The Chaebol Family’s Youngest Daughter Doesn’t Hide Her Acting Skills - Chapter 5

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Episode 5

Actress Seong Hye-sim only backed down after getting my number.

My aunt, who had only been exclaiming in amazement, finally spoke properly.

“When did you learn all this? Did your brother-in-law send you to acting academy or something?”

“I didn’t go to academy… I just self-studied.”

“Oh my, lies! You’re trying to fool the wrong person!”

I turned around to face my aunt with pleading eyes, asking her to believe me.

In my previous life, I hadn’t seriously studied acting at this time, but anyway.

The skills I honed through self-study until age twenty-five are still intact, so it’s not a lie.

“It’s true! I analyzed videos on InTube and reinterpreted them…”

Actress Seong Hye-sim covered her mouth at my answer. Her eyes, which had been shining all along, now seemed to spark with flames.

It was like the look a professor gives when eyeing an undergraduate student they want to select.

“No wonder there was no academy-style artificiality. Did you refine your voice projection alone too? You memorized the script quickly. That’s in the realm of talent.”

“Haha…”

“Sae-i, I’ll be direct. How about me?”

Wait, was this a blind date?

“I want you, Sae-i. If you’re thinking of working as an actress, I want to teach you.”

Teach me? That Seong Hye-sim wants to teach me?

“I have no intention of injecting artificiality or tampering with you in my own way. I just want to brush off a few grains of sand from a gold nugget.”

I clenched my hands tightly.

Following my past life, I received Seong Hye-sim’s recognition once again, and even got an offer for coaching.

‘Is there anything to think about?’

That Seong Hye-sim is offering to be my mentor. This is a golden opportunity even if I can’t eat it.

“I’d love that!”

My cheeks flushed with a sense of achievement. I placed my hands on my heated cheeks and answered excitedly.

“Then Sae-i, can you develop that ad-lib you threw in earlier?”

“Ah, yes! In what way…”

“If regret was the main emotion, you substitute a new emotion there.”

This is like asking me to make iced americano taste like coffee without the coffee.

Maybe because I’d never received acting instruction from others, it was hard to understand.

“Dohun is fed up with his mother, so he momentarily felt relief like ‘I can finally escape!’ and readily agreed to the dinner suggestion.”

“Ah!”

“Do you understand?”

After hearing more explanation, I think I’m getting the hang of it.

So she’s telling me to add more emotions and adjust the proportions. Adding something like a sense of liberation to the existing base of compassion…

I nodded vigorously.

“Good. Then show me next time we meet.”

“Oh, I… I can show you now too.”

I think I can do it?

Dohun’s final appearance was being revised in real-time in my head. It had become concrete enough that I wanted to show it quickly.

Actress Seong Hye-sim’s eyes widened. I noticed her lips twitching at the corners.

“No. Next time.”

What? I thought she’d ask me to show her.

“I want to savor it. I’m having a hard time holding back right now.”

After finishing her words, the actress hurriedly packed her things as if she needed to leave before her patience ran out.

“Oh, right.”

She handed me the script of 【Your Blue Name】 that had been on the table.

‘Why this?’

Did my puzzlement show clearly? Actress Seong Hye-sim added,

“Keep the script. I’ll arrange a casting audition for this work soon.”

What? An audition this quickly? And for a KDS drama?

“Of course, you’ll have to satisfy them too, but I don’t think that’ll be a problem.”

Without giving me a chance to ask questions, the actress left. It seemed her manager was waiting outside.

The Haewoo Atrium became quiet as if a storm had swept through and passed.

“Um, Aunt. By the way, why did you want to talk…”

I cautiously asked the reason she called me here while reading the mood.

I had readily made the appointment after receiving her contact, but my aunt wasn’t the type to call me just for casual conversation without reason.

‘She must want something from me.’

However, my aunt’s answer

“Our chairman is curious why you visited Dongwoo Museum.”

was exactly off from my expectations.

‘Our chairman?’

If it’s my aunt’s chairman, that would be Chairman Joo, my grandfather. He was curious about me?

No, he knows I went to Dongwoo Museum?

“I’ve been noticing since earlier, but all your thoughts show on your face. Just now you were thinking about how the chairman could know that, right?”

“Gasp.”

“Hey, what! Your reactions are cute? You’re completely different from your mother!”

Finding something so amusing, my aunt burst out laughing. Her clear, ringing voice reached my ears loudly.

“I reported it to Father. The daughter of the woman who took the Joo surname gets turned away at the door by my brother’s secretary? That shouldn’t happen.”

“Ah…”

“So what were you looking for so desperately at Dongwoo Museum? I’m curious about this too.”

Now we finally got to the main topic I’d been waiting for.

When my aunt asked about this topic, I planned to answer honestly and ask her to take me to the dinner party.

I told her I was looking for a script to show Grandfather.

I didn’t mention how meaningful that script was to Chairman Joo. It would be awkward if she asked how I knew that.

“Well, our chairman does quite like that sort of thing. From what I saw earlier, your skills seem fine too.”

“Then…”

“Clear your entire schedule that day. I need to take you around to shops.”

It worked!

‘Actress Seong Hye-sim, and the dinner party…’

The efficiency is absolutely insane!

I cheered inwardly. A humming tune came out naturally.

My aunt watched me with interest, then took out a check from her wallet and handed it to me.

“Father says you’re at an age when you’d be lonely, but I have a different opinion. You’re at the peak age of needing money, right kids?”

What? Can I really accept this?

“This is for you. Let’s say it’s payment for showing good acting.”

My aunt pressed the check into my palm so I couldn’t escape and laughed heartily.

***

The SUV carrying Seong Hye-sim exited the Atrium VIP parking lot.

Seong Hye-sim tapped her phone a couple times and brought the screen to her cheek. The dial tone rang.

-Actress Seong~ Did you meet well with Haeum’s Jeong-hee? How was it, did you choose a script with Jeong-hee’s eye?

It was Song Representative from the management company Seong Hye-sim belonged to.

“Yeah, oppa. There was an unexpected harvest too.”

-Harvest?

“First, tell them I’m joining ‘Your Blue Name.'”

The sound of Song Representative clapping like a seal could be heard through the receiver.

-You, you! You made such a fuss about quitting acting! Finally! You overcame it! Wait, is it really okay? Really?

“More than okay. I want to act right now.”

Hye-sim adjusted her grip on the phone and smiled meaningfully. Soon she brought up the main point.

“If possible, I want to attach one condition to joining.”

-Of course! How can I help you?

“The actor I recommended, let’s have her audition for my daughter’s role.”

-Okay, no, wait… Hyesim? If it’s your daughter… I mean…

Representative Song stammered as if flustered.

“The female lead, of course.”

Hyesim intended to push Ju Sae-i as the lead actress for ‘Your Blue Name.’

***

The day of the dinner party.

From early morning, Joo Jeong-hui went to find Sae-i, bringing a driver along.

Sae-i’s father, Han Junho, awkwardly exchanged greetings with his sister-in-law whom he hadn’t seen in years. Since Sae-i had explained the situation beforehand, there was no incident of him fainting from shock.

At the shop, Joo Jeong-hui dressed Sae-i in clothes selected from a catalog she had prepared in advance.

‘I thought it would look strange, but it’s surprisingly good.’

The moment she looked in the mirror, Sae-i acknowledged her aunt’s eye for fashion. She wasn’t the number one in the business world for department stores, fashion, and arts for nothing.

Armed in both appearance and spirit, she passed through the main gate where security guards were stationed and headed toward Jaedam Jae’s courtyard.

‘Why is she here…!’

Ju Suduk recognized Sae-i as she entered the garden. His and his daughter Ju Suyeon’s expressions visibly wavered.

While Joo Jeong-hui exchanged greetings with acquaintances, Sae-i moved away from her aunt’s side.

She had only come to the party to meet her grandfather, not to attract attention from the business circle members present.

Sae-i stepped up onto the wooden deck, avoiding others’ gazes.

‘Everyone has a partner.’

Hiding behind a pillar somehow made her feel bitter. While everyone was laughing happily, her own feelings of coming here while plotting ways not to die felt miserable.

Sae-i let out a deep sigh. Just as she was quietly waiting for Chairman Joo’s entrance.

“…Hey.”

An irritated low voice rang out from above Sae-i’s head.

That’s strange. I checked that there was no one around here…

“What are you?”

At the second call, Sae-i flinched. Thinking he might be calling her, she turned around, and there was…

“What are you doing here?”

A build large enough to cast a shadow over all of Sae-i, with black hair. Slightly upturned eyes and clean-cut lips. Pupils so black their depth was unimaginable.

‘Huh?’

Ju Sae-i immediately recognized the man before her.

“When someone asks you a question.”

Ryu Dokyung, grandson of Chairman Ryu of Seohe Group.

“You should answer nicely.”

He was the person Ju Suduk had his eye on as a son-in-law,

“Isn’t that right, Ju Sae-i?”

and Sae-i’s childhood crush.

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