stars beyond the

“Aren’t you coming in?”

“Ah yes?”

Astonished, Hae-woon faltered.

“Come in. That’s him, right? He fell.”

“Ah… that’s right. I’m going to treat you to a meal in return…”

“Are you okay?”

“Thanks, it’s better.”

Hyemin Jeong beckons into the Pilates academy.

“Come in at once.”

Haneun scratched her cheek as if it was difficult, and followed Hyemin Jeong to the academy.

“There’s a CCTV at the counter looking in front of the door? At first I thought he was a strange person.”

Jeong Hye-min watched the man standing in front of the academy’s door while watching CCTV, wondering if it was a male student who came to learn Pilates.

Because it’s a sport that women do more, there are some people who hesitate in front of the door.

However, after an hour passed, I wondered if I should report it because I thought it was a strange person, and when I looked closely, the figure of the man on the screen was somehow familiar.

“Oh, I’m not weird.”

Haneun takes out a business card from her arms and delivers it.

Hye-min Jeong read the business card handed to her.

“Busan Western Prosecutor’s Office Prosecutor Haneun. Were you a prosecutor?”

“Oh, yes, yes.”

Hae-woon, who suddenly introduced himself, scratched the back of his head.

I was startled by the way I am now introducing myself to my ex-wife.

“But why did Busan go all the way to Incheon that day?”

“Ah, there was something under investigation, so I was investigating.”

In fact, the subject of the investigation is his ex-wife Jeong Hye-min, who is in front of him.

“You see, all I did was actually call you. Meals are fine.”

“But I want to give you something in return…”

I want to say more to my ex-wife whom I met after two years, and I want to see my daughter who has grown up quite a bit.

“It’s really good.”

“Still, I don’t feel comfortable…”

Jeong Hye-min is worried about something while looking at Hae-won.

“Then the meal is done, would you like to drive me somewhere? Do you have any tea?”

“Yes, of course.”

Hye-min Jeong and Hae-woon Han go down to the parking lot after closing the school door.

Hye-min Jung took her smartphone and called somewhere.

“Uh, Mom. Look at Hayun a little more. I think I’ll be a little late.”

Haneun asked Jeong Hye-min, who hung up the phone.

“Where are you going?”

“It’s pretty close if you go by car. I’ll explain as I go. Thank you for the ride.”

Hae-un Han gets into a car in the parking lot and drives as Jeong Hye-min explains.

Haneun’s expression while driving hardened when he saw the sign.

Haneun’s car arrived at its destination.

“Thank you. You can call a taxi on the way back.”

Jeong Hye-min gets out of the car to say hello to Hae-un. Year luck followed.

“How long have you been…?”

“No. About half an hour?”

At the words of Hye-Min Jeong, Han-Woon opened the door on the back seat and put on the jacket.

“I will greet the deceased and take them home. You said that you only made a phone call, but to me, you are a benefactor who saved my life.”

“···I do that. Then.”

Hae-Woon Han follows in the footsteps of Hye-Min Jeong, who takes the lead.

When I first set out, I never dreamed that the place where I asked for a ride was the ossuary where my ashes were enshrined.

Although it is brightly lit, as you enter the hallway where you can feel the cool energy, you will see an ancestral table with numerous ossuaries.

In the middle of the brightest place, Jeong Hye-min stands in front of Baek Yu-hyeon’s burial table, which is located at eye level.

Haeun followed quietly and meditated next to him.

After a few minutes of silence, Jeong Hye-min opened her mouth.

“My husband was a man who did dangerous things for the country.”

Hae-woon, who is silently listening to a feeling that cannot be explained, does not respond to anything.

“Like a habit, I told him not to hesitate and meet a good person again when he died. Every time that happened, I wanted to sew that mouth.”

Haneun was startled by the cold voice and touched her mouth.

“I was so loyal to the country, but the only thing I returned was money. I didn’t need anything like consolation money for the bereaved, and I wanted my husband’s body to be returned.”

“If it’s a corpse…?”

Haeun asked looking at the ashes inside the ancestral altar.

Then, Jeong Hye-min responds with a sad voice.

“I refused to disclose my husband’s body and date of death, saying it was confidential. Thanks to that, I didn’t even know when he died, so I came here on my birthday instead of the anniversary.”

“············”.

I think the 23rd.

The months are different, but today is my birthday.

Probably, on the 23rd of every month after her death, a woman who could not drive came here by taxi or bus.

What was that belief that made the people around him so heartbroken?

Tears fell from Haneun’s eyes like a faucet that suddenly broke when he saw his ex-wife who was heartbroken at his death.

“…are you crying?”

Jeong Hye-min panics when Han Hae-un, who is not crying herself, suddenly starts to cry.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m very sensitive.”

“···Thank you. There is someone who sheds tears for him.”

Seeing other people’s tears, Jeong Hye-min’s heart was moved and tears welled up.

Jeong Hye-min, who had been commemorating for such a long time, opened her mouth.

“Let’s go back. Thank you very much for today.”

“Oh, no.”

At the words of Hye-Min Jeong who asks to take her to the building where the Pilates academy is located, Hae-Woon drives her car there again.

I asked Jeong Hye-min in the back seat if I suddenly remembered it.

“Then the ossuary is empty?”

“···No. I have a school paper folded by me and my daughter and a notebook he always carried with him. It’s impossible to recognize what he wrote inside, but it was a cherished item that he wore all the time.”

As soon as he heard those words, Haneun knew that he had to look at the notebook.

‘Does this mean that I open my ossuary as robbery?’

***

The phone rang while I was resting after returning to the officetel in Seoul after the pension trip.

“Yes, Chief Jung.”

– Oh, Yeonwoo. This has gotten really confusing.

Team leader Jeong-hyeok with a troubled voice.

The only things that Team Leader Jeong will tell Yeon-woo are the historical dramas he is thinking of as his next work.

“Did you reject me there?”

– no. Of course not. When I first called, I greeted them with open arms, but it seems that the other actors said they would do the same role at the same time.

Team leader Jeong continues the conversation after a moment’s hesitation.

– So, if you both don’t want to give up, you’d want to go to the audition…

“If that’s a problem, I’m fine. I’ve been cast in auditions for both the first work and the second.”

Although Ryu Yeon-woo is still a rookie, his debut film set the highest JNBC ratings record, and he has already finished filming in the lead role in a film directed by Park Chan-hong.

Broadcasting station officials cannot be unaware of this, and Ryu Yeon-woo must know of course.

Team leader Jeong-hyeok was careful because he might think that it would hurt his pride if he had to audition due to the nature of the domestic entertainment industry, where audition culture among established actors was not established unlike in foreign countries.

But Yeonwoo had no such thoughts at all.

There is only one role, but if there are several people who want it, it is natural to compete to win it.

– I haven’t been filming lately, and I’ve been thinking about actors who might be worried with Ryu, and I think it’s probably ‘Jin Yu-han’.

“okay.”

It is Yeon-woo who hears the name of actor Jin Yu-han a lot these days.

– Then we will know that and proceed.

“Yes, thank you for your hard work.”

***

Team leader Jeong Hyuk thought that the other actor might reject the audition, but unexpectedly, the audition schedule was arranged quickly, and the audition script was delivered to each agency with the same content.

Yeonwoo received the script through manager Minsu.

There are two acting assignments in the script for the audition. The first is a dialogue about the scene where Seo-hee rejects her father’s will for the first time after pursuing an arranged marriage at home.

First, Yeonwoo lightly reads the first line.

“If we had to get married by arrangement, wouldn’t that prove that our family does not have that much power in this Goryeo land? Father. Please use it as an opportunity to show off your majesty.”

It is a scene in which Seo-hee’s Ki-moon proves that Seo-hee’s Ki-moon has a strong power to allow her to freely marry with the person she wants.

In the drama, I still haven’t decided on my heart for the female lead, Hong Eui-yeon, but when the story of arranged marriage comes out, a comical scene that shows the qualities of a diplomat who takes what he wants through conversation.

‘First of all, the genre is not a historical drama, but a faction historical drama with romance.’

In this part, it seemed more appropriate to persuade him like a business man in an author’s street by adding a slightly comical feel to it, unlike the tragic feeling of the written content.

While filming director Park Chan-hong’s movie this time, Yeon-woo has developed a habit of making a subjective interpretation unlike what appears in the fingerprint when analyzing the lines.

Yeonwoo meticulously analyzes the intentions of the planner and writer of the broadcasting station and writes down her thoughts.

“The problem is with this guy.”

second fingerprint.

While the first passage is quite detailed, the second passage contains only one line of dialogue.

“Why is there no detailed background information in the second passage?”

The writer is writing the script in a hurry, so I guess I haven’t been able to write it down.

Or is interpreting this line a condition for the audition itself?

Yeonwoo who reads the contents lightly.

“How can you be so spiritless and helpless? Take another step back. If you take one step back, you have to take ten thousand steps back in the past.”

Which part is the dialogue from? A piece of paper with only lines written on it without any description or explanation.

At first glance, it looks like a scene in which Seo-hee confronts the court officials who insist on surrender.

So, what kind of feeling should I act to live?

“Hmm, this…”

Yeonwoo thinks deeply for a long time.

Yeon-woo, who was alternately looking at the treatment and audition fingerprints written briefly about the contents of the work, grinned as if he had realized something.

“I don’t know whose idea it was, but it’s a bit evil.”

Yeon-woo writes down the thoughts that immediately come to mind next to the fingerprints.

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