episode_0052

There was one actress named Cha Hye-jin.

The first movie released after his debut was fortunate enough to reach 10 million viewers, instantly catapulting him to stardom, and his second drama series recorded a concurrent viewership rating of 30%, remaining a legendary drama.

People paid attention to her because she hit two consecutive home runs, which is extremely rare in the entertainment industry.

Some people had hasty expectations that he would become a leading figure in the next generation of Korean Wave dramas.

However, it is said that beginner’s luck lasts only twice.

Cha Hye-jin’s unconventional actions ended there.

The dramas that appeared afterward were criticized as being rushed and sank, and the movies in which they confidently appeared had no choice but to be pulled down the screens before even reaching the profit margin.

In fact, this is a common occurrence for anyone else.

Because as a human being, you cannot always be successful.

Here, people are broadly divided into two types.

Do you admit your failure and work hard to get back up again, or do you blame yourself and just fall apart?

And Cha Hye-jin, unfortunately, was the latter person.

Early success raised her bar infinitely high and compounded the shock of failure.

Her acting, which had been fine, began to creak, and people’s keen interest in her cooled.

The more he was forgotten by people, the more he became impatient and the path to success became further and further away.

It didn’t take long for the name Cha Hye-jin to change from a symbol of success to a symbol of downfall.

Due to the extreme stress, the healthy marital relationship began to fray, and ultimately ended up in divorce.

All that remains of her nearly 10-year career as an actress is the humiliating title of celebrity who fell in the shortest amount of time and the one young daughter she gave birth to.

Cha Hye-jin, who was forced to quit her career as an actress because no one called her, wondered if she would go back to being an ordinary full-time housewife.

Then, an incident occurred.

Circumstances of child abuse were discovered at the kindergarten where the daughter attended.

The first reporter was a parent of a child who went to the same kindergarten and had no close relationship with the child.

However, the media focused more on Cha Hye-jin’s daughter Cha Ha-ryeong, who was not harmed at all, rather than the actual victim.

The reason is that it is much easier to increase the number of views when the victim is the child of a fallen star than when the victim is an ordinary person.

At that moment, when the fake turned into the truth and the attention she had longed for was focused on her, Choi Hye-jin felt a profound pleasure that could not be replaced by anything.

Even if it was child abuse, it doesn’t mean it was something huge.

It was just that the teacher behaved a little harshly towards the child due to stress.

Normally, all it would take would be a sincere apology.

And it was so.

The kindergarten immediately apologized and also promised compensation for psychological damage.

…Cha Hye-jin didn’t like that.

I wish more people would pay attention to me if they paid more attention to me.

The day after the kindergarten’s official apology.

Bruises that had never been seen on her daughter began to appear.

The child’s previously normal gait became limping, and the child’s face, which had always had a bright smile, noticeably darkened.

The interest of people who had cooled off was overwhelming due to the new situation of abuse that was obvious to everyone.

And this time, the kindergarten did not immediately apologize.

Because it was completely incomprehensible from their perspective.

Criticism poured in. Sympathetic public opinion arose. Not only the media but also the government began to take interest.

‘I can’t possibly forgive this incident.’

At the center of it all was always Cha Hye-jin.

People couldn’t tell that all of this was just one person’s play.

Because she was once a top-notch actress recognized by everyone in the world.

However, no matter how stimulating an event is, interest is bound to wane as time passes.

When the case ended with an unreasonable business suspension, people, as always, forgot Cha Hye-jin’s name.

‘I don’t have to get scolded anymore?’

‘Since my daughter is a good girl, can I help her one more time?’

Cha Hye-jin smiled as she watched her daughter tremble in fear due to the constant violence.

**

About 4 years have passed since I was confined in a small room measuring 3 pyeong.

The girl thought.

I’d rather just die.

Since being confined, the girl’s body has not been in good condition.

At first, it was just a few hits, as if the abuse had been staged. However, the effect was weaker as something similar had already happened, and the severity of the injuries she received gradually worsened.

It was normal for my limbs to break, and a few days ago I was on the verge of death due to excessive bleeding.

She was being saved because she needed it now, but if even this didn’t work, her mother really didn’t know what she would do.

They might even live broadcast the dismemberment of a living person as an insult.

Rather than becoming someone’s puppet and continuing to suffer like this, I wanted to end my life and feel better as soon as possible.

However, there was nothing the girl could do now.

Her hands have been tied tightly since her mother’s failed attempt to commit suicide with a fork she had forgotten a few months ago.

If he failed to commit suicide again, he might have his limbs tied to the bed while he was away.

Then it was really over.

Without any way to resist, he will be talked about forever and will meet his end in the most terrible and gruesome way.

That much had to be avoided.

So the girl thought.

If the criminal doesn’t give him what he wants, won’t he just give up and kill him? do.

From that day on, the girl never showed signs of being sick.

No matter how cruel the torture was, he continued to keep a straight face.

However, the opponent is said to have fallen, but he is a professional actor.

It was not enough for a young girl to fool her mature mother.

‘Is that also called acting?’

The torture that followed those words was incomparably more painful than before.

Still, he never screamed. I didn’t even cry.

This is training.

Acting training to deceive criminals.

From then on, the girl desperately continued acting.

It was literally a life-threatening performance.

When I realized that I couldn’t fool him by simply enduring it with a blank expression, I started laughing.

Playfully, cheerfully, comically, sadly, like a crazy person.

I realized that so many people can exist beneath the emotion of smiling.

I realized the importance of every movement of my hands and every tremor of my voice.

There were plenty of teaching materials for acting.

He may have wanted to show off to her about his situation, but the TV was always on in the room where she was confined.

Since then, he has performed hundreds of facial expressions.

I learned thousands of gestures.

However, there was never a single sight of Cha Hye-jin screaming in pain.

It worked.

First, the torture-like acts that were inflicted every day stopped.

Cha Hye-jin does not simply want to harass the girl.

They want to get attention by showing their suffering daughter, who was kidnapped by a criminal, in front of the public.

While the girl was acting, there was nothing Cha Hye-jin could do.

Unless you really want to decorate the finale by killing the girl.

Cha Hye-jin’s choice, unable to achieve what she wanted, was far from what the girl had hoped for.

It’s not about liberating the girl, nor is it about cutting off the girl’s life by hand.

It was just neglect.

Cha Hye-jin, who used to come twice a day without fail, stopped coming.

The image of the mother who complained of sadness every day on TV disappeared.

The growling sound from the girl’s stomach continued.

‘The last one is starving to death, this isn’t that bad either.’

Even though Asa was in pain, it was nothing compared to the pain he had experienced so far.

The moment when the girl, feeling peaceful for the first time in such a long time, was quietly going to her final resting place.

‘Would you like to be my sister from today?’

There was someone who came to the dirty basement room that no one had visited since Cha Hye-jin left.

The moment of escape that I had only dreamed of. However, the girl whose heart was already worn out and rotten was not very happy.

‘Let me die like this.’

‘Wouldn’t it be a shame to die like this without being able to do anything?’

‘…That too.’

The girl was convinced.

There was no need for her to take her own life when her mother, who had been imprisoning her, was arrested by the police.

However, I did not have the confidence to live a normal life like others.

She was already a used product that had been sold to people, and she hated those people.

‘I’ll do it for you little sister, so please do me a favor.’

‘…What?’

‘Give me a name. Now not my name.’

The girl who hated neither living nor dying thought.

I wish someone other than me would live on my behalf.

I will take all the memories that are so ugly and horrible that they are too disgusting to even talk about. therefore.

Please make me happier than anyone else, as much as I have been in pain so far.

So much so that I have no regrets about my current choice.

**

“And this idiot oppa openly ignored my words.”

Eight years passed and Cha Ha-ryeong, now a freshman in high school, sighed deeply.