I Want to Be a Former VTuber Chapter 213 (214/718)

"Parachute? Well, do your best?"

Looking at the doll-like girl staring at her, she said so.

Pitch-black hair, white skin.

Along with mysterious eyes with a reddish tint.

She was like a child straight out of a fairy tale.

Her appearance was so outstanding that it made one think, 'Ah, they brought her in just for her face.'

Actually, everyone around who saw her gossiped exactly like that.

The staff, and her manager too.

So she said so.

Parachute.

That was the word young Jo Seo-hee hated the most.

As if, in this work she wanted to do, the opportunity went to someone who wasn't sincere.

Like an alien substance that appeared in this world her mother had devoted herself to.

Seo-hee thinks she definitely hated her back then.

At least, until she saw her acting.

***

Vrrrm, vrrrrrm!

Clack, thud, rattle!

Half-asleep, Seo-hee heard the sound of her phone tumbling on the floor and looked at the wall clock with half-open eyes.

"…Not easy starting from the morning."

She never thought memories of that time would come to her from the morning.

Seo-hee sighed.

Getting up from bed, she moved according to her usual routine.

Light exercise, then breakfast.

As she was getting ready for school, the housekeeper approached and spoke to her.

"Your face looks brighter these days? Seo-hee miss."

A light comment.

At those words from the middle-aged woman, Seo-hee looked at her with narrowed eyes.

"Just speak normally, ahjumma."

"Oh my, isn't this normal?"

At those words spoken with a bright smile, Seo-hee sighed.

A woman who had been in charge of the household chores since Seo-hee was still a baby.

Since being hired when her mother was very busy, she had consistently worked at Seo-hee's house.

"Isn't it hard because of the movie filming these days?"

"No, it's going smoothly."

Seo-hee said so while neatly putting on her school uniform.

Smoothly.

Yes, that word was exactly right.

was smooth in many ways.

Not just in terms of filming, but also in the movie's promotion and distribution issues.

It felt like everything was flowing smoothly in various ways.

'The early chaos feels like a lie.'

When the cast left en masse and investors expressed concerns.

To be honest, when the actor for the role of 'Gotō Isamu' dropped out, Seo-hee was genuinely shaken too.

Because finding an actor of that caliber was not easy.

Not an extra, but essentially the main villain role.

A position requiring both acting skills and public recognition.

Even though Seo-hee ran around desperately looking for an actor, she couldn't easily find one.

Because it was a villain role, and since it was Director Baek Min's film, most of them shook their heads.

As the saying goes, Director Baek Min's films had such unique colors that many actors avoided them.

Especially the senior actors who could play Gotō Isamu not only avoided it but downright disliked it.

'Plus, there's the homosexual aspect.'

Such elements would bring various problems.

However, that problem was solved incredibly easily.

Because Seo-yeon suddenly brought in the great actor, Lee Sang-soo.

How on earth?

'She does things like that so casually.'

To Seo-hee, Seo-yeon was a fascinating existence.

It had been like that since childhood.

She casually performed acting that child actors couldn't do, and left a great achievement worthy of being talked about even now with just one drama.

'And despite making such an achievement, she disappeared all at once.'

Seo-hee grumbled inwardly while attending classes at school.

The shock Seo-hee felt when Seo-yeon disappeared was that great.

The acting Seo-yeon showed at the end.

That acting was like starlight she had so desperately longed for.

Just like what her mother had shown.

***

When Seo-yeon arrived at the filming set, she could sense a slightly unsettled atmosphere.

Wondering what was going on, she quietly approached.

"Gasp!! Oh my!!"

"?"

The staff jumped in shock at Seo-yeon who had quietly approached.

Because they hadn't felt even the slightest presence, let alone footsteps.

'Did she learn something after going to Japan?'

Seeing the staff thinking things like ninjas, Seo-yeon opened her eyes narrowly.

Even if she approached quietly, wasn't that too much of a shock?

Is that a reaction to seeing a female actress?

"Ah, s-sorry. There have been various things going on."

"Various things?"

"Yes, Actor Kang Seo-hyuk came to meet Director Baek Min."

Actor Kang Seo-hyuk.

One of the senior actors representing South Korea.

Why is he here?

"It seems the filming location for the movie Actor Kang Seo-hyuk is appearing in is nearby. You could say our schedules overlapped."

"Ah."

The place where Seo-yeon was now is a filming location in Nonsan, Chungnam.

It's such a representative filming location that any drama set in the Japanese colonial period would typically pass through.

So, overlapping filming locations was something that could fully happen.

'But if it's Director Baek Min, I don't think he would have scheduled it to overlap.'

As Seo-yeon entered the filming set with such thoughts, she saw Director Baek Min and Actor Kang Seo-hyuk having a conversation. However, with staff members crowded around, it was difficult to approach closely.

Seo-yeon focused her hearing as much as possible and eavesdropped on their conversation from a slight distance.

"I heard you were filming nearby, so I came to say hello."

"It seems Actor Kang Seo-hyuk's new work is also set in the Japanese colonial period."

"Haha, it just happened to turn out that way. What a coincidence."

Their conversation didn't have a particularly sharp atmosphere.

However, considering their positions, it was quite a bizarre scene.

Kang Seo-hyuk, who had unilaterally dropped out of the movie, and Director Baek Min meeting such Actor Kang Seo-hyuk.

Of course, Actor Kang Seo-hyuk didn't drop out after causing all sorts of trouble.

He just dropped out along with other actors right before filming.

That in itself was a problem, but it wasn't completely unheard of, so it was hard to severely criticize.

'More than anything, it seems Actor Kang Seo-hyuk came today to apologize for that incident.'

It seemed he had already conveyed words of apology several times.

Anyway, it wouldn't be good for bad rumors to spread in the industry.

However, Actor Kang Seo-hyuk probably didn't expect Director Baek Min to accept his apology so readily.

Actually.

'He's meeting him so nonchalantly?'

Kang Seo-hyuk is a veteran actor.

He thought Director Baek Min wouldn't meet him lightly.

Director Baek Min had a thoroughgoing personality, and he had agreed to participate in the movie because he liked that aspect.

He just dropped out because another side offered excessively good conditions.

'But it couldn't be helped. The pay difference was more than double.'

The investor was also much bigger, and the scale of the movie was incomparable to .

In the case of , it was just two young ladies' mansion and such streets.

That was about the extent of settings appearing in the movie.

Honestly, it was close to a low-budget film.

There would be no graphics involved, a film focused solely on the actors.

'Since he took away that important cast... Director Baek Min must be quite upset.'

So, the reason he came today, nominally, was to make a clear apology.

Even to all the actors gathered there.

Even if the filming location schedules hadn't overlapped, Kang Seo-hyuk would have visited the set once.

There was a reason to manage his reputation in the industry.

And he would have been curious about , which was filming smoothly despite his departure.

'Just who took my role, Gotō Isamu.'

Even looking around the filming set, no suitable actor was visible.

Moreover, Kang Seo-hyuk was famous as a well-connected person in the entertainment industry.

Among the senior actors he knew, none had taken the role of Gotō Isamu.

'It seems they had no choice but to put someone unremarkable in that position.'

If a great actor had entered that position, the investors would have heavily promoted it.

But the fact that it's quiet without a word means the actor isn't really worth boasting about.

As he was thinking like that.

"You don't need to feel too sorry. One way or another, it's a problem that's been resolved well."

"…That's a fortunate thing to say."

"Then we also need to film, so..."

"Ah, I'm sorry."

After exchanging that much conversation, Actor Kang Seo-hyuk bid farewell to Director Baek Min and left the filming set.

And in that process, he bumped into Seo-yeon.

'Joo Seo-yeon?'

Was she said to be a main cast member of this time?

'Rising star.'

Seo-yeon is quite a celebrity even among actors.

Well, she had to be.

A female actress who knows no failure.

There was even a joke that a dying work would come alive if Seo-yeon participated.

Actually, she was leaving that level of track record.

Rather, she produced such absurdly great results that there were even rumors it was exaggerated or partially fabricated.

That many enemies were jealous of her.

Of course, a wise person would try to make Seo-yeon an ally somehow.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Kang Seo-hyuk. I've heard a lot from Actor Jeong Eun-seon."

He smiled and greeted her as he looked at Seo-yeon.

Of course, his mouth smiled, but his eyes didn't.

Hearing Seo-yeon's rumors, she wasn't exactly a welcome figure for Kang Seo-hyuk.

'The release date of our movie this time overlaps with Gyeongseong Lady.'

In other words, they were in a position where they had to fight for audiences.

Of course, Kang Seo-hyuk never thought he would lose.

Naturally.

First, the genre's specificity.

Kang Seo-hyuk's was an anti-Japanese drama that guaranteed at least 5 million viewers when it aired in Korea, and its scale was incomparable to .

On the other hand, only had a Japanese colonial period setting, and didn't particularly reveal such elements.

Above all, a film with homosexual elements.

There was no way there would be many viewers.

However.

'The fact that this kid is involved is a concern.'

It's only been a year.

A moment like a flash in an actor's life, but the activities shown in that time were too great to dismiss as merely one year.

Moreover, the problem was that Joo Seo-yeon wasn't the only one in this movie.

"Hello, Teacher Kang Seo-hyuk."

A woman squeezing in between Seo-yeon and Kang Seo-hyuk.

As if she had just arrived at the filming set, Jo Seo-hee looked at him with a bright smile.

Her attitude was as if she were protecting Seo-yeon from him.

"Hello, Seo-hee miss. It's been a while."

In his eyes, the young Jo Seo-hee was reflected.

Was the last time he met her at her mother's funeral 10 years ago?

Although she had been actively working for nearly 10 years, this was the first time they'd met on set.

"I'm relieved to see you seem healthy."

"…Thank you."

"Your mother would be pleased too. Since there's a daughter who inherited her will."

At those words, Seo-hee's eyes narrowed, then she smiled brightly.

"Thank you for your concern."

"Well, I also have filming to do."

After saying that, Kang Seo-hyuk slowly turned his back and left the filming set.

Joo Seo-yeon and Jo Seo-hee.

Essentially, the future of female actresses.

'There are some unsettling parts.'

Kang Seo-hyuk thought so as he left the filming set.

And while coming out, he saw a large van parked nearby.

'Is that the van Jo Seo-hee came in?'

That raised a question.

But for some reason, it bothered him.

"Hmph."

Seo-hee scoffed and sneered at the place where Kang Seo-hyuk had disappeared.

"Apology, my foot."

She roughly guessed the reason Kang Seo-hyuk came.

He must be bothered because 's filming started unexpectedly quickly.

Seeing Seo-hee glaring at Kang Seo-hyuk's arrival with a scowling face, the words Seo-yeon just heard strangely bothered her.

'A daughter who inherited her will?'

Seo-yeon hadn't particularly asked about Seo-hee's family situation.

Seo-hee herself hadn't specifically mentioned it either.

But Actor Kang Seo-hyuk's words just now were quite meaningful.

"Kang Seo-hyuk, that friend's personality is originally like that."

As Seo-yeon was thinking that, a familiar voice was heard.

When she turned her head.

"Ah, hello, Actor Lee Sang-soo."

Seo-yeon bowed and greeted.

Because Lee Sang-soo in light clothing was standing there.

"While preparing for filming, I quickly hid because of that friend. Sigh, what is he trying to hide so much."

The internal situation was unavoidable, but there was nothing good about it being known to an outsider like Kang Seo-hyuk.

"Anyway."

Actor Lee Sang-soo smiled as he looked at Seo-yeon.

"Today is the first shoot with you, Seo-yeon."

Seeing him smile as if internally expectant, Seo-yeon nodded.

Today was Seo-yeon and Seo-hee.

And then the day to film Seo-yeon and Lee Sang-soo's parts.

Since Seo-yeon's schedule was tight, they planned to film the parts featuring Seo-yeon first whenever there was a chance.

"I'm looking forward to it."

Lee Sang-soo said, looking at Seo-yeon with serious eyes.

Because the biggest reason he returned to the film industry was to act directly with Seo-yeon.

"Of course."

At his words, Seo-yeon smiled gently.

As if saying it was fine to look forward to it.

And.

The briefly stirred filming set settled down.

The filming began in earnest.