To be honest, until right before that, most of Noeul didn’t really expect much from Bring Me the Camera.
[Title: Guys!! I finally figured out why Seo Hoyun acts so well
He always practices in self-content against Kim Sunghyun
└LMAOOOOO That’s exactly it
└He doesn’t need an acting coach
└└He has only one leading lady: Kim Yeoju]
If Seo Hoyun acts, that’s great.
After all, he was already constantly busy, and his movie was about to premiere soon.
Whether Season 2 of the drama would even happen or not was secondary—by now, his scale as a celebrity had grown so massive that appearing as a supporting role in a drama seemed almost bankrupt-level of a loss.
That’s what everyone thought.
But some fans were different.
[Title: Holy crap, new KaBu hints!!!!
What should I eat today, lunch recommendation plz
└Starve]
They had devoured every Korean drama out there and still prowled around like hyenas, muttering, “Ugh, nothing good left to watch...”
[Seo Hoyun is honestly incredible. He hasn’t acted since Bring Me the Camera, right? Then went straight into Vile Trial and now KaBu Season 2??
└Wait?? KaBu Season 2 is real?
└└Delusional, he
└└LOLOLOL damn I got baited]
Whenever they were bored, ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) they rewatched clips from Bring Me the Camera Season 1.
[Lee Junghoon himself, seriously. How did a twenty-three-year-old idol with zero acting experience shut up every critic who cursed him out at first?]
[He was PD Lee Junghoon.]
[Seriously, how did he pull off thirty-something office vibes at twenty-three?]
[No doubt he’s had office life experience; otherwise it’s impossible to explain.
└His “offices” were Daepaseong and WH, after all.
└Makes sense, complete sense.]
When rumors spread that “Min Jiheon” and “Yoo Jia” were both doing Bring Me the Camera Season 2, people completely lost it.
[O..ooOOOh! OOOOHHH!]
[U! UUH! UOH! UOHHH!!]
[Are we orangutans??? Is this a jungle?? What the hell LOLOL]
But that excitement faded for a moment.
[Wait—what about Seo Hoyun????]
[Hold up, no way. KaBu without Lee Junghoon is like red bean bread without filling!!]
[Title: I trust Yoo Jia
She said “hehe look forward to it” after work...
Is it okay to be excited..?
└Ah damn it, I’m excited again
└└Unnie please...]
And then—
【‘Bring Me the Camera’ confirms casting of Min Jiheon / Yoo Jia / Seo Hoyun [Official]】
It dropped!
They ran with eyebrows flying, clicking the article with trembling hands.
【...‘Bring Me the Camera Season 2’ has confirmed the casting of Min Jiheon, Yoo Jia, and Seo Hoyun, officially entering full production.
This is the first official announcement since the explosive success of Season 1.
(Excerpt omitted)
Seo Hoyun, now a “Billboard Star” who climbed up to #19 on the Hot 100, returns as a supporting actor in his former drama role despite a murderous schedule—out of loyalty.】
Seo Hoyun was returning as “PD Lee Junghoon.”
[AAAAAAAHHHH]
[KYYYYAAAAAAA!!!]
People were even happier than when the first rumor about Season 2 had broken.
[KaBu seizes victory
└It’s claims victory, you idiot LOLOLOL]
[Didn’t we already kinda know Min Jiheon was joining? Everyone in the actor circles knew. Why’s everyone losing it like it’s new just because Seo Hoyun’s in too?]
That comment sent the KaBu fandom into frenzy.
[What kind of bullsh*t is that.]
[KaBu without Lee Junghoon isn’t KaBu.
It’s not complete until our PD appears.]
[Protect our Trash PD at all costs!
└Protect! Protect!!]
[If that annoying PD doesn’t pull his bastard antics again, that’s viewer abuse!]
While they were losing their minds, the peaceful Noeul who were just enjoying the new album release found themselves bewildered.
[Uh... guys, why are you so worked up]
[I think they just asked casually, calm down seriously]
[W-We’re happy too! We like PD Lee Junghoon!]
[Oh my god Drudons are hilarious LOOOL Is that an insult or a compliment LOOOL]
[LOLOLOL Even their fans are out of control I swear LOLOLOLOL]
***
“Oh my god!”
Yeah, so we’d already done the script reading, and even filmed once or twice—but still.
“PD Lee Junghoon turned into a total bastard?!”
“The live script made him worse. Writer Kim Sookhee said she got divine inspiration the moment she saw Seo Hoyun’s face again.”
...Honestly, they weren’t wrong.
Hearing staff gossip as they passed, I stepped into the waiting room and opened the Bring Me the Camera Season 2 draft script.
[—PD Lee Junghoon seemed to be helping a senior producer with his program, only to snatch the entire time slot for himself.
He even took away the actors who had already agreed to appear.
The furious senior storms up to him, fuming.]
Senior PD: Good talk. You approached me on purpose, didn’t you? Pretending to help while stealing my lineup?!
PD Lee Junghoon, smoking.
His brow twitches before he spits out one line.
Lee Junghoon PD: What, did you think I was doing volunteer work?]
“.......”
I flipped a few more pages.
[Lee Junghoon was eating with Yoo Junghwa when commotion broke out near the entrance—
A famous celebrity kicked open the door to the private room.
Without a word, the celebrity splashed barley tea straight at Lee Junghoon.]
Yoo Junghwa: (shocked) A-Are you insane!?
Celebrity A: Lee Junghoon, you bastard, are you kidding me?! You toyed with someone who trusted you! You like living like this, you piece of trash?!
Dripping wet, Lee Junghoon dabbed himself with a restaurant wet tissue and replied coolly.
Lee Junghoon: You said you liked it before. Changing your story now? Bit random.
Celebrity A: You crazy bastard...! I’m going to expose you! Spread all of this!
Lee Junghoon: Sure, go ahead.
He stood, utterly calm, and went to pay the bill.
Lee Junghoon: I’m not the celebrity here. You are.
Celebrity A: (clutches his neck)]
......I opened today’s new draft too.
[After receiving countless complaints, Lee Junghoon gets called into the director’s office and chewed out.
The director yells, demanding what he plans to do.
Lee Junghoon drops his line.]
Lee Junghoon: Director.
Director: What!!
Lee Junghoon: Haven’t we talked about this enough? I said I’d take responsibility. Anyway....
He crosses his legs lazily, yawning.
Lee Junghoon: Isn’t it all fine as long as the ratings come out?
Beep—boop—beep—boop—
The director’s blood pressure skyrockets; he collapses and is rushed to the hospital as the scene fades out.]
“...Tch.”
The entire first episode was basically a compilation of PD Lee Junghoon’s trash moments.
Somehow, Jung Dajun had gotten his hands on the script too.
Which is why, this morning, just as I was leaving home, he saw me and screamed with a horrified face.
“T-Trash!”
“.......”
“P-PD Lee Junghoon! Why did you become such trash?!”
I tried to ignore him, but after he shouted, “M-Maniac! Why are you such a maniac?! A total maniac!” at least ten times, I smacked him on the head and told him to shut it.
“......Hmm.”
I closed the draft and muttered at the ceiling.
“Did Writer Kim Sookhee binge morning dramas or something?”
Ding!
[Um... Seo Hoyun, can I say something?]
“Don’t.”
[You’ve started the game again. When you return, the settings will be a mess, and with everything you’ve done before, this won’t be a kind world for you.]
“......”
[...This is one of your fragments, Seo Hoyun.]
Didn’t I tell you not to, you bastard....
The very reason the character “Lee Junghoon” was born was because fragments of my existence had leaked into him.
Now that the new game has begun and the settings have mixed, all the sins I’ve committed will bleed straight through.
I threw the script aside and sighed.
‘Fine, I admit it.’
These were all things I did.
Things I said.
I know I acted like trash plenty of times... but now that I’ve finally decided to live decently, do they really need to put my past on display in a drama too?
As I rubbed my forehead, a system window popped up timidly, as if gauging my mood.
[Hey, don’t be too upset. As far as I know, right after this... huh.]
[Wait.]
[Uwaahh]
[W-wait a moment.]
“......?”
Before I could even ask back, the system window abruptly flicked away, vanishing mid-sentence.
“Hey, hey?”
I tapped the table. A strange sense of déjà vu came over me.
Occasionally, on set, the system window would just suddenly disappear like this.
And every time it did, without fail, someone would show up—
“Seo Hoyun~ ssi.”
Something cold poked my cheek.
When I turned, I saw an actor smiling faintly, holding two drinks.
“Why do you look so grumpy?”
Of course.
“I just met Min Jiheon.”
“Whoa, so cold.”
Min Jiheon closed the waiting room door, hopped over next to me, and proudly handed me a frappuccino.
“Here, Seo Hoyun-ssi. I figured you might be in a bad mood, so guess what I brought~ A caramel frappuccino with four syrup pumps and...”
“Five pumps.”
“...Wow, hyung, you’re gonna get diabetes like this.”
“And java chips.”
“Well, at least I got that part right.”
Min Jiheon chuckled and handed me the frappuccino piled with java chips.
He sipped his warm citron tea, watching me closely with that strange little smile.
“What.”
“Mm~ It just feels kind of nostalgic, seeing you here again.”
Actually, I had met Min Jiheon quite a few times.
Especially right before our activities began—we even went on a restaurant tour.
During the Midnight Protocol shoot, whenever we bumped into each other at WH, he’d start chattering away, giving me acting tips.
“You know what?”
So even though this wasn’t exactly a reunion, he smiled slyly, as if he was genuinely glad.
“If you hadn’t taken the Lee Junghoon PD role, the writer said she was ready to throw herself at the network. She spent three years writing the Season 2 script, and she said if you couldn’t handle the role, she wanted to cancel the drama altogether.”
“No way.”
“It’s true.”
Min Jiheon gave a small laugh and twirled his staff ID badge.
“So when you renewed your Daepaseong contract, Writer Sookhee and everyone else cheered. Thank God, right? Daepaseong can’t run without The Dawn anyway.”
“You know what.”
“Well, if you quit, I was thinking of quitting too.”
Bullshit.
I thought it was one of his usual bad jokes, so I ignored it—but then a flicker of regret crossed Min Jiheon’s face.
“......?”
“...Ahem, hahaha.”
He avoided my eyes and gave a forced laugh. I scanned him up and down, and he quickly changed the topic.
“...Anyway, things at the company seem kind of tense lately, huh?”
That was true.
On the surface, everything looked peaceful.
Actually, I was getting everything I wanted.
But nothing in this world is without shadows.
Headhunting good people, setting up my own board—
Even with CEO Jang’s backing, there was no stopping the rumors spreading behind the scenes.
“I heard that starting fresh like this could make your reputation nosedive fast, but I didn’t think it’d be this bad.”
And since Min Jiheon already knew everything about me, he caught on to the situation easily.
He flipped open my script and, with mock seriousness, said,
“Some people just don’t like you for no reason... and now there’s even this script. But this is a bit exaggerated, right? For Lee Junghoon to be such a nasty PD... pfft.”
“.......”
“Pff—ahahahaha... ah, sorry, pfft.”
Laughing his ass off, that bastard...
Even when a staff member knocked on the door to say his shoot was about to start, the idiot couldn’t stop laughing.
“Go.”
“Pfft, ah, sorry.”
I glared, and he backed off giggling.
With a sigh, I opened my script.
After skimming it twice, I stepped out of the waiting room.
A staff member spotted me.
“Oh, perfect timing, Seo Hoyun-ssi! Yoo Jia’s scene just wrapped up.”
“Thank you.”
Far off, Yoo Jia was pressing her tired eyes with her fingertips, looking utterly drained.
I frowned a little, and the staff whispered,
“Well... Min Jiheon kind of overwhelmed her during the scene.”
Ah.
I had heard about that—how Min Jiheon was bombarding Yoo Jia with ad-libs lately.
The veins on her forehead were showing, but since Jiheon was her senior in acting, she was clearly gritting her teeth and enduring it.
“Be careful too, Seo Hoyun-ssi. Min Jiheon’s totally in the zone these days....”
Following the staff’s gaze, I looked toward the set.
There stood Min Jiheon, script in hand.
‘Just Min Jiheon being himself.’
The same guy who loved food, was oddly delicate, sometimes teary-eyed, sometimes infuriating—
but now, somehow, he felt... different.
There was a strange pressure when he stood in the center of the set.
Even among actors, everyone said it was rare to find someone so obsessed with acting.
It had been a long time since I’d seen him like that.
He was talking with a staff member, then drew a short breath and turned his gaze.
“.......”
Our eyes met.
He raised the corner of his lips in a small smile—
as if to say, come here.
As his brow twitched, the director pushed me into the camera frame.
“Alright, Seo Hoyun-ssi, come in— when Min Jiheon gives the cue, go straight into your line.”
“Yes.”
With his usual bright tone, Min Jiheon smiled and whispered softly,
“Seo Hoyun-ssi.”
“Yes.”
“It’s been a while since we’ve done this, huh?”
His hair shimmered in the sunlight, his calm autumn-like presence, the gleam in his eyes like an excited boy’s.
“You ready?”
In his own territory—he looked absolutely delighted.
“Ready—action!”
Clap!
The slate snapped sharply.
I slowly reached into my pocket, retracing the lines in my head.
[—After everything ended, spring had come again, but the broadcasting station remained busy.
However, Min Seungtae was leaving the station, ready to move on.
The two still didn’t get along well.
Min Seungtae came to find Lee Junghoon in the smoking room—nicknamed “the raccoon den.”
When he saw him there, he spoke without any greeting.]
“I’m quitting.”
I had an unlit cigarette between my lips.
At the voice, I frowned and looked up.
The usual cheerful, drawling Jiheon—“Hyeoong~”—was gone.
“Ah, the department head told me to let you know. My resignation will be processed next week.”
Now, in his place, stood Min Seungtae—cold, detached, uninterested in anyone except Yoo Junghwa.
“I don’t think I need your approval anyway....”
“.......”
“Since you don’t like me.”
Here, Lee Junghoon’s line was simple.
[Lee Junghoon: That’s a shame.]
Just one line.
Then the next lines were about Yoo Junghwa.
I looked quietly at Min Seungtae’s dry eyes.
“.......”
When I didn’t respond, Min Seungtae gave a faint, dismissive smile.
“Well then, take care—”
“I don’t dislike you.”
Min Jiheon froze mid-expression.
I slowly studied his reaction, leaning my back lightly against the vending machine, and asked as softly as possible,
“You’re really leaving like this?”
“...Excuse me?”
The script had already exposed all my dirty history,
and Min Jiheon had laughed at it.
So—
I might as well show him something too.
“Why.”
One of the old tricks I used whenever a junior or cast member tried to escape from me.
With a faint smile, I looked at him.
“...You don’t like seeing your senior?”
The perfect ad-lib: ‘Mm~ I don’t let my slaves go that easily~.’
