In This Life, I Want an Oscar, Not a Husband - Chapter 50

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This life, I choose The Oscars over a husband.
Chapter 50

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【That girl. She’s the granddaughter my grandmother desperately searched for.】

The episode of Seol-lim’s grandmother and her “granddaughter” from Heaven was featured at the end of the Purgatory Part 1 arc—specifically in Chapter 6.
Baek Yu-rim, the grandmother’s “granddaughter” who said she’d “lost her way to Heaven,” survived an accident that killed her grandmother, then spiraled into a reckless life consumed by guilt.
She fell in with bad crowds, became entangled in crime, and couldn’t escape the world of vice.
When a friend accidentally killed someone at a crime scene, Yu-rim was trapped there and burned to death. Afterward, terrified of Hell, she fled.
But—

【Did you really stand by and let him be killed? Is that true?】

Seol-lim wanted to believe in Yu-rim’s innocence until the very end.

【No, that’s not it. You tried to save him. Why were you the only one left there at the last moment? You were trying to save him, weren’t you?】

But before Seol-lim could confirm Yu-rim’s innocence—
Forty-nine days. The time limit granted to the dead expires.
The moment that deadline passes, Lee Eop stares out the window with an ominous expression.
Whiiiiit—
Suddenly, a whistle pierces the air.
Followed by heavy footsteps, the scraping drag of a hammer and baseball bat.
A woman covered in blood approaches, dragging a baseball bat across the wall with a screech.

【Damn it.】

It was the moment Lee Eop screamed at Seol-lim to grab Yu-rim and run.
CRASH!
The door explodes inward, and Lee Eop’s body slams into the ground.
A woman stands before the shattered doorway, grinning wickedly down at Lee Eop.
Tooth gems glitter between her smiling teeth.
She runs her tongue across them slowly.

[WELCOME TO HELL]

“Hey, Eop. It’s been a while since Team 1 couldn’t handle the corpse disposal and had to call us in. Was it eighty years ago?”

Ha Eun-rae’s face was utterly carefree and irreverent.
The moment everyone saw it, they gasped in shock.
It was an expression they had never witnessed from Ha Eun-rae before.
A flawless image transformation.
Moreover, with just a single scene, she had completely upended Part 1.
And on SNS, a post appeared on Dok-sa’s account.

Dok-sa
@poisonedby

【Purgatory Part 1】
Do Eun-hee tore it apart, Gwak Kyung-eun methodically cut through the tears, and finally Ha Eun-rae detonated the whole thing.

And this arrived for Ha Eun-rae.

[【Purgatory】 Wiki being updated….]
[Would you like to search the updated Wiki for 【Purgatory】?]

The moment Ha Eun-rae searched the Wiki.

【Purgatory】
Cumulative Views: 200 Million
Season 2 Key Character: ‘Ryun’ – Ha Eun-rae

The cumulative views had doubled, and Ha Eun-rae had been added to the Season 2 key characters.

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200 million… views?
Isn’t that the kind of number that devours Netflix, even when you factor in English-speaking regions, not just non-English ones?
Right now that’s the score for Purgatory that I appeared in, and if Season 2 comes out, I’m supposed to appear as a major character?
Originally, Yoon was a character who only appeared in Purgatory Season 1, specifically Part 1, and then disappeared.
‘I was supposed to be destroyed in this episode.’
We’d already finished filming, hadn’t we?
Originally, it was supposed to end with Yoon dying in Episode 6.
But somehow, starting around Episode 6, the content began to change…
‘Part 1 ends with my face, doesn’t it?’
“Wow—I was so nervous thinking you wouldn’t even appear, seriously. Did they completely cut you out?”
Kang Ye-reum slapped my shoulder from beside me and spoke.
“This has such an impact, though? Look at this. When you search your name in English on SNS, it comes up so much. Are you becoming a global star or something?”
Kang Ye-reum giggled, but I couldn’t laugh along with her.
Seeing that, Ye-reum asked with a worried expression.
“Why? Is it because your screen time is short?”
“No.”
No, it wasn’t.
That couldn’t be it.
My screen time wasn’t simply reduced.
‘…I’ve drawn massive attention.’
“Yeah. I don’t think you need to worry? It looks like BelStar is starting to get reactions too.”
Kang Ye-reum said that while absorbed in her phone.
As Purgatory’s momentum rose ominously, my Talent Agency also reached out frequently.

[Manager Jang: Several ads came in this time, so I narrowed it down to three. I think it would be good to check them and go to the meetings.]

Advertisement meetings poured in one after another.
But that wasn’t what mattered.
What mattered more was that my character, Yoon, who was supposed to die in Season 1, appears in Season 2.
In other words, Yoon surviving instead of being destroyed means…?

[Do Eun-hee: Seo Eun-sul wants to see you for a moment. Do you have time?]

Seo Eun-sul was changing the script.
‘Insane.’
I sent a reply to Do Eun-hee with slightly trembling hands.

[Yes. When would work?]

Do Eun-hee’s reply came quickly.

[Do Eun-hee: At the writer’s studio tomorrow~?]

Wow.
I was actually getting a chance to visit Seo Eun-sul’s Studio.
My head felt like it was spinning.
If things continued like this, then truly….
‘I might build global recognition faster than I thought.’
…But that thought was rendered meaningless as a window appeared before my eyes.

[Congratulations! You’ve achieved ’10 million global viewers’ and received 1 ‘Search Ticket’.]
[Would you like to use the ‘Search Ticket’?]

Ten million viewers.
It was a chilling number.
Only five days since Purgatory went public.
No matter how global Netflix is, ten million people have already watched it?
Of course, I wondered how many of them would actually remember my name and face, but if these people ever watched another one of my works someday, they might think, ‘Oh, that person from Purgatory!’
‘Then really….’
I swallowed hard.
‘I might actually go to The Oscars.’
Sweat began to seep into my palms.

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