“Ha, Choi Su Yeon, please calm down. I understand that you are very confused right now. It’s hard for me to come to my senses, too. How much harder must it be for you? I know, I get it, but you need to get a hold of yourself. No matter how I think about it, the best thing we can do right now is that.”
Su Yeon looked at In Ho with a vacant face.
A voice that seemed about to cry at any moment naturally slipped out.
“Ha, what do I do? I’m okay with going to the shooting site, but what next? Are you telling me to act in your place?”
“Just go to the guest room first, there’s a script there, grab it and go. I have checked the scenes for today’s shooting, you must memorize it by heart on the way to the shooting site.”
“Are you really telling me to act?”
“We have to shoot anyway. Do you know how many staff are gathered at the site right now because of this shooting? Saying you’re sick now would be useless. I saw you standing perfectly fine on both legs, there’s no way Myung Woo would simply accept it.”
“Ha, what the hell am I supposed to do…”
Su Yeon, in despair, dropped her head.
She just felt like crying.
She woke up from sleep to find herself with In Ho’s face, and to make matters worse, she was in a situation where she had to act, something she had never done before.
She could only see darkness in front of her, and she wanted to disappear somewhere right away.
Seo In Ho and Choi Su Yeon were two very different people.
Unlike herself, who had lived a quiet life under the scrutinizing eyes of her adoptive parents, In Ho had always confidently paved his own path.
How could she, as she is, stand on the set pretending to be In Ho?
Su Yeon was scared.
The reality of becoming In Ho overnight, and the possibility that she might smear In Ho’s name at the shooting site where she would have to go in place of In Ho, were all scary.
As her worries kept piling up, the color of Su Yeon’s face started to darken more and more.
That’s when In Ho, with a firm hand, grasped Su Yeon’s shoulder again.
“Choi Su Yeon, look me in the eyes.”
A clear voice pierced Su Yeon’s ears.
Only then did Su Yeon, about to cry, slowly raise her head and look at In Ho.
A face that seemed to have regained its composure in a short time reflected above Su Yeon’s pupils.
“I’m not telling you to act perfectly like me. But you have to go to the shooting site. Just recite my lines a few times.”
“It’s clear I’ll mess up.”
“It doesn’t matter. If you make a few mistakes, the director will get angry. Then you just have to apologize and say that your body is not feeling well. Then I’ll make sure that Myung Woo takes care of the rest.”
With those words, In Ho gently grasped Su Yeon’s hand, which was casually hanging down.
Su Yeon looked at In Ho once and then lowered her head.
On top of the thick hand of In Ho, her own hand, so familiar to her, was overlapped.
It was a very strange sight.
But regardless of that, the warmth that she could feel on the back of her hand made all the senses in her body stand up.
Su Yeon slowly raised her head to look at In Ho.
Even though the face reflected in her eyes was definitely her own, she had the strange illusion that she was seeing In Ho.
It seemed as if In Ho was desperately asking her for something.
He was holding her hand as if pleading for her to come to her senses.
The moment she received that message, which might have been an illusion, Su Yeon let out a deep sigh.
“……I understand. For now, I’ll do as you say.”
For the first time in her life, she could not refuse the request from In Ho.
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“We will start shooting in 5 minutes!”
A man’s booming voice filled the shooting site. Su Yeon, who was waiting on one side, shook her shoulders sharply.
The few lines she had memorized in the car were floating around in her head.
And the words that In Ho had said to me before I headed here kept going around in my mind.
“I’m not telling you to be perfect. But you have to go to the set. Just recite the lines a few times for me.”
Just a few lines.
As he said, just a few lines.
Could that help me escape from this overwhelming situation?
Su Yeon struggled to regain her composure, but her intermittent anxiety kept her on edge.
She had to perform in front of a crowd of strangers, something she had never done before.
She couldn’t imagine herself acting, nor could she predict the future that lay ahead of her.
Her heart kept pounding with anxiety.
Her nervousness was so intense that she felt a forgotten headache coming back.
Still, she did her best to stay calm.
It seemed like the only thing she could do.
In Ho’s late suggestion to blindly go to the set began to make a bit of sense.
Su Yeon held her breath and looked around.
The number of people on the set was too large to count easily.
So many that they couldn’t all be seen at once.
All these people were here, despite the early hours, to finish a movie.
Suddenly, she overlaid In Ho’s face returning late from a shoot over the gathered staff.
He would look at the script while cutting back on sleep, even with a face full of fatigue.
She thought his passion for acting was impressive.
But now she thought that maybe his dedication to practice wasn’t just because of his passion for acting.
He must have known.
That countless staff gathered here were pouring their best efforts into every moment to make him shine in the movie.
Knowing that, he could withstand the intense fatigue that hit him every night and continue his rigorous practice.
Su Yeon took a deep breath and squeezed her eyes shut.
The pressure was weighing heavily on her heart.
The more it did, the tighter she clenched her fists.
There was still an indescribable pressure lingering at the back of her throat, but she wanted to do well.
She didn’t have the confidence to fool everyone and perfectly pretend to be In Ho, but at least she would not tarnish the three letters of the top star Seo In Ho’s name.
She wanted to do her best to repay, at least a bit, the efforts of the staff gathered here.
Su Yeon repeated a resolution that she could do it and slowly took a step.
Her eyes, firmly opened, shone with an unprecedented clear light.
That is, until someone secretly grabbed her wrist.
“Oppa.”
An unpleasant touch and an unfamiliar voice caught Su Yeon’s foot.
As if by instinct, Su Yeon turned her head.
Reflected in her eyes was the face of a beautiful woman with glamorous features.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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