The Chaebol Family’s Youngest Daughter Doesn’t Hide Her Acting Skills - Chapter 58

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Episode 58

 

Ju Suyeon kept glaring at me.

 

“…You really are.”

 

“What?”

 

“You look a lot like your father. A whole lot.”

 

“Is that an insult?”

 

She says I look like Father and I ask if that’s an insult. I’d be happy if someone said I looked like our father. Our father is handsome and smart – he got into the legal team through his own abilities.

 

Ju Suyeon’s brow furrowed deeply.

 

“And why are you bringing up Father? Don’t change the subject.”

 

“Just because you’re similar.”

 

“I don’t care, you need to know your place properly. Dokyung oppa is the heir to Seohe Group, and you are…”

 

“Ju Suyeon.”

 

I cut off her words abruptly.

 

You should know how lucky you are. I just stopped you from delivering the kind of lines a third-rate supporting character in a morning drama would say.

 

“You’re the one who should be careful, Suyeon. The world is small.”

 

“Ha, now you’re even making threats?”

 

Ju Suyeon snorted, but I wasn’t shaken. In my mind, the contents of the file Park Secretary had handed me recently came back clearly.

 

[Report on Ju Suyeon’s Associates and Notable Incidents]

 

The contents of that file were truly shocking.

 

A social gathering of chaebol children? No, that was a playground for beasts. And Ju Suyeon was at the center of it.

 

“Don’t you remember? In middle school.”

 

“…What?”

 

“When someone didn’t accept your confession, you made them into a fool so they couldn’t attend school anymore. You led the bullying and tormented them.”

 

Ju Suyeon’s pupils trembled slightly. I didn’t miss that opening and drove the wedge deeper.

 

“You did the same to Seong-ha, didn’t you?”

 

“…!”

 

Ju Suyeon’s face turned pale in an instant.

 

Woon Seong-ha, my friend.

 

Just because he rejected her confession, Ju Suyeon had thoroughly trampled him. Spreading rumors about his family situation everywhere.

 

“You, how did you…”

 

She must be wondering how someone like me found out about something she definitely buried using Uncle’s money.

 

Suyeon, you don’t know this.

 

One of the classmates you bullied eventually took their own life. Not now, but in the future I lived through.

 

Back then it was only revealed as an anonymous chaebol child, so I wondered who it was, but looking at the report contents, it was clearly your doing.

 

You killed someone.

 

“That gang you used to hang around with back then. There’s even one among them who’s currently active as a child actor. Are you still in contact with them?”

 

“…Hey!”

 

“This industry is small. There are no eternal secrets.”

 

Ju Suyeon’s body trembled. She must be annoyed but have nothing particular to say. Because everything I said was true.

 

“So keep it moderate. You never know when the things you did in the past will come back to bite you.”

 

“Are you crazy? Won’t you shut your mouth?”

 

Ju Suyeon screamed and tried to rush at me, but I turned away coldly.

 

“Don’t yell. My head is ringing.”

 

My head really is ringing. I’m sick, you know. I haven’t even taken my medicine yet, so please…

 

I closed the door right in Ju Suyeon’s face and locked it completely. I could hear rough breathing from outside the door as she fumed, unable to calm her anger.

 

‘Yes, be anxious like that.’

 

Just like your father did to me. In this life, I’ll slowly and surely tighten the noose around you all.

 

I closed my eyes while pouring medicine into my trembling hands. My heart, which had grown loose, tightened again with thoughts of revenge.

 

***

 

From Monday morning, a hot topic emerged in online communities.

 

The official casting lineup for the new work by Choi Gi-yeong, the older sister of the ‘Choi Sisters’ who control Korea’s drama industry, was revealed.

 

The male lead was Dojehyeon, who had already surpassed child actor status to become a top-tier actor.

 

Up to this point, it was what everyone expected.

 

However, the female lead whose name appeared alongside his was an unexpected choice, unless you were a drama enthusiast who had already encountered casting spoilers.

 

[Entertainment] Dojehyeon’s Next Project, Choi Gi-yeong’s Choice is Rookie Actor Ju Sae-i… ‘Shocking Casting’

 

[Chanran Daily/Reporter Chae]

 

The veil has been lifted on <Sanshin-nim’s Blessing>, the new work by writer Choi Gi-yeong, known as having the ‘Midas touch,’ ahead of its release. With Dojehyeon announced as the male lead, news that rookie actor Ju Sae-i has been cast as the female lead ‘So Ji-min’ is drawing attention from the broadcasting industry.

 

(Omitted)

 

The production company stated, “Ju Sae-i was writer Choi Gi-yeong’s inspiration itself.” However, concerns are being raised about whether a rookie with virtually no filmography can carry the production.

 

(Continued)

 

As soon as the article was published, various communities and social media heated up instantly. The reaction was cold. Sharp words mixing skepticism and disappointment about the female lead casting dominated, rather than anticipation.

 

There was outcry about mixing an unverified ‘nobody’ rookie into the combination of current top-tier actor Dojehyeon and hit-making writer.

 

[Wow, Choi Gi-yeong’s new work female lead is out, who is this?]

 

Since it’s Dojehyeon, I naturally thought his co-star would be a somewhat known actor too, but Ju Sae-i?

 

Looking at her filmography, there’s Choi Gi-jeong in upcoming works, but are the Choi sisters crazy to use a rookie?

 

[Comments: 82]

 

-Who is Jusaei? Seriously never heard of them before lmao do they have connections or something?

 

-Wow.. I had high expectations since it’s Do Je-hyun’s next work, but it really stinks. Seriously, Do Je-hyun needs to grab it by the collar and drag it along

 

-But it’s not even 16 episodes, they’re releasing it on Intube like a web drama and broadcasting it on TV like a special, so maybe it’s better not to expect much

 

Right when malicious comments were being generated in real time saying she must have connections, and that they wouldn’t stand for it if the female lead was a weak link in Dojehyeon’s starring work, something happened.

 

A video was uploaded to KDS’s official drama channel.

 

It was a special teaser for the drama about to air, <Your Blue Name>.

 

[Special Teaser] ‘Was it you I left behind that summer’ Dojehyeon X Ju Sae-i, Heart-wrenching Youth Romance😭│#YourBlueName #KDSDrama

 

Under the dazzling summer sunlight, the peaceful scenery of Oksongri with cicadas chirping unfolded in the video.

 

The boy Yu Hajin, hiding behind a wall, was secretly watching a girl standing next to a moving truck. It was the girl who had just come down from Seoul, Yeon Doyeon.

 

-A girl my age who came from Seoul. I had never seen anyone so pale and pretty in my life.

 

Hajin’s narration was laid over the footage showing Doyeon.

 

The scene changed and rain poured down heavily. Doyeon, looking fierce, snapped at Hajin who was hovering around her.

 

“What are you to be hovering around? Because of rumors that our mother is crazy? So you came to gawk?”

 

When Hajin was flustered and couldn’t say anything, Doyeon explosively poured out her pent-up grief.

 

“Why won’t they just leave us alone, why! Does anyone think I wanted to come here, to this slum-like neighborhood!”

 

Soon the atmosphere reversed and sweet background music flowed. Scenes passed of the two riding bicycles and lying side by side on a wooden platform under a large tree, enjoying summer.

 

The sound of their affectionate conversation was overlaid on the screen.

 

“Doyeon, Yeon Doyeon.”

 

Doyeon responded shyly and gruffly.

 

“Why do you keep calling me like that…”

 

“Because your name is pretty. It’s just like fresh green.”

 

Hajin spoke with laughter in his voice.

 

Soon the music cut off abruptly and a moving truck driving away was shown. Showing the eyes of young Doyeon looking out the window, Doyeon’s voice was overlaid.

 

-Leaving my first love in Oksongri, I returned to Seoul again. For Mother’s sake. For the life Mother wanted for me.

 

The screen transitioned.

 

A man’s feet wearing new sneakers were shown in close-up. As the camera slowly moved up, adult Yu Hajin with sunken eyes was staring somewhere. He murmured lowly.

 

“Found you, Yeon Doyeon.”

 

On the blackened screen, the title logo of Your Blue Name and the KDS Drama Department mark appeared.

 

A short video of just about 1 minute and 30 seconds.

 

But its impact was enormous. The fingers of people who had come in doubting Ju Sae-i’s acting ability stopped.

 

Everyone held their breath and was absorbed for the entire 1 minute and 30 seconds by the overwhelming atmosphere conveyed through the screen and the deep eye acting uncharacteristic of a rookie.

 

Criticism turned to amazement, and amazement soon turned to praise. The public opinion that had mocked the Choi sisters’ reckless challenge was overturned in an instant.

 

[Did anyone just watch the newly released Choi Gi-jeong work youth teaser????]

 

All you guys who dissed the Sanshin’s Blessing female lead as a nobody, go watch it..

 

Just watched the teaser and got goosebumps;;;

 

It’s a teaser with child actor scenes edited together with Dojehyeon and it’s insane

 

[Comments: 93]

 

-Holy shit… there was a reason the Choi sisters picked her lololol

 

-Wow the Choi sisters’ eye for talent is crazy, she’s just perfect??????

 

-A girl the same age who came from Seoul.. it was the first time in my life seeing someone so pale and pretty【The melodrama male lead obsessive comment fits perfectly and when a female lead with exactly that image appears, it all makes sense lol</p】

-I take back what I said earlier. With that face and that acting, I acknowledge the Choi sisters’ pick lololol buying stocks starting today

 

-Wow I had no idea there was such controversy and just watched it, but she’s amazing? Even just from the teaser, her diction is so good it’s shocking..

 

And so, actress Ju Sae-i’s name, now freed from disgrace, began to be etched into the world.

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