Chapter 88: What’s Next?

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.

-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.