Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 177



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 177

The new year has dawned.

As adults welcome the start of a new year, they cry like children, saying, “I don’t want to get older,” but children go on adventures with their hearts pounding.

This is because the school year changes.

Children’s world is small. The classroom is everything in the world. So, just by changing the school year, you are faced with something new that feels like the world is changing.

You don’t know whether it’s innocence or ignorance that makes your heart beat at such a small unknown.

However, if that small classroom is the whole world, leaving that world and going on an adventure would definitely require great courage.

Right here, there was a transfer student who went on a long adventure with such courage.

“Wow… ”

Students wearing stylish school uniforms lightly stepped into the school gate filled with light pink cherry blossom petals.

Even though he was wearing the same school uniform, the transfer student hesitated and fiddled with his clothes.

Still, he feels like he is not good enough to mix with these amazing students.

There was a clear hierarchy in this world, and the upper world seen from below seemed like a different world.

Everything is unfamiliar. The school that looks bigger than the university, the peers wearing pretty school uniforms, the employees of the security company guarding the school gate, the wealth that can be felt in the air…

It feels like I’m literally crossing the border of a new world. The transfer student swallowed his saliva and stepped beyond the school gate, feeling like he was jumping into an unknown world.

It was the campus of Baekhak Arts High School.

EP-11 Mankind

The life of Moon Ji-seop, a student at Saebit Spring Orphanage, begins at a certain moment.

He is a weak child who was crazy about soccer, and he is a self who believes in his own talent and grows steadily.

One word of advice came to me one day and changed everything.

– In my opinion, you are better at studying than soccer.

I asked my friend who was sitting in the corner of the playground to play soccer, and he said nothing. Ji-seop Moon answered without a second of hesitation, ‘Yes, fuck it, I’m going to play soccer.’

However, the moment I heard that the friend turned out to be an unprecedented literary genius and that a broadcasting station was coming to cover him…

That advice belatedly tightened Moon Ji-seop’s heart.

The wandering sentient being asked the prophet.

– Teacher, can I really succeed through studying?

Then the wise man answered.

– okay. I guarantee it. Your talent is equal to or better than mine!

– … !!!

That’s how Moon Ji-seop’s hell-asura study life began.

I went into a study room at an orphanage that I had never been to before, asked my homeroom teacher to get a stock of workbooks for teachers, and spent my meager pocket money on studying…

‘If you kick a ball at me even once during recess, I will cut off your toes!’

– he solemnly declared, and then scolded the teacher not to say anything disgusting.

But Ji-seop Moon really quit soccer. Considering that soccer balls exude a terrifying magical power that mesmerizes elementary school boys, this is truly superhuman patience.

However, if studying was something you wanted to do, academies wouldn’t be making a lot of money like they are now.

Moon Ji-seop, who walked the long path of studying asura in hell, suffered from the delusion of Mara evil spirits from time to time.

– Will you succeed if you study? Let’s just play…

– Eunju seems to like you… Should I try dating?

– How about eating malatang with your pocket money?

-Why do you study while sleeping at night? At your age, you can sleep…

It was a fatal temptation, but Ji-seop Moon, a student at a Christian mission day care center, knows how to drive out Satan the devil.

When Jesus fasted and prayed in the wilderness for 40 days, the devil came and tempted him, but he defeated him with this one word.

A person lives only on bread…

“Go 喝 -!!!”

Moon Ji-seop’s ‘Lion of the Lion’s Hood’, written by Moon Ji-seop, who became crazy after reading the Bible and a martial arts magazine at the same time, was somewhat effective.

Moon Ji-seop, who had driven away sleep and temptation with the Lord’s protection and the pure power of Jeongjong Mu-gong, breathed a sigh of relief.

“Whoa… … ”

But this too is only a moment of peace. If I started studying again tomorrow, the same delusion would come.

The topic of conversation was thrown.

Why do you study?

There is nothing I want to do when I grow up to be successful, and life at the orphanage is too satisfying for me to want to get out of the orphanage and have a better life.

Then why do you cling to asceticism?

That’s right…

An unbelievable word that I overheard in my childhood.

– You are better suited to studying than playing soccer.

“ah.”

At that very moment, a lightning-like realization struck Moon Ji-seop’s mind.

The reason you study is not because you really believe what you say.

Rather…

Even though he was the same age and in the same situation, he wanted to become like ‘that boy’ who made a name for himself in the world and generously helped his classmates at the orphanage.

At that very moment, Ji-seop Moon realized what he longed for and what he wanted to become.

I came to admire “novelists”!

* * *

After the realization that day,

Moon Ji-seop’s goal changed to Baekhak Arts High School.

In the past, it would have been impossible to pay tuition due to tuition, but thanks to the orphanage’s finances, which were suspiciously rich, tuition was not a problem.

Still, it wasn’t easy. Studying is studying, but there is a practical evaluation in the creative writing department entrance exam. And in that practical skill, it is difficult for children who have just learned literature to surpass those who graduated from an arts middle school.

What’s more, this school year, students and parents who heard the news about the ‘literary man’ came out in droves. With the competition level sky high, it was very difficult for Moon Ji-seop to be accepted into Baekhak Arts High School’s creative writing department.

But Ji-seop Moon accomplished that difficult task.

Literary talent should not be discovered late.

Ji-seop Moon’s secret to passing the exam is only one.

‘Overwhelming results’.

That’s right, Moon Ji-seop was really a kid who was better suited for studying than playing soccer.

The reason Moonin brought up the topic of studying in the first place was because Moon Ji-seop had a record of entering the best university among orphanage students.

Therefore, when children with outstanding literary ability entered school by supplementing their written records (grades) with practical skills, Ji-seop Moon succeeded in entering school by replacing his lack of literary skills with overwhelming grades.

In this way, Ji-seop Moon gained the right to reunite with the writer.

* * *

“Phew… ”

Soothe your nervous mind,

Ji-seop Moon swung open the sliding door of the classroom.

And as soon as I entered the classroom, I looked for the writer and rolled my eyes.

However, what Ji-seop Moon encountered were not writers, but students who turned their heads to look at him like a group of meerkats.

Thanks to the students showing their faces, Ji-seop Moon learned that there were no writers in the classroom.

But why are the children in the classroom also looking at them like meerkats?

At that moment, Ji-seop Moon noticed a subtle disappointment crossing the children’s faces.

At first glance, that disappointment was similar to what I felt.

‘Ah, I see… ‘

It was like that.

‘Are you also looking for a writer…? ‘

The students sitting in the classroom were also waiting for the writer. Every time a new friend comes in, he turns his head like a meerkat.

Ji-seop Moon willingly joined the meerkat group.

And just like them, every time a new student entered the classroom, I would turn my head to check their face.

In this way, the group of meerkats increased from seven to seventeen, and Ji-seop Moon’s neck bones were also complaining of pain.

Moon Ji-seop said somewhere, ‘Kkekeut…’ ‘ The street heard laughter. She was the girl in the back seat who had just come in.

The girl was flirting with another girl sitting next to her and laughing at those around her.

Moon Ji-seop secretly watched their conversation.

“It seems like everyone is looking for a writer?”

“Wait a hundred days. Is a writer coming…? ”

Moon Ji-seop was startled and spoke to them.

“Do you know any writers?”

“… !”

“… !”

The two female students were surprised and looked at Moon Ji-seop blankly. Moon Ji-seop made a lame excuse.

“No, you said it as if the writer wasn’t coming… ”

Moon Ji-seop felt sick to his stomach because he felt like he had been labeled as a shady boy who eavesdrops on other people’s conversations (that’s right).

But fortunately, the answer that came back to Moon Ji-seop was ‘Ugh…’ Upset… ‘ It was a strange feeling of flattery.

The two female students smiled while looking at Moon Ji-seop.

“iced coffee… You don’t know? ‘that?”

“I don’t know… Unless you are from Baekhak Arts Middle School… ”

The two female students in front of me seemed to have gone to middle school with the writer.

Moon Ji-seop asked a question with an earnest expression.

“what is that? Please let me know too… ”

By nature, knowledge is precious and cannot be shared carelessly. However, Moon Ji-seop’s appearance was a luxury item with sufficient ‘persuasive power’.

The two female students cleared their throats and released their bundle of knowledge.

“This is a secret… ”

“huh. huh.”

“Moon In-seop is in hiding right now.”

Cheating?

Moon Ji-seop also knew what seclusion was. This is thanks to the news that the nursery school physical education teacher always swears at in front of the TV. Isn’t that what politicians who are busy with elections are doing?

Otherwise, would a scholar not be a practitioner of any kind of path, but cut off ties with the world and seclude himself in a corner of his room? Such a successful novelist.

“why?”

“We don’t know that either.”

Moon Ji-seop tilted his head with a puzzled expression.

“But today is the entrance ceremony… ”

“You didn’t even come to the graduation ceremony. Are you going to come to the entrance ceremony?”

“… !”

Then, the writer…

Are you saying that you are truly a bad student among bad students, missing the graduation ceremony and the entrance ceremony?

As Moon Ji-seop made a shocked expression, the two female students gathered their appetites to expose each and every detail of the delinquent student Moon In-seop that others did not know about.

However, Moon Ji-seop’s feelings were something the two female students had never expected…

“amazing!”

“huh?”

“As expected, it’s Inseop. How can we do something we can’t do without thinking… cancer! “If you are a student at Saebit Spring Orphanage, you must have that kind of spirit!”

Of the two female students, the one who managed to keep her wits about her spoke to Moon Ji-seop about common sense.

“that… “Shouldn’t you feel a sense of problem when you see someone who misses graduation and entrance ceremonies?”

“It’s not? “Isn’t it thrilling?”

“Did you get electrocuted?”

* * *

Popularity or topicality.

This invisible resource was something that was slowly consumed over time. Actor Kim Byul, who went through 10 years of dark times, knew that fact better than anyone else.

However, the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival brought so much popularity that it was difficult to waste it. It is truly an undying honor.

Kim Byul did her best to consume that popularity.

Not only because the agency wanted it, but because it was so popular that everyday life was impossible.

Fortunately, popularity is a consumable. Kim Byul consumed popularity through commercials, popularity through entertainment, popularity through participation in next projects, and popularity through time.

After maintaining a schedule similar to that of an idol in his prime for several months, a break finally came.

This was the life of an actor.

It is a repetition of active periods and rest periods.

Because my job involves rowing when the water comes in, I’m busy during the active period, and there’s really no work during the rest period when the water is gone.

However, for the first time, Kim Byeol took a break, not a break from work, but a break from activities because she was exhausted and couldn’t do any more.

Only then was Kim Byul able to reflect on herself.

Her appearance in the mirror was still pretty and fresh, but she looked quite tired and had grown a little taller.

Overall, it is not much different from before.

But Kim Byeol faced a big change.

It is an invisible change.

What Kim Byul has been doing over the past few months can be summarized as exchanging ‘popularity’ for other resources.

And Kim Byul exchanged popularity for fame and money.

As a result,

Kim Byul became an S-class actor and became even richer.

“… “Keuhum!”

To be honest, it’s not S grade, it’s somewhere between A+ and S- grade?

In any case, it has risen to a level that cannot be compared to the past when it was below C. Now all you have to do is stop drinking and driving, use drugs, have an affair, abuse power, and gamble.

After reflecting on herself like that, Kim Byeol began to look around when she had some free time.

And of course, the ‘surroundings’ that Kim Byeol had to look around included writers.

That was natural since he was Kim Byeol’s friend and benefactor.

However, when Kim Byeol tried to check on the writer’s condition, the writer was no longer there.

No matter how much I searched, I couldn’t even find a snout.

* * *

“Where on earth are you!”

Kim Byul often ridiculed celebrities who caused controversy. Did she achieve the fame and fame she so desperately wanted, but then do something stupid and blow it away with her own hands because she couldn’t take care of herself? I’m really full.

But after experiencing it, I understand. People have no choice but to live their lives causing trouble, big or small. Because he is a celebrity, it is not a ‘mistake’ but a ‘sin’.

Therefore, Kim Byeol had to endure it and ended up resorting to abusive behavior towards the director of a large company.

It was a very vulgar and base evil act, saying that if you didn’t answer, he would use his power and put you in a bad situation.

However, fortunately, Director Lim Yang-wook, head of Baekhak Bookstore’s publishing management division, did not criticize Kim Byeol’s abuse of power to the media, but instead obediently went along with the threat.

“Useup… Don’t say I told you… ”

After several weeks of long fighting, Kim Byul received an address from Lim Yang-wook.

“This place… ?”

It was a quiet Jugong rental apartment.