To leave only bitter taste (5)
“By the way, writer, what did Jeong Seo-hoon originally do? I heard you didn’t come from a child actor.”
“You are a college student. went to the army All that remains is to grow.”
“A military pen? So you’re older than you look?”
“I don’t know how old you are. PD will know. It must have been written in the appearance contract. I only know that I am an engineering student. Oh, I think you said you live in Nonhyeon-dong. Shall we contact you?”
“Try it.”
When Yoo Jung-ah quietly agreed, Kim Sang-hee took out her phone with a strange eye smile.
“Yes, Mr. Seo Hoon. This is Kim Sang-hee. What are you doing? Are you just there? There’s no filming tomorrow, so would you like to have a drink together? Cheongdam-dong here. Yoo Jung-ah is also with me.”
“Apologize for what I heard, and buy me a drink.”
“Ms. Jung-ah apologizes for being in the public eye, and buys a big drink. But since I heard it, I feel something. Where is my laptop?”
“Writer, please.”
“Kick-kick, okay. Are you coming? I’ll send you the address via talk. Yes, I will wait.”
Kim Sang-hee finished the call and raised his glass with a strange eye smile.
Yoo Jung-ah frowned slightly.
“Writer. What is it now, that expression?”
“What’s wrong with my expression?”
“I feel like you’re teasing me by saying, “I know everything.”
“I don’t know anything?”
***
Arriving at the bar, Jeong Seo-hoon saw two women sitting side by side in front of the bartender.
There were no other guests in the hall.
“Oh, Mr. Seohun! Come and sit down.”
Kim Sang-hee happily waved her hand and quickly stepped aside and sat down.
Thanks to this, Jeong Seo-hoon was able to sit between the two women.
“Do you have a particular favorite drink?”
“Um, soju?”
“Oh, really? I’m surprised I feel like Seo-Hoon won’t even drink alcohol other than wine.”
“I didn’t have many opportunities to try different types of alcohol.”
“How much do you drink?”
“I drank up to five bottles.”
“It’s okay. And did you pass out?”
“Nope. I got drunk and stopped eating.”
The two women were talking frantically on both sides, but Jung Seo-hoon answered calmly.
“Are your lips okay? Were you very sick then?”
“It didn’t hurt at all. I wasn’t even hurt.”
“I’m sorry again. I was so engrossed. Ah, strangely, if you put it together with Seo Hoon, you will definitely become a different person.”
Sanghee Kim clapped her hands a little and laughed.
“me too. Are you saying that just looking at Seo Hoon brings inspiration? After Illegal is over, I will definitely use Seo Hoon for my next new work, so where can I go? When casting requests come, tell me first. preemptively.”
“Writer, are you already preparing a new work?”
“The work is always full. It’s about choosing what to put out at that time and which ones are the most mature.”
Kim Sang-hee proudly brought a laptop and showed it.
“There are times when I use it with whiskey, and it comes out amazing again. But it’s too emotional, so if you look at other days, there are too many lines to cut out. I can’t show it to others.”
“Isn’t that notebook containing all of your works? Until what comes next?”
“Yes. It’s my treasure. So I always carry it with me.”
“Wow, so how much should I price a laptop? If someone steals it and puts it up for auction, doesn’t it just sell for billions of dollars?”
“There is no worry because it is automatically synced to the cloud. And I use bitlocker. Even if you steal the laptop, you cannot steal the manuscript files.”
“What is it?”
The two women chatted heartily with Jeong Seo-hun between them. In the end, Jeong Seo-hoon asked.
“Wouldn’t it be more comfortable if I just sat outside and you two sat next to each other?”
“I can’t. Seo Hoon has to be in the center so we can chat while having a good time.”
“that’s right. Seo Hoon should be at the center.”
Whenever the glass was empty, Kim Sang-hee kept placing orders.
There are still no guests in the hall.
Jeong Seo-hoon looked around the hall and said.
“I don’t think it’s a place where you can’t do business, but strangely there are no customers.”
“I guess I didn’t see the closing sign. They don’t sell anything other than us today.”
“Is that okay?”
“It’s okay. I’m going.”
Kim Sang-hee put the whiskey glass to her mouth and squinted her eyes.
“Isn’t that right, CEO Kim?”
The bartender, who was cleaning his glass, replied with a friendly smile.
“I am the pants boss, actor Jeong Seo-hoon. I am watching the drama.”
Jeong Seo-hoon quickly lowered his head slightly.
“thank you.”
By now, both women were quite drunk.
Her face is flushed with redness, her eyes are slightly relaxed, and she is busy laughing at the sound of glasses slightly clinking.
Kim Sang-hee focused on Jeong Seo-hoon’s face with blurred eyes.
“Really, how can you say such a line with this face? It’s so amazing. If it wasn’t for the real Seo Hoon, it would have ended up as a crazy drama with only 18 or 19 percent of Illegal.”
“It would have been better without me. The writers and producers are so talented. All the other actors are also very good at acting.”
“I can’t! I’ve been looking at Seohoon’s face for so long, I can’t wait to write! The two of us are playing together for a while!”
Before he had time to say anything, Kim Sang-hee jumped up and moved to the hall table.
Turning on the laptop, she immediately started typing at high speed.
His fingers move precisely and flamboyantly, unlike someone who is drunk.
Looking at it, Yoo Jung-ah seemed familiar, but she didn’t care.
“I guess the writer didn’t just do that on set.”
“Writer Kim Sang-hee is famous. When inspiration comes, I write regardless of time and place. In the past, we all went to the bathroom for a while while eating together, but there are times when we didn’t come for a while. I was surprised how much I found.”
“I wouldn’t have brought my laptop to the bathroom.”
“I looked it up and found that he was writing on his cell phone. Almost two hours.”
“…”
“Leave the writer alone, let’s play together. There is no filming tomorrow. Oh, is it today?”
Yoo Jeong-ah gave a soft smile and invited a toast.
Lightly clinking the glasses, Jeong Seo-hoon poured the whiskey into his mouth.
“Did you live in Nonhyeon-dong? Do you live alone? trace?”
“I live with my family. I have been dying since I was a child.”
“How are your family relationships? Excuse me? You don’t have to answer.”
“I have parents and an older sister. My father has been working abroad for several years. We see each other once or twice a year.”
“Oh, my mother must be very lonely.”
“I don’t feel lonely because I do a lot of things.”
Kim Sang-hee stopped typing without a break and looked up at the two for a moment.
Jeong Seo-hoon had his back turned to this side, so his face could not be seen, but Yoo Jung-ah turned his body at 90 degrees to Jeong Seo-hoon, so it was easy to peek at his face.
A man sitting facing forward and a woman sitting sideways facing him.
The two who were prey and beasts on the screen, but in real life, a nice man and a beautiful woman.
Kim Sang-hee suddenly imagined it.
If Lee Jin-wook, who is now inside Jeong Seo-hoon, suddenly attacks Yoo Jung-ah, what kind of expression will she show?
How to scream and how to rebel.
My breathing quickened and my head became hot just by imagining it lightly.
She buried her face in the laptop screen again.
“What do you usually do when not filming?”
The conversation slipped more and more into the private realm.
“I practice catching my emotions, and recently I started watching dramas and movies.”
“Originally, I didn’t think of being an actor. PD-nim forced him into it. Will you continue to be an actor in the future?”
“Yes, I will. I seriously want to see the end.”
“I will see you more often. But did you turn off your phone? Or silence?”
“No. It is a vibration.”
“weird. But why is the cell phone quiet? There must be a lot of requests for contracts.”
“Since it’s a personal phone, I don’t receive contract requests.”
“That’s even weirder. Look. I am silent. Too many calls.”
Yoo Jeong-ah turned on her phone and showed a message window.
Hundreds of unread messages were lined up.
Even at this moment, a talk was coming in.
“I don’t have many places to contact. At least, the person I contact the most is my older sister.”
“It is strange. In that visual, in that physical? There’s no way the girls would leave it alone.”
“I don’t have many girls around me.”
“I heard you are a college student. Aren’t there female classmates or seniors?”
“Most of the departments are male, and there is not a single female the same age as me right now. Most of the female seniors are married.”
“Still, it’s strange that there aren’t so many women around. What about your friends in middle and high school?”
“They all went abroad to study.”
“Oh my goodness.”
There was sadness in Yoo Jung-ah’s eyes.
“It’s just that there are very few people around. Right?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
“no wonder. No matter how good you are, if you are alone in a cave, the world will not know. Now that I’m out of the cave, there will be a lot of people around me. Do you not use social media?”
“No, I don’t.”
“You are hiding in a real cave. So you don’t know about it.”
Drinking again…
“I heard that Seo Hoon doesn’t have an agency.”
“Yes, not yet.”
“If you’re not sure, can I introduce you to our agency?”
“It’s still fine. There is nothing uncomfortable right now.”
“Now I have to find out about my next work, but then I need to have an agency. Let me know whenever you need. Even if it’s not our agency, I’ll pick a good one. I have a lot of connections.”
“Thank you for your words.”
“It’s not empty talk. Give me your number.”
So naturally, we exchanged numbers.
“If you have any problems, feel free to ask. Originally, the senior said that.”
“thank you. I feel strong.”
“Ask me, and I suddenly think of NG. I asked Seo Hoon.”
Yoo Jung-ah giggled while getting drunk.
“It hurts a lot, right? Unfortunately, I made a mistake, so our first kiss scene was left with a bitter taste.”
“Did you write Yoo Jeong-ah?”
“What do I have to write? I have a door. It’s because Seo Hoon must have written a lot. I don’t know if you went home and cursed at me.”
Yoo Jeong-ah looked up gently with her chin on her chin.
The thinly falling white neckline slips through the saliva with a subtle rumble.
“I didn’t write any.”
“Ah, lie. bitten? It must have been painful?”
“I really didn’t write it.”
“If you didn’t use it, then what, did you even put it on? It’s not.”
Jeong Seo-hoon did not answer.
Instead, she put her mouth to the wine glass and drank slowly, looking straight at Yoo Jeong-ah with both eyes.
As the red wine passed into his mouth until the last drop, Yoo Jung-ah suddenly recalled the scene of the day.
-Be careful now. If you don’t want to suck every drop of blood and every piece of flesh.
Memories created by alcohol ring like auditory hallucinations.
The drops of red wine that were swallowed up there were like bloodsucked blood from himself.
Until the moment he removed the empty glass from his mouth, Jeong Seo-hoon was still fixating his eyes on him.
That day, when you slowly drive your teeth into your lips, with those eyes.
The moment he opened his mouth, Yoo Jung-ah let out a breath he had been holding back.
“Don’t tell me.”
When the eyes questioned, Yoo Jung-ah spoke again.
“Just don’t say anything. I’m a little weird right now.”
Because it looks like it will shake, he barely swallowed the words.
***
Illegal outdoor filming location.
The staff were diligently coming and going, installing lights and cameras.
The stage is created as the props find their place one after another inside the barricade.
Assistant director Kim Hyun-tae encouraged the staff by running around.
“Come on, let’s finish quickly and go in quickly. Filming is almost over now.”
It was then.
“AD! Look over there!”
“what? why? uh, what, what?”
Kim Hyeon-tae turned his gaze and inhaled and stiffened.
A huge man with a huge body slowly approaches us.
With a height that seems to be over 190 cm, and strong muscles like armor all over the body, it looks as tall as a mountain.
It’s not like a person, but like a huge bear looking for prey, wandering around and narrowing the distance.
A man stands right in front of the barricade, arms crossed, looking around the set.
As if being pushed forward by the soundless clamor around me, my feet trembled savagely.
“Uh, how did you come?”
“I just came. do you have a problem?”
Look at this! Is this a human voice? Do you think the bear is growling?
Kim Hyun-tae’s mind was completely confused.
Is it a gangster who has settled in this area? Did he come out to kick you out because he was making a fuss about decorating the set?
“Oh, no. What, what are you doing…”
“I’m a detective.”
At those words, Kim Hyun-tae’s eyes widened as if they would pop out.
A detective, not a gangster?
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No, but why is the detective here?
“Um, by any chance… have there been any wanted people or criminal cases around here?”
“no.”
“Well, then why is the detective here…”
“I asked what I was doing and I said what I was doing. do you have a problem?”
“no. no. sorry.”
The pressure given by his mountain-like size and formidable impression was no joke.
Feeling the anxious stares piercing his back, Kim Hyun-tae finally opened his mouth.
“Aren’t you here on official business?”
“It’s not official, I’m on vacation.”
“Whew, are you on vacation?”
“I heard that it is okay to look outside the lines. Is it not okay?”
Come to think of it, the man was no longer moving outside the line.
Kim Hyun-tae nodded absently.
“It’s possible. don’t be Of course it does. Ho, if you need an autograph, can I take it?”
“I will not specify.”
As if waiting, the man took out a thick autograph book and a pen and held out.
Kim Hyun-tae received it very politely.
“Possible actors, three at a time, please.”
“I’ll do ten more.”
“Up to what ten chapters? Three sheets are enough. Aren’t actors having a hard time?”
Does a hungry bear make this noise when it gets angry?
Kim Hyun-tae quickly bowed.
“Ah, I see! sorry!”
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