I’m not asking. Were you alive (1)
Have you ever heard that the world has changed when you wake up?
As soon as she opened her eyes in the morning, Jeong Su-ryun confidently held out the tablet screen.
“Now, open your eyes wide and look. This is the clamor of pitiful middle school students who have fallen into Private Chung Syndrome.”
“Private Jung? My role is Lee Jin-wook.”
“When you say Private Private, you don’t have affection, so we named it Private Private after your real name. It’s a girl and a boy and it’s a mess right now.”
“Why Namcho?”
“’Why are you a male?’. Don’t you know that middle-aged men’s sensitivity is more moist than that of girls? I have no idea. Uncle fans are not necessarily cheering for girl groups. Isn’t my father’s favorite group male idols?”
“Really?”
“It’s a secret from Mom and Dad. anyway.”
As if giving a briefing on what she was so excited about, Jeong Su-ryun continued to show reactions from social media, communities, and bulletin boards.
“The reaction from the audience is extraordinary. Actor Lee Jin-wook, everyone is confused about who that is. Where did you get that mask from?”
“I guess my acting was okay.”
“Well, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t see it. Still, catching emotions didn’t bother me.”
The closeness of siblings is what prevents them from giving compliments in person.
Jeong Seo-hoon was forced to look at the reaction scraps praising himself.
‘·······.’
I felt strange.
People who don’t even know their face, name, or gender are praising them in unison.
I don’t feel like I’ve done such a great thing, but it’s awkward because I feel like I’m receiving too much praise.
He just quenched his thirst for not being able to go there in front of the camera.
People are busy extolling that shady excretion as a gift from God.
I deliberately spoke bluntly to hide the difference.
“I guess my acting wasn’t bad.”
“Yeah, two eyes are a bit different, but if you close one eye, it’s enough to see.”
“No cursing? Usually, when a name is known, swear words follow, right?”
“Why not? there is But I left a separate PDF for that. Let me know if you plan to sue later. But it’s better not to do it for a while. That’s when you get recognition as a top star and then receive support from fans, no, from the public.”
“Are fans and the public different?”
“Not different.”
Jeong Su-ryun said with a laugh as if she didn’t know that.
“The public is the whole, and the fans are a part of it. No matter how revered you are in the fandom, you can’t become a big star if you don’t receive public recognition. Look at senior Lee Min-soo. The fan cafe activity is mediocre, but most of the people know about it.”
“I know, so put it there. I’ll check later.”
“Just in case, I’m telling you, SNS is banned for the time being. You, quickly turn your Instagram back to private.”
“What is Instagram?”
“…”
“It’s a joke. I hope you don’t know that either. I don’t have an Instagram account.”
“madam. you were surprised what about facebook? What about Twitter? What about YouTube?”
“doesn’t exist. Nothing.”
“It’s nice to be clean. It will take less work to manage.”
“Oh, I have a blog.”
“what? come in quickly I’ll have to take a look.”
Jeong Seo-hoon connected to the blog with a tablet.
Jeong Su-ryun’s expression changed like that of a ship hit by a torpedo due to the complex electronic symbol equation that appeared from the blog’s front page.
Jeong Su-ryun’s expression was completely sunk after not looking at it for less than three minutes.
This is a typical engineering student’s academic blog.
“You can leave this alone.”
***
My mother drove the car today.
As soon as Jeong Seo-hoon got off the taxi and headed to the studio, he could feel the subtle gaze pouring from the street.
It is a different kind of gaze than before.
‘Isn’t that person that person?’
‘Do you think that’s right? They look so alike.’
‘Shall we go and talk? Do you want an autograph?’
‘But what if it’s not me?’
‘Oh, I don’t know.’
The soldier’s heightened senses caught the voices of female college students whispering.
The moment the women hesitantly approached, Jeong Seo-hoon naturally turned his back.
“Hey, there…!”
I didn’t hear the timid voice, and I quickly went away in the opposite direction.
As soon as I was in a hurry, I entered a clothing store that stood out.
“Welcome… Huh?”
The female employee, who was greeting brightly, raised the corners of her eyes and her pupils widened.
Before she could shut her mouth, Jeong Seo-hun roughly picked up sunglasses and a hat and held them out.
“It is urgent. Please count.”
“Hey, maybe…”
“I am in a hurry. Hurry up.”
Perhaps because I was in a bit of a hurry, the soldier’s energy was mixed involuntarily.
The female employee’s face instantly turned blue, and Jeong Seo-hun suddenly remembered Jeong Su-ryun’s words.
-Do really good reputation management in the future. If you twist in the beginning, it will be difficult forever.
After returning from the battlefield, Jeong Seo-hoon made a social smile that he practiced while looking in the mirror.
“Where are you comfortable? You have a bad complexion.”
“ah! No! It’s okay, it’s okay!”
The female employee’s expression, which had shrunk, straightened again in an instant.
His eyes were slightly out of focus, and his lips relaxed and parted slightly.
“Hey, hey, isn’t it Private Jeong, or no, Private Lee Jin-wook? Drama ill girl! It started this time!”
“Yes. you’re right. I stopped by because I had work nearby. Could you please count?”
“Oh, look at my mind! I’ll do it right away!”
The female employee hurriedly tried to pack the goods, even her hands shaking slightly.
“I’m going to use it, so just pay the bill.”
“ah! Yeah! I know!”
After paying the bill, Seo-hoon Jeong put on sunglasses and a baseball cap.
“I’m sorry, but could you please sign me…”
“Do you have a pen?”
“Here, here!”
Jeong Seo-hoon, who left the store after signing autographs and proof shots, recalled what the PD and the writer joked about two days ago at a dinner party.
-You will feel that what you ate today was the last day you ate comfortably outside.
***
When Jeong Seo-hoon reappeared on set, the actors and staff were surprised and whispered.
“Isn’t Lee Jin-wook an actor? What was your name…?”
“Jeong Seo-hoon.”
“Oh right. But didn’t he die in episode 2 as a script? Why did you come back to the site?”
Experienced staff members gave explanations like pride.
“Why? The reaction in episode 1 was good. That’s why I’m trying to increase the frequency of appearances by rushing to add flashback scenes. I also make some character narratives.”
“You keep worrying about a role that has already died with flashbacks? If so······.”
Some of the actors’ expressions were not good.
‘The running time is limited.’
When someone’s lines increase, it means that someone else’s lines decrease that much.
‘No matter how much it is, what the hell is reviving an already dead character with a flashback?’
Actors who were not the lead actors had no choice but to be wary of Jeong Seo-hoon.
‘Writer Kim Sang-hee isn’t the one to reincarnate a character who died with good reactions…’
‘Nope. Maybe it’s because I’m crazy about the ratings…’
‘Damn it. What’s the point of doing something like this?’
***
“I have 4 additional shots tomorrow. You should see this alone.”
After the filming was over, Cha Do-jin looked over the additional one-page script that the staff had handed over and smiled.
It is a scene that is not in the other actors’ scripts.
“Dojin-ah, why are you laughing?”
“Look, brother. what did i say Jinwook Lee Didn’t you say that he wouldn’t die that easily? Look at this. It’s not a flashback scene. We’ll be back in episode 4.”
“What, are you really bringing it back? It’s too much to do, but what about this?”
The manager’s expression also deteriorated.
After the first episode aired, the audience’s reaction was also confirmed.
Most of the reactions to Cha Do-jin were ‘better than expected’.
The reaction that the person who originally did 100 did 110.
Cha Do-jin has done enough to live up to his name.
However, Jeong Seo-hoon showed an excessively large repercussion compared to the value of his name.
The manager was cynically disparaging.
“It’s a new mask, so it’s only fresh for a while. Go into this long-term shoot. I’m sure the smoke will collapse because I’m tired in the middle, but the director will take that risk?”
“therefore? Do you want to protest?”
“Hey man. If you go to the mountain in the middle of a drama, this is no one else’s business. It’s your problem, it’s our problem.”
Cha Do-jin smiled.
“Are you going to the mountains?”
He recalled the moment when he worked together with Jeong Seo-hoon.
When we first read, when we met at the filming set, we treated them as if we were looking down from above.
However, from the moment the camera started rolling, my mind toward him changed.
It’s frustrating, but at least his acting ability to digest Lee Jin-wook was better than his own.
‘Even if I had been the role of Lee Jin-wook, I don’t think I would have been able to do it as well.’
When you act, you are at the level of forcibly following his breathing.
However, when I checked the results, I was rather satisfied, so I felt complicated.
He already acknowledges Seohun Jeong’s talent and ability.
If so, do you like him as a human being?
That was still hard to answer.
The cause is probably…
‘I’m jealous?’
Even thinking about it is an embarrassing thought.
Cha Do-jin kept his eyes on the script, then checked Seo-hoon Jeong, who was getting makeup on the other side.
The script is nowhere to be seen.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him carry a script.
Is it the confidence that I put all of that into my head?
‘If Jeong Seo-hoon had only been cast as Ku Gu-man, would he have done better than me?’
I have an ominous feeling.
Maybe until the end of the drama, I might be caught up in that question.
***
Episode 2 was aired, and the ratings reached a peak of 14.2%, and Lee Jin-wook died.
The audience reaction was as hot and intense as the ratings that rose dramatically.
-Save Private Jung, you damned master!
-X-foot, it’s a sin to consume this mask like this!
-If you were going to kill them in 2 episodes, why not make them appear in the first place?
Viewers came to the bulletin board and lay down.
Song Jeong-woo’s laugh was more evil than ever.
“I dragged it with aggro.”
I’m not asking. Were you alive? (2)