Chapter 217-218 (2/2)
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Chapter 218: Splendid or Shabby (3)
TL: emptycube / ED: Isleidir
”Chinese? japanese? Korean? Do you have thoughts on becoent”
How ave me a dirty look He seemed to have decided that any further discussion was unnecessary and siha his business card
”If we can just discuss details alone…!”
”We can't”
”Where are you staying? Please give me your number!”
”I don't want to”
”Business card! Then just take ela Mayweather? She worked with me in the past! If you want a shot at the red carpet, don't waste your tient over there and call ged me over
We only had a briefto brush off that leech-like agent
”Do you have any plans tonight? Do you want me to take you to Matt Burkhart's private party?”
”I have invitations to the Last Dance gala screening, do you want to coo on a drive?”
I thought we could strut about with no one paying attention to us, but there was a nized Lee Songha, there were plenty of people who recognized a beauty In just an hour of going around, I was able to confirha's beauty was universal All kinds of flies stuck around Agents, guys trying to pick up girls, guys trying to pick up girls, and guys trying to pick up girls
What kind of damn city was this?
I felt like the entire street could be called one big club
A hini looked our way and waved He was a tick that had been following us for a while now It didn'tor not, I couldn't take it anyha's shoulder and pulled her into a narrow alleyway between two buildings
”Let's go out after a little break”
I didn't get a reply Instead, I heard her breathing quicken
I glanced down Because of the narrow space, Lee Songha's eyelashes were looking down at ainst the broken stone wall, Lee Songha's head followed like a htly licked her coral lips
”… Do you have any other place you want to see?”
”Here”
Lee Songha shoved her guidebook in her handbag
”What?”
”Let's look around this place This dark, secluded alley, I think it's nice”
”What are you going to see in this dark, secluded alley?”
I didn't receive a reply Lee Songha was staring up at me Intently
My mouth went dry This time, I licked my lips Maybe it was because ere in a different country, but the face in front of me looked especially unfamiliar tothe day, so her h the crowds Maybe that hy she gave off a more decadent aura, unlike her normal self This hy all those flies hovered around her
It wasn't like we could erase her lasses?
While I was thinking about it, I felt a gaze following ”
Lee Songha's eyes came up to my nose and curved
At so Like it would fall over at any moment
We went into the narrow alleyways rather than the streets While it wasn't as fancy as the streets, I liked the more leisurely, lively atmosphere Above all, no flies hovered around us anymore
We stopped at an open-air café
Two coffees and the assorted desserts Lee Songha ordered filled our table There was an overwhel smell of butter and chocolate When I checked my phone, it see all out and sightseeing They kept posting pictures in our group chat
Most were pictures they wanted to show Naha stared at those photos
I glanced at the corner of the guidebook that stuck out fro and said,
”Do you want to look around a few o back to the hotel? Maybe the beach?”
”Thinking about it, I think I've seen a ton of these in California”
”Ah, you mentioned you stayed there for a while”
She wasn't the type to bring up her past
I thought she would change the subject soon, but Lee Songha continued,
”My aunt and uncle live in California Our fa, and my aunt said that she would take care of one of us for a few years”
”So you're the only one ent in your faha nodded
”My oldest sister wanted to go study abroad, but my aunt and uncle took me instead”
”Why?”
”They said it was because I was the prettiest”
I abruptly stopped drinking ha's faive you a fa such disturbing words as she took a bit of the croissant Then she looked happy because of how tasty it was I shoved the questions that were surging up my throat back down I felt like I would break that peaceful hed with her
”I want to see the Last Dance screening! We've come all the way to Cannes!”
”Give up I bet the line waiting to buy tickets is huge”
”Let's take a picture with the poster! Take one so Mason Tucker's face shows up really well!”
The street of filst the posters lined up like trees lining the street Lee Songha and I looked at a fale City{1}
In the poster ha or Nam Joyoon's face on it Only their naha earing sunglasses, but it was quiet now that there wasn't anyone intently looking our way
Though there was the occasional person who looked with interest
”Jungle City This is screening to it”
”Still, don't you think we'll be able to buy tickets for this one? We need to co inside a theater once! We don't knoe'll have another chance!”
So it was like that
”Mason! It's Mason!”
”Megan!”
Screams and shouts erupted soan Shannor leisurely arrived at La Croissette Spectators gathered around an enormous screen on one side of the street
It was a live video of the red-carpet event going on at the Palais des Festivals
The screen had been showing the entrances of various VIP and celebrities froures of today, Hollywood top stars, had arrived and aving their hands
The actual place must be so full of spectators and reporters, who arrived early, to the point that there was no room to actually walk, which hy people were probably watching the live feed here
People's reactions on screen were heated, and the reactions here were fanatical
”What! What! They are shaking hands! They're even giving out autographs!”
”I should have waited for a few hours there!”
Various languages could be heard froh I could solish and Chinese, what they were all talking about was obvious Half the words were the names of actors
The screen continued to show the leads of Last Dance The actors, ore a tuxedo and dress, made cheerful and bold poses on the red carpet
The screaround music froraphers going off simultaneously blasted out the speakers
I calmly stared at the screen
When we first received invitations to the film festival, e arrived at Nice Airport and looked at Lee Songha and Nam Joyoon's hotel roon reporters Each ti closer to that world
I was a bit excited, thinking that the tips of our toes finally touched it, but that wasn't the case
We were still so far away
I abruptly looked besideon, was quiet
Lee Songha had taken her sunglasses off and was staring at the screen while standing rigidly
At the world overfloith red carpet, cheers, and cao there once”
The Palais des Festivals filled with people was completely different from when it was empty It was exactly that It was a palace of dreahts shi+ned down, and loud sounds felt like they were squeezingred carpet flowed down the tall stairs The actors walking up the stairs grew distant
Lee Songha stumbled towards the screen before she was pushed by a loud spectator
”Songha, are you okay?”
”Yes! Yes, I' on her tippy toes and stretching her neck up
The distant red carpet, the cheering fans, the photographers wearing tuxedos and shooting pictures She looked at the sight, a blend of all these elee look on her face It see at a new snack that she had never eaten before
And soet a good look, before going towards the control line
While everyone related to the filely different It was to the point where she see the fil an award
To be honest, she was like this froh ti and dancing, but when she found her talent in acting, she rejoiced and clung onto it Like someone who found a foundation to stand on Then she did her best in every dra felt lukewarm
This was true even when I compared her to Nah I couldn't perfectly describe it, Lee Songha's sights were not set beyond her limit and rather settled in at a lukewarm distance
This bothered me like a bone in ht now She seeha's heart right here…
I handed Lee Songha's actor ID card to the event personnel, as busy blocking the swaraze was fixed at one place, as I said,
”We have soo in for a second? It's not for the red carpet-!”
”You can't enter this place with a t-shi+rt and running shoes”
The event personnel wavedat the ID card
This daone around in a dress and suit if I knew this would happen Lee Songha seemed to have heard the event personnel as she turned her head towards ue and backed away froer
Since she'll be standing on that red carpet toha and Nam Joyoon wore the dress and suit the stylists had picked out for the as the actors last night, no, tothan anyone
Spectators cheered and photographers pressed their shutter buttons
Lee Songha was al as she an Shannor's red-carpet event yesterday…”
”I guess this is what they call 'on a different level' It's a little deflating”
The staff from the production company mumbled as they waited to enter the theater
I pulled on ht in front ofafter losing interest
The photographers who took pictures as a forha rapher Nahtly taken aback before s as well
I stared at this
I wanted to light a fire in Lee Songha's heart with this opportunity
But a fire lit in my heart before I could
Korean press reporters who had ID cards hung around their necks were sitting at one side of the theater
”Fortunately, most of the seats are taken I orried this red-carpet event would look sparse”
”This is the case for red-carpet events that don't have famous people”
”Let's not write articles that it was shabby or whatever and try to write theht Then thelike 'the theater was packed with international reporters and buyers'”
The thousand or so seats were slowly being filled It was empty co to watch from the sides, but it was still a full house
”Make sure to check how et some feedback on the fil they clapped after the official screening and publish headlines like 'Heated Applause for 5 ”
”They applaud out of h We're probably the only country that times the applause and writes articles about it”
A ue at the sudden co to write about! Also, our citizens are curious about it!”
”Do you think they'll have a chance at winning the award?”
Someone cautiously asked People murmured
”People see how top-notch their cole's internal screening? Was the filood?”
”Froood”
”Considering they were invited to Cannes, the film must be quite polished as well”
”Well, there are fil the quality of the film festival There are also a lot of people who leave in the ot up and left last time The mood was utter crap”
”In the end, an article about it exploded and ed man licked his lips and said,
”Anyways, we have to write that they have a chance of winning the reward until the award cereer had a fit about hoe needed to get tons of neorthy content because City Jungle is the most topical back horeat if they receive an award though It's been a long time since we've last received an award For our film industry…”
”Don't try to fool us Isn't it because you invested in City Jungle through their crowdfunding event?”
”Shh, it looks like they're starting now”
The audience's chatter gradually died down
The international reporters and buys, who didn't seeazes towards the screen
8:30 am In the Debussy Theatre next to the le's press screening began
It was a very quiet start
{1} The Korean nalish nale' before 'City'
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