“Sounds like the writer took a good note of you. So, how does your role change?”

“Nothing’s set in stone yet. It seems like she has some things in her mind, but I’ll have to get the script to be sure.”

Gaeul put her chopsticks down and patted Maru on the shoulders as though he had done a good job.

“You don’t know what will happen. You might become famous if you receive good responses through the drama and make your name known through the movie. Who knows, you might even become more famous than me, you know?”

“That sounds good just thinking about it.”

Maru ate a spoonful of rice and thought back to the events that occurred yesterday. What was supposed to be a light drinking occasion ended up lasting quite a long time, and he was only able to leave writer Eunbin’s house after 9 p.m. As the participants were a writer, a producer, and an actor, the topic of conversation was naturally about dramas, and they discussed – more like argued – until the very last moment. As Jayeon and Eunbin had different preferences, he tried siding with both of them and ended up getting an earful about how he had no opinion. When he was asked what kind of genre he preferred, he replied romance, only to hear the extremely market-friendly answer that his face wasn’t up to par. When Jayeon said that he would play the role of a murderer really...