Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 213



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 213

What is love?

I don’t know.

I don’t know, even though I’ve been in a relationship for 10 years.

But the love I know feels like this.

Whether it comes from memory or imagination, I hear a nostalgic voice in my ear.

So don’t turn on the heating. They say that if you sleep in a cold place, your mouth will turn.

Yuna, you don’t know the fear of city gas bills.

I guess it’s only the bills that scare me and I’m not scared?

Eerie-

A cold chill spread all the way to my bones, so I got up from the bed and quickly turned on the heating.

One way or another, Yuna is the only one who thinks about me. I’m so thankful that sometimes I cry even in my sleep.

I belatedly realized that it was early summer and turned off the heating, but I didn’t even erase the topic I had been waiting so long to get to.

It’s love!

The love I want to deal with is not my love, nor is it the love of ‘Love Story’, but the love that Ahn Joo-hee and Im Song-i follow.

It is the love covered in countless dramas that have made literature old-fashioned, and the love followed in countless love songs that fill the streets.

What on earth was that love that covered the world?

You don’t know what love is.

What you guys are doing is not dating.

It’s an obsession.

To find the answer, I decided to go to the person who told me I didn’t know love.

EP 13 – Cheonbun Comics

“What is love?”

“Puuuuup – !”

I regretted buying Gu Yubin a mango yogurt smoothie.

If it was just something like iced Americano, wouldn’t it have been easy to clean off?

Sugar, yogurt, and mango flesh (which Gu Yubin chewed gently) completely covered my face.

It felt like pieces of mango got into my mouth and eyes.

Tears come out.

“Aaaah! sorry! sorry! What should I do with this… … ”

It was not difficult to find Gu Yu-bin, who had become a slave to Baekhak Entertainment for a few coins, shattered all her pride as a novelist, and was writing the ‘Rapid Boys’ Yongbieocheonga.

If I went to Baekhak Entertainment and told Gu Yu-bin to come out, that would be the end.

It was like that. Gu Yu-bin is currently in , which I rejected…

– No, I was writing .

This is not strange since he was originally hired as a concept designer for Benibis’ album.

At that level, it was a job that could easily become a career among the side jobs a novelist could do.

Anyway, I only invited Goo Yu-bin, but it was a bit difficult to kick out the Rapid Boys, the first management manager, and Director So Tae-woong, who came rushing out together, and Director So Tae-woong, who I couldn’t understand why they were there, but anyway, I covered Goo Yu-bin one-on-one. This wasn’t a difficult task.

However, wiping off the ‘Guyubin secretions’ that stuck to my face was not an easy task.

It was hard work to wipe off the sticky sugar and fruit particles, but it wasn’t an easy task to have the employees rush out and make a fuss and get strange looks from people around them.

How on earth did I end up getting hit in the face with the ‘juice’ of the great villain Gu Yu-bin?

It’s deplorable… It’s deplorable…

“Ooh, cry… ? really?!”

“I didn’t cry.”

As I looked at Gu Yu-bin’s pupils spinning round and round in bewilderment, I saw the cool look of a second-generation chaebol on the face of this innocent newcomer to society.

Of course, she was not a chaebol, but a quasi-chaebol, but the Gu Yu-bin I met as an adult was truly a person with the aura of a second-generation chaebol villain in a drama.

Moreover, since he was someone who could not be said to be shallower than me in terms of literature, he would even say and do things that made it seem as if he could see right into my heart.

I don’t hate you because you’re an orphan.

You hate yourself for being an orphan, but Yuna is trying to put a band-aid on it.

no? When I read the novel, I heard it was just whining all day long.

Do kids these days say being hurt by someone else’s words is ‘scratched’?

I have rarely been scratched by Ms. Min Chae-won’s words.

She was a person buried in a class mindset as she was from a wealthy upper class, and the reason she disliked me was also because of her wealth and origin.

And it’s not my fault that I was born without money and without parents. These are all things that were decided before I was born. So you can be proud.

However, Gu Yu-bin used a speaking style that seemed to bring out the dark and squishy parts hidden deep in my heart and tear them to shreds.

To me, these were words and actions that left an almost traumatic wound, but at the same time, they were evidence of Gu Yubin’s affection for her younger brother, her ability to see through people, and her genius literary intelligence.

But in the face of novels, resentment is meaningless.

This is especially true if the resentment has disappeared beyond the rift of time.

So, in the spirit of Gucheon, the King of Wol, who was lying on a bed licking his gallbladder in order to achieve a great cause, he extended his hand to Gu Yubin…

In the end, Gu Yubin had to taste the mango kernels she was chewing.

“Gwae, are you okay…?” ?”

It’s not okay, but since I endured this humiliation, I must achieve a great cause.

After cleaning up the mango-covered space, we ran out of the company cafe and moved to the 7th floor.

As if it wasn’t a luxury office building, there is an in-house cafe on the first and seventh floors. To be honest, I thought it was a waste of money for President Baek Seung-won, but I had an accident on the first floor and escaped to the 7th floor, so I benefited from it today.

After sorting out the situation, I asked Gu Yubin again.

“Let me ask you again… “What is love?”

Gu Yubin still couldn’t hide how sorry she was to me, but she blushed and hesitated in answering.

“Well, it’s difficult… ”

“What.”

“It’s a difficult question to answer… ”

what?

Could it be that he is a mother-in-law who has never even been in a relationship? (Correct answer)

Oh, that can’t be true.

Just a few years later, Gu Yu-bin would pour out words of contempt and disdain at me with a relaxed and arrogant smile and say, ‘What do you know about love?’

That Gu Yu-bin is a Ssuk-maek who has never been in a relationship since she entered university? (hit)

“Have you ever been in a relationship? ?”

“Ah-what are you talking about! Of course I tried it! “There were a few men who said they liked me!”

“… … ”

I realized the truth from Gu Yubin’s clumsy fake.

Did you… Was it something like that…

The fact that a person who has never been able to love has been interfering with his younger sibling’s love life may be a bit disturbing, but it is already in the past, no, it is gone, so there is nothing you can do about it.

The only thing I’m curious about is, if you’ve never been in a relationship, why are you bragging when you say you haven’t tried it?

Love is not a medal.

Anyway, this is what Mosols are like…

I thought that if Gu Yu-bin had heard, her nerves would have twisted and she would have coughed up blood, but I kept a close eye on Gu Yu-bin’s actions without showing it on my face.

Gu Yubin is so excited! greatness! Clearing her throat, she leaned over the table, glanced around, and then nudged her head towards me.

“so… “Who do you like?”

“… ?”

“Is it Yuna? or not… Byul Kim?”

“… … ”

“under… Now you are old enough to do that too. “Just talk to your sister.”

* * *

“Oh yeah? It was a novel story. I… again… “You misunderstood!”

Gu Yu-bin, who was wrapping up the conversation by saying, had a red bruise on her forehead.

As soon as I told him I was reporting on a novel rather than dating advice, I let out a silent scream and twisted every joint in my body.

I watched Gu Yubin with pitiful eyes as she danced like a hacked android.

In the end, Gu Yubin was able to gather her mental strength after putting her forehead down on the table to normalize the software.

“… … ”

“… … ”

However, the conversation did not start easily, probably because Gu Yu-bin showed a lot of things she could not see today.

People are so…

Although I felt pity for him, he seemed a bit ugly, so I was able to shake off some of the resentment from my past life.

Without knowing it, Gu Yubin urged me to speak while I was silent.

“Well, why don’t you say something… ?”

“Ah yes.”

Both drinks ordered on the 7th floor were iced Americano, not yogurt smoothies or anything like that. It is true that the drink was ordered so that it would be easy to wipe off even if it splashes on your face.

But as expected, the taste was a bit bad, so I frowned at the bitter irritation but neatly got to the point.

“I recently toured the script work and filming of a drama. I think you might already know because you heard it from Yuna… ”

“Ah, I heard that Lim Song-i has been visiting artist’s studio these days.”

“yes. From what I felt there, the main topic of so-called popular scenarios was always ‘love’. “I’m struggling to find something to write about these days, but if I’m not going to waste my time like this, I’m going to study popular beauty.”

“So you asked me what love is?”

“Yes. “This is not relationship advice.”

“Keuhum!”

“Anyway, the form of love that has taken over the media is like when you just asked me if I was dating Yuna or Kim Byul… ”

“Please, please stop talking about that… ”

“It’s a love based on interest.”

“Umm… ”

As I watched Gu Yubin’s expression become more and more serious, I saw the past again.

It seems a bit old now.

Even though it’s reluctant…

It means trustworthy.

“I first saw it that way. Regardless of categories such as Eros, Agape, and Philia, the love depicted in popular culture is shallow, provocative, and expedient. But it is also powerful enough to almost kill published literature and conquer the world.”

“You can see it that way…” ”

“I wonder what beauty is there. What is the artistic power of readymade love and instant love? “What on earth is it that makes drama writers earn billions of won in annual salary?”

Gu Yubin didn’t think long.

He snapped his fingers once and pointed at me with a relaxed smile like a detective finding a criminal.

“good! “Let’s first get rid of jealousy toward drama writers.”

“Is it too obvious?”

“I don’t mean to not understand! They are similar writers, but one makes a lot of money, and the other is a bit… You’re staggering. “I hate web novel writers so much these days.”

“It looks like you’ve experienced some of the bitter taste of work life.”

“These guys from Baekhak Entertainment may not look like that, but they are secretly salty… ”

Gu Yubin playfully pretended to cry and then began to give me advice in earnest.

“First of all, I think the view that drama writers view ‘love’, or rather, the ‘love’ that dominates mass media, as different from general love is novel.”

“but?”

“yes. but? That love has nothing to do with the decline of published literature. “To begin with, our origins are ‘romance’ novels, which are cheap love stories scribbled on paper.”

“ah.”

“So, if we put aside the differences between books and videos, and the differences between media, and focus on why people are so passionate about the topic of ‘love’ that you mentioned… ”

Gu Yubin smiled slyly.

“After all, it’s lust.”

* * *

“I see love as nothing more or less than a chemical reaction caused by hormones.”

Park Chang-woon’s thoughts were vaguely similar to Gu Yu-bin’s, but they went one step further.

“Actually, everything is like that. There is no romance in this world! “Isn’t it all just mechanical, structural clicking, you see?”

Park Chang-woon smiled mischievously and made a ‘clack-clack’ sound with his fingers.

I don’t know what it means, but Park Chang-woon’s eccentricities mostly originated from Internet memes, so I thought that was roughly it.

When he saw that I didn’t respond, he looked upset and leaned back in his chair, as if he wasn’t having fun.

“You know… My novel and my literary worldview are a bit structured, right? Hierarchical… ”

“It’s Marxist.”

“Thank you for not calling me a communist or a leftist communist.”

Park Chang-woon continued speaking with an expression of no thanks.

“I am a person who participated in the anti-dictatorship and democratization movement, and when I was young, I read some strange books. And then, materialism… “It’s a bit hard to call them enemies, so I just thought they’d gotten away with it and decided to listen to me.”

I glanced at the fellow teacher sitting next to Park Chang-woon causing an earthquake and nodded.

“When people fall in love, do they fall in love just by looking at their faces? Oh my. “There are times when people fall in love with money and family reports.”

“hmm… ”

“I really need to be snobbish and cling to that person! Not like this! If you just say he’s rich, doesn’t that kind of feeling well up deep inside you? “Aren’t you like that?”

“I used to hate rich people when I saw them.”

“There were some real commies.”