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Even as Seo Yisoo was being chased, the filming continued at a fast pace.

Filming is like building a brick wall.

Every day, scenes pile up, stories intertwine, and the work takes shape.

“My Manager” was no different.

In front of the camera.

The protagonist Han Sung and Yena, as a rookie manager and actress, faced all sorts of hardships.

The ridicule directed towards Han Sung, who had fallen from a top star to a manager.

The jealousy towards Yena, a talented rookie actress who was managed by him.

Normally, they would have given up early on.

But they were special people.

One was a former top star.

The other was a talented rookie actress.

They overcame hardships with their experience and talent.

They carved out a place for themselves in the rough jungle of the entertainment industry.

In the early stages of the work.

The main obstacle blocking the two of them was the role of the supporting character, Cha Yeon-soo.

She tried to torment the talented rookie actress Yena.

And used her manager, Sora, for that purpose.

While Sora harbored feelings similar to a crush towards the protagonist Han Sung, who treated her well, she put the female lead Yena in danger by being wary of the top star Cha Yeon-soo.

It was all because of Cha Yeon-soo.

Cha Yeon-soo acted like an indifferent person.

As if there were no people around her.

She spoke bluntly as if she were the only one there.

Naturally, the gaze towards her was not favorable.

But what could be done.

She was a top star.

In the entertainment industry, popularity is everything.

Even if a top star has some personality flaws, as long as it doesn’t become a topic in the media, it’s not a problem.

And now, the scene that Seo Yisoo was about to film.

It was a scene where Cha Yeon-soo played the role of a maid, but in reality, it was a scene where she argued with the actresses who looked down on her.

***

“My Manager” Episode 3.

#NewNumber 37.

– Inside the broadcasting station set.

Preparations for filming were in full swing.

The actresses were gathered together, engrossed in gossip.

They were the women who always clung to Cha Yeon-soo and talked behind her back.

“Cha Yeon-soo was causing a scene again today?”

“She’s always like that, isn’t she.”

“Really. There’s never a day when that person isn’t causing a scene.”

They continued to gossip about Cha Yeon-soo without a break.

Since they had to be closer to Cha Yeon-soo than anyone else and tolerate her eccentric personality, there was a lot piled up.

One actress suddenly remembered something.

“Come to think of it. Wasn’t there someone who caused even more trouble than her recently, the new manager Han?”

“Ahaha. Right. Oh Han Sung. Oh, now that he’s a manager, he’s not a senior anymore, right?”

“He’s just Oh Manager, isn’t he.”

“Ahaha. Oh Manager. She said she only drinks water from a specific brand. Come on, go get it quickly.”

There’s nothing better than gossiping about a fallen star.

They imagined the senior who had fallen to a manager, just like Cha Yeon-soo, and laughed among themselves.

“Really. It would be great if Cha Yeon-soo became like that.”

“The manager?”

“Yes. Cha Manager.”

“Just like that. Because I’ll definitely pay back everything I’ve suffered.”

They imagined it.

The annoying Cha Yeon-soo, who was like a queen, falling like the protagonist Oh Han Sung.

They laughed at themselves, thinking about her.

But then, it happened.

“……Oh.”

“What do we do.”

The girls who were excited suddenly fell silent.

Their faces turned pale with uncertainty.

They had just realized that Cha Yeon-soo was watching them.

To them.

With a clack of her heels, Cha Yeon-soo approached.

In the script.

Approaching them, Cha Yeon-soo spat out her sharp and harsh words.

I guess my true feelings have been exposed. The other actresses were supposed to react strongly towards her in this scene.

This was the scene where Cha Yeon-soo cuts off everyone around her and isolates herself completely.

“Do you think I can act properly?”

Looking at the approaching woman, supporting actress Hye-jin hid her twisted thoughts.

She was cast by Yoo Ha-neul as an actress in this work, and she didn’t think highly of Seo Yi-soo, who was playing Cha Yeon-soo.

It wasn’t just because Yoo Ha-neul criticized Seo Yi-soo’s acting.

“Why does this girl have a more significant role than me in a drama about a celebrity? ”

She couldn’t accept Seo Yi-soo.

She wasn’t particularly pretty compared to herself.

Even in terms of recognition, wasn’t she higher than herself, who had been steadily working in minor roles in various projects?

But just because she was under the management of the large company KS Entertainment, she suddenly took on a much more significant role than herself.

Hye-jin felt no shame in leading her fellow supporting actors to repeatedly make mistakes.

“We’re not doing it on purpose. It’s just because her acting is terrible, right?”

Hye-jin had no intention of acting properly.

She would make mistakes repeatedly.

And she would create public opinion blaming Seo Yi-soo for it.

As a result, the production team that put Seo Yi-soo in Cha Yeon-soo’s place would have to think differently.

“Already, the schedule is tight because of all the NGs.”

Harsh and tight drama filming.

In such filming, the position of a supporting actor who ruins the schedule by making mistakes repeatedly cannot be maintained.

In the end, whether due to the tight schedule.

Or by acknowledging Seo Yi-soo’s poor acting skills.

The director would have to reconsider casting Seo Yi-soo.

That was what Yoo Ha-neul, who supported Hye-jin and others, aimed for, and Hye-jin had the same goal.

“Alright. Just say some insignificant lines. I’m not going to say anything anyway.”

Seo Yi-soo was about to miss the timing because she was acting too extravagantly.

That was the excuse she was planning to make.

Hye-jin looked at Seo Yi-soo’s lips with malice.

And then, Seo Yi-soo began to utter Cha Yeon-soo’s first line.

“Hmph.”

“Huh?”

Seo Yi-soo.

No, Cha Yeon-soo.

“Are you guys having fun?”

She started saying lines that weren’t in the script.

***

Just before Seo Yi-soo went into filming.

When she asked how she could avoid making mistakes.

Shin Ji-hoo thought.

“If, just if. For some reason, what if the supporting actors are intentionally making mistakes?”

Normally, it would be an absurd delusion.

But Shin Ji-hoo couldn’t easily believe the words of the supporting actors who were making mistakes because Seo Yi-soo’s acting was not good.

In her eyes, Seo Yi-soo’s acting was good.

That’s why she came up with such an unreasonable situation.

She thought.

“Well… I don’t know if this makes sense. Anyway, if it’s true.”

If the supporting actors were intentionally making mistakes, no matter how good Seo Yi-soo’s acting was, she wouldn’t be able to resolve the situation.

The memory that crossed Shin Ji-hoo’s mind at that moment was an anecdote about her mother, a senior actress.

The actors who acted with her mother said.

That when they acted with her, they were often swept away by her tremendous acting without even realizing it.

“Seo Yi-soo… She may not be at the level of my mother, but.”

Seo Yi-soo was not a senior actress like her mother.

But her intense emotional expression was not ordinary.

The opponent was just supporting actors.

They were much weaker than proper actors.

So, Shin Ji-hoo said to Seo Yi-soo.

“Just act as you please and shake things up.”

And that’s how it was.

“As I please.”

As she pleased.

Seo Yi-soo quite liked those words.

Until now, Seo Yi-soo had to restrain herself while playing around.

Of course.

She had to show the character of Cha Yeon-soo from the script, not just herself.

As Cha Yeon-soo, it wasn’t natural for her to speak and act spontaneously, she had to recite and act out the lines written in the script.

The acting that Seo Yisoo had shown so far was like forcibly wearing ill-fitting clothes.

It was unavoidable.

Acting and play were similar but different.

However, Shin Jihoo said,

“Do as you please.”

“Hmm.”

Seo Yisoo didn’t know much.

So she didn’t know how unreasonable and absurd Shin Jihoo’s words were.

She didn’t know that if an inexperienced actor with poor acting skills acted as she pleased, it would just result in NG.

Seo Yisoo just believed Shin Jihoo’s words.

“Among all the things Shin Jihoo has told me, there hasn’t been anything wrong.”

So, this time wouldn’t be any different.

Shin Jihoo wouldn’t be wrong.

He must have given me advice that would help me.

With that thought in mind,

The dragon unleashed its reins and the play began.

“….”

Closing her eyes for a moment,

When she opened them again,

Seo Yisoo had become Cha Yeon-soo.

***

I look at them.

“Cha Yeon-soo caused a scene again today?”

“Always like that, what can you do.”

The women chattered on their own.

It was a different side from what they had shown in front of me so far.

But it wasn’t surprising.

This world was always like that.

The entertainment industry.

Isn’t it common for appearances to be different from reality?

I didn’t get angry.

But that didn’t mean I would just leave those women alone.

“….”

“Hey, what should we do.”

Approaching the pale-faced girls who discovered me.

Click, click.

The sound of my shoes hitting the ground echoed.

I stood in front of the woman who was the most excited and noisy.

Then I smiled brightly.

“Having fun, aren’t you?”

“Uh, well….”

The woman couldn’t say anything.

It must be because of me.

Right now, I’m laughing.

But in my eyes looking at her, the emotions I held were being conveyed.

“You know. Do you know that?”

I am Cha Yeon-soo.

A star loved more than anyone else.

A star envied more than anyone else.

Since I was young, people around me always approached me with one of these two emotions.

And naturally,

I dealt with people by only responding to these two emotions.

“I like people who love me.”

Click,

Approaching her again.

I say.

“Those people love me so much. So they willingly become villains for me.”

To those who love me, I respond by being a villain.

Because they love me.

What greater proof of love could there be.

“So, I love people who become villains for me. I give them rewards I can offer.”

I give roles to actresses who play maids.

I give high bonuses to managers.

Everyone who became a villain for me succeeded.

And, on the other hand.

“To those who hate me, who envy me.”

I, once again.

Click, taking a step closer to her.

Looking at her, I smiled the most lovely smile I could muster.

With a malicious look in my eyes.

“To those people, I send my malice.”

Malice to malice.

To those who hate me, I used to give them the biggest malice I could offer.

I was a top star.

So the malice I could send was a huge, deep pit that ordinary people couldn’t even imagine.

In the entertainment industry.

There were hardly any who could continue their activities after receiving my malice.

“So, what about you, unnie? Which side are you on?”

I, who had been her maid until now, looked at the woman.

“Uh, uh, um….”

Just a while ago, she was tearing me apart with excitement.

But now, she couldn’t even speak properly and was avoiding my gaze.

Of course.

I was showing her all the malice I had harbored towards her.

“Hey, say something.”

“I, I….”

She tried to answer with a trembling voice.

“Uh, go ahead. Quickly,” I urged her with a raised eyebrow.

***

‘What, what is this…’

Hyejin couldn’t gather her thoughts.

When she first faced the striking face of Cha Yeon-soo, played by Seo Yisoo, she harbored a pitiful heart.

But when Seo Yisoo delivered lines not in the script.

‘Huh?’

She was shaken by the intense emotions emanating from Seo Yisoo, no, Cha Yeon-soo.

A shaken heart clouds reason.

In that state, she was faced with Cha Yeon-soo’s emotions.

She was defenseless against the intense emotions spewing out like a dragon.

“How about it, Unnie? Which side are you on?”

As Cha Yeon-soo’s lines piled up, as her emotions hit her body and mind.

Hyejin gradually forgot reality.

She couldn’t remember that the current situation was just a shooting day, not real.

Seo Yisoo really seemed like Cha Yeon-soo.

Her malice seemed like it would truly destroy her.

Hyejin felt genuine fear.

“Ah, uh, um…”

It was terrifying.

She wanted to escape this situation immediately.

Under pressure, Hyejin speaks as if making excuses.

“Of, of course, I like you.”

That she likes you.

The incident just now was just a slip of the tongue that happened accidentally.

She says so.

“Heh.”

But Cha Yeon-soo was skeptical.

“I can’t believe it. Your tone doesn’t feel believable at all.”

Saying so.

With a small, charming smile like a cute devil.

She says.

“Say it again. So I can believe you.”

“I like you. Really. Please believe me.”

“Ugh. Your choice of words is not great. Again.”

Again.

Again.

Again.

Trembling, Hyejin had to confess multiple times that she liked Cha Yeon-soo.

In front of colleagues who had just been gossiping about Cha Yeon-soo.

Hyejin didn’t feel an ounce of shame about that fact.

Only the desperate desire to prove her affection for Cha Yeon-soo dominated her.