In This Life, I Want an Oscar, Not a Husband - Chapter 98

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This life, I choose The Oscars over a husband.
Chapter 98

Eun-Gureum’s fingers flew across the screen as she began typing rapidly.

[Our busy Eun-rae is filming the drama again today! She must be working so hard. We’re looking for someone to send a coffee truck to the next film set! By the way, our Eun-rae’s birthday is coming up soon~]

She had emphasized the word “today” heavily in her post.
A coffee truck?
You deserve that much and more, Ha Eun-rae.
And immediately, a message came through.

Doksa
Cloud, I’m sending you the coffee truck company list.

Doksa was always a reliable fan-support partner.
And then—

Ha-yang
Necklace and perfume lists~

Ha-yang too.

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After finishing the phone scene with Maeng Hye-seung, I dove into preparations for the next shoot.
Today’s scene involved Ia-an and Byun Eun-seok running into each other at the production company because of the OST, then awkwardly sharing a meal together.
Since Ia-an was only stopping by for the OST, she didn’t need much makeup—
“I’ll do your makeup to look naturally effortless.”
In a drama, the male and female leads couldn’t actually go without makeup.
In a romance, the leads had to be beautiful and handsome without exception.
“Got it.”
After finishing preparations, I read through the script again.
I’d read this scene dozens of times, but I knew something.
Once filming started, every word I’d memorized would become useless.
All the acting tone I’d prepared, the ad-libs, the blocking?
None of it would matter.
This was a romance.
My performance would shift depending on what my scene partner brought to the table.
But that’s precisely why I needed to prepare even more thoroughly.
I had to internalize the script completely so I wouldn’t falter no matter what happened.
That’s when the Assistant Director entered the makeup trailer.
“We’re starting soon. Ha Eun-rae, please get ready.”
“Ah, yes.”
I nodded and headed to the film set with Kang Ye-reum and Hong Jong-ho.
Go Heung-jae had just finished makeup and waved at me.
“Ia-an~”
His voice was more energetic than usual, so I glanced to the side.
Just as I suspected.
A camera for the making film was capturing us.
Behind-the-scenes footage that would go up on the YouTube channel.
That cunning bastard.
He was determined to dominate even the behind-the-scenes content.
I couldn’t lose either.
I couldn’t become a “Hummer-noid” this time around.
“Soo-hwan, you’re here?”
I deliberately called him by his character name from The Apartment.
It was natural promotion.
Loving and The Apartment were going to premiere almost simultaneously anyway.
“Come on~ It’s Eun-seok now~”
Go Heung-jae caught my meaning quickly and laughed, countering my move.
Then he looked at my face and covered his mouth.
“Whoa! Director, isn’t our Ia-an absolutely gorgeous? If she looks like this, won’t Eun-seok just go straight into ‘lingering attachment mode ON’?”
At that, PD Kang-ji chuckled while adjusting the lighting setup and responded.
“You’re right. Our Ia-an really is beautiful.”
Haha, should I tone down my looks a bit then?
I mean, I know this is the kind of scene where I need to make a joke like that, but….
“…Thank… you….”
Ugh.
I froze again.
Seeing this, Go Heung-jae seized the moment and decided to tease me.
“Our Ia-an’s gone stiff again!”
“No, that’s not it.”
I clenched my teeth and shook my head, but it was pointless.
Go Heung-jae pretended he’d just noticed the making film camera and waved at it.
“Oh look, there’s a camera over there.”
Haha, he really does this well.
“She’ll be amazing in a bit. Transforming from a robot into a human!”
Just stop.
I laughed awkwardly and waved toward the making film camera along with him.
“You’re better at it, oppa.”
I meant that sincerely.
Go Heung-jae.
I already knew that once he actually got into character, he’d give it his all.
Go Heung-jae wasn’t an actor who only cared about image management—he was an actor who genuinely wanted to do real acting.
And Go Heung-jae never disappointed those expectations.

“You know, right? This is Byun Eun-seok. He’s our drama’s male lead this time.”
Ia-an and Byun Eun-seok were forced into a meal together by the Production Company’s Producer and the writer.
Originally, Ia-an had intended to refuse the drama’s OST—
but there was something she needed to confirm, so she had agreed to take on the OST.
“Hello.”
The moment Byun Eun-seok saw Ia-an, he offered a sluggish smile, but his eyes were brimming with irritation.
To him, Ia-an was his worst first love.
She was the first and only person who had made him cry so much, disappointed him so deeply, and turned away from him so coldly.
“I’m a huge fan, and you’re really doing our OST?”
In Byun Eun-seok’s eyes, I could clearly see his true thoughts: ‘Don’t do this, you bastard.’
Watching that, I thought to myself.
‘He really came prepared.’
Right now, we were filming scenes centered on Go Heung-jae.
Specifically, the “Ia-an POV” scenes.
POV is short for Point of View, meaning we film from a specific character’s perspective.
Because of that, my face wasn’t captured by the camera, but I acted with complete immersion, just as I had with Maeng Hye-seung.
“Yes, that’s how it turned out. You insisted that it had to be me.”
My eyes probably sparked with fire.
Fire that said, ‘I hate this! I’m going to do it, you bastard!’
“Ha ha, of course! Who else would sing our drama’s OST but Ia-an?”
At the Producer’s words, the writer nodded in agreement.
“The drama’s content matches Ia-an’s voice so well. And Ia-an is originally a folk singer, after all.”
Hearing that, Ia-an laughed and glanced at Byun Eun-seok.
Very ‘cutely.’
Since this is a romantic comedy, that kind of touch was necessary.
And in response to the ad-lib I had prepared, Go Heung-jae stared down at me for a moment.
Not with an irritated face, but as if his mind had momentarily left his body.
What was that? A NG?
But the scene continued to flow.
“Right. Our Ia-an not only sings well but also plays guitar—”
“…A pop singer.”
Byun Eun-seok cut off the Producer’s words and spoke.
While staring down at me quietly.
In that moment, I realized.
That wasn’t Go Heung-jae.
It was Byun Eun-seok.
Byun Eun-seok had momentarily lost himself while looking at Ia-an.
Her cute face—
‘had unconsciously made him recall the ‘Ia-an’ from back then.’
Realizing that, my heart tingled.
This is it.
The moment when the other actor draws out an emotion from the script that I never anticipated.
Go Heung-jae probably felt something similar from my performance.
“You’re a pop singer now, aren’t you? You don’t play guitar much anymore. Right?”
Byun Eun-seok looked at me with a hardened expression.
He was asking not the folk singer Ia-an from Hongdae who had once been his lover, but the pop singer Ia-an.
You’re not the Ia-an from back then, are you?
That’s what he was saying.
“I’m a fan, so I know well.”
At Byun Eun-seok’s words, my face stiffened as well.
But—
“I don’t know. I still love playing guitar.”
I smiled and looked up at Byun Eun-seok.
With quite a provocative smile.
This was Ia-an’s answer.
No, you’re wrong. The Ia-an who rejected you is here, and the Ia-an who dated you is here too.
Ia-an and Byun Eun-seok’s gazes lingered on each other for a long time.
Past and present emotions crossed between them.
Resentment and lingering affection tangled together.
And then—
“Cut!”
PD Kang-ji’s resonant voice rang out.
Only then did Go Heung-jae and I turn our gazes toward PD Kang-ji.
“Okay! That was excellent, Go Heung-jae!”
Hearing those words, Go Heung-jae looked at me.
Then he let out a hollow laugh and spoke to me.
“It was real.”
“What was?”
“Maeng Hye-seung mentioned it.”
Maeng Hye-seung? When did those two get so close? Anyway, Go Heung-jae and Maeng Hye-seung’s chemistry is unmatched.
“When you act opposite each other, it really feels like you become that character.”
Go Heung-jae smiled faintly at me.
“It’s been such a long time. This feeling of truly becoming a character. And then, as that character, meeting another character.”
Go Heung-jae’s pale brown eyes gazed down at me gently.
“You really are… Ia-an. It’s nice to meet you again, my first love.”
And it was at that moment I heard those words.

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