Chapter 103

"Yeah, I overslept too."

Kwon Seung-ha's voice dropped low, dripping with shamelessness.

Seung-ha adjusted the strap of his bag and hoisted up Hyo-rim's bag too, letting it dangle from his fingers.

"Hey, what are you dawdling for? Aren't you gonna run?"

The line came out clipped, carrying a breezy kind of nonchalance.

And yet he didn't walk ahead first — he waited for Sae-i to come running out, a small consideration easy to miss.

"Cut! Okay!"

Objectively, it hadn't been that impressive a performance. Kwon Seung-ha was, from the start, a character close to Han Si-o's basic personality, so it wasn't surprising.

Still, after a handful of takes, the director leapt up and shouted, moved that the scene had finally come together.

"Whew..."

Meanwhile, the moment he heard "cut," Han Si-o sank down where he stood, looking at Sae-i with eyes gone misty.

"I lifted the bag too hard..."

He'd…