The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 29

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Episode 29

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“How can everyone treat me like this? Senior Yeong-il and I have worked on so many projects together, and now he’s telling me to leave. Just because I went against that bastard Gu Jun-ho!”

In the hotel suite room, a half-empty whiskey bottle sat on the table, and Im Su-yeon, who had just downed the whiskey in her straight glass in one gulp, was drunkenly ranting with slurred speech.

Whether she had been crying, her eyeliner was half smudged.

The man sitting across from her, tilting his glass, was Gi Seung-cheol wearing a hotel robe.

His silver-framed glasses gleamed in the soft hotel lighting.

After taking a drag from his cigarette, he exhaled thick, acrid smoke with a “huff.”

He looked at Suyeon with cold eyes as she sat there looking like a loser.

“Suyeon.”

“…Yeah, oppa.”

“That’s why you should have been more thorough. How could you mess up the job like that?”

Suyeon looked up at Seungcheol, who was scolding her with a deeply furrowed brow, and said in confusion.

“I had no idea that Seok-min or whatever his name is, anyway Gu Jun-ho’s manager, would take pictures with a digital camera. I mean, how could he know I would throw my wallet into Gu Jun-ho’s car… Ugh, seriously.”

Suyeon raised her hand and irritably ran it through her hair.

“My luck is fucking terrible.”

Seungcheol’s eyes grew even colder.

“It’s not luck, it’s skill.”

“Huh?”

“If he’s a kid that Edinburgh Director Jo Mi-sook recognizes…”

Seungcheol said, furrowing his brows even more.

“Would his father be ordinary either?”

“Oppa, what should I do? Fine, let’s say I’m leaving the show.”

The PD had accepted Oh Young-il’s strong demand, and the writer was apparently working on a new script.

Something about Suk-hee dying in an unexpected accident.

“I’m really so angry that I can’t just leave like this. That bastard Gu Jun-ho, who was just doing minor roles, pushed me out, and I can’t stand to watch him film dramas and succeed.”

At this, Seungcheol’s lips twisted into a thin smile.

“No one has ever treated me that way. I’ll make them pay the price.”

Seungcheol firmly grasped Suyeon’s hand as she set down her empty glass, and his lips moved slightly.

“Our princess is very angry.”

“Of course I’m angry, how could I not be?”

Seungcheol looked at Suyeon, who was pouting, for a long moment before speaking.

“Then I guess I really need to help you properly this time.”

At this, drunk Suyeon’s eyes turned toward Seungcheol.

Seungcheol showed a dark smile.

“Since you’re getting kicked off anyway, let’s drag him down like a water ghost. How about it?”

“Water ghost?”

“You know that bastard’s weakness. He’s an unmarried father.”

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“Senior.”

Yeong-il, who was preparing for filming, turned around with an “oh” at Junho’s call.

Junho was carrying a paper bag in his hand.

“Junho, isn’t today your day off?”

“Ah, yes. I just stopped by for a moment.”

Actually, Chaea had asked Junho to do this.

She told him to make sure to express his gratitude to Yeong-il and to go greet the director and staff as well.

She said it would help him later.

She said that’s what she learned from her mother.

The PD, who was organizing something while eating the mint candies Junho had brought, said to Yeong-il.

“Our Junho really has amazing passion.”

Yeong-il glanced at Junho for a moment, then looked down at the contents of the paper bag Junho had brought.

“I heard from Uncle Yeong-il when he brought me to the film set that day that you’ve been learning golf lately.”

“These are… golf balls?”

Yeong-il, pleased with the thoughtful gift, said to Junho.

“You didn’t have to bring something like this. It’s too much.”

“I’m grateful for so many things… Please accept it.”

Looking at Junho’s face, Yeong-il raised his hand and patted his shoulder encouragingly.

“Hey, don’t worry about it. It wasn’t just for you anyway. That Suyeon girl, there were some issues with her besides you.”

Yeong-il frowned as he recalled several incidents.

While Im Su-yeon was generally well-regarded by seniors and actors of similar status, separately from that, she seemed to show behavior that wasn’t exemplary toward juniors and staff.

She had properly ruined the atmosphere in the drama they worked on together last time too.

“More than anything, this incident wasn’t something to just let slide, and if you had been falsely accused, your entire acting career could have gone wrong…”

Yeong-il shook his head.

“I stepped in because I thought it would be too risky for our sitcom, which is doing well now, to keep an actor with such an unpredictable personality that could explode at any time. The PD agreed too.”

“Still, if Senior Yeong-il hadn’t stepped in for me…”

Junho bowed his head deeply and said.

“…It really would have become very difficult.”

“Ah, don’t say things like that. Wait a minute, take some of these tangerines for Chaea.”

Yeong-il hurriedly handed Junho an entire bag of tangerines from behind him.

“They’re Jeju tangerines and they’re delicious…”

Junho received the tangerines with a faint smile.

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In the warm blankets, I watched 【Typhoon Internal Medicine】 while peeling and eating tangerines.

‘Today, even more special content is scheduled to air, so I absolutely can’t miss it.’

In the dim night, Im Su-yeon, playing Suk-hee, stands at the crosswalk.

She casually brushed her hair aside and when the green light turned on, she took one step, then another.

At that moment, a truck was rushing toward her from far away.

Munch munch-

The tangerine juice bursting in my mouth, mmm, so sweet.

Soon Suk-hee’s surprised face was shown in close-up and a horn blared with a “honk.”

Shortly after, Suk-hee’s collapsed figure was shown on the road.

Her long eyelids slowly closed.

The scene quickly changed to inside a funeral home, cross-cutting with Suk-hee’s portrait photo.

-Sob sob, Suk-hee…

Oh Young-il’s sad voice echoed.

As expected of a great actor, his crying performance was excellent.

I peeled another tangerine and focused on the screen.

-Sob… Suk-hee, if you leave like this, what am I supposed to do?

Junho’s figure secretly grieving in the background was also shown.

‘Serves you right.’

Junho’s haggard face in a black suit, with tears pooling in his sad eyes beneath his eyelids with faint double creases.

“Dad said not to watch this episode!”

Just as I was grinning at Junho’s pretty face and his clean yet heart-wrenching acting, I heard his voice from behind.

I flinched and quickly hid under the blankets, but Junho approached me and stuck his face close.

“This kind of thing is too cruel for a five-year-old to watch!”

Junho scolded me as he turned off the television.

He treats me like a genius but is strict about things like this.

“Okay, Dad.”

Soon Junho wiped the tangerine juice from the corner of my mouth with his hand and smiled faintly.

“Our Chaea should only see pretty and good things.”

At the kind words, I smiled back with a grin when ding! an alarm sound went off. I glanced over to see the white puppy Noah rushing over and holding out a bone.

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