An Actor Who Has Lived For 10,000 Years [EN]: Chapter 190

190. #34 – Hollywood (3)

“Aaaargh, son of a bitch!”

Thump-!

Shin Min-young started throwing everything in front of her at the wall.

“No, do I really deserve this just because I wrote a few comments myself?”

Bang.

Whack-.

The remote control, cell phone, cup, and so on, that were in front of her.

After throwing everything she could grab, she groped around on the sofa with her hands.

When there was nothing left to throw, she began to mess up her hair irritably.

“Ugh, this is so frustrating!”

Panting and shouting, she stared into space with crazed eyes and muttered.

“Celebrities make such a fuss over a few comments. Who would even want to be a celebrity if they sue over everything? What kind of actor is he with that mentality? Jin Hee-sung is crazy….”

Shin Min-young gasped for breath, but.

Unable to contain her anger, she jumped up and quickly walked around the living room.

Her face was full of anger, but.

Her eyes were filled with anxiety.

“Damn it…. I can’t throw away my career that I’ve built up until now because of that bastard Jin Hee-sung, can I…?”

Shin Min-young chewed on her lower lip with her upper teeth, and.

The behavior that started with anxiety only intensified.

Before she knew it, red blood was seeping from her lower lip, and.

Shin Min-young, unaware that blood had formed, continued to bite her lip.

Her lower lip began to swell.

“Ah… I can’t fall into the abyss like this….”

Shin Min-young’s lips trembled.

“Haa….”

Shin Min-young, who finally came to her senses after letting out a long sigh, shed tears as she looked at the scene before her eyes.

“What am I going to do now?”

Tears streamed down her cheeks, and.

Shin Min-young wiped away her tears with her forearm and sat down on the floor.

After crying for a long time, she leaned her head against the sofa with an exhausted face.

How many hours had passed like that?

Darkness had fallen outside the window, and.

Shin Min-young slowly opened her eyes and looked at the clock.

Then, she hurriedly fumbled for her cell phone, opened it, and clicked on the internet.

“Surely… Jin Hee-sung didn’t publish an article, did he?”

She quickly searched the internet for ‘Shin Min-young’ and ‘Jin Hee-sung’ alternately, and.

She looked through all the news, but none of them were related to her.

So, there wasn’t a single article about the malicious commenters.

“It seems like Jin Hee-sung didn’t make it into an article.”

The clock hands were approaching 12, and.

Shin Min-young refreshed the news window on her cell phone every few tens of minutes, checking if there were any new articles.

She kept looking for content about herself and articles about Jin Hee-sung.

Shin Min-young’s face looked very anxious and uneasy.

Her eyes were swollen from crying and falling asleep, and.

Her face was flushed red.

Tick, tock.

This time, she was overwhelmed with anxiety and began to bite her nails with her front teeth.

“Jin Hee-sung will understand, right?”

Tick… tock.

“Yeah. I even said I would apologize, and people can make mistakes while living. There’s no way he wouldn’t accept my apology, right?”

Shin Min-young suddenly smiled, imagining herself apologizing.

“Well, it’s not like I wrote severely harsh comments.”

She opened the captured photo of the comment she was reported for and stared at it intently.

“That’s right. I’m not more severe than other malicious commenters. And it’s not a lie that Jin Hee-sung’s personality is terrible, is it?”

Shin Min-young shrugged as if rationalizing while looking at the comments she had written.

“Besides, we’re people working in the same industry. Yeah, Jin Hee-sung and I were even like the Three Musketeers, so there’s no way he would take legal action, right?”

Before she knew it, her anxiety seemed to have disappeared a long time ago.

Shin Min-young raised her eyes and looked at the air, nodding her head.

“Hmm… I should use an acquaintance who overlaps with Jin Hee-sung, or ask the company’s CEO to help.”

Shin Min-young called her manager and opened her mouth in a confident voice.

“Hello? Oh, it’s me. About that malicious comment thing, did Jin Hee-sung’s side contact you? Do I really have to apologize?”

She smiled with a brazen face and continued the call.

***

Thud-!

I tossed and turned in bed all night and eventually woke up before the alarm even went off.

I fumbled for my cell phone to check the time, and.

The time is now 5:40 AM.

There was still a good hour left before the alarm was supposed to go off.

The reason I woke up at this time.

It’s because I spent almost the entire night awake.

The malicious commenter who had been leaving malicious comments on SNS [Social Networking Services] and the internet for months.

There were thousands of positive comments, and.

Of course, just as not everyone can like me, there were also numerous malicious commenters.

Nevertheless, the reason I sued only one malicious commenter.

For months, they had been chasing only my articles and persistently leaving malicious comments on every photo on my personal SNS.

Moreover, they weren’t just leaving malicious comments because they hated me.

They were spreading false rumors about me, and.

I couldn’t just ignore it.

The malicious commenter crossed the line by touching my family.

Because of that one malicious commenter, I couldn’t overcome my anger and ended up suing.

After suing.

I worried the most about what to do if I caught that malicious commenter.

When I looked at the internet or talked to people around me, I heard a lot of stories like, I sued that malicious commenter and it turned out to be an elementary school student.

I heard reviews that they confirmed they were a middle or high school student and sent them back after receiving an apology without giving them a punishment.

I also expected that my malicious commenter might be such a student.

If my malicious commenter is also a student, what kind of punishment should I give?

Is it a good thing for the student’s future to just show leniency and send them back?

How can I prevent this from happening again in the future?

I worried and worried countless times.

Still, I decided to meet that malicious commenter and, as a public figure and a senior in life.

I thought I would give them a sharp word of advice.

But the identity of that malicious commenter was someone I never imagined.

I thought that person was someone I could become closest to in the entertainment industry while working on a project together.

I couldn’t shake the shock that Shin Min-young was the malicious commenter who said those terrible things to me.

“Haa… it can’t be.”

After hearing the story from Manager Kim yesterday.

I still couldn’t escape the shock.

I came home and lay in bed the day before, thinking I would sort out my thoughts.

But far from sorting out my thoughts, I couldn’t even sleep.

I thought there was no such thing as being backstabbed like this.

How could she… leave such malicious comments about me?

I squeezed my eyes shut and started taking deep breaths to erase the thoughts about Shin Min-young.

Several hours later.

I got in the car early in the morning for an appointment with Manager Kim.

“Hee-sung, you’re here?”

Manager Kim’s eyes looked at me worriedly as I got into the car.

He was also quite surprised that the malicious commenter was Shin Min-young.

But he thought I would be even more surprised and shocked than he was.

Manager Kim had been worrying about me since the day before.

“Yeah.”

He stared at my face intently and opened his mouth.

“What’s wrong? Why are your eyes so bloodshot? It looks like your blood vessels have burst.”

At Manager Kim’s words, I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them, saying.

“I guess it’s because I couldn’t sleep well.”

“Haa, is it because of Shin Min-young?”

At his words, I shrugged and forced a smile.

“Well, it is, but. I’m okay.”

Manager Kim handed me a warm tea and said.

“It’s morning, so drink a cup of chamomile instead of coffee today.”

“Thank you.”

“I’ll get going.”

He turned around and grabbed the steering wheel, and.

As soon as I leaned back in my chair, he immediately opened his mouth.

“Hee-sung, I shouldn’t be talking about this while going to the police station. But it’s good news, so I wanted to tell you quickly.”

“What is it?”

He briefly made eye contact with me through the rearview mirror and said with a smile.

“Hollywood has confirmed that you’re cast if you want to appear.”

At Manager Kim’s words, I widened my eyes and leaned forward.

“Really?”

“Yeah, I checked the email this morning.”

Only then did I let out a sigh of relief.

“Phew, that’s a relief!”

After the drinking session with Choi Seo-bin, I had a lot of concerns about entering Hollywood.

I’m studying and practicing hard, but.

What if it’s just an audition, as Choi Seo-bin said?

Am I just getting ahead of myself?

Still, if I study like this, it will be helpful when I enter Hollywood someday, so I focused.

But unlike his worries, I felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest when they said that all I had to do was say okay.

Choi Seo-bin must have been genuinely worried and told me, not cursing me.

“Really… that’s a relief.”

I took a deep breath and nodded my head.

That’s how the car was filled with a quiet atmosphere again, and.

Manager Kim carefully asked a question.

“Hee-sung, so what are you going to do with Shin Min-young when we go to the police station now?”

“Um… I don’t know.”

“You haven’t sorted out your thoughts yet?”

At his words, I just nodded my head.

To be honest, I didn’t have the slightest intention of forgiving her.

But I had all sorts of thoughts while staying up all night, and.

Honestly, I was getting weaker and weaker.

The fact that Shin Min-young wrote malicious comments about me.

That’s an undeniable truth, and I honestly couldn’t understand her feelings for writing malicious comments.

However, I had a friendship with her while filming.

Of course, it’s true that she and I became worse than strangers after filming, but.

My previous friendship, the deepening conflict with her due to a small misunderstanding.

Considering various things, I wondered if it would be better to just receive an apology and move on.

At that time.

Beep, beep.

[Sender: Shin Min-young]

Shin Min-young called just in time, and.

I showed the sender to Manager Kim, cleared my throat, and clicked the receive button.

“Hello.”

-Hello. This is… Shin Min-young.

“I know. We’ll see each other at the police station soon, what’s going on?”

-Hee-sung… I’m really sorry. I’ve committed a truly unforgivable sin.

Shin Min-young’s voice suddenly burst into tears.

I was flustered by her crying and couldn’t continue speaking.

-I think I went crazy. I didn’t have any ill feelings towards Hee-sung from the beginning….

Shin Min-young continued to speak, sobbing and struggling.

She continued to apologize to me for dozens of minutes, detailing her situation and what she had done wrong.

-…So I’m really sorry for hurting Hee-sung. I’m really sorry. What should I do to ease Hee-sung’s heart….

I let out a long sigh and cut off her words.

“First of all, I understand what you’re saying enough. First, we’ll meet at the police station soon, so let’s talk then.”

-I’m really sorry.

“Yes, I’ll hang up for now. See you later.”

I hurriedly pressed the end call button, and.

Only then did I catch my breath.

And an uncomfortable feeling from the bottom of my heart.

She’s someone in the same industry, is it right for me to take legal action against her?

She’s apologizing so much while crying….

In fact, I had become so weak-hearted due to the call with her, and.

I was holding my throbbing head while the car arrived at the police station.

***

“They said they’ll be arriving soon, so please sit and wait a little longer.”

Following the police’s guidance, Manager Kim and I sat down, and.

“Yes.”

He swallowed a sigh and handed us a file.

“Um… I told your manager about it over the phone yesterday.”

Manager Kim nodded and replied.

“Ah, you’re talking about the additional malicious comments?”

“Yes, I’ve organized the file here.”

In addition to the content I captured and reported.

The police investigated all the malicious comments Shin Min-young made to me, and.

They handed us all the comments.

The file was placed in front of Manager Kim.

I quickly pulled the file and started reading the comments.

-I heard rumors in the neighborhood that Jin Hee-sung’s parents’ personalities are trash? lol

-Do you know that Jin Hee-sung’s dad has azoospermia [a medical condition where a man has no sperm in his ejaculate]?

└Then of course Jin Hee-sung’s mom cheated with another guy and got pregnant lol. So dirty.

└Then Jin Hee-sung is the child of the man she cheated with?

└It’s a total mess of a family, that’s what it is!

“…Crazy.”

I frowned and closed the file after reading the comments.

Not only malicious comments about me, but also lies about my parents.

I couldn’t stand the parental slurs.

I came to the police station to be lenient because she’s someone in the industry.

This was a level I couldn’t stand.

At that time.

“Hello.”

Shin Min-young’s appearance as she opened the door and came in.

The moment my eyes met hers, goosebumps ran all over my body.

She dared to meet my eyes and come in so brazenly even after leaving such dirty malicious comments.

She approached me and bowed deeply.

“I’m really sorry, Hee-sung.”

Then, she raised her head, looked at the police, and opened her mouth.

“We just need to talk, right, officer?”

She spoke kindly, but.

Her words had a confident feeling as if saying, ‘Jin Hee-sung said he’d let me off the hook, right?’ and.

I couldn’t understand and move on from her actions.

“Yes, if you two talk and come to an agreement, the charges will be dropped….”

I cut off the police’s words as they were answering Shin Min-young, and.

I jumped up from my seat and shouted.

“I will never drop the charges.”

At my words, not only Shin Min-young but also the police and Manager Kim looked at me.

Shin Min-young looked at me with her eyes wide open in the most surprised expression.

I stared at her intently and shouted, putting strength into each word.

“Please make sure this malicious commenter eats some prison food.”