Big Life

Chapter 81



Chapter 81


“I’m sorry, Dojun, I’m a bit late . ”


A manager in the 30s quickly opened the back door for him . He was waiting in the basement parking lot .


Dojun got on and laid down .


“Can you turn on the radio . ”


“Isn’t it better to get a bit of sleep while you're going?”


“If it’s too quiet . I can’t sleep . Let me listen to it as a lullaby . ”


The manager turned on the radio .


There was loud pop music coming out of the speaker . Seeing the Dojun’s wrinkled face, the manager turned down the noise .


“Is this good?”


“I think that’s fine . ”


The car went out of the parking lot .


The road was a quiet one .


The manager drove with a steady speed .


“Ah wait! Do you know Writer’s Night?”


Dojun asked as they went into a toll gate .


The manager nodded his head and answered .


“I know . It’s Writer Park’s show . The show must have started a few minutes ago . There aren't not many views, so there’s a lot of worries . ”


“Could you turn it on . ”


The manager was surprised .


It was about one year since he got this job


Dojun wasn’t a person who like shows like Writer’s Night, But he followed his orders and changed the show .


- … As the winner of the Modern Literary Teen Contest, you had a signing meeting just recently right? Do you have anything that you remember memorable?


The female’s clear voice came out .


The manager turned the volume up .


Dojun listened with his eyes closed .


I’m surprised with the amount of people here today . There’s a lot of individuals who wanted to see Pyung Cheon Yu instead of Ha Jaegun .


Yes . It means that there’s a lot of fans of your genre novels . Do you think that the readers combined?


I think so . The person who directed the signing meeting was also surprised at some individuals .


The person who is sitting outside the booth right now? Hahaha . You must have been surprised . About 1500 books got sold during that time . Storm and Gale got 300 books as well . As a newcomer, I think that’s a great result . What do you think?


I can’t say anything other than thanks to the readers


‘Hm, idiot . ’


Dojun thought .


He thought of his girlfriend who liked books and called her .


-Hm, yeah .


“Where are you?


- I finished dancing practice, and I’m at the horse . I was about to call . Are you going to Gangwon Do? Tired?


“The same as you . Chelyn, do you know a writer called Ha Jaegun?


-Ha Jaegun? What novel?


“I’ve heard it’s Storm and Gale? The winner of the Modern Literary Teen Contest?


-I’m not sure? Hm… Ha Jaegun? OH! Yeah . The writer of a Dumb Woman? I was reading it on the car, and you asked me why I was reading a book with such a stupid title .


“I think so . ”


-It’s probably right . Um, I covered in sweat . Can I call you after I shower?


“OK . ”


Dojun searched up Ha Jaegun on Navin .


His projects were coming up in the profile picture .


A Dumb Woman was also there with Storm and Gale .


‘There’s an electronic book . ’


Since his girlfriend knew him too, he was interested .


Dojun bought the book and pulled it up . But before he read the 10th line on the first page, he couldn’t resist his fatigue and fell asleep .


***


The radio was heading towards its end .


There were many people who were watching . His dad, his mom, and his sister, Suhee, Jongjin and Somii as well .


Everyone wasn’t sleeping and was listening .


All people who were close to Jaegun .


Of course, there were others .


The son of the representative of Eunsung Publishing Group and editor Myungsuk was also listening in the study .


‘And amazing person . ’


A genre writer who came out of the sky .


Taking the Digital Literary Contest and the Modern Literary Teen Contest . A star rookie .


It was Myungsuk’s thoughts .


‘It’s hard to write pure literary novels when you’re used to genre novels…’


There were others connections .


Since Storm and Gale were published with Eunsung Publishing Group’s brand Sky Sam so he was a writer that Myungsuk had an interest in .


‘Phew…’


Myungsuk drank a sip of coffee .


He couldn’t stop the pain in his head . He was worried about one thing .


A brand with a mystery/horror novel was in planning, but he didn’t have any projects to release .


‘Everyone is just…’


On Myungsuk’s desk, there were many drafts of many writers . About 20 projects .


All of them, in Myungsuk’s eyes, were trash .


‘They send this saying it’s writing, what do they think? Do they think their name is amazing? These idiots who live off of winning just a few awards . ’


Myungsuk got angry and ripped up the drafts .


The drafts that many writers took days to work on dropped on the ground in rips .


Just then, a last question from the female radio announcer came into his ear .


-When do you think we can see your next work?


-It’s in planning . Just today, no yesterday because it’s after midnight, yesterday, I thought of a story . It’s about 10 hours since then .


-I see . What is it about?


-I’m not trying to hide, but I can’t answer it because I don’t know for sure . One thing I can tell is, I think it will be a mystery novel to find out why the college girl killed herself .


‘Hm?’


Myungsuk widened his eyes .


He heard it . Jaegun said a mystery in his show .


‘A mystery…?’


Only a few seconds of disbelief .


It wasn’t impossible for a writer like Jaegun to write a mystery .


‘I don’t know, but it might be interesting to see . ’


There was a good probability that JAegun might write something good as a mystery .


Anyway, Writer’s Night ended with the ending song playing .


Myungsuk turned it off and thought to himself .


If Jaegun wrote something great as a mystery, he was going to get a contract .


It was easy for the publishing company to market such a rookie like Jaegun as well .


Costs would be decreased, and readers would love the rookie as well .


‘I’m worried about Myunghoon, but this is a business . ’


Myungsuk took his phone and added a line in tomorrow’s schedule .


It was a meeting with Writer Ha Jaegun for talks about the mystery novel




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