The Me I Acted Consumed Me

“I have no emotions. Only results matter.” Baek Jaehyun, a man who has never felt emotions in his life. To him, acting was not art—but a precise process of analysis and construction. When he read records of torture from the 1900s, his body trembled. When he studied the psychology of serial killers, murderous intent surged within him. And the moment he perfectly reconstructed another human being— they began to speak from within his subconscious. “Lend me your body. In return, I’ll give you the perfect performance.” From independence fighters… to genius prosecutors… to cold-blooded killers— countless personalities began to breathe inside him. A box office star. A genius actor. The center...