An Actor Who Has Lived For 10,000 Years [EN]: Chapter 213

213. Episode 38 – The Same Person (3)

“No…!”

I threw myself at Liam.

Pajijik-.

The sparking wire fell where Liam had been standing.

Thud-!

Liam and I both sprawled on the floor.

“Kyaa!”

“Are you okay?”

“What do we do….”

The surrounding staff and actors rushed to Liam and me in an instant.

They put umbrellas over Liam and me, who had fallen in the rain.

“Liam, are you okay?”

“Hee-sung, are you hurt?”

They asked us with worried faces and tones.

Liam fell beneath me.

“Ah….”

I had pushed him with all my might, so my hand was on the ground.

I shook my throbbing hand and got up.

Then, I reached out to Liam, who was lying down.

“Liam, can you get up?”

Even with my words, Liam had a blank look on his face, like someone who had lost his soul, staring at the empty air instead of me.

He was looking at the sparking wire.

“…Liam?”

I called him again, but he seemed too surprised to speak in this sudden situation.

In the end, I bent down and grabbed Liam’s arm.

“Liam, it’s dangerous here. Get up quickly.”

At my words, he shook his head violently as if he had finally come to his senses and, entrusting himself to me, slowly got up.

“Ah….”

Liam’s manager ran to him as he got up with my help.

“Liam, are you okay? Are you in your right mind?”

Only then did I hand Liam’s arm, which I was holding, to his manager.

Director Jeffrey approached me and, with a surprised face, asked, “Hee-sung, are you hurt anywhere?”

At his words, I forced a smile and nodded.

Then, I dusted off the dirt on my arms and knees and replied, “I’m fine.”

“Are you really okay? Just in case, should we go to the hospital…?”

Before he could finish speaking, I quickly waved my hand and said, “No. We have to film the next scene, but my clothes are ruined… I’ll go change quickly.”

Director Jeffrey was still looking at me with his eyebrows drooping.

I shrugged my shoulders and gestured once again that I was fine.

After quickly bowing my head, I left the scene.

***

“Haa… Hee-sung must have been surprised too.”

Jin Hee-sung left to change clothes as if nothing had happened.

Jeffrey, who was watching his retreating figure, sighed and muttered.

Then, he approached Liam, who was blinking with a dazed expression.

“Liam, are you okay?”

At Director Jeffrey’s words, Liam trembled his lips and barely opened his mouth.

“Ah, yes… Yes. I’m fine.”

Liam hadn’t even seen the wire sparking towards him.

He still seemed stunned by Jin Hee-sung’s sudden act of throwing himself to block him.

Director Jeffrey sighed briefly and shouted to the staff, “First, clean up the scene here. Let’s take a break for a while.”

At his words, Liam’s manager approached him and carefully asked, “Director, when will the next shoot be…?”

The very next scene also featured Liam, so he asked, looking at Liam, who couldn’t come to his senses.

Director Jeffrey looked at his wristwatch and replied to him, “Hmm… First, we’ll proceed with another scene. Go to the trailer and rest, and tell me when you feel better, okay?”

At his words, Liam’s manager bowed deeply.

“Thank you. I’ll let you know when Liam feels better.”

The manager pulled Liam’s arm to support him and moved away.

The staff and actors who saw their figures finally began to buzz.

“Wow, what on earth is going on?”

“I know, right? Sparks from a wire in the rain….”

“We almost had a big accident.”

They stroked their chests and continued the conversation.

“Did you see? The wire almost fell on Liam’s face.”

“I was only looking at Liam during the shoot, so I saw the sparks from the wire.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes, so I screamed without realizing it, but Hee-sung threw himself from there.”

They clicked their tongues, thinking of Jin Hee-sung.

“He could have been in danger himself, but how could he throw himself to save Liam like that?”

“That’s right. If it weren’t for Hee-sung, Liam would have been seriously injured, right?”

People around him nodded vigorously in agreement with his words.

“Moreover, it was falling towards his face, so if he had gotten a scar on his face… Ugh, it’s terrible just to imagine.”

If an actor gets even a small scar on his face, the next shoot will inevitably be disrupted.

If a scar appears on a face that was fine in the previous scene, the audience watching the movie will be confused.

So, they will cover up the scar with makeup.

But if Jin Hee-sung hadn’t thrown himself to save Liam a little while ago, it would never have ended with a small scar on his face.

“Liam’s face would have been severely burned.”

Director Jeffrey was giving instructions to the staff, pricking up his ears to the conversation the actors were having.

“That’s right. Liam’s face with burns… It’s unimaginable.”

“If he had been burned like that, the filming would have been suspended, and he wouldn’t have been able to stand in front of the camera for a while, right?”

Charles was also next to Liam.

He witnessed this scene from the closest proximity.

He, too, was listening to their conversation with a dazed expression.

“Charles, are you okay?”

The actors asked Charles.

Charles nodded and replied, “Yes, I was just surprised. An actor’s face and body are their life, so it’s really fortunate.”

They continued the conversation about Jin Hee-sung for a long time without leaving their seats.

At the same time.

Liam’s trailer.

“Are you really okay?”

Liam’s manager asked him.

“Are you hurt anywhere at all?”

Liam opened his mouth to him, who asked again, “Uh, I’m not hurt.”

At his words, the manager tilted his head and said, “If you’re not hurt… Did anything splash on your face?”

Liam shook his head and replied, “No, I’m not hurt at all. I was just very surprised.”

At his words, the manager stroked his chest with both hands and let out a sigh of relief.

“Huu… That’s a relief.”

The manager stared at Liam’s face and continued, “You could have been in big trouble. If the sparks from the wire had splashed on your face even a little… It’s so creepy that I can’t even imagine it.”

“I guess so.”

At Liam’s words, the manager shuddered as if it were terrible.

“Everything could have been over for you as an actor. You must have been surprised, but you always have to be careful.”

“…Okay.”

“If Hee-sung hadn’t been there… No. Let’s not even think about that.”

“…….”

The manager patted Liam’s shoulder and got up from his seat.

“You must have been surprised, just stay here for a moment. I’ll go get you something warm to drink.”

“Thank you.”

Liam was left alone in the trailer.

He stared blankly at Jin Hee-sung’s trailer, which was visible through the window.

“Haa… I looked down on him so much. How am I supposed to face Jin Hee-sung now….”

Chwareureu-.

He hurriedly blocked the view of Jin Hee-sung’s trailer completely with curtains.

***

Tak-.

As soon as I opened the trailer door, Kim, the manager, was staring at me with wide eyes and shouting, “Hey, Jin Hee-sung! What’s wrong with you?!”

When I saved Liam from the scene a little while ago, Kim was alone in the trailer because of work to be done, so he had no idea what had happened at the scene.

I scratched my head at my messed-up clothes and replied, “Actually….”

I started explaining to him what had happened a little while ago.

He focused all his attention on my words.

While I was continuing the explanation, “So, fortunately, Liam and I were both unharmed, and it was over….”

“What?”

He cut me off and shouted, “So, to summarize what you’re saying, you threw yourself to save him in such a dangerous moment?”

I quickly waved my hand, afraid that Kim would worry.

“No, I mean, it would have been dangerous if I hadn’t saved him. Fortunately, no one was hurt.”

“Haa… Hee-sung, you could have been hurt too.”

Kim, who jumped up from his seat, groped my body with his hands.

He rolled up his long sleeves and long pants to check my body.

“Are you really not hurt anywhere?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you really okay?”

I shrugged my shoulders and said, “I told you, I’m not hurt at all.”

Only then did he catch his breath and slump back into his seat.

“Haa… Then that’s a relief.”

Kim raised his head sharply and looked at me, asking, “That’s right. So, the person you saved was Liam?”

“Yeah, Liam.”

He frowned and asked me again as if he didn’t understand.

“Why Liam of all people?”

I could grasp the intention of the question at once – the question of why I saved Liam.

Usually, Liam disparages Asians.

So, he has always belittled and ignored me, saying that I smell like garlic.

He has always ignored and despised the fact that an Asian actor came to Hollywood, so much so that he even tried to badmouth me to Jeffrey, the director of this work.

Liam was in danger of getting hurt.

I was surprised that the person who saved him was me, not someone else, and I didn’t understand.

At Kim’s words, I raised my eyebrows and replied, “Because it’s Liam.”

“What do you mean?”

“Liam was in great danger. So, I quickly threw myself.”

“I mean, it’s Liam, not Charles or another actor.”

Kim’s face contorted at my words.

Then, he shook his head and said, “If it were me, I would never have saved him, even if I saw sparks flying from the wire, even at the risk of my own danger. Especially if it’s Liam, even more so.”

I slowly nodded my head and called him, “Hyung [older brother or close male friend].”

“Yeah?”

“What do you think it would be like if Hyung were Liam right now?”

He pointed to himself with his hand and said, “If I were?”

“Yeah, the person you hated so much saved your life.”

“Hmm….”

“I was also thinking about whether I should respond strongly to Liam, who ignores me. But I think this was the right thing to do this time.”

Kim was looking into my eyes.

I raised the corners of my mouth and continued, “Liam must have been calming his surprised heart and coming to his senses by now, but he’s probably got a complicated head, right?”

At my words, Kim also twisted his lips and replied, “That’s right. The person he always cursed saved his life. It’s embarrassing to express gratitude, and it’s awkward not to. It must be complicated.”

“That’s right.”

Kim frowned and looked at me, asking, “What, but did you even make that judgment in that situation and save Liam?”

At his words, I laughed heartily.

“Haha, no. I just threw myself instinctively, regardless of whether it’s an actor or a staff member.”

“I thought, because it was Liam, I thought you saved him after thinking about all that.”

“Hey, there wasn’t even a second to worry about that in that situation.”

I recalled Liam and muttered, “But after saving him, I found it more interesting – this situation.”

“What did Liam say?”

“He knew that I was the one who saved him, and he was stunned. He didn’t say anything.”

“He didn’t even say thank you?”

I shook my head and replied, “Yeah, he must have been very surprised. He was surprised that he almost got hurt, and he was surprised that I was the one who saved him.”

I turned my head and fixed my gaze on Liam’s trailer, continuing, “The future is important now. If he talks nonsense to me again here, then Liam is really someone I can’t associate with. If not… Won’t it be different now?”