An Actor Who Has Lived For 10,000 Years [EN]: Chapter 262

262. Episode 47 – As Instinct Guides (5)

[Actor ‘Jin Hee-sung’ Halts Activities, Focusing on Rest for the Time Being…]

[‘Jin Hee-sung’ Shakes Hollywood. Chooses Rest Over Activities Upon Returning to Korea… The Reason Why…]

[WG Entertainment – Will Jin Hee-sung Renew His Contract? Attention Focused on Renewal.]

[Jin Hee-sung, No Contract Renewal with WG Entertainment… But It’s Still Unknown.]

[Jin Hee-sung’s Exclusive Contract with WG Entertainment Nearing Expiration. His Next Move?]

After deciding to postpone thoughts of retirement, articles about me poured out immediately.

Contrary to the expectations of people who thought I would start acting in a new project as soon as I arrived in Korea, I chose to rest.

And many entertainment companies and reporters were more interested in my ‘contract renewal’ than my rest.

The contract date with WG Entertainment was approaching.

Whether I would renew there, or move to another entertainment company.

In a surprisingly short time, I rose from minor roles to supporting roles, and then to leading roles.

After that, I advanced to Hollywood, and although I didn’t win any awards.

I became an actor with that much influence.

Even in Korea, I was recognized for that and was scouted as a model for numerous advertisements.

The fact that my value is rising and I am making money.

Naturally means that WG Entertainment, which I belong to, is also making money because of me.

WG Entertainment has many great actors, so I can’t say that I built the foundation of this company.

But considering the money I’ve earned in a short period, I can say that I’ve built at least a few practice rooms for WG Entertainment.

Which company to contract with and under what conditions.

How much to increase one’s value is very important to an actor.

The company objectively judges my value and determines the contract fee.

The more money spent on an entertainer, the more they will try to promote me in the industry.

Because they naturally want to earn money from the entertainer they invested in with the contract fee.

However, I have already made a name for myself in the industry to the extent that the agency doesn’t have to put in much effort to promote my name to broadcasting stations.

As soon as the news spread that my contract was nearing expiration, my cell phone didn’t have a moment to rest.

I suspended the cell phone I had been using in Korea for a long time and opened a new one when I advanced to Hollywood.

But everyone found out how, and I started receiving calls.

-Hello, this is Boeun Entertainment.

-Hello, this is Double J Entertainment. The reason I’m contacting you is not because….

-Jin Hee-sung, is that you? I’m the team leader from Entertainment….

Dozens of calls every day.

I barely managed to reject and hang up those calls.

But texts and emails poured in, saying they wanted to work with me.

It wasn’t just that. Actors who didn’t know my number but had met me in projects.

They also sent me messages through SNS [Social Networking Services].

-Hee-sung, how are you? We met in a project last year, and I haven’t seen you since. How about grabbing a meal sometime?

-Hee-sung, how are you doing? I heard your contract is expiring. Don’t do that, let’s have a meal and talk.

-Hello, Hee-sung, I’m enjoying your work. The reason I’m contacting you is that I’d like to have a meeting with you. If you’re okay with it, let’s meet in person….

From celebrities who had a small connection with me to celebrities who had never met me before.

They all wanted to meet me for a meal.

The reason was obvious without asking.

They didn’t want to be in the same company as me.

They must have been asked by their company to connect them with me.

Otherwise, there’s no way they would contact me at this time and ask to meet.

I ignored the countless calls and messages all the time.

There was no need to listen to the content or reasons.

Because I didn’t want to negotiate my value and move to another agency right now.

I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

And I chose rest, not work, to do the things I wanted to do right now.

I didn’t want to meet other entertainment companies during this break and talk about my future as an actor.

Moreover, it’s not like I’m holding back on the contract because I want to leave WG Entertainment.

At that moment.

Vibration.

The cell phone rang again.

Tired of the vibration that had been ringing all day, I shook my head, but still glanced at the screen.

-What are you doing. Do you want to eat with me?

This was also a story about wanting to have a meal with me.

But the subject was a completely different text from the meals disguised as contracts that I had been suffering from all day.

As soon as I checked the text, I called immediately.

The ringing tone was heard before it could even ring twice.

-He, hello?

“Why are you surprised?”

It was none other than Song Yu-na.

She seemed surprised that I called her less than 10 seconds after she sent the text.

Song Yu-na pretended not to know and replied to my words.

-…I’m not surprised?

“Hey, you were stuttering as soon as you answered.”

-It’s because you called suddenly without warning.

“Yu-na sent the text.”

-That’s….

“Let’s have a meal.”

-Where?

Deciding on a place to eat with Song Yu-na was a much more complicated and difficult task than ordinary couples deciding on a restaurant.

If a picture of the two of us eating together was taken, a scandal would break out immediately.

But if we simply chose a place to meet, there was one place that was the easiest and most certain.

“Shall I go to Yu-na’s house?”

-Okay, come to my house.

* * *

The entrance to the apartment heading to Song Yu-na’s house.

On the surface, there didn’t seem to be any figures who looked like reporters.

However, scandals often break out when pictures of celebrities coming in and out of each other’s houses are taken.

Nevertheless, the reason why you can’t choose a house as a date spot.

‘Home’, this place is a unique space where no outsiders come and go.

There was no safer place for celebrities to date than home.

A closed space where other people’s eyes don’t reach.

So, when you look at the scandal articles of celebrities, they are all near cars or houses.

If we went out in the open, the article with Song Yu-na and me in the picture would probably be up in less than an hour.

Ding-dong-

As if I had been to this house once, I stood in front of the intercom and pressed the doorbell familiarly.

Song Yu-na also opened the door as soon as she checked my face.

“Did you come?”

She greeted me, sweeping back her neatly permed C-curl hair.

“Ah… yes.”

I burst into laughter at the sight of Song Yu-na.

A chiffon blouse that fluttered.

A denim skirt that came down to her thighs that went well with it.

Even beige socks that came up to her ankles.

I couldn’t help but smile at the sight of her neatly sweeping her hair behind her ears in that outfit.

Seeing my smile, she frowned and asked bluntly.

“What, why are you laughing?”

It was like a date look that she had put a lot of thought into for her first date.

It wasn’t the fancy dresses or clothes that I always saw on TV.

Moreover, her makeup was a calm style that I had never seen since I met Song Yu-na.

The makeup of a celebrity who has to stand in front of a camera with strong lighting makes all the lines stand out well.

From thick skin makeup to dark makeup that makes the eyes, nose, and mouth stand out.

But today, Song Yu-na’s face was transparent and had a light makeup, which was a different atmosphere from the makeup I usually saw.

I didn’t laugh because this makeup and dress-up were strange.

I just burst into laughter because I thought Song Yu-na had this side to her.

“Yu-na, you could dress like this?”

When I looked at her with the corners of my mouth raised, Song Yu-na narrowed her eyes and poked me.

“…What are you talking about. Come on in. No, come in or don’t.”

I followed her as she turned around and went inside, and I kept smiling.

Song Yu-na moved to the kitchen, not the living room.

I sniffed at the delicious food smell that lingered at the tip of my nose.

And then the food on the table came into my sight.

My eyes widened and I asked her.

“Wow, what is all this? When did you buy it all?”

To my question, she shook off the food that had splattered on her clothes and said.

“Buy it? I prepared it all. It’s nothing special, so sit down quickly.”

She said as if it wasn’t a big deal.

Song Yu-na opened the refrigerator and took out a small can.

She stirred the spoon holder and took out a spoon, and put a lot of what was in the can on the pasta.

At the sight of that, I tilted my head and looked at the pasta.

A large spoon as if she was scooping out soybean paste.

But what she put on the pasta was caviar, which is said to be expensive.

“Isn’t this… caviar?”

To my surprised question, she nodded as if it wasn’t a big deal.

“Why are you acting like you’ve never seen caviar before?”

She shrugged her shoulders, turned around, and headed to the wine refrigerator.

She opened the door and glanced at the full wines, and then picked one and came to the table and sat down.

“It goes well with this. Shall we have a simple glass?”

At her words, I nodded and received the wine.

I don’t know much about wine.

But I could tell that this wine she was pouring for me was an incredibly expensive wine.

Because it was a wine that was so famous for being expensive.

All these ingredients and wine were not improvised at all.

This expensive wine took up a line in the wine refrigerator.

In addition to caviar, there were luxurious ingredients in the refrigerator.

Clink-

“I thought Yu-na never cooked at home.”

She smiled and took a sip of wine and said.

“It’s not that I don’t do it often, I’m good at everything.”

This is Song Yu-na’s unique confident tone.

I smiled at her words.

Then she glared at me out of the corner of her eye.

“What, why are you laughing again?”

“No.”

I quickly rolled the pasta in front of me on a fork and ate a bite.

She rested her chin on her hands and blinked at me.

“How is it, is it delicious?”

“Um… it is. You’re right, you’re good at cooking.”

“See, I told you I’m good.”

Song Yu-na swept her hair with her hand.

She stretched out her finger and pointed to another food and said.

“Try this too. This is my masterpiece.”

I nodded and ate, making a sound.

“But you’re subtly talking down to me? I’m much older than you.”

At my words, she tilted her head and shrugged her shoulders.

“What’s a few years difference? Ah, I don’t know. I’m just going to talk informally.”

She shook her head quickly and said.

I smiled faintly at her attitude.

‘What’s a few years difference? There’s a difference of 10,000 years….’

Song Yu-na stared at me and raised her chin.

“I’m going to talk informally now, so if you have any complaints, you can talk informally too.”

“No, what….”

She turned her head and drank the wine.

* * *

After eating for a long time.

We sat side by side on the sofa and had trivial conversations.

Then, when our eyes met, Song Yu-na cleared her throat awkwardly and changed the atmosphere.

“Ahem, shall we watch a movie?”

I nodded my head at her words.

“Let’s do that.”

I had been talking comfortably to her for a long time because Song Yu-na kept talking informally.

She pressed the remote control buttons and scrolled through the movie list.

Then her gaze stopped at a movie.

“Haven’t you seen that movie?”

I turned my head and asked her.

“Yeah, do you want to watch it?”

“A person who is a famous actor hasn’t seen that famous movie?”

When I asked her teasingly, Song Yu-na pouted her lips and shouted.

“That’s a complete romance. I didn’t have a reason to watch that alone at home. I don’t know, I’m going to watch this.”

A movie of the romance genre that is so famous.

I focused on the movie, holding back the laughter that was about to burst out at her reaction.

As the content of the movie was in full swing.

We were completely immersed in the warm love story of the main characters.

At that moment.

Her finger wriggling next to me.

That finger came right next to my hand on the sofa and disappeared.

Song Yu-na’s hand hesitated and wriggled on the sofa.

“Ahem.”

I cleared my throat for no reason and moved my body.

Suddenly-

I grabbed her wriggling hand.

Song Yu-na seemed to flinch at my touch, but she didn’t avoid it.

Our hands wrapped around each other as before.

She was looking at the movie with her cheeks flushed, pretending to be nonchalant.

Her hand that I held again after a few days.

Something… when I’m with Song Yu-na.

And if I hold her hand and get closer.

I felt very calm somewhere.

It was like everything that was complicated and about to burst as 10,000 years of memories came in was calming down.

I never thought there would be a moment when my heart would be at peace like this.

I turned my gaze and looked at our hands holding each other.

And I pulled the hand I was holding even closer.

So that our relationship can get a little closer.