The Manager Hides His Regression. (30) Kim Si-a Spreads Her Wings (9) Lovely Lady... and the Worst Day.
" You... did you sleep with her too?"
" H-Huh?! I must have misheard you!"
The air turned freezing cold.
Her gaze shot at me like a dagger and stabbed straight into my heart.
But I didn't need to worry.
My hand was faster than her eyes.
I quickly raised my hand and cupped my sister's face.
" You... not letting go of this? Let go! How... how..."
That's right.
I may have been a little bit scheming, but I used the most effective method.
The most effective way to shut someone's mouth...
I'm sorry... sis!
Her eyelids fluttered shut as I held her.
Her sweet tongue wrapped around mine.
Her limp hand that had been pushing me away soon encircled my neck,
and her body melted like honey, leaning into me.
And then, the sound of sweet tongues intertwining echoed throughout the entire house.
In the end, Kim Si-a raised both hands in surrender to that sweet and honeyed kiss.
'Too sweet... this man.'
She realized it.
That she would never be able to beat this man.
This was, after all, a fight where the one who loved more was bound to lose,
and the moment she realized she loved the other party more, it was already too late.
'Scheming... this is too one-sided a game!'
Still, the truly unjust thing was that she could never push this man away.
'Too delicious... too much...'
She had already fallen into that sweet dream where this moment would last forever.
She was already addicted to the sweet pleasure he was giving her.
Eventually, the time of sweet dreams ended, and she looked up at him with hazy eyes.
'Please... tell me it's only me! Say that I am the best...!'
She was desperate in that moment.
She hoped that no disappointing words would come from his mouth.
She wanted him to say that the name she had cried out in her sleep was just nothing.
And then his quiet voice sounded.
"Sis..."
"Wait a moment! I'm not ready yet..."
Despite her pleas, his mouth opened.
But the words that came out of his mouth were completely unexpected, nothing like what she thought.
"Up until now... I've never dated a woman."
That's right.
In this life, I had never dated anyone.
Of course, I had had sex, but I had definitely never been in a relationship.
" Eh...?"
She immediately looked at me with a dumb expression, mouth agape.
" What kind of reaction is that? I said I never dated a woman!"
" Then what about Min-jin?"
" It was just a crush... and besides, he might not even exist in this world anymore."
That's right.
I had had a crush on her in the past,
but I definitely hadn't met Min-jin in this life, and I didn't even know if he existed, so that was also the truth.
" T-That means...!"
As if she were imagining something strange, her face turned deathly pale.
"S-Sorry... I didn't know..."
"..."
It seemed my sister had misunderstood something big...
It wasn't really like that...
No, wait... the fact that Min-jin died in the past was true, so maybe it wasn't a misunderstanding...?
I was getting confused even with this damn regression.
"I'm really sorry... I didn't know that... Hic...!"
She cried like a little child with a deathly pale face, clinging to my arms.
' Well, I didn't lie, right...?'
My conscience felt like it was being stabbed by needles, but...
In any case, there were no lies in what I said.
I simply held her quietly in my arms and patted her back.
'Sometimes it's better to just keep quiet rather than tell the truth.'
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Because there was a small mishap from the morning on,
the atmosphere in the car heading to meet Kim Hye-kyeong the writer was a bit heavy.
The big, bear-like Min-gu kept sneaking glances at us.
" Um... Chief Kang, in the morning I..."
" No way, sis... It's not like that, don't worry about it..."
I deliberately cut off her words and looked dreamily out the window...
It was completely different from telling her not to worry,
but a very sad man lost in gloom, one that anyone would naturally worry about...
She couldn't help but worry about me.
'I'm sorry, sis.'
That's right. Actually, I wasn't depressed at all... nor was I gloomy.
'It's a bit of a twisted hobby... but humans are just too cute!'
Like an actor who can't stay still, as if he had eaten his grandfather's treasured porcelain.
How cute that sight was; every time she stole a glance at me, I wanted to hug her tightly.
Of course, since Min-gu was watching...
It was just one more reason it was impossible.
" By the way, Min-gu... how much time left?"
" About ten minutes."
Yeah... ten minutes.
Now, in ten minutes, I would finally meet the queen of the romantic comedy who would take my sister to the high heavens.
' Honestly, I'm curious about this one too...'
Even though she was called the charisma of the writer world.
She was still a rookie writer who hadn't done even a few works yet.
Watching the master in her rookie days was my small pleasure as a regressor.
" Sis... I'm saying this out of concern, but you shouldn't underestimate her just because she's a newbie writer."
Of course, my sister would never do that...
Still, I had to warn her.
You never know what people might do, and troubles between actors and writers are really painful, so you have to nip it in the bud early.
" Okay..."
Her expression had a bit of a tigerish look.
It wasn't that she was scared of the writer Kim Hye-kyeong, but that she was watching me...
" You have to treat her as respectfully as possible. That writer can be quite difficult, you know..."
But when we actually faced Kim Hye-kyeong the writer, she was completely different from what I expected, and she was very lively...
Enough that my sister felt burdened by it.
' What kind of... charisma is this in the writer world...?'
" What should I do, what should I do! I'm a real fan of Kim Si-a~!"
Without any hesitation, a small woman approached my sister and hugged her tightly.
She looked very innocent, with no trace of any sharp edges, a bright and cheerful auntie.
I felt my mind getting dizzy from the writer's fuss.
" Ah, look after me~ I'm Kim Hye-kyeong the writer."
" L-Lovely to meet you. I'm Kim Si-a..."
Kim Hye-kyeong the writer shook my sister's hands with a bright smile.
And our beautiful actress, our Si-a, was at a loss for what to do.
I held onto my dizzying mind and started taking care of the panicking Si-a.
" It's an honor to meet you. Writer-nim..."
My deeply respectful bow drew a puzzled look from her.
" Hm...? No male actors were auditioning today...?"
Her expression had become a bit more alert...
In the entertainment industry, this kind of thing happened often.
A dubious trick to send a newbie to a lead actor meeting to squeeze in a side deal...
Since such dubious things were common, I smiled brightly and cleared up her misunderstanding.
" Thank you for your kind consideration. I'm Kang Min-hyeok, the Chief Manager at JS Entertainment. Here."
I quickly took out one business card and handed it to her.
Only then did her eyes widen.
" Then... you're the Chief Manager Kang Min-hyeok?"
" Yes, I am Kang Min-hyeok, the Chief Manager."
Upon hearing my name, she grabbed my hand and started tearing up.
And suddenly her small lips opened softly.
" Thank you..."
" Um... I feel like this is the first time I'm meeting you, the writer...?"
No matter how I thought, there was no reason for her to thank me.
" I heard it from my husband. He said if Chief Kang thinks my works will be really successful..."
" Yes, that's true..."
" I only heard it recently... Honestly, the investors and the broadcasting station weren't expecting much from this work."
Even though it was a sub-female lead meeting.
I wondered why only Kim Hye-kyeong the writer had come to this place...
Now I finally understood the reason.
' I see... they suddenly scheduled the meeting... this was a fact I didn't know either...'
That's right. I hadn't known all the past events.
I had only been the one who was excited.
' I should have died of embarrassment... It was something I could have known with just a little investigation.'
It's not always that the future happens exactly as is,
and I'm not some omnipotent being who knows everything, yet I was too arrogant.
" I was really thinking of giving up... but after hearing Chief Kang's words, it gave me so much strength...
Plus, it says Kim Si-a will appear in it too... I'm really grateful."
It was actually a good thing.
Even though my arrogant self from the past was clearly wrong,
looking at the situation itself, it was by no means bad.
' Offering a hand to a future star writer in slump...'
Yeah, this was actually a thumbs-up situation.
" The situation must be really tough for you..."
" That's right... We were assigned seventeen episodes for the Monday-Tuesday slot at the end of April.
It seems the worst day is airing on the same time slot as MBS..."
I held back the laughter bubbling up and comforted her.
Now I roughly understood.
Why Lovely Lady couldn't expect much,
and...
' That bastard Choi Min-hyeok... he was probably the lead in the worst day?'
The most handsome male actor in Korea right now would definitely be Choi Min-hyeok.
' But I know.'
How much of a bastard he was.
He was a crazy bastard who killed people with drugs and drunk driving...
' Yeah, since I was reborn, let's do something good this time...'
Let me summarize...
In the middle of the worst day, something happens.
And the once-successful worst day falls into scandal and collapses with the lead replaced...
The lucky beneficiary was Lovely Lady.
' If I catch the timing well, I could make the worst day even worse...?'
If I catch the timing well, I could make MBS have a real big bang.
And if I can properly promote the Lovely Lady we enter...
I grabbed Kim Hye-kyeong the writer's hand, which looked like she was about to cry, and told her.
" I think this work will definitely succeed. And you will definitely succeed as a writer."
" Eh?"
" So don't give up at all!"
For me... and for you, you must never give up on this work.
Because I will definitely make it succeed no matter what...
I looked into her confused eyes and said seriously.
" Clearly, you are the kind of person who can write a work that will captivate the entire world."
" M-Me...?"
" I don't mind betting."
In her flushed and ticklish confession, she looked at me with a look of "what kind of crazy guy is this?"
But I had definitely seen... how great her works were...
How many countries she had sold her own works to...
" Y-Yeah...?"
" Of course, and you know... Let's go together with our Kim Si-a actress.
That role of Kim Yumi... who could better suit our sis than her? There's no one."
" Right... Still, I'd like to see the leading part once... Kim Si-a, it's okay, right?"
As expected, Kim Hye-kyeong was... Kim Hye-kyeong the writer...!
That sneaky little trick would never work on our sis.
' Will it not work... will our sis be okay...?'
I was planning to sign a contract just in case Si-a couldn't memorize the script...
But when I casually glanced back at her upon hearing the writer's words, I realized...
There was no need to worry about her at all!
-Whirrrrrr...
Kim Hye-kyeong the writer and my hands, clasped together, burned with jealousy in her...
' Kim Yumi...?'
Because our actress had already turned into Kim Yumi of Lovely Lady, not Kim Si-a.
And it was that jealous heart burning fiercely that looked like Kim Yumi...