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“…….”

“…….”

team.

A familiar silence descended on the set.

It was the kind of silence that the actors imitating Seo Yisoo’s acting often created.

“What kind of acting is this….”

One staff member unintentionally murmured and then abruptly closed their mouth.

That’s how different Seo Yisoo’s acting was from the other actors’.

“How can just watching her act evoke such emotions?”

At that moment, everyone shared the same thought, explaining the situation.

Everyone on set felt perplexed, experiencing a strange, unsettling emotion.

It was all because of Seo Yisoo’s acting.

Watching her act, they were drawn into the emotions embodied by the character Haesoo.

Haesoo…

A character with a mind and impulses different from others.

Raised by her mother to endure it all her life.

But now, in this moment.

She was freely disregarding the rules and killing people, while being controlled by the chains of intense desire.

Seo Yisoo’s strength lies in conveying emotions.

Even now, she was violently conveying the emotions Haesoo harbored.

It was a lustful desire.

An emotion not of a human.

That’s why Seo Yisoo’s acting felt bizarre.

“Ha… Ha….”

Haesoo exhaled a breath filled with unrestrained impulses.

A staff member wearing a headset, adjusting the sound, absentmindedly focused on her breathing.

Haesoo, exhaling that hot breath, had a wild look in her eyes.

She was on the verge of losing her sanity due to overwhelming desire.

And through the microphone, the sound staff receiving her breath.

His ears were filled only with that sound, as if possessed by something.

Ha…

Ha…

Ha….

It was a breath that seemed to melt his ears.

In that situation, Seo Yisoo’s acting continued.

Episode 1.

#New 78

-Back alley at night.

Do not harm life.

The absolute rule my mother taught me.

I had lived bound by that rule to an unreasonable extent.

Perhaps my mother taught me that rule hoping I wouldn’t kill anyone.

But I had even changed my diet to vegan.

The reason was simple.

“I felt like even killing a single ant would trigger an explosion of desire.”

So I lived a cautious life, not even stepping on a single ant by the roadside.

That was my world.

But now.

I was engulfed in doubt.

“Do I have to follow the rules even for those outside the rules?”

Not killing people is a rule.

But the man in front of me had already broken the rule by killing someone.

Does that rule apply to such a person?

My mother never told me about that.

Dizzy!

I suddenly felt dizzy.

Heat rose to my head.

Whoosh-

Was it a hallucination?

I saw something strange in my vision.

Red ashes seemed to be falling from the sky.

I looked up at the sky.

In my eyes, a catastrophic scene was unfolding.

The world around me was disintegrating from the edges.

I sensed that the world my mother had created for me was falling apart.

“There’s a crack in the rule.”

My mother’s rule had been flawless until now.

But now, this monster, me, had discovered a flaw.

Maybe outside the rules, you don’t have to follow the rules.

That gap.

A slight flaw.

It was small and insignificant.

But it was a crack I couldn’t fix.

I don’t understand the human heart.

So I don’t know how to interpret the rules.

I only learned to follow the law faithfully.

I didn’t know how to make up for the shattered gold.

The crack was growing larger and larger.

It was trying to break the chains of rules and destroy my world.

I don’t know now.

“What am I feeling right now?”

Am I afraid, or am I happy?

Maybe I didn’t know it could be both.

Someone once said that the destruction of one world signifies the birth of another.

Even now, I didn’t know if that was the case.

After my world completely falls apart, will there be a new world waiting for me again?

What kind of place will that world be?

My mind couldn’t judge that.

But the desires that had been suppressed for a long time were urging me to do something.

Clang!

The sound of a sharp, rolling blade.

It belongs to a killer.

A tool for killing people.

The sharp blade stimulated me.

I couldn’t bear it any longer.

Desire was trying to dominate me from head to toe.

And I was a model prisoner begging to become a slave.

“P-please, spare me.”

I don’t know what I look like right now.

The killer who was about to kill someone was trembling as he contemplated what he felt from me.

I reached out to grab the knife.

That’s when it happened.

“Gasp! Gasp! Over here! Here!”

Doyeon and the others arrived.

“Haesoo! Haesoo caught him!”

“That bastard! That guy hurt my brother!”

“….”

I turned towards them.

The ones who were shouting fell silent for a moment.

In the dark alley where even the streetlights didn’t shine.

The strange look on my face, with dark shadows on my face, made them feel an instinctive aversion.

Junseong raised his fist to his mouth with a pale face.

“Ugh….”

A feeble retching.

It must have been an instinctive aversion towards something inhuman.

At that moment.

“Cut!”

Someone shouted.

***

“Cut!”

PD Kim Jungho shouted cut but didn’t give the OK sign.

It meant something wasn’t right.

“Hmm.”

He scratched his chin, knowing what the problem was already.

“The picture doesn’t fit.”

In the script of “Predator of Crime.”

Haesoo is portrayed as a psychopath who doesn’t understand people.

Therefore, people should not be able to understand her.

They should treat her as they would a disgusting monster.

However, a problem arose at this point.

“It’s too captivating to simply treat her as repulsive, Seo Yisoo’s acting is too…”

Seo Yisoo’s greatest strength is her emotional delivery.

People can feel how much of a monstrous creature Haesoo is through her acting.

But Seo Yisoo’s strength is not just that.

It’s the intense presence she exudes as a dragon.

That’s what made it difficult to simply see Haesoo as repulsive.

Some monsters are so destructive that they don’t just repel onlookers.

Seo Yisoo was like that.

The psychopath Haesoo she portrayed was so…

Captivating.

“To take a 10-minute break.”

Kim Jungho made a decision.

He needed to call Lee Kyungmi, who was diligently writing the script in the studio.

“I need to revise the script.”

***

“Why was the filming stopped? Is there a problem?”

Seo Yisoo grabbed Gil Hye-yeon’s sleeve and asked.

As a novice actress, Seo Yisoo, whose filming experience was also lacking, couldn’t understand how the current situation was unfolding.

The same was true for Lee Hyunseong, who played the role of Junseong, who had not yet become a veteran.

But there was one thing they could be sure of.

“Hmm.”

Lee Hyunseong looked at Seo Yisoo with interest.

He had felt it during the script reading.

And now, on set, it was even more apparent.

Seo Yisoo, was it?

This girl is really…

“Seo Yisoo?”

“Yes? What’s the matter?”

“Acting. It’s really amazing. Ah, we should continue working together in the future. Can I speak freely? You can too, Mr. Lee.”

“Is that so? Well then, that’s fine. I’ll speak freely too.”

“But, your way of speaking seems a bit strange? Oh, not in a bad way. Just interesting.”

“It’s okay. People are all a bit strange in their own ways.”

“…Who said that?”

“Shin Ji-hoo said that.”

“…Who is Shin Ji-hoo?”

“You’re asking about the obvious. He’s my manager.”

“Oh… really?”

“That’s right.”

Seo Ee-soo muttered some strange words, looking quite pleased, nodding and smiling.

“His acting is amazing. He’s a bit strange.”

Just like many others who had interacted with Seo Ee-soo.

Lee Hyun-seong also realized, without saying a word, that she was quite a bit strange.

However, this realization did not diminish her fondness for Seo Ee-soo.

“Haha, you’re quite entertaining. You act well. I like it.”

“Hehe, is that so? You have a good eye for observing. I like that.”

“What kind of strange conversation are they having?”

Watching this, Gil Hye-yeon muttered to herself, covering her forehead.

Then suddenly, she looked at Seo Ee-soo with fresh eyes.

“I knew he was talented, but…”

Gil Hye-yeon, who probably knew Seo Ee-soo’s talent the best, aside from the somewhat clueless Shin Ji-hoo, had spent the most time with her.

However, the acting Seo Ee-soo displayed in this shoot was subtly different from what she had known.

Normally, Seo Ee-soo was an actor who perfectly portrayed the script itself.

But Seo Ee-soo’s character in “Haesoo” had some subtle differences from the script.

The director hurriedly disappeared with his phone probably because of these differences.

“…”

From the moment she saw Seo Ee-soo’s acting in “My Manager,” Seo Ee-soo had been a subject of study for Gil Hye-yeon.

A possessor of talent that was impossible to predict…

Gil Hye-yeon did not have the same level of talent as Seo Ee-soo.

She knew this better than anyone.

But even so, she couldn’t just accept her lack of talent and leave it at that.

“If I keep watching and thinking, I might learn something I don’t have.”

Fundamentally, there was a fondness for Seo Ee-soo.

But there was also another reason why Gil Hye-yeon had developed such a deep friendship with her.

After some contemplation, Gil Hye-yeon decided to ask the person directly.

“Isu, your acting seems a bit different from usual. Why is that?”

“Um?”

Of course, Seo Ee-soo just smiled brightly in response to the question.

Perhaps Seo Ee-soo didn’t have any thoughts while acting.

Therefore, the way Gil Hye-yeon asked the question was wrong from the start.

Suppressing a sigh, Gil Hye-yeon asked again.

“How was it today, acting? Was there anything different from usual?”

“Different?”

Seo Ee-soo shook his head with a smile.

And he recalled his acting from earlier.

Was there something different…?

Something came to mind.

“Oh.”

“What? How was it?”

“Well, I felt a bit strange, to be honest.”

“Strange feeling?”

“Unlike usual, I felt a lot of empathy towards Haesoo.”

“Empathy…”

Seo Ee-soo may not have been fully aware, but the character Haesoo had similarities to Seo Ee-soo in many ways.

A psychopath who couldn’t understand human emotions.

But Seo Ee-soo was not entirely human either.

She was a dragon.

Her occasional displays of a lack of common sense were not only due to her being from another world but also because she belonged to the non-human race of dragons.

Fundamentally, there were aspects of humans that she couldn’t understand.

Psychopath and Dragon.

The former was extremely negative, while the latter was a subject that was neither positive nor negative.

However, the common point of ‘misunderstanding’ was making Seo Yisoo delve deeper into the character.

Yes.

Although Seo Yisoo himself may not know in his dreams.

And the method and result were also very clumsy and lacking.

While playing the role of ……

Seo Yisoo was pursuing the ‘acting beyond the script’ that he so desired.

In other words, he was creating ‘Seo Yisoo’s own character’.

It is still unknown what impact this will have on Seo Yisoo’s future as an actor and the work .

The future is usually embraced within the range of human perception only after it has become the present.

But it was a fact that something significant would bring about a change.

“Hmm…… Did I do something wrong again?”

Seo Yisoo, who was unaware of the situation, asked cautiously.

He seemed a little scared of getting scolded by Gil Hye-yeon.

“No, quite the opposite.”

Gil Hye-yeon gently patted Seo Yisoo’s head with warm eyes.

“You’re doing well. As a reward, I’ll buy you something delicious after filming. How about mango shaved ice?”

“Something delicious!”

His eyes sparkled like a child’s.

Seeing this, Gil Hye-yeon, Lee Hyun-seong, and even Baek Dong-geun, who had only shown a business-like attitude, burst into laughter.

“Alright! Let’s resume filming!!”

A little later.

Kim Jung-ho PD, who came in with the revised script, called everyone’s attention with a loud voice.