Ch.118Flop Detector

Yerim visits Donghu’s house to prepare breakfast for him, assuming she has time.

Then why did Sujin come to Donghu’s house?

The reason was extremely simple.

‘Just because I want to see him!’

She has a boy she likes,

They’re even close enough that their parents know each other,

She knows where he lives,

‘So I can just meet him without any reason.’

Doesn’t this happen often in romantic comedies?

Plus, the setup itself was perfect.

‘Childhood friends are supposed to wake each other up in the morning.’

It’s common,

A classic trope, cliché, and textbook scenario.

A childhood friend female protagonist waking up the oversleeping male protagonist.

What a perfect combination and feeling.

Then why hadn’t she done it until now?

That reason was also extremely simple.

‘Because we were busy!’

Kim Donghu was busy with movie filming,

Kim Sujin was steadily rising in popularity with dramas, magazine interviews, and more.

There simply hadn’t been any opportunity to meet.

But then.

‘As if by fate!’

With the new semester, she found some free time.

And not just her,

Donghu had free time too.

This opportunity,

As a childhood friend, Kim Sujin absolutely couldn’t miss it.

So she just came over.

To play the role of the childhood friend who wakes up Kim Donghu,

She just came over, but.

“Who are you?”

She encountered an unexpected person.

A possibility she had never once considered.

“Hah.”

Judging by her appearance, this wasn’t just a one-time visit.

‘There’s no awkwardness at all, she seems completely natural. As if it’s normal…’

If she’s bringing groceries,

She must have come at least five times.

‘So many things have been happening when I wasn’t around.’

Kim Sujin closed her eyes tightly for a moment.

How should she handle this situation?

Should she tell her about her chemistry with Donghu in Run! Rushman?

Should she show her how Donghu froze when she did her “kyukyu”?

Should she explain how meaningful their time together was,

And how long they’ve been in sync as childhood friends?

‘No, no, I don’t need to do that.’

Showing an intense reaction in this situation would be amateur.

Kim Sujin composed herself.

‘Stay calm.’

Calmly, truly composedly.

It would be right to kindly explain what position she held in Kim Donghu’s life.

“Have you completely lost your mind?”

She failed.

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Yerim and Sujin didn’t have a great connection from their first meeting.

After all, since their connection was tied by “the person they like,”

It was difficult for the conversation to flow smoothly.

“What? What do you mean I’ve lost my mind?”

“Do you think this makes any sense?”

“Donghu said it was okay.”

“Kim Donghu said it was okay?”

“Yes.”

Kim Donghu, you’re dead when this is over.

No, you’re just dead.

‘Kim Donghu, are you crazy! How could you allow this?’

Kim Sujin made a promise.

‘I won’t forgive you!’

She firmly resolved to scold

This carefree, ignorant idiot who was sleeping without a care in the world.

But that was for later,

Now she needed to focus on the matter at hand.

‘This time I’ll really speak kindly, kindly.’

As she tried to compose herself once more.

“It’s awkward talking outside, shall we go in?”

“Huh? Inside?”

“Yes, just a moment.”

Shin Yerim very casually opened the door to Kim Donghu’s house.

“Huh?”

Unlike herself who needed to call to be let in,

Seeing Shin Yerim calmly opening and entering Kim Donghu’s house.

Poof.

Sujin’s cheeks puffed up like a blowfish.

She might have been able to laugh off everything else.

Things that would seem like memories or minor happenings later.

But this was really not okay.

This was really,

This,

“Hey, Kim Donghu! Come out right now!”

I really can’t stand this!

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There are days like that.

Days when even a short sleep feels refreshing,

When the sunlight seems to warmly embrace your whole body.

“Why do I feel so refreshed?”

Normally I should wake up to an alarm 30 minutes later.

But today, for some reason, I woke up 30 minutes early.

‘It must still be winter, considering how chilly it is.’

But why is it so cold?

Should I say I’m having chills?

‘I’ll leisurely have some coffee first.’

With that thought, I got up from bed.

Suddenly I noticed commotion outside my room.

‘No, I’m not just noticing it, someone’s really here.’

People who would open my door and come in at this hour without saying anything,

‘There are three possibilities.’

1. Mom and Dad

2. Yerim

3. A thief

Number 1 is impossible due to childcare,

Number 3 is physically impossible,

The answer came quickly.

“Yerim?”

Is she coming to make breakfast again because I’m a sophomore now?

With that thought, I opened the door.

“Yes, it’s Yerim.”

“…”

I closed the door again at the unbelievable sight before me.

“Hmm?”

Yerim recently changed her style to a bob cut.

But the person at the door had twin tails.

“…No way.”

The person who twin tails suit better than anyone else in the world,

Who went to the same kindergarten, who appeared with me on “Hehe Doctor!”,

My childhood friend.

“Sujin, you’re here?”

Fling.

I opened the door again,

And managed my expression.

Preparing to apologize for mistaking someone, but.

“Seeing how you look for her first, you must see her often.”

Sujin’s state was very different from usual.

Her puffed-up cheeks resembled those of a blowfish.

Poof.

‘I want to poke them with my finger.’

It was something I absolutely shouldn’t do in this situation.

It was a very shameless act.

“…What are you doing?”

Squish squish.

I couldn’t resist.

“I’m touching your cheeks.”

“Do you think this is appropriate in this situation, when you roughly know what’s going on?”

“No, it’s not.”

“Then why?”

“You smell nice and you’re cute. Did you change your perfume?”

“Wh-what do you mean I smell n-nice! I-I did change it but are you a pervert?!”

At my words, Sujin was startled and swatted my hand away.

At least that deflated her cheeks.

“Yerim and I are in the same agency, and she said she’d make me food.”

Since I eat so much, I like when someone prepares meals for me.

Continuing that thought, I immediately went to the kitchen.

There, as if the current situation was completely normal,

Yerim was cooking with a very composed expression.

“Yerim, I’ll prepare it today.”

“Huh?”

“It’s embarrassing to always be fed by the homeowner, this works out well.”

My mind rotated quickly to reach the best conclusion for the current situation.

‘Eating food from Yerim in front of Sujin right now? That won’t work.’

But it would also be ridiculous to tell someone who came with good intentions not to cook.

I was the one who asked in the first place, and if I backed out because of a variable,

What would that make Yerim who had been coming to cook for me?

‘The right thing is to save face for both of them.’

For that, I needed to take active initiative.

I might be too lazy to cook usually, but I’m actually quite good at it.

‘How many years of living alone did I have in my past life?’

I naturally went behind Yerim, took off her apron,

And overlapped my hands with hers to make her put down the cooking utensils.

“Actually, I was planning to cook today, so this works out. We have more people too.”

“R-really?”

“Yeah, I feel bad always getting fed, sit down.”

“O-okay…”

Yerim bowed her head and immediately walked to the table.

“I prefer light breakfasts, so I’ll make tofu and tteokgalbi, is that okay?”

“Oh, y-yes.”

“Sujin, is that okay with you? I’ll also grill some mushrooms, anything you can’t eat?”

“Uh? Oh… no.”

“Then sit and wait, I’ll make it quickly.”

“Mm…”

Sujin sat at the table with a bewildered expression,

Unable to adapt to the rapidly changing situation.

‘Phew, at least I prevented anyone from getting seriously hurt.’

As I was exhaling with a relieved expression.

Ding!

-[ ദ്ദി˙∇˙)ว ]

-[Practice for the future!]

A message arrived from Sims.

‘…Is he praising me for handling it well?’

Yeah, thanks for the compliment.

‘But what does he mean by practice for the future?’

It was an incomprehensible message from Sims.

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Spending an uneventful daily life,

In some sense, was truly a happy thing.

It meant enjoying peaceful tranquility.

That’s why I enjoyed a very leisurely rest.

‘It’s nice to only exercise about 2 hours a day.’

Should I say my body is full of vitality?

Muttering that, I looked at the calendar.

Mid-June.

Time had passed in the blink of an eye.

At the point when the movie’s outline was gradually taking shape.

I received an unexpected script.

“Um… what is this?”

“Huh? Why? Don’t you like it?”

“No, it’s not that… I don’t think I’ll do it.”

“Really? This has over 20 billion won in investment, so it should be huge.”

At Manager Seokho’s words, I shrugged.

‘I absolutely must not do this.’

To the extent that if someone around me said they would do it, I should stop them at all costs,

For the first time in my life, I saw a rating that entered my eyes.

<Tale of Iron, F>

How badly does something have to fail to be rated F?

It was enough to make me afraid.

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Kim Donghu is a famous guarantee of success.

That’s why from dramas to movies and even variety shows,

There were many places that wanted Kim Donghu.

However.

“Don’t you think Kim Donghu is quite picky about his projects?”

“Huh?”

At some point, rumors began to circulate.

“Kim Donghu, he’s like a flop detector.”

“What does that mean?”

“I heard he rejected Tale of Iron this time?”

“He rejected that? The director of Tale of Iron is a master!”

“Yes, so the atmosphere is really bad now. The director went to see Kim Donghu himself.”

Flop detector,

The ability to pick only successful works.

And not being chosen means.

“So you’re saying my movie will fail? Where is Kim Donghu! I’ll try to persuade him! He just doesn’t understand the true value of this film!”

That the movie will fail.

Unable to believe this fact,

Kim Jihun, the director of <Tale of Iron>, set out.

Naturally, his destination was Veritas, Kim Donghu’s agency.