The Granddaughter of a Chaebol Family Is a Genius Child Actress - Chapter 1

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A Conglomerate Heiress and Child Acting Prodigy
Episode 1
[The Truth About Child Actress Seo Yu-jin (+999)]
[She’s in the same class as me, and every time I see her pretending to be so sweet on TV I feel like throwing up lol. When she comes to school she’s always tired so she just plugs in her earphones and sleeps on her desk, and if anyone makes even a little noise she starts screaming that it’s too loud and she’s so annoying ugh. Even when it was her turn to clean she dumped all the work on kids who wouldn’t push back and just left in a manager’s car lolol]
“…….”
My hands gripping the mobile phone trembled uncontrollably.
In the darkness of my room, I read the message again—the same one I’d already pored over dozens of times.
The bright screen burned my eyes, but I couldn’t look away.
‘Did I really…… do something like that?’
For days now, I’d been second-guessing my own memories.
What if I had actually done these things? What if somehow, impossibly, I had?
But no matter how hard I tried to remember, I knew I’d never done any of it.
It was true that I’d fallen asleep on my desk at school because of late-night shoots.
But I’d never—not once, not ever—raised my voice at anyone or pushed my work onto them.
When friends tried to talk to me, I always made myself smile back, even when exhaustion dragged at my bones.
[Child Actress Seo Yu-jin: Exposé Post Proven False…… Company to Respond Appropriately]
-She got a taste of money when she was young and it’s gone to her head lolololol
-I didn’t think she was like that. Honestly gives me chills. I don’t want to see her on TV again.
-She’s only in sixth grade and already like this? She’ll be a nightmare when she grows up. Blacklist her from the entertainment industry permanently.
But no matter how many times I tried to explain, people wouldn’t listen.
It was as if they’d never cared about what I had to say in the first place.
In a single day, I’d become the worst child in the world.
“This is all your fault for raising her wrong! I’ve told you a hundred times—she should quit school entirely!”
“You think I want to make her quit? She keeps pestering me with all this compulsory education nonsense, what am I supposed to do!”
“…….”
My parents’ shouting bled through the gap in my door again.
I buried my face in the damp pillow and pressed both hands hard against my ears.
I pushed so hard my palms ached, but their voices cut through the door seam, clear and merciless.
……I didn’t want to hear it.
I couldn’t bear to hear it anymore.
“……Hic.”
How had everything fallen apart like this?
I’d only ever wanted our family to be happy.
“Yu-jin, you can do this, right? Our Yu-jin does everything so well.”
“……Yes, Mother.”
I still remembered vividly the day I stood before a camera for the first time.
My mother gripped my trembling hand so tightly it hurt, and she told me
that if I became famous on television and earned a lot of money, our family could be so much happier.
“Hello, my name is Seo Yu-jin!”
That first moment remained crystal clear in my mind.
The lights in the Audition Hall were so bright and harsh they made my eyes water, and I was terrified of all the eyes watching me.
But I pushed down the fear and forced my lips to curve upward.
Because I had to smile for our family to be happy.
“What about that money? You actually invested all of it? Are you insane?”
“What? It’s my daughter’s money—I’ll spend it how I please!”
“Your daughter? Since when was Yu-jin your daughter! I’m the one who carried her, I’m the one who gave birth to her!”
But contrary to what I’d hoped, our family never became happy.
As time wore on, my parents’ eyes grew colder and more frightening.
At some point, every night brought the sound of breaking things and screaming from their bedroom.
Fear made tears threaten to spill every single day, but I held them back and opened my Script.
‘I have to work harder.’
If I became even more famous than I was now.
If I earned enough money to pile up like mountains and made my parents rich, then they’d stop fighting, wouldn’t they?
“Wow, how does someone so young act like that?”
“I’m telling you, our Yu-jin is going to be a truly great actor who shakes the nation to its core.”
I memorized my lines even when sleeplessness made my nose bleed, and I gave up playing at the playground.
As years passed, my face appeared on television, my smile plastered across billboards everywhere.
But it all came crashing down in a single day.
[Child Actress Seo Yu-jin Disrespects Classmates and Makes Abusive Comments? The Dark Side of the Nation’s Little Sister]
[Two Faces of the Child Acting Prodigy? Seo Yu-jin School Bullying Exposé Spreads Like Wildfire…… “Treated Classmates Like Servants”]
Malicious comments pouring in, talk of breach of contract penalties, parents throwing things at each other every single day.
But that wasn’t what frightened me most.
What I feared most right now was…….
“You, you insane woman!”
“Ahhh!”
“……!”
That was when it happened.
A sharp scream echoed from the living room.
It was Mom’s voice.
‘No, this can’t be……’
Dad was definitely doing something terrible to Mom again.
I yanked open my bedroom door and bolted out.
And when I saw what lay before me, I gasped, my breath catching in my throat.
“No, Mom……!”
A harsh, acrid smell of liquor pierced the air.
Dad’s face flushed crimson, he loomed over Mom who had crumpled to the floor, brandishing a glass liquor bottle overhead.
“No, not this. Mom!”
The moment the bottle swung toward Mom, I lunged forward and positioned myself between them.
Crack—!
“……Ugh!”
“Yu, Yu-jin!”
A dull thud, and then searing pain flooded through me.
My vision flashed white before the world went dark.
“Are you insane?! What are you doing to your daughter?!”
“If you hadn’t spouted all that nonsense, I wouldn’t have done this!”
“What? Even now it’s my fault?”
“…….”
When I came to, everything before my eyes was red.
I realized warm, sticky blood was trickling down my forehead.
Strangely, it didn’t hurt.
Everything just felt numb and distant.
‘Mom, Dad……’
My lips moved soundlessly.
Through my blurred vision, I could see my parents.
They were still gripping each other by the collar, screaming like madmen.
‘……Ah.’
I’m dying.
Death.
A word I’d never truly considered became reality in an instant.
Yet strangely, I felt no fear.
Rather, as my parents’ screams grew fainter, I felt increasingly at peace.
“…….”
But still.
There was one thing that made me sad, one thing I regretted.
[What do you regret?]
Then, from somewhere, a small, faint voice reached me.
Even as darkness crept into my vision, I answered as if entranced, in my heart.
‘……Never getting to act again.’
Even if everyone cursed me, even if Mom and Dad fought, what I truly feared most was this.
At first, acting was something I started for our family’s happiness.
But gradually, acting became something different to me.
‘Why is this character smiling here?’
‘What expression should I wear so this character’s heart shows through?’
I loved the time spent pondering as I read scripts filled with black letters.
And I loved even more the moment when I expressed those emotions I’d figured out.
“Wow, Yu-jin. Did you come up with that expression yourself?”
“Yes, Director. Was it strange……?”
“Strange? No way! Ha, truly. Our Yu-jin is so clever, isn’t she?”
When I showed the director what I’d prepared, and she smiled—my heart would flutter with joy.
When I was acting, I could truly be happy.
‘So this is it. I really can’t do it anymore…….’
That single fact alone remained as my only lingering regret.
My body grew lighter, strength draining away.
Keeping my eyes open became too difficult, and they fluttered shut.
In that moment, everything was sinking completely into darkness.
[Don’t give up just yet!]
‘……?’
[Very well then. In that case…… I, this fox deity, shall lend you my aid!]
Even as my consciousness faded, the voice came through with perfect clarity.
Before I could even comprehend its meaning, I lost consciousness entirely.
The Conglomerate Heiress Is a Child Prodigy Actress
Author: Carrot Taste Cookie
Published by: Feelyeon Management
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