Chapter 188

The script reading was already halfway through.

"If I accept that offer, Ms. Seo Se-ryeong, what exactly are you going to give me in return?"

Jeong Ju-won's line, firing back at Seo Se-ryeong, followed right on cue.

But at that moment—

"Ju-won, hold on a second."

Director Woo Byeong-hwa, who had been quietly watching the script, pushed up their glasses and cut in.

"That line's too heavy right now. Woo Do-un, the character you're playing, is supposed to come across as, I don't know... more easygoing. He should seem like a smooth talker."

Woo Do-un.

A young man who'd gone back to farming in the countryside, tasked by the village head with looking after Seo Se-ryeong after she came down to stay in her late mother's hometown.

But in truth, he was the man who'd first laid eyes on her as a boy, back when his father had worked as…