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Chapter 22: Beautiful Hands – (3)

Chapter 22: Beautiful Hands – (3)

That Evening

Hwangdang Daegajok (The Outrageous Family) that was airing.

Clap Clap Clap

Clap Clap Clap

Crunch

Crunch

Inside the silent bus

Two girls were sitting in a vehicle heading to the filming location.

“……..”

“……..”

One of them was staring intensely at the script, filled with annotations in blue pen. The other had her legs crossed, looking out the window absently.

The one staring out the window muttered softly.

“I don’t want to work at the same place as a monkey doing tricks.”

“……..”

“If you want to ride the coattails of some trendy catchphrase, you should go to a comedy show. Why are you sticking around here hoping to pick up scraps?”

“……..”

“How long do you think a street-cast nobody will last?”

“…….”

The small hand gripping the script trembled slightly. But she couldn’t argue with her senior’s muttering. She just focused on memorizing her lines.

If she got the lines wrong again…

There would be the assistant director’s scolding and her manager’s cold stare.

Even if they were shooting a slapdash scene with a hastily prepared script, she, as an outsider, had to keep her guard up.

‘I know.’

She knew very well that her sudden rise to fame wasn’t due to her talent, but pure luck, catching a break in an audition.

‘I know.’

She also knew this was all a poisoned chalice.

But…

‘I need to hold on.’

After reading her script for a while, Juri looked up.

“……”

She was finding it hard to keep reading the densely annotated script. The motion sickness was slowly creeping up on her.

So, she turned her head towards the window.

“……”

‘We’ll be there soon.’

Juri stuffed the script into her bag. The inside of her bag was filled with scripts, all annotated with blue pen, their pages worn to the point of being unreadable.

“……”

Even if she had to play the fool.

She had to be the perfect fool.

But.

It was still a bit unsettling.

‘Of all places…’

Her cousin.

Her most successful cousin was attending the school where the filming was taking place.

‘I don’t want this to be seen by Yujin unnie on set.’

Juri let out a quiet sigh.

But the bus didn’t stop. It kept driving forward.