Rebirth: King to Superstar

Chapter 106 - Reactions

Jung-hwa woke up to 3 alarms in her empty dorm room. She only managed to open her eyes on the third alarm and stopped the alarms from repeating once again. She hated alarms, but she had no choice but to use them, as she wasn't able to sleep properly the night before. Almost the whole night, she was thinking about how she would finally go to the Roses drama house and watch their world-renowned dramas. 

Jung-hwa knew how hard it was to get tickets for the dramas there because she tried to get tickets in her first year and not once was she able to get them. She tried to even buy them in the black market, but the sellers quoted absurd prices she couldn't afford.

She woke up and noticed there were still 90 minutes before the start of the drama. Getting up, she rushed into the washroom, finished getting ready, and then went down to the canteen. The canteen was dead. No students at all because most of them either skipped breakfast or were already done. She didn't take a bus like she always does to go to her drama house and took a cab to get there faster. 

After getting out of the car, she saw the crowd in front of the drama house. She looked to the side and saw the banner with Joon-won on it. Thinking for a second, she took out her phone and took a picture of the poster before posting it on her social media story. She didn't forget to tag the drama house account and Joon-won's account. 

As soon as she uploaded it, she went right to the front as Joon-won gave her VIP tickets, which didn't need her to wait like the rest. She continuously looked around the area and noticed how big the hallways were. Looking at everything, she couldn't help but compare it to her own drama house and knew it was seriously lacking. Even though the drama house she was working in wasn't bad, it was nowhere near the level she is seeing. 

She walked into the theatre and noticed there were a group of volunteers helping out the customers to their seats and so she showed her tickets and they took her to the seat. It was at the front, rather a few rows from the front, perfect position to watch the drama. Sitting on the comfortable seats, she couldn't help but pat her own back at how she made good friends.

Getting inside, she once again took out her phone and noticed her social media chat was flooded with messages from all her classmates. She even saw a few messages from the most egoistic person in the class, Roh Ji. She opened her close friends' chat first and noticed they were all asking if the story she uploaded was true. 

Going through all the chats, she noticed all of them were asking about Joon-won's poster and if he really was acting in a big drama house like Roses. She also saw Roh Ji's message, demanding her attention about the situation and telling that she photoshopped the image while cursing at her and Joon-won like a mental patient. Jung-hwa didn't understand what happened to her to act like that at all. 

But in the end, she noticed all the chaos in her social media and knew she blew things up in a bad way and that when Joon-won finds out about it, he would be very mad about it. He was always the type of person to remain in the dark, and now everyone knew he was acting on a big stage ahead of all of them. She prayed he wouldn't take it out too hard on her for it. She didn't reply to any messages and as she was about to close the phone; she noticed a message from the vice-dean of the university pop up. 

The last thing she wanted was for the university to get involved and knew she couldn't just ignore the vice dean's message at any cost. After all, he did help her out a lot by getting her a better role in the exam drama. She opened his chat and saw him asking if Joon-won really managed to get a main role so quickly. He was there when Do Hwan offered both of them these offers after the exam and he didn't think much of Joon-won at all. He was shocked that Do Hwan even offered the student a chance to audition for a new movie. 

After he heard that Joon-won failed the audition, he threw the kid at the back of his head and thought Do Hwan made a rare mistake in finding talent. But earlier the day when he woke up, he noticed the acting course forum was active with a picture of the student he didn't think much of. So he immediately sent a text message to Jung-hwa who he knew and was also the person who posted the picture, making the student and teacher forum crazy. 

He waited for a reply while sitting in his office, and soon the three dots disappeared and the text came. Jung-hwa confirmed that it was really true that Joon-won managed to get the villain role in the drama by auditioning earlier that week. As soon as he read that text, he quickly made a few calls and obtained the tickets for the evening show after paying almost thrice the original price that was also on discount as he was a vice-dean. 

He wanted to see with his own eyes what the student Joon-won had to offer to get a role in a big drama house like Roses. He knew how San Min was, as she was also a student in the university and she was a very stubborn kid who spoke what she thought. The kid impressed her and get a lead role. 

Jung-hwa noticed she would not get a reply from the vice dean, and so she turned her phone off and looked at the stage. The seats were almost full and she could see the narrator at the corner of the stage getting ready to start. 

The entire theatre went silent as the lights dimmed and the spotlight was on the narrator. Jung-hwa's face was full of excitement as she waited for what the drama had to offer.