Junmin looked down at the empty teacup before moving his gaze over to Maru. He was someone who looked over all sorts of criteria when picking an actor to offer a contract to, but ultimately, he signed the contract based on one condition: How much the actor loves acting.

Most of his contracts were done that way. The prime examples of this would be Geunsoo and Ganghwan. As someone running an entertainment business, those two were practically duds. Being good at acting and becoming a popular actor that brings benefits to the company were separate matters.

If he ran JA with a businessman’s mindset, Geunsoo and Ganghwan would be working for other agencies right now.

Because of his unique contract conditions, the company ended up full of eccentric people. Among them, there were some who would never take up a role that was similar to one they did before and some who were polar opposites, doing only similar roles time after time.

There was no right answer to their methods. The former wanted to raise their acting skills in a variety of ways by experiencing many things, while the latter’s goal was to become a symbolic actor in certain fields.

There may be a difference in form, but both...