His acting from back then was based on memories.

Last year, when he learned acting from Ganghwan, there was a short period of time where he stood on stage. He did a short monodrama for five to ten minutes before the real show. The role he played back then was a bus driver. There was no need to call it a ‘role’ since he actually had experience being one. There was no need to put on the mask of an actor. He just conversed with the people in the audience while looking back at his life. It must have looked natural. After all, he just spoke of his experiences.

The reason he couldn’t be happy when he was complimented behind the stage was because he was aware that it was not an act. An actor starts off by imitating, but the ultimate goal of all actors was to create something out of nothing. Acting from experience was a stable method, but there would be no progress either.

It was then that Maru thought - he couldn’t forget about his past self, nor could he abandon it.

The Han Maru before his reincarnation; the Han Maru aged forty-five was a part of him that he could not break away from. The youthful Maru’s challenging mindset and the middle-aged Maru’s conservatism were walking towards a common ground, but there were still cases where one overtook the other in regards to certain matters.

While his personality went through such a process, his memory was piling up. The memories from the forty-five year-old...