Chapter 70 - Drama in the Spotlight

From the audience's perspective, it looked like Im Giseok was "crying his heart out" on screen during the interview.

The audience: "..."

Hey, your personality is going off the rails!

But clearly, Im Giseok was doing something that Kim Soseong doing before.

However, unlike Kim Soseong's angle of regret, "I didn't teach my junior brother well," Im Giseok's confession went like this—

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have written that article... I've offended all my colleagues. But I never thought they would deliberately to blacklist me; they just really hated that article..."

ReelRise: "..."

His colleagues: "..."

Are you crazy?!!

ReelRise was drenched in sweat at this point.

In a way, Im Giseok's comment "Just read it" was actually the mildest sign of him losing it.

After all, that was a masterpiece praised by big names, a textbook example in the screenwriting industry.

Who would dare to hate it?

Im Giseok, stop making wild accusations and spouting nonsense!!!

Think again, we just really don't like you as a person!

After Im Giseok's actions, it was like all the screenwriters' mouths were sewn shut.

Even if they wanted to criticize <> a bit more, they had to think twice.

Im Giseok was like a ticking time bomb — nobody knew when he would explode or where he would aim.

The writer who harshly criticized Im Giseok was up all night, frantically writing 5,000 words, showering all the praise he could possibly think of on Im Giseok's article.

[ Im Giseok's inner thoughts: 'Is your love only worth a short 5,000 words? Come back when you've written 10,000.' ]

[ Hahaha, Im Giseok is usually not petty, but when he is, nobody can handle it, lol. ]

[ LOL, even ReelRise is working overtime, and <> finally made it to the homepage recommendations. ]

If they could turn back time, ReelRise would have loved to send someone to stop Im Giseok from speaking on the day of his interview.

Unfortunately, from what the platform knew about Im Giseok, doing that would have made things even worse.

So what could they do?

They could only add more money to promote <>.

After all, <> was still on ReelRise.

As the platform, they weren't completely trying to destroy the show; it was just that the offers from other writers were too tempting, and ReelRise had to think about future profits, so they decided to sacrifice it.

But now, it was clear they couldn't suppress <> any longer.

ReelRise could at least explain to the other screenwriters: they could keep trying to blacklist Im Giseok.

This time he only said "they" at the press conference.

But next time, he might be called out directly "Screenwriter Go Raom, Jo Jeongmin, or Gwon Seongjae."

In reality, the list of shows scheduled for the summer on ReelRise wasn't a secret.

The evidence of <> being pulled from the summer slot was still there.