Peninsula: I can steal the luck of disgraced celebrities

Bae Suzy rubbed her fingers back and forth on the script cover.

She lowered her head, letting her long hair obscure her expression.

But those words still pounded into her ears, making her eardrums ring.

Is this how the Korean entertainment industry works?

Like in "Dream High," a group of like-minded young men and women come together to pursue their dreams.

totally different.

original.

The price of dreams is calculated from day one, and even scandals can be pre-booked and added to the shooting schedule like ordering food.

She bit her lower lip hard and secretly glanced in Lin Zhixun's direction.

He, the person involved in the fabricated scandal, was currently looking down, his long, slender fingers casually flipping through the script, as if what he had just heard was as commonplace as "what to order for lunch tomorrow."

However, the thought that if she were to have some kind of scandal with him, at least he wasn't some greasy old man.

She quickly looked away and cursed herself inwardly: What am I thinking about at a time like this!

Park Jin-young coughed lightly and turned his gaze to the other side: "Alright, Ji-eun, it's your turn."

Lee Ji-eun stood up.

Her movements were very small, and the chair was pushed back without making a sound.

Her long hair slipped down her shoulders, and she raised her hand to tuck the stray hairs behind her ear, her fingers slender and steady.

Her facial features appeared exceptionally soft under the light, but her eyes possessed a serenity far beyond her years.

Lee Ji-eun, a solo singer, stage name IU. She plays Kim Pil-sook in the drama.

After giving her name, as if completing a necessary procedure, she was about to sit down. But after a moment's pause, she slowly began to speak:

"I'm not very good at acting, please give me some pointers."

Suzy suddenly realized that this senior had something she couldn't learn.

It's not indifference, but a kind of patience that seals one's secrets in a jar.

Hearing those words just now, he acted as if he hadn't heard them at all, and introduced himself as if nothing had happened.

Next up is Bae Suzy.

She stood up, her knee hitting the table leg again with a dull thud.

"It hurts!"

She felt her face burning.

"My name is Bae Suzy, and I'm a member of miss A. I just debuted in July."

Her voice trembled slightly, but she tried to calm it down.

"She plays Go Hye-mi in the drama, a very proud genius girl."

"...But I am not her."

She was stunned for a moment when she uttered those words, wondering why she had blurted out what was on her mind.

But since she had already started, she took a deep breath, raised her chin, and looked directly at the faces of everyone across the long table.

"I'm not as confident as her, nor as talented."

"The director just told us to forget who we were originally and only remember the character we are playing."

"But I think—I need to remember who I am first in order to know how different the character I'm playing is from me."

The rehearsal room was quiet for a moment.

Park Jin-young led the applause.

"Great! Let your fans see your sincerity, whether it's true or not."

She's a promising talent; it's no wonder they secured this role for her.

Bae Suzy bowed and sat back down in her seat.

Her heart was pounding as if she had just run a hundred meters, but she didn't look down.

She looked at the script spread out in front of her.

The cover was still wrinkled, but the creases she had pinched made it look like a crumpled map.

Although it's wrinkled, the road is still there.

The self-introductions of the other male NPCs will not be elaborated upon.

After the entire introduction is complete.

Li Yingfu stood up to outline the rehearsal schedule for the first week:

"Starting tomorrow, we'll have dance practice in the morning, vocal practice in the afternoon, and script reading in the evening."

"The vocal parts are personally handled by CEO Park Jin-young, and the dance parts are handled by Jeon Ki-joo."

"As for the filming, I will be in charge of set construction for now, and filming will officially begin in the second week."

He paused, his gaze slowly sweeping over a row of young faces.

"I know many of you are acting for the first time, but Dream High is all about starting from scratch."

"How you grow in the play should ideally be reflected in your off-screen development as well. Don't waste this script."

Yes, because this drama is an idol growth drama, everyone has to practice how to dance and sing.

Of all those present, Lin Chih-hsun was probably the most clueless about these two things; anyone could be his teacher.

He stood up, stretched, and was about to leave when...

Li Yingfu returned at some point and pushed open the door to the rehearsal room.

"I forgot to mention something."

"Dance instructor Quan Jizhu explained: The basic dance assessment has been moved to this afternoon. You have forty minutes to eat and change clothes. Meet in the rehearsal room at 1 o'clock sharp."

……

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Quan Jizhu sat next to the speakers, holding a roster and a pen in his hand, with two neat rows of people standing in front of him.

He took the pen cap off and put it back on, his movements as fast as a metronome.

"The initial assessment was very simple."

He looked up and glanced at the group of young people in front of him.

"I'll play a rhythm, and you'll each improvise four eight-beat sequences in turn. No choreography is needed; just let me see your basic reactions to the beat."

"Taecyeon, you go first."

The sound system played drums and bass, and Taecyeon cut in on the first heavy beat.

His body seemed to have made a pact with the music.

No, it wasn't a discussion; he was telling the music in advance where it should go.

A wave of the shoulder blade pushes from left to right, the toes lightly touch the floor on the fourth beat, and the fifth beat generates power and rotation, landing precisely on the next heavy beat.

Then there's Jang Woo-young.

He chose a different approach than Ok Taecyeon.

It was also a four-beat sequence, but he skipped the first beat and jumped on the second beat, with an extremely strong sense of hang time. After landing, he executed a clean and crisp lock, with his knee bounce so precise that it could be measured with a ruler.

The movements are faster and crisper, as if each joint is equipped with a spring.

Ham Eun-jung was the third to perform.

She stood in the center of the rehearsal room and waited for the music to play for two bars before going in.

It's not a syncopated note, it's a syncopated note in that gap that no one else would choose—the second half of the second beat.

Then she started freestyle, with small movements but each joint precisely hitting the beat.

Lee Ji-eun danced very seriously.

Every movement was performed according to textbook standards, with knees raised to the same height and arms swung at the same angle.

Bae Suzy performed better than she had imagined.

She danced a segment from miss A's debut song, "Bad Girl Good Girl".

The movements weren't complicated, but they were smooth and natural, with no obvious rhythmic errors.

After she finished dancing, she looked down and patted the dust off her trousers, secretly glancing at Jeon Ki-joo's expression out of the corner of her eye. But Jeon Ki-joo just nodded and made a mark on the roster.

The last one is Lin Zhixun.

He broke through the ranks of countless struggling Korean idols!

They achieved a remarkable last place!

The preliminary assessment is over.

Quan Jizhu stood up and tapped the roster twice with the pen cap.

"Preliminary findings: Overall, not bad."

Then he glanced at Lin Zhixun out of the corner of his eye.

"Except for Lin Chih-hsun."

"Did you and your limbs just meet today?"