Peninsula: From a supporting actor to the best actor in Chungmuro

Chapter 37 Undercurrents Beneath the Sound

The Los Angeles sun turned the crew bus into a mobile steamer.

Krystal Jung was curled up in the second to last row, checking her phone - the seventh place on NAVER's real-time trending search list was #VocalCordMonsterJiangJaehoon#.

The first day of filming was delayed by four hours due to location coordination issues.

The stagehands brought in three industrial fans to blow towards the lead actor. Lee Min Ho's lining was stuck to his back, and the makeup artist had to apply loose powder every ten minutes.

Under the parasol on Malibu Beach, Krystal Jung hid inside and replayed the preview video.

"I've seen it three times."

Park Hyung-sik's baseball cap covered half of his face, and a can of iced Coke pressed against the back of her neck: "Are you secretly in love with him?"

Krystal nudged her elbow back, missing the target: "I have a crush on you."

"Then why do you only watch scenes with him?"

"This is what I am"

"Bona is studying vocal transition techniques."

Jin Zhiyuan squeezed over with a popsicle in her mouth and handed over another chocolate ice cream: "Right?"

"Um"

Krystal took the ice cream and took a big bite, the coolness exploded on her tongue.

The waves outside the parasol are rolling towards the beach with golden sunlight.

She suddenly posted a video with the scene frozen temporarily——

Also looking sideways at Kang Jae-hoon, Lin Yuna's eyes, with her chin in her hand, showed three points more unconcealable joy than Kim Taeyeon's.

"Bonaxi, you paused this scene."

Park Hyung-sik hesitated to speak.

Kim Ji-won came over and enlarged the image: "Senior Yoona."

"You also feel something is wrong?" Krystal suddenly sat up straight.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Kim Ji-won looked up in confusion: "I mean, even Yoona's hair is so beautiful that it glows."

Krystal snapped the screen off:

"You guys have a lot of free time? There are too few lines, right?"

The two looked at each other.

"I went to memorize my lines."

She grabbed the script and walked towards the reef area on the scorching sand. The sea breeze swept away the fragmented conversation behind her.

"She's been very angry lately."

"It's the dry season on the West Coast."

Kim Ji-won's laughter mixed with the waves and broke on the beach.

Krystal flipped through the script, and suddenly there were a few fingernail scratches on the blank space of the third page - it happened to be Lee Bo Na's line questioning Yoon Chan Young:
"Why do you smile at her more than at me?"

While the scorching sun in Los Angeles is scorching the beach, night has already fallen in Seoul.

Kang Jae-hoon sat cross-legged on the sofa, eating an apple, while the interrogation clip of "Memories of Murder" was playing on TV.

The Kakao notification sound caused ripples to appear on the Coke can on the coffee table.

He paused the movie and picked up his phone. A grinning Shiba Inu portrait wearing a straw hat popped up in the dialog box:
[Congratulations to Mr. Gru for being on the trending search.]

【Do you need psychological counseling services? 】

[Shiba Inu tilts its head and smiles jpg.]

Jiang Zaixun raised an eyebrow, exited the chat, and opened the Naver trending search list.

The seventh real-time hot search #Jiang Jae-hoon's vocal monster# has more than 4,000 comments.

He clicked on it and flipped through a few pages, finding that the controversy was clearly polarized.

But in general, negative reviews account for a higher proportion.

This is not difficult to understand -

Recognition from industry insiders is often based on comparing the complete audio-visual experience of the original version with the Korean dubbed version.

What the public received was just the “Vocal Monster” clips captured by marketing accounts.

Any professional voice actor can perform this skill of changing voice across ages.

Therefore, the media's excessive exaggeration of the "monster" label has instead triggered a rebellious mentality among the public.

Jiang Zaixun switched back to the chat interface and replied:
【Just found out.】

【I'm so popular?】

Lin Yuner's suddenly frowned brows were reflected on the phone screen. She typed a reply on the virtual keyboard:
"Perfect mentality."

Kim Taeyeon suddenly snatched the phone: "Let me see what the ultimate creature that can make our Yoona giggle is——"

"ah!"

Lin Yuna screamed and rushed over, but the seat belt suddenly tightened around her collarbone.

Kim Taeyeon huddled in the corner of her seat, straining her throat and speaking in a long tone:

"Do you need psychological counseling? Tsk tsk—" "That's the normal concern of seniors for juniors."

"Didn't you call me Teacher Jiang before?"

Kim Taeyeon suddenly turned serious and looked at Lin Yuner: "Honestly, what do you think of him?"

Lin Yuner was silent for a moment: "As a colleague?"

“As a man.”

The traffic light turned from red to green, and the nanny car turned into the tree-lined avenue of Shengshui Cave.

Lin Yuner looked at her reflection in the glass and said slowly:
"As an actor, I'm excellent. As a colleague, I'm passable. As a man..."

Kim Taeyeon raised an empty eyebrow: "Hmm?"

"have not thought."

"lie."

Kim Taeyeon threw the phone back into her arms: "When you read his message just now, you smiled like a mouse that stole oil."

Lin Yuna suddenly pointed out the car window: "Ouni, look!"

Kim Taeyeon moved closer—there was a calico cat squatting in front of the convenience store on the corner.

“What’s wrong with the cat?”

"This cat."

When Yoona clicked on Kang Jae-hoon’s Kakao profile picture, it looked exactly like the calico cat squatting in front of the convenience store.

"He said he often feeds stray cats." She enlarged the picture and took a screenshot. "Maybe this is it."

Kim Taeyeon's eyes flickered back and forth between the cat and the screen:

"so?"

“So,” Lin Yuna stuffed her phone’s lock screen into the bottom of her bag, “stray cats should be sterilized.”

"Ah, your ability to change the subject has regressed."

……

Seoul time, 9:15 pm.

When Lee Sung-kyung pushed open the door of her apartment, the entrance sensor light lit up as the door closed.

Jiang Zaixun was lying on the sofa watching "Memories of Murder", with apple cores and Coke cans scattered on the coffee table.

"came back?"

He pressed the pause button, and Song Kanghao's distorted face froze on the screen.

"The living room is becoming a garbage dump."

"I'll clean it up right away."

Jiang Jae-hoon jumped up, sorted the fruit cores into the wet garbage bag, and put the aluminum cans into the recycling bin.

Lee Sung-kyung grabbed the remote control and switched to the news channel:

"Have you read the comments on the trending searches?"

"Which part?"

“Negative reviews.”

"I feel those words are not even one ten-thousandth of what you said."

Li Jingcheng suddenly turned around and glared at him.

"Uh, do you want an apple? I'll cut it for you!"

Jiang Jae-hoon immediately turned around and went into the kitchen.

Amid the clatter of the knife blade against the chopping board, Li Jingjing leaned against the door frame:

"Hey, are you really okay?"

"If there's anything."

"See a therapist." She took the sliced ​​apples and put them on a plate. "Don't expect me to be your emotional trash can."

"..."

The bedroom door was locked after the third click.

Lee Sung-kyung threw herself on the bed, unlocked her phone, and used her nickname "One Punch One Jiang Hanhan" to flood the Naver comment section:
@Cola without ice: [The current agencies are really good at firing people]

→One Punch, One Jiang Hanhan: [I suggest you check with the audiology department. The success rate of cochlear implant surgery is quite high.]

@Kimchi Ramen: [Buying the article is too exaggerated]

→One Punch, One Jiang Hanhan: [I suggest crowdfunding to get you a new pair of contact lenses]

@清风戏闲云: [Dubbing is ultimately a side path]

→One Punch, One Jiang Hanhan: [Legal education for illiterate people is urgent]

……

When the moonlight outside the window moved to the head of the bed, she finally threw away her hot cell phone.

The last thing I saw before locking the screen was a photo of Kang Jae-hoon taking his final bow at a drama in a lace dress.

(End of this chapter)