Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 619

Choi Yeon-ha, having exploded, jumped up from her seat.

The heavy crown on her head wobbled from side to side like a roly-poly toy. Seeing this, the stylists turned pale and rushed to Choi Yeon-ha.

“Yeon-ha, please calm down! You shouldn’t move so violently.”

Sparks flew from Choi Yeon-ha’s eyes.

“Haha, it seems you’re angry.”

“Haha? Hah-ah?”

Choi Yeon-ha’s hand, clutching a cushion, trembled.

Han Eun-sol, who was talking to the director in the distance, saw this and, turning pale, began to sprint with all her might.

“Uwaaaaaah! Sis! Sis-aaaaah!”

Just before Choi Yeon-ha was about to explode… no, she had already exploded, but before she could physically do anything, Han Eun-sol, who had rushed over, grabbed Liu Wei [劉健] and pulled him back.

“You can’t do this here.”

“……Not letting go?”

Liu Wei turned to Han Eun-sol with cold eyes. Han Eun-sol’s face hardened at his contemptuous gaze.

“Where do you think you’re putting your hands?”

“I said you can’t do this here.”

“Can’t you see I’m talking to your boss? This isn’t a place for an employee to interfere.”

The moment those words came out, Choi Yeon-ha’s distorted face instantly hardened.

“You’d better shut that mouth.”

“……Yeon-ha?”

“That person isn’t my employee, she’s my sister. Try talking carelessly one more time. I’ll make a proper mess here today, drama or no drama.”

“Hahaha.”

Liu Wei slightly raised both hands and took a couple of steps back. Even that action seemed to contain a subtle sneer, which made her blood boil.

“Indeed, it seems that cultural differences are difficult to overcome. To treat an employee like a sister, I’m impressed by your kind heart.”

“It’s not a cultural difference, it seems like you have a bad personality?”

“You’re the only one who speaks to me like that, Choi Yeon-ha.”

“Seriously, is he crazy? What era is this, that he’s saying ‘You’re the first woman to treat me like this’?”

“S-Sis, you’re speaking in Korean.”

“Am I?”

Choi Yeon-ha raised both hands and massaged her cheeks.

‘Let’s calm down. Let’s calm down, Choi Yeon-ha.’

The first explosion had happened, but the second explosion hadn’t occurred yet. This was still a level that could be managed.

“I’m sorry, but our actress is resting. If you have personal business, please come back later.”

Liu Wei looked like he didn’t like having to talk to Han Eun-sol, but he nodded, as if he didn’t want to make his relationship with Choi Yeon-ha any worse.

“I’ll come later, later. There’s plenty of time.”

As Liu Wei gave a slight nod and walked away with a swagger, Choi Yeon-ha unleashed a torrent of curses that she couldn’t even bring herself to say out loud.

“S-Sis, calm down.”

“That greasy bastard! I’d like to roll him up in oil blotting paper and shove him down an oil well!”

“There are reporters! Reporters! Even if there aren’t any Korean ones, if a video gets taken and circulated, who knows what will happen.”

“Why aren’t those reporter bastards taking pictures when that bastard is being so clingy!”

“They’re biased.”

Han Eun-sol calmed Choi Yeon-ha down and made her sit.

“Coffee here! Iced! With lots of syrup, quickly!”

“Yes!”

At the mention of coffee with syrup, Choi Yeon-ha’s face slightly relaxed.

‘Oh, dear.’

Seeing that, Han Eun-sol let out a sigh of relief.

Usually, during filming, Choi Yeon-ha doesn’t touch sweets to manage her weight. But in reality, Choi Yeon-ha loves sweets. During non-filming periods, she practically lives with cake in her mouth.

There was nothing better than sweet food to soothe Choi Yeon-ha when she was stressed.

The coffee, extracted at lightning speed, was brought over, and Choi Yeon-ha put the straw in her mouth and sucked the coffee forcefully. Han Eun-sol closed her eyes as she watched the coffee in the cup go down.

‘That damn sugar, I was trying so hard to keep her away from it!’

Sugar, and cigarettes too… All kinds of things that you quit, even if you start again just a little, the cravings tend to surge. Just thinking about the hysteria Choi Yeon-ha would suffer from sugar withdrawal, Han Eun-sol wanted to run away right now.

“Huuuuh!”

Choi Yeon-ha took a deep breath after taking the straw out of her mouth.

“I feel alive.”

“……I feel like I’m dying.”

“Damn it!”

Choi Yeon-ha gritted her teeth and said,

“When filming is over, I should demand compensation for mental damage from the production team. How did I get tangled up with such a moron?”

“He is a moron, though. A handsome moron.”

“Handsome? Do you think he’s handsome right now?”

“He is handsome.”

“Bullshit. You shouldn’t call someone like that handsome.”

Han Eun-sol shook her head.

‘There’s no hope.’

Kang Jin-ho had raised Choi Yeon-ha’s standards too high.

‘No, this isn’t about standards, it’s more like…’

It must be a matter of taste.

If it were the old Choi Yeon-ha, even if she thought Liu Wei was greasy and annoying, she would have at least acknowledged that he was handsome. In fact, Liu Wei was objectively handsome.

If Han Eun-sol, who had seen countless actors in Korea, admitted that he was handsome, then he really was handsome. If someone with no acting talent could get the lead role in such a big drama just because of his face, then that explains everything.

But for Choi Yeon-ha, who had developed a taste for more simple-looking faces while hanging out with Kang Jin-ho, he didn’t seem that way.

‘Well, Kang Jin-ho is a cheat character in that regard.’

That guy could wear a stretched-out tracksuit and still look cool. It was pitiful to compare Liu Wei to someone like that.

“And what’s the point of being handsome? His personality is trash.”

“I completely agree with that.”

Han Eun-sol turned her head and looked at the place where Liu Wei had walked away.

‘Crazy bastard.’

She didn’t intend to disparage all Chinese actors’ personalities just because of that one guy. The other actors she had seen here were all kind and cheerful.

Sometimes their cheerfulness was a bit overwhelming, but basically, they were all good people.

But that guy was an exception.

‘He makes me feel bad.’

There was something wrong with that guy’s way of thinking. It was hard to pinpoint exactly, but it was something that could be summed up as ‘sense of entitlement’.

He was the type of guy who thought that if a guy as successful and handsome as him flirted with a woman, she should fall for him, and that he was on a different level… no, not a level, but a literal ‘class’ from ordinary people.

There were also idiots among Korean celebrities who were so caught up in their celebrity status that they couldn’t think straight, but compared to that guy, the Korean idiots were cute.

“Why is a guy like that sticking to me and bothering me so much! At this point, it’s disgusting!”

“Well…

It’s because you’re pretty.”

‘I don’t want to say that.’

It wasn’t that she was afraid to say it because she had princess syndrome, but… for some reason, she didn’t want to say it.

Han Eun-sol sighed deeply.

‘We really need to come up with a solution.’

It wasn’t like that guy had only been acting like that for a day or two. He had been hitting on Choi Yeon-ha since the actor meeting before the first filming started. The problem was that his ‘hitting on’ was becoming more and more blatant.

In the past, he was somewhat conscious of other people’s gazes and tried to save face in the filming location or in places where others could see him, but now he was acting like that even in places where others were watching.

It wasn’t a big problem yet, but…

‘It’s strangely unsettling.’

It felt like a big accident was about to happen.

‘I need to contact Korea.’

It wasn’t a problem she could decide on her own. No matter how big of a star Choi Yeon-ha was in Korea, her influence was low here. There was no way she could fight against a Chinese-speaking star.

Things would be a little different after this drama was released, but right now, Choi Yeon-ha’s position was nothing more than a foreign actress with a pretty face.

Because of that situation, it was better for Choi Yeon-ha’s Korean agency to speak up rather than Choi Yeon-ha herself. That was the only way that her words might be heard. Even that would be insignificant.

“Huuu…”

Han Eun-sol sighed deeply.

‘They say you become a patriot when you go abroad.’

Choi Yeon-ha, a top actress in Korea, was just a rookie actress in China. She had taken that into account, but even within that, there was a subtle discrimination because she wasn’t Chinese.

Sometimes, even Han Eun-sol felt a surge of anger.

They had brought her as the lead actress, but sometimes they treated her worse than the Chinese supporting actors. That was something that would never happen in Korea.

It was fortunate that Choi Yeon-ha was enduring it well.

“Sis, I’m sorry. Because the agency doesn’t have any power.”

“What?”

“For making you get treated like this.”

“What are you talking about, you idiot?”

Sparks flew from Choi Yeon-ha’s eyes.

“Is this the agency’s fault? It’s because I don’t have enough recognition!”

“I’m a rookie actress here. And the treatment rookies get is obvious. When have you ever treated a rookie actress well?”

“That’s true, but you were a queen in Korea.”

“Anyone would think I was going around abusing my power.”

“You didn’t abuse your power…

But you did abuse your personality.”

In a way, that might be better. Abusing power is using your superior position to harass someone, but abusing your personality is just having a bad temper.

No, is that worse?

“I just have to endure until this drama is finished. Then my position will rise to the point where that bastard won’t dare to act like that. I just have to endure until then! Ah, this is annoying! Why do Chinese dramas film everything before airing?”

“You said it was good because of that when we first started filming?”

“Who knew this would happen?”

Han Eun-sol sighed as she watched Choi Yeon-ha yell.

Chinese dramas are pre-produced.

It was unimaginable in Korean dramas, but Chinese dramas had to finish filming and editing before airing, and the edited version had to be reviewed by the Chinese public security before it could be aired.

If there were any issues after the review, the problematic parts had to be corrected or removed through reshoots or editing before the broadcast permit was granted.

At first, Choi Yeon-ha had said it was okay because it would increase the quality of the drama, but as Liu Wei persistently clung to her throughout the filming, her words changed.

If it were Korea, several episodes would have already been aired, and by now her recognition would have skyrocketed. Then that Liu Wei bastard wouldn’t have been able to cling to her, she was complaining.

Han Eun-sol turned her head and looked at the place where Liu Wei might be, while letting Choi Yeon-ha’s complaints flow through one ear and out the other.

‘It’s still unsettling.’

Thinking about it again, it meant that the time Liu Wei could hit on Choi Yeon-ha was also running out. Because the drama filming was heading towards the end.

‘He’s not that stupid, but…’

There was a chance that that bastard might do something foolish. Even if the probability was low, it was the job of a good manager to prepare for even the slightest possibility.

‘I need to call Korea and ask them to increase the number of bodyguards.’

Han Eun-sol was determined to make a call as soon as she returned to the accommodation today.