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The man wearing the baseball cap stood up from his seat and walked forward. Maru got to have a close look at the man’s face. His beard wasn’t shaved, and his hair, from what could be seen below the baseball cap, wasn’t neat at all. The shirt and jeans he was wearing looked like he picked them up from a street stall. Despite that, Maru wasn’t able to take his eyes off him. This man was an actor he knew too well. He was a little confused at first due to the beard and the voice, but now that he saw him up close, he was able to confirm.

This man was Park Taeho. The man who won the leading actor’s role award in the Daejong awards last year. Maru pondered if this man was cast in this movie as well.

“Please give me a script.”

Taeho got a copy of the script from Hoyoung and handed it over to Maru.

“Go to page 78.”

Maru did as he was instructed. Amidst the rows of lines written, there were three characters that caught his eyes: delinquent 1, delinquent 2, and delinquent 3.

“Here, read this part. Don’t put any emotions in.”

The part Taeho pointed to was delinquent 2’s line. It was a line that Maru had read several times in the book. ‘Man, your sorry ass has achieved nothing even after all these years. What kind of shit life have you been living, gramps?’ was there, without a change in wording.

“Man, your sorry ass...