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Wendy

After days of acting as Jang YeNa, I have finally gone back to the main scriptwriter of this drama that I have been working on for the past month. The villain character that I have been created myself as a minor character initially but unknowingly it gained the same amount of popularity and attention like the other main characters, in the end, it became an important character and I played it, which I didn't really want it.

It is a character that is completely different from the character that I have in real life and I would never want to be that evil character because it is not good to be stealing the main character's love interest and to be brazen about it, only a lunatic would do that but in reality there are many people like that, they are called homewreckers who have affairs with wealthy married men with happy families and they would ruin their marriage and break their family apart, leaving nothing to spare.

It is usually a messy ending and it doesn't end well, if I were to choose the love life that I would pursue, I would never want to break up anyone's happiness and remain single if I have to. And so I love to have perfect characters for my stories and a perfect happy ending for her, if I have a chance to, I would definitely want a happy ending for my love life.

But it is not the time for me to find love right now because my career is just starting to get better with a new chapter after years of hiding away in the shadows and restricting myself to only write books and not starting on a script and I have to owe it all to HoSeok who gave me a chance to make my dream come true. If I hadn't met him that day at the café, I wouldn't have a job as a proper scriptwriter for a big production to be released by one of Korea's biggest television broadcasting stations and being able to have one of my stories to be made into a drama.

It is literally what I have been trying to do for the past 5 years ever since I graduated from university and embarked on a career path that is not sustainable at all, it is either I would survive in this industry and I will suffer a lot trying to be different from all the other scriptwriters and still get rejected by the higher-ups. I got rejected, of course mainly due to the fact that I am only a rookie scriptwriter at the time and they are usually very ruthless to the rookie scriptwriter, they would only reject you by random and I happen to be one of the sad few people who got rejected.

Because of that, I lost that one chance to getting a job at one of the biggest television broadcasting stations and I kept myself busy by writing books and that helped me make a lot of money but I wasn't happy, although it helped me pay the bills on time it is not what I liked. I loved writing scripts more and being able to write scripts to be made into huge award-winning dramas but sadly I was hesitant to try my luck again because I was afraid of getting rejected by the higher-ups, although I have faith in my writing style it is not the usual writing style that is usually being adopted by those famous scriptwriters of today's world.

It was Jung HoSeok and my friends who convinced me that I am a very unique writer that touches their hearts and I am able to become a scriptwriter with a unique writing style and bring some freshness into the industry as a new writer, thus making me want to try again at being  a scriptwriter and it got me where I am today.

I wouldn't have been sitting on one of the comfy couches in the air-conditioned room with my laptop on my lap if I hadn't wanted to be a scriptwriter again. I typed in words for my script, touching upon the finishing touches of my script and highlighting the parts that I needed to memorise for my own character that appears quite often for many scenes which overlaps with the main characters. Because of the sudden addition of a major character, I would have to change most of the script to include the antagonist in it and it takes a long time, considering that it used to be a minor character and it would affect the entire story.

But the director trusts me that I would do just fine with the sudden change in the story, SeokJin tells me that he has the confidence that the story would turn out better if that character were to be a main character with the other two main leads. I mean that he was also the same person who convinced me to play that character which in turn became so iconic that the audiences wanted to see more of me on screen, it was a mistake but it is a beautiful one. With that, I trust SeokJin that this drama will turn out the way that he had wanted.

I heard the knock on the door and I told the person to come in, it was SeokJin oppa and he is here to check on my progress for my script. "I thought that I should come to check in on you during the break, you told me that you wanted some plot twist in the story right?"

I nodded and he sat down next to me, I showed him the new plot in my story. "It is nothing major but it is just that I think that the Jang YeNa character doesn't have to stay evil throughout the entire story, I want her to redeem her evil character with slight goodness in her."

He didn't really look that pleased. "That is a great idea but it seems that it is a little recycled and it wouldn't work well, why don't you make HoSeok choose Jang YeNa instead of Jung SooJung? I want the story to have a complete twist and it would be better this way."

I don't really like the idea that he had given me, he always gives ideas that are appropriate with what I am writing but not this. "But she is a villain and the main character shouldn't get together with the villain, it is not supposed to work this way," I told him my honest opinion about it.

"Okay, think of it this way. Pretend that you are really Jang YeNa and HoSeok is Hoseok, he has feelings for you and you have feelings for him as well but you are not allowed to do that because Jung SooJung had taken that spot in his heart because she thinks that it is ideal for her so you are jealous of her and you just want to be like her who gets Jung HoSeok. You guys have an equal chance of winning and you are firm in your standing and you know that you can get HoSeok but you choose not to because you hate Jung SooJung and you want to get rid of her so that you can have him to yourself. But in actual fact, Jung SooJung is indecisive and she doesn't think that she is good enough for Hoseok and you come into the picture with your ever-changing love for him. You will get the guy in the end and Jung SooJung has no way of getting it back. It is portraying the main character's story except that the main character is the antagonist and the antagonist is a good character instead, it is a fresh style of writing and it is very new to the industry."

That had made think very deeply about what he had said, even though it is kind of bad that I make the good character evil but at the same time, I am allowing the bad character feel the same way as the good character feels for once. It would make the audience think deeply about how an antagonist should be in nature, she can be a good character sometimes and it would be shown in this drama.

"Alright, I will try to add it in this story and I will show it to you again once I am done with it." He finally smiles brightly for the first time since he entered this room.

"You don't need to rush yourself, try to take things slow but steady." He pointed towards the door with a finger. "Aren't you going to get your snacks? Taehyung had sent a food cart over and there are churros and hot chocolate, it is so delicious. You should try it."

"Later, after I have finished writing," I told him but he doesn't leave, giving me that face instead. "Fine, give me a portion of those churros and a cup of hot chocolate then and you will go back to work." It is hard to resist all of these delights when you are working and I am slowly gaining weight with the good food that I am eating, something that I definitely don't experience when working as a writer in my own bedroom.