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They say the ground hardens after the rain.

The team was just like that.

“Cut! OK! Let’s move on to the next scene.”

The rate of NGs decreased, and no more accidents occurred.

The set was filled with energy and warmth.

It must have been thanks to the performance of the three main actors.

“Things are going well these days. Every day is a blessing.”

“Indeed. Mr. Oh Kyung-bae, your acting has improved a lot.”

Oh Kyung-bae’s acting was improving day by day.

Thinking back to the first day of filming when he couldn’t grasp the emotions properly and kept having NGs…

It was truly a remarkable improvement.

However, the change in acting was not exclusive to Oh Kyung-bae.

“Has Han Sun-yul… changed in some way?”

“Yeah? I mean, he was always good at acting, but there was something missing before. But now, it feels different.”

Since hearing from Seo Yi-soo that Han Sun-yul was shining.

Since facing the small, humble thing he held in his dream. But undeniably shining.

Han Sun-yul began to express himself more honestly in his acting.

Han Sun-yul is a child actor.

Moreover, he never neglected his studies even during breaks, so he was originally the most outstanding among the three main actors in terms of skills.

And now, he was pouring out his true self.

While Oh Kyung-bae’s NGs decreased.

Han Sun-yul’s NGs increased slightly.

However, his acting began to show colors and personality that were not there before.

Scenes that received an OK call were consistently better than before.

For example, like now.

Scene 71.

Hospital.

The highlight scene of Sang-jin in was being filmed.

Sang-jin, who was spending a day with Min-seo and Min-jun as always, suddenly had a seizure due to sudden pain.

The condition that had been quiet during his care began to worsen again.

Sang-jin faints from the seizure and is hospitalized.

And Min-seo and Min-jun learn a shocking truth.

That Sang-jin has a terminal illness.

“Lies…”

Min-seo is shocked to learn that Sang-jin, whom she secretly liked, is terminally ill.

“…”

Min-jun, who could have been considered Sang-jin’s only same-sex friend on the island, is speechless at the fact that Sang-jin’s life is coming to an end.

Min-seo and Min-jun visit Sang-jin’s hospital room.

But they can’t bring themselves to enter for a long time.

They didn’t know how to face Sang-jin.

Twenty years old.

Isn’t it too young to talk about death?

Min-seo and Min-jun hesitated in front of the door for a long time.

Then, they hear Sang-jin’s voice.

“What are you doing? You can see my face through the window on the door, you know? Come in.”

Sang-jin’s voice was so casual.

“Sang-jin…”

Min-seo couldn’t easily find the words to say to him.

But Sang-jin…

“Do you know that?”

Casually.

Almost too happily.

He faced the girl he had come to like.

“Before I came to this island, I had nothing. Really, nothing.”

Sang-jin’s eyes as he spoke were shining brightly.

Filled with passion.

He didn’t seem like someone who had faced a short life.

“Coming here, meeting you guys. Experiencing so many things, I started to fill myself up.”

As the words flowed.

As the logic formed.

Sang-jin’s expression changed.

At first, it was only a sickly color.

But one by one, one by one.

The things he had experienced.

The emotions he had gathered began to come together.

It started with Gabido.

The empty Sang-jin became.

A teenage boy who met the girl he liked.

A youth who shared deep friendship with his friends.

And finally, now.

Because I like the other person. Because I have to leave that girl soon. That’s why I had become an adult who knew how to hide his feelings even more.

Sangjin is no longer empty.

He was a person filled with many things in life.

The reason his eyes were shining brightly in various ways was precisely because of that.

Sangjin speaks.

“Thanks to you all. I met you all, and I no longer care about dying or anything like that. Thank you.”

Han Sunyul’s acting captured everyone’s attention.

The actors performing, as well as the staff and director filming this scene, all knew.

Scene 71.

This scene was solely Han Sunyul’s.

“Cut!”

The director’s cut sign rang out.

Everyone on set admired Han Sunyul’s acting.

That’s how remarkable Han Sunyul’s acting was.

Han Sunyul seemed to have a grasp on what kind of acting he needed to do to become a shining actor in the future.

So he must be able to showcase such intense acting that captures people’s attention.

However.

Even someone like Han Sunyul.

Could not be the true protagonist of the scene.

Because there was someone who shone incomparably more than the awakened Han Sunyul.

“Let’s see the next scene.”

“It’s Seo Eisu. That actor is about to have a highlight scene.”

“Right, if Han Sunyul is this good, what kind of picture will Seo Eisu paint in the highlight scene?”

“Whatever it is, it seems like it will be much more impressive than what we imagine, right?”

A scene for Seo Eisu, by Seo Eisu, and about Seo Eisu was approaching.

In “The Diary of the Sea,” Minjun and Minseo are described as having a special relationship with each other.

It couldn’t be helped.

The people of Gabido are closed off.

They liked Minseo, the most beautiful island girl, more than anyone else, but they ostracized Minjun, her brother, because of his different skin color.

Minjun was lonely on the island.

On the other hand, Minseo was lonely within her family.

Their mother had died a long time ago, and their father was a trash addicted to alcohol and gambling.

Minjun’s mother openly kept Minseo away.

Only Minjun loved Minseo as family.

That’s how it was.

Minseo had only Minjun.

Minjun had only Minseo.

But…

Isn’t everything bound to come to an end?

Minseo had a dream.

To become a beautician.

To live by making pretty people even prettier with her own hands.

For that dream, Minseo had been saving money little by little.

The modest amount in her bank account.

To others, it was just a small number, but it symbolized Minseo’s dream.

And the bankbook containing that dream.

“…It’s gone. It’s gone!”

She had hidden with her father.

Her father was addicted to gambling.

When her father, who had disappeared, reappeared, the number in Minseo’s hands was 0 won.

Her dream was shattered like that.

“…”

Shocked, Minseo walked aimlessly.

Suddenly, when she came to her senses.

Before her eyes, there was a cliff made of rough, jagged rocks, with an endless stormy sea crashing against it.

A rugged cliff.

A sea that never ceased its stormy waves.

The people of Gabido called this place the “Dragon’s Head Cliff.”

And this place,

Was where Minseo’s mother, unable to endure her father’s violence, had committed suicide.

The sea, where something touched Minseo’s world and then left.

Her mother had also left her world through the sea like that.

“…”

And even now.

Before Minseo’s eyes.

The sea full of stormy waves spread out.

“The Diary of the Sea”

#New 96

– Dragon’s Head Cliff

“…”

I look at the sea every day.

As if something is about to leave.

Hoping that something will return.

Every day, I look at the sea.

Today is no different.

I look at the sea.

In front of me was the sea that always seemed to leave.

“……sigh.”

The exhaled breath was filled with moisture resembling waves.

I harshly wiped my eyes.

Something kept stirring in my chest.

So breathing felt a bit suffocating.

I looked at the sea in that state.

“Mom….”

I used to lean on her.

Randomly.

Like every day.

Sometimes carelessly, sometimes desperately.

As I kept looking at the sea, maybe someday.

Could my departed mother come back?

I held onto that hope.

Maybe it’s not impossible.

My mother threw herself into this place.

Since Yonggot Cliff is a place with strong waves, her body was never found.

“……sigh.”

So, inevitably.

I could only look at the sea.

Just like the day she left.

Maybe today, or at least tomorrow.

From beyond the horizon of the sea I was staring at, maybe my mother would appear.

With that in mind,

I looked at the sea.

“Mom, mom….”

Maybe.

If I don’t do that.

I might not be able to bear it anymore on this dreadful island.

Humans, after all, are fragile beings who cannot live without believing in something and relying on it.

So maybe I didn’t even realize I was looking at the sea.

The reason doesn’t matter anymore.

“Mom, I….”

I spoke to the sea.

Desperately speaking to the sea that took away my most precious thing.

I spoke because I couldn’t bear the turmoil in my heart anymore.

“I, it’s too…. hard. Mom, when you left, you should have said something to me. I wouldn’t have stopped you from leaving. You should have said something.”

I, facing the sea.

With a choked voice.

I said.

“Then…. I would have asked you to take me with you. Mom, mom….”

Even as I spoke, the waves kept crashing.

If I stayed still, the splashed sea moisture would reach me.

I was at the edge of the cliff.

So every time the waves hit, I was soaked.

Endlessly, soaked in something.

I looked at the sea.

Waves crashing from all directions, where I couldn’t see ahead.

I looked at that kind of sea.

The waves.

This island.

The people.

Everything seemed terribly dreadful.

I, soaked in the waves.

Step by step.

I was reaching out.

Continuing to soak.

So much that there was no place left to soak, I wished I could just melt away.

I wanted to disappear like that.

“Mom…. I’m really too tired. In pain. I can’t live here anymore.”

Just like how my mother left my world through the sea.

I also wanted to leave here through the sea.

Because the sea is that kind of place.

So if I could, through the sea.

I felt like I could escape from here.

Crying, I called out to my mother repeatedly.

***

“……I see.”

Han Kyung-jin, who was watching the monitored screen, suddenly spoke.

Beside him, Jo Myung-sook, who played Sang-jin’s mother, was guarding the seat.

“Why, Director?”

“I’ve thought about it. I think I’m a scammer.”

“Ahahaha!”

“To these actors. Huh? Bringing them here for such a cheap price and exploiting them.”

“That’s true.”

Han Kyung-jin realized that he was truly a lucky person.

No novice director in the world would be able to work with such unique and shining lead actors for their commercial film debut.

“……Actors. Remember how they said before? If we just get 1 million viewers. Our lead actors will be all over the place.”

“They did.”

Han Kyung-jin, with an amazing expression, looked at the monitor.

He made a determined face.

“1 million. We’ll achieve it.”

“Oh my?”

“The actors are so enthusiastic. Making a fuss in every scene. If I, as the director, can’t even do that much, it’s ridiculous.”

is a low-budget film.

The lead actors were not perfect for that reason.

Each of them had their own flaws.

However, people grow.

The three leads of were growing excellently and driving the work forward.

And Han Kyung-jin, who was watching over them.

As a novice director, he too had grown watching the struggles and efforts of the leads.

“For sure.”

Perhaps this is the taste of a low-budget film.

Watching many things that were lacking at the beginning being filled as people grow.

Han Kyung-jin had now awakened to a determined sense of responsibility as a director.

“I will make it. A film that can attract a million viewers.”

Watching Seo Yi-soo’s passionate performance reflected on the monitor, Han Kyung-jin made that vow.

On the screen of that monitor…

Truly, a whole new world was unfolding.

Scene 96.

At Yonggot Cliff.

Seo Yi-soo exuded such a magical performance.