Chapter 45


Big Life – Chapter 45 – Follow Me If You Can


The quiet study had only the keyboard sound clicking


Myunghoon couldn’t control his nervousness . His glance was on the computer for hours straight .


Myungsuk was reading for 2 hours straight .


It was a draft of Myunghoon’s novel . Since it was his brother’s novel, he was reading it with more concentration .


The time read noon now .


Myungsuk finally lifted his body as he finished reading . Waiting for this, Myunghoon asked a question as he stood up .


“How is it? Is it good?”


“Hm… . I think it might be hard for the Modern Teen Literary Contest . ”


Myungsuk was saying as he was rubbing his back .


Myunghoon dropped his head .


He was about to the enter the contest . Dead line was the day after tomorrow .


It might be hard…


He wasn’t waiting for praise, but he was asking for, this is pretty decent at least .


‘… . . ’


He lost his focus in one go . .


“The sentences are clear and this is pretty good for this . I always tell you this, but your wording and sentences are great . But the story is shallow and has no depth . ”


Myungsuk was saying the same thing as before .


“The time that you could win with just good sentences is gone . Yo0u have to think of the entire story . The story that this contest picks is only one . And the standard is way too high . ”


Myungsuk tapped his brother’s shoulder and added .


“There’s the Gaunnuli Contest, try that . The awards are more than 1 and there’s a better possibility . ”


Myunghoon couldn’t say anything .


The contest that Myungsuk said right now wasn’t a huge difference in standard compared to the Modern Teen Literary Contest .


The award for the grand prize was 1 million dollars and it was way more than the Modern Teen LIterary Contest .


But Myunghoon had no reason to get the prize . He had way more than enough money in his household . He wanted to enter specifically the Modern Teen Literary Contest .


There was a reason .


He wanted to gain recognition from his father from getting an award from a respectable contest .


And furthermore, from Suhee too .


It was a high standard contest, but he had a place that he trusted . That was because, one of the judge, Professor Kim, was friends with Myungsuk .


‘If brother could just help…!’


Myunghoon knew how good his brother’s connections were . He had huge amounts of contacts . He was expectedly waiting for his brother to give him the honor and glory of winning the Modern Teen Contest .


After a brief pause, Myunghoon said .


“Um, Professor Kim…”


Beeppp!


The vibrations on the table cut him off .


Myungsuk immediately picked up the phone and took the call . ”


“Yes, Professor, hello . How were you . Yes yes, I’ve been doing good too . I guess you must be tired waiting for the judging . ”


“… . !!”


At the mention of judging, Myunghoon’s eyes widened


It had to Professor Kim’s call who was judging the contest .


“Ah, yes, Professor, ah Really?”


Myungsuk replied and stood up . He felt Myunghoon’s glance and moved the study next door .


‘What is this . ’


It felt weird . Myungsuk wasn’t the person to move away unless it was an important call .


And the calling person was the judge Professor Kim .


Myunghoon went outside and stood next to the door his brother went in . Putting his ear next to the door, he could slightly hear Myungsuk’s voice .


“Ah that writer who won the Digital Literary Contest? Yes Yes, the name is… . Ah Ha Jaegun . ”


Myunghoon widened his eyes and listened closer .


He didn’t mistake it


Myungsuk said the word Ha Jaegun .


The name that made his blood curdle .


But he didn’t understand why that name would be mentioned in a call with Professor Kim .


Myungsuk continued .


“It was a person who writes very well . A Dumb Woman . Yes, you read it too? Hahaha . Yes I know . That person entered the Modern Teen Contest, he must be a writer who writes very enthusiastically . ”


“…?!”


Myunghoon’s breathes became quicker . It was a huge shock that he couldn’t even move . There was no blood on his face anymore .


“Yes, Professor, I will come . Yes, I’ll see you there . Good work . Yes . ”


Myungsuk ended the call .


Myunghoon went straight back to his seat . And then the door opened and Myungsuk came back in .


“Professor Kim?”


Myunghoon calmly said to him .


Putting the phone in the charger, Myungsuk nodded .


“Yeah, about a dinner appointment . You know that I’m going to a publishing company . Professor Kim made the spot for me . ”


Myunghoon nodded his heavy head . He didn’t care for anything other than the name Ha Jaegun .


“Professor Han Hesun is also coming . Do you hear . She’s a great person? Learn from her . ”


Myunghoon could only look at the red carpet on the ground with fierce eyes .


Myungsuk said as he lifted his jacket on the chair .


“Why is your face so stressed? You can write again . Let’s go eat . Lunch . ”


“Help me . ”


“What?”


Myunghoon lifted his head slowly


The two eyes were shaking like an earthquake .


“Help me edit . ”


“… . let’s eat separately . ”


Myungsuk didn’t hesitate and went to the door . Myunghoon went quickly and blocked him .


Myungsuk’s face was already fiercely wrinkled .


“Move . ”


“Help me one more time . Please . Last time . Please . ”


“I said last time was the end . I don’t want to be a son that lies to his father . Move . ”


Myungsuk pushed him away .


But Myunghoon couldn’t give up


He couldn’t especially after the fact that Jaegun entered .


“Please . ”


Myunghoon blocked the person that he depended on the most in this world and held his arms .


Myungsuk’s jacket fell to the ground .


“It’s an easy job . If you put your connections and editing skills, this will be easy . Like the last book, help me . And just say something to Professor Kim . yeah?”


“This guy… . !”


Myungsuk’s two eyes were about to break


To think his brother would plead this much .


He was asking to edit and he was asking to basically bribe the judge .


“Oh Myunghoon, there’s a line that you can’t cross . Do not say that in front of me again . ”


Myungsuk lifted his finger in front of his nose .


Myunghoon couldn’t say anything because Myungsuk was really mad . He could only swallow his breath .


Myungsuk pushed the door .


After the door, a long corridor appeared . Two maids were cleaning the windows .


Myungsuk went farther and farther away .


The shivering Myunghoon shouted to him .


“You knew Ha Jaegun was my colleague . ”


Myungsuk slightly stopped, but he quickly went back on .


“Why do you make a person feel terrible! Just call in front me! Who said I needed you to move? If you’re going to help me, just help me!”


The shout rang through the hallway .


Myungsuk had already disappeared .


But his shouts didn’t stop .


“That guy was a guy whose books didn’t even odd in tot eh stores! And I lost to that guy? That guy was a guy who wrote nonsense to get a few cents! There’s no pride?! Say it!”


Myunghoon hit the door as hard as he could


The cleaning maids shivered slightly, but they didn’t turn around at all/


Myung Hoon’s personality was well known to the maids as well


“Dang it!!!”


Myunghoon turned around furiously .


He could see Myung Suk’s jacket next to the door .


He kicked the jacket in hatred of his brother .


It was that time


A paper came out of the jacket .


‘What… what?”


He saw the name Professor Kim on the paper .


‘Is it the judge’s names . ’


Myunghoon looked through the names


It was the judges of the Modern Teen Literary Contest .


It had the names and contact information of the great literary people in their respective literary genres .


Myunghoon soon lost interest and threw it .


The paper flew through the wind . Hearing that sound, Myunghoon thought of a great idea .


‘AHhh… . !’


Myunghoon’s two eyes opened .


He picked up the paper and sat next to the computer and opened the word document .


‘I need to tell that Ha Jaegun and Pyung Cheon Yu are the same person . I wonder what the literary writers would say if they heard about this…’


Jaegun didn’t tell any of the audience that he was writing a fantasy novel with a pen name .


There was no need to know why


He just had to tell the people this .


Myunghoon’s ten fingers flew across the keyboard . For some reason, this went many times faster than writing his own story


***


“Give us two servings of tofu . ”


“Yes . ”


Somii turned back and laughed .


“This place is good . You’ll like it too . ”


“I know . ”


Jaegun answered as he sipped a drink


It was about 1 pm .


It was after the workers lunch time so it was not crowded at all .


“I’m sorry, I know you’re busy . ”


“No, I’m not busy . Don’t care . ”


Jaegun got Somii’s call who said she was going to buy lunch .


He wasn’t really comfortable either .


Somii was a StarBooks employee . There was no reason for Somii to meet him unless for a good reason .


‘Is it for the sequel . ’


The time was good for now .


He finished all the novels he was working on . The Modern Ranking series and the Pegelon series .


The book for the Modern Teen Literary Contest was done too . There was at least 2 months till the announcement .


‘I don’t have anything I want to write… . ’


This was jaegun’s problem


He didn’t want to write anything about martial arts or fantasy . So he was wondering how to cordially decline Somii’s offer .


“The tofu is really good . Eat some before the main comes in . ”


Somii gave the dish to him .


Jaegun smiled .


It was true that meeting with Somii was fun . She was a good person to be with and she helped him a couple of times too .


‘She got prettier . ’


In Jaegun’s eyes, Somii was more mature and showing more feminine ability .


The turtleneck sweater and the brown shorts . With that, the black stockings and the sneakers showed the end of the fall .


He was slightly disappointed to


It felt that the college girl appearance disappeared .


And to be true, the end of the year was close .


He felt as though time went by very fast .


“What do you think that much . ”


“No, nothing, but I guess the editor is busy?”


“Yes, he is . Really . ”


Somii only said that .


Tewon stayed in StarBooks for now because of work or something . He said he would tell Jaegun the day he was leaving .


“And that, writer, I wanted to say . ”


“Say it . ”


Jaegun put his chopsticks done . It was probably about to be about the sequel .


But he was wrong .


Out of Somii’s smiling mouth, a conversation was coming out of her that he didn’t expect .


“How do you think about your novel becoming a webtoon?”


“Webtoon?”


“Comic KT gave an offer . They want to put your Modern Ranking series into a webtoon . You know comic KT . ”


“Ah yes…”


Jaegun knew them . They were the webtoon company that only did webtoons .


They had a top five presence in webtoons in the county and they had a huge audience and respect rate .


“And so I wanted to meet now to ask you . ”


Jaegun blankly stared at Somii .


Somii smiled as she slightly shook her body .


She understood that she didn’t really need to ask Jaegun’s answer .




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