Drop a few stones for this pitiful author. The book finally reached 15k words and can enter the new rankings, so please vote if you like the story. If the book gets into the top 10, I will try to release extra chapters at the end of this week.

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“How did you get better? Last week when we practiced, you were nowhere near this level of acting. You can easily be the lead role of the whole drama with the acting you just showed. This is better than anyone in our class, you could easily get into the Stat Batch with it.”

Joon-won turned around to see the surprised girl who snapped out and started to fire at him. He couldn’t just tell her that the Joon-won she saw last week and the Joon-won now were two different people and that he had decades of experience in his past life to get this good.

“Why would I want to get into that Star Batch you always talk about? I don’t see the point in going to that batch. It’s probably a place filled with more distractions. I can only see more negatives than positives when it comes to that place. And the role? I don’t need others to know how good I am, it’s enough for me to know how good I am for now. I think my skills will shine better if I can act better with the minor role I am given.” He shrugged and told his thoughts.

Jung-hwa was taken back when he heard his reasoning. It sounded complete nonsense to her. They were aiming to become actors and getting recognition is something very important to them, but here Joon-won just said he didn’t need others to know how good he was at acting. She wanted to ask him, but Joon-won quickly cut her off by turning the script.

“Alright, now let’s end this discussion here. There are many more scenes we need to practice as there are multiple dialogues. Come, let’s go to the scene where you guys fight now.”

Jung-hwa simply nodded and turned around the pages, and both of them started to practice once again. Joon-won started to act out the heroine role once again, showing appropriate expressions when needed, making Jung-hwa comfortably follow his lead and act out her role properly.

After another two hours, both of them completed practicing all the emotional dialogues between the two characters. Feeling a bit exhausted. Both of them sat down once again, taking a slight break. Jung-hwa went through her bag and took out some sandwiches she brought in the convenience store. She handed one of them to Joon-won before she ate it.

Joon-won looked at the ready-made sandwich in his hand and slowly unwrapped the cover before taking a small bite.

‘This isn’t bad for something brought in a store. Even though it’s not that fresh, it can be considered a snack, and it’s also very cheap. No wonder the old Joon-won preferred these types of things over, cooking or eating healthy meals. It’s more convenient.’

He quickly finished the sandwich and took out a water bottle from the bag. Drinking some water, he closed his eyes, waiting for Jung-hwa to finish hers. After a few more minutes, Jung-hwa finally finished the sandwich and looked at Joon-won.

“Joon-won if you aren’t aiming for the star batch, then what do you plan to do? I mean isn’t there more exposure if you get into the star batch than remaining in this normal one.” She had a few questions and just wanted to get them out.

“Well, it depends on person to person. What you said might be true, that there is more exposure if a person gets into the batch, but there are other ways to improve skills and get opportunities to act. One such opportunity is the auditions companies give for smaller rollers and need actors. You can get good experience and also learn by observing the better actors on the set.”

“Of course, we probably won’t get taken on our first audition and if we want to improve, we can try out the drama houses in this city. Arios City isn’t lacking drama houses and we can always go there for a try-out where it is easier to get in and act, to sharpen our skills. There are many ways to improve, you just need to find them.” finishing off what he thought. He was relatively very patient with Jung-hwa because of her hard-working nature and skills.

Hearing what he had to say, Jung-hwa was shocked at how dumb she was and only thought of one way. Now she understood why Joon-won had no interest in the Star Batch, and now she was also slowly losing interest. She also heard many bad things about the Star Batch and how the rich kids were there. So, even though she was hesitant about going there, she had no choice.

But now Joon-won opened a new world for her, with his way of thinking making her contemplate on her plan to strive for the Star Batch.

‘Maybe I should also take this path. What he said isn’t wrong, and it’s also a better way to go. The Star Batch is filled with scum from rich families, and that is also why the opportunities are more there. This way would help me avoid that route. I should consider it this week before the summer vacation starts. Looks like Joon-won is going to use the summer to get a few auditions done.’ She slowly thought about it.

“Alright, don’t think much about it. As I said, it depends from person to person. What I just said might not work for you, and the Star batch might be better. So put it aside and let’s continue practicing. I’ll play the hero role now. There are a few good places you need to practice. So let’s get this done.” Joon-won stood up and looked at Jung-hwa, who was deep in her thoughts.

Jung-hwa nodded and stood up to continue practicing. It did not surprise her, how Joon-won said he would help her with another role after practicing with him for the last 2 hours.