The first thing I felt the mont I grabbed the rope attached to the plane—
‘This is... sturdier than I thought.’
The firmness of the rope transferring the weight.
It seed strong enough to handle the force and not snap.
After considering all the safety asures and details—
‘Should I try living out my dream today?’
I concluded that it was possible.
And so—
I pulled.
Crrrk.
The plane responded instantly.
Shouts of astonishnt and cheers erupted all around .
Feeling even more pumped, I focused.
‘Control my breathing. Keep my core pressure steady.’
Crrrk.
I pulled the plane a little more.
I wanted to pull even harder,
but I couldn’t waste energy when the caras weren’t rolling yet.
So, the mont I felt I had demonstrated enough—
I let go of the rope.
‘Damn, that tore up my gloves pretty bad.’
The first thing I checked was the state of my gloves.
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Even though they were high-quality,
the palm area was shredded.
But thanks to that, my hands were completely fine.
As I was checking my wrists—
"I-I can’t calm down... This is insane! INSANE!"
"W-What the hell was that crazy scene?! How is that even possible?!"
McGroy and Verilad rushed over,
their excitent barely contained.
"T-This is ridiculous! You moved a plane?!"
"Are you a strongman? Did you take so super-soldier serum?! H-How did you do that?!"
Their words poured out in rapid succession.
"I wasn’t sure if it’d work, but... I tried it, and it did. So, I did it."
I answered lightly.
Honestly?
I hadn’t expected it to actually work.
Even I was a little stunned.
I still didn’t fully understand my own limits.
Just how much could I do?
How far could I push myself?
Maybe I should take a proper strength test soti.
As thoughts swirled,
the excitent on set refused to die down.
For a full twenty minutes, people were still buzzing.
Until—
"...What is going on here?"
Evelyn had arrived.
She was completely lost in the chaos.
"Uh... well...."
"Um... so, basically..."
"Where do we even start explaining this?"
Thanks to her unexpected entrance,
the atmosphere cooled slightly.
Almost.
"No, no, NO! There’s no way we let soone miss out on this miracle!"
"Evelyn! Co here! We need to show you what we just fild!"
The director-producer duo reignited the fire.
They showed Evelyn the footage of pulling the plane.
And the mont she saw it—
"ARE YOU OKAY?! I—I read that doing this could put extre pressure on your head! You could’ve seriously hurt yourself!"
"Ah... I didn’t think that far ahead..."
She imdiately scolded .
‘Why am I getting yelled at?!’
Before I could even question it,
Evelyn grabbed my hand tightly
and inspected like I was seriously injured.
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"I don’t see anything wrong... but seriously, be careful! This was way too reckless!"
She was already worried sick about the stunt work in this movie—
I barely caught the rest of her words.
But I could feel how much she was concerned.
Still—
"Evelyn, I didn’t expect you to be this... forward."
"Huh?"
"Your hand."
She had locked fingers with mine.
I had noticed this about myself before—
I was really weak against this kind of direct affection.
‘Probably because of my past life.’
After everything I had gone through before,
I still wasn’t used to receiving genuine affection.
Simply put—
"A-Ah! I-I didn’t an to—! I—I, uh... I’m sorry!"
"No, it’s fine. I—I appreciated the concern."
I was just a little embarrassed.
At the sa ti—
the atmosphere started feeling a little... off.
"Are you already getting into character as Jane? Then again, when Tarzan’s right in front of you, I suppose it’s inevitable."
The one who broke the mont was Verilad.
He understood the dangerous turn this conversation was taking.
"But before anything else, we’re borrowing Tarzan first. Haha!"
With perfect timing,
he intervened, subtly leading Evelyn’s hand away from mine.
"Staff, lighten the plane as much as possible! Just enough to avoid chanical failure!"
He was officially announcing that the plane-pulling scene was about to get even more intense.
***
What is the essence of the wild?
It is the most primal force.
A world of kill or be killed.
And in that world, the most important factor was a male’s strength.
Where did you stand on the food chain?
How much control could you exert over your environnt through power?
Nowhere did these truths manifest more clearly than in the wild.
And in this mont—
Crrrrk.
The sight of Kim Donghu pulling the plane was the wild in its purest form.
Even as a man, the words “That’s cool as hell” ca out instinctively.
Thump. Thump.
Saying my heart wasn’t racing would be a lie.
‘Why is his back so broad?’
No wonder I ended up drooling in my sleep when I got carried on that back.
As she thought about that, Evelyn burned the image of Kim Donghu into her mory.
Of course, she was also recording it.
This was a masterpiece among masterpieces.
A scene worth rewatching forever.
Crrrrk.
Gulp.
Hoping her swallowing sound would be drowned out by the plane’s movent,
Evelyn watched as Kim Donghu completed the pull.
"Perfect! Absolutely perfect!"
McGroy gave a standing ovation, signaling an OK.
"We’ll push the plane-top stunt to next week. You must have used up a lot of strength."
"No, I’m fine. We can do it right now."
"We’re not fine. If we keep filming like this, we’re going to get accused of abuse."
McGroy said it seriously.
Just the fact that he had pulled the plane was insane.
Continuing the shoot right after?
That would be pure madness.
"Still, since we have everything set up, we should just—"
Of course, Kim Donghu, judging by his stamina,
felt like he could keep going.
"We’ll postpone the aerial shots, and we’ll wrap up for today. Seriously... seriously, incredible work."
"This behind-the-scenes footage is going to be legendary."
"There are so many ways we can use this! I want to start editing right now!
The staff quickly shut down the director and producer’s overexcitent.
"Sha, I wanted to push through efficiently."
"...You pulled a plane and now you’re talking about efficiency?!"
Everyone was speechless at this Korean obsession with efficiency.
As the filming site started to wind down,
Evelyn sidled up to Kim Donghu.
"So, the action scene is next week?"
"Unfortunately, yeah."
"...You an the scene where so stunt double gets to be on your back instead of ?"
"Huh?"
Evelyn, clearly displeased,
furrowed her delicate brow and continued.
"If I had known this would happen, I would’ve trained with you."
"You were busy. You had events, parties to attend—"
"The events and parties that I begged you to co with to. And you refused."
"...Haha."
"Kidding. That was a proper Arican joke."
She stuck out her tongue playfully and smirked.
"I just... didn’t realize how jealous I was until now. Bear with , okay?"
"What?"
"Nothing. Just saying."
Kim Donghu, watching her bold Western approach,
found himself once again impressed by the cultural difference.
anwhile, on the other side of the world.
"His price has skyrocketed! What the hell do we do?!"
The tvW conference room was in total chaos.
Originally, the plan was to structure the variety show Will It Work on the Mainland? around Kim Donghu,
slowly finalizing the casting and planning.
But the mont news broke about his boxing match,
everything collapsed.
The biggest issue?
"How much is he going to charge? A hundred million? More?"
"Probably... Honestly, we have no idea."
"Yeah, of course you don’t. How could you?"
The head of variety programming stared grimly at the PPT screen.
"People say we should see ‘Actor Kim Donghu’ and ‘Boxer Kim Donghu’ as two separate things, but that’s nonsense."
The scale had already grown too large for that distinction.
A one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable figure.
Kim Donghu was the only one of his kind.
And that was a huge headache.
"Did you reach out to Netflix?"
"Yeah, but they can’t give a definitive answer yet. They’re still discussing—"
"Of course. Obviously."
How much would they need to pay to get Kim Donghu on board?
If they couldn’t answer that question,
then Will It Work on the Mainland?
couldn’t move forward.
"I really enjoyed Japanese Cuisine."
"Huh?"
"And I really enjoyed Our Fake Wedding, too."
"Director, why are you suddenly talking about this?"
"Because..."
"I put this casting together specifically to see Kim Donghu and Kim Sujin together again."
"I have to make this happen."
The tvW director spoke with absolute determination.
No matter what it took—
He was going to make it happen.
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