NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 294

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Episode 294. Hobby

After finishing the first day of filming and lighting a fire in the fire pit, everyone fell fast asleep in the warm room.

 

The three men used the large room, and they gave the small room to Han So-hyeon.

 

When morning came, Son Jin-wook woke up tossing and turning, then lay down with his back pressed flat against the heated ondol floor, warming every corner of his body.

 

“Ahh, so nice and warm. I thought my back was going to give out while filming ‘Dawn Market,’ but it feels like all my fatigue is melting away.”

“That’s right. I feel drowsy and like my fatigue is lifting.”

 

Yeon-woo, lying on the opposite side, also felt the fatigue that had unknowingly accumulated while filming ‘Survival Island’ gradually fading away.

There’s a unique charm to the ondol stone floor that you can’t feel with city boilers or electric heating pads.

 

“Ugh, I need to get up, but I feel like I’ve become one with the floor. By the way, they said a guest is coming today. I wonder who it’ll be?”

“Who knows. Teacher Cheol-min? Or maybe Han Byeol will come.”

 

Just then, An Jun-ho, who had been looking up YouTube videos on his smartphone in the corner, spoke up.

 

“I don’t have close relationships with other actors, so whoever comes, I should take this opportunity to break the ice.”

“Hmm, is that so? Jun-ho, you haven’t really interacted with Saebyeol actors.”

“Yes. I’ve only met Teacher Jeong Cheol-min a few times.”

 

Since An Jun-ho wasn’t affiliated with LN even before the unfortunate incident broke out, he had no particular connections except for the cast of ‘Yeo-reum’s Wardrobe.’

 

In fact, if other celebrities heard this, they would call those connections from ‘Yeo-reum’s Wardrobe’ the ‘golden network.’

 

Just then, Yeon-woo quietly got up.

 

“I’m going to take a walk around the island and check the fish traps I set up yesterday.”

“Won’t you rest a bit more?”

“I need to prepare breakfast early. We only have to make three meals a day, but it’s surprisingly busy.”

 

Yeon-woo put on work pants with a floral pattern and a coat, then went outside.

 

The staff who were busy preparing for filming in the yard looked at Yeon-woo.

 

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to do some morning exercise and check the fish traps.”

 

PD Joo Hyeon-seok nodded at Yeon-woo’s words and gestured to a staff member.

 

Then one person picked up a camera and followed Yeon-woo out.

 

It was the same camera director who had run around the tidal flat with Yeon-woo yesterday.

 

Yeon-woo left the house carrying a rubber basin in case there were any crabs caught in the fish traps.

 

Walking around the island with the basin tucked at his waist, enjoying the quiet atmosphere of the morning, he soon reached the spot where he had set up the fish traps yesterday.

 

‘I wonder if anything got caught…’

 

He had put raw ramen as bait, but he couldn’t tell how effective it would be.

 

“I wonder if the underwater friends know the taste of ramen.”

 

Yeon-woo muttered to himself as he slowly pulled on the rope where the fish trap was hanging.

 

The feel through the rope was heavy, but since the fish trap was underwater, he couldn’t tell whether it was heavy because something was caught or just because of the water current.

 

As he gradually pulled the rope to bring up the fish trap, the camera director, also curious, alternately filmed the rising trap and Yeon-woo while holding his breath.

 

The fish trap that finally emerged above the water surface surprisingly had something inside.

 

“Huh? There’s more stuff than I expected.”

 

There was definitely more than one thing inside.

 

The raw ramen bait he had put in the fish trap the day before had completely disappeared.

 

“Did you catch something?”

 

The camera director, unable to contain his curiosity, asked Yeon-woo.

 

In fact, both Yeon-woo and the camera director were looking at the same rising fish trap, so not knowing what was caught was the same for both.

 

It was just a signal urging him to hurry up and pull it up.

 

Yeon-woo gripped the rope tightly and pulled the fish trap.

 

“Director, just a moment.”

 

Yeon-woo gestured for the camera director to step back slightly.

 

Then he set the retrieved fish trap down on the ground.

 

He could see the camera director moving in close and zooming in.

 

“These are too small to be octopus, they’re webfoot octopus, right?”

 

The camera director quietly nodded at Yeon-woo’s question.

 

“Four webfoot octopus got caught.”

 

Just then, the webfoot octopus inside the fish trap wriggled and moved left and right.

 

Then another creature that had been hiding beneath the webfoot octopus revealed itself.

 

“Huh?”

 

A dark brown fish.

 

The creature hidden among the webfoot octopuses in the fish trap had spines protruding from its back and distinctive black spots.

 

Its official name is Korean rockfish, but it’s actually a fish that the entire nation calls by a different name.

 

“…A sea bass was caught.”

 

It was quite large too.

It’s just the right size that you don’t need to release it back into the wild.

Yeonwoo scratched his head.

When filming season 1 last time, they had caught an octopus. Thanks to that, he made octopus carpaccio, a drinking snack he often prepared while living abroad, but Yeonwoo wasn’t particularly skilled at cooking.

I just have a few dishes that I used to cook well.

“How do I clean this black sea bass…?”

I was happy to have caught something, but I was at a loss for how to cook and eat it.

‘Should I make sole meunière? But I don’t really have enough ingredients for that…’

It’s a French home-style dish mainly made with flounder, which is essentially a type of butter-grilled fish in Korean terms.

However, there was no way there would be lemon or parsley available, and even if he could make it without such miscellaneous ingredients, the fact that there was no butter to make butter-fried food was extremely problematic.

‘Even if a chef came, that wouldn’t work.’

I’m grateful that we caught some black sea bass, but now I’m wondering how I should cook and eat it.

Yeonwoo naturally thought of the other members at home.

‘Jinwook hyung… Well, he only knows how to drink and can’t cook anything.’

Han So-hyun seems to be quite good at cooking, but she mainly focuses on basic dishes like fried rice.

Ahn Jun-ho probably hasn’t been updated much compared to season 1.

It seemed like Yeonwoo would have to cook somehow.

Yeonwoo transferred the creatures from the trap into a rubber basin, roughly covered it with a cloth, and tucked it under his arm.

Lost in various thoughts, I was trudging home with the basin in hand when I spotted a ship approaching in the distance.

“…A guest?”

Yeonwoo walked toward the dock with a basin full of small octopus and black rockfish tucked against her waist, looking like a fisherman’s wife from a coastal village.

In the distance, I could see someone getting off a boat.

Seeing the staff member with the camera following behind confirmed that a guest had arrived.

As I got closer, I could see who today’s guest was.

Yeonwoo smiled and waved his hand.

“No. I was fine.”

 

The guest quietly nodded with an expressionless face.

 

It was Jin Yu-han.

 

Seeing Jin Yu-han carrying a large backpack, Yeon-woo asked.

 

“By the way, what’s in your bag? It looks really heavy.”

“By the way, what’s in your bag? It looks really heavy.”

“This and that. I brought some stuff thinking my hobbies might be useful for island life. I’ll show you later.”

Jin Yuhan looked at Yeonwoo as he answered.

Yeon-woo’s appearance seemed already perfectly adapted to the local area.

 

Though his outfit didn’t match his glamorous looks, it was strangely natural without any sense of discord.

 

“You’ve perfectly adapted after just one day on the island.”

 

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Jin Yu-han seemed slightly taken aback by the visual that looked exactly like an abandoned house, but when Yeon-woo took the lead and opened the main gate, he had no choice but to follow.

 

“Everyone, a guest is here!”

 

At Yeon-woo’s shout, the actors came running out from inside the house.

 

“Oh, it’s Yu-han?”

“Oh, isn’t that Yuhan?”

“Hello.”

While he had a friendship with Son Jin-wook, he had no real connection with An Jun-ho or Han So-hyun, so they only exchanged greetings in passing at events and award ceremonies, and seemed to barely know each other.

And Yeonwoo introduced another guest.

“We have a guest who came to check the fish trap overnight.”

“Don’t tell me it’s an octopus?!”

“What did you catch?”

“Don’t tell me it’s an octopus?!”

 

At Han So-hyeon’s words, Yeon-woo shook his head and set the rubber basin down on the wooden platform.

 

“It’s not octopus.”

 

When Yeon-woo removed the wrapping cloth covering the rubber basin, four small octopus and black rockfish inside were revealed.

 

“Wow! You caught a lot. What’s that fish?”

“It’s sea bass.”

The camera also moved in close to capture insert shots of the baby octopus and black rockfish in the bowl.

“….”

 

Everyone made strange expressions at the rough words that came from Han So-hyeon’s mouth, contrasting with her refined appearance.

 

Han So-hyeon also reconsidered her words and shook her head.

 

“No, I don’t mean slice it up like that… Should we thinly slice this friend into sashimi to eat?”

“No, no, I’m not going to beat it up… Are you planning to slice this guy thin and eat it as sashimi?”

“…Hmm, explaining it in detail makes it even scarier.”

Yeonwoo stared intently at the friend(?) in the basin, then made a troubled expression.

“You can stir-fry baby octopus, and even though they’re small, I think you could make any dish you’d normally make with regular octopus. But honestly, I don’t really know how to prepare black rockfish. I can’t think of anything to make with it other than spicy fish stew.”

Then Jin Yuhan, who had been quietly watching, took off the large backpack he was carrying on his back.

“I’ll take care of that.”

The other actors all turned to look at Jin Yuhan unpacking his bag after hearing his voice.

Yeonwoo tilted his head and opened his mouth to speak.

“…What’s with that strangely dismissive tone.”

“You?”

“…What’s with that tone that somehow sounds dismissive.”

“No, it’s just that I can’t imagine you cooking at all, Yuhan.”

Then Jin Yuhan pulled out an unidentifiable black mass from his bag.

When he unrolled the tightly wound bundle and spread it out with a flourish, it revealed an array of knives of various sizes and shapes packed densely inside.

“My hobby is cooking.”

Then PD Joo Hyun-seok, who had been watching, chimed in.

“Mr. Jin Yu-han says that cooking is his biggest hobby, and he even has certifications as a Korean and Japanese cuisine cook.”

“Yes.”

 

Son Jin-wook lightly patted Jin Yu-han’s back.

 

“Wow, I was really curious about what Yu-han does in his spare time. You had that kind of hobby? That’s amazing.”

“I don’t know if it’ll be worthy of being called gourmet, but I do like cooking so I’ll give it a try.”

 

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo looked at Jin Yu-han with sparkling eyes.

 

‘Oh ho, Jin Yu-han cooking…’

 

At first he thought it didn’t suit him, but watching Jin Yu-han organize his knife set, it surprisingly looked quite fitting.

 

‘Didn’t they say there was no original content to upload to Saebyeol’s official YouTube? They said it was a concern at the last meeting too…’

 

Seeing Jin Yu-han’s appearance, an appealing content idea came to mind.

 

‘Chef Jin Yu-han… Jin Yu-han’s Cooking This and That Cooking Class?’

 

Feeling Yeon-woo’s sparkling gaze on him, Jin Yu-han instinctively shuddered.

 

“…Why are you staring at me like that?”

“….”

 

Now Yeon-woo had moved beyond sparkling eyes to licking his lips.

 

“So you’re saying cooking is your hobby, Yu-han? I think fans would really love to know about this. After all, sharing good things is a virtue.”

 

He’d heard that Saebyeol Tube’s growth had recently slowed down, but such great content had been hiding nearby.

 

Yeon-woo looked up at the clear blue sky of early winter.

 

It was a very nice day.

I heard that Saebyeol Tube’s growth has slowed down recently, but who knew such great content was hiding right nearby.

Yeonwoo gazed up at the clear blue sky of early winter.

It was a beautiful day.

It was perfect for starting new work.

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