Chapter 45: Dreaming (3).
Park Si-hwan’s desperate attempt to seduce the chairman’s mother failed. But he managed to keep a safe distance and escape her wild escapade.
“That was fun. You can go now.”
The chairman’s mother left Park Si-hwan and Chun-baek at the front door of her single-family house.
“Mom!”
The young chairman ran to his mother and hugged her.
She smiled brightly and embraced him.
“Oh, my son.”
A man and an artificial intelligence watched them from behind, their arms crossed.
“Why does Lee Chung-won, the chairman of Garam Global Holdings, want to bring her back?”
“Who knows… Maybe he wants to take good care of her after waking her up.”
Park Si-hwan answered vaguely. He didn’t want to know. He didn’t need to know.
Especially since the chairman was known to be close to his father, Chairman Park. Birds of a feather flock together. He just wanted to finish this job quickly and focus on finding his mother.
“Well… Humans are more absurd than anything they can imagine. A son abandons his senile mother, a father forsakes his child.”
“Where did you learn that? Not from some harmful site, right?”
“It’s not a harmful site, but the address is http://www.dre…”
“Ah, forget it.”
Park Si-hwan waved his hand.
He had reached his limit. If he stayed here any longer, he would end up drifting in ‘Utopia’ too.
“Ma’am.”
“Did you eat, son?”
“That’s not your son, ma’am. You know that.”
The chairman’s mother stopped stroking the child.
The camera slowly moved from their backs to their faces.
And her appearance changed from a young woman to an old lady.
Park Si-hwan was sure that the chairman’s mother knew everything from the start.
She said it was fun and told them to leave.
And she was more wary of Park Si-hwan and Chun-baek, and her defense mechanisms were more frequent than usual.
“Isn’t it disgraceful for an old woman to go to a nightclub and make a fool of herself?”
“It could be.”
Chun-baek blinked his right eye and spoke in a calm tone.
“I thought listening to loud music and shaking my body would make me forget. But the only thing I could think of was the nightclub.”
“…”
“Did you think I didn’t know? I knew.”
She meant that her son had abandoned her here. And that this place was not real…
“I knew too…”
The old lady muttered with a sigh. Her eyes became cloudy.
[Do I have to take care of my senile mother-in-law at this age?! You do it! She’s your mother!]
[Where do I have the time for that?]
[Then send her to a nursing home! Or hire a helper!]
[She’s practically the one who built the company, and you want me to hire a helper? Or dump her in a nursing home? The shareholders are already angry enough, do you want to add fuel to the fire?!]
[So you just dump her on me, I’ll sign the divorce papers right now!]
[Wait a minute! I have an idea. Oh, hello. Chairman Park?]
Of all times, she had to be lucid then. If only she had been out of her mind, she would have passed it by without knowing… Tears fell from her eyes.
“Let’s go back now.”
“I’m not going.”
The old lady shook her head vigorously.
“I have everything I want here.”
She was richer now than when she was a middle-class housewife, but she missed those days.
She lived in a modest single-family house without any worries, and she saw off her reliable and domestic husband to work and took her child to school herself.
She waved back at his fern-like hand as he waved at her, and she felt cozy and comfortable in those old memories.
“Your son is looking for you.”
“Which one?”
“Yes, Lee Chung-won.”
The old lady turned her head and looked at Park Si-hwan.
“Why does he…”
“Maybe… He wants to make up with you.”
“Really?”
Her face brightened like a child’s and she smiled radiantly. Park Si-hwan felt a pang of guilt, but he smiled back and said.
“Yes, trust me.”
In the end, the old lady was persuaded by Park Si-hwan and returned to reality.
The old lady turned into a colorful cluster of light and flew up to the sky. Chun-baek and Park Si-hwan were left behind, staring blankly at it.
“It’s all a lie, right?”
Chun-baek grabbed Park Si-hwan’s shoulder as he was about to return to reality. Park Si-hwan reluctantly turned his head.
“You did a good job too.”
“Master. Don’t tell me to trust you so easily.”
Chun-baek spoke in his usual expressionless tone, but he looked eerie. His subtle change in mood made Park Si-hwan tense up.
“You will regret what you did today.”
“What?”
“I’ll see you in the next ‘Utopia’.”
And Park Si-hwan also turned into a cluster of light and returned to reality.
As he was ascending, he looked down.
Chun-baek was still looking at him.
Park Si-hwan ignored Chun-baek’s warning. He thought Yang Ju-hee had made a strange artificial intelligence.
“Si-hwan, have you seen this article?”
“Huh?”
Park Si-hwan turned his eyes to the tablet pad that Yang Ju-hee handed him. The tablet pad was also a PPL from Jusung Electronics.
(Garam Global Group former vice-chairman Park Yu-rae, transfers shares to Garam Global Holdings chairman Lee Chung-won)
(Chairman Lee Chung-won, who inherited the shares, strengthens his control structure)
What?
Park Si-hwan’s eyes widened. Yang Ju-hee, who knew the inside story, also looked gloomy.
“That case, the chairman’s mother. She logged into ‘Utopia’ again.”
“What did you say?”
“Our staff logged her in. They said they had no choice because it was the chairman’s order…”
So…
He abandoned her as he pleased and woke her up again to inherit the shares…
He forced a senile old lady who couldn’t tell reality from fiction to stamp her seal? And then he abandoned her again?
“Ah…”
Park Si-hwan ruffled his hair roughly and sighed.
[You will regret what you did today.]
Chun-baek was right.
And at the end of the second episode, the chairman’s mother, who logged into ‘Utopia’ again, went to an amusement park with the young chairman.
“Do you like coming here with mom, my son?”
“Yes, I do! How about you, mom?”
“I like it too.”
The audio of the mother and son chatting happily played softly, and the screen showed their backs, then zoomed in on the back of the chairman’s mother, Park Yu-rae’s head. She turned her head to listen to her son, but her face was not shown clearly.
The viewers were left to imagine what her expression was like.
***
‘Dreaming’ ranked first in its time slot
‘Dreaming’ shows Jin Su-ho’s satisfying revenge on the chairman Lee
[Official] ‘Dreaming’ ranked first in drama buzz for two weeks in a row
‘Dreaming’ shows Yoo Yeon Seo’s acting transformation in a year “What kind of drug did he take?” Hot reactions
‘Dreaming’ started to attract attention from the first broadcast and continued to soar.
The atmosphere of the filming set was already good, and it got even better.
Was it right for me to do this job after sending away a senile old lady? Jin Su-ho’s acting as Park Si-hwan, who was tormented by guilt, was so good that he was mentioned as a candidate for the best actor award at the next year’s ceremony.
‘He was amazing.’
Jin Su-ho’s acting of agony.
He conveyed Park Si-hwan’s thoughts and emotions with just simple actions, breathing, and expressions, without any dialogue.
“Yeon Seo, where did you go? You came back after dyeing your roots.”
He had to dye his hair more than once. His hair grew during the filming, and black hair appeared at the roots, so he had to cover it up.
“It’s so itchy, I’m dying…”
“But your silver hair is getting good responses. Just bear with it a little.”
It was silver hair, so it was prickly and itchy, and he couldn’t scratch it because his hair was all set.
Yoo Yeon Seo frowned and sat down, then picked up a script that fell on the floor.
“Whose script is this? There’s nothing written on it.”
“No doodles either?”
“No.”
“Then it’s Su-ho’s.”
Cho Yu-mi, who played Yang Ju-hee, answered and Yoo Yeon Seo tilted his head.
How did she know whose script it was without looking?
“Su-ho is a genius actor. He just glances at it and memorizes everything, and he nails the character analysis and emotional line.”
“That’s so…”
“Unfair, right?”
“Unfair.”
They agreed at the same time, and Cho Yu-mi smiled.
“You know you’re unfair too, right, Yeon Seo?”
“Wasn’t I always unfair?”
“Oh, not that.”
What else then? Yoo Yeon Seo really didn’t know and just stared blankly. Cho Yu-mi chuckled.
“You really don’t know? You’re causing a stir with your acting transformation. The people I know in the industry are only talking about you these days.”
“Really? It’s probably because my acting was so bad before that it looks better now.”
“Hey, don’t be too modest.”
He was serious. Yoo Yeon Seo furrowed his brows.
He had accepted Park Min-woo’s offer to make a special appearance in ‘Hurricane’, but he thought it was okay because the role was a chaebol third generation, just like himself.
In ‘Virtual Reality’, the drama was canceled before he could show his acting, and the focus was on the lead actor who volunteered for the aspiring actors.
And he finally felt a change in ‘Dreaming’.
People were more interested in ‘Dreaming’ than ‘Virtual Reality’ because of Yoo Yeon Seo’s silver hair and the top star Jin Su-ho, and they paid more attention to Yoo Yeon Seo’s acting transformation, which was 180 degrees different.
Before the broadcast, the role of Chun-baek was a robot-like and awkward character, so the public opinion was that his previous bad acting would be acceptable.
But he acted so inhuman that some viewers felt uncomfortable.
Some even felt a displeasing valley effect.
And his action and physical acting were also different from before…
“People would think you’re a different person.”
“Think so.”
He really was.
“I’ll pass this on to Su-ho.”
“Okay, do that.”
While Cho Yu-mi left with Jin Su-ho’s script, Yoo Yeon Seo looked at his own script.
It was densely written with where to stress the syllables, where to breathe, what emotion to capture here, and so on.
But Jin Su-ho’s script was…
‘It was so clean.’
He didn’t even mark the role he was playing. It was like reading a novel instead of a script.
Come to think of it, Jin Su-ho didn’t open his script much when he came to the set. He just briefly checked the folded one for scene checking.
‘And he hardly made any NGs…’
A born genius.
Yoo Yeon Seo felt a complicated emotion. What was this feeling? Jealousy? No, more than that…
‘Is this a competitive spirit?’
He wanted to surpass him. And if possible, he wanted to win.
‘Not yet.’
He had to work harder.
“The coffee truck support is here!”
“What? Do we have anything coming in?”
“Is it Su-ho’s fan?”
“Su-ho had one in the morning, didn’t he?”
Yoo Yeon Seo, who was lost in thought, was awakened by the loud noise of the staff and Lim Seung-hyun.
“Sir, you should go outside.”
“Why?”
“There’s a coffee truck support for you, sir…”
“Support? I thought only people with more money than me could do that.”
There are fans with more money than me? There should be none in Korea, at least.
“Huh.”
There was. Someone with more money than him.
Yoo Yeon Seo followed Lim Seung-hyun and saw the message on the coffee truck, then stood there in a daze.
Please take good care of our Yeon Seo
Dad?
What’s with that heart?
No wonder Lim Seung-hyun looked like he was holding back his laughter… And the picture printed with the message was Yoo Yeon Seo’s childhood photo.
“Yeon Seo, we’ll enjoy it!”
“Your dad really likes you, Yeon Seo.”
“We’ll eat well!”
Yoo Yeon Seo nodded his head casually and then bowed his head and rubbed his forehead in embarrassment.
“Ah, really…”
Which conglomerate vice-chairman does this? Isn’t this too embarrassing?
But his mouth had a happy smile on it.
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