In This Life, I Want an Oscar, Not a Husband - Chapter 42

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This life, I choose The Oscars over a husband.
Chapter 42

The teaser begins like this.
A close-up of Do Eun-hee’s charismatic face.
Overlaying it, someone’s voice.

【What is Purgatory? It’s the world of the dead—those who belong neither to hell nor heaven.】

Do Eun-hee, dressed in a long, pitch-black jacket, sat somewhere with an indifferent expression.

【Why do all these spirits cling so desperately to the mortal realm? I don’t understand it.】

Following Do Eun-hee’s face, the visage of Gwak Kyung-eun, the actress driving this series, appears on screen.

【Shouldn’t we still guide the deceased away?】
【Why bother? The forty-nine days are almost over anyway.】

Do Eun-hee’s carefree whistle, and the sobbing voice of a woman.
Then—boom.
An ominous sound, and someone’s footsteps appear.
Feet in work boots.
The camera pans upward, revealing the back of a woman in gray work clothes—

【Now it’s our turn.】

The woman’s face breaks into a sinister grin, zoomed in close.
Tattoos crawling up her neck, and a tooth gem glinting on one canine—
(a jewel affixed to the tooth as decoration)
—it’s me.
My sinister smile fills the entire close-up.
Though I only appear for a second, the image is undeniably striking.
Simultaneously, Do Eun-hee begins to run, and Gwak Kyung-eun follows in pursuit.
At the same time, Do Eun-hee starts running, and Gwak Kyung-eun follows behind her.

Team Leader!
You have to catch it.

Do Eun-hee’s ragged breathing accompanies a close-up of her anxious eyes.

We can’t let it slip away. We have to send it back no matter what.

Boom.
Finally, with Netflix’s signature sound effect, the screen fades to black and the ‘N’ logo appears.
They really nailed the teaser.
I already knew it would be good, but watching it, I couldn’t tear my eyes away—it was genuinely captivating.
And I appeared in that teaser.
My StarGram followers naturally increased, and the teaser comments exploded.

– Wait, is that Ha Eun-rae in the middle?
– Is she playing the villain?
– This image transformation is insane;;;; An actress who was doing coming-of-age dramas now has tattoos and tooth gems? How am I supposed to unsee this?
– Based on the photos Do Eun-hee posted on BelStar, she’s definitely the villain. I’m losing it; our Kyung-bin is doing villain roles now.

On top of that, Do Eun-hee’s StarGram post.
The moment I followed her back, she tagged me and uploaded a photo taken on set.
It was a picture of us with our arms around each other’s shoulders, with me wearing the tooth gems.
I looked unmistakably like a villain in my makeup.
‘That makeup took quite a while to apply…’
Still, it was fun.
In my past life, I never even dreamed of playing such a unique character, so I got to exercise my imagination in various ways, learned action sequences.

@eun_hee_doe_actor

(photo)

Thank you to actress Ha Eun-rae for deciding on this special appearance with just one word from me!
In the production, she showed sparkling charisma, but in reality, she’s such a sweet, gentle soul~

…Somehow, the phrasing felt a bit outdated compared to the charisma I actually witnessed.
It was similar when she reached out separately after filming wrapped.

Thank you so much for everything! I’ll see you again when we film the YouTube Variety Show!
Do Eun-hee
Of course~ Thanks~ Stay healthy until then^^~

Regardless, I was immortalized on Do Eun-hee’s StarGram.
Not only that, but I added my name to the drama series that would hit Global TOP1.
A profound sense of accomplishment welled up from deep within my chest.
With things going this well, naturally our Entertainment Agency was celebrating too.
Whether I’d already earned the money or was thinking about what I’d earn, I suddenly had my own car.
“You didn’t buy this by selling massage chairs, did you?”
Though admittedly, massage chair sales wouldn’t cover something this size.
I looked at Heo Representative and Hong Jong-ho with an extremely anxious expression.
“It’s a lease, Eun-rae. We’ll call it a lease for now, and once the contract payment from Park Chang-sung’s project comes in, we’ll buy our own car! I’ll set up interviews for a stylist soon, so we can look at candidates together and decide, okay?”
“Yes.
Still, hearing it was a lease put my mind at ease….
I was so anxious wondering if Heo Representative might sell something else.
Regardless, it was a relief that Naru Stage seemed to be gaining some vitality because of me.
“Jong-ho, you’ll drive this car from now on. We’ve assigned a road manager to Kyung-bin too, so Jong-ho will focus exclusively on Eun-rae from here on~”
Hong Jong-ho bowed his head toward me.
“I’ll do my best, New Member… I mean, Actress Eun-rae.”
Really.
Just because we’d worked out together recently, I almost reverted back to being called New Member.
I heard Kyung-bin was doing a drama this time too.
A special series that’s part film, part drama, produced by a film-focused channel.
He appears as a supporting actor in it, and if my memory serves, that series becomes quite popular and becomes a turning point in Kyung-bin’s career.
From a somewhat minor indie film industry star, he becomes an actor who works across both film and drama productions.
In every way, Naru Stage felt like it was sailing forward with favorable winds.

“Thanks to you, Heo Representative can’t stop smiling these days.”
Hong Jong-ho said this as he dropped me off in front of my apartment.
I let out a soft laugh at his words.
“Heo Representative has always been a bit transparent anyway. A master of emotional extremes.”
“That’s his charm.”
Hong Jong-ho chuckled along with me in agreement.
“Hey, but isn’t this alley pretty dark? The representative was actually saying you should think about moving soon.”
“Hmm… I’ll give it some thought once the drama launches.”
My face had become known faster than I’d anticipated.
Even when I went to the neighborhood convenience store, I could feel eyes turning toward me.
‘It is inconvenient.’
Still, it wasn’t terribly inconvenient right now, and I was worried Heo Representative might try to sell me a massage chair, so I decided to put it off for now.
“Go on in then. Tomorrow at 9 we’re heading to the shop, then moving to film for YouTube… I’ll pick you up by 8. That works?”
“Yeah.”
I watched the car door open automatically and felt a familiar warmth bloom in my chest.
Ah, the taste of money I knew so well.
It had been a while since I’d felt it again.
As I thought this and the car passed through the narrow alley it couldn’t fully enter, I heard a voice from behind.
“Hey!”
I flinched and turned around.
“…?”
“Why!”
Two middle-aged men were fighting, drunk.
Hong Jong-ho’s words suddenly came back to me.
Hong Jong-ho’s words suddenly came to mind.

“Hey, but isn’t this alley kind of dark?”

I opened the villa’s shared entrance door and sent a K-talk message to Ye-reum.
I opened the villa’s shared entrance door and sent a K-talk message to Kang Ye-reum.

It looks like the neighborhood guys are about to fight. Turn around and come toward the laundromat.

As I climbed the villa stairs, the motion-sensor light flickered on and off above me.
I watched it blink uncertainly in the darkness.
“…?”
What was that? A malfunction?
In that moment.
“Why are you wandering around so late?”
A familiar voice called down from upstairs.
A figure with disheveled blonde hair descended toward me—’that guy’ himself.
Ha Kyung-soo.
“What, are you doing some kind of sponsorship gig?”
If Kim Do-woon was the second calamity of my life, then my first calamity was my own family—my older brother.
My brother was the first disaster that befell me.

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