The Empress Is Married to the #1 CEO?
The phone call
[Interior | Commercial Shoot – Dressing Room | Late Afternoon]
I didn't immediately throw down the napkin and answer my phone when it rang after I wiped my hands.
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
hey, what's up, Bae!?
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Just wrapped the shoot.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Smelled like five different men’s colognes. Again.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
My skin’s crying. [😩]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
At least your paycheck isn’t. [😆]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Lol. Not enough for therapy, though. [🙄]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Celebrity daughter problems. [😩😆]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
bae! That expired the moment I turned 18. [🤥]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Anyway. Dinner? [😉]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Nah, bae, I'm coming home. Mom’s cooking today. She’s weirdly cheerful. [😄]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Suspicious. Run. [😆]
She grabs her bag, slings on her coat, and heads out. still on a phone call
[Exterior | walking in the parking lot]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
is your schedule hectic?
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Yeah. It is three hours of pretending I am the scent.
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Lmao, is that director still obsessed with “natural seduction”? [😆]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
He literally said, “Don’t act. Just… exude.” [😮💨]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
[😆] I hope you charged extra for emotional damage.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Well, no, but I didn’t even smell like me by the end. I smelled like… a rich hallway. [😚🥲]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
[😆] That’s the most accurate perfume description I’ve ever heard.
she throws her bag inside the car, and the phone is still in her ears
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
You need a better agency. Or a scandal. Something to break out of “product girl” roles.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
But kidding aside, they won't cast me in anything real. I'm a "celebrity kid." They think I'm spoiled with no depth
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
babe, you're more talented than all of them. [😮💨🙄]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
but talent doesn't trend. Viral do
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
then go viral!. Borrow a chaebol heir or something. [😆]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Oh sure, [🙄] let me just bump into a chaebol heir on the subway and accidentally fall in love. [😆]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
That would actually trend. [🤭]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Imagine the headline: "low-key actress secretly married Korea’s top 1 hottest CEO???" [🙂↕️]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
a terrible script min. [🫠]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
[😁] Exactly, you'll fit right in.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
And exactly why I’ll avoid it. [😉]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
[😮💨] Ugh. You and your calm life.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
It’s working, though. [😁]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Yeah, think about it until your next gig is pretending to be... shampoo. [🫡]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Let’s not manifest that scandal [🤐]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Okay, okay—bye for now! I’m about to drive. [😮💨]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
okey but think about it~~~ [😉]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
[😮💨] she really loves too much tea sometimes
[Interior | Seo Residence ]
I step through the front door. The smell of home-cooked food hits her immediately. I pause.
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
your late
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I texted you. But I see you're busy [☺️😋]
looks at what she's cooking
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
you made japchae? On a Tuesday? Who died? [🤨]
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
Don’t be dramatic.[😠]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
and It’s Tuesday. [🫡] in tuesday, you usually order in or “accidentally forget.” [😆]
saw dad walking towards the dinner table and sat
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
Welcome home, Luna.
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
Both of you. Come sit. Let's all start eating
The two of us sit. I notice the subtle tension — mom’s too quiet, and dad too focused.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Are you guys okay? Did you two fight? [🤨]
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
well, not today
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
There’s something we need to talk about.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
That’s never a fun sentence.
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
We’re having a guest over soon.
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
Your grandfather.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Grandpa Seo?
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
No. My father.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
You told me he died [🤨🤯]
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
I told you I LEFT where did you get the issue he died? [🙄🤨]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
same thing [☺️]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
all this time, I thought he died, and you hate him [😔] my life's a lie [🙄😒]
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
(calmly) stop being dramatic [😆] I never said he didn't love me
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
[😊] He did, in his own special way
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
(laughing awkwardly) He.... he actually loves her so much. I mean sooo much
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
let's just say he dotes on his daughter more than his 2 older son [😅]
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
[😆] He doesn't want me to be involved with your dad since he's also a businessman. Your grandfather told me that I should go for someone with a peaceful life, unlike him
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
so we ran away [😅]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
wow, dad is a kidnapper [😆]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
but he never came after you? [🤨]
Luna's dad: 🧑💼 Seo Jin-woo (서진우)
He did. he found us not even 24 hours later of our elopement were not exactly good at hiding, [😅] but he quietly let go and just sent letters, calls for years till now, but your mom is didn’t-
Luna's mom: 🎭 Han Mi-rae (한미래)
but I answered yesterday because it's your grandma's death anniversary, and we talked, but before we hung up, he asked to see you. Just talk once.
*and I just nob smiling at them then as time pass like always we eat and talk like always*
[Interior | Luna’s Bedroom | Late Evening]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Remember the grandfather I never met?
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Ghost Grandpa? [🤨]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
yeah, and apparently he’s alive. He called. He wants to see me. [😆]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
Okey, that's actually..... insane [😆]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I know. I thought he died.
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
huh? auntie said she ran away where did you get the issue he died?
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
same thing [🙄😒]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
well, mom is acting like a normal daughter, but my dad, my god, he looks like he's getting prepared to attend a royal summon [😆]
🎭 Minji Yoon (윤민지) – Luna’s Best Friend
but what if [😉😊] he's leaving you a yacht?
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
[😆] Then he better come up with k-drama plot twists
[Interior | Luna’s Bedroom ]
wakes up from a nightmare
panting from my nightmare
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
no... not again
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I don’t want chaos.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
Not again.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
This life… I’ve kept it clean. Simple. Mine.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I’m not her anymore.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I don’t have to be set by the law or rules. I don’t have to watch my back.
covering my face with my two hand
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I don’t have to be so kind all the time, be mannered, and forbid to be wild and free.
[Flashback Begins | Palace Courtyard – Past Life]
Guards rush past. A woman stands in red robes, a blade to her throat. She looks proud. And a man in armor towering over her.
👑 Past Luna (Empress)
You will never control me. Even in death.
？？？
if that's your wish, I'll gladly honor it
🗡️ The blade flashes right before my eyes
[Flashback | Age 13 – Present Day | Hospital Room]
Young Luna wakes up from a fever. She stares at the ceiling, unmoving. Her eyes widen — remembering.
👧 6-Year-Old Luna
I’m… alive?
The 6 yr old luna looks around
👧 6-Year-Old Luna
This… isn’t the palace.
👧 6-Year-Old Luna
What is this body?
recalling the foggy memories
👧 6-Year-Old Luna
Right..... I'm.... I'm Luna
[Interior | Luna’s Bedroom | Present – Return from Flashback]
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I died once already.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I was powerful. Beautiful. Worshipped.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
But never… free.
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
I want to keep my life more wild, chaotic, and free
👑 Luna Seo (서루나)
but not this kind of chaotic
Crazy Author
I hope you liked the first chapter until the next one. bye byeee (please comment on any mistake so I can improve my skills 😊)
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