Peninsula: I can steal the luck of disgraced celebrities

Ham Eun-jung squinted her eyes.

That reaction is also wrong.

Generally speaking, when someone is pulled in to gossip, their normal reaction should be to join in and ask questions.

Ham Eun-jung glanced at IU, then at Suzy, her mind racing. "Lee Ji-eun, what do you know?"

IU put down her water glass, looking particularly innocent.

"I really don't know."

"You're trying to distance yourself too quickly; you're probably feeling guilty."

"I'm not guilty, I just don't want to get involved."

"If you don't want to get involved, it means there's something you can get involved in." Ham Eun-jung's logic collapsed, and she abruptly turned to Suzy. "So Lee Ji-eun knows but I don't? Bae Suzy, are you that biased?"

It's clearly a movie for three people...

……

Suzy thought the matter would be over after one night.

She's overthinking it.

The next day on set, Suzy was sitting in a makeup chair with her eyes closed, touching up her makeup, when suddenly a warm breath came close to her ear.

Bae Suzy.

Suzy opened one eye.

Ham Eun-jung leaned over the dressing table, her chin resting on her crossed arms, in a posture like a middle school student peeking at their classmate's exam paper while lying on a desk.

"What exactly happened yesterday?"

Suzy closed her eyes.

"Eunjung unnie, I told you yesterday, it's too hot."

"You told me it was too hot in Seoul in mid-January?"

The makeup artist's brush stopped on Suzy's face, caught in a dilemma.

Suzy sensed the makeup artist's predicament and raised her hand to indicate that everything was alright.

"The heating in the hallway is on too high."

"There's no heating in the hallway."

Suzy was silent for two seconds.

"That's because I have a special constitution."

Ham Eun-jung stared at her, slowly took out a box of chocolate bars from her bag, opened it, and handed one to Suzy's mouth.

"Want some?"

"I won't eat it."

Tell me if you've eaten it.

I won't eat it, and I won't tell you either.

Ham Eun-jung took the chocolate bar back, took a bite herself, and chewed it with a loud crunch.

"Alright."

Suzy breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Ham Eun-jung turned to leave, leaving behind a single sentence.

"Then I'll go ask Zhixun."

Upon hearing this, Suzy was so frightened that she immediately stood up.

How did you know...?

Upon hearing this, Ham Eun-jung turned around and smiled sweetly.

"Looks like it's related to Shiho~"

Suzy bit her tongue.

be cheated.

The makeup artist was trying so hard not to laugh that her hands were shaking, and the foundation brush drew a crooked arc on Suzy's face. She quickly used a makeup sponge to fix it.

……

During a break from filming in the afternoon, Lin Chih-hsun sat on a folding chair in the corner of the set and flipped through the script.

Ham Eun-jung walked over with a cup of Americano and handed it to him.

Lin Zhixun looked up at her and took it.

"What's up?"

"I can't buy you coffee unless there's a reason."

"Those who offer unsolicited favors are either treacherous or thieves."

"You deserve to be hit for talking about your teacher like that." Ham Eun-jung pulled up a chair and sat down. "Ji-hoon."

"Um?"

"Did you run into anyone after you left the lounge yesterday?"

Lin Zhixun paused for a moment as he flipped through the script.

Just for a moment.

Then he continued turning the pages, his tone as normal as could be.

"I encountered a bride who was running away from her wedding."

"A bride who ran away from her wedding?"

Ham Eun-jung didn't expect to hear this answer.

"Yes, she said that on her wedding day, she discovered that her fiancé was cheating on her with his ex-lover, so she fled the wedding."

"and then?"

Ham Eun-jung felt that Suzy's matter could be put aside for the time being.

Now something even more exciting has happened.

"After leaving the wedding venue, she felt she couldn't let her fiancé get away with it so easily, so she decided to have sex with a random stranger on the street as revenge on him."

"And then! And then!"

Lin Zhixun turned a page and rubbed his shoulders again.

"My shoulder suddenly feels a bit sore. I'll lie down for a bit and talk to you later."

"No!" Eun-jung immediately stood behind Lim Ji-hoon and started massaging his shoulders.

"Use less force."

"Is this enough force? Tell me what happened next."

Lin Chih-hsun leaned back in his chair, squinting his eyes happily.

Which cadre can withstand such a test?

Lim Ji-hoon continued:

"I immediately stopped her, saying that she shouldn't ruin herself for others."

"Yes." Eun-jung nodded in agreement.

"But I can sacrifice my body."

"Hmm?" Eun-jung tilted her head, and stopped what she was doing.

"Don't stop."

The small hands on the shoulders continued to exert force.

"I said I was willing to go to the wedding with her, pretend to be her cheating partner, and get revenge on her fiancé."

"Oh, is that so? I thought it was..." Eun-jung suddenly realized.

"What did you think it was?"

Lin Zhixun sat up straight, his face serious as he lectured, "Although you are my teacher, I still have to say this."

"Why do you think so badly of me, teacher? Do you think I'm the kind of person who would take advantage of someone in a vulnerable situation?"

"This is absolutely heartbreaking!"

"I don't!"

Ham Eun-jung didn't know what was going on. She had only replied with an "Mm," but it was as if she had done something terribly wrong.

"Never mind, I'm magnanimous and forgive you."

In order to hear what happened next, Eun-jung endured the humiliation and did not refute.

Lin Chih-hsun took a sip of his Americano, continued flipping through the script, and said in a calm tone:

"When I got to the wedding, her fiancé saw his fiancée holding hands with a strange man, his face turned green, and he rushed off the stage to grab my collar."

"You two started fighting?"

Lin Zhixun put down the script and glanced at Eun-jung.

"Teacher, I went there to help people, not to fight."

"So what did you do?"

"Of course I would protect his fiancée."

"...What does it mean to protect someone in front of you?"

That's called hiding behind the bride, right?

Lim Ji-hoon continued:

"Because the bride was protecting me, her fiancé couldn't hit me for a while. Just when we were at a stalemate, the bride's mother-in-law picked up a cake knife from the table."

Upon hearing this, Ham Eun-jung tightened her grip.

Lin Chih-hsun: "We cut two pieces of cake for the bride and groom so they could eat something and calm down."

Ham Eun-jung: "...So that's why I had the cake knife—to cut the cake."

"It's not over yet," Lin Zhixun continued, "but the bride didn't accept her future mother-in-law's kindness and snatched the cake knife from her hand."

Ham Eun-jung stopped what she was doing.

"They cut a bigger piece of cake."

Ham Eun-jung's expression shifted from tense to confused, and then from confused to bewildered.

"So she took the cake knife... just to cut the cake."

"Otherwise what?"

Lin Zhixun turned and looked at Ham Eun-jung, his tone carrying a hint of heartache.

"Teacher, you really need to reflect on yourself. Why do you always think the worst?"

"I didn't! Okay, go on."

Ham Eun-jung had a lot to say, but for the sake of what would happen next, she swallowed it back.

Lin Zhixun rubbed his neck. "Teacher, to the left, a little higher to the left."

Ham Eun-jung instinctively reached out to pinch him, and only after pinching him twice did she realize when she had become his personal masseuse.

But since the hand had already touched it, stopping would seem even stranger.

So, Lin Zhixun told Ham Eun-jung a half-hour recitation of his adapted version of "Until Death Do Us Part".

Of course, he also enjoyed half an hour of massage service from Ham Eun-jung.

After Lin Zhixun left.

Ham Eun-jung was still processing the story she had just heard.

Suddenly, Ham Eun-jung blinked.

"What did I come here for?"