Having signed a formal contract with Kang’s company for a photo exhibition to be held in winter, he had come after obtaining permission from the filming crew.
A few who recognized him exchanged greetings with Ban.
Kang approached him with a warm greeting.
“Ban!”
“Hey. Director Kang. You look stylish, huh?”
“Yeah?”
“You must be nervous, being the first shoot.”
When she shrugged off the comment, Ban remarked,
“Don’t worry about the photography. I’ll handle that. You just act naturally.”
“Got it.”
“Alright then, fighting!”
He waved a brief fist pump and soon moved to a spot that wouldn’t interfere with the filming.
Today, Ban planned to capture ‘The Life of Actress Seo Kang’ for the winter portrait exhibition.
With hairpins in her hair, she checked the script, monitored her moves, coordinated with her co-actors, and seamlessly blended into the shooting atmosphere, all of which Ban captured meticulously on his camera.
Today was the day Seo Kang and Shin Hwi shared their first scenes.
In the drama, the characters Moon Seong-jun, played by Shin Hwi, and Shin Cha-hee, played by Seo Kang, encounter each other in a club turned battlefield.
All preparations for shooting were complete.
Director Seong, holding the megaphone, sharply eyed the camera.
“Starting the shot.”
In the club, where gangsters and police collided and lay in heaps,
The vicious villain, Moon Seong-jun, stood off against Cha-hee, who held a gun, moments before her last remaining comrade would be killed by him.
Amidst the tension on set,
“Ready.”
Director Seong’s voice signaled the start of the shoot.
“Action!”
Simultaneously, Cha-hee’s voice erupted.
“Moon Seong-jun!”
Moments away from losing the last of her comrades to the evil, remorseless Moon Seong-jun,
“Don’t move.”
She cautiously adjusted her grip on the gun and said.
Moon Seong-jun, who was about to end an officer’s life with the weapon in his hand, turned his head with a smirk.
His blood-streaked face broke into a grin.
Cha-hee’s terrified eyes met the camera lens, her trembling eyelashes betraying her overwhelming fear.
“Please.”
“……”
“Please, don’t do something you’ll regret…”
Before Cha-hee’s desperate plea could finish, the weapon in Seong-jun’s hand brutally pierced Officer Choi’s heart.
“No!”
Bang!
A gunshot echoed along with her desperate scream.
The bullet, fired in rage and despair, penetrated Officer Choi’s left shoulder, and as he collapsed like a candle in the wind, only the looming darkness was visible behind him.
Their first encounter.
Cha-hee finally lost her closest colleague and fiancé to Seong-jun’s hands. She was left in anguish, missing her chance to grab him.
“Cut!”
Director Seong’s command rang out, and the scene was shot several times from different angles.
The scene required an immense amount of energy right from the beginning.
In the subsequent scene, Cha-hee held her lover, who met his end by Moon Seong-jun’s hand, and wept in silent anguish.
The emotions Kang portrayed for Shin Cha-hee felt like a ticking bomb about to explode, leaving everyone on set holding their breath.
No sound was audible, but it was a poignant moment that conveyed the profound weight of the pain of parting.
“Okay! That was great!”
With Director Seong’s shout, applause erupted from various spots.
Kang, looking utterly drained, collapsed slightly, and a fellow actor patted her shoulder, commending her performance.
Although it was merely acting, she appeared as if she had genuinely lost a loved one.
This sentiment was partly drawn from her personal experiences.
Kang had experienced numerous moments of separation throughout her short life.
“Kang!”
Samyoung, who had been watching the filming, hurriedly came over.
He then handed her water, repeatedly praising her efforts.
“It was truly the best. You were on fire. Ahahaha!”
“Bro, are you crying?”
“When Cha-hee cried, I cried too. Hahaha.”
Unable to control his emotions, he wiped his eyes with his sleeve while sobbing.
As Kang was consoling Samyoung,
“Miss Kang.”
“Yes, Director.”
“Outstanding. Thanks to you, the shoot seems to be going smoothly.”
Director Seong, who had approached during the break, praised Kang, lifting her spirit.
Kang’s interpretation of Cha-hee’s character had been exceptionally satisfying.
The unexpected praise uplifted her mood.
There was satisfaction in having thoroughly analyzed the script and interpreted the character.
“We’ll resume with the next scene after a short break.”
“Yes, understood.”
After wrapping up the brief conversation, she headed towards the van.
Samyoung, with swollen eyes, stood up, mentioning he needed to use the restroom.
Back in her vehicle, Kang looked over the well-thumbed script again.
Even the first time she read it, the story was captivating.
In the drama, the character Shin Cha-hee, portrayed by Kang, and Moon Seong-jun, portrayed by Shin Hwi, had a confrontational relationship from their adulthood onward.
Meeting as a police officer and criminal, they were fated to be adversaries. However, in reality, they had grown up together in an orphanage and were best friends.
In the scene filmed today, Moon Seong-jun mercilessly killed Cha-hee’s lover in a devilish manner, but he had recognized Cha-hee from the moment they reunited.
In contrast, Cha-hee didn’t recognize the adult Moon Seong-jun.
Moon Seong-jun would continue to murder all the people close to Cha-hee until only he remains by her side.
As the episodes progressed, their relationship reached a precipice. The sinister past of Moon Seong-jun, the absolute villain, is revealed.
This likely hints at their doomed future.
Though partially pre-produced, Kang was still unaware of the drama’s conclusion.
She only knew that writer Yang Eun-oh was deliberating on the ending.
Then,
Knock, knock.
Someone tapped on the window of the van.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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