Chapter 217

The large conference room where the first script reading for the drama Fortissimo was being held.

The scene where Ahn So-jin, playing the female lead Na Yeol-eum, and Joo Sae-i, playing Cha Hae-in — the rival who kept a chokehold on her breath — came head to head.

"Not knowing your place is a kind of disease too, Na Yeol-eum."

"……."

"You think flailing around trusting some half-baked talent is going to make you anything in front of me?"

The voice that slipped from Sae-i's lips was cold, utterly without warmth.

Her eyes, flicking up from the script to rake over So-jin, carried the look of a runner-up dressing her inferiority complex toward a genius in arrogance.

"I'll become something. Because I've made up my mind to."

Ahn So-jin shot back without yielding an inch. The unbroken strength in Na Yeol-eum heated the air of the conference room.

"Just hearing…