In This Life, I Want an Oscar, Not a Husband - Chapter 59

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This life, I choose The Oscars over a husband.
Chapter 59

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After we finished the pizza.
While the kids attended class, Kyung-bin and I were assigned to clean the cafeteria floor.
Throughout the cleaning, Kyung-bin kept stealing glances at me.
After this happened several times, I couldn’t hold back any longer and asked.
“Senior?”
“Huh? What? Yes?”
“If you have something to say, just say it.”
Please.
Stop staring at me.
Kyung-bin finally took a step back, looking slightly startled, and sat down on a chair in the back.
“Um… well… uh…”
I need to be patient and wait.
I can do this.
When he talks with Hong Jong-ho, he seems so relaxed—is it really the power of chicken breast?
“We’re… this time… going to the Busan International Film Festival…”
“Ah, yes.”
Now that I think about it, I am going to the Busan International Film Festival with Kyung-bin.
Well, since it’s an independent film, we’ll probably just do simple greetings and a Q&A
(audience discussion held after the film screening)
or something like that.
“We’re… um… walking the red carpet… did you hear about that?”
“The red carpet?”
I hadn’t heard anything about it.
“Ah… I… got a call first… I received it during dinner earlier…”
I had no idea.
I didn’t know an independent film would even have a red carpet.
“The Busan International Film Festival… they really want to feature Eun-rae…”
“So you received the same request, Senior.”
“…Yes.”
Kyung-bin answered with an extremely reluctant expression.
With that personality, a red carpet would be unbearable for him.
But this was a huge opportunity for me.
Once I stepped onto the red carpet, I’d appear in the Busan International Film Festival’s official videos and photos, and I could even make the news—there’s no way I could pass this up.
Just as I was about to open my mouth to persuade Kyung-bin, he spoke first.
“I… that day… I need to… escort you properly… but I’m not sure if I can…”
What?
That’s what he’s worried about?
“Still… I’ll do my best…”
Wow, hearing those words from him.
‘That’s actually touching.’
“We should both give it our all. We’re the lead actors of 【Cohabiting with a Ghost】, after all.
The lead actors.
At those words, Kyung-bin’s eyes widened.
“It’s for the film.”
Then Kyung-bin looked at me as if he’d made a decision.
“Yes. Let’s come up with some poses together.”
What? Suddenly he’s not stammering?
Watching Kyung-bin become so proactive, I realized something.
This man changed when it came to acting.
So he’d transformed because he was thinking of it as something for ‘our film’.
What moves Kyung-bin in the end is always ‘the film’.
At that realization, I smiled softly.
“Great. Should we practice a heart pose?”
“Yes. Ah… but Eun-rae, will you be okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“The schedule… is coming up quite soon… so getting a dress… might be difficult…”
Oh, right.
A dress.
Now that I think about it, that’s essential for walking the red carpet!

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“What? You’re saying I have to walk the red carpet next week?”
And hearing those words, Kang Ye-reum’s eyes blazed with fury.
“Why are you telling me this now!”
“I only found out today myself.”
“Ugh… I need to start contacting luxury brands right away.”
Luxury brands?
I tilted my head in confusion.
“At my level, why would I need luxury brands? Domestic brands are fine for me.”
“Domestic brands?”
Kang Ye-reum let out a scoff at my words.
“What’s your level exactly?”
“Huh?”
“Lead actress in the number one global drama. Model for Roll the Tape. And all the projects lined up ahead—they’re practically endless.”
Well, they’re not exactly endless, are they?
“On YouTube, anything you appear in gets five million views.”
“Look, here’s the thing….”
“From now on, I’m contacting every luxury brand’s PR team. If they want you as an ambassador, they can get in line in front of us.”
Kang Ye-reum’s eyes gleamed with ambition.
“And most importantly, haven’t you seen it yet?”
“Seen what?”
Kang Ye-reum held up her phone screen and spoke.
“This.”
I looked at the Netflix main page displayed there.
There, prominently featured, was the Purgatory poster.
With Ryun’s grinning face.
“…!”
I’m on the main page?
And beneath it were these words:

[New Episode Released]

“Part 2 drops today.”
…!

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Baek Hee-na had graduated from the Film Department at Arts University.
She currently worked at a Video Production Company, suffering through grueling editing work.
‘Maybe I should just freelance.’
Honestly, I’d been having these thoughts constantly lately.
The reason was simple.
“Hee-na~ Did you see Purgatory Part 2 dropped? I binged it all night yesterday.”
“Oh, really…?”
Small talk at work simply didn’t suit me—not even a little bit.
“Yeah. It’s a new Netflix series. Haven’t you watched it?”
I hadn’t.
I’d never been one to watch dramas; I only watched films.
That’s why I’d gone to Film Department, after all.
Back in school, attending film festivals had been my hobby….
‘But working full-time drains all that energy.’
Just send me home!
“You were in Film Department, yet you don’t seem interested in content at all?”
That’s a drama. I’m from Film Department.
I smiled faintly at the thought.
“Haha, it does sound fun. I’ll try watching it next time.”
I absolutely won’t watch it.
That’s what I’d definitely decided….
As always, after working late, I came home, ordered late-night food, and was scrolling through what film to watch when my hand froze on the Purgatory poster.
It was because the woman’s face, beaming brightly with tussin gems, was far too striking.
An expression brimming with lethal intensity in her eyes.
A face that looked both unhinged and dangerous.
How long had it been since a single poster stood out so vividly among the countless works filling the Netflix screen?
In the end, Baek Hee-na pressed on that poster.
Unaware that this was the beginning of a sleepless night.

The next day.
Staring blankly at the laptop screen, I realized something.
‘I need to go to work soon.’
I’d blazed through all twelve episodes of Purgatory overnight.
Thank goodness for that.
If I’d watched it when Part 1 came out, I would’ve cried waiting for Part 2!
‘This is insane.’
Release season 2 now!
I tore at my hair and glared at the screen.
But what infuriated me most was this.
‘Why does our Ryun have to die?!’
Ryun’s impact was that powerful.
At the end of episode 6, Ryun meets Lee Eop and grins wickedly, saying this.

【Hey there, Eop. It’s been a while since Team 1 couldn’t handle the corpse disposal and had to call us in. Has it been eighty years?】

Lee Eop looks at her with contempt.

【You haven’t changed in eighty years. You’re still just as pathetic and foolish.】

At those words, Ryun’s expression hardens and she kicks Lee Eop squarely.

【Ugh….】

Wow, Do Eun-hee doing action scenes like this.
Ryun grabs Do Eun-hee’s jaw firmly as blood drips from her mouth.

【And you’re still smuggling corpses out like always, sister. Getting played by the dead like some naive fool—that’s dereliction of duty.】

Ha Eun-rae.
Right. The actress’s name was Ha Eun-rae.
Baek Hee-na recalled Ha Eun-rae’s advertisements she’d often seen on Reels and Shorts.
There, she’d definitely had that cute kitten image—
‘She’s completely different now….’
Now she was a monster with layers of contempt and rage toward humanity etched across her face.
Her acting was so convincing that I found myself wondering how Ryun had ever become such a monster.

【That crazy psycho. I need to stay away.】

After the two of them exchanged fierce blows in their action sequence.
Lee Eop and Seol-lim evacuate the deceased from Ryun’s grasp.
It was to gather evidence so that the deceased Baek Yu-rim could receive a retrial in the afterlife.
However, Ryun obstinately interferes with their efforts.

“A retrial is unjust. Do you know what happens when you give murderers a second chance? They just become murderers who killed twice.”

Watching Ryun report to her superiors while chewing gum relentlessly, Baek Hee-na forgot even the fact that she needed to go to work.

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