Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 173



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 173

The word Gu Yuna heard most when she came to America was not ‘Hello’.

It was, ‘You just stay still.’

“that… Are you Yuna? “Can you do me a favor?”

Gu Yuna replied with a sad look in her eyes, ‘Hmph, why don’t you tell me something?’

Lim Yang-wook groveled as much as he could towards this grumpy and spoiled kid.

It was partly because she was the daughter of writer Gu Hak-jun, but it was also because I had heard of Gu Yu-na’s madness and eccentricities over the past few years with the writer.

“Never answer questions from reporters! never! never! “You can’t answer arbitrarily!”

“hmm… … .”

“request!”

Gu Yuna replied with a look in her eyes, ‘Hmph, I’ll do that especially,’ and nodded calmly.

Lim Yang-wook seemed to sense a familiar literary personality in Gu Yu-na.

In fact, the writer’s teachings were learned (or copied) from Gu Yu-na, so Gu Yu-na is the original author.

Therefore, the writer was much more familiar with the ‘dangers’ of Gu Yu-na than Lim Yang-wook.

This is because Moonin had 10 years of clinical experience that no one knew about.

“Yuna, just stay still.”

“… … ?”

“Don’t say anything at all.”

The writer knows that one of his nicknames is ‘the snout of hell.’

The nickname that was given right after the statement, ‘If a condom is found in a youth’s belongings inspection, they will confiscate it with clenched teeth, and if they become pregnant, they will treat it like a bastard,’ has continued to this day.

However, writers know what the real ‘mouth of hell’ is.

Compared to Guy Yuna, he was heaven.

Memories of the screams of countless sinners falling into hell flashed through my mind.

-Honestly, it doesn’t really resonate with me that a person who almost went to jail for touching a girl his daughter’s age is discussing the Godam Jun theory.

-No, I don’t particularly respect him. There are so many plagiarized works among old works…

-are you okay. Her sense of shame for losing to a kid she didn’t even know about was going crazy, and it was obvious that she was taking out her anger on her girlfriend. So you don’t have to apologize. After all, you’re just doing this to show off to others, right? It’s shallow.

“Ugh… … !”

I had accumulated 10 years worth of memories that felt like my mind was being destroyed just by recalling them.

I feel like my brain is being eroded. The writer took a deep breath and drove away the demonic energy that was slowly seeping into the Danjeon.

After finishing the fortune-telling breakfast, he said,

“Do you understand, Yuna? You must never make a mistake in front of reporters. “If you are in a situation where you have to give a straight answer, whisper to the interpreter and he will respond appropriately.”

It seemed like the level of warning was a bit excessive, so Gu Yuna was slightly upset.

“… … “You don’t trust me that much?”

The writer answered immediately.

“uh.”

Gu Yuna was convinced.

That’s what it was like to be a writer.

“okay. “I’ll be careful.”

It wasn’t a promise that would last very long.

EP 10 – Starry Sky

The reason Lim Yang-wook and Moon In were nervous as if they had a time bomb wrapped around their bodies, but allowed Gu Yuna to join them on their trip to the United States was because of California native Richelle Surface’s accurate judgment of public opinion.

And the public opinion wanted Gu Yuna.

-I really hope Miss Gu Yuna joins the schedule.

California has been a strong Democratic stronghold since the 1990s.

California is the western port that first welcomes Asian immigrants from across the Pacific, and is the border area where Hispanic immigrants from the south first settle.

It is a region that best fits the nickname of the United States, ‘melting pot of races.’

At the same time, it was also the state with the largest population.

Therefore, it is the U.S. Democratic Party that dominates local public opinion. The average tendency of citizens is also the same. And the Democratic Party aims for political correctness as its party platform.

And such correctness is based on multiculturalism, ecology, feminism, etc. Therefore, women are more attractive bait than men to attract the attention of Democratic Party politicians.

At this point, the problem is that Gu Yuna is missing.

Unlike Korea and Japan, which recognize the writer as the main writer and Gu Yu-na as an assistant writer based on their existing fame, in the United States, both the writer and Gu Yu-na are recognized as equal ‘new faces’.

Therefore, if Koo Yuna were to be excluded from the trip to the United States, there was a high possibility that it would escalate into a serious gender discrimination controversy.

And there were numerous companies that wanted to ruin Collins Press by causing such controversy.

Therefore, when Richel Surface heard about ‘Guyuna Risk’ from Yangwook Lim, the solution that came to mind was simple.

-If a child has so many problems… Can’t I just remove him as a co-author? We just promote it as a writer alone. It’s easier to focus… … .

Lim Yang-wook looked with a straight face.

-From then on, the literary world will become a bomb.

-ah.

* * *

Gu Yuna’s US tour, which started like that, was not as easy as expected.

Rather, it was disappointing.

When Gu Yuna decided to go to the United States, she did not expect an unusual tour. She is a manger and I am a golden spoon. Even though she is a middle school student, she has been to the United States three or four times.

However, I thought that through literary discussions, I would be able to spend useful time with writers, away from the ordinary men and women of Baekhak Yejung who were so boring that I wanted to die.

Because Gu Yuna used to get more teachings from writers than from school.

But there was no teaching or nabal or anything like that.

To be exact, there was no time to do anything else.

Capitalism, a restaurant with 200 years of tradition, was also serious about selling books.

Yuna Koo had to tour an area four times larger than Korea by plane and appear on all kinds of radio shows, interviews, YouTube, dinner parties, book launch events, charity parties, and politician support groups.

However, what was more painful than the tight idol-level schedule during the event season was the short-sighted and wasteful debate among countless people surrounding his novel.

What is important about who contributed more, the writer or Gu Yu-na?

Why do we meet so many reporters, YouTubers, celebrities, and politicians?

If you want to believe it, believe it, and if you don’t want to believe it, don’t. How many people get caught up in a bloody argument over the question of whether he is a ‘real’ writer?

It was full of things that I couldn’t understand.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland.

So Gu Yuna asked the white rabbit who brought her to this strange United States.

“Is it always like this?”

The rabbit wrapped in a blanket cried out excuses as if Alice, holding a butcher knife, had caught its ears.

“Let me make it clear that I only asked, ‘Are you going to come?’ and didn’t ask me to go with you… … .”

If you look at it closely, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was not a case of being kidnapped by a white rabbit, but a case where Ji chased after it and fell into Wonderland and was struck by lightning.

Yuna Gu also knew that, so she did not hold the writer responsible for the disappointing trip to America. Such things were only done by ordinary people whose emotions dominated their reason.

“That’s not it, I wonder if this is what publishing is all about.”

“Yeah, well… .”

“Was it like this in Korea too?”

“what?”

“Some people… .”

“rough?”

“No, you acted like a money-crazed maniac.”

“ah.”

The writer didn’t spend too long thinking about the answer.

Gu Yuna’s teacher took a sip of his appetite and answered calmly.

“Well, the United States may be a bit harsh, but in the grand scheme of things, Korea was similar. In our country, people tend to look at each other a little, so it’s just not noticeable… .”

“… … .”

“What can I do? “It’s a fight over food bowls.”

I couldn’t admit it.

To Gu Yuna, literature is ‘perfection.’

Gu Yuna’s attitude toward literature was closer to that of a practitioner cultivating the path to become a hermit, rather than that of a student learning academics.

Therefore, literature is a path of practice that transforms oneself from an incomplete being into a complete person.

Therefore, a novelist is a completed human being, and a novel is an art imbued with perfection. Just like the brilliance shown by her father, Gu Hak-jun.

Therefore, there is something more than money involved in novels.

This was precisely the reason why Gu Yuna could not tolerate the current behavior.

I don’t know about it, but Gu Yu-na had exactly the same thoughts as the aestheticists in the literary world who most strongly criticized Lim Yang-wook.

Literature is not for business.

“Why on earth aren’t you talking about novels?”

* * *

It was a dry, emotionless, and rude question.

Richel Surface, who was watching the interview, was shocked by the sudden situation, writer Yuna Gu was surprised because she didn’t know she had already mastered English, and Lim Yang-wook, who was talking about work with the staff in the corner of the set, also sensed the familiar aura of ‘fucked’.

Naturally, the person who came to his senses at this scene was the person who was most familiar with unexpected situations.

Jamie Schneider.

He is an interview host invited by Richelle Surface, and is a broadcaster, entertainer, movie star, voice actor, and journalist who has a TV show under his own name.

He had the ability to remain calm even in this situation.

It wasn’t even the first time I had experienced it.

So, ‘a situation where the interviewee deviates from the pre-arranged questions and shows unexpected behavior.’

Therefore, Jamie Schneider acted according to the principles he established as a broadcaster. As long as the cameras are on, the show must go on.

The interview proceeded naturally without any delay.

Jamie Schneider made a surprised expression because he had just asked the question, ‘How do you feel about the fame you have gained in America?’

“What does that mean? “Miss Manger?”

“I mean it as it is. I wonder. No one asked us about the novel. “It was all about sales volume, age, fame, and doubts about whether he was the author.”

Jamie Schneider was currently conducting an impromptu ‘show’ rather than a planned interview that his junior’s best friend had come across and requested.

A show should be fun.

So he asked this question:

“Then I would like to ask you directly. What do you think about the allegations that you are not the author of ‘The Starry Sky’?”

He thought this while asking the question.

‘I would say no.’

Jamie Schneider is a seasoned broadcaster and has already completed the script for this interview. The next question and the question after that already existed in his head.

When people look at the act of ‘interview’, they look at the answer of the guest, not the questioner.

However, it is the questioner, not the guest, who determines the answer.

The person who sets the question determines the answer.

Therefore, a skilled interviewer can control the interview from start to finish according to his/her wishes.

Jamie Schneider was the man with the ability to do just that.

It is a rare ability that comes from decades of experience as a broadcaster.

But Gu Yuna was a rarer case.

“That’s a meaningless question.”

Common sense does not apply to beings outside the scope of human understanding.

“I would definitely answer ‘no,’ but that would also be a meaningless answer. Who wants the ‘truth’ when Collins Press shouts the truth and Simon Publishers shouts lies? What people look for in the Colosseum is fun and blood. Therefore, the questions and answers to explain the suspicions are meaningless.”

Guy Yuna’s language was clear.

Jamie Schneider never expected to see this level of intelligence in a child so young.

Because his outstanding ability came from experience, he was not immune to things that were outside of common sense.

So, while I was distracted for a moment, Yuna Gu lost control of the interview.

“I also have a question.”

The reason Richelle Surface set the interview location to this recorded broadcast rather than the ‘Schneider Show’ was to intervene and stop filming at times like this.

However, Lim Yang-wook blocked this. Lim Yang-wook has more guts than Richel Surface. He caught a glimpse of the genius that writers sometimes showed in Gu Yuna.

The colors of their genius were strikingly similar. Yangwook Lim decided to walk there.

Therefore, Gu Yuna’s questions continued without interruption.

“Why on earth do people buy literature and talk about things other than literature?”

“that… … .”

It was because of its shallow and explicit nature. Jamie Schneider already knows the answer. But if I was going to say it, I had to choose a safer term.

But Gu Yuna was not afraid, so while Jamie Schneider hesitated, she came up with the correct answer herself.

“I’m not interested in difficult things like literature, but I want to show off by discussing difficult things, and it’s probably because I’m as amazed as a circus monkey that young kids have written books, right?”

Even if a writer is not well-versed in English, he or she can understand ‘Circus Monkey’.

So I realized what Gu Yuna was saying and closed my eyes tightly.

That was a topic he had planted in Gu Yuna.

Gu Yuna expressed her opinion about him without hesitation.

“I think it’s really strange. Ever since I was born, I have always been told that I am a strange child, but this time I think the world is strange. There are people who sell books because they say they were written by children, people who open their wallets because they say they were written by children, and people who criticize books by saying they were written by children… … .”

“uh… … .”

“It’s also sad at the same time. Nowadays literature doesn’t even get people’s attention without such vulgar appeals, right? “I think it can’t be helped since there are more than one person who has to make a living from this, but I guess it’s far from what I think of literature.”

* * *

Among humans, there are those who are born with their humanity castrated.

These are people who cannot feel the emotions that humans should have.

Without hesitation, they threw themselves into a rain of arrows, jumped into a task that everyone shouted was impossible, and rushed forward in a short period of time even with hundreds of thousands of armies in front of them.

The ancients called those with inhuman bravery heroes, not idiots.

This is how Jamie Schneider felt when he saw Gu Yuna. That was the mind of the Greeks looking at Alexander the Great, and the heart of the Chu people looking at Xiang Yu.

‘Brave!’

Gu Yuna was not afraid of the tens of millions of people beyond the camera.

It means I don’t care what you say.

In an age where the words coming out of the tongue and fingers are killing more people than ever before, this was no different from jumping into a pike with a long spear.

Of course, it could have been that he was a child who had no idea about the world, so he was fearless.

However, Yuna Guy’s intelligence, insightful from Jamie Schneider, refuted that suspicion.

Gu Yuna was a child who ‘knew’ the world.

Courage done without knowing is a vain act, but courage done with knowledge is a virtue.

To repay that honesty, Jamie Schneider asked Yuna Guy the question she desperately wanted.

“then… “Shall we talk about literature?”

“great.”

Gu Yuna nodded happily. Of course, her expression was still dull, but Jamie Schneider’s keen senses sensed that her girl was beaming with joy.

Looking at it this way, there were some pretty cute corners.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been caught up in an interviewee to this extent. This hasn’t happened since I took off my rookie tag…

Jamie Schneider asked the next question as if it were a pleasant conversation rather than an interview.

“What prompted you to write this piece?”

“… … .”

“… … ?”

Gu Yuna was silent. And he hesitated.

Jamie Schneider was embarrassed. Is this such a difficult question to answer? It wasn’t a jab thrown to embarrass the opponent…

However, Gu Yuna cannot easily answer that question, and is unable to say anything as she fidgets with the hem of her skirt in an anxious manner.

For someone who had just said to the camera, ‘Talk about literature, you dirty bastards,’ this was a bit funny.

The writer was more embarrassed than Jamie Schneider. Unlike others, she was a writer because she was able to interpret Gu Yuna’s facial expressions.

And Gu Yuna’s expression now… … .

It was ‘shame’.

Fortunately, Gu Yuna, who had the courage to say ‘You vulgar bastards’ in front of countless viewers, was able to overcome her shame and succeeded in answering.

He wiggled his fingers, looked at the ground, looked at the ceiling, and looked at the boy next to him for a little while… … .

“just… “I had something I wanted to tell someone.”

After answering like this, he turns his head away calmly.

Jamie Schneider looked at that, twitched his eyebrows and smiled slyly.

It wasn’t that difficult to guess who that ‘someone’ was.

The viewers probably felt the same way.