Was it because of her past life memories?
Seoyeon had never paid much attention to her weight even in her past life.
It was quite common for men to not care about their own weight.
Even after reincarnating, Seoyeon still retained that habit; unless it was something special, she rarely ever weighed herself.
Besides.
‘I'm this slim.’
Whenever Seoyeon looked in the mirror, she would smile triumphantly at her slender waistline reflected back.
Thanks to consistently working out since she was young, she had a body without an ounce of extra fat.
Then, around the time she started going to the gym in earnest and got her InBody checked.
“?”
She realized something was off in many ways.
Among those, what caught Seoyeon's eye was her weight.
“Hmm. With this level of muscle mass, it's on the lighter side.”
“…….”
The fitness trainer had said so, but there was a part that was hard to accept.
No, more than that, this gender-swapped body is way too strong.
Isn't the graph a bit strange?
‘Hmm.’
Although such doubts arose, she figured what did it matter since she had been reincarnated anyway.
Compared to being reborn, having a somewhat sturdy body was well within the realm of possibility.
With that thought, she decided to forget about the memory of her weight.
It wasn't like anyone was going to carry her anyway, so who would know her weight?
However.
“Miss Seoyeon?”
At Professor Kim Hong-baek asking again, Seoyeon felt a deep internal conflict.
She had come all this way thanks to Director Bae Jin-hwan's introduction; showing discourtesy here would be an insult to him as well.
“Ah, I haven't weighed myself recently.”
Barely managing to spit out those words.
“Then, let's check it first. The scale is right over there.”
Why is there a scale at the academy?
Although the question crossed her mind, it was an action school, so it made sense.
Professor Kim Hong-baek found Seoyeon's stiffness odd but didn't pay it much mind.
He merely assumed she was sensitive about her weight because she was a female actress.
However, this had to be accurately recorded.
Only then could the intensity of the action be appropriately adjusted.
“…….”
Seoyeon stared silently at the scale placed before her.
It was a relief, at the very least, that the other actors were far away.
She could feel Professor Kim Hong-baek's gaze.
Realizing she couldn't avoid it anyway, Seoyeon stepped onto the scale.
An analog scale, not a digital one.
Holding a pen, Professor Kim Hong-baek watched intently as the needle moved.
‘Let's see, 30, 40, 50, 60…’
The speed at which the needle tilted was unusual.
“Huh?”
Just as Kim Hong-baek's eyes widened as he watched the needle continue to tilt.
Seoyeon hastily stepped off the scale.
Her face was flushed bright red.
For the record, her irises had also turned bright red, and she was glaring at the scale.
“Hmm.”
At that moment, Professor Kim Hong-baek, who had been quietly observing Seoyeon, furrowed his brow.
“It seems the scale is broken.”
“…….”
“Unfortunately, please weigh yourself separately next time and let me know.”
Recalling the number that had just been displayed on the scale, Kim Hong-baek shook his head.
He figured it must have broken easily because it was an old model.
“Your height is 165cm… correct?”
“Yes.”
Her height was fairly average.
Neither too tall nor too short, just an average height.
‘As I thought, there must have been some error with the weight.’
Kim Hong-baek reached that conclusion.
Looking at Seoyeon's current physique, it was a weight that simply shouldn't be possible.
***
Although there was a small mishap, it didn't hinder her classes at all.
First of all, today was the first day.
Seeing the other trainees glancing their way, it seemed Seoyeon's presence was quite a distraction to them.
Well, judging purely by her appearance, she looked far removed from action scenes.
From their perspective, it felt like a naive actress was just acting on a whim.
Forcing such action sequences without properly conditioning the body could easily lead to severe injuries.
‘Director Bae Jin-hwan couldn't possibly be unaware of that.’
Yet the fact that he had gone out of his way to recommend her meant he saw something in Seoyeon.
“There are a lot of running scenes in
“Ah, yes.”
“Then how about you run for a bit? I was informed that you're fast on your feet.”
Saying so, Kim Hong-baek led Seoyeon to the training ground outside the action school.
A line that looked to be roughly 50 meters.
Of course, Kim Hong-baek wasn't trying to check exactly how fast Seoyeon could run.
The important thing was her form.
A sense of speed could be covered by camera work and directing anyway.
However, the running form was crucial.
The act of running.
He knew she had already received the OK sign during filming, but Kim Hong-baek wanted to check it for himself.
First of all, Director Bae Jin-hwan had recommended Seoyeon after seeing her run.
Naturally, a few trainees lingered around the area to watch.
It was break time anyway, and they were curious to see just how good she was.
“Then.”
Kim Hong-baek raised his hand and swiftly brought it down.
The signal to run.
Seoyeon, who had just stood at the line and finished preparing, saw this and kicked off the ground.
Her elastic body pitched forward, bursting out in a single bound.
“……Hmm.”
Two thoughts crossed Kim Hong-baek's mind as he quietly watched.
The regret of ‘Ah, I should have timed that.’
The second was.
‘Why is she an actress?’
The fact that other actors couldn't match that speed.
It made sense why Director Bae Jin-hwan had recommended the action school just from seeing her run.
No, she was practically flying.
Why was someone who should be in the National Sports Festival here?
“First of all, it was all great, but.”
Still, being fast on her feet didn't mean there were no issues.
“I think you should change your form a bit.”
“Pardon?”
Looking at Seoyeon, who hadn't broken a single drop of sweat, Kim Hong-baek marveled once again.
At first, he had been a bit indifferent, but now it was different.
Seeing that athletic ability, he couldn't help but covet her talent.
The National Sports Festival aside, if she was an actress with this level of physical ability….
‘If I teach her properly, she'll become truly incredible.’
Kim Hong-baek was a master who had cultivated the top action actors in the country.
In his eyes, Seoyeon was a diamond in the rough.
One with guaranteed success, at that.
What if he polished it to shine just a little?
Then she would become one of the actors to bring glory to the Cheonghong Action School.
“When you say I should change my form…”
“Right now, Miss Seoyeon, you run too much like an athlete.”
Which was why she was incredibly fast.
But if Cha Seo-ah ran like that, it would definitely feel out of place.
Seoyeon immediately understood Professor Kim Hong-baek's critique.
“Action acting is, ultimately, acting. The action must change depending on the character.”
Even a simple running motion was the same.
Cha Seo-ah was a murderer, not an athlete.
She wasn't a superhuman, just a broken human being.
“First of all, your form is something that can be fixed with practice. We'll go through the other actions step by step later as well.”
“Ah, yes.”
At Professor Kim Hong-baek's suddenly enthusiastic words, Seoyeon nodded, slightly flustered.
Somehow, his attitude felt entirely different.
Meanwhile, the trainees watching from the sidelines felt differently.
‘That doesn't even make sense.’
It was just utterly ridiculous.
***
After that, Seoyeon's days were extremely busy.
As soon as school ended, she headed straight to the filming set.
On days without filming, she had to go to the action school.
That wasn't to say she was overwhelmingly busy; she could still work while getting adequate rest.
Of course, that was solely based on Seoyeon's standards.
For a normal teenage actor, it wouldn't have been strange if they had collapsed a long time ago.
However, even now, Seoyeon was holding a gamepad in her hands without resting.
Seoyeon's personal room at the agency.
She had brought all the consoles she couldn't play at home due to feeling self-conscious, and left them here.
Of course, no one at home actually gave her a hard time for playing games.
Her mother, Soo-ah, didn't mind since Seoyeon took good care of her own responsibilities.
Her father, Young-bin, would occasionally come by, watch quietly from the side, and walk away muttering, “My daughter sucks at this.”
Anyway, apart from her father grating on Seoyeon's nerves.
Playing games at home just felt uncomfortable for various reasons.
That was because, considering her disastrous gaming record, she couldn't help but feel self-conscious.
‘I still need to practice, though.’
The humiliation she felt on
Even now, she was proudly ranking on community forums as a “celebrity who sucks at games.”
It was so humiliating and shameful that her body trembled from the disgrace.
A true man could not tolerate the words “You suck at games” more than any other insult.
Even though Seoyeon had become a woman now, that sentiment remained, so she couldn't just swallow the insult that she sucked at games.
The next time she went on an observational variety show or whatever, she would definitely get her revenge.
And she would make the words “You're good” come out of her father Young-bin's mouth.
With that determination firmly set in her heart, she was undergoing special training.
“Seoyeon!”
Just then, Park Eun-ha opened the door to Seoyeon's waiting room, where she was engrossed in her game, and walked in.
Seeing Seoyeon gaming without a moment of rest, her eyes widened.
‘This kid's stamina is seriously unreal.’
Normally, it wouldn't be strange for her to be lying down like a corpse, but Seoyeon hadn't rested even once.
From Park Eun-ha's perspective, gaming was labor.
She didn't slack off at school, and never missed a shoot.
On weekends, she even went to the action school.
Seeing Seoyeon like this, she looked like a person born to be an actor.
“Is something up?”
At Seoyeon's question as she paused her game, Park Eun-ha belatedly nodded.
“Ah, yeah. It's really good news.”
“Good news?”
“A commercial came in! A commercial!”
A commercial.
Naturally, commercials were like a barometer of popularity for celebrities.
In the first place, receiving commercial offers meant the celebrity had public recognition.
And this was already Seoyeon's second commercial offer!
Although she had unfortunately rejected the first one, the second one came rolling in right away.
‘The only thing she had properly appeared in so far was
Yet commercial offers were coming in like this.
The play had been a success, but that wasn't a particularly attractive factor for advertisers.
It was simply the buzz surrounding Seoyeon.
It meant the charm she had shown in
“……By any chance, this isn't a gamepad commercial again, is it?”
The commercial she had already rejected once.
When Seoyeon asked with a suspicious look, Park Eun-ha shook her head.
“Don't worry, it's nothing like that. You'll like this one too, Seoyeon.”
“Really?”
Then what kind of commercial could it be?
So far, Seoyeon had filmed two commercials.
Both when she was a child actress.
One was a soy milk commercial.
The other was a children's nutritional supplement commercial.
In particular, the children's nutritional supplement commercial became a huge issue because it was released right after Seoyeon had announced her hiatus.
Naturally, the supplements sold like hotcakes…, to the point where the advertiser requested if Seoyeon could film one more commercial for them.
And this was the third one.
What kind of commercial could it be? The moment Seoyeon was secretly anticipating it.
“A cosmetics commercial!”
“…….”
In truth, cosmetics commercials were proof of both beauty and popularity for female celebrities.
Truly popular idols or actors.
And unless you had a pretty face, you wouldn't get cosmetics commercial offers.
It was a truly exceptional case for Seoyeon to receive a cosmetics commercial offer.
It was highly likely they were investing in Seoyeon's future rather than her current popularity.
However.
“Cos, metics?”
From Seoyeon's perspective, it was a rather flustering commercial.