It happened literally in an instant.
Ji Yeon, who had headbutted Seo Yeon, shouting such a line.
'Was there a line like that?'
'No, there definitely shouldn't be a line like that in the script?'
'Then was it all ad-libbed?'
The staff exchanged such glances and conversed in hushed voices.
It couldn't be helped.
From the moment Ji Yeon fell and headbutted Seo Yeon, it was already an NG.
Because the scene wasn't originally planned with that in mind.
However, with Ji Yeon's line, the intense atmosphere suddenly lightened and became airy.
There was no more appropriate action to cool down their fight than this.
Because Yeon Seon-ye, who had a weak presence until now and was caught between both sides, could only show that level of action.
Moreover, the reason the staff were confused whether Ji Yeon's line was an ad-lib or not was because the line didn't end with just one sentence.
"I've never liked you, you wicked bitch. Miss, stay right there. I'll teach her a proper lesson."
Saying that, she grabbed Yuina's hair—who had just taken a headbutt to the face—and rolled her right on the floor.
On top of that, as they rolled, she whispered to Yuina as if telling her a secret.
That series of lines was so natural that it seemed as if it had been included in the original script.
Even Director Baek Min, who knew the script inside out, momentarily looked back at the script.
Because the lines and acting were so perfectly suited to the play.
'Her instantaneous judgment is good.'
Director Baek Min lowered the hand he had raised to call NG again, and looked at Ji Yeon with renewed eyes.
To be honest, Director Baek Min did not evaluate Ji Yeon's acting as highly as Seo Yeon's or Jo Seo-hee's.
Her acting wasn't bad.
Compared to other actors of a similar age, it was certainly a decent level.
However, by Director Baek Min's standards, a level that was just decent compared to her peers was by no means a passing grade.
'But the color she showed at the audition was a perfect fit for Yeon Seon-ye.'
A relatively plain acting style.
That was why it suited Yeon Seon-ye.
Moreover, her unique, gently fluttering atmosphere quite pleased Director Baek Min.
'Should I call it reaction speed? She knows how to handle a crisis when it strikes.'
Of course, even if she knows, using it immediately is usually difficult.
In fact, even Jo Seo-hee and Seo Yeon right now were flustered by the sudden mishap, weren't they?
The reason they could continue acting in that situation was because Lee Ji Yeon immediately shouted a 'line' that fit the play.
A line that could drag the derailed script back to its original scene.
From the moment she headbutted, all of Yeon Seon-ye's lines were Lee Ji Yeon's ad-libs.
Everything from that point on.
"No, are you crazy? Do you want to see me die? What is this in broad daylight. Why don't you just blabber that I sneaked in to slit your throats?"
At this time, it was still a situation where Yeon Seon-ye hadn't been caught by Michiko as the person Yuina had hidden.
Michiko also vaguely suspected it, but since Yeon Seon-ye hadn't revealed it herself yet.
However, the line Yuina had just spat out.
With the added emotion Seo Yeon had interpreted, it became extremely meaningful.
Because when she spat out the words saying she had everything, her gaze swept past Yeon Seon-ye.
It was naturally a part not in the script.
Probably, Seo Yeon interpreted it as 'Yuina would have done so.'
Yuina's hand, which was about to counterattack those words, flinched and looked at Yeon Seon-ye.
At her gaze, Yeon Seon-ye, thinking it had already come to this anyway, just headbutted Yuina once more, and they rolled away from each other.
"Look at our Miss, her pretty clothes are all ruined."
"S-Seon-ye. Your head is bleeding."
"Ugh, I know. Ugh, it really hurts. How is the Miss's head so hard. Just a moment."
Yeon Seon-ye roughly wiped her head with her sleeve, then extended her hand toward Michiko.
"Miss, take my hand."
"H-Huh?"
"Are you just going to stay like this? With this many spectators, are you going to keep fighting? Ah, she's glaring. Hurry up and take it, what are you doing?"
Yeon Seon-ye's urgent words.
Michiko alternated her gaze between Yeon Seon-ye's hand extended toward her and Yuina's face, which was looking at her with a flustered expression.
And.
"Hmph, what a sight. Very well, let us go. Seon-ye."
She took her hand and stood up, and like that, she was led away by Yeon Seon-ye's hand, running through the crowd.
Holding hands, they unconsciously burst into laughter together.
Like that, the two running through the crowd.
The cameras reflexively followed the two of them.
And, a few remaining cameras caught Yuina, who was looking at their retreating figures with a complicated gaze.
However, that was only for a moment.
Yuina, who had been watching the two completely disappear, smirked.
"Right, I've become quite a laughingstock."
The surrounding crowd looked at her.
The extras looked at her with bewildered eyes.
Probably, those gazes were definitely not acting.
Because the series of situations were lines and scenes that were nowhere in the script.
No.
They were there, but it never felt like this.
"What are you looking at?"
Yuina fiercely glared at the crowd looking at her.
The crowd who received her gaze flustered and scattered just like that.
Yuina then picked up her briar pipe that had fallen among the crowd.
"…To me, too."
After casting a glance in the direction Yeon Seon-ye and Michiko had disappeared, she slowly turned her back.
A lonely back, contrasting with the two who ran off holding hands and laughing brightly.
The camera captured those sights, and the scene concluded.
***
Looking back after it was all completely over, it was the same as the contents of the script.
Yeon Seon-ye taking the disheveled Michiko and disappearing, and Yuina watching the two with complicated eyes, ending there.
However, Michiko and Yeon Seon-ye running off holding hands and sporting mischievous smiles.
And, Yuina's meaningful line spat out at the end.
These elements were not in the script, but were newly reinterpreted parts.
Above all.
"All of Yeon Seon-ye's lines were ad-libs, right?"
"Really? No, I thought it was so natural that it was in the script. Even the fall wasn't acting, she really fell, right?"
"I also thought, ah, this went wrong..."
To think she would immediately and naturally spit out a line right there.
Seo Yeon and Jo Seo-hee.
The two's acting had raised the immersion level to such an extreme that it was a situation where other actors couldn't easily interject.
If Yeon Seon-ye had simply blocked Michiko and interjected as originally intended, the picture would have been very strange.
Because while it matched the scene, it would have been a form that gave no impact as a protagonist.
However, she turned this simple accident into the action of a 'protagonist'.
"Even if all of Yeon Seon-ye's lines were ad-libs... the two who received them are amazing too."
"Because the two even slightly changed the nuance of the lines that were originally in the script."
So the scene continued naturally.
The changed elements were corrected as Yeon Seon-ye immediately spat out lines.
"Wow, this was filmed really well. Look at this."
The camera director said, showing the captured image of Michiko and Yeon Seon-ye running away with a smile.
"This came out really well?"
"There's no music, but why does it feel like music is playing?"
"Ah, I thought so too, this is definitely a romance. Right."
A great reception from the staff.
A scene that came out so well that even the actors who saw the filmed video were bewildered.
Of course, separately from that.
"I-I'm sorry. I strayed significantly from the script..."
Ji Yeon cautiously approached Director Baek Min and brought up an apology.
For reference, she had a bandage wrapped around her head.
It seemed that getting hurt from headbutting Seo Yeon's face was real.
It was a question why Seo Yeon, who was hit once each on the face and the head, was fine, while Ji Yeon, who headbutted twice, had her head split.
'Damn sturdy girl.'
Of course, Ji Yeon didn't care about an injury of that degree.
The important thing was whether Director Baek Min would pass over the series of acting or not.
'What if he tells us to shoot it again?'
For whatever reason, Ji Yeon had acted deviating from the script's content and the emotion Director Baek Min wanted to capture.
This was a wrong thing to do, separate from the excellent ad-lib.
If one acts arbitrarily thinking it's better, why would a director be needed?
At Ji Yeon's action of bowing her head, Director Baek Min had a face deep in thought for a moment.
Naturally, the staff who were smiling while watching the filmed scenes also flinched and couldn't help but freeze.
'He's not going to tell us to reshoot this, is he?'
'If it's Director Baek Min, it's usually more normal for him to want to reshoot.'
'Oh my, but it's too much of a waste for that.'
As everyone nervously watched Baek Min, he seemed to feel the surrounding atmosphere and let out a hollow laugh.
"How exactly are you viewing me? I won't shoot it, I won't shoot it again. It's a good scene. Yes, honestly I screamed NG a hundred times on the inside, but this is right for this. Of course, separately from that..."
Baek Min patted Ji Yeon's shoulder and said.
"Since the acting just now started from an accident, I'm thinking of letting it pass. And, because they were also lines meant to bring it back to the original script in the end. It's just that the feeling differs from the emotion of the scene I intended to direct."
Originally, it was a heavier feeling.
Emotional excess.
A part that utilized that element to the extreme.
However, although that element faded slightly, the degree of completion as a scene went up.
Rather, he quite liked Yuina's emotion revealed implicitly without being overt.
While Baek Min was thinking like that, someone approached him.
"Young actors these days are quite scary, aren't they. When I think of my youth, it's truly astonishing."
It was actor Lee Sang-soo.
As the situation seemed to have been sorted out, he brought up such words to clean up the disheveled atmosphere.
Because he was worried that Baek Min's mind might change.
"...Right. The fact that each has their own color is also an amazing part."
Clearly, the most outstanding acting was Seo Yeon's.
Even the last line.
'Right, if it's Yuina, she would definitely have said that.'
That line was definitely the emotion Baek Min wanted.
More complex and heavy.
Unlike the other two, only Yuina was Director Baek Min's.
That's why he let it pass too.
Because the most important central emotion was what he intended.
'She definitely recognized it and acted like that.'
The lightened atmosphere.
The loosened acting of Yeon Seon-ye and Michiko.
The contrasting color with that side.
Probably, Seo Yeon knew.
That Yuina shouldn't act to match their color, but should stick to the originally set acting.
'Lee Ji Yeon's judgment is completely unexpected, but in Seo Yeon's case... should I say as expected.'
It's the same that this side is fast.
In the first place, she should have been out of her mind from the moment she was hit in the face, but she was observing Ji Yeon's acting with her eyes.
As if she expected her to spit out an ad-lib.
Thinking up to that point, Baek Min smiled at Ji Yeon, who was reading his mood, and said.
"Miss Ji Yeon and Miss Seo Yeon, you said you two are long-time friends, right?"
"Huh? Ah, yes. We've known each other since kindergarten."
"As expected."
"...Yes?"
"Haha, it's nothing."
Just as Seo Yeon expected Ji Yeon to ad-lib here, probably Ji Yeon also subconsciously thought that if it were Seo Yeon, she would accept her ad-lib.
He quite liked the chemistry between the two.
Above all.
'So, when the two ran holding hands with Michiko, more emotion was loaded.'
A complicated gaze.
However, what was most intensely revealed on the surface of those complicated emotions was a slightly pointed jealousy.
Director Baek Min liked that more than anything else.
***
'Completely Lamiel.'
At the sight of Lee Ji Yeon running with Jo Seo-hee at the end, Seo Yeon unconsciously overlaid a 3D avatar.
No, it sounds like something very severe, but it can't be helped.
In the first place, Yeon Seon-ye's acting was based on Lamiel's acting.
'As expected, Ji Yeon has good coping ability.'
This was something she had known since her past life.
Whether it's a virtual YouTuber or a regular YouTuber, one of the important abilities for them was coping ability.
Since they broadcast live every time, there were often embarrassing incidents.
Naturally, Lamiel, who belonged to 'Seven Live', the most popular vtuber group at the time.
Because she had a standout popularity even among them, she was often entangled in various incidents.
Every time, Lamiel cleverly escaped the situation.
'So that shines when doing ad-libs?'
Seo Yeon looked at Ji Yeon sitting next to her with a somewhat sour gaze.
The day after filming ended.
Ji Yeon looked unusually excited.
Usually, Seo Yeon went to Ji Yeon's class when leaving school, but today Ji Yeon came to find Seo Yeon first.
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"Seo Yeon, why do you keep looking at me like that."
"It's nothing."
"Nothing my foot. It's all over your face?"
Ji Yeon was just puzzled by Seo Yeon, who was strangely pouting.
Because even Ji Yeon couldn't imagine that this reaction had anything to do with Lamiel.
Of course, Seo Yeon wasn't really pouting from the bottom of her heart either.
She was just being a little obvious about it.
In the first place, that wasn't what was important right now.
Seo Yeon, erasing her pouting expression, said with a slightly troubled voice.
"But when visiting a sick person, do you usually buy flowers or something? Lilies?"
"Why don't you just tell me to drop dead."
Ji Yeon let out a hollow laugh.
For reference, the place the two were heading to was Jo Seo-hee's house, which they had visited just a few days ago.
As for why they were visiting her.
"You beat her up too hard."
"...I didn't particularly beat her."
It was just acting.
Besides, Jo Seo-hee was quite sturdy, so she was fine even if she was thrown around a bit.
Although she was thrown a bit more violently than usual yesterday.
Anyway, Jo Seo-hee was fine until the filming ended, probably running on adrenaline, but after filming ended, she just collapsed.
As a result, Seo Yeon, the assailant(?), naturally had no choice but to go visit Jo Seo-hee.
"But, the house is huge... I wonder who will come out if we ring the doorbell?"
Ji Yeon rang the doorbell of Jo Seo-hee's house gate, ding-dong, with an unconcerned face.
Will the maid ajumma we saw last time come out?
As the two waited with such thoughts.
"Who is it?"
A middle-aged man opened the door and came out.
At his appearance, Ji Yeon momentarily made a face wondering who he was.
And Seo Yeon couldn't help but freeze on the spot.
It couldn't be helped.
Because Seo Yeon possessed a memory where information about most figures who had a hand in this industry came to mind immediately.
That memory immediately told her who the man in front of her was.
'The Chairman of the Newlike Group.'
In other words, Jo Seo-hee's father.