Rebirth: King to Superstar

"Don't hit me like that every time you want to call me." He couldn't help but grunt as he turned around to look at Cheo Jung-hwa as she had a grin on her face. Even though he had memories of the old Joon-won, he didn't know this woman on a personal level, and before he did, he didn't like people to act too close to him.

"Don't grumble like a kid for a small hit like that. You are just too weak. I waited 15 minutes for you already and sent you so many messages too. But you didn't reply, so I had to come and fetch you. Now tell me why are you sitting here and staring at that idiotic group like an idiot, instead of coming to our practice room?" While placing her hands on her hips like a boss, she looked down on him.

As soon as he heard her counter, he couldn't help but remember their commitment to practice together for the exam in an empty room she found. It was actually Cheo Jung-hwa who came to him last week and told him to come and practice with her so he could do better in the exam. Even though the present Joon-won didn't need her help, he stood up, took out the script from his bag, and simply stretched out his hand for her to go front.

As they walked out of the class and towards the empty room. As he followed her, he remembered how much she forced the old Joon-won to practice more and helped him to get better the entire last week, taking out some of her own time. His impression of this girl became better as he thought about how she tried to help him.

After walking a few more minutes, Cheo Jung-hwa finally stopped and stepped into a room. Following her, he saw a small room that looked more like a storage room, filled with few chairs and other boxes in the corner. There were two chairs laid out normally opposite each other.

Joon-won went and sat on the chair to the right after he saw Cheo Jung-hwa's bag on the one to the left. He sat down and waited, as Cheo Jung-hwa went through her bag and finally took out a set of papers. She handed one set to him and sat down.

"Joon-won, let's go over my role today. I need your help with it. There are many characters I need to converse in the drama, but help me practice the conversation with the main heroine for now. That will be enough." She slowly explained. He knew by her tone that she didn't want to hurt him with her words as they sounded a bit discouraging.

He simply nodded, and she continued, "Alright then, let's practice after an hour." And looked down at the script in her hand.

Joon-won didn't waste any time either as he looked down on the bunch of papers in his hand. It was the full script of the drama. He then remembered Jung-hwa's role in the drama. It was one of the best friends of the heroine, so it was a major role with a lot of dialogues and screen time.

He also remembered how Jung-hwa got an important role even after a director like Roh Ji who gave most of the important roles to her close friends. It was because of the vice-dean of their major and major luck on Jung-hwa's side. The vice-dean noticed Jung-hwa had a few skills when it came to acting after seeing her practice her original role, which was not big and interfered. He helped to give her a bigger chance in the exam.

But of course, his interference caused many problems for Jung-hwa too. Roh Ji didn't like how the vice-dean interfered in her job but couldn't do anything against him and took it out on Jung-hwa instead. She spread rumors that Jung-hwa only got the vice-dean to force her because she slept with him, causing her reputation to take a hit.

Roh Ji did not stop there and even went after Joon-won after she noticed he practices with her. She called Joon-won once and abruptly changed his role to a much smaller one. Joon-won being a weak kid, couldn't talk back to a person like Roh Ji, and also couldn't blame Jung-hwa who helped him practice. So he didn't tell Jung-hwa that she was the reason his role changed into a smaller one and simply shrugged it off whenever she asked.

'This kid couldn't even talk back to that idiot girl. He was a huge whip, no wonder he got easily swayed by an idiot like Mo Yang. If he spoke back even a little, I wouldn't be stuck with this small idiotic role.'

'But this girl Jung-hwa, it seems like even though her looks aren't a strong point, her skills aren't something to scoff at if she got recognized by a big character in the university. No wonder she has the confidence to get into that 'Star Batch'. Well, let's help her in this practice.'

After having his own internal monologue, he seriously looked at the complete script in front of him and started to read it. As he read the script he understood more of the story and most of his assumptions were true, making his conclusion about it being a trashy script come true.

He slowly read all the characters which interacted with Jung-hwa's as it was easy for him to remember because most of the dialogues were predictable as the script was like that too.

An hour went by very quickly and Cheo Jung-hwa stood up before asking, "Are you ready or need some more time? If you do, I can wait."

Seeing how cautious she was, he couldn't help but giggle a little before shaking his head and saying while standing up, "No it's ok."