Chapter 387 (1/2)

“Can you go in a little further?”

He was dazed and forgot that Joohyun was behind him. He sat right behind the driver’s seat and watched as Joohyun sat next to him.

“Unni! Take a photo with me!”

“I’m a huge fan of yours, unni!”

Fans had flocked to the car and were screeching.

“Girls.”

“Yes!”

“You’re on the road. You’ll end up in the hospital if a car hits you so get off quickly.”

“Haha, unni, you’re cool!”

“You call me cool no matter what I do. Take the photos right now and get out of the way.”

Joohyun turned her head slightly and posed. The girls all started screeching when she posed like a magazine model. Joohyun changed her pose around three times, and whenever she did, many artificial shutter noises could be heard.

“All done? Please step back. Also, stop chasing celebrities. You, you, and you over there. I think you three are high school students. You should really start studying. Chasing me will only cloud your future even more. Study well, and go to a good university. Then, I’ll give you a big hug.”

“Unni! I love you!”

After sending a kiss to the girls that made hearts with their arms above their heads, Joohyun closed the door. The girls were like obedient puppies as they moved to the pavement, all the while screeching.

“You’re good at handling people.”

“I have to deal with that pretty much all the time. Though, it’s getting easier for me nowadays since there aren’t any people that suddenly rush at me asking for a handshake. In the past, some people would even just hug me out of nowhere.”

When Joohyun sat back, the manager started the car.

“Where are we going?”

“To an underpass.”

“An underpass?”

The truck with lights loaded in the back started following them. They turned around at Gangnam station and entered the Southern Circular Highway.

“Are we heading towards Woomyun mountain?”

“You’re quite knowledgeable. Yeah, we are.”

The van went under the elevated highway and entered a flat terrain in the mountains. The van started rattling due to the uneven road as sand and dust flew everywhere to the side. As this place was still under development, construction vehicles could still be seen throughout.

“We’re here.”

The manager stretched out his neck and spoke.

“Sungho, you should get some sleep here. It must have been tiring for you driving all the way here from Busan.”

“If you say so, noo-nim.”

“Since you’re so considerate, do you think you can cause some NG scenes and let me sleep for three hours?”

“I don’t think so.”

Joohyun patted the manager on the shoulders before getting out of the van. Maru got out as well. The rough texture of the earth could be felt through the soles of his trainers.

It was 3 in the afternoon. Although the sun was right above their heads as it was mid summer, this place was rather dark for some reason. Ugly chopped trees, an excavator, as well as construction materials were suppressing the greenery and giving off a dull grey light.

“The generator car should be turned on here.”

From how the generator car stopped here, it seemed that the set was still a bit ways off.

“I don’t think this shoot suddenly got scheduled. What happened?” Maru spoke as he looked at the staff members that busily moved around.

Manpower was money. There was no way all these people gathered here without a concrete plan. Yet, the actor that had a shoot here was casted not properly but from some other place. Something didn’t feel right.

“Originally, one of the agencies we know said they’ll send a person, but there was a sudden accident.”

“An accident?”

“It seems like there was a traffic accident during travel. It wasn’t that he was severely hurt, but any shoot for the day seemed impossible so the producer was worried. That’s when I found you. Thanks to that, you saved me as well. If we didn’t get the shoot done today, we would’ve had to set another date for the shoot.”

“Miss Ahn Joohyun, over here.”

One of the staff members shouted.

“Let’s go.”

Maru walked next to Joohyun. People carrying props for the shoot were moving towards the mountain. There was an underpass through the side of the mountain where some of the trees had been roughly chopped.

“Producer, is this the place?”

“Yes, it is. It feels rather decent right? Apparently, this place was originally going to be tunneled all the way to the other side, but it’s halted right now due to some business problem. Thanks to that, we can use this gloomy-feeling place.”

The unfinished tunnel, as well as the containers that laid around. The gloomy atmosphere given off by the rusty metal made Maru feel like there might be corpses if he dug around. This looked like the perfect place for some shady, dangerous business.

“Oh, young fellow.”

He saw the producer wave at him. Maru walked towards him.

“First of all, thank you for coming, and I’ll give you the money here once we’re done, so don’t worry about that.”

“Okay.”

“Then shall we start the rehearsal immediately? They say time is gold.”

The producer walked inside the tunnel. It seemed that there were no problems safety-wise. The tunnel, which still had iron beams everywhere, gave off a very chilly atmosphere. No, it wasn’t just the atmosphere. It was actually quite chilly.

“It’s the same as what you did before. When Miss Joohyun shows her back, you… uh, what was your name again?”

“Han Maru, sir.”

“Yes, Maru, you’ll stab her just like before. We originally had an actor that practiced this scene already, but he got into an accident. So that’s why I’m asking you.”

After that, the producer started explaining the action scene that they were going to shoot with delicate gestures and speech that was mixed with some dialect. Maru could feel the resolve that the producer had to finish this shoot within the day.

“You got that?”

“Yes.”

“Good, then let’s try.”