Free Web Novel“Here we go!”
Aetami’s heart pounded again today, thanks to the flood of fresh bait being thrown her way.
‘Love you. JC ENM....’
Once again, Aetami offered up a prayer of gratitude to JC ENM for providing her daily sustenance. She turned on the TV for the big screen, checked the live community thread on her phone, and monitored the Intube live broadcast on her tablet.
[♨️️MNAA 3rd Live Thread♨️️]
-Why is the ad break after the red carpet so damn long lol just start already
-IT’S STARTING IT’S STARTING IT’S STARTING
-Seo Eden’s definitely gotten better at MC-ing compared to the beginning lol idol experience maybe? His expressions are way more natural
︎˪Yeah thank god the forced hate’s gone downㅠ
Refreshing the thread, Aetami checked the tablet’s chat window. Overseas fans were watching the broadcast live.
-I still can’t get over the fact that Junseo isn’t next to Chaewon at the MNAA (crying emoji)
-I became a fan recently, but she’s definitely a hard worker...! «٩(´∀`)۶»
-I love Yeoreum’s voice
“I can practically hear Yeoreum’s follower count going up....”
Thanks to <ParCheHi> carving out a milestone in K-web dramas, foreigners with even a passing interest in Korean entertainment seemed to be getting familiar with Yeoreum’s face. Today as well, Yeoreum’s hosting was flawless.
“Why is our kid so good at memorizing scripts?”
Barely sparing the cue cards a glance, Yeoreum spoke naturally, her eye-line control now perfect. Despite it being a live broadcast, she didn’t stumble over a single word.
-Her memory is incredible... I couldn’t be there, but I’m cheering with everything I’ve got (ง •̀_•́)ง
-She’s a true professional, I love her so much I’m getting dizzy (laughing-through-tears emoji)
Aetami wasn’t the only one who noticed. Anyone watching the broadcast in real time could feel it.
“People are gonna come falling into the fandom soon at this rate, huh?”
MNAA. An awards ceremony for singers, but one that also invites actors in order to pursue a global, trendy image.
For actor fans who treasure every scrap of bait, it was only natural they’d search Intube after the broadcast ended. And then, riding the algorithm, they’d see Yeoreum one more time.
“And then after that, this video will pop up on their timeline too!”
[1221 DaeYeJong Final Play <Romeo and Juliet> Team B — Myeong Jeha, Han Yeoreum]
Aetami watched the screen with a satisfied smile.
* * *
A user from the Theater*Musical Mini Gallery, nickname Yup (IP 85.132), searched the name Han Yeoreum.
“Why... is there nothing?”
Once again, it was a bust. There was no proper, in-depth video discussing the DaeYeJong play.
The post she’d written on the way home right after watching <Romeo and Juliet> Team B had already climbed to the top, but some of the comments bothered her.
[Featured / Just saw the DaeYeJong play lol leaving a review scroll warning (proof)]
Yup(118.235) actor stans swarming in to stir shit again lol even if you fly or crawl, once you come to Daehakro you get exposed, why are you all getting high on your own supply
︎˪Yup(106.102) fr we get it your girl’s good stop the viral marketing already
Yup(211.234) it’s already annoying as hell how they force actors into the theater scene, and now actor fangirls are running wild too
Yup(117.111) have you all lived your lives getting scammed? she was REALLY good I swear I’m not a Yeoreum fangirl I’ll call the cops I swear
Anyone with real knowledge of theater could tell at a glance—Team B had won.
But seeing idiots who hadn’t even watched it with their own eyes throwing out absurd rebuttals made her chest feel tight.
“Ha... so they’re all half-baked trash after all.......”
There was no reasoning with them. Having over-immersed herself, IP 85.132 finally let slip her real way of speaking, long hidden behind a mask of social polish.
IP 85.132 was absolutely not a Yeoreum fangirl. She was simply frustrated that, at this moment, facts couldn’t be acknowledged as facts.
“So this is it.... The extent of your level...?”
With disgust in her eyes, IP 85.132 glared at her phone. If she’d known it’d turn out like this, she should’ve braved being a nuisance and recorded it from the middle onward. A masterpiece without evidence did nothing but torment people like this.
“They’re all <Below Expectations>....”
DaeYeJong’s final plays were famous—but only when it came to the graduating class. Freshmen stages were held in small auditoriums that barely fit a hundred people.
‘A rotten-ass stage....... Take out the reporters, the students’ families, the friends, and the friends-of-friends, and the real diehards are practically endangered.’
Because of that, even ordinary viewers who’d taken an interest in the Do Gyeoul VS Pi Chaewon play didn’t believe what the diehards said.
IP 85.132 had used an insane level of concentration, practically memorizing the entire play. And yet, she still wanted to see it just one more time.
That mirage-like stage that didn’t allow repeat viewings—and the ignorant users who hadn’t even seen it—drove IP 85.132 insane.
“To think they were opponents this impossible to talk to—ahh-. Disappointing.”
The stage that all the ‘diehards’ acknowledged. But also a stage with only ‘diehards,’ and therefore no recording.
Those two contradictory facts stabbed at IP 85.132 like a double-edged blade.
The only footage of Team B circulating online was of Han Yeoreum and Myeong Jeha smiling brightly during the curtain call.
‘And the only proper play footage going around is Do Gyeoul’s!’
Ordinary viewers who’d come to see friends had uploaded short clips of Do Gyeoul’s play. Because of that, the claims of IP 85.132 and the other diehards—that Team B’s stage was better—didn’t stick.
︎Yup(106.102) is theater a joke to you? if you’re even a little good they tell you to go do theater lol at least upload your girl’s video then, you think yelling works when there’s no evidence? really seeing your IQ level here
Team B’s <Romeo and Juliet> stage was reduced to this summary:
So where’s the proof? You don’t have any, right?
“Demanding videos like cowards, huh?”
Therefore, discussion of the DaeYeJong freshman play ends here. If you disagree, you’re wrong.
“Clueless idiots... in a place where real diehards gather, phone lights don’t even show up.... Ngh....”
More than anyone, 85.132 regretted not having recorded it. She felt like she’d never find peace even in death.
“Still. I saw it.”
She muttered solemnly. Even if it was just mental victory, she’d take comfort in the fact that those who saw it were winners over those who didn’t. A masterpiece that appeared only once would live forever in the hearts of IP 85.132 and the audience who witnessed it....
[1221 DaeYeJong Final Play <Romeo and Juliet> Team B — Myeong Jeha, Han Yeoreum]
“Huh—holy shit!”
That was when it happened. As if by a lie, the video from that day appeared on Intube. IP 85.132 immediately wrote a new post.
[Featured I’m the OP who wrote about DaeYeJong Romeo and Juliet and the video just dropped lol]
https://www.intube.com/watch?v=
If you have eyes, watch it before you talk lol
She clicked the video right away. Maybe it had been post-processed for quality, because visually it wasn’t unpleasant at all.
The problem was the audio. In the early Romeo entrance scene, the voices of the characters other than Myeong Jeha didn’t come through clearly.
“Must’ve messed up during recording. Maybe the mic was closer to Myeong Jeha? Amateur limits, I guess....”
Muttering to herself, IP 85.132 focused on the play again—and the moment Han Yeoreum opened her mouth, she realized.
-Ah....
This wasn’t the microphone’s fault.
As the dialogue between Romeo and Juliet—just the two of them—continued, her certainty grew.
-Who guided you here?
-Love guided me.
A voice that pierced through the low audio quality reached her ears with perfect clarity. The camera that had been filming wobbled briefly. It felt like IP 85.132’s heart wobbled with it.
-Do you love me?
-My lady, I swear it, by that moon which turns all the leaves to silver.
Han Yeoreum’s voice instantly carried IP 85.132 back to that day, to that exact moment.
-Do not swear at all. Yet if you must swear, swear by your own self.
The emotions she’d felt then, the voice she’d heard, even the flow of air she’d been so focused on she could barely breathe.
-I will follow you anywhere in the world, taking you as my husband.
Before she realized it, the screen went black. A replay button appeared, as if asking whether she wanted to watch again.
Only then did IP 85.132 take a deep breath. At some point, she’d started holding her breath while watching the video.
IP 85.132 was an intellectual. Therefore, she absolutely did not like childish web dramas. She also swore she did not like Han Yeoreum.
But facts were facts.
Han Yeoreum’s acting was far beyond expectations, and this play was absolutely not the kind of quality one would expect from ordinary college freshmen.
Input: I am someone who actually watched the play. I will add a few interpretations.
Looking at Myeong Jeha’s costume, the gat string mixes glass beads and amber. In an era where one seom of rice cost one nyang, that’s a luxury item worth at least dozens, if not a hundred nyang. Roughly speaking, one nyang in the Joseon period is about one million won, so he’s wearing anywhere from 20 million to 100 million won just on a gat string. Additionally, jade norigae cost 10 to 50 nyang. Altogether, the Montague family is wealthy enough to casually pour over 100 million won into accessories alone.
If he dresses like this and still isn’t criticized by other families, it’s hard to even estimate the extent of his power. You can feel the level of resolve it takes for him to attempt an elopement with Juliet from the Capulet family, who appear to be fallen nobility. (omitted)
Interpretation aside, even the voice you hear live on stage was on a completely different level (omitted)
People needed to know.
No matter what anyone said, IP 85.132 was an intellectual and a cultured person, and her interpretation was correct. It definitely wasn’t because she liked some lightweight actress like Han Yeoreum.
IP 85.132 refreshed the page to check the rising recommendation count on her comment.
[Replay]
Click-.
It definitely wasn’t because she liked Han Yeoreum.
* * *
Just as Aetami had predicted, the heat surrounding MNAA showed no signs of cooling down even after the ceremony ended.
[HOT/Compiling today’s best-received stages lol]
[HOT/MNAA winners list from Rookie Award to Grand Prize]
[HOT/The moment people in the live thread went ‘wow you can really feel the difference between actors and idols’.jpg]
Users who followed links through communities and SNS quickly had their timelines filled with MNAA.
Algorithms for idol fans, who mainly watched K-POP stages, filled their feeds with related performances—but actor fans were different.
“Huh? That’s Pi Chaewon.” freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
Theater fans and drama fans who clicked videos to see actors attending the ceremony already had timelines dominated by dramas, films, plays, and musicals.
Naturally, the algorithm adjusted accordingly.
[1221 DaeYeJong Final Play <Romeo and Juliet> Team B — Myeong Jeha, Han Yeoreum]
At the sight of this, Jegal Rok’s lips curved into a smile.
