Former Warrior Turns Into A Million-Dollar Actor [EN]: Chapter 125

Rising Rockets (7)

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The ‘Sauna Scene’ aired.

Everyone who watched the original broadcast, the rebroadcast, and even just the highlight clips, agreed.

This episode was truly a clash of titans.

[※Heart Rate Explosion Warning※ Sunhwa Group’s Muscular Trio ㄷㄷ Secret Meeting in the Sauna #ManghoeIdol]

Even the thumbnail is a nuclear bomb. In exactly 22 hours, the meeting of the three actors wrapped in towels broke its own highest viewership record.

Roman’s fitness trainer was also impressed by their physiques.

“Wow, that’s a killer visual. They’re so tall, and their muscles are packed like bodybuilders.”

Even Choi Phillip, the shortest of the Eun brothers, is well over 180cm [approximately 5’11”].

Plus, wasn’t this Park Geon’s first exposure since his debut? Director Na Jong-mo answered viewers’ curiosity about how he could pull off such acrobatics with a definite fan service.

―What’s with the sauna, all of a sudden? Did the electronics company president get electrocuted or something?

―We used to bathe together when we were kids. Even if we stab each other in the back later, let’s at least bury the hatchet here.

―I don’t care… but Second Brother looks a little worn out. Has he not been eating well lately?

―Who’s worn out, you little punk?

The synergy of the three caused the real-time viewership to jump by more than 4%, making the production team smile.

The JNBC promotion team, riding on the rocket’s warhead, is also in high spirits. Less than a day after the original broadcast, the making-of film for the episode was released.

[Prevent Over-Immersion! Sauna Behind-the-Scenes, ‘Eun-Three’s’ Super Close, Heart-Fluttering Date (Feat. Diving Competition)]

680,000 views

If you click on the video, which is about 5 minutes long, you’ll see the three main actors surrounded by staff, the Eun brothers, also known as ‘Eun-Three’.

“Cut! Great. Let’s just change the battery and take a five-minute break before continuing!”

“Aren’t you keeping us undressed for too long? The direction is different from yesterday.”

“You say we’re undressed for too long, but you’re not even wearing a gown. Choi Phillip, you seem to be enjoying it the most?”

As soon as the okay sign is given, Choi Phillip and Gu Shin-seung exchange jokes and banter.

Their bare upper bodies glisten with moisture. Although the main scenes were all broadcast in the drama, the edited video and the raw making-of film are different.

For example… like this unexpected situation.

“Oh my, is this Sunhwa Group’s hideout?”

Suddenly, Choi Yang-young’s face is caught on camera.

The problem is her attire. She’s not even scheduled for filming, but she showed up in a bikini that you might wear at a resort.

“This is a making-of film, right? Give it to me, I’ll pull out a killer interview, guaranteed to be trending as soon as it’s uploaded!”

“Uh, Yang-young…”

Choi Yang-young, who snatched the camera from the staff, scans the surroundings like a hyena. Director Na Jong-mo, who was loitering nearby, is caught on the villainess’s radar.

“Hello, ManghoeIdol’s famous Yang-terview! Today, we’ll be asking our filming site leader, Director Na Jong-mo! Oh, Director! Why are you running away?”

“Eek, get away! My wife watches all the making-of films that come out!”

Director Na Jong-mo recoils in disgust, and the staff and actors alike burst into laughter.

While it was fun to tease the married henpecked director, it was no match for the Roman trio. Park Geon, who approached with only a towel wrapped around him, tilts his head.

“Why are you doing this? You don’t have any filming today.”

“Oh my, I’m doing this because I don’t have any filming! I heard that only residents can use the sauna here, so I brought five bikinis to film a vlog on the side.”

“You’re really milking it for all it’s worth.”

Choi Phillip mutters as he passes by, but Choi Yang-young, undeterred, stands next to Park Geon and strikes a pose.

“Please give a lot of love to our ManghoeIdol! I haven’t been inside yet, but the swimming pool and hot tub are amazing, as expected of Hanjo Group!”

“Woo-hee, even if you do this, the suit ad won’t fall off.”

Lastly, Gu Shin-seung speaks solemnly and passes by, just like his character in the drama.

In the end, Choi Yang-young’s ending, which was edited in the middle, had a stream of comments from fans.

-Our Yang-young is embarrassing no matter where you put her ㅠ

└The entertainment industry’s official beagle… (Anyway, she’s a villainess)

└└But she’s got guts ㅋㅋㅋㅋ She even wears a bikini when it’s not her filming

-She’s literally a thug… no, a gang leader..

└Gang leader?

└└Choi Yang-young is also an insider ㅋㅋ Her image is that of a national bitch, but her fan service is amazing and the staff likes her too

└└└Please include Rippi too….! She’s a bit prickly, but she’s a good kid ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-They really put together a good combination of leads this time

└There were a lot of rumors that Director Na’s form had dropped recently, but Park Geon miraculously gave him artificial respiration

└└??? : Park Geon… it’s you again…?

└└└Ah ㅋㅋ Can’t resist 5 consecutive big hits

-Breaking) KBC is collectively weeping right now

At first, there were fights in the community comparing the differences between the original work and the adapted version, but now there are collections of killing points [highlights].

[ManghoeIdol Episodes 10-16 Highlights]

1. Sunwoo-hee getting tricked by Eun Han-seom every time

2. Superior Eun family genes (grandfather + three brothers average height is 184cm [approximately 6’0″])

3. Eun Seon-chang, a fake cold-blooded man who secretly cares about his family (Feat. animal lover)

4. Go Cheol-jun, who plays the role of the great-uncle, was the Commissioner of the National Police Agency during ‘White Robe General’, and Nam Joong-ik, who plays the role of the small uncle, was the Jongno Police Chief… Relationships that transcend worlds

5. The first appearance of the veiled biological father, son-in-law Lee Si-dong

Someone said it. The 1+1 of potential lumps is not 2 but squared.

At least it’s true in ManghoeIdol.

The day the viewership finally exceeded 30%, Director Na Jong-mo’s roar echoed in the JNBC main control room.

“You bastards, you thought I was going to fail, didn’t you? I’m not giving up my position until I get CP [Chief Producer] and collectively screw over those Chungmuro [Korean film industry] cheapskates! No, I can’t!”

With each holding their own reasons,

The plot threads in the drama are being unraveled breathlessly.

―Chairman?

The episode with the legendary sauna scene.

While the Eun brothers were having a three-way meeting, another incident was happening at Sunhwa Tower.

―···Secretary Woo, what day is it today?

―It’s June 12th.

―June? Is it summer, not winter?

Eun Ki-hak, who muttered as if in despair, suddenly pressed his temples and groaned.

―Chairman!

―It’s okay, not everything has been erased yet. I’ve killed and caught so many people, I have to pay this much to balance the scales.

Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.

There is a secret in the body of the old man, who was said to be healthier than most young people.

The fact that Chairman Eun Ki-hak has a brain tumor in his head, and that even with modern medicine, the chances of survival are slim, is a fact that only Secretary Woo knows.

And now… the growing mass of karma was even causing him to lose his memory.

―The third young master is gathering forces. If the first and second young masters… and other shareholders are united as supporters, it will be difficult to ignore.

Secretary Woo warns, but Chairman Eun Ki-hak laughs heartily with a bloodless face.

―Good, very good. It seems my bloodline has been passed down to my grandsons, not my sons. It would have been boring to just sit and wait for their grandfather to die.

―Chairman, the outside trends are also unusual. It is necessary to dismiss the third young master and some of the directors, and first consolidate the unity within…

―Enough. Do you not know the debt I owe to that child’s mother? It is right to let him repay his own enemies.

Even if he is old and sick, Chairman Eun Ki-hak is a giant who has dominated a century.

The light of the absolute ruler, worn down by time,

Flickers like a tiger through Seokpilho [Chairman Eun’s residence].

―I’ll wait, until you stand before me with a sword.

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A penthouse with Sunhwa Tower visible in the distance.

This place is also a sponsored location that was carefully selected among the ‘ManghoeIdol’ filming locations.

In the interior, where cameras, lighting equipment, sound equipment, and staff are spread out, Eun Han-seom’s people gather.

“Vice President, everything is ready.”

“This side is done too. Are you really going to do it?”

Next to Eun Han-seom, who is standing in the middle of the living room, Chief Wang and Sunwoo-hee of Daeyang Group approach.

So far, many people have appeared and disappeared while building the story.

Chief Wang, who saved Eun Han-seom from the brink of death several times. And Sunwoo-hee, who switched to the helper position from the middle of the play, is a colleague who remained by his side.

“Then shouldn’t we? Daeyang doesn’t have any substance because you set the table like that and only dabble with the spoon.”

At that time, a spiteful voice is heard from outside the field of vision. Soon after, two other of the Eun brothers walk into the angle.

“Watch your mouth. He’s a colleague to trust your back to.”

“Colleague my ass, everyone knows that Han-seom is crawling in because he thinks he’s going to be something.”

“What did you say just now?”

“Stop it.”

With Eun Han-seom’s low words, the sneering second brother and the flustered Sunwoo-hee are silenced.

Soon Eun Han-seom… Park Geon looks around the room. The monologue to be entered as narration flashes through his mind.

‘If the me before regression had seen this, I would have laughed, saying that this combination makes no sense.’

People he didn’t know in his previous life, people he just regarded as rocks or dust, are now supporting him.

First brother Eun Seon-in.

In the previous life, the eldest brother was framed for embezzlement and became a wanted man. Now he knows why that stubborn and picky man committed the crime.

He must have been attacked by his wife, who was a real villain, and the Songil Group, which was trying to swallow Sunhwa from behind.

‘In this life, I changed the future… and Seon-chang was attacked first. They must have disguised it as an accidental death, not embezzlement.’

Next is the second brother, Eun Seon-chang.

A monster created by his abilities, which were no less than his brother’s, and the inferiority complex that he was not the first.

He once tried to harm Eun Han-seom, but after surviving death, he joined forces against external enemies.

Like the tribal allied forces he had gathered before the invasion of the Demon Realm.

“It’s raining.”

The sun has long set.

As if foreshadowing a difficult fight, raindrops begin to fall from the darkened sky.

Eun Seon-chang, who was looking outside, asks impatiently.

“Hey, what are you going to do?”

The air changes slightly in an instant. As if lightning struck in the distance, a cool wave rises and runs down the spines of the people in the room.

Eun Han-seom mutters as if chewing.

“I have to catch them. The guys who tried to kill us, and the guys who destroyed Sunhwa, I’m going to tie them all up and make them kneel in front of me.”

“Destroyed······?”

“The sins of the past life must also be counted as sins.”

It’s an ad-lib [improvisation].

Although the script does not have any stage directions other than the lines, how can someone who has lost a life be calm?

The anger of the failed regressor evokes not only empathy but also pity.

Sunwoo-hee trembles slightly, and the two brothers exchange glances with many meanings.

“Chief Wang.”

“Yes.”

At the call of his lord, Chief Wang, who was standing by, immediately bows his head.

“Convene the board of directors. The issue is the dismissal of the group chairman. It is an agenda to bring Chairman Eun Ki-hak, who has committed hundreds of cases of breach of trust, embezzlement, and irregularities, as well as murder conspiracy and concealment, down through internal review.”

“Yes.”

“There will also be troops blocking those who do not respond to the summons from entering the tower. Bring all of Shield’s troops and my personal bodyguards, and push them all at once.”

“I will do as you command.”

Now there is no turning back. Eun Han-seom immediately turned to the two brothers.

“Big Brother, take care of Assemblyman Nam and the mayor, and Little Brother, take care of Songil Group. If they know there’s a mess inside, they’ll start hunting for shares with foreign private funds, those jackals.”

Before the regression, Sunhwa Group was torn apart by Chairman Eun Ki-hak’s death and the infighting of his sons and grandsons, and the stock price plummeted.

It was L&L Holdings, a foreign private fund called ‘Group Hunter’, that bought up the shares at that time and cut off the lifeline of the conglomerate.

Currently, Chairman Eun Ki-hak is still healthy and the three brothers have joined forces… but if the internal strife intensifies, there may be a gap.

“Okay. You want me to take care of Big Brother’s in-laws, right?”

Next to Eun Seon-chang, who is grinning, Eun Seon-in has a complicated expression.

He will soon have to wage an all-out war with his wife, Songil Group. It is because he knows his younger brother’s consideration not to directly stab his in-laws.

“Han-seom, there’s something I haven’t told you yet. So far, you have been······.”

“Enough. I don’t want to hear bad news before the big event.”

Eun Han-seom, who waved his hand to stop his older brother from speaking, puts his arms into the suit he had taken off.

Is it a coincidence?

The three brothers’ suits, which were always different, are blue today, as if they had made a promise.

“After it’s all over, if we’ve protected this damn group, let’s talk about it then.”

The blue gunpowder, the symbol of Sunhwa,

That flame burns through the rain.

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