Chapter 34:
Yoon Yeon Seo welcomed the year 2019 as she was about to start her first shooting for ‘Virtual Reality’.
<Random memory synchronization completed, synchronization rate 18.25%>
And he did it in the bathroom.
“Ugh…”
He was trying to do it gently so as not to strain his body, but vomiting blood had become a routine for him. And the memories he gained were not useful at all. This time, the memory was just a brief one of taking a class at school.
‘I feel bad.’
Whenever he synchronized his memory from a certain point, his heart beat loudly. It was not a pleasant feeling, but rather a tremor like when he watched a scary scene in a horror movie.
He staggered to his bed and turned on his phone to distract herself.
(Lim Seunghyun) Happy New Year, my lord.
(Slave) Hey, happy new year.
As soon as the clock struck midnight,he received messages. He expected Lim Seunghyun to do so, but it was surprising that Itaegyeom also cared about this.
(Park Minwoo) Yeon Seo hyung! Happy New Year!
Park Minwoo, who became close to his after the ‘Baekho’ incident, contacted his regularly even though he answered him indifferently. He was only two years younger than her, but he was better at being friendly and caring for others.
The rest were insincere greetings from people in the industry who copied and pasted the same message. But he guessed they contacted her because of the background behind her.
<Master, happy new year.>
<How about having some fun in 2019 with things that didn’t exist in 2207? You can also go on a trip.>
He let out a deflated sound at Beta-9’s words. Was it learning human behavior well these days?
‘I have to have fun to do that…’
There was nothing fun in 2207. Even when he went to the surface, the purpose was to catch disgusting monsters and secure resources, not to travel in the surface where he couldn’t see anything because of the sandstorm. That was impossible.
‘I didn’t know, but I was originally a homebody.’
Besides, he couldn’t gather more than two people, so his social circle was narrow. And the only thing he could do was to drink tasteless alcohol and play poker at a bar… He didn’t like gambling. His hobby was to watch the media heritage of the past in a corner of his house that was as big as a shoe rack.
‘I want to see the sea, though.’
Actually, he was confident in having fun alone. Judging by the personality of hia original body, he had no friends. But what could he do with the winter sea? He couldn’t even go in.
He turned her body. He felt dizzy even lying down.
‘Come to think of it…’
He had no friends, but she had fans. He entered her official fan cafe. He didn’t use her personal SNS because people who were not fans could see it, and there were too many foreign comments to have fun with his fans.
-Our letters, happy new year.
-Our actor and Letter-nim, happy new year!
-I want to see you a lot this year, but your health comes first.
└Right?? I hope nothing bad happens??
He clicked on a suitable board and pressed the write button, but a dry pop-up message said he couldn’t write because his level was low. He could only see a limited number of boards.
[Self-introduction] Hello, this is Yoon Yeon Seo.
This is my first time here. Happy new year to everyone in 2019.
How many comments would she get at this hour? He refreshed the page with anticipation.
└?
└Lisa-nim, please delete this.
It wasn’t the reaction she expected. She refreshed the page again.
“Huh?”
You have been kicked out of the official fan club [Love Letter] of actor Yoon Yeon Seo.
I was kicked out of my own fan cafe. Why! He got up quickly, forgetting the aftereffects of memory synchronization. He tried to sign up again, but he couldn’t because he had been kicked out.
He blankly entered another fan community. It was anonymous and anyone could write, but there was an administrator who blocked the trolls who crossed the line.
‘Should I write more sincerely?’
The post she wrote on the cafe was too short.
-Hello, this is Yoon Yeon Seo.
I’m going back to school this year, so it will be hard to see you in my works…
Happy new year 2019. Thank you always.
└?
└Bullshit
└Don’t be rude with honorifics
└If you’re Yoon Yeon Seo, I’m Jin Sooho??
Huh? It was deleted again.
‘Why?’
He tilted her head for a while, holding his phone. Lim Seunghyun was on vacation because he had been overworked lately, and the remaining person was…
“Hey, Itaegyeom, what are you doing?”
(What is it at this hour?)
“You don’t sleep anyway because you play games.”
Itaegyeom coughed as if he was hit by the truth.
(So, what is it?)
“I posted on my fan cafe, but it was deleted. Why is that?”
(Uh?)
Itaegyeom, who was silent for a while, asked cautiously as if he couldn’t believe it.
(…You didn’t just post a message, did you? You have to prove that you’re really you.)
“Oh.”
(If you just post a message, they won’t know if you’re a troll or not. You’re stupid.)
This bastard, I’ll get you when I come back. I haven’t been hard on you lately, have I? He pouted his lips.
(And the fan cafe has a separate verified account for the actor that the company manages. I wrote it down… I left it in the van. I’ll tell you tomorrow.)
Was that it?
She refreshed the anonymous community board.
-There are a lot of impersonators today, do you know the troll bmg?
└But the impersonation is too insincere, right??
└?? It shows that they didn’t study
└The actor doesn’t use honorifics to us??
He chuckled. Did he act so rudely to his fans? I still don’t understand the original body.
-I’m really Yoon Yeon Seo;;
Didn’t I come here before?
└Get lost
└Go to your gallery
└The IP is the same as before, you’re a troll
└If you’re really Yoon Yeon Seo, show us a picture
The post he added was quickly deleted. He wondered how they would change their reaction if she revealed that she was real.
‘Oh, but I’m not wearing clothes right now.’
He didn’t wear anything on her upper body because he was afraid of getting blood on it. Whatever, it would be fine if she just took a good picture of her face. His pale skin from vomiting blood looked rather mysterious.
-Proof
(Photo)
It’s me
Lim Seung-hyun, who got a vacation at the end of the year, had been staying at his family’s house for a few days.
“Kyaaak!”
He was startled by his sister’s scream as he lay down to sleep late at night.
“What is it?”
“It’s nothing!”
“Don’t make too much noise, mom and dad are sleeping.”
Lim Hye-ju quickly went into her room without answering. Lim Seung-hyun’s brother, who was eating ramen, shook his head.
“Leave her alone, she’s always like that.”
“Really?”
“Yeah… She’s crazy about Ju-seong and Yoo Yeon Seo. She freaks out and has a fit whenever something happens.”
Lim Seung-hyun’s sister, Lim Hye-ju, was a hardcore love letter. Lim Seung-hyun had casually asked her when he first got assigned to Yoo Yeon Seo. Why did she like Yoo Yeon Seo?
[His face!]
[What about his personality? Is he nice to his fans?]
[That’s why I like him, because he’s rude and arrogant. Don’t you think it’s cool that he’s a chaebol who does entertainment as a hobby? And you don’t know this, but he’s actually a tsundere.]
She had a unique taste, even though she was his sister. Lim Seung-hyun peeked through the gap of Lim Hye-ju’s door.
‘Our princess seems to have done something…’
Lim Hye-ju was typing on her keyboard passionately.
-Is it real?
-I’ve never seen that photo before
-Ah, what do I do? I deleted the post without knowing he was the gallery owner??
-Wow, he posted a photo ??
-But he doesn’t look desperate in the selfie
-Yoo Yeon Seo, I love you
-Proof 2
(Photo)
Actually, I got kicked out of the fan cafe earlier and came here
Anyway, happy new year
He doesn’t look desperate in the selfie, but his natural charm doesn’t change. Lim Hye-ju moved her feet quickly while sitting, expressing her joy.
“Ack!”
Lim Seung-hyun, who watched her strange movements, made a face as if he saw something grotesque.
‘I can’t let her find out that I’m his assistant…’
***
Yoo Yeon Seo, posts proof on fan community and becomes ‘hot topic’ Vampire vibe
Yoo Yeon Seo greets fans for the new year… Lying on the bed, he takes a languid selfie
They make anything into an article these days. Yoo Yeon Seo had fun with his fans until dawn. He felt good when his fans reacted positively even to a single ‘?’.
Is this how cult leaders are made?
He drank the coffee that Lee Tae-gyeom handed him and entered the script reading scene. He greeted the supporting actor in front of him out of habit.
“Hello.”
“Ye-yes, hello… Huk!”
He seemed surprised that Yoo Yeon Seo greeted him first. The reporters quickly pressed the shutter as Yoo Yeon Seo entered.
‘Why is the temperature so different from when I came in?’
Yoon Ha-neul, who appeared as a supporting actor, tried to control his expression. There were many reporters because it was Yoo Yeon Seo’s first drama after the accident.
“We will start the script reading. First, let me introduce the director and the writer…”
“Hello, I’m Hwang Mi-jung, the author of the book ‘Virtual Reality’. It’s an honor to work with such a great director and actors. This work is my first attempt at SF fantasy…”
Hwang Mi-jung stood up and smiled leisurely, introducing herself. She told Jeong Da-hee to act as much as possible, but maybe it was because of the reporters, she was as good as an actor in controlling her expression.
‘Or maybe she’s confident that she can beat Jeong Da-hee easily.’
That would be more unfortunate. Yoo Yeon Seo, who took his turn, picked up the microphone without even standing up.
“I’m Yoo Yeon Seo.”
There was no lip service about what role he played and that he would do his best. But it was a concise statement that was allowed because he was Yoo Yeon Seo.
“Let’s start.”
The assistant director turned the script. Today’s reading was only for promotion, so only a few key scenes from the first and second episodes were briefly performed.
Yoo Yeon Seo sat comfortably and flipped through the script. Some people felt their expectations drop even more at his posture, which seemed arrogant at a glance.
“I’m Shin Ryu-won, the memory solver who can get the chairman out of his coma.”
But some people raised their heads and looked at Yoo Yeon Seo at his stable voice tone and pronunciation.
“How are you going to wake him up?”
“We have our own way. Do you like games, madam?”
Yoo Yeon Seo casually tilted his head and delivered his lines in response to the other actor’s lines.
‘What? Is that the textbook Yoo Yeon Seo?’
‘He sounds natural, doesn’t he?’
The reporters’ hands got faster.
“Director, don’t I have too little lines?”
“Really?”
“I’m not satisfied with this… Can’t you ask them to increase my lines?”
“But the script is the writer’s authority…”
“Just ask our team leader nicely…”
“But we can’t wait for the script to be revised right before the shooting…”
A subtle nerve war between the production team leader who represented the writer, the director who insisted on his own style, and the agency director who wanted to secure more lines for Yoon Ha-neul.
‘He’s going to run away anyway.’
And Yoo Yeon Seo, who secretly overheard that, left the place with a gloomy expression.
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