Chapter 88: What’s Next?
Chapter 88 < What’s Next? >
“Is it done?”
[LIVE] Korean University Festival with Seonu Seonwoo
Park Seonwoo stood in front of the camera, checking the rapidly rising number of viewers and the lively chat.
“Hello, everyone!”
The cameraman who was filming him was his classmate and fellow student at Korean University, who was lured by the salary that Park Seonwoo offered.
“By the way, just to let you know, we’re going to the Business Department last.”
-Ugh, what the heck
-Screw you
-I’ll come back later
-Oppa, just go to the Business Department first
-No one here is interested in the Korean University Festival lol
-Who’s here for YuYeon Seo? Raise your hand!
-Me
-Me too
Park Seonwoo made a sad face, and someone sent him a membership chat saying, ‘I came to see you, Seonwoo’. The truth was, the viewers found Park Seonwoo’s reaction amusing and were trying to tease him more.
“Hey, hey! Don’t go! Look, Seven Jewel is performing!”
Seven female idols were dancing and singing energetically on the stage. But the viewers didn’t stop making fun of Park Seonwoo.
-Don’t care about Seven Jewel
-Seonu, show us your bro
-When are you going to Business?
-Have you lost your touch, Seonu?
The main character should appear at the end. Park Seonwoo ignored him and went around the campus of Korea University, introducing the festival.
“Alright! Finally, the last one! The person you’ve all been waiting for!”
-Oh, finally
-Let’s go quickly
-Gogogogogo
Park Seonwoo moved his feet. He was still far from arriving, but there was already a large crowd gathered. And this crowd was walking towards one place.
“Yeonsoo hyung said he was running a pub… Don’t tell me all those people are going to the pub?”
“That seems to be the case.”
His colleague, the cameraman, answered. Park Seonwoo looked around. He had a million subscribers on YouTube, so he ran into a lot of fans along the way, but he felt like there was at least one subscriber here too.
“Hello, are you going to the business administration pub?”
As soon as their eyes met, he approached a person who was rolling his feet.
“Yes! I’m a fan!”
“Thank you. Are all these people…?”
“I guess so.”
“Wow…”
Park Seonwoo took a picture with the subscriber who answered him and followed the people to the business administration pub.
-Wow, look at the crowd
-Motherfucker
“Yeonsoo hyung is always in a crowded place.”
Yeon Seo was sitting on a chair in front of the pub. While the others had plastic chairs without backrests, his chair had one.
He seemed used to the people taking pictures around him. With one hand, he casually held the picket he had planted on the ground so it wouldn’t fall over, and with the other, he looked at his phone.
“Hyung!”
Park Seonwoo, who had given up on making his way through the crowded crowd, waved his hand vigorously. Yeon Seo lifted his head. He must have heard the news from somewhere, because Park Seonwoo’s live viewership had skyrocketed. The chat window was also too fast to read.
“Did you come?”
“Wow, what’s this? Why are there so many people here?”
“Because I’m here.”
He said shamelessly and smiled cheekily. Park Seonwoo closed his mouth at the sight of his cousin. He couldn’t argue with that. And as soon as Yeon Seo smiled, everyone gasped in admiration.
It seemed like more people had gathered than when SevenJewel performed earlier. Of course, there was the difference that most of them were women here, while most of them were men earlier.
-Wow his face
-So handsome
-Wow
-MF
Yeon Seo got up from his seat and nodded inward.
“Come in. I saved your seat.”
Park Seonwoo naturally went inside, but the cameraman hesitated for a moment. He felt like they were getting special treatment when so many people were waiting. In fact, there were many people among the waiters who looked at them with aggressive eyes.
‘He’s used to this.’
He thought of the gap between him and his friend, whom he thought was a close classmate, and smiled bitterly.
“But hyung, don’t you have anything to do?”
“I just have to sit there quietly, right? Sometimes I help with the serving.”
“Ah…”
If he left the serving and attracting customers to him, of course people would flock… He really knew how to use the celebrity Yeon Seo to his advantage. Was it because he was a business major?
-Alley market destroyer lol
-Wow this is too much
-He crossed the line;;
-He’s a Korean student who runs a pub somewhere else, isn’t this too much for management? No one comes to our pub??
-This is unfair trade ??
-What if a big company comes ??
Everyone was grumbling. As soon as Yeon Seo, who had been attracting customers by just sitting outside, came in, the eyes of the people sitting in the pub turned to him. They were silent as they looked at his face, and silence flowed in the pub for a while.
He really has a lot of influence, Park Seonwoo laughed.
“Hyung, a guest came?”
“My cousin.”
“Wow, hello.”
The person who greeted him was Gu Hyoshin, one of the people who had received a million won from Yeon Seo during the group project. He was also one of the people who had won the battle to be in the same group as Yeon Seo afterwards.
“I’m live right now, can I show your face?”
“I don’t mind. What do the viewers say?”
“Do they say you’re a business devil?”
The other business majors who were listening in laughed out loud.
“Isn’t it a waste to make him cook in the kitchen like this? Right?”
“Everyone came to see Yeon Seo hyung, so we have to live up to their expectations.”
Park Seonwoo opened his mouth in astonishment at the warm atmosphere. What’s going on? They look very close.
Before the accident, Yeon Seo would never have come to a place like this, and the people around him would have avoided him with caution. They didn’t know when he would explode.
“Oh… surprising.”
Park Seonwoo muttered softly. Did he get hit by a personality change truck instead of an amnesia truck? He thought and slapped his own head. It was rude to have such a light thought when his life was hanging by a thread.
“What’s wrong, why are you like this all of a sudden?”
“He’s like that sometimes.”
The cameraman answered instead.
Yeon Seo was attending school by taking one semester off and one semester on every year.
He actually attended classes sporadically because of filming, but he made up for it with alternative assignments. But he wasn’t an outsider.
He naturally got to know some juniors because there were always people around him.
“What do you want to eat?”
Park Seonwoo looked at his cousin who was taking orders with curiosity. That Yeon Seo hyung was participating in the college festival and blending in with the people… It was amazing.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“No, just curious. I want a pancake! What about you?”
Park Seonwoo finished taking the order of his classmate who was a cameraman and declared that he didn’t need to be filmed. The ruthless classmate turned the camera to the back of Yeon Seo who was going into the kitchen.
-I lost my Seonu channel??
-His face is awesome
-Wow
-A broadcast where only the guest appears on the screen????
-What’s his body ratio?
-He’s just wearing a white shirt and black pants, but it’s no joke???
The chat room was still full of praises for Yeon Seo’s face.
“So, what are you doing these days, hyung? Not busy?”
“I’m resting after finishing filming.”
“Oh, I see. Your hair is shorter. What a shame… It suited you well.”
“I was annoyed.”
Yeon Seo had taken off the hair he had attached for the role of Itaewo in ‘The Deprived People’ and returned to his short hair.
“So, are you resting all the time? Hyung, then come to my channel again.”
“I don’t have time for that.”
“Huh? Why? Don’t you usually take a few months off?”
Park Seonwoo widened his eyes. Yeon Seo ignored his question and went back after taking a picture with a student who requested it.
“I’m not resting all the time, just this week. I have to start working on my next project soon.”
“This hyung works like a cow when he doesn’t want to work, right?”
Park Seonwoo said to the camera. The chat went up quickly.
-Next project??? Next project???
-What’s his next role?
-Seonu, ask him to spoil his next project!
Half of the questions from Yeon Seo’s fan club, Love Letter, who heard the news were excited, but Park Seonwoo didn’t feel bad. The reason why his subscribers increased explosively was because Yeon Seo appeared as a guest.
“So, what’s your next project?”
Yoo Yeon Seo smiled faintly and didn’t answer.
***
“Yoo Yeon Seo, Yoo Yeon Seo…”
Director Choi Sang-hoon, who was in charge of the anticipated 2020 drama ‘Evil Spirit’, hung up the phone with the production company and sank into his thoughts.
Yoo Yeon Seo had confirmed his appearance in an exorcism drama that he had praised as fresh before. In ‘Evil Spirit’, Yoo Yeon Seo was supposed to play the role of a Catholic priest who was dispatched from the Vatican to Korea to solve spiritual incidents that occurred in a cult.
“Why do you look so gloomy?”
“I’m reminded of my trauma.”
“Trauma?”
“Yoo Yeon Seo.”
“Oh…”
Director Choi Sang-hoon gulped down the cold coffee that his assistant director brought him. He had directed ‘Doll’, where Yoo Yeon Seo and Lee Sun-ja had a love triangle.
“Do you know how much I suffered when I did ‘Doll’?”
“That’s because you were too ambitious, director.”
“That’s…”
“You have nothing to say, right?”
He was a rookie director who had just shed his newbie status. He had a different reaction from other directors when he heard that Yoo Yeon Seo was interested in his drama.
[Yoo Yeon Seo? Let’s do it together right away!]
First of all, he was happy that his insufficient production budget was filled. He also had the ambition to completely change the actor who was famous for his bad acting with his directing.
The director’s directing could hide or reveal the actor’s acting.
There were directors who had received praise for polishing the acting of idol actors with no acting experience or rookie actors who couldn’t act well.
Choi Sang-hoon was burning with passion to benchmark these directors and change the bad acting Yoo Yeon Seo.
[Yeon Seo, how about doing it like this here?]
[Yeon Seo… that’s not it…]
[Cut! Wait a minute, Yeon Seo, you have to be more sorrowful here… I’ll show you first.]
But no matter how he directed, Yoo Yeon Seo’s bad acting didn’t improve. Rather, it became more strange. As the director’s demands increased, Yoo Yeon Seo became annoyed.
[Director, let’s just do it like this. Why are you acting like you have acting disease instead of the actor?]
[The writer is quiet, why are you interfering, director. You’re annoying.]
[Oh, I don’t like it! Isn’t this enough? Do we have to shoot again? Do you have a lot of time?]
In movies, the investors’ influence was strong, but in dramas, the writers’ influence was strong. Of course, this was only for famous writers. The writer at that time was a rookie writer, so he didn’t have much say. He didn’t come to the set often because he was busy writing the next episode.
Moreover, it wasn’t a pre-produced drama, so the shooting time was tight. He had to shoot the next scene as soon as the picture came out roughly, so he eventually gave up reluctantly.
[I failed…]
‘Doll’ was immortalized on MyTube with Yoo Yeon Seo’s worst acting ever. Choi Sang-hoon’s high pride was broken and he lived with humility ever since.
“I was honestly relieved. You were a bit… unlucky back then, director.”
“Hey.”
“But you won’t refuse, right?”
“Refuse? Who dares to refuse Yoo Yeon Seo. I have to roll out a red carpet for the meeting.”
Personal matters were personal, and Yoo Yeon Seo, who had improved his acting skills, was the hottest in the casting market these days. He was enough to make Jin Soo-ho falter.
“How’s the reaction to the press release?”
“It’s crazy. Yoo Yeon Seo and a priest, that’s a visual bomb.”
The assistant director made a gesture of cutting his neck.
“The fans have already made something like this.”
He showed his phone screen to Choi Seong-hoon. It was a photo of Yoo Yeon Seo’s face edited onto a priest’s robe.
“…It suits him well.”
“He looks holy.”
Yoo Yeon Seo and holiness… It was a word that didn’t fit her at all when I thought of the ‘doll’ incident. But thanks to her unreal appearance, he really pulled it off.
Director Choi Sang-hoon reviewed the synopsis of the drama he was going to direct. ‘Evil Spirit’ had three main characters. One of them was already cast, so he had to carefully choose the remaining two.
“Then the rest of the actors are the problem…”
“Oh, that shouldn’t be a problem either?”
“Why?”
“Since Yoo Yeon Seo is in, I’ve been getting a lot of calls.”
“…Sigh.”
Before, everyone would have avoided him, but now the situation had changed a lot.
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