chapter 35
35 – Cheongsang Arts Awards (2)
Seol So-young leisurely entered the Cheongsang Arts Awards Ceremony Hall amid everyone’s admiration.
Following her guidance, she headed to her prearranged seat.
And Da-hye Lee was there first.
“Huh? It’s Soyoung.”
First, Lee Da-hye found Seol So-young and greeted her in a friendly way.
And looking at her beautifully decorated appearance, Lee Da-hye thought.
‘This Ki-bae gave me a lot of strength today.’
Honestly, the reason Lee Da-hye was able to spot Seol So-young first was because of her shining figure as she walked gracefully from the entrance of the awards ceremony hall.
For your reference, Lee Da-hye also came dressed up so as not to be inferior to Seol So-young.
A black dress with a single red rose blended harmoniously with her platinum hair, exuding a glamorous atmosphere, and her exotic blue eyes automatically fixed the viewer’s gaze.
“How many hours did it take?”
At that time, Lee Da-hye asked Seol So-young.
Here, Lee Da-hye’s question meant roughly how many hours it took to put on makeup with so much effort.
“Four hours?”
“Wow… Awesome. It must have been difficult for her to sit still during that time.”
Lee Da-hye looks tired of Seol So-yeong’s strong will to bewitch someone.
Seeing her reaction, Seol So-young smiled.
“You’re too tough to say that, right? The dress is really pretty.”
“Oh, this? The representative saved me.”
Lee Da-hye looks over her own dress, holding on to the hem of her skirt.
Junyoung Baek made a bold investment by giving Lee Dahye, who will represent JYB’s face, an expensive dress and makeup at the awards ceremony.
Before the ceremony started, he had this thought.
‘If this is enough, our Dahye will chew it all up unless there is an emergency. hehehehe.’
Well ⋯ Contrary to Baek Joon-young’s ambitious thoughts, in the end, Seol So-young, who had been determined and decorated, was pushed back a little because of her natural disaster.
Anyway, the current gaze inside the awards ceremony is a black and white dress.
It was perfectly focused on them, who gave off a contrasting atmosphere.
However, as if looking at a flower blooming on a cliff, no one was hastily approaching them.
Because it was before the awards ceremony started, it is normal for actors and directors to have time to interact with each other, such as introducing each other or greeting each other.
And Lee Da-hye had a vague sense of why this atmosphere, as if she and Seol So-yeong were on a remote island, had arisen.
She is probably because of the actress who is a ‘god’ staring blankly at somewhere beside her.
Even among current actors, Seol So-young’s acting skills are unrivaled and overwhelming.
They, who are more sensitive to the public’s evaluation than anyone else, must also vaguely feel it.
The huge difference between young Seol So-yeong and her own.
Fortunately, rather than her negative gaze towards her, most of them were positive.
Seol So-yeong’s overwhelming acting ability that makes the viewer immerse herself will be enough to make her an object of envy and admiration for the same actors.
On top of that, when you combine the image that gave strength to your appearance today, you feel an aura that you can’t possibly approach.
But that was only for those who hadn’t matched her breath.
“Soyoung!”
A man who found Seol So-young approached her, calling her by name.
The name of this man with a bright smile in a well-fitting black suit is Namgung-hwan.
Welcome to Café Violet was an actress who worked with Seol So-young.
And now, he was also the most influential person to receive the Best Actor Award for a male actor.
“It’s been a while.”
Seol So-young bowed her head slightly towards Namgoong-hwan.
Namgoonghwan’s eyes widened as if he was startled by her actions.
“Hey, hey. You don’t have to be so polite, Soyoung. When my seniors see this, they misunderstand me as an old man.”
“Hmm… Then I guess it would have been better to just pretend not to know.”
“No, if that’s the case, I think it would be better to be told that you are a kkondae. hahahaha.”
Namgoong-hwan smiles carelessly at the words of Seol So-yeong, who laughs and jokes. At that time, Namgoong-hwan found Lee Da-hye standing next to her and opened her eyes wide.
“Wow! Are you Lee Da-hye?”
“Do you know me?”
“I saw Fly High, and of course I know. And this is a secret, but I’m a fan of Hongryeon. This debut song was really good.”
For your reference, the title of her debut song that Namgoonghwan said was good was Hey Boy, and it was the title song that Baek Joon-young honed and made for Hongryeon.
Hongryun was able to receive a new light because it was a group that Lee Da-hye, who appeared in Fly High, belonged to, and it successfully debuted amidst great interest from people.
Even with the addictiveness of the title song, Hey Boy, and the individuality of the members, they became a girl group with great recognition in a short period of time.
“Ahahahaha… it’s all thanks to the CEO making the song so well.”
“Yes! The proud representative is here!”
Even a tiger will come if you tell me.
Baek Jun-young appears among them like a ghost when he hears his praise.
Soon after, Na Young-jin and Ko Dong-bin of Studio N Mix joined in, and at some point the sound began to spread around Seol So-young and Lee Da-hye.
During that tumultuous atmosphere, Lee Da-hye continued to feel strange.
To be exact, Seol So-yeong, who has been staring at her somewhere since earlier.
Is there someone over there?
Lee Da-hye turned her gaze to where she was looking out of curiosity.
There was a designated seat with Seol So-young’s name on it.
No, to be precise, it was the vacant seat right next to her reserved seat⋯.
Lee Da-hye saw the name of someone at the end of Seol So-yeong’s line of sight.
[Writer 927]
⋯⋯ It’s that person again.
Lee Da-hye thought, looking at the name of the 927 artist.
Like the last time I signed a text message, my friend seemed to like that person quite a bit.
It wasn’t the man who was obsessed with it, but her friend was obsessed with him to the extent of being suspicious.
To be honest, I don’t think this makes sense.
To make the perfect girl that everyone admires look like that?
Did you really save a country in your previous life?
Anyway.
Lee Da-hye felt sympathy for the situation she faced and Seol So-young’s situation was similar.
After a while, as the time for the main awards ceremony approached, officials slowly began to take their seats.
At the round table where Seol So-young sat, there were Namgoong-hwan, who filmed Welcome Café Violet, Na Young-jin, who filled the vacant position of 927 writer, and cinematographer Ko Dong-bin.
Normal seating assignments are for people who took a picture together, as they do now.
Since there were so many JYB members on the Fly High side, we made arrangements for them to sit together.
But Seol So-yeong looked at her round table at the side of her fly high and she felt something puzzled.
It was because Lee Da-hye, who was annoyed at Baek Joon-young earlier and hurriedly disappeared somewhere, was nowhere to be seen.
It was then.
[Come on! The time has finally come for the Cheongsang Arts Awards.]
[Yes. A lot of great things happened this year, right? What was the most impressive thing in the eyes of MC Shin Dong-min?]
The award ceremony of the Cheongsang Arts Awards started with the moderators’ natural progress.
The very beginning of the event was a congratulatory performance to celebrate the Cheongsang Arts Awards.
[Yes. A lot of people came to this year’s celebration performance! Everyone has been waiting for a long time, so let’s meet right away!]
After Shin Dong-min, who served as the MC, finished talking, a man with a familiar appearance stepped up on the awards ceremony stage.
It was Baek Joon-young, the representative of JYB.
He announced the beginning of the celebratory performance by performing the choreography of fly high, the theme song of fly high, on stage alone.
Originally, the actors and officials who participated in the Cheongsang Arts Awards are famous for not responding well to the congratulatory performances.
It was because of the different ages of the participants and the weight of the name Cheongsang Arts Awards.
However, fly high, a song that most people would know about due to the fly high and flash mob crisis, was a performance that received a surprisingly good response.
Someone naturally sang along, and some of the younger actors even sat down and imitated the dance moves.
And Hongryeon’s stage, which decorated the end of the celebratory performance, also received a similar response.
“Hey~ Boy~”
Seol So-yeong tilted her head as she heard the mysterious song coming from the seat next to her.
Looking at it, she was excitedly copying the dance and song of Namgung-hwan, who said he was a fan of Hongryeon.
Even the camera was holding Namgoong-hwan like that.
“⋯⋯.”
Seol So-young turned her gaze back to Hong-ryeon, who was performing on stage while struggling to manage her expression.
The youngest member of Hongryeon, Lee Da-hye, who seemed to have changed her clothes into a stage outfit, was also there.
The reason Lee Da-hye was annoyed with Baek Joon-young was because he had forced her to wear an expensive dress before starting a celebratory performance and sent her into the awards ceremony hall.
Having to change her clothes a whopping two times was obviously annoying.
Seol So-young, who had been watching Hong-ryeon’s stage, was a little surprised.
To be precise, it was because of Lee Da-hye, who stood out the most among her members and flaunted her bright energy on stage.
Coming to think of it, Dahye was an idol.
I forgot that she became close to her at the filming site, but her main job is an idol, not an actress.
After seeing today’s celebration stage, Seol So-young came to a clear realization.
Lee Da-hye is a person who shines enough even when acting, but she is a person who shines enough that no one can surpass her on stage.
Perhaps even Seol So-yeong herself.
In this way, the stage of the congratulatory performance ended in a positive atmosphere of the actors.
Cheongsang Arts Awards now has only the awards section left for the fixed schedule.
The text that Seol So-young sent to the writer of 927, ‘Please look forward to it,’ is still in progress.