An Actor Who Has Lived For 10,000 Years [EN]: Chapter 308

308. #56 – Hidden Truth (3)

In pitch-black darkness.

A faint ray of light could be seen far away.

What is it?

People in white gowns.

And a very large hospital room.

A patient lying on a large bed, surrounded by many people.

I strained my eyes to see this dimly visible place in detail.

And the moment I took a deep breath.

A place where I couldn’t feel the air entering my nose.

Wait a minute….

I realized it immediately.

That this was a dream…!

Damn it.

After choosing the ten thousand years of reincarnation.

After that long life came in an instant, I didn’t dream.

Even without dreaming, I could recall the life of ten thousand years, and it was vividly drawn before my eyes.

But now, this is a dream….

When is this life?

Unfamiliar background and people.

This is a scene that wasn’t in my ten thousand years of life.

And the people in front of me began to appear clearly.

What, the patient on the bed over there….

It’s Song Yuna?

A doctor wearing a gown.

And two nurses standing next to him.

Song Yuna in a patient gown and her manager, Chief Choi, attending to her.

It seemed they couldn’t see me.

“Haa… Doctor, why is this happening to me? Why did I suddenly collapse on the way to the filming….”

Song Yuna’s sad and soft voice was quite different from the one I knew.

The medical staff looking at Song Yuna.

The chart in the doctor’s hand.

-March 3, 2016.

-Name: Song Yuna.
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As soon as I checked the chart, I immediately realized that this place I was seeing was Song Yuna’s past.

That it was her 2016.

“Actually, I came to tell you the results of the detailed examination.”

At the doctor’s words, Chief Choi and Song Yuna listened with anxious hearts.

“It’s multiple sclerosis.”

“What is that?”

Chief Choi frowned and asked him back.

“It’s a disease that occurs in the central nervous system….”

Before the doctor could finish speaking, Song Yuna shook her head and asked.

“Please explain it in a way that I can easily understand. What kind of disease is it? What are the symptoms? Is treatment possible?”

She poured out questions with tears in her eyes, and the doctor spoke in a calm and as composed tone as possible.

“There are normal cells in Yuna’s body….”

Even after listening to the doctor’s words, Song Yuna asked again as if her curiosity was not resolved.

“So, that’s why I collapsed?”

“Yes, the symptoms vary, but Yuna has weakened muscles, making it difficult to walk, and she experiences tremors in her body, causing problems with her balance.”

“Then does that mean I’ll collapse like this often?”

The doctor sighed and answered her question.

“But… Yuna’s symptoms are a bit severe….”

Song Yuna wiped away her tears and nodded.

“It’s okay. Tell me everything.”

“Changes in mood, depression, sensitivity, etc., can also appear emotionally. In severe cases, motor impairment, that is, paralysis, can also occur.”

As soon as the doctor finished speaking, Song Yuna leaned back as if she was about to collapse.

“Yuna!”

Chief Choi grabbed Song Yuna and shed tears.

Then, he hurriedly grabbed the doctor and shouted urgently.

“Doctor, what can we do to cure our Yuna?”

“This is one of the incurable diseases that has no complete cure.”

Song Yuna cried out as if in despair at the doctor’s words.

“No way…. No!”

Her tears endlessly soaked both cheeks.

The sound of her crying filled the large hospital room.

At that sight, the doctor looked at Chief Choi and said quietly.

“Let’s talk separately for a moment.”

As the medical staff, including Chief Choi, left the hospital room, Song Yuna was left alone in the VIP room.

“No way. I have an incurable disease?”

She jumped up from the bed, but her legs, which had lost strength, collapsed, and she slumped to the floor under the bed.

“How… how have I lived, how did I get to this position!”

Song Yuna’s tears didn’t stop, and her eyes, which had quickly become swollen, only caused her discomfort.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously to wipe away the tears, but the tears that welled up again were flowing endlessly.

“Agh, why me…. What did I do wrong to be sick. Why!”

Song Yuna pounded the floor with her fists, and the side of her hand turned red.

“No…. I want to live, why me….”

Her sobs became rough, and she couldn’t breathe properly.

She was sprawled on the floor in frustration.

I could only watch Song Yuna suffering.

Her emotions rushed into me completely, and I writhed in agony.

After a while.

Chief Choi came in and lifted Song Yuna up.

“Yuna, why are you doing this on the floor? Get up.”

He grabbed her to lift Song Yuna up.

“Oppa [an affectionate term for older brother or male friend], do I have to live like this? What do I have to do to get out of the hospital?”

Song Yuna asked him with a voice full of desperation, but the only thing Chief Choi could say to her was a desperate answer.

“Yuna, listen carefully. You may not be able to act in the future. Recovery comes first….”

Before his words could finish, Song Yuna screamed as if she was out of breath.

“Agh… how can I live without acting…. Oppa….”

Chief Choi was the one who shared the pain with Song Yuna.

He knew all about his celebrity, Song Yuna’s efforts and desperation, so he cried and grieved with her.

“Yuna, Oppa will find out more. So let’s recover first. Get up on the bed quickly….”

“Oppa, what should I do….”

The hospital room was filled with Song Yuna’s sobbing.

The sound leaked out of the hospital room and echoed to the hospital hallway.

How many hours had passed like that?

Song Yuna’s tears and pain, accompanied by suffering, did not stop.

Whether her heart and Chief Choi’s efforts to find out for several hours had reached, the doctor came into the hospital room and opened his mouth.

“I… I came because of what I said earlier.”

At his words, Chief Choi swallowed hard and put his hands together.

“Yes, doctor.”

“There is a drug that is in clinical trials.”

Chief Choi and Song Yuna’s eyes sparkled at the doctor’s words.

“Can’t we treat it with that?”

“Please do it. Anything… please treat me with anything, doctor.”

The doctor made a tsk sound and answered carefully.

“But this is illegal in Korea.”

“Why?”

“It’s a medical product with narcotic ingredients, so it’s regulated as illegal in Korea.”

Chief Choi hesitated at the words narcotic ingredients, but Song Yuna asked the doctor with an even more desperate voice.

“How do you get it?”

“I can introduce you to a doctor I know in Japan.”

“Yes, please tell me.”

“But… the process of bringing it in itself is illegal.”

To Song Yuna now, illegal and legal were not so important.

In order not to die, in order to live, she had to take the risk of illegality and get treatment.

“I’ll take responsibility.”

The doctor bit his lip and muttered at her words.

“Then, if by any chance you get caught….”

Song Yuna nodded her head vigorously and shouted.

“Yes, let’s pretend the doctor doesn’t know. I’ll take full responsibility.”

“You must promise.”

“Of course. I can even write a memorandum.”

The doctor hesitated for a moment, but soon answered Song Yuna with a determined face.

“Okay. Then….”

The Song Yuna in front of me passed by as if in fast forward.

One or two days in the hospital….

That’s how a week, a month, and six months passed.

Song Yuna was able to obtain a treatment containing narcotic ingredients that were illegal in Korea through Chief Choi.

Without leaving the hospital, she worked hard and received treatment in pain.

The docile her gradually darkened her expression day by day with suffering, and she was becoming increasingly sensitive due to the arduous drugs and treatment.

“Ah, Oppa. How can you do this!”

Song Yuna’s tone became colder and sharper as time went by and the treatment became longer.

Chief Choi, who felt her changing appearance in real time next to her, was more sad than angry.

“Yuna… I’m sorry. Oppa will bring it again.”

“Haa…. I’m having a hard time, and I know Oppa is having a hard time too. I don’t even know why I’m doing this.”

“It’s okay. It’s because the treatment is hard.”

But the treatment became more intense day by day.

In proportion to that, Song Yuna became more and more sensitive and neurotic.

* * *

Thud-

Song Yuna’s face was visible as soon as I opened my eyes.

Song Yuna was fast asleep next to me.

I looked at her face, and my eyes turned red without me knowing.

In 2016, she discovered the disease and treated it, and she returned several years later.

I now realized that her entertainment career, which had been active until the beginning of 2016, had been paused for several years, and the long hiatus was due to the disease.

It was Song Yuna’s past that had not appeared in any articles or media.

Song Yuna finished her long treatment and returned to the entertainment industry.

That was the work I first encountered, wasn’t it.

Of course, at that time, I was a minor role, and it was a time when I heard harsh words from her, who was very sensitive, about acting.

I carefully held the sleeping Song Yuna in my arms, and she smiled faintly and closed her eyes.

Now that I knew that she had been given drugs containing narcotic ingredients for treatment, I wanted to resolve this matter.

But the reality was that I couldn’t act rashly.

It was not easy for Song Yuna to explain this past, and it would have been even more difficult for her to explain in detail, especially given her personality.

So she deliberately treated me harshly and said that she had taken drugs.

Moreover, I felt even more heartbroken at the thought that she was worried that I would get involved.

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The next day.

Articles related to Song Yuna’s drugs filled the internet.

[Song Yuna, drug reaction confirmed. WG side ‘The treatment is correct, but the abuse cannot be denied….’ ]

Song Yuna did not respond at all after the first article was published.

WG Entertainment announced its position and controlled the media as if they had been waiting for it.

After all, the only people who knew that Song Yuna used drugs containing narcotic ingredients and illegally obtained treatment in 2016 were her manager, Chief Choi.

And WG Entertainment, where Song Yuna and Chief Choi belong.

Then, the comments that rushed in as if it was time.

-You should only treat it, but if you use it excessively, what’s the difference between that and doing drugs.

-Tsk tsk. Song Yuna also touched drugs.

-Who knows if it’s a narcotic treatment or just drugs. Isn’t the fact that she did drugs?

-I had a hunch. It’s suspicious that she’s good at acting.

-헐 [Korean slang expressing disbelief or shock], but she’s dating Jin Hee-sung. Didn’t Jin Hee-sung also do drugs?

┕That’s right. Everyone said Jin Hee-sung’s acting was crazy and seemed possessed. Was that the effect of the drug?

-They’re dating, there’s no way only one person is doing drugs? That’s how it is.

-Tomorrow, Jin Hee-sung’s drug article will explode.

-Crazy. I was looking forward to Jin Hee-sung’s movie, but I can’t see it because the work is overturned.

In the end, the thing Song Yuna was worried about started to happen.

The media spread to me.

“How should I solve this….”

At that time, when I was sighing while looking at my cell phone.

[Sender: Jang Junwoo]

While scrolling through my cell phone, I accidentally pressed the receive button.

It was difficult to explain this situation and feeling, so I tried to end the call quickly.

“Hello?”

-Hee-sung!

“Oh, Junwoo. I’m sorry, but I’m a little busy right now, so I’ll call you again later….”

But before he could finish my words, he opened his mouth urgently.

-No, wait a minute. My father is a lawyer, so I thought he could help.”