Life Turnaround with Vitality Experiment! - Chapter 103



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“Did you find it?”

“uh.”

Bae Jeong-min pointed to the inside pocket.

“I have ten million won in cash here right now.”

“Huh? Why did it shrink?”

I was planning to bring 30 million won until I left.

“Oh, you said it was hard because the bank employee kept flirting with you?”

“······?”

“He kept asking me questions like, ‘Why are you picking me?’, ‘Who are you talking to?’, and ‘Can I give you a check instead of cash?’”

He whipped his hair around.

“He keeps dragging his feet on talking to me, somehow… I guess he’s interested in me.”

“······.”

I was wondering what you were talking about.

“Aren’t you just worried that I might fall for voice phishing?”

“Hey, no. I told you the way you looked at me was different.”

“But why did you only take out 10 million won?”

“He said that if I wanted to withdraw all 30 million won, I would have to call the police.”

“I suspect that’s voice phishing.”

“No.”

Bae Jeong-min shook his head confidently.

“Have you ever heard of the swinging bridge technique? It’s when you deliberately make the other person flustered and make their heart race. Then, you make them think that they like you. They do this on purpose to seduce me.”

“······Idiot.”

I knew this kid was lacking.

When I see you speak with such confidence, I don’t want to talk to you any more.

“Let’s just eat.”

“Are you shooting?”

“Yeah, Inma.”

“Okay.”

I went into a nearby restaurant.

“Auntie, please give me two servings of pork and rice.”

“yes.”

The table was set in an instant.

Focusing on the main side dish, pork.

A bowl of plain rice and soybean paste soup.

Stewed potatoes, spinach, cucumber kimchi, stewed mushrooms, and perilla leaf salad.

But of all of them, the one I like the most is…

“They even gave me yogurt for dessert.”

“Yeah, this is a man’s side dish.”

This is what you get for a 6,000 won pork belly rice bowl.

If it were close to home, I could eat 3 meals a day, 21 meals a week, 90 meals a month if I went to work.

The lady came over and asked if it looked nice to see us munching on food.

“Oh, you’re eating well. Should I give you more food?”

“Yes, aunt.”

“me too.”

Bae Jeong-min and I each received an extra bowl of rice.

Oh my gosh-.

“Wow, it was delicious.”

“It’s delicious.”

It’s not a restaurant that’s famous enough to be talked about on the Internet.

At this point, I ate well and at a good price.

“Auntie, I need to calculate.”

“Two pieces of pork and two bowls of rice for 18,000 won.”

“······yes?”

What the hell is this?

“Isn’t plain rice included in the pork and rice meal?”

“No, the basic one comes out. But you added it.”

“······No, you said your aunt would give it to you.”

“Where is there such thing as a free lunch?”

The lady shamelessly pointed to the menu.

-Air rice: 3,000 won.

Plague.

You ask if I want an extra bowl as a favor, and you’re not giving it to me for free. You’re charging me for it?

And all that while receiving 3,000 won for a bowl of plain rice?

“6,000 won for two servings of pork and rice, with two bowls of plain rice. That’s 18,000 won.”

“······.”

Bae Jeong-min, who was standing next to me, looked like he was about to swear at any moment.

“are you okay.”

I reached out and stopped him.

“You just have to pay.”

He took out a 50,000 won note from his pocket.

“what’s this?”

The aunt who received the bill tilted her head.

“What the heck is this? It’s covered in tape.”

“I accidentally ground it in a shredder.”

“Oh, really?”

My aunt accepted the 50,000 won note as if it was nothing special.

Click-.

Open the safe and put 50,000 won in it.

I returned 32,000 won in change.

“Come again next time.”

“He will never come.”

He snatched the money away and left the restaurant.

When we were about 10 meters away from the store.

Bae Jeong-min, who had just emptied the yogurt bottle, leaned toward me.

“That’s the money you just paid, right?”

“uh.”

The 50,000 won note that we created with our own money!

“You didn’t suspect anything at all?”

“Of course. It’s a normal bill to begin with, so why would you be suspicious?”

“That’s true.”

There’s no point in having doubts in the first place.

It’s real money, so what can I do?

“So, have we really realized our profits?”

“yes.”

I made 250,000 won with four 50,000 won bills.

“No, why do we need the trickle-down effect, the Seoul New Deal, and things like that? This is the creative economy.”

“That’s what I mean.”

What I’m going to do from now on has been decided

“Then shall we start working from today?”

“Okay.”

***

Sarak!

Jiik-.

widely!

Cut and tear off 50,000 won bills, then combine and stick them together.

Since I came into Bae Jeong-min’s house, I’ve been repeating that all day long.

Anyone who sees it will think it is very easy.

Because every time you do this, it increases by 50,000 won.

But this was quite different from what it looked like.

‘My eyes are going to pop out······!’

It was a more delicate task than I thought, having to hit the exact 3/4 mark on the bill.

“How much have you done now?”

“I think it’s been about 4 hours.”

“No, I mean the workload.”

“About 80 sheets?”

“then······.”

It’s 4 million won.

“But we’re only increasing by 1/4.”

“yes.”

“then······.”

1 million won.

“······hmm?”

The money is growing slower than I thought.

“I did it for 4 hours and only got 1 million won?”

Hourly wage: 250,000 won.

But if I split this in half with Bae Jeong-min.

“125 thousand won per hour?”

Bae Jeong-min scratched his head.

“Isn’t that okay? The minimum wage these days is ten thousand won.”

“No, kid.”

“why?”

“I feel like my shoulder and eyeballs are going to fall off right now.”

“That’s true.”

“But we have a basic body price.”

I also earned a lot of money when I was working on the script.

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Even if that weren’t the case, I’m going out to a professional baseball game and pitching right now?

Then how much is one poem worth!

“I have reached a point where I can no longer be satisfied with an hourly wage of 100,000 won.”

“You little bastard······.”

Bae Jeong-min shook his head.

“Then should I just set up a workshop?”

“······Let’s start a company?”

“Oh. Just hire people. We’ll play behind the scenes. It’s literally possible to have an automatic hunting system.”

“Are you crazy?”

Even if it’s not counterfeit, it’s a problem.

“This isn’t something to be proud of.”

“That’s true······.”

If even a rumor spreads outside, it will be a headache.

“Then what should I do?”

“I don’t know.”

He put down the bills he was holding.

“And above all, there is another, bigger problem.”

“What now?”

“It’s not fun.”

Dopamine is not released.

“This kind of simple, repetitive work doesn’t stimulate my brain.”

“······.”

“I need a tingling pleasure for my brain.”

“In that case, I might as well do drugs.”

“That just won’t do.”

There’s too much to lose.

And one more thing.

“I saw it in the detention center, and drug offenders were really unbearable.”

“okay?”

“Oh, they weren’t human.”

Shivering when it’s cold.

Even when it’s hot, I shiver.

I was just blankly staring at the camera and then I started laughing.

“Oh my, just thinking about it is horrible.”

“Drugs are so scary.”

“I will do anything else but never do drugs.”

“Okay, I understand for now.”

I don’t know about anything else though.

One thing is certain.

“I don’t like this bill game.”

I gave up on any further work and got up from my seat.

“It’s not fun!”

“I actually got 3 billion won in my bank account, but my stomach was so full that it almost burst.”

I lay down on the sofa and turned on the coin purse.

-Bitcoin: 7,218,000 KRW. (-8.11%)

“Wow, Bitcoin has completely fallen.”

“I told you, the coin market is hell.”

What was worth 30 million won not long ago is now barely over 7 million won.

“I still can’t get in······.”

Should I just play some real sports?

But that still releases dopamine.

“Or should we go on a trip?”

“What kind of trip?”

“I thought about it in prison, and I thought it would be a good idea to think about things I want to do while traveling abroad.”

“That’s not bad either.”

Bae Jeong-min shrugged.

“Do what you want. I’ll help you with whatever you want.”

“······hmm.”

When you say it like that, I feel even more troubled.

Since I can’t decide on a direction easily, I just keep roughly dragging the coin window with my phone.

Jiiing-.

Suddenly, a call came in on my cell phone.

-Sender: Hong Ah-hyun.

“······Hong Ah-hyun?”

Why am I suddenly getting a call from him?

I was hesitant about whether to accept it or not.

I heard from Bae Jeong-min that when I was in prison, no one thought of me as much as this woman.

“Ahem. Hmm.”

I cleared my throat and answered the phone.

“Yes, Ah-hyeon.”

-······Mr. Seokjae?

Is that because it’s been a while?

The voice sounded quite unfamiliar.

-Well, how have you been?

What should I say?

I feel like there’s a subtle tremor.

“Isn’t it a little funny to ask someone who just got out of prison how they’ve been?”

-No, wasn’t that modern art anyway?

“······That’s true.”

Oh, that’s right.

Because other people wouldn’t think that I really went to prison and suffered.

“By the way, how about Ah-hyun’s house?”

-yes?

“It might have burned down there too.”

-Oh, that’s right······.

Hong Ah-hyun answered gloomily.

-It’s a total mess. Especially Runkeyban’s work······.

“omg.”

By the way, it was Hong Ah-hyun who bought my art piece.

“Did you ride that too?”

-Yes. I didn’t even have insurance, but I lost it.

“······.”

That’s really unfortunate.

It was such an expensive purchase······.

“I will give you another piece of work as after-sales service.”

-······Really?

“Yes. I will give it to you sometime soon.”

-Awesome······! Thank you!

Hong Ah-hyun was genuinely happy, as if she had not expected it.

hmm.

Actually, I still have no idea what I’m going to draw.

‘I guess everything will work out somehow.’

I think it would be okay to just buy some paints from a stationery store and paint on the canvas.

Because modern art is something that can be interpreted in different ways.

“So where are you now?”

-I’m currently with my agency.

“Are you planning to stay there?”

-No. I came to the company because I had nowhere else to go. There is a sleeping room here, but······ it’s not a place I would want to stay.

“Well, I guess so.”

If it’s someone like Hong Ah-hyun······.

“Are you staying at a hotel? Like a suite or something?”

-I don’t know.

She answered sullenly.

-Actually, even though it’s a hotel, I feel a little uneasy.

“but······.”

We were close friends, and he acted like a pushover a lot.

Hong Ah-hyun is still the top of the top actress in South Korea.

It means that wherever you go, you are bound to get noticed.

“Where are your parents’ house?”

-That’s a pass.

I was curious about the reason, but I couldn’t ask any more questions because of the firm tone.

“So you have no place to stay now?”

-I guess I have to decide.

The person who thought of me and tried to take care of me has nowhere to go?

I suddenly felt sympathy.

Maybe that’s why.

The words came out impulsively and without me knowing.

“Then would you rather come this way?”

-······yes?

“You know my friend, Jeongmin?”

-Uh······I know.

“That friend also lives in Hannam The Hill. A different building.”

-yes?

“I decided to stay there. There are plenty of rooms available here.”

-······?

“Would you like to come and stay with me until I find a proper place to stay?”

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