Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 219



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The novelist who leapt through time, chapter 219

“The blue of the cloudless sky. The warm sunlight shining down and warming my cheeks. The summer of 1998. I remember the scenery of that moment without fail. And the worries of that moment, too.”

“Love sometimes took the form of a struggle for survival. It was a desperate need to find a companion because one could not survive alone in a harsh and cruel world. If you peel away the outer shell of love, there is mathematics inside. The calculations of a gorilla who loves a big gorilla and a person who loves a rich person are essentially no different.”

“Nevertheless, I couldn’t shake off the hand that was holding my hand. Warmth was transmitted between our interlocked fingers. When you told me that you were breaking up, why are you doing this now? She spoke to me, who I couldn’t understand at all.”

“Shall we meet again?”

“The moment I saw those moist eyes, I nodded in vain.”

“It’s all because of the face.”

EP 13 – The World of Change

An Ju-hee, the pride of Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, the specialty of Ansan, the daughter of Ansan, is surprisingly a person who is closer to ‘hitting’ accidents rather than ‘preventing’ them.

She was not only a literary student but also a prominent student council president in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.

We must be careful with the word ‘notable’ here.

Unlike Japanese student councils, which are guaranteed a certain degree of autonomy and budget execution authority, Korean student councils are usually unable to escape the status of a puppet government in the faculty office.

Therefore, the presence of the average student body president is no different from that of Gong Gong, Pyeon, Ging, Dororo, Yun Bo-seon, and Min Hyo-chan.

So how did An Ju-hee become famous?

That’s because An Ju-hee wasn’t your typical student body president.

An Ju-hee was a rather difficult, self-willed, rebellious, and difficult student body president.

First of all, his hipster nature is a problem, but he was a promising young man whose name was mentioned in the local literary world (at local events including literary awards), so he often met the mayor and city council members, had a lot of money at home, and was also shrewd in his conduct.

A girl who isn’t scared even when she sees the principal.

This student is too difficult for teachers to control.

In other words, he was always very popular with students.

Politician Ahn Joo-hee’s motto is ‘If you do it, do it!’

An Ju-hee, who replaced a company that was embezzling school lunch money to protect students’ human rights and overthrew a training center that was still providing food in these times, was a true freedom fighter and bulldozer of students’ human rights.

It can be seen as cute to carry a convex cigarette box hidden in one’s inside pocket.

Anyway, An Ju-hee had a school life that was like an angry bull.

In front of ‘real madness’, he became a quiet model student.

“What are you saying-”

“I told you I got your number.”

“Who, who, who? To whom?”

“Star, to the other actor.”

As she watched Guyuna answer Im Songyi’s questions in a hurried manner, An Juhee could only think that this girl was really crazy.

How on earth are you going to handle the aftermath of this…?

Maybe this is a meaningless question.

Surprisingly, it seemed like An Ju-hee was the only one in this group who thought about ‘aftercare’.

‘Let’s calm down… Calm down… .’

The female protagonist who asks for the love line to be deleted from the drama, and the assistant writer who causes a scandal in front of the main writer of the drama.

Among them, the only person with common sense, An Ju-hee, tried to find a breakthrough based on her long (three years) political experience.

An Ju-hee made a series of excuses to writer Im Song-i, who was shivering all over her body and foaming at the mouth, saying, “Gruep… grururup…”

“Hey… That’s not like that actually happened! It was just in the script-”

“Yes, that’s right. I got your number.”

‘Fuck.’

However, in the face of Kim Byeol’s confession, all An Ju-hee could do was swallow her curses without letting them out.

In any case, just for that reason, he could be said to be a better politician than Minister of Culture Park, who was fired just one week after being appointed due to a swearing scandal.

* * *

I have some thoughts while writing about love.

Singing about love, writing about love, selling love is the commodification of emotion.

It is a profit-making activity that is carried out by exhibiting valuable items to the public.

The commodification of sexuality and personality.

But when you combine your personal life with your achievements, you become human.

In the end, it comes down to selling people out.

Now I understand.

If the reason every book is special is because it contains the humanity of the author, then the author is selling his own humanity.

then….

If I could scrape away at the very bottom of my heart and sell off what is most human about me.

Isn’t that the most artistic thing?

* * *

It’s more common than you might think for actors to be replaced during drama filming for ‘health reasons’.

It was not surprising that writer Im Song-i, whose eyes seemed to have rolled back for some reason, met with several key staff members and people from the agency, and then one of the actors suddenly started to feel sick.

Unfortunately, that person happened to be the male lead, so a lot of reshoots were needed, which caused everyone a headache, but it wasn’t something that was considered unreasonable by social norms.

“What the hell is going on? Huh?!”

Of course, this was a statement that made no sense to those who knew the ‘truth’ of the incident.

Team leader Kim Seong-geun, Kim Byeol’s manager, was also one of them.

“Hi… .”

Team leader Kim Sung-geun parked his car in the underground parking lot of a building near the filming location and scratched Kim Byeol’s head while he sat her in the passenger seat.

Kim Byeol was wearing her seatbelt, had her hands resting on her knees, and had her head bowed, so Team Leader Kim Seong-geun could not see her face.

However, since Team Leader Kim Sung-geun got angry at Kim Byeol and Kim Byeol quietly listened to the scolding, which had always happened over the past 10 years, he continued to be angry without feeling any discomfort.

“Hey! Kim Byeol! Why on earth did you just take that to writer Im Song-i?”

“… … .”

“Don’t you know the order of things? If something like that happened, shouldn’t you have told me first!”

After hearing the story from Kim Byeol, writer Im Song-i continued to deny reality for a while before finally accepting the fact that the male lead in the drama she had cast had a minor habit of flirting with high school girls.

Of course, the only evidence is a post-it note stuck to the coffee, but even that is no evidence, and the only clue is Kim Byeol’s testimony.

But this is not a courtroom, and Im Song-i is not a judge.

This is a filming set, and Im Song-i is a drama writer, no, she is Im Song.

Its authority is incomparable to the power a judge has in a courtroom.

Lim Song-i began the investigation by becoming a police officer, prosecutor, National Forensic Service member, and judge.

There are no secrets in the entertainment industry, and this is especially true for someone like Lim Song-yi.

The investigation can be concluded with just a few phone calls.

Lim Song-yi quickly realized that the actor who had caused the problem had been involved in several scandals in the past (unknown to the media), and was convinced that his brain was located in the perineum, not the skull.

Symptom of the heart.

That concludes the trial.

Lim Song-yi called in each of the drama’s key figures and explained her decision, and she replaced one of the actors, receiving approval from the PD and immediate and enthusiastic confessions and surrender from the entertainment agency and the actor.

There was no noise during the process.

Because the excuse of “health reasons” was so easy.

The accident that had so disturbed Kim Byeol ended without even causing a single ripple on the calm surface of the lake.

But it wasn’t quiet down to the point where the public couldn’t see it.

What is happening now in the underground parking lot near the filming location is also happening below the surface.

“You’re going to fire an actor because he received a post-it note? What are you going to do with that studio now? Huh? You didn’t just hurt one actor, you ruined the reputation of that agency! Shit! If we had a showdown with them over this, you’d be the one to clean it up, right? Huh?”

“… … .”

“Wow, I’m going crazy. I thought the kid was quiet these days, but he’s causing trouble like this? Don’t you know the entertainment industry is narrow? Even after being here for 10 years, you don’t know? Are you an idiot? You want to have a good time today and be enemies with that person from tomorrow until you die? That’s what you did just now.”

The actor and his agency, who had to leave the drama due to ‘health reasons’, immediately waved the white flag at writer Im Song-i and lay down, saying, ‘Please save me.’

However, he notified Baekhak Entertainment that he was seriously upset with a gesture that could be summarized as ‘You fucking kids.’

The floor is already narrow.

Once word gets out that you’ve bent it, all kinds of piranhas will swarm you.

Now, the opponents had to fight Baekhak Entertainment to show that they were still alive and well.

Team leader Kim Seong-geun’s logic was as follows.

“You caused all this! Huh?!”

“… … .”

“In the first place, how much is the age difference between you and him? He’s an adult and I’m a minor, but he’s just your age. Peer-to-peer. It’s only natural for pretty, healthy young people to feel that way, right? Did he give you his phone number without doing anything to you and you were so annoyed? Huh? Since when did you become so great? Me, you know, I lost my original intention because I won an award overseas… .”

“… … .”

“Why on earth did you get mad at writer Im Song-i first? Did you dislike me that much? Is that why you did that? Hey, I was wrong. Okay? I’ll apologize. It’s all my fault.”

“You know very well.”

“uh?”

Kim Byeol slowly raised her head, which she had been lowering.

And on that face, there was what Kim Seong-geun had expected.

And what we habitually took for granted would be on our faces,

There were no tears, no frowning, no hesitation.

There is only one emotion on Kim Byeol’s face.

There was only coldness.

“This is all Team Leader Kim’s fault.”

Kim Byeol also knew everything that Team Leader Kim Seong-geun had been talking about up until now.

There’s no way I wouldn’t know. I’ve been doing it for 10 years.

But there was one thing that Kim Byeol and Team Leader Kim Seong-geun had different opinions about.

Kim Byeol did not cause any harm to the company.

I was entrusted with a task that the company should have done naturally.

“Then, if an actor comes back from eating outside, of course you should fight him. Are you just going to let him go?”

“what?”

“You know that if an actress gets into a scandal, her life will be ruined, so what? A peer? A young person? Is that something that comes out of a manager’s mouth?”

“You…! Are you rebelling against me now?”

“How many times has Team Leader Kim ever fought for me in the first place? Back in the day, when I had trouble with the director at the autograph photoshoot, he just quietly backed away and ran away. When we were filming Cheesecake, instead of trying to resolve the situation, he just talked behind my back and watched. This is all I’ve seen, so why on earth do I trust Team Leader Kim to tell me about my problems?”

Kim Byeol’s social intelligence has already reached the level of an adult.

Know when to move forward and when to step back, know when to be angry and when it’s okay to be angry.

And now it was time to get angry at the manager.

The value of the human resource called ‘Kim Seong-geun’ at Baekhak Entertainment was only his connections with actress Kim Byeol over the past 10 years.

Kim Byeol knew best how incompetent he was.

Therefore, Kim Seong-geun is a person who cannot treat Kim Byeol as a subordinate.

The reason Team Leader Kim Seong-geun scolded Kim Byeol was because of the implicit hierarchy that allows adults to teach minors.

Now that Kim Byeol has grown up and stopped fearing Team Leader Kim Sung-geun, his authority has run out.

Kim Byeol continued to argue with Team Leader Kim Seong-geun, but she calmly assessed the situation.

The situation is not as bad as it seems.

Rather, it is the axis where the problem was resolved most amicably.

Through the overwhelming authority of writer Im Song-i, Kim Byeol protected her own reputation and the safety of the drama.

However, there is a reason why Kim Byeol tried to remove the love line from the drama through Gu Yu-na and Ahn Joo-hee, rather than through writer Im Song-i.

The ‘reason’ that Kim Byeol had been most reluctant about soon revealed itself.

Suddenly-

Suddenly, the car door opened, and someone looked down at Kim Byeol, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

“Kim Byeol.”

A cold voice.

Kim Byeol’s head grew cold.

The courage she had felt in front of her manager disappeared in an instant, and fear engraved in her bones crawled up Kim Byeol’s back.

Kim Byeol’s mother gestured to her daughter.

“Come out.”