Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 618

[A man! Huh? A man!]

Kang Jin-ho unconsciously moved the phone away from his ear. It was an extremely reasonable and correct posture for a martial artist, preparing for the lion’s roar that would follow.

However, contrary to expectations, the lion’s roar did not erupt. Choi Yeon-ha was a master of unpredictability, someone Kang Jin-ho could never anticipate.

[If you said you’d come once, you should come! Or you should have said clearly that you wouldn’t! Is it okay to make someone wait like this?]

“I, I’m sorry.”

He even apologized without realizing it.

Kang Jin-ho didn’t quite know what he had done wrong yet, but he knew one thing for sure. In these situations, it was best to just apologize. If you don’t understand something, whether it’s studying or life, just memorize it.

[When are you coming!]

“It’s a bit difficult to answer right now…”

[Look at this again. Look at this! Are you going to drag out the time again and not come? If I finish filming and go back to Korea, do you think your shins will be safe?]

Kang Jin-ho quietly lowered his hand and stroked his shin.

Kang Jin-ho wouldn’t be in pain if Choi Yeon-ha kicked his joints, but he felt a strange, physically inexplicable, eerie pain.

“I wasn’t dragging out the time.”

A clicking sound came from the other end of the phone. Kang Jin-ho wiped away the cold sweat that had inexplicably formed.

[Kang Jin-ho.]

“Yes.”

Kang Jin-ho answered in a formal posture.

[I know, you’re busy. I know you’re very busy in Korea. I heard you’re getting home late and you’re all over the place?]

‘It’s Eun-young.’

There was a spy in the house.

Kang Jin-ho felt a strong sense of betrayal.

What is family?

Family is supposed to be the people you can trust the most. Shouldn’t family protect each other?

But his information was leaking out so thoroughly….

Kang Jin-ho felt the need to strengthen his control over his younger sister.

[But a man should keep his word once he’s given it!]

“……I’m sorry.”

[I won’t push you like this anymore. Come if you want to, and don’t if you don’t want to.]

“Is that okay?”

[If you don’t come, I’ll go find you.]

He didn’t ask the foolish question, ‘Can you really return to Korea as you please while filming a drama?’ Choi Yeon-ha was a woman who was capable of anything. Hadn’t he experienced it countless times?

This woman and a natural disaster were only a hair’s breadth apart. The only difference was whether they were living beings or not; they were equally impossible to deal with.

[Don’t you have anything to say?]

“I, I’ll go quickly.”

[I’m trusting you one last time.]

“Thank you.”

[Hang up!]

Click!

The sound of the phone disconnecting was nothing special, but to Kang Jin-ho, even that sound felt piercing.

Kang Jin-ho put down the phone and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

‘A Shaolin monk was easier to deal with.’

He remembered the former abbot of Shaolin, who was spewing golden energy based on an inner strength that was impossible to believe was human. That man who was spewing the energy of ‘Pasa’ [a Buddhist term referring to the destruction of evil], which was the opposite of demonic energy. Just thinking about him made his whole body tingle. That man was easier to deal with. At least he could attack that guy.

His attack power was stronger than that guy’s, but he couldn’t even counterattack.

Kang Jin-ho felt somewhat bitter and looked outside.

Then, he picked up the phone again and dialed a familiar number.

“Hello. Yes, Chief Jo. I think I need to go to China. Yes? What nonsense am I talking about? Ah, well….”

Kang Jin-ho started sweating again.

Click!

Choi Yeon-ha, who had hung up the phone with a bang, threw the phone onto the sofa.

“That guy, really!”

Her insides were boiling.

“How far do I have to go for him!”

Doesn’t she have any pride?

Who is she?

Choi Yeon-ha! Choi Yeon-ha!

A top actress who can’t even take a step outside her house without a mask and sunglasses!

Of course, she didn’t know what that meant to Kang Jin-ho, but anyway!

“He should be the one saying he’ll come first!”

Choi Yeon-ha gripped the cushion tightly enough to tear it. She wanted to throw the cushion or anything else to vent her anger, but there were too many eyes watching right now.

Choi Yeon-ha’s face flushed red.

How many times had she spoken nicely? How many times had she hinted for him to catch on, but he just couldn’t understand, like a broken operating system that had thrown its sense into the trash and pressed the empty button! How many times had she had to say it directly!

They weren’t even officially together, and it was so hard for her to throw away her pride and say these things, but he just chewed it all up and acted all flustered.

“I’d rather die than suffer!”

What could she do? This was all Choi Yeon-ha’s sinful karma.

She wanted to cut off all contact with such a heartless man, but… the problem was that she couldn’t do it as she pleased. It would be nice if Kang Jin-ho would just act like a normal person.

“It’s heavy.”

Choi Yeon-ha pressed down on the headdress on her head with one hand.

If she could just take this off during her break, she could rest comfortably….

Those damn makeup artists. How hard is it to take this off and put it back on? They tell her to rest with it on. If she could rest like this, would she be human? She’d be the Hulk!

Her complaints were endless.

Especially about this place.

‘What is this! It’s not a van, and it’s not a container!’

In Hollywood, when actors take a break, they bring in containers so they can rest comfortably. The inside is decorated like a house. The director can only shoot a limited number of scenes, and there are many scenes to shoot in a day, so it’s a consideration to make the actors, who have to wait, rest as comfortably as possible.

In Korea, where funds are lacking, they can’t do that, but they try to make at least a van for the lead actors and a lounge for the supporting actors.

But what is this….

‘Don’t even put a sofa here! What is this!’

She knew she had to understand.

The drama she was currently filming was a big-budget drama. The production cost was unimaginable in Korea. In that sense, it was a drama that shone with the spirit of the continent in a positive way.

There was no way such a drama would neglect its lead actors. In the first place, they were not people who would tolerate such treatment.

The problem was that this drama was a historical drama.

In Korea, they would have mixed sets and actual historical sites, but this land of China was so vast that there were many ancient palaces left, so they were filming using the palaces as they were, not as sets. The problem was that these palace locations were incredibly vast.

Filming equipment could enter the historical site, but vehicles were restricted. A container? There was no way that could come in.

Thanks to that, when they entered the filming location, they lined up like they were on a group tour. Choi Yeon-ha was at least a lead actor, so she was assigned a sofa, but other supporting actors were sitting in the scorching sun without even a screen.

“Oh, my.”

Choi Yeon-ha was known as the ‘Benevolent Invincible’ (仁者無敵) [a term implying someone is so virtuous they are unbeatable] to those who knew her.

It didn’t mean that the benevolent had no enemies, but that no one could beat her in terms of personality. She was confident that she wouldn’t be second to anyone in the world when it came to personality, but she had no intention of complaining that the sofa was uncomfortable when others were sitting on the hot ground.

That wasn’t a matter of being good or bad; it was something a human shouldn’t do.

The problem was….

“Are you resting well?”

Choi Yeon-ha’s face contorted.

‘That greasy bastard.’

It was this situation.

With just a beach parasol (disguised as a sunshade) that she didn’t know where it came from, she couldn’t avoid the gazes around her. And she couldn’t stop the footsteps of a scoundrel who brazenly walked into her area.

If it were a place with a container, she could just lock the door of the container, but in a place like this, there was no way to stop the greasy face from coming in.

“Get lost.”

“Oh, you’re so prickly.”

‘Aaaah! I want to kill him!’

Every single line was annoying. It was as if he had studied his pick-up lines from a 70s movie. Every line he threw out was dripping with cheesiness.

She was terrified that he might say, ‘Heh heh, lady, you are beautiful.’

‘No, where did something like that come from!’

Choi Yeon-ha calmed her trembling eyelashes and looked at the man standing in front of her.

At first glance, he looked okay.

Well, he was an actor.

Among the many Chinese people, they pick the handsome ones to be actors, right? If you’re an actor in China and you’re not handsome, that’s more strange. Of course, you have to be handsome.

The problem was that his handsomeness was a bit strange.

‘Ugh, it’s overwhelming.’

Those thick double eyelids and those greasy, thin lips were irritating.

He was handsome. Yes, he was definitely handsome.

But Choi Yeon-ha realized for the first time that a handsome face could be so far from her taste.

“It seems like we have to wait a bit for the next shoot, so how about a drink in the meantime? It would be the honor of my life if I could buy you a drink, Yeon-ha?”

“What are you talking about, really.”

Choi Yeon-ha’s face contorted once again.

He was greasy looking, and even his lines were greasy. The idea that Chinese men are more macho than Korean men was a lie.

‘No, maybe it’s because he’s an international student.’

Anyway, anyway!

She would say that she hated the sight of him at times like this.

“I’m sorry, no, I’m not sorry, but I just want to rest right now, so can you please get lost?”

“You’re sharp as a thorn, as expected.”

“Hey! You!”

A curse word burst out of Choi Yeon-ha’s mouth.

‘I should have studied more Chinese curses.’

With her limited Chinese, she couldn’t curse as violently as she wanted to. And if she cursed in Korean, he wouldn’t understand it!

Given Choi Yeon-ha’s personality, if she couldn’t curse with words, she would have thrown something. But right now, Choi Yeon-ha was enduring her anger with superhuman patience.

‘I’ve become a human, too.’

Before she met Kang Jin-ho, she would have brought an electric shocker and stabbed that guy in the side when he acted like that. But she couldn’t do that now.

Unfortunately, that damn guy was the male lead in the drama Choi Yeon-ha was currently filming, that is, Choi Yeon-ha’s co-star. If she were to beat him up, entertainment news would be plastered with Choi Yeon-ha’s face all over Korea and China.

And it was something she couldn’t understand, but that damn guy was one of the most popular male actors in the Chinese-speaking world right now.

Because he was handsome?

That couldn’t be.

There were plenty of male actors who were more handsome than him. China was famous for producing handsome male actors since long ago, wasn’t it?

He was a terrible actor, and his looks were ambiguous, but he had gotten lucky with one role and was now being pushed hard.

In this situation, if she touched him, China would be turned upside down.

Choi Yeon-ha clenched her fist tightly.

‘Let’s be patient, Choi Yeon-ha. Let’s be patient….’

If you endure three times….

“Instead of that… I have a villa nearby, and I would like to invite you to that villa. How about going there and resting comfortably after today’s filming….”

“Hey, you bastard! Do you think I’m easy?!”

It was a moment when she realized that people can’t change easily.