Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 224



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The moment the runaway girl who came to visit at 3 in the morning declared that she would live with another man, I felt the black flame dragon that was sealed deep inside my heart…

No, I had no choice but to release the seal on the ‘Confucian Dragon’.

What kind of people are we?

Aren’t we a nation of literati who elected public officials based on their writing skills, a nation of music and etiquette and literary style, a nation of scholars?

I felt as if the spirit of the Korean people for half a millennium was being applied to my body in the form of a hat and a robe, and I rebuked him sternly.

“Oh my – !”

“···?”

“They say that men and women must not cohabitate, but how can this commoner who hasn’t even shown his ID say ‘cohabitation’ so carelessly!”

Only then did Kim Byeol realize her mistake and blush at my harsh scolding.

“What, what are you saying…! When will I, go, live with you? Are you crazy, seriously!”

Correction, Kim Byeol blushed shamelessly, not realizing her own mistake.

I admired the thickness of the lower jaw and scolded Kim Byeol again for her mistake.

“Ah! My senior is sitting here!”

“okay!”

“That’s cohabitation!”

“······No!”

“why?”

“Because you’re going out.”

“···?”

EP 14 – The Future

The idea that Kim Byeol, a runaway girl who was suddenly faced with a period of upheaval, presented to me was as follows.

1. Kim Byeol lives in my studio.

2. I am moving.

3. Kim Byeol pays me rent.

Since I am not familiar with real estate transactions, I was a little confused and said this.

“Me too, Wolsen?”

“That’s right! I’ll give you that amount of rent.”

“ah.”

To sum it up, a runaway girl who doesn’t have the cooperation of a guardian (legal representative) but has a lot of money is trying to use my identity to conduct a roundabout real estate transaction…

It was a kind of false residence registration, or a transaction under another person’s name, but in any case, if it was caught at a National Assembly hearing, it would have been a misdemeanor that would have made the minister lose his job, but in everyday life, it was not felt as much of a crime.

“How is it? Are you okay?”

“It’s not okay at all.”

However, I firmly rejected the offer of the runaway girl who was trying to entice me to commit a crime.

It’s not that there’s a rule in Saebitneulbom Daycare Center that says you can’t hang out with runaways (no one follows that rule anyway), it’s just that I like the studio I’m living in now.

And Kim Byeol-do shouldn’t actually live here.

“Why?! Are you going to kick me out too? Don’t you feel sorry for me?”

“No, senior, you’re filming a drama right now.”

“ah.”

Kim Byeol couldn’t even think that far, so her expression changed and she started to panic.

“Uh, uh, what should I do? I have a shoot on Monday right after the weekend…”

I looked at Kim Byeol and tried to let out a sigh, but then a thought suddenly occurred to me and I stopped breathing.

Why is Kim Byeol, who is so upright, acting so foolishly?

It was only then that I began to come to my senses.

I was so surprised when a runaway teenager suddenly came to visit me at 3 in the morning that I didn’t even notice it…

Kim Byeol was not in her right mind right now.

Hadn’t he just lost touch with the space, people, and family he had known his entire life?

Kim Byeol’s situation was not much different from that of a chick that had lost its mother and been thrown into the wild, or a child from an orphanage who had grown old and been kicked out.

Well, isn’t Kim Byeol a child actress since childhood?

How can someone who doesn’t know how to make friends like his peers be able to easily find a place to live?

I realized that I wasn’t the type of person who would bicker with Kim Byeol like we did at school.

I had to come to my senses and take care of this guy.

“Senior Kim, come to your senses.”

“Huh… Huh?”

“Even if you and your mother can figure out how to resolve your relationship, it doesn’t make sense for you to be staying in this studio right now. Shouldn’t you be showing up on set? What about your manager? What’s your manager doing?”

“I don’t know, I don’t even want to look at it. I’ll just take a taxi···”

“If you take a taxi to the filming location, won’t there be a manager there?”

“······That’s right.”

“So, the best thing to do is to be honest with the company about the situation. If I ask them to change managers even though I don’t know much about them, won’t they change me?”

“Huh! I can change it for someone like you.”

“Okay. Then the manager will do that… What about your mother? But it’s not like you’re going to live the rest of your life without seeing her.”

“······”

Kim Byeol kept her mouth tightly shut.

It wasn’t like she was just sitting still, the blanket I had covered her with earlier wasn’t enough to ward off the cold, so Kim Byeol sneakily took my blanket that was rolling around on the floor and wrapped it around her.

“Huh······”

It seems like my body is finally starting to melt away a bit.

I got up from my seat, turned up the boiler temperature a few degrees, and came back.

Until then, Kim Byeol had remained silent, and I waited for her decision while watching her with her neck sticking out from under the blanket.

Finally, Kim Byeol opened her mouth.

“······With Mom.”

“······”

“I’m not saying I’ll never see you again, but I’d like to not see you for a while.”

“But if your mother is waiting at the filming location, you will see her face, right?”

“Ha, that’s true······”

Kim Byeol pouts her lips and then falls silent again.

But this silence didn’t last long.

“But I hope Mom doesn’t come looking for me at home. I guess I’ll just run into her at work, but… will that work…?”

“There’s no reason why it wouldn’t work. Why not find a house near Baekhak Entertainment, and instead of inviting the manager to your house, have Senior Kim go to work and take the manager’s car? Then how on earth would your mother know your home address?”

“Are you really a genius?”

Kim Byeol smiled brightly as if all her worries had been resolved in an instant.

But I knew that none of the problems Kim Byeol had were solved.

Because Kim Byeol and her mother’s relationship wasn’t something that could be resolved by hiding their home address (although that’s questionable).

So how should we solve this?

I don’t know.

How could I know that, having never had a relationship with my parents?

However, all I could do was to help guide Kim Byeol a little based on my own experience when I was thrown into society and floundered right after leaving the orphanage.

“Okay. Then let’s go look at real estate tomorrow. You have a lot of money, right?”

“Ah- of course!”

It was the confidence of a veteran actor who had already earned all the money he would need in his lifetime when he was young.

That’s why I said not to worry about celebrities…

I chuckled as I watched Kim Byeol’s brightened appearance.

“When you don’t have a budget, going around real estate is hard work, but when you have a lot of money, it’s a lot of fun. So, get some sleep. You’ll have to walk a lot starting tomorrow morning…”

“okay!”

Luckily, there was a space in the studio that could be used as a guest room, so I gave Kim Byeol a blanket and a pillow and pushed her into the guest room.

Kim Byeol, who pretended not to win and went into the room, looked into my eyes and smiled faintly before closing the door.

“······thank you so much.”

“ah.”

The sound of the door slamming shut before she could even answer was filled with her shame.

As if that embarrassment were nothing, less than 30 seconds later, a loud snoring could be heard.

You must have been very tired.

I smiled faintly because I felt sorry for the snoring, but also embarrassed and funny.

And that smile quickly disappeared, and worries filled the spot where the smile had disappeared.

“······”

Kim Byeol is not a pure person.

Even though his innate personality is pure, isn’t that how society is?

This world rarely leaves people pure.

Therefore, Kim Byeol, who started her social life too early, also lost her innocence and became an adult too early.

Envy, jealousy, malice…

Kim Byeol, who had become so accustomed to such feelings, had difficulty making friends, could not trust people, covered up her low self-esteem with bluff, and sometimes even displayed a delusional attitude.

The fact that Kim Byeol came to me at the most difficult and critical moment…

perhaps,

It occurred to me that I might have gotten too far into her enclosure.

Whether it’s friendship, affection, or a lump of emotions that you’re not used to feeling and can’t even tell the difference between…

Sometimes, the bond between people becomes a constraint rather than a relationship.

That shackle of fate, like that birthday party that day that dragged me out of the world where I thought everything was an illusion, may have been not me who held onto the rope, but the rope that tied me up and dragged me out.

“It’s difficult······”

As always, life has been difficult, then as now.

With that thought in mind, I returned to my room, quietly closed my eyes, and surrendered myself to the rushing water…

* * *

The next morning.

I woke up smelling something burning.

If it were a normal day, I would have woken up and walked out to the living room, but today, there were people around, so I ran my fingers through my hair and went out to the living room.

As soon as I opened the door-

I saw Kim Byeol crushing a chicken’s egg and placing it on a hot iron plate, burning the lifeless being with hellfire and boiling oil.

“Ugh···!”

In other words, it means that you tried to fry an egg, but you couldn’t control the heat, so you burned the frying pan and made a mess of the kitchen with oil splattering everywhere.

The moment I saw the black smoke rising from the frying pan, I knew something was wrong.

Kim Byeol felt a presence behind her and looked back with an awkward smile.

“Hey, are you awake···?”

“Get your hands off of me right now.”

Instead of comforting Kim Byeol, who was sullenly leaving, I mourned my precious fried eggs that had already lost their life as food.

‘Goodbye, chick···’

In my next life, I hope I can fly in the sky without pain…

I began to question Kim Byeol, who had sent the chick to heaven using the divine power that all Christian orphans possess, and then horribly murdered the chick.

“Hey! How can you kill a chick just because you wasted one egg?!”

“This chick was born to become a fried egg, but it died without becoming a fried egg, so the senior destroyed this friend’s purpose in life.”

“Yeah. You’re a liberal arts major. You’re great···”

I decided to be generous and forgive Kim Byeol for admitting defeat in the debate due to her lack of logic, considering that she ended up eating eggs instead of making me breakfast.

And I made two fried eggs that could be said to be ‘This is how you fry eggs!’ and gave one to Kim Byeol and ate one for myself.

“Put it on bread and sprinkle ketchup on it.”

“······Do you think I can’t do that too?!”

“Why are you so angry in the morning? Are you a choleric person···”

“hey!”

I suddenly realized that Guyuna couldn’t beat Kim Byeol with brute force (or martial arts), so I kept my mouth shut. It was because I didn’t want to get hit.

After finishing breakfast with the smell of burning oil, I got ready to go look at real estate.

That preparation was waiting for someone.

Beep, beep, beep-

The sound of pressing the door lock button.

Kim Byeol and I turned our heads toward the front door.

“Oh, someone is here.”

“You’re here.”

The door opened and he came in.

“Hey, why are you suddenly like this in the morning…”

Magi Hoon.

The walking resident registration card (suitable for real estate transactions) froze up when it saw us.

He looked at Kim Byeol and me alternately, then spoke to me with a slightly blank expression.

“Have you set up your household?”

* * *

Strictly speaking, it was not me but Magi Hoon who set up the household.

Ma Ki-hoon is living with his girlfriend whom he has been dating since his orphanage days, and the reason they don’t get married is not because they don’t have money, but because Ki-hoon’s older brother’s girlfriend, Moon Hye-jin, is attending college.

If a college student is married, isn’t that a bit odd?

Anyway, they decided to get married after Moon Hye-jin graduated, but Ma Ki-hoon was already in a common-law relationship with Moon Hye-jin…

Therefore, as a proper husband, he was by no means ignorant of housing subscriptions, monthly rent, and various real estate transactions.

“I’m so sorry about this···”

We drove around the real estate near Baekhak Entertainment in the company car that Magi Hoon drove.

As a result, by evening, we were able to find a fairly decent apartment and sign a monthly rental contract (in Magi Hoon’s name).

In the midst of this, Ma Ki-hoon, who found out how much Kim Byeol could pay in monthly rent, briefly thought of becoming a socialist, but after seeing the ‘compensation’ that came with it, he returned to being a capitalist.

“Thank you, great actress Kim Byeol!”

After Magi Hoon, who was smiling brightly, finished his overtime work over the weekend and left work, I had a brief farewell with Kim Byeol.

“Still, if you move next week, your schedule is pretty clear. Where are you going to stay until then?”

“Even if it’s a little expensive, I should stay at a hotel, right···”

Kim Byeol, who had just finished signing the real estate contract, seemed completely exhausted.

“I never knew the world could be this complicated···”

Kim Byeol had a slightly strange expression on her face, as if she had felt a lot.

I recommended it to Kim Byeol.

“Still, it’s better to be honest with the company about the situation.”

“Would that work?”

“It’s not a daily occurrence for celebrities to get into trouble, but when it comes to seniors, it’s considered minor.”

“hmm···”

“Anyway, the show must go on. It may be hard to trust the company, but the company needs to continue making money through its seniors, so I think it would be better to trust their position and have an honest discussion with them.”

“Okay, okay! I understand! Come in, come in!”

“Hey, even if you tell me···”

So Kim Byeol sent me away, treating me like a nagging person.

But on Kim Byeol’s face, which had a bright smile until the end, the shadows we saw yesterday had disappeared a little.

I sent Kim Byeol back with such a relieved heart.

So this incident has come to a close…

I thought it would work, but···

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.

It just so happened that the company that was supposed to help Kim Byeol had problems.

The next day, all the news reported the death of the ‘former’ Baekhak Group chairman.