Genius Manager Who Hears Voices - Chapter 59



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Episode 59

“How are you, Ms. Eunha? Is work okay these days?”

After finishing their meal, Heeseong and Im Eunha moved to a nearby cafe.

Heeseong asked after taking a sip of his iced Americano.

Then Im Eun-ha shook her head and sighed deeply.

“Not at all. Can’t you guess it when you see me working like this even on my days off? It’s harder to work than when Hee-sung was here, because we haven’t hired more people.”

“Really? Didn’t you say you were going to hire a lot of interns in the future?”

That was the reason why Heesung had no choice but to leave Line Planning after the two-year contract period.

The goal is to reduce the proportion of irregular workers and now increase the number of interns hired through open recruitment.

Rather than just using them for the duration of the contract and then letting them go, the goal was to select and properly develop talents who would become the future of the company.

In the first place, since Line Planning is not an agency, it does not require a large number of personnel compared to the size of the company, so the plan is to compete on quality rather than quantity.

“It’s not like we can hire as many people as we want. In the first place, open recruitment is only held twice a year. But we can’t just hire people who could become regular employees in the future. Ugh, it’s only gotten harder. We’re just firing all the people who are good at their jobs.”

This is something I’ve felt while working for two years, but not all large companies are perfect.

New policies and plans may seem great and promising at first, but as time passes, many of them end up fizzling out.

Then, in the end, only the people who prepared for it and went through trial and error will have a hard time.

Im Eun-ha, who had been complaining, looked at Hee-sung with a sly smile.

“So, not only me, but also Manager Yang and Manager Kim miss Hee-sung so much. We didn’t realize it when he was there, but he said the empty space he left behind is huge.”

“Did no one join the team after that?”

“No. There was an intern who was hired in the first half of the year. But he left after less than a month. There was no work-life balance at all.”

“Work-life balance… …? An intern looking for a work-life balance?”

“Huh, that’s funny, right? Interns are literally on probation, so their pay is bound to be lower than that of regular employees, but compared to that, there’s just too much work to do. They also always leave work late. I heard you said during the interview that you should either eliminate the probationary pay or insist on leaving work on time?”

“……ah.”

I can roughly imagine what Yang Won-ho’s expression would have been like after hearing that story.

I think it might be almost the same as my face right now.

“That’s why no one can help but feel Hee-sung’s absence. In fact, Hee-sung was in a position where he could have left work early, but he always stayed late with us, held meetings, and worked with us. That’s not something that just anyone can do.”

“Well, Manager Yang took good care of me from behind the scenes. He originally didn’t have any, but he gave me this allowance under various pretexts. I’m grateful for that.”

“Anyway. We’re sad, but we can’t even imagine how happy everyone is that Heesung is doing so well. Don’t you know, these days, the two of you are acting like elementary school students?”

“Two of you? Manager Yang and Manager Kim?”

Im Eun-ha nodded slowly with a smile.

“Hee Sung has become really famous lately. There are a lot of articles about him and people talk about him a lot. If someone mentions him in a restaurant or a smoking area, they get so embarrassed. They pretend to be talking to him while their cell phones are off, and they talk loudly as if they want everyone to hear how close they are to him. Ugh, it’s so embarrassing to hang out with him.”

“ha ha ha.”

“It’s not something to laugh about. This happens several times a day. Have you ever actually received a call from Heesung?”

“I’ve been here a few times, but I don’t think our calls were that long. Just asking how I’m doing and hanging up?”

“There must have been a lot of people lined up in front of me when I made that call. 100%!”

“haha.”

There were such behind-the-scenes stories. As expected, I thought it was typical of Yang Won-ho and Kim Seok-hwan.

As the sunlight streamed in through the window, Im Eun-ha asked Hee-sung this time.

“So, Heesung, are you going to America soon? How long will you be there and come back?”

“Well, I’ll tell him about the contract that happened today, and I think it’ll depend on what he decides. If he says he wants to sign the contract, then he’ll be a member of GEM.”

“Well, I can’t understand how you can think like that, but I find it fascinating.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“That’s right. The first actress that Hee-sung took on was like that, and the male actor this time is like that too. In fact, they created something from almost nothing. But it’s like feeding someone else a well-prepared meal. Hee-sung does all the hard work, and the agencies actually see the profits. Isn’t that right?”

“Well, it’s not like I gained anything at all. I gained money, fame, and that expensive car we rode in together earlier.”

“Hey, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. That’s how much money top stars make in a year. Why don’t you just start your own company, Hee-sung? An entertainment company with your name on it?”

Heeseong just smiled silently at Im Eun-ha’s story, which she brought up quite seriously.

That’s because I’ve already heard a lot of similar stories from people around me, and I’ve also thought about it myself.

“I’ve thought about that too, but I don’t think it’s the right time, even if it’s later. Caring for celebrities and running a company are completely different issues. I think it’s something I’ll consider when I have more experience.”

“Hmm. But don’t you think it’s a shame? Making her a star and then signing her with another company? It’d be like sending off a well-raised child to marry off to someone else’s family… …?”

“Haha, then it’s even better. Because they’re better than me and go to a better family. When I tried being a manager, I realized that I only wanted my celebrity to do well. Strangely enough.”

“Wow, Heesung-ssi, that job really suits you! That’s great. As long as you’re happy and like Heesung-ssi, anything goes! I like it, I like it. Hehe.”

“Oh, this is the plating that Eunha-ssi was talking about earlier? The one she told me to be careful of.”

Im Eun-ha laughed in vain at Hee-sung’s story.

“What the heck is plating? It’s plotting, right? And this is my sincere wish for Heesung to do well. As a former colleague, I’m rooting for you!”

“Haha, okay. I just learned it for the first time today, so I tried it out.”

Even when we worked together at the same company, I don’t think we ever had a conversation like this outside of work.

Maybe it was because we weren’t coworkers anymore, but I felt a lot more comfortable than before.

‘Maybe it’s because my circumstances have changed a lot.’

As Im Eun-ha had good qualifications and went to a good university, I thought there was a big wall at the time, but now it feels like that wall has gotten a little lighter.

Because now he is demonstrating his lacking qualifications through his abilities and results in a completely different field.

“Oh my, oh my. Look at that guy. He’s going to be in big trouble. Shouldn’t someone report him?”

Im Eun-ha, who was drinking chamomile tea and staring out the window, suddenly looked at a certain spot and widened her eyes.

Heeseong turned his head to follow her gaze and saw a man performing dizzying acrobatics in broad daylight.

“That guy must be crazy. What if he gets hit by a truck? He looks completely drunk.”

As Im Eun-ha said, the man was almost in a state of unconsciousness.

Because he was holding a green glass bottle in his hand right now, and its contents were almost empty.

In short, it is a situation where people are dangerously jaywalking while blowing on bottles of soju in broad daylight.

Even though this is a four-lane road without any traffic lights.

“Huh? But doesn’t that person seem familiar?”

Amidst the honking traffic, the man was walking like a zombie, slowly getting closer to the sidewalk.

And the place where Heeseong and Im Eunha were sitting was right in front of the cafe window, and as I saw his face and demeanor approaching, I felt that he seemed quite familiar.

No, to be exact, it was a familiar face.

“That guy, is he Jae-wook Yoo? No, it’s Jae-wook Yoo. Why on earth would he do something like that in broad daylight… .”

Unlike Im Eun-ha, Hee-sung watched the commotion from in front of the elevator very closely.

It was a face I could never forget, even though it had only been two hours.

“That’s Jae-wook Yoo… …? Oh really? That’s really Jae-wook Yoo?”

“Let’s go out first. If we keep doing that, we might get into trouble.”

I hope there won’t be any accidents since he arrived in India safely, but Yoo Jae-wook is a celebrity.

If it becomes known that a celebrity is walking around in broad daylight, even in the middle of a street, blowing a cigarette, it can have a huge negative impact on their image.

There will be dozens of articles and eyewitness accounts with related photos floating around all sorts of communities.

Then, until I die, those photos will be stuffed on the internet forever.

I wouldn’t know if he was a completely unrelated person, but I couldn’t just pretend not to know him since he was CEO Yoo Hyeong-seok’s nephew.

“Ugh! It smells like alcohol… It smells like alcohol… … It doesn’t look like you drank just one bottle. At this rate, it’ll be impossible for me to go home alone.”

As soon as he arrived in India, Yoo Jae-wook collapsed in front of a store.

After surrounding him so that no one could see him, the two began to check on Yoo Jae-wook’s condition.

“Hmm, that’s right. It looks like you drank so much that you became a total idiot. If we hadn’t seen you, you might have stayed here until tomorrow morning.”

“Oh my, no matter how hard it is, it’s like this. What’s going on with a famous celebrity whose face is widely known? What should I do? Should I contact GEM and have them take him away?”

Heeseong, who had been thinking for a moment, shook his head slightly.

“Even if you come right away, it will take at least 15 minutes. Someone might recognize you during that time. Instead, we’ll hand you over ourselves. That’ll be faster.”

Im Eun-ha nodded as if she agreed with that.

And since the parking lot was right in front, Heeseong bent down and carried Jaewook on his back.

Stop.

Knock knock.

“Ugh… … .”

“Oh my! Heesung, are you okay? I just heard something break?”

I’ve never heard anything this heavy in my life.

Still, I was proud that I went to many construction sites and that I was not left behind when it came to hard work.

As I was trying to carry someone who was so drunk that he had no strength left in his body, I felt a gravity that was beyond my imagination.

“Okay, it’s okay. Just close the door… … .”

“Oh, yes!”

Only after Im Eun-ha opened the back door and held onto his lower body was he able to squeeze himself into the back seat.

The sight of him lying on the floor with his legs folded was so striking that he looked more like a corpse than a celebrity.

“Heesung, are you okay? It must have been really heavy. Did you hurt your back?”

“It’s okay. Phew, if Eunha hadn’t helped me, I never would have been able to do it on my own. I didn’t know carrying someone who’s been drinking would be this hard.”

“Of course. I’m holding on completely without using any strength in my entire body. It’ll feel several times heavier than my usual weight.”

“Let’s get on for now. Let’s talk on the phone while we’re on the way.”

If you contact GEM Entertainment on your way there, they will come down in advance and wait for you.

Then I’ll either give him some hangover cure to wake him up or take him home.

Hee-sung started the car and took out his cell phone, wondering who he should contact, since he only knew one number anyway.

“Who should I contact? Do you know anyone, Heesung?”

“Hey, Chief. I don’t want to contact the company for no reason and have word leak out. I’ll just go to GEM Entertainment and bring you back, Eunha.”

“No, just drop me off at any nearby subway station. Just make a phone call first, Heesung.”

Nodding, Heeseong started looking for Joo Seungik’s number.

Still, it’s fortunate that he discovered it first, otherwise Yoo Jae-wook’s entertainment career might have really come to an end.

If this kind of controversy breaks out while I’ve already given up on everything, it will reach a level where I can no longer handle it.

Hee-sung, who had found Joo Seung-ik’s number, moved his finger to connect the call.

But then, suddenly, my younger brother Hee-won’s name appeared on the LCD screen.

“Oh, Heewon. Oppa, I have something urgent to talk to you about right now… … .”

-Brother… … Grandma right now… … Grandma… … Sob sob.

The sound of my younger brother crying can be heard over the phone.

And the word grandmother.

Feeling his heart sink for a moment, Heeseong immediately changed his expression and asked into the receiver.

“What’s going on? Why is Grandma here?”

-Brother, I think you should come right now… … . As soon as possible.