Life, Once Again!

tch places, taking Suyeon with them since she didn’t appear in the next part.
It seemed that her interview was going to be on the show to show a contrast between her and the child actors.
The noisy shooting location became quiet again.
The staff, who were resting, returned to their places and started preparing for the shoot.

“It would’ve been good if everyone could do it.
Now, I’m feeling sorry.”

Giwoo said that as he approached.
Joomin waved her hand and said that that wasn’t true.

“Noona, I’ll try telling them next time.
That they should interview us together.”

“Don’t push it.
They have their own circumstances.
It’s only right that the main characters do the interview,” Joomin said as she looked at Giwoo.

Giwoo made an apologetic expression.

“Dongho, when they come for an interview next time, I’ll try to sneak you in there.”

“Hey, hey.
You’ll get scolded.”

“You never know.
They might let us go thinking that we’re cute.
You have a good sense of humor after all.
Once people find out, they would definitely approach you for an interview first.”

“Well, I do have a good sense of humor.”

“I hope that we can do the interview together next time.”

“True.”

Giwoo’s eyes headed towards Maru.
Maru smiled and just looked back.
Giwoo faintly smiled without saying anything before turning around.

“Giwoo has good eyes.”

Maru just smiled at Dongho, who shrugged.
Just when they were planning to prepare for the shoot after talking, Maru met eyes with Okseon, who was sitting at a table far away.
Okseon flinched before turning her head around.

“Did you two get into a fight?” Joomin asked worriedly.

It seemed that she saw that just now.

“I kinda let my tongue slip in front of her.”

“You should get that resolved quickly.”

“Yes, noona, I will do that.
Okseon is a good girl so she should accept my apology.”

“Yeah, she probably would.
Oh, yeah.
I didn’t talk about it last time, right? I asked Okseon if she would eat dinner with us like you told me, and she accepted for the first time.”

“Thanks to that, I had an unpleasant time eating.
Okseon, that kid doesn’t say a word, and Joomin-noona had to keep talking.”

Dongho sighed.

“But it was quite unexpected, you know?”

“What was?”

“Okseon didn’t say much back then, but everything she did talk about was related to you.
I thought that she might be interested in you or something, but from the looks of it, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Maybe she has a hard time dealing with you.”

Maru nodded before giving Okseon a glance.
He couldn’t see her expression since she had her head turned away, but Maru could imagine what she felt.
She probably asked how Maru acted normally.
She probably tried to find out what kind of person Maru was, and the replies that Dongho and Joomin gave her probably made her feel even more chaotic.

“Actors, please get ready.”

They returned to their seats when a staff member made the announcement.
Maru put the script inside the desk drawers before walking over to Okseon.

“Let’s not concern ourselves with each other so much.
I didn’t do anything wrong to you, did I?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“So, did you decide to talk to Giwoo about it?”

“No, I thought it would be better if I improved myself.”

“If you did, then I guess that’s that taken care of.
Let’s get along together in the future, okay? As coworkers.”

He lightly waved at Okseon before sitting down.
He felt Okseon’s gaze but did not bother looking back.
She was a smart kid, so she should have understood the meaning behind his words.
She probably wouldn’t see him again with a stiff expression again.

“Did you apologize?” Joomin asked with a bright smile.

“Yes, noona,” Maru replied.

* * *

“If it’s about JA Production, I guess I can’t leave out talking about president Lee Junmin.”

“This is why being a part of JA is sometimes quite pressuring.
They always talk about the president.”

“Haha, we can’t help it.
He’s one of the few agency CEOs who is getting a lot of attention from the public.
Everyone that went through his hands became high class actors, so we can’t help it.”

“Hm, does that make me one of the high class actors as well?”

“You always were, Miss Suyeon.”

“Really? Looks like I should thank the president.”

Nam Joongyeon flipped over a page.

“Mr.
Yoo Sooil, who’s been getting a lot of attention recently, also belongs to JA, doesn’t he?”

“Yes.
You can look forward to his future.”

“That same person recently revealed that you acted incredibly badly when drunk in an interview with another media.
There’s even a rumor that you cry in a cute way.”

“I do? Oh, how embarrassing.
I’m not good at drinking.
I just drink to go with the flow, and I believed that I didn’t have any bad drunk habits until now.
I wonder why no one told me about it.”

“Maybe it was because you were cute.”

Suyeon covered her mouth and laughed before slapping Joongyeon’s arm lightly.

“But that might be Sooil’s lie.
Sooil still can’t drink because he’s a minor.”

“He testified that he heard about it from another senior actor.”

“Oh, is that so?”

“Actually, we have a voice recording of Miss Suyoen’s cute drunk speech.
I will play this for a brief moment during the broadcast.”

“Please don’t.
It’s really embarrassing.”

“Misters, pay attention.
It will only last a brief moment.”

Joongyeon flipped over the page after that.
Suyeon raised her hand slightly.

“Please wait.”

“Ah, yes.
Miss Suyeon.”

“I’m a bit thirsty.”

Suyeon drank some water.
Forcefully smiling was definitely taxing.
She knew that only a few seconds of this long interview would show up in the actual program, but she had to act as a cheerful and bright actress since she wanted that brief moment to last as long as possible.

“Sorry about that.
Please continue.”

“Okay, then I’ll start where we left off.”

Obvious questions came after that.
She barely held herself back from yawning, and the interview eventually ended.
It was an interview in name only.
Since they interviewed a bunch of kids who weren’t good with words, they probably lacked content for editing and seemed to have decided to fill up the rest with this interview.

“Thank you for the interview.”

“Thank you too.”

She felt tired.
Suyeon stood up before walking over to the classroom next door, where the shoot was in progress.
It was a short scene, so it should have finished by now.
Just as she had expected, they were cleaning up and getting ready to move.

“I wonder where my darling Mr.
Geunsoo has gone.”

He was definitely someone who would leave without saying his goodbyes.
She yawned slightly and leaned against the wall.
Just then, Nam Joongyeon, who followed her out of the classroom, looked inside before walking in.
She wondered who he was going to.
Breaking her expectation that he would go to one of the main actors, the person Joongyeon stopped in front of was Maru, who was getting ready to go home after the shoot.
With her curiosity piqued, Suyeon quietly walked inside the classroom.

“I was right.
I was a little confused because you were wearing glasses, but you saw me in The Witness, didn’t you?”

Those were Nam Joongyeon’s words.

[1] The Korean shout.
It’s to wish good luck to the team and the work in this case.