Chapter 45 – Mom Is an Actress

That evening, Im Im-hye came to the set.
From the tip of her head to her toes, she was dressed in her luxury goods, and her makeup was also deliberately painted dark.
Her role this time is the wife of the chairman of a large company and the mother of the heir to the company.
She was the villainous mother-in-law who became synonymous with her.

Sew.
Take her deep breath and change her mood.
From now on, she was not her mother, but actress Im Im-hye.

* * *

“Mom. I met Sunah today.”
“Sunah? … Oh, that Sunah? So?”
“Did your mother tell Sun-ah to break up with me?”
“Who is it? Seon-ah, is that girl like that?”
“Mom!”
“Hwang Jin-woo. Mr. Hwang. Jin. Woo. Sil. Jang. How long are you going to be immature? It’s not enough to risk your life on the project, is it time for you to think about your old woman?”
“Mom! That prod… Project!”

She was also NG.

* * *

“Why are you like this since yesterday? Aren’t you going to sleep?”
“Ah~ Why are you doing this? Maybe it’s because she thinks she’s acting with a senior, but she’s nervous and can’t pronounce her pronunciation.”

The man then fluttered frivolously, as if trying to loosen his tongue.

Junghwan Joo. He was a male actor with a career in his 30s.
He is popular and has good acting skills. Today is a mess, but it will get better.
However, even because of his frivolous behavior, Im Im-hye couldn’t get close to him.

“Calm down. Because I want to be on time today. You know that no matter how semi-pre-production it is, you can’t film it indefinitely.”
“Yep! All right! So how about a drink after finishing today in the sense of coming to your senses? I will take you to a nice place.”

Im Im-hye barely resisted her urge to take a shot at the man in front of her.
She was the oldest actress except for the senior actress who played the role of president. With her personal feelings, she couldn’t make the atmosphere on the set rough.

“… Mr. Jung Hwan Please be serious.”

Im Im-hye, who didn’t want to talk at all, sighed and turned around.

In fact, it was rather she herself who was lacking in her sleep. While she was tired, she didn’t want to waste her precious break time with pointless bickering.
Even if the cause was the frivolous man’s continuous NG, it was still a valuable break.

“Phew. That’s my son’s role…”

Returning to her waiting room, Im Im-hye pressed her temples as if her head hurt.

The characters in the script weren’t bad.
However, it was difficult for the actor to empathize with him. Even though the characters were different, they were so different.

“Wouldn’t it be better to bring in a successor than to use something like that?”

At the thoughtless remark, she shook her head, saying it was a pointless idea.
It was her mother’s overeager. If she wants her son, she will support her with all her might, but if that’s not the case, don’t force it.
She learned that painfully when she was taught that she already played the piano.

“The piano played before and after… I want to hear it after a long time.”

He leans back on the sofa and murmurs vaguely.
Recalling her young son playing the piano, Im Im Hye closed her eyes.
Her remaining break was another 20 minutes.

* * *

“Mother, did you call me?”
“Hey, do you know who your husband met today?”
“No. Who did you meet?”
“Sunah. I heard you met Kim Sun-ah.”
“Kim Seon-ah? Who is that?”
“Who is this? Your husband’s first love.”
“Ah… Yes.”
“You know this is an important time for the company and for your husband, right? Take good care of your husband. The West isn’t giving a damn because my wife isn’t doing it right.”
“… I’m sorry, Mother.”

* * *

“Sua, isn’t the smoke a bit dry?”
“Is it?”

Her counterpart this time was Hwang Soo-ah, who played the role of her daughter-in-law.
Hwang Soo-ah, dressed as the eldest daughter-in-law of a conglomerate family, looked well suited to her pregnant Hye.

‘A child like this must really marry into a conglomerate family.’

Looking at Hwang Soo-ah, she thought of her fellow actresses who had married into her real-life conglomerate family.
Even Im Im-hye herself introduced her son to Hwang Soo-ah. Her other mothers must have liked her as well.

“Yep. A little more like this, with a sense of being ridiculous, with a feeling of ‘So what to do with me!'”
“Yes yes.”

Im Im-hye was actually a bit uncomfortable with Hwang Soo-ah until yesterday.
It was good that she introduced her son, but it was because of the thought that her son might be taken away, and Im Im-hye’s in-depth psychology recognized Hwang Soo-ah as her enemy.

Hwang Su-ah had the radiant youth of hers that pregnant Hye had already lost.
No matter how she felt about her son, it was natural for her to misunderstand that since she even stayed out at Hwang Soo-ah’s house that day.

It’s not compensation for being cold until yesterday, but Im Im-hye meticulously checked her Hwang Soo-ah’s performance.
I hope this helps her get over her slump.

“I try not to show that kind of expression because it’s in front of my mother-in-law, but it’s frustrating because I can’t show it openly, right? If it’s real, she really has to hide it, but if it’s her performance, she has to reveal it to some extent so that the viewer can recognize it. When viewers see it, they empathize and say ‘Ah! Stuffy! Just hit one!'”
“Yes, teacher.”

Meanwhile, Hwang Soo-ah was carving each word of Im Im-hye’s words into her head.
The acting guidance of the big seniors, which is a guarantee of box office success in the industry.
It was a rare opportunity that is hard to get even if you give money.

Teacher Lim Im-hye kindly gives advice as if her cold attitude yesterday was a lie.
At first, Hwang Su-ah thought she had done something rude at her meeting.
Indeed, in her memory she had memories of calling her ‘Mother’.

It may be a sign of friendliness to some.
However, it was also a huge disrespect to Hwang Soo-ah, who, unlike a young actress these days, denigrated her relationship with seniors and juniors.

Hwang Soo-ah, unaware of Im Im-hye’s inner circumstances, was terrified.
As the day went by, she returned to her usual caring attitude, so she was fortunate, but Hwang Su-ah couldn’t help but be more careful in dealing with her pregnant mother.
Both publicly and privately, for Hwang Soo-ah, Im Im-hye was a very difficult person.

Hwang Su-ah will never know what happened to Im Im-hye, her real party, or what kind of change of heart there was.
Things like being jealous of her son’s relationship with herself, or solving that jealousy by having sex with her son.

“By the way, Mr. Sua, did you know that we collapsed after our election?”
“Yes? Mr. Seonhu collapsed?”

Hwang Soo-ah was taken aback by Im Im-hye’s words.
She may have been distracted because she had been filming since yesterday, but she was originally Hwang Soo-ah, who did not look for news articles.
She was so oblivious to worldly affairs that she did not even know that there had been an earthquake in her town.

“Okay. I guess you didn’t know Actually, she went out with her brother the day before yesterday…”

I can’t talk about the details that only her family knows, but I gave a rough idea of ​​what was disclosed to the outside world. Now that her reluctance has been resolved, she is only a candidate for her son’s girlfriend, Hwang Soo-ah.

“So, is Sun-hoo alright?”
“I was discharged this morning. I am healthy now.”

It’s too healthy, so it’s a ride.
Im Im-hye, recalling the intense time she had with Sun-hu this morning, felt the inside of her lower abdomen tighten.

It was a wonderful experience. Just thinking about her made her bottom get wet.

Im Im-hye jumped into the path of her actress from an early age.
She was in her prime when she was young, she married a much older director, and she was sexless with that husband for a long time.
Besides, after divorcing her husband, she was so busy with work and childcare that she had no time to date a man.

Im Im-hye on the screen only looks elegant like a swan, but in reality she has lived a more intense life than anyone else.
She doesn’t regret her life. However, she did not experience the privileges of youth that can only be enjoyed while young, and there were times when she felt sad for herself as she withered away.

Then she woke up to her new love.
The opponent is the adopted son she has raised and cherished. He was the most precious and lovable man in the world.

She couldn’t help but find that the honey wasn’t sweet.
The son also asked for himself many times, many times. He sprinkled water on her withering body full of affection.
She seemed to have regained her lost youth. Even if only a bad ending awaited at the end of that scenario, I couldn’t stop now.

“By the way, Sua, did you make an appointment to meet Seonhu and Seonhu separately?”
“No. We are still tuning in.”

Hwang Soo-ah replied as if she was a bit embarrassed.
Although she thought that she was relieved that her seonhu had gotten better, she felt sorry for the seonhu who hadn’t even contacted her.
Contact information was exchanged, but there was no personal contact. When she contacted her first, Soo-ah, who had planned to make an appointment with her at that opportunity, was wasting her time waiting for a text message from her.

Meanwhile, Im Im-hye did not keep Hwang Soo-ah in check any longer.
She had no intention of monopolizing her son just because she had such a relationship with him. Rather, she thought that if she had a suitable partner, she would actively support her.
In that sense, Hwang Soo-ah was a great welcome. Sua is older than her predecessor, but it wasn’t uncommon between an actress and an ordinary person.

“Even though she looks like that, she is very shy, so it might be better for Sua to contact her first. Isn’t Sua your older sister? He just needs to be a bit forced to approach. He doesn’t know how to say no.”
“Is that so?”

Im Im-hye gives Soo-ah a proper tip as the mother of the next generation.
And for a while, the two talked amicably about the succession and the aftermath.

Her mother wants to show off her son, and Sua wants to know the son’s identity.
Between the two of them, there was no way the subject of the story would fall apart.

“Oh my goodness. What are you talking about so much fun?”

A new person entered the war there.
It was Shin Ji-hye, the actual heroine of this drama.

Shin Ji-hye, with her graceful beauty, is two years Hwang Soo-ah’s junior and is the hottest actress right now.
There was no hesitation in intervening between the two prominent actors.

“Do you want to see Jihye too? I was showing Sua a picture of our son.”

Im Im-hye is a son who is famous in the entertainment industry as well. Of course Shin Ji-hye knew that.
However, Shin Ji-hye questioned that she talked about her son, a commoner, more often than her two much more famous daughters, Jin So-yeong and Jin Mi-so.

“Are you the teacher’s son? Can I see it too?”

Im Im-hye’s cell phone showed a hat smiling amicably.
It was an ordinary family photo, except for the fact that the mother was Im Im-hye. To the extent that I never dreamed that the two of them were in an inappropriate relationship.

“Teacher’s son is really handsome. The eyes and the bridge of the nose are exactly like the teacher’s.”
“Yes?”

There is nothing better than praising your son to match the mood of a senior in the entertainment industry.
Putting aside what the actual impression was, Shin Ji-hye enthusiastically praised it. However, it seemed that he hadn’t come to his mind that the son was not Im Im-hye’s real son and that there was no way he would look like him.
Either that or not, Im Im-hye was engrossed in boasting about her son.

“The real thing is much better than the picture.”

There, Hwang Soo-ah added a word.

“Uh? Senior Sua, did you actually meet her?”
“I had dinner with the teacher a few days ago.”

Shin Ji-hye sensitively caught the strange feelings in Hwang Soo-ah’s words.
She didn’t know what that feeling was, but she knew that Sua Hwang was holding her back.
Shin Ji-hye is also a top-notch actress in the industry. She didn’t notice that much she was on this floor and she couldn’t survive.

“Sir, why didn’t you call me?”
“Whoops. Wisdom is next. I’ll introduce you when I get a chance.”

She answered like that to Ji-hye, who played her charms as if she was sad, but she had no intention of having Ji-hye and her son meet.
If Hwang Soo-ah is a deer, Shin Ji-hye is a fox.
If you meet Shin Ji-hye, the rabbit-like seonhu will be eaten.
That would be her strength as an actress, but to think of her as a daughter-in-law, it was a bit like that.

“By the way, teacher. Do you want to attend the dinner after finishing?”
“Dining together? No?”
“No? She says the teacher is also attending. Senior Joo Jung-hwan.”
“Oh~.”

At Shin Ji-hye’s words, Im Im-hye sighed.
She said she’s definitely not going.
She said someone else was attending, so she went, and she was alone with a male actor, which wasn’t unusual in the industry.
Im Im-hye is a great senior among actresses, so if she says she is going to attend, her junior actresses will have no choice but to attend.

“Jihye, I won’t say anything bad, so don’t go if you can. There are no good rumors.”

Im Im-hye asked Ji-hye.
After all, Shin Ji-hye was also a very young junior. As a senior, it was her natural duty to give advice.

She shouldn’t take the entertainment rumors literally. Im Im-hye herself is also a victim of such rumors.
However, she has learned from her long career in the industry that her truth also hides in such nonsense.
How to distinguish such a person.

“… All right. Then, will you introduce me to your son instead?”
“Then. Whenever the opportunity arises.”

I don’t know what will happen later, but the answer is positive.
Shin Ji-hye did not miss Hwang Soo-ah’s slightly dissatisfied gaze beside her.