That Kind of Back View Isn't Impressive
I didn't remember anything from before the age of 8. This was something I had to accept, regardless of whether I was smart or not.
Before the age of 8, children's memories are volatile, and they naturally fade as they grow older.
Of course, even for events before the age of 8, they remember shocking events or incredibly wonderful experiences, but research shows that this is closer to emotional imprinting than actual memory.
If that's the case, I must have had a first day at the orphanage, but I imagine it wasn't a particularly special event in my life.
It's not important even now.
So, being smart, and being an aide, holding even a small bit of power.
I don't care about when I was admitted, who abandoned me, or whether it was by choice or not.
If I have to find something important from my past... wasn't my school days too plain?
— Sigh. Smell.
I didn't smell bad. In fact, I was cleaner than anyone.
There was soap in the orphanage, even shampoo.
It wasn't a particularly luxurious scent, but my body always smelled like soap.
— No smell? Where did it come from?
Still, the middle school boys who started acting like adults started to poke at me.
This was common for orphanage kids, so the big brothers would gather the younger ones and give advice like this.
— Hey. Just hit the nose. Always go first. Jaw or nose. When you hit, don't hit the mouth straight or teeth will get stuck in your hand. If it breaks...
— If it breaks?
— Money comes out. We don't have money, so be careful. Hahaha...
I remember someone asking if breaking the nose doesn't break money, and getting hit in the back for no reason.
In short, I did nothing.
A few months later.
The brother who said to hit first went to juvenile prison, and I became the top of the class.
I only studied.
The smell from my body disappeared.
The students in the same class started to treat me cautiously.
The difference between doing okay and being outstanding enough to be noticed at school.
Perhaps by middle school, adults' value judgments might start imitating me.
When I was elementary, no matter how well I studied, there were kids who still teased me.
[... Wow. Najin really...]
I snapped out of my thoughts at the sound of Ghost sticking out his tongue.
Just like Ghost said, my eyes saw the same thing. So I'm deeply empathizing with what it means.
The day after Ha Eun-yul's beauty exploded.
Set of Melancholy Romance.
“Najin-ah… that… um… too much… isn’t it?”
The director Ha Tae-jong, who has a slippery personality, is at a loss looking at Moon Najin.
“I’m sorry, Director. But this is a sponsorship coming in. It’s a bit awkward for me to take it out as I please. It won’t show, right?”
“… Haha… Sponsorship… It is good sponsorship… um. It might not show?”
“Should I take it out? It’s sponsorship…? What should I do?”
Moon Najin, looking even more troubled than the director, reaches for her earring.
Since it's sponsorship, if I do it, it's like filming a historical drama with a volcano erupting or something. If it's personal sponsorship, maybe, but in this case where work sponsorship is coming in alongside.
I guessed that Moon Najin had made some adjustment because the sponsorship came suddenly.
[Amazing. Typical Cinderella story, but Cinderella is blinging...]
“It could be.”
[Well, whatever. The poor heroine's house has a grand piano, the attic room is over 30 pyeong and has a view, the costumes are at that level. The viewers already understand that level of poverty... hmmm...]
Just like Ghost said.
It's not to the point of not being accepted.
It's a bit much.
Earrings and necklace.
Not cheap, not luxury.
The ring is on the thumb, but the problem is it sparkles too much and looks good, but while studying, I realized that even if the setting is poor, they don't actually wear patched clothes like that.
Even in reality, poor people don't wear rags, but if it's too exaggerated, viewers have gotten used to it.
Just, because Melancholy Romance itself is a typical Cinderella story. In the latter half, there's a scene where the male lead dresses up the female lead. The impact will be weak there.
If it's not already re-touched, the change won't be big.
[Not someone who wouldn't know that much. It's because of Eun-yul. This is all. Anyway, the actresses... But the good thing is that unlike before, they don't openly curse and come to pester. Maybe that's good? When I went to LA for filming. Ah, of course I didn't film it, I followed Cha-yoon noona's filming. So at that time, Cha-yoon noona was bad-tempered and popular but still young. At that time, among the actresses who went with us...]
“Stop.”
[Yes.]
Ghost's words are cut off. The area near the set becomes a little noisy.
And.
“The coffee truck has arrived. We brought plenty of snacks, so please eat comfortably! Najin is coming forward. Haha!”
Gyeon Seong-cheol, the section chief and manager of Moon Najin, shouted.
With Gyeon Seong-cheol's voice as signal, Moon Najin, who had finished the obvious tug-of-war with Ha Tae-jong director, approaches me with a bright smile.
“…?”
While feeling a bit of wariness, Moon Najin approaches and says the first thing she gave me.
“Eun-yul is your manager, right?”
“Yes.”
“Come have coffee with Eun-yul.”
A smiling face.
Despite being the same age as Ha Eun-yul, she looks pretty like an actress who has taken the female lead role. When I first saw Ha Eun-yul, she had a refreshing summer drink feel. Ha Eun-yul has clear eyes, nose, mouth, but Moon Najin is more Oriental.
Perhaps a face closer to current trends?
From Moon Najin's smiling face, the appearance of friends from childhood overlapped.
Pure emotions too pure to be malice.
Not showing malice because she's not a truly bad person, but pure jealousy and pride that only a child can have.
Those things.
“I'm in the middle of script reading. I'll take it.”
“Aigoo. Come directly to receive it. The coffee truck sent it with good intentions. It would be good to take a selfie together!”
“……”
“Does Eun-yul feel uncomfortable? With the manager?”
“No.”
“Is Eun-yul in the car? Sorry if it looks like I'm ordering the manager to come. I'll go directly.”
Then, jumping like a child, she heads to the car where Ha Eun-yul is.
How to handle this... Watching with a troubled face, Ghost said one thing.
[This is how it is nowadays... hahaha.]
“I’ve done a lot of dog fights, but cat fights with women... is a bit difficult.”
Of course.
It doesn't mean I'm just watching.
Moon Najin is heading to the coffee truck holding Ha Eun-yul's hand with a bright face.
Ha Eun-yul is... struggling to hide her awkward and troubled expression.
It was rare for the weather to be good.
And because they wanted to extract as many scenes as possible from this location shoot, the filming continued for four consecutive days.
The coffee truck and snack truck towards Moon Najin as well.
It continued without missing a day.
“Najin is cheering! Actor Yoon Tae-seong sent a coffee truck! Please enjoy!”
Gyeon Seong-cheol's voice rang out again in the site.
As a signal, Moon Najin's cheerful voice as well.
“Oh! Yoon Tae-seong?! Najin-ssi is close with actor Yoon Tae-seong too?”
“Personally, when my acting is blocked, I ask... and it's one-sided nagging, right?”
“Wow... as expected...”
“I scold you a lot. Actors need to act well, etc. But...”
“But?”
“In reality, he's really warm. A bit tsundere? Something like that?”
Moon Najin is surrounded by staff heading to the coffee truck.
Actually, free.
Also, in an outdoor location where it's hard to buy coffee one by one, if someone sends a coffee truck, the staff or actors would be grateful.
Just, the intention is too transparent, so it's a bit embarrassing.
[Wow... this isn't a problem with the coffee truck.]
Right.
I also checked.
The price of the coffee truck itself was lower than I expected.
Depending on the company, 3 hours basic, and for 100 cups minimum, it can be tens of thousands of won.
Of course, if you make the coffee menu varied and calculate generously without shortage, 100 to 300?
It can't be said cheap, but it means it's not at a level where the other side can't call a few times.
[Today it's Yoon Tae-seong, yesterday Park Hwa-ri, the day before Yoo Gu-pil... on the first day Hwang Hye-ryeong... Yoo Gu-pil's real jackpot was right.]
Names I originally didn't know.
I wasn't interested in the entertainment industry. But while managing, and studying in the meantime. Names heard many times.
“All top class, really.”
[That's right...]
The problem is the name value.
Right now, Moon Najin is shouting like this on the site.
[I, the woman who came out of this school. That's it.]
“……”
When I quietly looked towards Ghost, Ghost scratched his nose embarrassedly.
[You don't know what this is?]
Listening to Ghost's words, I briefly looked at Ha Eun-yul.
Since she was waiting for filming, she was awkwardly lining up at the coffee truck holding the script.
The subtle hierarchy or comparison was making it awkward.
She couldn't show dislike, and had to match the mood that good is good.
[It looks like Eun-yul is shrinking a bit...]
Agreeing with a small nod to Ghost's words.
Not directly affected, but is Ha Eun-yul's exploded beauty dimming day by day?
Something like height also reduced.
Feeling like the person itself is getting smaller?
I briefly blocked Ha Eun-yul walking with coffee in hand.
“Are you going to drink coffee?”
“……”
She didn't answer, but her eyes already answered.
“You’re not going to drink, why did you bring it?”
“To give to Yoo-jeong noona.”
“Next time, I'll take it.”
At my words, Ha Eun-yul's mask peeled off, and she gave a somewhat bitter smile.
“I have to take it. Otherwise, nonsense will come out.”
“Rejecting kindness or something?”
“……”
She passes me with a bitter smile again.
I watched her back intently.
[Something like energy reviving, then suddenly broken...]
Answering Ghost's muttering.
“Such a back view is not impressive at all.”
Something.
It was a back view I didn't want to see.
It reminded me of my time in the orphanage.
To overcome Moon Najin's primitive pride, the best is to become a better person than her.
I did that.
I studied, became number one.
In the whole school.
In my school district.
When I entered the national top ranks, even the teachers couldn't treat me carelessly.
Should I do such flattery?
If a better actress, this kind of thing will be no big deal?
I want to say a stinging word that it's not like she's hurt or shrinking.
As an adult, it's funny to say that being crushed one by one by shallow hierarchy is laughable.
[Eun-yul... for the last 3 years, didn't interact much, so there might not be anyone to send coffee as a friend. But if I send it now with company colleagues' names, the name value is too pushed at the timing, it will look bad...]
Looking at Ghost, his face looks quite upset.
The fact that I can't directly handle anything seems to make it more upsetting.
I quietly looked at my phone.
But.
【Team 1 Park Munsu Team Leader】
Park Munsu's phone call came.
At times like this, no need to mention affiliation and name from my side.
I answered the phone and asked lightly.
“What is it?”
— Team leader... h. um... really troublesome. I keep relying on you...
“It seems like an urgent matter. Let's get to the point.”
When I pressed, raw information poured from Park Munsu's mouth.
— Tae-soo... I want to end the contract. h.
“Is it a simple contract termination? Or did you receive an offer from elsewhere?”
— He doesn't say it openly... but if it's this firm, it means he was pricked elsewhere.
During the call, I met eyes with Gyeon Seong-cheol who was near the coffee truck.
He smiled unpleasantly once, picked up the takeout coffee cup in his hand.
To come and drink.