In This Life, I Want an Oscar, Not a Husband - Chapter 66

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This life, I choose The Oscars over a husband.
Chapter 66

But after this routine repeated for several days, Hyun-woo began to understand.

Do you want to eat this?

Clothes torn to shreds.
A house never properly tidied.
The loneliness of this woman who had severed all connection with the world.

If I hadn’t changed the date of our wedding shoot back then… could I have avoided that accident?

And the guilt that resided within her.

Don’t think like that.

Hyun-woo deeply empathized with Soo-in’s sorrow.
He too had experienced the loss of his only guardian, his Uncle.

It’s not your fault.

Soo-in’s eyes looking at Hyun-woo turned red.

No, it is my fault. I…

Soo-in grasped Hyun-woo’s sleeve.

I made you like this.

Soo-in’s voice trembled as she clutched only his sleeve, unable to bring herself to hold his hand. Everyone in the theater held their breath as they watched tears bead in those large eyes.
Watching tears well up in those large eyes, everyone in the Theater held their breath.

It’s not your fault…

Hyun-woo gently brushed his fingers across Soo-in’s cheek.
Just as Uncle had done for him so long ago.
Hyun-woo now returned to Soo-in the words Uncle had once given him.

“When you smile.”

‘When you smile.’

“When you’re tired and feeling sorry for yourself.”

‘When you’re feeling sorry for yourself.’

“When you cry and grow weary and struggle.”

‘When you cry and grow weary and struggle.’

“That I can be there for all those moments, that you’ve left that place for me… I’m so grateful.”

The moment those words reached her ears, tears streamed down Soo-in’s face.
And at that same instant, a twist arrived in this comedy of a film.
Soo-in slowly brought her lips to Hyun-woo’s.
Hyun-woo quietly accepted her kiss.
And the next day.

“…Sigh.”

Two people lying side by side beneath a bed, not a tent.
Hyun-woo was the first to open his eyes.
He gazed at Soo-in lying beside him, his expression complicated.
As his feelings for Soo-in deepened, Hyun-woo found himself wanting to pull her out of this web-laden house.

“Hey, just drag that woman out of there, will you?”

After that, ignoring his friend’s text messages, he launched Operation Frightened Kitten Escape.
First step: eating meals at the Dining Table.

“Honey… we can’t eat here. The people living in this house…”
“It’s fine. I heard yesterday that no one comes to this house anymore. They’re tearing it down, so there’s nobody around.”
“Really… truly…?”
“Yeah. So just eat at the Dining Table. Let’s… live like people.”

At Hyun-woo’s words, Soo-in’s eyes widened in surprise.

“But we’re not people?”

The audience burst into laughter at Soo-in’s subtle comedic delivery.
Her unnervingly natural acting completely captivated them.
Hyun-woo’s “Operation: Save the Frightened Kitten” continued from there.
Feeding her warm food, getting her to sit on the Sofa, and most importantly—
Putting her to sleep on the Bed.
As Hyun-woo tucked Soo-in into the Bed, he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction.
Yet an inescapable reality was closing in on him.
And on Soo-in as well.

“Honey. Honey… wouldn’t you like to visit your family?”

Hyun-woo knew all too well that they couldn’t live like this forever.
So he suggested to Soo-in that they go meet her family.
To draw her out into the light.
Soo-in, who would normally have recoiled in horror, yielded to his persuasion and ventured outside dressed in a white one-piece dress and white shoes.
Seeing her like this, the neighbors and even the landlord couldn’t help but smile warmly.
Though they’d always found Soo-in unsettling, there was a part of them that felt pity for her.
Yet the warmth of these moments evaporated in what came next.

“Are you Soo-in? Did you find yourself another man already?”

Standing before her family’s house, Soo-in came face to face with her dead lover’s mother.

“No, ma’am. This person is…”

Startled, Soo-in blurted out that Hyun-woo was her dead lover, leaving his mother stunned beyond words.

“Are you using Soo-in? Deceiving this poor child?”
“That’s… well…”
“No, Mother…!”
“Soo-in, come here. I’ve already spoken with your parents about everything. I can’t bear to watch you living in that newlywed home any longer. You need to go to the hospital now. Our son in heaven wouldn’t want this for you either.”
“The hospital…?”

Soo-in’s bewildered face fills the screen in close-up.
At that same moment, the scene shifts back several months in time.

“Soo-in, live. You must.”

Soo-in barely escaped from the car, leaving her dying lover behind.
And just as she reached for her phone to call an ambulance, the vehicle erupted in flames.
Soo-in stands before it, roaring and weeping.
And the present-day Soo-in recalls it now…

“No.”

The memory surfaces.

“No!”

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“Patient Soo-in, it’s time for your medication.”

Soo-in sits in the Psychiatric Hospital.
She takes a handful of pills and submits to the Nurse’s inspection.
They check to ensure she hasn’t hidden or skipped her medication.
Then the scene shifts again.

“Patient Soo-in, we’re going to have a very important session today.”

Soo-in sits in the Counseling Room, her face drained of energy.
The way she blinks quietly now is starkly different from when she believed herself to be a ghost.
She is far more composed, yet utterly broken.

“Doctor.”

Her voice tone had completely changed.
The airy, drifting voice she had around Hyun-woo was now entirely composed and grounded.

“The medication you prescribed… I’m so drowsy.”
“Ah, yes. That can happen. You mentioned your anxiety has been getting worse lately, didn’t you? That’s why I increased the anxiety medication.”
“Ah… I see.”

Soo-in nodded as if she understood.

“Patient Soo-in. Could you tell me about what happened a year ago?”
“A year ago?”
“Yes, the accident that occurred that day.”

At those words, Soo-in’s face stiffened abruptly.
Tears welled up in her large eyes in an instant.

“I’m… I’m sorry…”
“No. It’s okay.”

Soo-in’s shoulders curled inward.
Her tears fell one by one onto her lap.

“That day… that day… I was alone… in that car…”
“Soo-in.”

Soo-in lifted her head.
Her tear-stained face was captured in close-up.
That face was filled with sorrow.
It was the complete sadness she had never properly felt while living as a ghost.

“It’s natural for you to grieve like this. You’ve experienced something terrible, and while it’s not your fault, you can feel guilt. Nothing about that is strange. In fact, the more you try to appear fine and go about your life to avoid worrying your family, the more your delusions will persist. So it’s okay to grieve like this.”

As the Psychiatrist spoke, Soo-in’s face became literally drenched in tears.
Her body trembled, yet she nodded intermittently.
As if she understood.
A strained whimper escaped from Soo-in’s lips.

“Don’t suppress your feelings, Soo-in. Living means… it’s like this. Don’t become a ghost.”
“Really… will that be okay?”

Soo-in asked desperately.

Am I really…?

Her lips trembled visibly.

Am I allowed to live?

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