Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 213

213. Has Something Gotten into Me? (1)

2022.06.01.

“Two leads might be too much, but you’ve become a supporting character with significant weight, so season 2 is a given!”

There’s even talk that there might be a season 3.

‘No… what is this…?’

It’s good to be cast in an audition where I put my heart and soul.

It’s really good…

‘But does it feel like the scale has suddenly become too big?’

Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind.

‘Could it be because of that?’

It was about what happened this morning.

After finishing weight training with a troubled mind and completing cardio diligently.

After washing up and looking in the mirror.

-Ding!

A notification popped up.

It was a notification that I hadn’t seen in quite a while.

A notification that should have been very familiar.

But Yeonwoo truly felt it had been a long time.

‘I heard the upgrade was completed yesterday…’

The multiple automatic lifespan harvesting function was very convenient, but it had one drawback.

That was,

[Multiple automatic lifespan harvesting has been completed.]

[Lifespan harvested automatically: 24 days]

[Multiple automatic lifespan harvesting completed…]

[Automatically harvested…]

The endless notifications were the problem.

‘It’s good… it’s really good… but sometimes it’s a problem that it happens all the time.’

It’s not that I don’t welcome lifespan.

It was just that the constant notifications were quite annoying at times.

‘Am I not going to be able to do any work because of this?’

I’m going to get notification neurosis while filming a project to gain lifespan.

If I think about the time when I was horrified by the sudden minus, I’d say I’m full of food and feeling complacent [an idiom meaning being spoiled or unappreciative]…

But what can I do when it’s true!

It was definitely like that…

-Ding!

At some point, a strange notification popped up.

To be exact, it was the night of the audition.

I was washing up with a restless heart when a notification window popped out beyond the water.

Moreover,

“……?”

[Upgrading the system.]

[System upgrade in progress.]

[Some functions will be suspended during this period.]

A very strange notification.

‘Upgrade…?’

The system really does all sorts of things.

System, system.

I guess it really was a system.

‘Well… I used to get updates before.’

The multiple automatic lifespan harvesting function was also one of the updated functions.

So, it’s possible that the system itself could be upgraded.

I don’t know where the system came from.

The system message saying it was updating continued for several days.

And just last night.

The night before the audition results came out, another notification popped up out of the blue.

-Ding!

[System upgrade complete!]

[There are upgraded system items.]

[Would you like to check the items?]

There was no need to think about the answer.

It was unconditionally YES.

And Yeonwoo was able to confirm one function.

That was,

[Would you like to turn off notifications for the multiple automatic lifespan harvesting function?]

It wasn’t turning off the function, but only turning off the notifications, so there was no reason to refuse.

When I selected ‘Yes,’ a notification window popped up.

[Notifications for multiple automatic lifespan harvesting have been turned off.]

[Notifications automatically harvested from the same source will be turned off from now on.]

I take back what I said about doing all sorts of things.

‘It’s kind of sensible?’

In short, it means that the lifespan generated by the influence of one work will be bundled together.

For example, like this.

The lifespan given by people who are influenced by watching drama A will no longer appear after being turned off once, even if the multiple function is executed.

Of course, it is highly likely that it will not apply to subsequent activities.

But still, where else can I find that?

Anyway, since then, Yeonwoo enjoyed a very quiet night for the first time.

It was almost the first time since he came back to life.

But then…

The next morning.

-Ding!

[You have successfully harvested lifespan.]

[Lifespan harvested: 15 days]

A harvest notification window popped up after a long time.

And it was a single one.

‘The timing is very coincidental.’

The system entered an upgrade immediately after the audition.

The timing of the system upgrade was just before hearing about the audition results.

And the first notification after the upgrade rang as if waiting.

Even the script I received had a significantly increased weight.

‘……It must be related to the changed script, right?’

If I don’t notice when the system is giving me such obvious hints, I’d be a blind man.

But there were still questions.

‘I don’t think he even looked at me properly at the audition, so what about me influenced the writer…?’

Yeonwoo had no idea that Song Jin-joo had dozens of stories running through his head as soon as he saw him.

Nor did he know that Song writer had been writing like a possessed person, replaying the audition clips dozens of times after the audition.

‘By the way, I’m worried about what that [???] is.’

Even though it said the upgrade was complete.

When I summon the system window, there was a question mark that didn’t exist before.

‘I can’t click it, and there’s no explanation… well, when has the system ever been kind…’

When you think about it, this upgrade that turned off the notification function is unexpected.

That question mark probably appeared while the upgrade was in progress…

It’s uncertain when I’ll be able to check it.

Oh well.

I’ll find out someday.

Anyway, it’s a system that wouldn’t tell me even if I wanted to know.

Yeonwoo coolly chose to ignore it.

‘Still, it doesn’t feel bad. It means he liked my interpretation that much.’

How should I put it?

Could there be any other piece of evidence that makes me feel this rewarded?

It showed it with that precious lifespan, no less.

Proof that Yeonwoo’s interpretation was well-received.

Yeonwoo could feel it while reading the script.

Even if the Intent Detection didn’t tell him, it was shouting from all over the script.

What was alive and breathing in this script was none other than Kim Sun-woo in the form that Yeonwoo had interpreted.

‘Still, it’s a bit embarrassing that my role has suddenly increased so much… um?’

Yeonwoo, who was scanning the script again, suddenly noticed something.

“Why is this part blank?”

The place Yeonwoo pointed to was none other than a part of the cast list.

“Where… Ah. The female lead role?”

It was the role right after Yeonwoo’s.

Since it wasn’t a romance genre, there wasn’t really an official female lead.

However, there was a female role close to a supporting role after the main character, and this role was implicitly called the female lead.

Of course, it seemed that the importance had decreased because Yeonwoo’s character had broken through.

“I heard that the actors who were being considered rejected it because the story that Yeonwoo rejected the main character role went around.”

“Ah.”

“But Yeonwoo doesn’t have to feel sorry. It’s a common occurrence.”

There are often such cases.

If an actor who was marked rejects the role, the synopsis is passed on to another actor on the list.

There’s also a rumor that the level of the actors receiving the synopsis decreases as you go further down the list.

It seemed that Lee Gyu-han was talking about that part.

“There were originally several actors who were candidates, but they said they rejected it after the word got out that Yeonwoo had rejected it. It seems to have gone through that a few more times… They probably regretted it after the announcement today, right? After all, Yeonwoo has joined.”

Lee Gyu-han shrugged his shoulders.

“Um. So it hasn’t been decided yet?”

“It’s been decided. With a top-tier actor.”

“Top-tier?”

“Since this isn’t a romance, they apparently put aside actors with high guarantees and proceeded with contacting others, but they all fell through. But suddenly, they got a call. Do you know who it is?”

“Who is it?”

“It’s none other than Min Ye-rin.”

Min Ye-rin.

The actress I worked with in my first drama, which I entered as a substitute.

She was also the one who gave me the ‘Masterful Pronunciation That Sticks in Your Ear’ ability, which is A-grade.

“Min Ye-rin is joining?”

“Well, they said she contacted them first. She heard that the script went to Yeonwoo, right? I think she also heard that you rejected the main character role, but she said she would do it anyway. Isn’t that amazing?”

She even gave the okay after hearing about the revised script content after the audition.

“The production company hit the jackpot because a big fish came in after the small fry left.”

Moreover, it’s because of Yeonwoo, not for any other reason.

Lee Gyu-han’s shoulders rose high again towards the sky.

After that, Lee Gyu-han rattled off the schedule.

The production company’s ambitious schedule continued, with plans to hold a production presentation as quickly as possible and then proceed to script reading.

“They’ll probably mobilize all sorts of firepower from the beginning. It’s their first drama, so the promotion will be intense. They’re desperately asking for cooperation from our side. You’ll probably be able to do a few entertainment shows while filming in the early stages. They’ve also arranged entertainment program interviews.”

The more flamboyant the promotion, the greater the repercussions.

The higher the expectations, the more likely people are to be disappointed.

Therefore, promotion with excessive firepower is like a double-edged sword.

But.

‘That means they’re that confident.’

Yeonwoo can’t read the future, but it’s not like he has no eye for it.

Besides, he has an even better ‘intuition’ than reading the future.

His intuition was telling him.

This work will definitely be successful.

Moreover, as long as Yeonwoo himself is involved, failure is even more impossible.

Yeonwoo lacked confidence.

He lacked the confidence to fail.

“The company has decided that it would be good to put its weight behind it as much as possible.”

The company, or rather Kwon Seong-hyun, will cut out what’s not, but will accept most of it.

Yeonwoo also agreed with this.

‘I chose and researched this work myself, so I should do as much as I can, of course.’

When you research a role, you naturally become attached to it.

It’s only natural to want to take good care of a character that you’ll be living with for months to come.

The next step is that you naturally become fond of the work.

Since when did my interest shift from lifespan and influence to the work itself?

It’s something that would have been impossible to imagine before…

‘This is not bad either.’

Yeonwoo thought.

That this was not bad either.

It was a reversal of priorities, but he didn’t feel the need to correct it.

“Yes. Then when do we start filming?”

“First, we’ll have a pre-meeting and then immediately hold a production presentation. Let’s see… the date is…”

Lee Gyu-han, who was looking at the schedule on his phone, said a date.

It was exactly 10 days from now.

“We’ll release a press release as soon as the pre-meeting is over and there are no problems.”

And the pre-meeting date that Lee Gyu-han told me was the day after tomorrow, two days from now.

The two days passed very quickly.

Yeonwoo moved to the place he had been informed of in advance with Lee Gyu-han.

[You’ve been taking care of auditions on your own. Our Yeonwoo is finally standing on his own…!]

With one uninvited ghost attached as a bonus.

The promised place was the headquarters that they had built with a big heart, and it was a truly dazzlingly clean and tidy building.

“Yeonwoo-ssi?”

There was a voice that caught Yeonwoo’s footsteps as he headed to the conference room he was guided to.

A voice I had heard a long time ago but was familiar with.

It was Min Ye-rin, who was approaching from the end of the hallway.

And behind her…

[Oh. Goodness. Oh my god. What is that… ?]

The child spirit was looking for God even though he was a ghost.

I would have scolded him normally, but Yeonwoo agreed with that statement 100% as much as he did now.

The reason was none other than the person following Min Ye-rin.

“Yeonwoo-ssi. It’s been a while.”

Min Ye-rin, who approached, smiled, removing her cold expression.

However, Yeonwoo couldn’t bring himself to smile back.

No, he couldn’t even see Min Ye-rin’s smile properly.

“Yes. It’s been a while. But who is that…?”

“He’s the president of our company. He came with me to participate in this meeting.”

It was as if dark clouds were gathering over the drama that hadn’t even started yet.