The Actress War: Kim Si-a vs. Lee Sa-rang – Part Three
JS Entertainment Private Practice Room
[Kim Si-a Practicing!]
The sign that had never once been caught since the company was founded hung on the practice room wall.
“What should I read today…?”
Her daily life had completely changed ever since she met him.
Ever since meeting that man, her once monotonous routine had become filled with excitement and joy.
The romantic comedy scripts she had once found irritating were now all identical to her own story.
And the company practice room she had dreaded so much… could it possibly be wonderful?
It felt as if she had been reborn.
“It’s a bit sad… but even though it’s just unrequited love, if I had known love could be this sweet and happy…”
She thought back to his large hand that had held her chilled one.
To his radiant eyes that had looked at her.
And to his warm, comforting chest.
Just thinking of him made her whole body tingle.
The red panties she was wearing had grown damp.
“Have I really gone crazy…? What am I going to do!”
This was the first time.
Thinking about someone and becoming this wet…
She quietly brought his shirt she had secretly taken from his hospital bed to her nose and gently rubbed the corner of the table.
“Ha… haang! I’m crazy… What am I going to do, Kim Si-a… huuuuuh!”
This thrilling feeling was new.
In a company practice room.
Even in this bright midday when anyone could walk in.
Sniffing a sweaty man’s clothes and rubbing her panties on the desk.
She knew that.
If anyone saw this obscene sight of hers, her life would fall into ruin.
But all the sexual desires she had suppressed until now had exploded.
There was no way she could stop now.
“Stopping… is… too… too good!”
The thrilling thrill of possibly being caught.
The obscene hope that the one who might catch her could be her unrequited manager.
Or perhaps even the intense possessiveness of wanting him even if she were exposed.
Her body right now was nothing more than a hot furnace where all emotions swirled together.
But her secret and lewd pleasure didn’t last long.
—CLUNK!
The practice room door opened, and Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho entered with a panicked expression.
“Unnie, big trouble!”
“Pa-Park Ji-ho… you don’t even know how to knock!”
“That’s not it, the chief manager… huh? What are you doing, unnie…?”
Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho looked at Kim Si-a with puzzled eyes.
The black shirt she was clutching tightly in one hand.
Her flushed face.
And her body leaning uncomfortably against the edge of the desk.
Anyone looking would find her appearance very suspicious.
“Ah, ah~ I was just wiping up something I spilled… ha, haha!”
Her awkward wiping of the desk made her look even more suspicious.
Moreover, the desk, which was already spotlessly clean with no trace of anything spilled, looked too perfect.
Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho lowered his voice and asked her suspiciously.
“A shirt…? That doesn’t look like yours… it looks like a guy’s.”
“What? It’s a sponsorship thing, so I’m wiping with my own… I just picked it up from here!”
“I see… You must be angry about something again~”
“Y-You’re the one thinking weird things…”
“Huh? What weird thoughts? I haven’t thought anything weird…”
Her subtle question made Kim Si-a’s face impossible to flush any more.
Her face had already turned so red it looked ready to burst.
“No, that’s not it… Why did you come? Didn’t you see the sign?”
“Ah, right. I was wiping the desk when I saw it. Sa-rang… Sa-rang!”
“Eh…? Why is Sa-rang unnie…”
The moment Sa-rang’s name came up, her face darkened sharply.
So far, there had been not a single pleasant memory tied to that woman.
This time too, a bad feeling swept over her.
“Sa-rang unnie took the chief manager with her!”
“What!”
The moment the prediction became reality, her furious footsteps were already heading toward the Actor 1 room.
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“Unnie, just a moment… what are you planning to do by going like that?”
“Let go! Let me go!”
Her body trembled with rage.
Lee Sa-rang… At first she had been fooled by how gentle she seemed.
But she knew.
How greedy and willful Lee Sa-rang was.
“Unnie… please. Just wait a little longer.”
“Let go, I can’t hold it in anymore!”
She had endured the subtle torment.
She had endured the rumors about her acting being bad that spread through the neighborhood.
After all, she was the senior and she was the junior…
‘I won’t endure it anymore.’
Daring to steal my manager… my first love.
Kim Si-a felt she could no longer hold back.
“Unnie… what are you going to do if you go in? Aren’t there people gathered?”
Already in front of the Actor 1 room door, a crowd of women who loved gossip had gathered.
“Come out… I’m going in.”
But Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho blocked her path with a stern expression.
If she didn’t stop this unnie now…
Kim Si-a would grab Lee Sa-rang’s hair and pull her out, she was sure.
‘Then… my job…? My salary…?’
That’s why Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho had been so desperate; there had been a reason.
“Unnie, just five minutes! Just wait five minutes. Listen to what they have to say, then decide. Unnie, you don’t trust the chief manager?”
“I do… trust him!”
“The chief manager wouldn’t be that untrustworthy… It’s probably nothing. Just five minutes… really, exactly! Just five minutes~”
“Exactly five minutes… I can’t hold it in any longer than that!”
“Okay! I won’t stop you beyond that…”
Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho, regretting his light words, finally managed to persuade her.
And the two of them listened quietly to the voices coming from inside.
— From beyond the door:
“I… don’t like her?”
Kim Si-a’s heart dropped at Lee Sa-rang’s voice.
Even to a woman’s eyes, Lee Sa-rang was very attractive.
But a moment later, his firm voice froze her heart as if spring snow melted.
“I like her but I have to refuse.”
Refused!
Kang Minhyuk had chosen Kim Si-a, not Lee Sa-rang!
That fact made her incredibly happy.
“So… you mean you like Kim Si-a more than Sa-rang…?”
“Yes! I think Kim Si-a actress is much better.”
Better… better… better…
His sweet voice echoed in her ears.
I’m better… does he really…?
“Our actress is… the most beautiful… and the most lovable… and also acts the best.”
“Our actress is kinder. And more attractive… and also…”
The torrent of insane, sweet praise pouring out from beyond the door made the coordinators gathered in front of the door focus their gazes on Kim Si-a.
And Kim Si-a, overwhelmed by that excessive sweetness, felt dizzy.
“Eh, unnie! What’s wrong?”
Bliss… bliss…
It was not physical ecstasy but a mental one.
The thrilling superiority of having defeated the female animal behind the door.
She barely managed to grab Chief Coordinator Park Ji-ho’s arm before she would have collapsed from the incoming thrill.
“Yah! She’s coming, she’s coming. Quickly, pretend not to know!”
Amid the frantic managers, the door to Actor 1 room opened… and bright light poured out.
Love… beautiful and sacred… a radiant pink light.
“Huh? Si-a noona! What are you doing over there?”
His calm voice brought a strange, swelling emotion that made tears well up in her eyes.
“Hard work… our manager.”
“Ehe~ Were you looking for me?”
“Ah, no. Just… picking up a bag for a moment…”
“A bag…? What bag?”
“Just a moment…”
She stood there staring blankly at the innocent manager for a second, then turned and entered the Actor 1 room, closing the door behind her.
“You’re Si-a…? Why…?”
And, surprised, she passed by the manager who was calling her name and stood in front of Lee Sa-rang.
“What’s with you!”
“Yah…”
“Yaaa~? Where is this! Uuu…”
Lee Sa-rang flinched for a moment at Kim Si-a’s cold face approaching hers.
Kim Si-a’s eyes were like blue flames overflowing.
Lee Sa-rang found that gaze a little frightening.
“Yah… if you touch Kang Minhyuk one more time, I’ll kill you…”
“What!”
“One more time you spout nonsense about my manager… then I’ll really kill you… do you understand?”
“Th-This…”
—WHOOSH!
Lee Sa-rang felt ashamed that she had been terrified by that lame woman.
She raised her hand as if to slap her cheek but lowered it silently at the commotion from outside.
“Ha… I’m pathetic…”
“Pathetic? You’re trying to take someone else’s!”
“What? Yours…? Why is Kang Minhyuk yours…? You two are dating?”
“Unnie, are you crazy? It’s not dating…”
“Then what? Why are you causing such a fuss if it’s not dating?!”
“Th-That’s…”
When she thought about it, Lee Sa-rang’s words were correct.
As a newly hired manager, it was possible to try recruiting her as an actress, wasn’t it?
“Tell me~ why are you like this…? Are you perhaps…”
“What! What did I do! Eek!”
Their furious eyes met, the situation about to explode.
The manager felt like he was going to die from the glare.
While the actresses whispered and glared at each other dangerously, what could he do?
He had to figure out the reason first, then try to stop them!
—CLUNK!
Just then, the door to Actor 1 room opened again, pouring out brilliant light that saved the manager.
“Unnie, there are a lot of bags… I’m busy…”
“Ah, no! It’s just… unnie and I had a long farewell… right, unnie~?”
“Th-That’s right… ha, haha! I’ve been very close to Si-a for a long time…”
—SQUISH!
The two women, clutching each other’s hands with nail marks, smiled sweetly.
Kim Si-a… you damn woman…! Let go already!
Hmph! You let go first… then I’ll let go too!
Harsh glances exchanged while avoiding Kang Minhyuk’s eyes.
The manager’s whole body felt goosebumps at that creepy sight.
“Ah~ You two are really close… I just learned today… I’ll go now, unnie… I’m busy~”
The hands that had looked like they would never let go loosened slightly at the soft word that slipped from Kang Minhyuk’s lips.
“Will you? Then I have to go with our Min-hyeok!”
—CRACK!
Lee Sa-rang gnashed her teeth in fury as Actor 1 room left her behind.
“Then, please take care of the actress as well, chief… see you next time.”
“G-Geet, Minhyuk-ssi… let’s definitely meet again next time…”
“Chief manager, please scold Si-a too.”
With Kang Minhyuk’s polite greeting,
The actresses’ fierce contest over Kang Minhyuk came to an end.
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And a few days later…
I was sitting at a fried chicken restaurant in front of the JBC broadcasting station,
waiting for PD Park Ji-ho.
“Hyung! Here, here!”
“Hehe, you really are amazing~ Amazing!”
PD Park Ji-ho sat down in front of me with a dumbfounded face.
It might seem unbelievable.
A new manager who had only met him once had brought in the PD…
And not some fancy lounge but this shabby fried chicken place…?
If it weren’t PD Park Ji-ho, I would have kicked him out immediately.
I acknowledged it.
But I know…
He preferred this casual spot over a high-class one…
And he loved being called “hyung” and “hyung” by me so much.
Because the person in this life was completely different from the one in my previous life, I remembered it even better.
“Yah… how did you know? Our wife’s drama starts in a month…”
“Hehe… that’s a business secret… I can’t tell you easily…”
“What… I wasn’t that curious anyway… So, who is it?”
He already knew even without me saying.
What kind of request I was going to make.
“First, have a drink, hyung!”
“Yeah, my throat’s been dry anyway… let’s drink and talk~”
But such things are only resolved after a few drinks…!
After a few beers, his mood improved and his voice grew louder.
“Who is it? Hyung, I’ve got it! I’ve got my wife!”
“Amazing, hyung…!”
After a few more drinks, he was drunk and his tongue was loosening.
“Just tell me, bro… Hyung will get anyone… anyone…”
The timing seemed right.
It was time to say her name.
I slowly opened my mouth, watching his eyes.
“Um… could you… do something about our Si-a noona…?”
“Huh…? Who?”
“Kim Si-a actress… she… needs… in hyung’s next work…”
“Kim Si-a…?”
His eyes, which had been drunk until just now, suddenly cooled.
That’s right.
He was asking me to recommend a deficient actress who couldn’t even memorize lines properly…
And even a actress who had ruined one of his own works.
No matter how well she did in the last scene…
Would he even recognize Kim Si-a…?
I looked into his eyes with a trembling heart.