Was it because the energy consumption from the previous day was significant? Or was the fact that the call time was 2 PM playing a big role?
Dohyeong slept sprawled out until 11 AM.
It had been a long time since he’d fallen into a deep sleep from the fatigue carried back from the filming site.
Of course, Dohyeong quite liked this kind of fatigue. Being buried in work, falling asleep as if collapsing from being run over.
It felt like showing his maximum and having his battery drained, so he thought he could repeat it over and over again.
Of course, ideals and reality are always a bit removed from each other.
“Dohyeong, do you want to sleep a bit while we’re moving?”
At Wootae’s words, Dohyeong slowly shook his head.
“No, I’ll look at the script.”
“Didn’t you stay up late looking at the script yesterday? The area under your eyes looks dead.”
“…I went to sleep as soon as I got in.”
“Hey, you… isn’t your heat cycle coming around again?”
At Wootae’s worried question, Dohyeong nodded his head.
Then he took out a medicine packet from his pocket.
“I’ve got it covered. Don’t worry.”
“Yeah, good job. Good job.”
Wootae let out a sigh of relief. If the heat cycle couldn’t be avoided, it was right to control it somehow.
Based on the day itself, he could rest the day before and the day after, but until then, he couldn’t use it as an excuse—that was Dohyeong’s creed.
He’s needlessly diligent. Other omega actors take a whole week off when their heat cycle comes.
Should I call this lacking flexibility? Or should I call him a guy crazy about work?
“By the way, I wonder if it’ll rain today, the sky is really… cloudy.”
“It can’t rain today.”
Dohyeong whispered softly and looked up at the sky.
It was a scene looking up at the sky filled with stars. Of course, that would also be processed with CG.
There was a big difference between acting while looking up at a clear night sky versus a hazy night sky.
What’s more, wasn’t today’s night filming with Haesung?
The filming portion with Yuchan would end around evening. Dohyeong, who had been thinking about this and that, pressed down hard on his head.
They said not to overuse the medicine too much, but should I take medicine at times like this? I definitely took a packet before coming out.
“Why, is it really bad?”
“No, I’m fine.”
Pretending like this was also a habit.
I’ll fix it, I’ll fix it—even while making up his mind, people never turn out the way they think.
After driving for a while, they arrived at the filming site. Dohyeong got out of the car and greeted each staff member one by one.
When he finally went to Director Na.
“Huh?”
He was startled to see scripter Yujeong, who had said she was quitting, and someone sitting next to her.
“Song Kyungdae… Kyungdae, is that really you?”
Both Yujeong and Director Na were equally surprised by that voice.
What made them even more flustered was that the new scripter sitting beside Yujeong, Kyungdae, suddenly stood up from his seat.
“Kim Dohyeong, it’s been a long time.”
Dohyeong, who had been making a dazed expression, firmly grasped hands with Kyungdae approaching him and shook hands.
“What, do you two know each other?”
At Director Na’s question, both Kyungdae and Dohyeong nodded their heads.
“Yes, we’re high school classmates.”
“Hey, you should say it correctly. We were classmates for one year of high school. Director.”
“What, what’s that?”
“I transferred right before graduation. You know, to a distant country.”
“Ah, right! You said you lived abroad for a bit because of your father’s work?”
“Yes. That’s right. For exactly one year at that time, I was in the same class as Dohyeong.”
The feeling was strange. Was it because it was a story from those days that he hadn’t recalled for a while?
For Dohyeong, time had stopped around when he married Haesung and when he divorced. How much effort did he have to make to adapt to the time before and after that?
Yet he so easily crossed over to the time before that.
Sharing stories from that time with someone, savoring those fleeting memories. He realized anew that it was a warmer and happier thing than he thought.
“How did you end up here?”
“What do you mean ‘how’? My abilities finally shone.”
“You’re still the same.”
“People die when they change. Anyway, let’s talk about the details after filming ends. Don’t you have to prepare too?”
“Ah, right. Yeah. Let’s talk later.”
Dohyeong left greetings with Kyungdae, Director Na, and even Yujeong before returning to Wootae.
Who is it, do you know them? Leaving only a short answer of “high school classmate” to him making a fuss, he entered the makeshift dressing room.
However, as soon as Dohyeong closed the door, he had no choice but to stop in his tracks.
“Dohyeong-ssi, here. Sit here.”
While smiling toward Manager Min who was welcoming him, his gaze had no choice but to be drawn to one place.
It was because Haesung was sitting in the seat next to Dohyeong’s chair. He had been silently looking in the mirror without any change in expression, then slightly rolled his eyes to look at Dohyeong.
It seemed like he was scanning Dohyeong for a while, but his gaze turned back to the mirror.
“Your face looks good today? Usually you look half-dead.”
“Ah… I was looking at the script a bit. Today I slept early because I was going to look at it while moving.”
It was a lie. But it would be better than saying he couldn’t fall asleep because he had a lot on his mind.
When Dohyeong spoke awkwardly and laughed, he could hear the sound of Haesung scoffing.
“The fact that you can’t even sleep means you lack confidence.”
Even at the following words, Dohyeong was calm. Fully receiving the touch cleansing his face, he too quietly glared at Haesung in the mirror.
“I just wanted to become a more perfect Yehyun.”
Haesung had no words to counter such a Dohyeong. He just silently watched Dohyeong in the mirror.
Like that, in the silence, only Manager Min’s touch was passing over Dohyeong’s face when.
“You did well.”
As soon as he closed his eyes, at Haesung’s voice, his fingertips flinched without realizing it.
Please don’t be nice to me. Don’t even talk to me. He chewed over words that would never come true.
“There’s nothing more important than being faithful to your role.”
“…Yes. Thank you for the advice. Sunbae-nim.”
And silence came again. Occasionally he joked with Manager Min and exchanged banter, but no other conversation came up.
In the end, the hair designer who couldn’t bear the heavy atmosphere awkwardly brought up a topic.
“You know what? I’m going on a blind date tomorrow.”
Haesung nodded indifferently at the designer’s words as she styled his hair.
“Is that so?”
“They’re older than me, and I don’t know how to treat them. Haesung-ssi, can’t you teach me a bit?”
“What I should teach you… I’m not sure.”
Got it. The designer smiled brightly and bent her body toward Haesung.
Thinking the atmosphere would finally lighten up, she threw out a word with a relieved heart.
“No, but Haesung-ssi, until just recently you were with someone younger…”
She realized it was the wrong thought.
Because the younger person he’d been with until just recently was right next to him.
Dohyeong was still in the middle of receiving makeup from Manager Min. He looked forward to what words would come out while also being worried.
“It’s nothing special.”
At that moment, at Haesung’s answer, everyone’s gaze turned to him.
“Show yourself as you are. Don’t embellish, don’t back down, and don’t hide too much.”
It was the truth, and it was also words meant for me.
Perhaps it was the resolution most needed by Haesung right now.
“If you think that it’s an opportunity that won’t come twice, so you can’t miss it…”
There were no following words, but perhaps everyone might know.
If such a thought occurred, he would move. Even if someone was too precious to miss, the other person would never just stay still.
Like me right now.
“Is, is that so? As expected. Top stars are different, something is different.”
Right? Even at the designer’s voice asking back, Haesung made no expression.
Haesung, who finished makeup first, left the makeshift dressing room, and Manager Min glanced back then faced Dohyeong again.
“Did something happen between you two?”
She really has good intuition. Dohyeong smiled awkwardly and shook his head.
“We just decided to become good seniors and juniors, that’s all.”
“Hey, it wasn’t that kind of atmosphere. I’m telling you, Haesung-ssi didn’t say a single word until Dohyeong-ssi came.”
“That’s how he normally is.”
“It wasn’t like that though. It’s strange, really strange…”
I was certain that probably wasn’t directed at me.
Is Hakyung like that by chance? A person who shows themselves as they are, doesn’t embellish, but doesn’t back down or hide?
No, at least from what I’ve seen, he doesn’t seem like that kind of person…
Floundering in idle thoughts, he quickly shook his head. I shouldn’t have thoughts like this. Whoever Haesung likes, whoever he has in his heart. Isn’t it no longer related to me?
“Did he get someone he likes?”
But even within such resolve, what threw Dohyeong into confusion was Manager Min’s muttering to herself.
Although it seemed like words she threw out carelessly.
It stuck clearly only to Dohyeong. Did it really seem like such a person appeared?
Somehow his insides felt stuffy.
***
The scene to film today started with Haesung coming to find Dohyeong together with Soyeon.
“<Glass Holding Stars> Part 6, Scene 38. Going into ready.”
At the FD and assistant director’s instructions, all the staff instantly met silence.
In the midst of no one making even a breathing sound, Director Na raised one hand and brought his mouth close to the walkie-talkie.
“Part 6, Scene 38. Ready…”
In sync with his signal, Dohyeong closed his eyes. The camera would film the back of his head anyway.
The moment he took a short breath in.
“Action!”
Director Na’s clear voice pierced his ears.
“Yehyun-ssi!”
He turned his head at Hyea’s voice heard from behind.
And he faced Hyea looking at him worriedly and Yujin making a displeased expression beside her.
Here he should have asked why he was so angry.
Dohyeong couldn’t say anything. Because he couldn’t know the truth entangled in Haesung’s eyes quietly looking at him.
It definitely wasn’t a gaze that only seemed like acting.
“Cut! Dohyeong-ssi. You’re not thinking about other things, are you?”
At the director’s stern voice, Dohyeong startled and bowed his waist.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry! Let me try once more!”
Director Na nodded his head. Thinking that yesterday’s filming was quite tough so it could be that way, he brought his mouth to the walkie-talkie again.
“Part 6, Scene 38. Once more, ready… Action!”
Along with Director Na’s signal, Soyeon’s call was heard again. The moment Dohyeong turned around and smiled awkwardly.
Kyungdae, who had been quietly watching the monitor and observing the scripter’s records together, narrowed his brows.
And this time he craned his neck out and quietly examined Haesung’s face in the monitor.
‘Totally…’
Kyungdae, who had been muttering to himself inwardly, tilted his head.
‘Eyes full of love. This.’
And this time, not the monitor, but he looked at Haesung actually acting.
It was certain. It wasn’t that he saw wrong, but Haesung was really looking at Dohyeong with such a gaze.
Even abroad, he could easily access news about Dohyeong, and he could also watch through SNS how he had been doing.
Perhaps that’s why his heart was more uncomfortable. Jeong Haesung, Jeong Haesung. Kyungdae, who had been reciting his name, swallowed a sigh and looked back at Dohyeong.
‘No… they did break up, right?’
