Chapter 72: I can be a little spoiled too.

Chapter 72: I can be a little spoiled too.

As soon as I got home, I collapsed on the bed. I felt a wave of regret wash over me.

‘Ah, how embarrassing.’

Why did I do that? I buried my face in the pillow. He couldn’t stop the emotions that surged in me.

‘...A grandson can be a little spoiled with his grandmother, right?’

I had a lot of things pent up inside me. I forced myself to get up. The pillow fell to the floor with a thud.

‘Don’t let it get to you.’

This body is mine now. I don’t want any unexpected situations caused by the original’s feelings. I clenched and unclenched my fists, bleeding from the nails. I sank into my thoughts.

[Yeon, Yeon Seo.]

The shocked expression and trembling voice of Park Geumju. I almost stopped and looked back.

I don’t know why the grandmother from the past pushed me away. But Park Geumju now regretted it.

And she tried to reach out to me, however clumsily.

‘I didn’t mean to, but I paid off my debt to her.’

Park Geumju was the hostess of Juseong and a person with outstanding personal skills. I would need her help someday.

I took out my phone from my pocket and looked at the screen.

There was no contact from Park Geumju.

***

“Shin Juho turned it down.”

“But we had a meeting. The atmosphere was good, right?”

“He said he was sorry, but he felt too pressured.”

The man nodded, not without understanding. Shin Juho was the most likely candidate for the role of Itaewo in ‘The Deprived Season 2’.

The original author clapped his hands as soon as he saw his face, the sync rate was so good. And Shin Juho was eager too.

“I guess he was too conscious. He hasn’t been an actor for long, right?”

“Sigh... Do we have to bring a 2D character to satisfy them?”

“They wouldn’t be satisfied anyway, right?”

But even Shin Juho couldn’t break through the thick wall of fans.

He was still a rookie, and he didn’t want to join a drama with so many fans rashly.

He might lose more than he gained.

“Hmm... Should we hold an audition?”

Of course, that spot was coveted by many aspiring actors.

Then, an employee who was on the phone outside came in and said nervously.

“I just got a call from Halo Media. They said Yoo Yeon Seo is interested in our script and asked us to set up a meeting. What do you think?”

“Yoo Yeon Seo?”

“Yoo Yeon Seo?”

The people who heard the story were stirred. Who wouldn’t know Yoo Yeon Seo here?

“Did we send them our script too?”

“We sent it to everyone we could, right?”

“Is he interested in the role of Itaewo?”

“Yes.”

It was actually a shot in the dark, but they didn’t expect to catch such an unexpected person.

“...His personality is exactly like Itaewo.”

“Why didn’t we think of him?”

They were talking about his personality from two years ago, not the recent one.

He was rude and arrogant, and his words and actions seemed crazy.

He was a perfect match for Itaewo.

He wasn’t on the casting list, but... When they imagined Yoo Yeon Seo as Itaewo, it seemed plausible and they all nodded.

“Didn’t they say his character improved lately?”

“His acting got better too. There’s even a rumor that he’s on drugs.”

“He’s been mentioned in the virtual casting lately, right?”

“That makes sense, since his acting got better.”

If it was the old Yoo Yeon Seo, he would have refused as soon as he got the call. His acting was terrible and he didn’t need any investment.

‘The Deprived’ was already a hit from the original, so they didn’t need to put much effort into the promotion. And they had an exclusive contract with a global OTT platform, so they had plenty of production costs.

“Itaewo is a handsome lunatic, though...”

The employee searched for Yoo Yeon Seo and put it on the big screen.

It was a news photo of Yoo Yeon Seo looking back slightly as he entered the Juseong Art Museum with his brother.

Even though the quality was not clear because it was zoomed in from afar, it had a different vibe like a scene from a movie.

“Wow...”

Choi Yujin, the vice president of JSENM, visited Yu Chairman’s mansion. Park Geumju greeted her with a smile.

“You’re already busy enough, aren’t you uncomfortable with your mother-in-law? You come here so often.”

“But you’re happy to see me, right?”

Park Geumju shook her head as if she couldn’t stop her. As they sat in the living room, a servant brought a tea set and brewed tea.

“So, what’s the matter today?”

“Today is Yeon Seo’s first variety show. I wanted to watch it with you.”

“······Really?”

Park Geumju sighed. Since her grandson left at the charity event, she had only glared at her phone, but she hadn’t contacted him first.

‘I thought I had lived enough······.’

She didn’t know how to talk to him if she contacted him first.

‘Should I call Dr. Hwang······.’

Dr. Hwang was the psychiatrist who had been in charge of her mental counseling for several years.

[Do you know how you look to me?]

When he said that, Yoo Yeon Seo’s expression was miserable. His voice was trembling so much that he could feel the fear and terror in it.

‘Then he must be seeing Heeseo now······.’

She wondered how he looked.

Park Geumju then looked at her husband, Yu Chairman, and her son, Yu Gunmin.

[Yeon Seo, isn’t he doing well these days?]

[Mom, he doesn’t tell me much. I can tell he’s going through something hard, but he won’t talk······ Should we have a meal together this time?]

Yu Chairman was happy to see his changed grandson, and Yu Gunmin was trying to find a way to help his son, who had a dark expression lately.

[Doesn’t he tell you what he sees?]

[What does he see?]

[No, never mind.]

But Park Geumju was the only one who reached out to him first when he was young and asked for help.

‘Not now, later······ I’ll contact him later.’

She was afraid to face the grandson she had ignored.

Choi Yujin looked at her mother-in-law with a worried expression.

“Did you have a bad talk with Yeon Seo?”

“How did you know?”

“Actually······.”

Choi Yujin confessed that she had told Yoo Yeon Seo that Park Geumju was the mastermind behind the media play. Park Geumju narrowed her eyes and looked at her daughter-in-law.

“Why did you tell him that?”

“He misunderstood me. It was going to be revealed anyway. You’re not going to keep it a secret, are you?”

Park Geumju realized that she had been sighing a lot lately.

“I don’t know how to talk to him. Don’t you?”

“I don’t know either. I haven’t been close with Yeon Seo for long.”

She said that with a bright expression.

“You like him so much, even though he’s not your own child?”

“I do. I can’t get pregnant anyway, so where can I find two handsome and talented sons without ruining my body with childbirth?”

Park Geumju stroked her hand with a pitying look.

One of the reasons why Choi Yujin could enter Juseong as a daughter-in-law was that she was infertile and would not threaten the positions of Yu Eunho and Yoo Yeon Seo.

“Right, you and him seem to get along well.”

They went to the awards ceremony together, and they looked good talking and smiling calmly on holidays.

“I tried hard to get close to him.”

“That’s right······.”

In that respect, Choi Yujin was much better than Park Geumju. Yoo Yeon Seo had a fit when he suddenly got a new stepmother. But Choi Yujin didn’t give up and tried to get along with her new son.

When the whole family was focused on Yoo Yeon Seo’s trauma, Choi Yujin was the one who approached Yu Eunho, who was left out. She was happy these days. She felt like she was finally getting rewarded for her efforts.

“I think it’s time for you to reach out to him.”

“······.”

“Like me.”

Park Geumju sighed as she hit the mark.

“But were the commercials always this long? Wow, that’s too much.”

The real owner of JSTV said. Park Geumju looked at her daughter-in-law with a curious face.

How could she like him so much when he wasn’t even her own child? She would have believed it if Choi Yujin was his blood relative, not Park Geumju.

“Oh! It’s starting. It’s starting, mother.”

The long commercial ended and finally ‘Welcome to the Guest House’ began.

Park Geumju turned her head from her daughter-in-law who was making a fuss and fixed her eyes on the TV.