Chapter 2: The Sixth Sense
A dizzying spin…
By the time Kwon Xuanhe woke up again, it was a different scene.
A slightly pungent smell of alcohol disinfectant wafted into his nose. Kwon Xuanhe slowly opened his eyes with a pained expression, looking at the unfamiliar ceiling above him.
This is…
A hospital?
It took Kwon Xuanhe a long time for his consciousness to clear. The last image before he fainted made him realize that he had been in a car accident and was now in a hospital room.
He reached up and touched the half of his head wrapped in gauze, looked around his surroundings, then lowered his head to look at his body, and finally propped himself up to a sitting position.
Aside from his brain feeling woozy, he had no other injuries on his body.
Wait a minute.
Kwon Xuanhe reached up and touched his face. Seeing no signs of injury treatment, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He relied on his face for a living; he couldn't afford to damage his meal ticket.
“How unlucky, getting into a car accident out of nowhere.”
No sooner had he spoken than he heard footsteps outside, and then the hospital room door opened.
“You’re awake?”
The person who walked in was Park Zhengting. Seeing that he had woken up and was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.
The car accident was not serious. The car was not moving fast and hit the passenger side, so Park Zhengting was completely unharmed.
“It’s nothing serious, just a concussion. No other parts were injured.”
Park Zhengting sat down beside him and said.
Before he could speak, Park Zhengting continued to speak on his own.
“Thank goodness you’re okay, otherwise your mom would kill me. I’ve already given many guarantees to bring you back. If anything else happens to you, I really won’t be able to explain it to her.”
Before Kwon Xuanhe came to Korea, he was studying abroad across the ocean. Park Zhengting also played a part in him interrupting his studies and returning to develop in the Korean entertainment industry. If anything happened to him, Park Zhengting would be held responsible.
“Guess who hit you?”
“This is truly…”
Park Zhengting didn't expect that a car accident could involve relevant people, and he sighed at the marvel of fate.
Kwon Xuanhe looked at his reaction and followed up, “Did the Dragon King flood his own temple?”
“Is it some chaebol’s second generation, preparing to settle with money after the accident?”
Park Zhengting looked at him strangely, “What are you thinking? Do you think this is a TV drama?”
Kwon Xuanhe attended middle school and high school in the Great Eastern Nation in his early years due to his mother's work, so he followed her there for school.
The important period of his worldview development was in a foreign country, so he naturally absorbed a lot of its atmosphere, and sometimes his speech didn't sound like a Korean.
“Didn’t you tell me to guess?”
Kwon Xuanhe was also quite speechless and directly revealed the answer.
“The person who hit you was none other than Han Xiaozhou’s younger brother.”
This short sentence contained a lot of information.
“Han Xiaozhou? Younger brother?”
Kwon Xuanhe was also a bit stunned.
Han Xiaozhou is one of the top actresses among those born after 1985 in Korea. In domestic terms, she would be considered an '85 flower, comparable to the likes of Datang Poet Immortals in China.
“Yes, her younger brother… he’s quite famous too.”
“But then I received a call from Han Xiaozhou herself. She also knew it was me. Since we’re all from the same company, we’re considered insiders, which makes things much easier to discuss.”
“If there’s nothing else, she might come to see you.”
Park Zhengting pushed up his glasses, speculating, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.
Kwon Xuanhe had only recently woken up from a coma. Once he thought deeply, his nerves would sting, but even so, he could still grasp something from it.
“She’s coming to see me? She doesn’t have to show up. No one would know her brother hit me, and it has nothing to do with her.”
Kwon Xuanhe was a bit surprised, but also felt it was nothing.
“You haven’t been back long enough to understand the true relationship.”
“Han Xiaozhou’s biggest scandal was exposed because of her younger brother, which led to her involvement. The subsequent handling was inappropriate, frantically suppressing public opinion, which resulted in even more boycotts, thus her public image among viewers has always been very poor.”
“Now you know why Han Xiaozhou wants to see you, right?”
Park Zhengting explained to him.
Han Xiaozhou’s younger brother’s bullying in the military was exposed, and Han Xiaozhou was also implicated and criticized by the public. She chose the most wrong method: silencing netizens, deleting posts, withdrawing trending topics, and so on.
This inappropriate handling method has also been Han Xiaozhou’s biggest black mark.
So, this car accident is the same. Once it's poorly handled and exposed, even if Han Xiaozhou didn't do it, the ultimate responsibility will fall on her.
“I understand.”
Kwon Xuanhe nodded.
“When she comes, communicate normally. I’ll be there to assist. With your performance, you know what to do, right?”
“Don’t worry, I still know what to say.”
Kwon Xuanhe was very relaxed and even in the mood to joke.
That topic came to an end for now, and Kwon Xuanhe remembered the scripts.
“What about those scripts? I haven’t finished reading them yet.”
Hearing this, Park Zhengting pulled out the scripts from a nearby drawer and handed them to him.
“Take them and read them slowly. Don’t overthink. You can be discharged in two more days given your condition.”
Park Zhengting handed him the scripts, then went out again to answer a call and handle some matters.
He was a department head, and the sudden car accident had delayed many things.
Kwon Xuanhe looked at the re-printed scripts and slowly reached out his arm to take one of them.
The moment his finger touched the script, it was as if a faint electric current passed through his body. His brain throbbed, as if a lot of information had been forcibly crammed into him.
Kwon Xuanhe couldn't help but let out a cry of pain, instinctively withdrawing his hand to cover his forehead, frowning and closing his eyes to feel the information that had appeared out of thin air.
This is…
His golden finger?
After a long while, Kwon Xuanhe slowly sorted out the information that had inexplicably appeared in his mind, and incredulity flashed in his eyes.
His gaze slowly shifted to the script in front of him, looking at the large characters on the cover.
“crash landing on you”
The information that flashed through his mind seemed to be related to it.
“A hit drama! Breaking the highest viewership record!”
“2019 Viewership Champion!”
“Finale sparks heated discussion!”
“Both viewership and reputation exploded”
“tvN's highest viewership record!”
There were also fragments of the drama flashing in his mind, and some lines also flashed through his mind.
…
Countless fragmented behind-the-scenes news related to it appeared in his mind, and the details confirmed that he was not dreaming, and what was happening to him was real.
Then he reached out and touched another script placed beneath it.
The familiar electric sensation once again flashed through his mind.
He had indeed found a golden finger.
This was a scene he often encountered when reading novels during his school days in the Great Eastern Nation, and now it was truly recurring in his life.
Countless thoughts kept emerging, extending into infinite futures and possibilities. This was like adding wings to a tiger for him, who was developing in the entertainment industry.
Thinking this, Kwon Xuanhe's desire to quickly break free from the hospital room and show off his skills grew even stronger.
Knock, knock, knock.
Accompanied by faint conversations outside the hospital room, a knock sounded, and then Park Zhengting followed a graceful figure into the room.
This pulled Kwon Xuanhe’s thoughts back to reality, and he looked over.