Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 188



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 188

Baekhak Arts High School is quite serious about club activities.

This is not to foster free creativity in students by breaking away from cramming education that forces them to memorize only textbooks, but of course it is for entrance exams.

And when it comes to entrance exams for art high school students, specs are more important than grades!

Moreover, as the Baekhak Art Foundation has a tradition of making money, a tight budget supported the club’s activities.

However, club activities are part of trying to get into a good university.

And a good university is a place where you go to become a great artist.

But great artists receive something like a Hugo Award.

So which club has a Hugo Award winner?

“Isn’t it just the best club?”

Min Hyo-min actively agreed with Kim Byeol’s miraculous logic.

“Right. Right.”

But An Joo-hee could not understand it.

It’s not because I couldn’t win the Hugo Award,

This is because the legitimacy of the Hugo Award could not be acknowledged.

“That’s a rigged election!”

“…!”

“…!”

A second-term politician (student council president) from Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Ahn Joo-hee’s stormy exploded!

EP 11-All kinds

In fact, the shady suspicions surrounding the Hugo Award selection process were not really a secret.

In the first place, it cannot be a secret as it is black propaganda spread around the neighborhood by ‘Simon Publisher’, the staunch enemy of ‘Collins Press’.

Therefore, now that some time has passed, the context of what happened at the time has been revealed quite accurately through post-mortem verification.

– …Is this really election fraud?

– Shh! be quiet!

The conclusion, as Simon Compressor said, is that the consensus among experts is that it was not a fair election.

But then or now, the reason Collins Press won the Hugo Award debate is not because their logic was legitimate.

People just wanted to see an Asian girl who had been slandered by a large corporation called ‘Simon Publisher’ defeat the devil with a spectacular K and O punch.

Therefore the truth is not important.

What people are passionate about is fiction.

The genius girl from across the sea became a hot topic through an interview and was slandered by a large company, but eventually defeated the villains and returned home with a Hugo Award. So the fairy tale had a happy ending.

Everyone is satisfied and proud of the story.

However, on top of that, he said, “This year’s World Science Fiction Contest was completely tainted by manipulation, and the reason was that Baekhak Bookstore organized an election campaign in advance to gain an advantage in the Hugo Award selection vote, disrupting the fairness of the Hugo Award…” > If you mumble blah, blah, you might get hit.

In this case, awareness is important.

Even in the United States, it was a festival atmosphere, and in Korea, it was an even bigger festival, but in the middle of the festival, people who say this is a fact and spit out harsh words can be nothing more than a serpent.

This is something that only so-called cyber experts, who are fed up with conspiracy theories, think they are right, are nerds, do.

Sohee Ahn was exactly that kind of person.

“Even famous foreign bloggers acknowledge that this Hugo Award voting was not fair… !”

At that time, Ahn Joo-hee felt three eyes on her.

Actress Kim Byeol, who won the Cannes Best Actress Award.

Min Hyo-min, a member of a self-proclaimed tier 1 girl group.

And Gu Yuna, born as ‘Gu Yuna’.

Fortunately, Kim Byul and Min Hyo-min were smiling and glaring with narrowed eyes, but Gu Yu-na had an expressionless expression and was staring at herself with dark eyes.

Ahn Joo-hee belatedly realized that she was the weakest member of this classroom.

But it was too late.

Min Hyo-min quickly got up from her seat and put her arm around this bold friend who claimed that her best friend’s Hugo Award was fake.

“The Hugo Award Yuna received… is fake?”

“Gah, I didn’t say it was fake…!”

“Are you the head of the Hugo Award jury?”

“…!”

Writers sometimes joke that the youth contest is a place of slaughter where children kill and kill each other.

But the reality is crueler.

Large entertainment companies lock up children and make them kill each other. That is the training method of idol trainees.

Therefore, Min Hyo-min, who survived there, was already a completed ‘warrior’.

“Or is Yuna the head of the Hugo Award jury? huh?”

“Hee, hee hee…!”

“Answer me. “Is Yuna the head of the Hugo Award jury?”

“Oh, no…”

“Then you should go to the Hugo Award jury president and ask, why are you questioning Yuna? huh?”

“Well, well, that…”

Ahn Joo-hee tried her best to escape Min Hyo-min’s ‘shoulder companion’, but she could not shake off the strength of the human weapon that digested 8 hours of hard training like eating a meal.

In order to survive, Ahn Joo-hee looked for Moon Ji-seop, the only person in the classroom who was on her same side, but Moon Ji-seop from ‘New Light Spring’ had long since run away to Min Hyo-chan’s side.

‘This kid is trying to live alone…!’

When Ahn Joo-hee cursed Moon Ji-seop and the world,

In the end, Kim Byul dissuaded Min Hyo-min.

“stop. Why are friends so discouraged? “If you stop, you will understand.”

“Ehehe. “I asked because I was curious.”

Min Hyo-min, the cute youngest member of Benibis, was left out this time, managing her image with cuteness.

However, Min Hyo-chan shook his head and clicked his tongue at his younger brother’s ugly appearance.

While Min Hyo-min went into ‘battle mode’ again and attacked Min Hyo-chan, Ahn Joo-hee, who had become a fool, did not give in to the oppression and stood in front of the teacher’s table again.

And, imitating the spirit of the university scholar Galileo Galilei, who quipped, ‘But the Earth still rotates’ after the Inquisition (he didn’t say that), he complained, ‘Still, there’s something wrong with this club.’

“Well, still! “I don’t think club activities should continue like this!”

Min Hyo-chan, who wanted to finish the meeting quickly and continue running through the dungeon that he couldn’t complete earlier, gave me a rough answer.

“Then what are you going to do?”

“You have to learn literature!”

“how?”

Finally, Ahn Joo-hee was able to reach her original goal.

In fact, this was the reason Ahn Joo-hee joined this club.

“Literature… ! “How about you teach us!”

Min Hyo-chan answered immediately.

“Hey, I taught web novels to writers. Can I skip it?”

“Where is that?”

“You’re so strict… ”

Min Hyo-chan suddenly kicked the writer who was typing on his laptop keyboard as if he were writing a novel.

“hey. “Can you teach us?”

“Me?”

“why? You don’t like it? “If you do this, I will hit you.”

“what… There’s nothing you can’t do. Would you like to at least take a look at the novel I’m currently writing?”

“I? why? Nope?”

“……”

This time, the writer who had the habit of saying, “Why do I-I don’t like it,” looked as if he had chewed something.

But surprisingly, Kim Byeol readily expressed her approval.

“Really? “Would you like to learn it?”

“Senior Kim said he was going to miss out because he was filming a drama…”

“no it’s not?! “I’m on a break?”

“It’s not like there’s no work?”

“what. I said I was taking a break from work. “How are you doing these days?”

Min Hyo-chan muttered with an expressionless expression.

“Okay, okay. I also take a break from work. “It’s never like there’s no work.”

“……”

“……”

The Cannes Best Actress Award winner and the Hugo Award winner can make fun of each other.

However, you should not make fun of a boy group member who is going through a dark period after losing an album.

That’s too much…

However, when Ahn Joo-hee, a common literary scholar without a human heart, was given the opportunity to write ‘a writer’s writing’, she jumped out without paying attention to the solemn atmosphere.

“okay! Let’s take a look!”

“what?”

“show me!”

It was much faster for Ahn Joo-hee to intercept the writer’s laptop than for the writer to say, ‘Well, take a look…’

Moon Ji-seop, who was quietly making his presence known, followed along to see the interesting sights, and Kim Byeol and Min Hyo-chan, who pretended not to be like that but were secretly interested in the writer’s writing, also quietly poked their heads in.

Gu Yu-na, who had become Min Hyo-min’s love doll, belatedly tried to join, but was unable to escape from Min Hyo-min’s embrace.

“Now, wait a minute…!”

“Let’s see…”

The members, who had mercilessly abandoned the stragglers, huddled in front of their laptops.

And then I saw the first page.

“Sixteen years ago, the worst crisis in Minha’s life ended quite reasonably. Her boyfriend wasn’t bad enough to run away from a pregnant woman in school uniform, and he wasn’t stupid enough to insist that he could raise her child until the end.

‘sorry. ‘Let’s do surgery.’

‘huh.’

‘I’ll tell your parents.’

In fact, Minha hoped to become a single mother raising a child in an underprivileged environment. It wasn’t that she loved her boyfriend or child, it was more of an excuse, as she wanted to prove her innocence and goodness to those who threw stones at her.

But now, sixteen years later, I tend to think that my boyfriend’s opinion was right. As I reached my early thirties, I realized that life is not as pure as I thought, and that humans are not particularly sacred beings.

This is how Minha ended his worries about mid-term abortion during his childhood. It was not necessarily a matter of distinguishing between good and evil; it was just a common ordeal of fate that all humans face. And in the face of trials, humans must choose to survive, not to be good.

Therefore, Minha, who did not waste his life at a young age, became an ordinary wage worker and lived a very ordinary life. Thoughts about my childhood mistakes, mistakes, or choices were sometimes intense, but not to the extent that they interfered with my daily life.

Minha’s biggest worry these days was about changing jobs. There is a company that offers a raise, but it is small and far from my home. But now, the big and small shit I feel at work keeps coming back to me. But doesn’t the new job suck?

Such common concerns were Minha’s biggest headache.

But one morning, the moment Minha saw a baby with a crushed face staring at her, she instinctively knew that the existence originated from her.

“I also realized that things like changing jobs have now become trivial issues.”

“……”

“……”

“……”

Min Hyo-chan, who was scrolling in everyone’s silence, gave a short book review.

“Do I really have to fucking learn this?”

* * *

Lim Yang-wook, a 26-year-old new employee, had ambitious aspirations to rid himself of corrupt old-timers and become the savior of the publishing industry.

Lim Yang-wook, 36 years old and flabby, was the salvation of the publishing industry and lived the life of a superfluous person stuck in an underground parking lot, wishing only to get off work.

Ultimately, in the present, Yangwook Lim has become the savior of the publishing industry.

And I found out just how much work these old, corrupt people were actually doing.

Because I became a part of it.

“Hey Team Leader Kim, is this all you can do?”

“sorry!”

“Ha… I’m going to spin.”

Just as a soldier’s main enemy is an executive, an employee’s main enemy is an executive.

Lim Yang-wook, who has had executives as his main enemies throughout his life, also knows that the employees who receive his scolding think, ‘Isn’t it going to work out if I just change it from above, you idiot?’

But all Lim Yang-wook could do was yearn for it. I can’t intervene in Team Leader Kim’s work and help him. After this, we need to find Team Leader Park and Team Leader Choi.

So what on earth does Yangwook Lim do?

We have to detect that the eldest son of Baekhak Group is putting people on the board of directors of the bookstore in an attempt to ruin President Baek Do-hyun, we have to find out what Kyosensha and Collins Press are trying to do with their pranks, and we have to find out about the fact that a new writer who signed a contract with a publishing company has made a major mistake. We have to stop it from leaking out, we have to stop Team Leader Park and Team Leader Choi from siding with Team Leader Kim, we have to listen to CEO Seung-Won Baek’s complaints about why there is nothing wrong with entertainment while they share the same building, and the directors of Baekhak Bookstore invite him to the golf course to socialize. I have to follow along, as President Baek Seol’s only close associate, I have to assist him in making political decisions, I have to visit and treat big novelists before they start crying that they are being neglected, I have to attend the Baekhak Literary Award judging panel to select the winners, and I have to give orders from time to time from Executive Director Kim Myeong-woon. I also have to get rid of it…

Anyway, I’m busy as hell.

In the meantime, the life of an executive was to fly away like a fly if performance was not good, so Lim Yang-wook was scolding his subordinates today as well.

However, Lim Yang-wook was a returnee who was unfairly expelled but was revived as a knight with his cheat ability. He is in a position where it is not strange to have a status window, but he can sometimes use cheats.

‘Director’ Lim Yang-wook gave work instructions to ‘President’ Baek-seol.

“president. “Would you like to go and see what Inseop is writing next?”

“I-I guess so…”

Baek Seol looked very uncomfortable.

“Why are you doing that?”

“I feel like an ugly adult who looks to Doraemon every time something doesn’t work out…”

“Inseopemong is nice.”

Lim Yang-wook, who was ugly and had no conscience, went to Inseop Emong without hesitation.

Lim Yang-wook, who burst into the studio carrying a beef gift set, tore down the writer as if he were torturing a subordinate.

“Inseopemong! I need money! “Give me your next project!”

“Director Lim, did you eat something wrong?”

“……”

The embarrassment was Baek Seol’s share.

Baek Seol, a slightly less ugly adult, first asked how I was doing.

“Author Moon, are you feeling better these days?”

“Oh, yes, it’s okay. “I’m sorry for causing you worry.”

“No! No! I guess writers are a bit mentally sensitive… so that can happen sometimes. “If we had known you were having a hard time, we should have looked into it a long time ago…”

Baek Seol smiled worriedly and took a quick look at the writer’s condition.

During the past few months of seclusion, Baek Seol naturally visited the writer several times.

It wasn’t like people back then…

Fortunately, it looks a lot better now. Her hair was neatly trimmed, her complexion improved, and more importantly, she didn’t speak depressed and looked like a normal person.

Baek Seol, who had been feeling guilty internally, felt that the heavy heart of Baek Seol had become considerably lighter.

However, the writer went one step further and even introduced his next work with a light smile.

“I have a project I am currently writing. Would you like to take a look at it?”

“ah! Great! “I’ll definitely see it!”

Baek Seol smiled brightly.

Without even knowing that a minute later, that smile would disappear.