Open Mic (3)

Music director Kim Jaehun looked at the girl in front of him, thinking that he wanted to light a cigarette and hold it between his teeth. The girl was listening to the music with her eyes slightly closed.

At a glance, she looked like a middle or high school student… Judging by her appearance, she clearly wasn’t a high school senior or a college freshman. If she looked like that despite not being fully grown and still retaining a childlike air, then perhaps she could even become an idol… or an actress once she was old enough.

But you couldn’t make music with your face. More precisely, there were fields where you could get by on your looks, but what Jaehun needed right now wasn’t one of them.

‘Im Junhong, you fucking bastard… If you couldn’t do it, you should’ve said so. How could you stab me in the back like this? It’s not like I treated you badly.’

The drama’s schedule had clearly been proceeding smoothly. But everything had been completely derailed by a scandal involving one of the supporting actors. The actor had withdrawn, and they were now in a situation where they had to remove all the scenes featuring him and shoot them again.

The production team had suggested changing only the actor while leaving everything else as it was to speed up the work somehow, but the writer and the main producer seemed to have a completely different opinion. They would revise the entire story and delete all the scenes. It couldn’t be helped if they wanted to maintain the quality of the drama. They would just have to work harder.

That was fine. Who disliked working hard and putting in effort? The problem was that the music came in at almost the final stage… which meant that the amount of time Jaehun had been given to work was extremely limited.

‘That was why I called in any session player I could get my hands on…’

Im Junhong wasn’t a personal friend of his, but they had worked together several times, so they knew each other well enough for Junhong to do him a favor.

That was why he had asked him to come, but Junhong said he had another schedule...