Chapter 81
“I’m sorry, Dojun, I’m a bit late . ”
A manager in the 30s quickly opened the back door for him . He was waiting in the bas.e.m.e.nt parking lot .
Dojun got on and laid down .
“Can you turn on the radio . ”
“Isn’t it better to get a bit of sleep while you're going?”
“If it’s too quiet . I can’t sleep . Let me listen to it as a lullaby . ”
The manager turned on the radio .
There was loud pop music coming out of the speaker . Seeing the Dojun’s wrinkled face, the manager turned down the noise .
“Is this good?”
“I think that’s fine . ”
The car went out of the parking lot .
The road was a quiet one .
The manager drove with a steady speed .
“Ah wait! Do you know Writer’s Night?”
Dojun asked as they went into a toll gate .
The manager nodded his head and answered .
“I know . It’s Writer Park’s show . The show must have started a few minutes ago . There aren't not many views, so there’s a lot of worries . ”
“Could you turn it on . ”
The manager was surprised .
It was about one year since he got this job
Dojun wasn’t a person who like shows like Writer’s Night, But he followed his orders and changed the show .
- … As the winner of the Modern Literary Teen Contest, you had a signing meeting just recently right? Do you have anything that you remember memorable?
The female’s clear voice came out .
The manager turned the volume up .
Dojun listened with his eyes closed .
I’m surprised with the amount of people here today . There’s a lot of individuals who wanted to see Pyung Cheon Yu instead of Ha Jaegun .
Yes . It means that there’s a lot of fans of your genre novels . Do you think that the readers combined?
I think so . The person who directed the signing meeting was also surprised at some individuals .
The person who is sitting outside the booth right now? Hahaha . You must have been surprised . About 1500 books got sold during that time . Storm and Gale got 300 books as well . As a newcomer, I think that’s a great result . What do you think?
I can’t say anything other than thanks to the readers
‘Hm, idiot . ’
Dojun thought .
He thought of his girlfriend who liked books and called her .
-Hm, yeah .
“Where are you?
- I finished dancing practice, and I’m at the horse . I was about to call . Are you going to Gangwon Do? Tired?
“The same as you . Chelyn, do you know a writer called Ha Jaegun?
-Ha Jaegun? What novel?
“I’ve heard it’s Storm and Gale? The winner of the Modern Literary Teen Contest?
-I’m not sure? Hm… Ha Jaegun? OH! Yeah . The writer of a Dumb Woman? I was reading it on the car, and you asked me why I was reading a book with such a stupid t.i.tle .
“I think so . ”
-It’s probably right . Um, I covered in sweat . Can I call you after I shower?
“OK . ”
Dojun searched up Ha Jaegun on Navin .
His projects were coming up in the profile picture .
A Dumb Woman was also there with Storm and Gale .
‘There’s an electronic book . ’
Since his girlfriend knew him too, he was interested .
Dojun bought the book and pulled it up . But before he read the 10th line on the first page, he couldn’t resist his fatigue and fell asleep .
***
The radio was heading towards its end .
There were many people who were watching . His dad, his mom, and his sister, Suhee, Jongjin and Somii as well .
Everyone wasn’t sleeping and was listening .
All people who were close to Jaegun .
Of course, there were others .
The son of the representative of Eunsung Publishing Group and editor Myungsuk was also listening in the study .
‘And amazing person . ’
A genre writer who came out of the sky .
Taking the Digital Literary Contest and the Modern Literary Teen Contest . A star rookie .
It was Myungsuk’s thoughts .
‘It’s hard to write pure literary novels when you’re used to genre novels…’
There were others connections .
Since Storm and Gale were published with Eunsung Publishing Group’s brand Sky Sam so he was a writer that Myungsuk had an interest in .
‘Phew…’
Myungsuk drank a sip of coffee .
He couldn’t stop the pain in his head . He was worried about one thing .
A brand with a mystery/horror novel was in planning, but he didn’t have any projects to release .
‘Everyone is just…’
On Myungsuk’s desk, there were many drafts of many writers . About 20 projects .
All of them, in Myungsuk’s eyes, were trash .
‘They send this saying it’s writing, what do they think? Do they think their name is amazing? These idiots who live off of winning just a few awards . ’
Myungsuk got angry and ripped up the drafts .
The drafts that many writers took days to work on dropped on the ground in rips .
Just then, a last question from the female radio announcer came into his ear .
-When do you think we can see your next work?
-It’s in planning . Just today, no yesterday because it’s after midnight, yesterday, I thought of a story . It’s about 10 hours since then .
-I see . What is it about?
-I’m not trying to hide, but I can’t answer it because I don’t know for sure . One thing I can tell is, I think it will be a mystery novel to find out why the college girl killed herself .
‘Hm?’
Myungsuk widened his eyes .
He heard it . Jaegun said a mystery in his show .
‘A mystery…?’
Only a few seconds of disbelief .
It wasn’t impossible for a writer like Jaegun to write a mystery .
‘I don’t know, but it might be interesting to see . ’
There was a good probability that JAegun might write something good as a mystery .
Anyway, Writer’s Night ended with the ending song playing .
Myungsuk turned it off and thought to himself .
If Jaegun wrote something great as a mystery, he was going to get a contract .
It was easy for the publishing company to market such a rookie like Jaegun as well .
Costs would be decreased, and readers would love the rookie as well .
‘I’m worried about Myunghoon, but this is a business . ’
Myungsuk took his phone and added a line in tomorrow’s schedule .
It was a meeting with Writer Ha Jaegun for talks about the mystery novel