grandmothers were smiling brightly. Each had brought something in wicker baskets in their hands.

They were housewarming gifts. In an instant, Jeong Yeondu’s name, age, and basic personal information were extracted, and she slumped against the wall and slowly sat down. Her energy was completely drained.

Grumble-.

Yeondu picked up a corn from the wicker basket she held in her hands. It was Jeong Yeondu’s first meal, someone who had never received anyone’s attention.

-It’s delicious…

Yeondu, who muttered quietly, looked relieved as if she thought moving here was a good decision. After finishing her shower with the gushing water and lying down in fluffy pajamas, a much calmer narration flowed over Yeondu.

-I finally seemed to have arrived. From Line 1 where I was always pushed around and suffocated, from the alley that never slept even at night, from the company that always called my name.

There seemed to be paradise in the place I had escaped to. Tomorrow, no one would come to greet me. And so I would quietly breathe and exist somewhere in Hyangdo County…

Bang bang bang!

But as soon as the sun rose, what came barging in once again were the grandmothers I had seen yesterday.

-This thing says to come pick someone up at the airport, should I go?

Anyone could tell it was voice phishing,

-The cell phone store owner in town said if I buy an Apple Phone Pro, I won’t get caught by voice phishing or something… My account transfer limit is…

Anyone could tell it was a scam,

-Please pass along a message to my grandchild.

Even tasks that didn’t need to be done right now, everyone had come to entrust them all to Jeong Yeondu.

-Young people are indeed good.

-Oh my. Thank you~.

-Eat this. Hm? Tell me if it’s not enough.

Jeong Yeondu’s house had somehow become like a living room. This was because the grandmothers who had come earlier hadn’t left and had settled in. They even found a paring knife and peeled peaches to offer her.

Jeong Yeondu mechanically chewed the peach with a dazed expression. And with that same expression, she lay down on the bed still wearing her pajamas.

* * *

“Ah, Yeoreum is doing so well.”

Director Wi Jaehwi was enthusiastically watching 〈I Don’t Care At All〉 together with Aetami. Half of the 60 minutes had now passed.

Tap tap- Tap tap-.

Reporter Wi was doing professional-spirited fan activities. Soon, Reporter Wi’s article about the MBS single-episode drama plot would be uploaded to Daily Media’s [Broadcasting] section.

‘The click count won’t be that high though. Since it’s Yeoreum.’

Jeong Yeondu, who had fled all the way to Hyangdo County, was still taking on all the odd jobs even here. Yeondu, who had gone to the village hall to check the grandmothers’ cell phone bills, opened her eyes wide.

-What did you say???

This was because it led to an utterly unreasonable request.

-Why should I be the village chief???

She was even recommended to be the village chief, causing all the irritation she had been holding back to explode at once.

-No- really, I have absolutely! No! Reason to become village chief!

The emotions she had suppressed with Confucian spirit were fully revealed. Jeong Yeondu showed a hollow laugh as if she couldn’t believe it.

-Don’t recommend me, just run for it yourself. I’ll cast one vote for you. The previous village chief can continue too. It’s the age of living to one hundred, so do they all have to step down just because they’re old? Huh? Call the previous village chief!!! Responsibly! They should do it for a long, long time!

Then the village hall door slowly opened and someone appeared.

-The former village chief is here.

-Oh my, elder sister~. You said you’d come pick me up.

A grandmother leaning on a walking stick and smiling cautiously introduced herself.

-It’s me…

She was an elder who would make Jeong Yeondu’s vanished Confucian spirit straighten up again. Because, just by looking…

-I’m one hundred and one years old… should I do it longer…?

She was over one hundred years old. The picture frame hanging on one wall of the village hall finally caught her eye.

[Congratulations on Kim Gyeongja’s 100th Birthday!]

Jeong Yeondu could no longer rebel and trudged out of the hall.

-Woof!

But she heard a small puppy sound. It was a puppy that looked exactly like the dog that had visited her house as soon as Yeondu moved in. It was the puppy that was born last month. Yeondu and Boksuni made eye contact.

-Go away.

Leaving behind the puppy showing its pink belly, Yeondu walked quickly. She had a premonition that she would end up taking care of that puppy too.

-Whine…

Not knowing Yeondu’s feelings, Boksuni innocently followed. Leaving behind Boksuni walking earnestly on short legs, Yeondu started running.

-Go away!

On a summer day when green leaves fluttered in the wind. Boksuni, like a white cotton ball, ran after Yeondu. The scene was captured like a beautiful landscape from afar.

Even the clouds floating in the blue sky looked like cotton candy. It felt like summer had been transplanted just as it was.

-…So annoying, really.

Yeondu, who gave up running away from Boksuni, frowned and gently stroked its fur. Boksuni seemed to like Yeondu and hugged her wrist tightly with its front paws. Then it licked her hand. As if it was so very happy.

-Why do you keep licking my hand.

Yeondu, who spoke to Boksuni curtly, made eye contact downward once again. Boksuni’s tail wagged constantly.

-Are you hungry?

The moment Yeondu first opened her heart to someone, the sunlight shone brilliantly. The momentary emotion, the season, and the Hyangdo County that Yeondu was feeling approached Reporter Wi closely.

Input: Youth heading to a place where they have no interest in each other, MBS single-episode drama 〈I Don’t Care At All〉

Reporter Wi immediately turned on his laptop and started typing. He wanted to upload it right after the broadcast ended.

It seemed his earlier prediction would be off the mark. He had an intuition that far more people than expected would come to click on the article.

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At this time, the office worker was still on a Gyeonggi bus. Arriving home at 10:30. After washing and lying down, 11 o’clock.

The office worker, who knew she should sleep early but couldn’t end the day like this and would use her cell phone until 1 AM, always had an irritated expression, but today was different.

‘Ah, it’s funny.’

Jeong Yeondu, who was trying to take the town bus, ended up getting a ride on the village grandmothers’ cultivator after waiting for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

-Bus? Two a day… One going, one coming.

-But that’s not what’s written on this schedule?

-That’s from over ten years ago.

This was because the bus schedule in the countryside was from 13 years ago.

The town she reached by riding the rattling cultivator was exactly the rural area we know. The large agricultural cooperative logo was particularly heartwarming.

-Oh my, this young lady is the village chief of Danbok Village in Hyangdo County? Take this home and eat it! I make kimchi like no other~?

-I’m not the village chief…

Yeondu, who urgently went to town needing a laptop charger, was caught by the grandmothers again and had to carry heavy bags in both hands.

Pajamas with tacky characters drawn on them to wear at home, Living Room Candy to eat when bored, high-quality American slippers and twisted donuts covered in sugar.

-Looking at you like this, you’re definitely a child, a child!

The grandmother who put a straw hat with a ribbon on her so she wouldn’t have trouble with the sunlight on the way home smiled brightly. She even wiped away the sugar on Yeondu’s lips with her hand, not finding it dirty.

-What do you mean child… She’s all grown up.

-In our eyes, she’s still just a child.

-Whose daughter could she be to have grown up so gracefully and pretty like this. My.

The Office Worker’s lips unconsciously curved upward. It was because she was reminded of her own grandmother.

-Oh my.

That’s when it happened. Along with ominous music, one of the grandmothers was startled. In the distance, a middle-aged man with threatening eyes staggered past them, swaying with a makgeolli bottle in his hand.

-…Who is that?

-Dog Trader, Dog Trader!

-Because of that bastard, not just this neighborhood but the next neighborhood and the back neighborhood too have run out of dogs.

The man with bloodshot eyes from drinking looked around his surroundings, then suddenly turned his head back. And then he made eye contact with Yeondu.

-Look at that. He’s trying to trade dogs for alcohol again…

Yeondu’s relaxed expression hardened once more. Her hand gripping the dog treats she had bought for Boksuni tensed up. The middle-aged man grinned wickedly while looking at Yeondu, spat on the ground, and walked away again.

-You must have only seen good things in Seoul. Oh my. Just forget it…

-We showed her something unpleasant for no reason.

Even in this situation, the grandmothers looked after Yeondu first. The unpaved country road where they rode the cultivator back home while sharing sikhye together shone particularly bright. I could almost feel the pleasant summer breeze myself.

Ring-. Ring-.

What broke that peace was a phone call that came the next day.

[Mom]

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