LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 107: Yeon Seo.
Chapter 107 < Yeon Seo. >
-Who said that Yeon Seo was cast as the lead in Director Cheon’s movie?
They’re making up rumors without any official confirmation, and they’re cursing and bashing her as they please. Do they think they can get away with it by saying sorry later? They better be prepared to face a lawsuit.
-Yeon Seo was just doing her job, but she’s getting attacked from all sides.
Thanks to that, she realized how many people are trying to sabotage her.
└She always had a lot of enemies, but it’s crazy these days.
└No wonderㅋㅋ She’s already successful, and now she has power in the industry tooㅋㅋ
-I knew this would happen.
Why aren’t the people who were trashing her when she was the main character coming out now?
└It’s so unfair for the poor actressㅠㅠ I’m not even a fan of Yeon Seo, but I feel sorry for her.
└The problem is that they think they can bash her just because she’s Yeon Seo. The actress herself might act like she doesn’t care, but who knows what she feels inside?
└└Agree
└I wish they would sue them all, even if they didn’t participate in the flame war.
└└Don’t worry, they probably will.
I didn’t care at all. Rather, I was thinking of using this opportunity to my advantage.
‘······I feel good.’
After this incident, more people left supportive messages for her on the fan cafe. It felt good to have people who supported her. How could they like her so much when they only saw the image of her in the media?
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Director Cheon’s work also entered the pre-production stage, preparing for the production. Most things were decided at this stage, so there was hardly any trouble on the set. And during this period, the investors who put in the money had a lot of power.
“Did you secure the assistant director?”
“The conditions are very good, and since it’s Director Cheon, I think they’ll sign without any difficulty.”
Since Director Cheon had been away from the film industry for a long time, the first priority was to find a competent assistant director. If the director was only involved in directing, the assistant director would take care of the minor details such as schedule management and location.
Depending on how the assistant director arranged the schedule, the production cost could vary by hundreds of millions of won, so the position of the assistant director was also stronger these days.
‘No matter how much money they have, they should stop wasting it.’
Yeon Seo prioritized hiring an assistant director who was famous for their skills and high price in the industry.
“I’ll send you the schedule as soon as it comes out. Director.”
He didn’t really have much to do with it, and the person that Choi Yoo-jin recommended did everything. He heard that there were quite a few people who applied to be his secretary… Well, it would be easier for them to serve a boss who didn’t have much work to do and had a separate main job.
“Good job. You can go now.”
“Okay.”
Even though he said he would focus on his acting career, Choi Yoo-jin didn’t buy his argument that he didn’t have to do anything. In the end, Yeon Seo, who got an office at JSENM headquarters, leaned back on his chair as if he was lying down. As expected of a large corporation, the chair was better than the one of the CEO.
“Mr. Im Seung-hyun, how did the thing I asked you to look into go?”
“Here it is. But… I didn’t find much.”
Im Seung-hyun handed him a tablet. On the screen, there was information about the agency of Lee Hee-seo’s group, Twinkle, and the staff at the time.
“Is this the answer?”
“Yes.”
Im Seung-hyun looked ashamed. Yeon Seo sighed softly. Well, the internet wasn’t well developed at that time, and the president of the agency at that time would be old by now, so the people who knew him would have retired.
‘Would the CEO know something?’
Maybe they were in different age groups? But they were in the same industry, so maybe they knew someone who knew someone. Yeon Seo relaxed his furrowed brow.
Since he got an office and didn’t have to go to the agency, the CEO’s face lit up. He thought he should stop by and ruin his mood.
“What about the stalker?”
“We found one more person besides the three we already found, but we can’t find any clues.”
“Who is that person?”
“He’s Lee Hee-seo’s elementary school classmate. He’s currently living in the U.S. If you turn to the next page, you’ll see his personal information.”
It was endless. Yeon Seo stared at the picture on the screen. He wasn’t sure if this person was the real culprit or not. He hadn’t synced his memories of that day, and the only suspicious part was that the young him pointed out a ‘stranger’.
“Sir.”
“Huh?”
“You’ll hurt your ear if you keep scratching it.”
Yeon Seo stopped scratching his ear habitually. His ear was weird these days. The hospital said there was nothing wrong with it…
“You’ve been scratching it a lot lately.”
“I know, it’s annoying. Is someone cursing me?”
He turned his head sharply. Lee Tae-gyeom, who was looking around the office, rolled his eyes.
“Why are you looking at me?”
Lee Tae-gyeom had grown up a lot. He used to flail his arms and say ‘Not me, not me!’ when he was flustered. Yeon Seo’s mysterious bleeding stopped after he found out, and he seemed to have matured a bit. So it wasn’t fun to tease him anymore.
“Ugh, boring.”
“Hey, did you take your medicine?”
“Sir, you didn’t skip it, did you?”
Now the two of them are nagging me. Yoo Yeon Seo sighed and took out a small pill case from his pocket. It was something that Lim Seunghyun had given him almost by force.
“I’ll take it, okay? It’s not a big deal.”
As if this would make me stop spitting blood. They don’t know anything. He swallowed the iron supplements and other vitamins without water.
“Hey, don’t you feel sick after taking all that?”
Lee Taegyeom quickly handed him a bottle of water. Yoo Yeon Seo took it and drank it. He couldn’t tease him anymore, but he liked the fact that he was moving briskly.
“What’s my schedule like?”
“That’s it for today.”
The answer came from Lim Seunghyun. Yoo Yeon Seo got up and opened the door of the office.
“Are you going home?”
“No, to the agency.”
He had to deal with it as soon as he thought of it.
“Sir. Are you leaving?”
“Just finish up and go home.”
Oh, please don’t do this. It’s burdensome. Yoo Yeon Seo stopped his secretary from getting up with his hand and frowned slightly as he left the company.
That day, a photo of Yoo Yeon Seo who came to the company was posted on the online community for office workers, and many people liked the fact that our director had a delicate beauty even when he frowned.
“Twinkle agency?”
“More precisely, the agency of the deceased Lee Heeseo.”
The president’s eyes widened in surprise. Young people these days might not know much about Twinkle, but the president was old enough to know that Twinkle, especially Lee Heeseo, was an icon that had influenced a generation.
“Uh… can we talk about it now?”
“What can’t we do?”
The president vaguely guessed that Yoo Yeon Seo was emotionally involved in something related to Lee Heeseo. It was obvious that he was referring to the incident of changing the director of ‘Emergency’.
“Hmm… if you look for people who worked in that era and started their own agencies, you might find some.”
“Really?”
It was a hopeful answer. Yoo Yeon Seo buried himself in the chair and sank into his thoughts.
“Well, right there, the old man from S Entertainment was active in that era… I’ll look into it. But why do you need that?”
“I’m curious. Anyway, please do me a favor. It’s important.”
“Do you just need to dig up some dirt on that company?”
Lim Seunghyun had already investigated the basic information. He wasn’t interested in that.
“It would be nice if I could find out what happened to the manager who worked there.”
“And?”
“What the president of the agency tried to do with my mother, and how many stalkers there were, and if he knows anything about that. Anyway, everything that can be scraped.”
The president closed his mouth without saying anything.
“You know that no one should know that I’m digging this up, right? Just drop some hints, okay?”
“I know. You want me to be discreet. I used to be an actor, you know.”
But you never got past being an extra, did you? Yoo Yeon Seo narrowed his eyes and looked at the president. The president chuckled at the suspicious gaze.
“Hey, do you think I would blabber about this to anyone? If I talk about anything related to you, I might end up dumped in the sea near Busan. How would you like that?”
“Mr. Han, do you think I’m some kind of gangster from a movie? Don’t you have a weird imagination?”
“Your existence itself is violent to the industry. Anyway, I got it.”
“Just don’t tell anyone, ever.”
“Fine, I get it. But why is that company suddenly investigating? It’s been more than 40 years…”
“I’ll tell you later.”
Mr. Han, who looked at Yeon Seo with suspicious eyes, smiled slyly when he heard that he would pay him more for more information.
“Then I’ll go.”
“Yeah, go ahead. And from now on, stop coming here and call me instead.”
“I don’t want to.”
Mr. Han didn’t say anything nice until the end and headed to the parking lot. Lee Tae-gyeom watched Yeon Seo’s figure with curiosity.
“…But, can I ask you one thing?”
“What is it?”
“Why are you investigating that thing related to Twinkle?”
Lee Tae-gyeom thought he didn’t waste his years of following Yeon Seo. This was the time to use the clueless bastard strategy.
“…Why do you ask?”
“Huh.”
At his question, even Lim Seung-hyun perked up his ears and looked at Yeon Seo.
‘I guess it’s okay to tell them now.’
They already knew the secret he tried to hide. And after seeing them for years, he trusted them enough…
Yeon Seo hesitated for a moment and opened his mouth.
“My biological mother.”
“Huh, her. Why her?”
Lee Tae-gyeom egged him on, thinking he would tell him everything.
“I think she didn’t commit suicide.”
“What?”
Yeon Seo walked ahead after dropping the bombshell. Lee Tae-gyeom and Lim Seung-hyun, who were stunned, followed him a beat late.
“Is, is that true?”
“Mr. Lim, get him out of my way.”
“No! But, seriously, honestly… Does that make sense? Do you have any doubts?”
Seriously, honestly. He used all four of the Korean grammar staples. Yeon Seo spat out with annoyance.
“I do, that’s why I’m investigating.”
…But I don’t remember everything.
That’s how he spent January 2021 as an internal director of JSENM, learning the ropes and working on the pre-production of Cheon’s project. And he was busy with the promotional interviews for the upcoming ‘Deprived People Season 2’.
<Random memory synchronization completed, synchronization rate 43.16%>
He had been receiving memories from time to time, but he had to know the whole 26 years of a person, so he was synchronizing even the trivial things.
He didn’t get much out of today’s memory. When would he find a clue to the culprit…
“Ugh…”
He had seen Lee Hee-seo’s illusion often, but that was fine. Even if he bled a little later, even if he felt dirty at the time… Well, his healthy soul’s mental state would recover and the dirty feeling would disappear, so it was bearable.
[Yeon Seo.]
But today was strange.
‘What the…’
What was that?
Yeon Seo turned around after finishing the cleanup. There was nothing there, of course. He scratched his ears nervously and went to the living room. His whole body felt prickly.
[Yeon Seo.]
Yeon Seo turned his head around and looked around. He stopped at one spot. The familiar figure was hanging from the fancy chandelier. He swallowed hard at the woman’s voice calling his name.
So, if I heard it right, this is…
“Ah, damn it.”
What’s wrong with you, Yeon Seo? Did you hear voices too?