Top Management

Chapter 23: You should act (1)

Team Leader Park readily agreed to get me Writer Hong Jumi’s synopsis and I vowed to never leak the synopsis to the public.

Afterwards, thoughts only pertaining to the synopsis floated around in my head.

Even during a meeting and throughout the time we ate dinner with an event agency employee and were drinking down boilermakers.

I constantly looked up Writer Hong Jumi on the internet but there wasn’t much information. In her mid-thirties. Married. Released two romance novels under a pen name and was completely new to writing dramas.

So this person was the one who hit the jackpot with her debuting work?

Then after this drama ends, her worth would go up tremendously. And this would be the only time she would be troubled with casting actors as a new writer.

So it was definitely a chance that wouldn’t come twice.

If I was assigned to an actor, I would have immediately looked up the date of the audition. But, I wasn’t. Even though I knew this would be a huge success, I had no actors to push.

My actor… when I thought that, I recalled Sung Dowon.

Should I ask him?

My eyes shined for 3 seconds before I shook my head. Ridiculous. What did he lack that he would do a new writer’s drama, on a cable network to boot? He was a top actor who people would cling to cast in a public network drama for $70, 000 per episode.

Was there a new actor in W&U that I could talk to?

I recalled the frames on the fifth-floor hallway before shaking my head again.

This wasn’t right.

I was currently Neptune’s manager. I couldn’t go to a new actor, show him the synopsis and ask him to do it with me. Those people would all have their assigned managers as well.

It would be a relief if I didn’t get beat for touching someone else’s rice bowl [1]. Even if it was me, I would be frigging pissed.

So an actor with no assigned manager, did I have to find an aspiring actor outside of W&U? However, since I was part of W&U, I didn’t know if it was possible to approach a different actor and even if it was possible, I didn’t know what to do. Unless my foresight ability kindly gave me new information on an aspiring actor that would pass the audition. Above all, I didn’t have time to push this forward.

Since I was in a situation where I couldn’t even go home and was sleeping in the company’s sleeping quarters.

Of course, the traitor who lay above me and Hyunjo who lay on the other side were passed out.

Buzz.

My phone lit up as it vibrated.

Right, I forgot today was the day I was supposed to call my brother.

-Are you free to chat?

It seemed like someone had seen the light in that short moment as I heard someone move. I quickly put on my shoes and left the sleeping quarters. Blech… I was still drunk so every time I moved my head would ring.

I stood in the chilly hallway and called back. After a few rings, he answered.

-Yeah. Are you still working?

“I was lying down to sleep. I was going to call you once I finished but I forgot, sorry. Were you still up because of me?”

It was already passed 1 a.m. It was natural for me to be up at this hour but my brother was the type to sleep right at midnight.