Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 6

Shin Se-yeon was a young-looking lady who had just become an adult.

She had a good style and a beautiful body, but always had a blunt face.

“I never knew a person could feel so good with just one piece of clothing,” she said. So I guess people go shopping for clothes when they’re in their mood.”

As Shin Se-yeon’s expression brightened, the atmosphere in her pool seemed to brighten up a lot.

His guests also brightened up at the same time.

‘A smiley face is so effective.’

* * *

He returned to the laundromat, opened the door and put up an ‘open’ sign.

They also put out flower pots that they brought back from the forest yesterday.

Bright green leaves and abundant flowers contrasted with the dying pots next to it.

‘I’ll have to take the other kids to the forest.’

I looked up at the sky shining in the morning sun.

Although not as good as the sunshine in the forest, the sunshine on Earth in 1999 was pretty good.

Even 100 years after the destruction, even such sunlight was precious.

I also suffered the fine dust of 2020 and the attack of the virus that has taken the world by storm.

At that time, I did not even know that the destruction of the earth had already begun.

‘By the way, why did the earth perish?’

I’ve seen several scenarios about the destruction of the earth as a documentary.

Black holes, asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions, alien invasions, viruses, wars, artificial warming policies, etc.

In any case, in the destroyed world I saw, nature was reviving even though mankind had perished.

I thought that the forest I found was proof.

‘The extinction of mankind is not hopeless.’

I went into the laundry and looked into the mirror on the wall.

Shin Se-yeon’s smile came to mind, so I smiled too.

It was not difficult to smile on a face with a naturally lowered corner of the mouth.

Suddenly, a feeling of regret flooded in.

When I was a film director in my previous life, I regretted what I had done.

I remembered how hard it was for the staff to make a movie.

He was extremely sensitive to the burden of the work, and the staff were always nervous with his angry expression on his face.

The movie scene was being controlled by my mood.

When the last movie was released, the staff exposed SNS about me continued.

The battle of revelations, once started, bites their tails.

As a result, my last movie collapsed without being properly released.

It was a time when I was running wild with my greed to make a good movie.

I was trash.

you can insult me

Then someone pushed the door into the laundry room.

There were three men the same age as me.

I thought he was a guest and said hello too loudly.

“welcome!”

After a long absence, he forced the corners of his mouth to come up and gave an awkward smile.

It felt like there was a convulsion in the cheek.

“Hey, Ahn Nam! You were surprised. what’s that look? It’s scary.”

I quickly lowered the corners of my lips at the unexpected reaction.

“Why is this kid doing what he didn’t do?”

“Did you have a good heart? I haven’t been in touch with you since your parents’ funeral. I think you’ll want to be alone. I didn’t answer the phone, so I came because I was worried.”

strangers my age.

He had a friendly expression on his face as if he knew me.

“who… … ?”

“What, how many months have you forgotten our faces?”

I can’t remember the first two.

But seeing the man standing behind me reminded me of it.

“uh? Go Gun-soo… … .”

Go Gun-soo… … A young Goon-soo was standing there.

The two men in front are Kim Sang-il and Kwak Ki-hyuk.

my friends.

After rolling my brain a few times, it made sense.

I was so happy that I hugged my friends.

“Hey, oh, Sang-il, Ki-hyuk! It’s dry! So nice!”

My friends looked puzzled.

“What, aren’t you happy? How long have you not seen it? The child is fresh.”

“Did we miss it that way? Three months must have been a long time.”

“Look, I told you to go early.”

“Yeah. Ann, how are you feeling?”

“Yeah, it’s a lot better. Now I have to work hard.”

“thank God. We were worried again.”

“Thanks.”

Of course I haven’t seen it in a long time.

See you after 20 years?

As soon as he received attention as a film director in his previous life, he naturally distanced himself from his friends.

It was so nice to see my friends with 28-year-old faces.

“Then why can’t you contact me like this?”

Kim Sang-il, the most chubby among us, asked.

“Communication?”

“Yeah, I think we should start filming soon.”

Come to think of it, I’ve had my phone turned off since that day.

It was crazy to return to the 28-year-old me in an instant from my 50s just before I died.

In my previous life, my parents passed away, and I met almost three months later.

It was so shocking that I didn’t want to contact anyone.

All I could think about was running a laundromat.

‘By the way, was this just before shooting a short film?’

In college, I went on to the city administration department roughly according to my grades.

My father, who wanted to see me become a civil servant, recommended this department.

I wouldn’t be able to go to the film department anyway, it didn’t matter to me which major I went to.

As soon as I entered the school, I joined the film club and took the screenplay class as a liberal arts subject.

He nurtured his dream of becoming a film director by working part-time in his spare time and enrolling in private film classes.

Kim Sang-il, Kwak Ki-hyuk, and Ko Gun-soo were friends of the film club.

The only friend who majored in film directing was Ko Kun-soo.

At 28, before my parents passed away, we were preparing for our first long-awaited short film.

Of course, I had filmed a practice project before, but it was the first time I did it properly.

The three of them raised money to raise a production cost of 5 million won.

Of course, we did not set our labor costs.

5 million won was not enough money just to rent equipment, cast actors, and get a place.

“Oh, sorry, I turned off my phone and forgot. Oh, don’t stand here, sit here.”

He hurriedly took a chair and handed it to his friends.

“Well, would you like some juice?”

“no it’s okay.”

All three of them had an awkward atmosphere.

“Are you okay anyway? Are you eating well?”

Kim Sang-il asked again.

“Because it’s okay. Look at my face, it’s fine.”

“Uh, I see, your face has really improved, haven’t you? Look, you have a good complexion and your hair is shiny.”

Kwak Ki-hyuk said while stroking my hair.

For some reason, Go Geon-soo looked out the window and said nothing.

“Geonsu, how are you?”

Then, Go Geon-soo looked back at me.

“Yeah, that’s good. It looks better than we were worried about.”

Go Geon-Soo approached me and he patted my shoulder.

“I’m sorry, Gunsu. I still had something to say… … Well done.”

My friends looked at me with curious eyes.

“Why is something going on?”

“No, actually I… … I’m going to stop making movies. I plan to run a laundry that my parents left me.”

“What? Hey, are you crazy?”

Kim Sang-il and Kwak Ki-hyuk shouted at the same time.

“How prepared are we to do this? While you couldn’t contact me, I postponed all appointments and went to apologize to the actors!”

Go Gun-soo also added.

“What do you mean? What if all of a sudden, what did you do while preparing for it?”

“I want you to take the picture. instead of me.”

Go Gun-soo opened his eyes in surprise.

“I’m serious? You said that as if you risked your life for this work. Besides… … You edited all the screenplays I wrote.”

It was Go Gun-soo who wrote the draft of the short film screenplay.

To be honest, the scenario wasn’t fun at all.

He instinctively felt that he would be wasting money if he made a movie with the screenplay.

I modified the scenario in my own way and it turned out to be a completely different scenario.

Kim Sang-il and Kwak Ki-hyuk also agreed that my screenplay was better.

Ko Gun-soo was proud of himself, but he soon changed his mind.

The day everything was set up for the shoot, my parents had passed away.

“This is your screenplay and your movie, so I want you to film it to the end. After that, quit or not, as you like. I won’t say anything.”

Some of the coercive Ko Geon-soo’s words were.

But I couldn’t.

With this scenario, we won 3rd place at the Cannes Film Festival ‘Cine Foundation’.

Since then, our relationship has deteriorated out of control.

“No, it’s not my movie, it’s our movie. And I decided to quit. My opinion has not changed and will continue to be so. There are no conditions. You don’t have to return the money I paid. I’m not going to make a claim to the screenplay.”

“Hey, why are you here? Were you shocked after your parents passed away? Sorry Annam, we should have been more careful.”

The kind Kwak Ki-hyuk made an apologetic face.

“I really like it now. Really. And I want to remain really good friends with you guys.”

“Why is he here? We are still friends.”

“That… … yes.”

It was sincere.

I wanted to get back what I had lost over 50 years.

“Then who filmed this?”

“There are cases. There is no one who can match the number of directing skills. Sang-il is excellent at lighting and Ki-hyuk is amazing at filming.”

Go Gun-soo looked at me with a surprised face.

“I’m serious?”

“Yeah, I’m serious.”

My friends stared at me for a long time.

It looked like he was waiting for me to say I was joking.

“You guys, don’t edit the scenario just because I’m missing out. This is an award-winning film at the Cannes Film Festival. You just have to shoot the script as it is.”

Kim Sang-il and Kwak Ki-hyuk played headlocks, probably thinking that my words were a joke.

“This child! Even as a joke… … good. Hahaha.”

“Hey, are you real? no fuss later Even if you cry and cry and come to me, they won’t let you in.”

“Okay. I knew it. Instead, if it goes well, you should shoot me a drink. You can’t pretend you don’t know.”

“Aww, can we just buy a drink?”

Go Gun-soo looked at us without saying a word.

“Geonsu, are you going to do it?”

“… … .”

Go Geon-soo stared at my face and went outside.

He seemed to need time to think.

As I was about to leave, Kwak Ki-hyuk raised his hand to block it as if telling him to stop.

“Leave it. He’s a thoughtful kid. I’m worried because it’s a sudden offer. And you fixed all the screenplays. It will hurt your self-esteem a little.”

“… … okay.”

“But it looks like the laundry is being managed well. lazy like you I have no interest in anything other than making a movie.”

“It happened. After my parents passed away, I thought about it a lot.”

“I want to see your parents. You always have japchae when we come. It was really delicious.”

Even though her mother is busy, when her friends come, she makes japchae, which is a lot of work for her.

Naturally, we used to complain that we ate all of the japchae and ate a little.

She was a mother who gave more without even expressing any difficulty.

‘I want to eat Japchae.’(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

My nose twitched and I turned the fire elsewhere.

🥺🥺🥺🥺

I smelled the clothes of Kwak Ki-hyuk and Kim Sang-il.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Oh, the smell. That’s why women don’t get involved. hey take it off! Take it off.”

“Hey, what are you going to wear if you take this off?”

“I’ll give you my clothes, so go wear them today.”

I forced my friends to take off their clothes and put my clothes on.

Go Gun-soo sees but doesn’t listen to what I say, so pass it…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … I was going to do it, but my son came in and took off his clothes.

Looking at his face, he seemed to have made up his mind.

“Mine too. My mom is busy these days, so she doesn’t do the laundry.”

Kim Sang-il and Kwak Ki-hyeok put their heads together one by one.

“Oh, why are you hitting me?”

“What are you thinking so much about? If it’s not Annam, you should take the picture. I’ll take it, I won’t.”

“Ah… … okay! ok I’ll take a picture and ruin it all!”

Go Gun-soo said as he clasped their heads together.

We hit each other one by one and laughed.

We were young.

You will enjoy these moments that you will not be able to come back after, often meeting with your friends.

Because of these friends, my youth was able to shine even a little.

Without knowing the value of it, he abandoned his friends in front of little money and fame.

with daughter

Then the laundry door opened again and someone cautiously entered.

“Come on… … Uh, Shin Se-yeon? What are you up to here?”

Confused, I jumped out of my seat without realizing it.

When they saw Shin Se-yeon’s appearance, the eyes of her friends widened.

He looked at him as if asking who he was, and his mouth was watering, but he ignored it.

“Are there many guests?”

“Ah yes. Friends are coming.”

Shin Se-yeon held out one of the paper bags she was holding.

It was full of clothes.

“no… … My friends asked me where I washed my knitwear, so I told them, and even when I asked them to leave my clothes, they insisted.”

“So, did you come in person? The swimming pool would be pretty far away. How do you know?”

“Ah, I peek at your personal information haha.”

“Thank you. Thank you for giving me such a job. I will do the laundry.”

“Yeah, then, go ahead.”

Shin Se-yeon said hello and left the laundry and turned around as if thinking of something.

“Oh, would you like some of this?”

Her friends and my eyes turned to her lunchbox she held out.

“What is this?”

“My mother used to cook japchae, but there were too many. I don’t think she can eat it all by herself. My mom has big hands for her.”

When Shin Se-yeon opened the lunch box, it was filled with delicious Japchae.

It’s also three.

“Oh, Seyeon, have some. My mom told me to eat Seyeon.”

“I am here again. This is enough.”

Shin Se-yeon pulled out a small lunch box from her bag and waved it to us.