Face Genius Idol Takes Over the Entertainment Industry

1. Supporting Character A (1)

“Okay! Cut! Ji-wook-ssi[1]! You did well!”

The atmosphere at the set was good today. That’s inevitable because Ji-wook, the male protagonist of the drama ‘She is Pretty’, sent a food truck to the filming site.

“Ji-wook-ssi! We’ll eat well!”

“Yes! Enjoy! My fans also sent me a coffee truck, so eat a meal and drink coffee too!”

“Wuaaa! Ji-wook-ssi! You really have a great fan!”

A smile bloomed on Ji-wook’s face when they said they would eat well. Ji-wook picked up his cell phone and tried to take a picture in front of a coffee car, but found Shin who was sitting only looking at the script.

Lee Shin.

Starting as an idol group called ‘Space’, he’s now an actor who stays as a supporting character that is good at acting until now.

Ji-wook always admires the handsome face of Shin, but that was it. It’s beautiful and colorful, but there’s no scent.

In other words, a flower without scent.

Someone said that he had no star rating.

Ji-wook talked to Shin in a friendly way, thinking that he shouldn’t become like Shin.

The main character’s role is to lead a drama, but it also leads the atmosphere of the set well. In that sense, he and his fans clicked well today.

“Hyung[2]! You aren’t drinking anything?”

Shin was surprised by Ji-wook’s sudden call and raised himself. Ji-wook smiled warmly, took a glass of iced Americano and handed it to Shin.

“Hyung’s favorite is iced americano, right?”

“Huh? Oh, that’s right.”

Shin smiled awkwardly and accepted Ji-wook’s coffee. Shin didn’t like this sympathetic favor. But he wasn’t foolish enough to show his heart.

“Wow. Hyung’s script is already tattered.”

It was definitely a script that was received yesterday, but Shin’s script was tattered as if it had been received far before. You can tell just by looking at the script how passionate he is about acting.

He looked at Shin.

The entertainment industry is a place where you might not succeed no matter how hard you try.

“Right. Did you hear that Maru-ssi is going to be in a drama? Was the title ‘Youth Met Fire’? I don’t think it’s good just by looking at the title, but I heard the script was very well picked.”

Ji-wook talked to Shin on various topics because he was a rookie who was the most distant person in the set. Shin smiled bitterly and nodded at his words.

Maru.

Along with Shin as the member of the idol group ‘Space’, Maru was Jin-woo’s stage name.

When asked if he was in touch with him these days, Shin nodded his head quietly and drank the coffee with a straw. This topic is so uncomfortable.

‘Especially about Jin-woo.’

Although he didn’t fight Jin-woo, he broke up with resentment equal to that of him. That’s because the group disbanded at the end of the contract period. Jin-woo was the only one who renewed his contract with the company, so he couldn’t get a good heart for him.

But now he knows reality better than anyone else.

‘Since Space was a group that Jin-woo led alone.’

Among idols, there are cases where only one person is particularly well-known, so that one person leads the group. The idol group ‘Space’ was such a case.

Only Jin-woo appeared, and before I knew it, he heard that ‘Space’ was Maru and others.

‘It’s all in the past.’

Now, it was important to survive in the entertainment industry as an actor. Now, Shin’s position is on the edge. It was because of his face that was too much to use as a supporting character.

He’s so handsome that there’s a saying that when he stands with the male protagonist, the male protagonist looks like a squid. However, the problem was that Shin did not have the brilliance characteristic of a main character.

Some called it stardom, and others called it screen dominance.

It has been like that since Space, so now it doesn’t hurt anymore, but survival as an actor was a different matter.

It was pure luck to enter this drama. The actor, who was confirmed as the supporting character, suddenly got sick, so he was urgently put in because the filming period was imminent.

‘There were reasons for being well to the staff so far.’

In a way, it hurt his pride, but there was no pride left in Shin.

Shin’s environment wasn’t an environment to take care of that poor pride.

Shin agreed when Ji-wook said he would take a proof picture and smiled with an idol’s unique fresh smile.

However, on the one hand, he couldn’t help but feel bitter. He wondered how long this luck would last.

“I’m back.”

Even though it was evening, Shin looked inside the house covered with darkness. It smells like alcohol.

Shin sighed and turned on the light. Then what he saw was the back of his father drinking canned soju alone in the kitchen.

Again, he was only drinking without any snacks. He’s not surprised because he’ve always seen it, but he was annoyed. Until when is he going to live like this?

“Where’s hyung?”

Father didn’t say anything. He just drank soju.

Shin sighed and passed by his father and opened the door to where his older brother, Young, was.

Young was staring blankly at the TV. He was watching a re-run of an entertainment program in which Jin-suk, a well-known trot singer that Shin likes, appeared as a guest.

Young spent most of his time in bed because of his leg discomfort.

He sometimes recommends if he watches interesting dramas, so Shin tends to watch all Young’s recommended dramas.

‘Since he has a better eye for works than I do.’

The criterion was ratings. Young has a popular eye.

In fact, Young has a history of selecting a hit drama from the dramas that Shin rejected when he was active as Space. Although it has now fallen, it was the work of an artist who was once called a star writer.

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However, because Shin saw more workability than popularity, he only appeared in dramas with workmanship, and thanks to that, he got this shape.

Even if those dramas were later reevaluated, they didn’t cover for the loss. In addition, there was no casting that came in because Shin didn’t show his particular presence in those dramas.

As he continued to fail, even the ‘A’ from the amazing works didn’t come to Shin. So even if Young had a popular eye, Shin could not use it.

Now he sometimes get into simple dramas, but Shin didn’t put much meaning into it because he had no choice.

Shin picked up the trash scattered on the floor, threw it away properly, and asked Young if he had eaten dinner.

“Not yet. Shin. I want to eat egg pancake[3].”

“Wait here. I’ll make it for you.”

Shin spoke kindly and then opened the refrigerator door. Not knowing when he last went grocery shopping, the refrigerator is empty.

The refrigerator would have been full of this and that side dishes if his mother was alive, but it has been in this state since she died of illness.

‘Things would have been better if father had come to his senses.’

Even after his business went bankrupt, he tried to stand up again, but his efforts were also ruined due to the death of mother. In addition, when Young became disabled, father completely let go of his will to live.

Shin was saddened by his father, who had even let himself go in the midst of it, if it wasn’t for him, surely they’ll all die from starvation, so he tried to come to his senses.

But that wasn’t once or twice, every time he came home, his heart felt heavy.

He felt skeptical about why he had to live like this.

After checking the time, Shin took out a few eggs in the refrigerator and lightly fried them. He felt a little better because the sound of oil splashing and popping seemed to burst Shin’s heart instead.

Ding dong.

Shin’s head turned to the sound of the refreshing phone message alarm.

He was bewildered because there is no one he usually contacts, so he looked at his phone and a message came from an ‘unknown user’.

[Fun psychological test! Aren’t you curious about what kind of person you are? 3]

It was so out of the blue that it was ridiculous. Psychological test? It’s something he used to have fun with when he was younger. Thinking that the link was included in the new spam, Shin turned off the phone screen and sprinkled salt over the hard-fried egg pancake.

He didn’t know about anything else, but he’s confident in making egg pancakes.

“What? I was casted in a drama?”

[That’s right. It’s the work of writer Kim Ye-in, a popular star writer these days]

Although Shin was a supporting character who was at the edge, he had an agency. Although it’s a small medium-sized agency that draws a question mark when hearing its name, it was better than nothing.

In particular, in this case, it was a jackpot to the extent that Shin’s heart was pounding.

‘Did you say writer Kim Ye-in?’

She is a star writer among star writers who only write amazing works.

“Thank you!”

As a matter of fact, the money spent this month was a big burden. If his father was the only one who failed in the business, he would have endured it, but Young also got scammed making debt on his back was heavy.

However, Shin didn’t resent the two.

Because both of them tried to do well. In particular, Young was injured while working hard to pay back the money with his own hands, so Shin felt guilty.

“Thank you so much!”

[What do you mean? You’re here because you did a good job]

He said it like that, but he already felt condescending from the way he spoke. It would be a lot of money to be ripped off because we had an unfair contract, but it didn’t matter. He has to do it no matter what.

[Then I’ll send you the script by email, so take a look]

Shin hung up the phone after saying thank you several times. Then, a ding-dong from the email sounded and he immediately checked his phone.

[Fun psychological test! Aren’t you curious about what kind of person you are? 2]

It was the spam message that came last time. In the message that came at this time, Shin really wondered where his information was stolen from.

‘Well, they said that even Russians knew my information, didn’t they?‘

At the same time, I remembered an article that was posted on Jin-woo’s SNS a while ago. It was an article targeting haters.

Among the fans, there was a hater who hacked celebrities’ SNS. Naturally, Jin-woo, who is sitting in the top star position in Korea, also had such a fan.

“I’m jealous.”

Shin was bitter even when he said it.

It would be very stressful for Jin-woo, but he’s jealous of him.

‘But it’s better not to have such fans.‘

On the other hand, he felt sorry because he saw what kind of pain Jin-woo suffered next to him.

“Huh?”

Shin was looking at the psychological test phrase and found that one number changed from last time. It changed from 3 to 2.

‘A version?’

However, it was strange to go from 3 to 2. Even so, it must’ve been a spam message, there’s no need to press it.

Shin checked the script with his phone on the mail he arrived shortly after. Usually, they send him a script selected from a book, but this time there’s no such thing.

‘Um.’

The role entrusted to Shin was a friend who comforted the male protagonist when he had a hard time.

‘The only thing the character does is only comforting the protagonist…’

Still, he wondered which drama the role belongs to.

Looking at the script, it seems that there’s a slight possibility of that happening, so Shin unknowingly started to look forward to it.

‘The title of the drama is…’

[Youth that Met Fire]

“Huh?”

Shin was speechless at the moment. It is the name of the work that Maru, no, Jin-woo, goes in.