Chapter 69
Chapter 69
Translator: Penny
Chapter 69
The total filming period for <2 Days & 3 Nights> is, as the name suggests, 2 nights and 3 days.
The cameras keep rolling for the three days that the cast and crew stay at the filming location.
Even the cast members waking up in their respective accommodations is filmed.
This is due to the 'wake-up mission,' one of the main sources of fun in <2 Days & 3 Nights>.
However, in most cases, the wake-up time is set around 8 a.m.
Waking up the cast members too early could affect their condition.
Forcibly waking up soundly sleeping cast members and conducting a wake-up mission early in the morning would do more harm than good.
No matter how much the cast members of <2 Days & 3 Nights> have experienced, they are still human.
It was necessary to consider allowing them to fully recover from the fatigue accumulated from the previous day's filming.
Since it was a three-day continuous shoot, unlike other variety shows that film for only one day, the cast members' condition had to be normal in order to produce higher quality footage.
Therefore.
Lee Ha-eun rustling and coming out of her tent at 6:30 a.m. was.
"...Huh? Isn't that Ha-eun?"
"It's not even 7 yet. Why is she already awake?"
It was enough to slightly embarrass the staff who had just started preparing for the wake-up mission.
Among the guests who had appeared on <2 Days & 3 Nights> so far, no one had ever woken up at such an early hour.
After all, filming variety shows from early in the morning until late at night was bound to exhaust even veteran entertainers.
Nevertheless, for some reason, Lee Ha-eun didn't seem tired.
No, it would be more accurate to say that she looked rather refreshed.
"Um, Ha-eun. Aren't you tired? Are you sure you don't want to sleep more?"
"Yes. I'm fine."
Clear eyes.
A voice that wasn't even slightly hoarse.
Decisively, beautiful skin that didn't show even a speck of puffiness.
'Age is a weapon, they say.'
Made the staff who faced Lee Ha-eun judge that her condition was normal.
It was after that that the staff in charge of Lee Ha-eun became a little more flustered.
"Eun-seong, get the camera. Ha-eun is up."
"Huh? Already?"
"Yeah. Already."
As a result, Kwak Eun-seong VJ, the VJ in charge of Lee Ha-eun, had to shoulder the camera from the early hour of 6:40 a.m.
In addition, it was also his role to interview her about being the first of the <2 Days & 3 Nights> cast members to wake up.
"Do you usually wake up this early, Ha-eun?"
He approached Lee Ha-eun, who was stretching alone in the middle of the filming location, and spoke in a friendly tone.
And, one thing he had momentarily forgotten until then.
"I have to go to school. I have to wake up early and prepare in advance so I'm not late."
'Ah, right.'
Unlike the other adult cast members, Lee Ha-eun is still an 18-year-old high school student.
There had to be a reason why she usually had to wake up early.
However, the fact that she woke up on her own at this early hour to prepare for school could also be a story in itself.
After that, he continued the interview by asking questions about Lee Ha-eun's daily life.
One way or another, the daily lives of celebrities like Lee Ha-eun are one of the things that viewers of <2 Days & 3 Nights> are curious about.
Above all, Lee Ha-eun was the first high school guest.
"How's studying? Isn't it hard to juggle with acting?"
"It's not that it's not hard at all. But studying is as fun as acting."
"Oh, that's what people who are good at studying usually say. You must be good at studying, Ha-eun."
"I'm not that good. I just do enough so that my parents don't scold me."
He tried to make the most of Lee Ha-eun's character as a 'high school student actress.'
The high school life of a working actress was a story that only Lee Ha-eun could tell.
She wasn't particularly shy, so it was easy to talk to her.
There were no particular interruptions or awkwardness in the progress of Lee Ha-eun's personal story.
Is it because she's a celebrity after all?
"How do your teachers treat you?"
"They're very considerate of me. Once in a while, they talk about the works I've appeared in and say they enjoyed watching them."
"Then, would you like to leave a video message for your teachers?"
"Um... I'm always grateful. Oh, I'd be even more grateful if you could watch the live broadcast of ."
She knew how to speak in a way that was easy to understand.
At the same time, she knew how to make it sound good.
Thanks to that, they had secured enough footage.
Therefore.
"The wake-up music will be playing at 8 a.m., so how about going to the wake-up mission location in advance before the others wake up?"
He ended the interview by turning Lee Ha-eun's attention to the wake-up mission.
The problem was that almost at the same time, Lee Ha-eun started running at full speed towards the wake-up mission location that could be seen in the distance.
Thanks to that, Kwak Eun-seong VJ also had to quickly follow Lee Ha-eun while carrying the camera for filming.
Throughout the mad dash, he deeply regretted mentioning the existence of the wake-up mission, which Lee Ha-eun had momentarily forgotten.
The wake-up music resounded throughout the entire <2 Days & 3 Nights> filming location immediately after Lee Ha-eun and Kwak Eun-seong VJ arrived at the wake-up mission location.
[ Bba bba...↗bba↘ Bba bba...↗ Good! Mor! Ning~ ]
With the wake-up music that you couldn't bear not to open your eyes to as background music, she took the elephant trunk position.
She then started spinning in place to perform the wake-up mission, .
Something Lee Ha-eun had never done in her 18 years of life.
Nevertheless, with the single-minded determination to get a high score, she rotated 5 times and then lifted the shuttlecock as it was and kicked it 3 times.
"Lee Ha-eun! Success!"
And so, after finally succeeding in the wake-up mission faster than anyone else, she collapsed.
After that, she sat on a makeshift chair placed in one corner of the filming location and simply watched the other cast members running from over there with leisure.
"Since Ha-eun was the first to succeed in the wake-up mission, let's have her pick first."
"Ah, yes."
The time was right after the morning wake-up mission and breakfast were finished.
A lottery was held to determine the amount of watermelons that the <2 Days & 3 Nights> cast members had to harvest.
After that, all the cast members picked their respective lots and at the same time, one, two, three.
At Jang Seongho's signal, they unfolded the lots they had each picked all at once.
'One cart... is that a small amount?'
The amount of watermelon harvest written in the lot Lee Ha-eun picked was one cart.
However, since she had never harvested watermelons before.
She had no idea how much a cart of watermelons was.
For now, it was true that it was a small harvest amount compared to the target harvest amounts of the other cast members.
Yoo Sung-jae's face, who had picked the maximum amount of five carts, was the epitome of despair.
"Sung-jae, you know we don't do fake, right?"
"You're indirectly saying you want to see my wrist break."
"Oh, Sung-jae, you knew how to read minds too?"
"...I shouldn't have said anything."
After that, Yoo Sung-jae shook his head at Jang Seongho and finally moved his steps towards the vast watermelon field.
The other cast members also put on their work gloves and headed to the watermelon field one by one.
One way or another, it was impossible to know how much Lee Ha-eun's one cart was until they actually harvested the watermelons.
Therefore, Lee Ha-eun also put on the rough work gloves and entered the watermelon field.
It was right after that that Jang Seongho, who was over there, shouted at Lee Ha-eun not to overdo it.
"You can't break your wrist─! If it's heavy, be sure to ask for help─!"
Finally, after nodding at Jang Seongho, she reached out to the watermelons scattered in all directions for the first time.
And, surprised by the weight that was unexpectedly bearable, she wondered if they were unripe watermelons.
"Um, writer. Are the watermelons here all ripe?"
She turned her head towards the writer in charge of Lee Ha-eun to check if it was necessary to check the ripeness of the watermelons.
Nevertheless, the answer that came back was that all the watermelons around Lee Ha-eun were all ripe watermelons.
"The field owner said that all the watermelons are already ripe."
After finally hearing the official word from the expert, she couldn't ask any more questions.
After that, she carried and carried watermelons until one cart was full.
"Is this about one cart?"
"If you fill it up more than this, it'll spill, Ha-eun. If you take it to the truck as it is, the mission is complete."
As a result, Lee Ha-eun harvested a total of 10 watermelons.
It felt like it ended incredibly early, but one way or another, since it was over, it was over.
"Good job, Ha-eun. Mission complete."
Following the wake-up mission this morning, she won first place once again.
However, she couldn't leave the vast watermelon field.
The exhausted appearance of Yoo Sung-jae, who had only harvested two carts, kept catching her eye.
It wasn't just Lee Ha-eun, but also the other cast members such as Jang Seongho and Im Nam-soo who were concerned about Yoo Sung-jae, who had to harvest a total of five carts.
In the end, after achieving their respective target harvest amounts, everyone started helping Yoo Sung-jae.
Was that why?
"Um, PD. Is it against the rules to help other people?"
"That's up to you, Ha-eun. We won't give you any disadvantages or anything."
Lee Ha-eun also stepped up to help Yoo Sung-jae like the other cast members.
There was also the intention to capture the two main actors of , Lee Ha-eun and Yoo Sung-jae, in one angle.
After all, in order to promote , Lee Ha-eun and Yoo Sung-jae's footage had to be secured centrally.
This was a fact that the staff of <2 Days & 3 Nights> also knew well.
Therefore.
"Tell Nam-soo to move to the side just a little bit. Make sure that only Ha-eun and Sung-jae are captured as much as possible."
"Can you tell Eun-seong VJ to capture the angle a little wider? Lee Ha-eun's face isn't coming out well."
"Ah, the picture is good now. We can send that angle as it is in the trailer."
Filming adjustment instructions considering the promotion of were issued several times.
It was about 30 minutes later that all the watermelon harvests, including Yoo Sung-jae's five carts, were finished.
However, contrary to Lee Ha-eun's expectation that they would select the penalty recipient right after finishing the watermelon harvest.
With Jang Seongho's comment that there was someone they had to meet before selecting the penalty recipient, everyone started walking somewhere.
They walked and walked and arrived at a rural house near the watermelon field.
To be exact, a small detached house where the owner of the watermelons that the <2 Days & 3 Nights> cast members had harvested a little while ago lived.
"We're here, elder~."
Jang Seongho's voice became more polite.
What responded to this was the sound of an old man's limping footsteps and a cracked voice.
"Aigoo, I told you not to come. I'm so sorry for asking you to take care of my watermelons..."
"Hey, you still have to accept our greetings, elder. Everyone here came to help you."
A wrinkled face.
A thick compression bandage wrapped around the waist.
Decisively, the crutch that he was barely supporting himself with with his skinny arms.
Made Lee Ha-eun belatedly guess the real reason why the cast members of <2 Days & 3 Nights> had to harvest so many watermelons.
"How could you lift those heavy things with those frail hands. Weren't they heavy, dear?"
"Ah... ...No. They weren't heavy at all."
A gaze in which the sorry and admirable feelings towards Lee Ha-eun were turbidly mixed.
Wrinkled palms that folded and held Lee Ha-eun's two hands.
A faint voice that could only be barely understood if she concentrated.
Just facing him made her feel a strange sensation.
Such a strange sensation that she had never felt in her life.
Nevertheless, she couldn't show such a strange sensation on the outside, so she forced a smile.
There was no point in being confused, as it would only embarrass the old man standing in front of Lee Ha-eun.
"Thanks to you, I had a good experience. Thank you."
"Aigoo, I should be the one thanking you."
It was right after that that Jang Seongho, who had been silently watching the conversation between Lee Ha-eun and the old man for a while, opened his mouth.
"Elder. In your opinion, who should fall into the cool valley water?"
"Huh? Why fall into the valley water?"
"You sweated a lot harvesting watermelons, elder. You have to cool off the sweat with cool valley water."
"Ah, was that it? That's right, if you sweat, you have to fall into the valley."
The last comment that they could only pick two people was soon added.
And so, the penalty recipients of the day chosen by the old man, who looked at the faces of the <2 Days & 3 Nights> cast members one by one in order.
"Seongho and this dear. Looking at it, these two people suffered the most."
Jang Seongho and Lee Ha-eun.
In other words, the people who the old man thought had worked the hardest today.
There was no malice included in this choice of the old man.
He had simply designated them as the people to enter the valley because he sincerely acknowledged Jang Seongho and Lee Ha-eun's hard work.
It would be a lie to say that she wasn't even slightly embarrassed by this.
But this time again, she couldn't show it. Absolutely.
Not long after that, a group photo time began.
Lee Ha-eun, who was standing right next to the old man at some point, smiled at the PD's filming signal while holding the camera.
After coming out of the old man's house, she immediately took out her cell phone.
Then, she called Ju Jeong-yun, who was waiting in the parking lot near the filming location.
"...I'm going into the water, unnie."
[ Huh? Really? How come? ]
"Because I worked hard harvesting watermelons."
[ Huh? ]
She didn't give any further explanation.
After all, it was a sensation that Lee Ha-eun herself couldn't explain.
However, because a subtle smile didn't leave Lee Ha-eun's face.
She didn't deny that this sensation was a good one.
And so, she walked and walked again and arrived at a valley located in the mountain behind the watermelon field.
In front of that long valley that would decorate the last highlight of the day, Lee Ha-eun.
-Splash!
Jumped towards the center of the valley at the same time as Jang Seongho, the other penalty recipient, and volunteered to become a drowned rat herself.
To be honest, it was colder than she had expected.
"How is it, Ha-eun? The feeling is very different from watching it on TV and actually entering the water, right?"
Yoo Sung-jae's voice, which contained a trace of mischief.
In response, Lee Ha-eun slightly turned her head instead of answering.
"Um, didn't you definitely say yesterday that you would make Sung-jae enter the water?"
"Ah, that's right."
She said to Jang Seongho right next to her that she wanted Yoo Sung-jae to become a drowned rat as well.
It was right after that that Yoo Sung-jae's arms were restrained by Jang Seongho and Im Nam-soo.
"N, no way! I don't have to receive the penalty!!"
"You talk too much, Sung-jae~. Go nicely~."
And so, splash.
Yoo Sung-jae, who was thrown into the deepest part of the valley, barely surfaced with a shrill scream.
After that, he waited for Ju Jeong-yun to arrive while covering his whole body with a thick towel.
However, because the previous strange sensation continued to stir in Lee Ha-eun's heart.
"Ha-eun. You felt good when you heard the words of gratitude from the elder earlier, right?"
"Yes."
"You honestly weren't that upset even when you were chosen as the penalty recipient, right?"
"Yes. I wasn't upset."
She continued to nod at Jang Seongho's questions that were subtly heard right next to Lee Ha-eun.
"Originally, helping others is bound to be a good thing. So, be sure to help the people you can help, Ha-eun."
A request worthy of a person with the nickname 'Angel of Donation.'
In response, she nodded once again and promised to help the people Lee Ha-eun could help.
Ju Jeong-yun finally arrived right after that.
As expected, she immediately took out her cell phone and tried to take a picture of Lee Ha-eun, who was wet from head to toe.
"Oh? Are you trying to take a picture of me too?"
"Ah, no... That's, well..."
"Oh, it's okay. These are all appearances that will be broadcasted anyway."
Because of the existence of Jang Seongho, who was still remaining next to Lee Ha-eun, she ultimately couldn't leave behind even a single picture.
She was so overwhelmed just by making eye contact that she couldn't even take out the s of picture.
"T, th, Ha-eun. Let's go change clothes..."
"Yes."
It was a little later that Lee Ha-eun, who had become completely fluffy, returned to the camera again.
After that, she spent time telling the other cast members various episodes related to the filming of .
The time was already late at night.
Since she had already received the penalty of entering the water, she wasn't given penalties such as sleeping outdoors.
And so, as soon as she lay down on the soft blanket, she immediately fell asleep.
Perhaps because so many things had happened during the day, she fell into a deep sleep in which she couldn't even remember her dreams.
"Okay, I'll hit the slate─"
"Stop. When there's a guest, the guest has to hit the slate."
Soon, Jang Seongho's encouragement or request for Lee Ha-eun, who was a guest, to hit the slate was heard by Lee Ha-eun.
And so, finally, clap.
A round of applause signaling the end of the long filming that had continued for 2 nights and 3 days resounded around her.
"Good job, everyone~."
"Good job~."
Ordinary farewell greetings.
And, the storage of extraordinary contact information.
"Contact me anytime if you miss me~."
How many people in this Republic of Korea would actually have the contact information of a celebrity like Jang Seongho?
It had been well over 10 years since Ha-eun had set foot in the entertainment industry, but she still felt detached from reality every time she received contact information from other celebrities like this.
Anyway, the filming for <2 Days 3 Nights> was finally over.
She wanted to head home as quickly as possible and start her Virtual Youtuber broadcast, which she hadn't been able to do for the long three days.
The problem was.
"That is, Ha-eun. I've been debating whether to tell you or not... but I think I should at least say something."
"?"
"We got a casting offer. Not for actress Lee Ha-eun, but for singer Pinokio (Pinocchio)."
The name, which she hadn't used in quite some time, rang in Ha-eun's ears.
After hearing more of the details from Ju Jeong-yun, she couldn't rashly say anything.
"They want Ha-eun, you know, Pinokio (Pinocchio), to help them."
"...Let's go meet the guys first. I think we need to talk about this in person."
📝 Translator’s Note:
You may notice that certain lines or phrases in this novel appear both in their original Korean (or Hanja) form and in English translation.
This is intentional — these phrases are classical idioms, divine titles, or poetic expressions that carry layered meanings.
To preserve their original tone and authenticity, the raw text has been kept for reference, while the English interpretation is provided right before or after it. This helps convey both the literal and cultural nuance of the original work.
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