Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 138



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 138

‘Fired’ does not mean losing your job.

There is more to this than ‘no salary from next month.’

Dismissal means that all the hard work, loyalty, joys and sorrows, time, and interpersonal relationships that a person has devoted to the company have gone to waste.

A financial crisis breaks a person down, but a mental crisis makes a person unable to rise up.

Yangwook Lim knew a lot of ‘people who couldn’t stand up.’

After the publication management TF team was disbanded, Lim Yang-wook and his colleagues were kicked out of the nest called Baekhak Bookstore and thrown into an urban jungle made of concrete.

There is no mercy in the cruel laws of the jungle. Difficulty living, divorce, serious illness, depression, difficulty finding a job, jumping into the Han River… … .

Of course, not everyone met an unfortunate fate. However, someone met an unfortunate fate. Because that is the cruel law of nature.

Yangwook Lim suddenly remembers wearing a black suit and black tie to the funeral of an employee who was six years younger than him.

His hair was about to start falling out, so he didn’t look like a person.

However, former co-workers he met at the funeral did not show any sign of hesitation and smiled wryly, happily sharing a glass of soju with him.

okay. It was like that back then… … .

What were you thinking at that time?

Do you regret that if you had done a little better, you could have prevented the team from disbanding? Guilt over the death of a young employee? A desire for revenge that will definitely avenge this grudge?

Or, am I obsessive about not being like that?

“ha… … .”

I don’t know.

I don’t know everything anymore.

It was so long ago.

Emotions are substances that quickly volatilize. The more poisonous it is, the more it becomes so.

The feeling of self-destruction when accepting the failure of the TF team, the shock when finding oneself looking like a crazy person in the mirror, and the resentment that had built up while spending two years in an underground parking lot have now become blurred.

Emotions as blurry as fog cover my eyes.

But one thing is clear: I survived in this jungle today.

That’s all.

“In terms of company management, we are actively linking with affiliates within the group to improve our position in the global market and diversify our one-source multi-use model… … .”

Looking at President Baek Seol stuttering through the inauguration speech,

Lim Yang-wook had that thought.

EP 9 – Sound

The political structure of conglomerates is closer to ‘feudalism’ than ‘capitalism’. It means medieval.

Therefore, if you have the appropriate lineage and power, you can sit on the throne at a young age.

But wearing a crown and governing a country are completely different issues.

When a young man without a single wrinkle on his face overcomes all the seniority requirements and becomes king, his subjects bow down and think, ‘Aren’t these bastards doing too much?’

It’s because I don’t think there’s any reason for me to serve him (who seems to be much better than that young guy).

This is why rebellions break out when the king is young.

What is needed at this time is ‘achievement’, and everything that a newly crowned monarch says about winning land through war can be seen as a kind of ‘achievement’.

It’s okay to be trivial. This is because a monarch’s achievements are not intended to shine for himself.

That’s for the subjects.

Once the king has done something, his subjects can think, ‘Okay, if that’s the case, I can bow my head,’ and not have their pride hurt.

Then, you don’t have to do something tiring and difficult like a rebellion, and the king can eat and play while wearing the crown, so it can be said to be a win-win for everyone.

In Baekseol’s case, it could be said that the ‘Booker International nomination’ was the exact reason.

President Baek Do-hyun, who had lived his entire life in a power struggle, understood this accurately.

“Oh my, my daughter. congratulations.”

“Thank you, boss…” … !”

Baek Do-hyun gently patted his niece’s shoulder. The feel of a high-quality suit in the palm of your hand, it is still too expensive for Baek Seol to wear.

However, Baek Do-hyeon forced Baek Seol to dress like this. This is because he wanted his subordinates to resign and say, ‘Yes, he was from another world’ when they see Baek Seol wearing clothes that his salary cannot afford. Power comes from that resignation.

However, in order to govern smoothly, the pride of subordinates must also be taken care of. In that respect, Baekseol met the optimal requirements.

If a child from a wealthy family with nothing became the CEO, everyone would bow their heads and seethe inside, but if they bowed their heads to someone who was even nominated for the world’s most famous literary award, they would think it was a pretty good thing.

The paranoid attitude he showed in front of Managing Director Kim Myeong-woon was completely gone, and Baek Do-hyun, who transformed into a polite and clean-cut executive of a conglomerate, gently guided Baek Seol to the VIPs attending the inauguration ceremony. Baek Seung-won, the CEO of Baekhak Entertainment, who was among the VIPs, smiled and shook Baekseol’s hand. Baek Seol smiled sheepishly and shook his hand.

“… … .”

Lim Yang-wook was watching from afar.

Arms crossed, thinking deeply about something.

At that time, someone appeared behind Lim Yang-wook.

“Director Lim.”

President Baek Do-hyun’s right-hand man, the doctor who performed the major surgery at Baekhak Library, and the head of the Human Resources Innovation Department at the Baekhak Group headquarters’ Organizational Innovation Headquarters, are Executive Director Kim Myeong-woon.

“Ah, Managing Director… … .”

“Thank you for your hard work this time.”

Managing Director Kim Myeong-woon smiled kindly, unlike a cold-hearted swordsman. Since Kim Sang-guk always smiled like that, Lim Yang-wook was wary of that smile.

Managing Director Kim Myeong-woon, who saw through him in an instant, chuckled.

“Why are you so frozen? “I think we’ll continue to be close friends.”

“Haha, how dare I… … .”

“We are now serving the same family. “I am Boss Baek, and you are also Boss Baek.”

No pun intended. Baek Seol and Baek Do-hyeon are now tied up as a collateral faction of the Baekhak Group.

On the day when the hardliners of the direct line come back to power, the collateral line is once again wiped out.

Lim Yang-wook swallowed his saliva at Executive Director Kim Myeong-woon’s terrifying hint.

“… … .I will do my best to assist you.”

“It’s nice to see that you immediately understand what I’m talking about.”

Managing Director Kim Myeong-woon left Yang-wook Lim with a heavy smile.

“I’m going back to headquarters now, but let’s meet often and have a meal together.”

“Yes, Managing Director… … .”

Lim Yang-wook, who was left alone, sighed deeply.

This was because I realized that I had entered a battlefield that I could not escape from.

On the battlefield of fearsome monsters, where even people like Kim Sang-guk are replaced like parts.

* * *

Baek Seol’s uncle, President Baek Do-hyun, has a right-hand man.

This is Executive Director Kim Myung-woon, a faithful confidant who has been by his side for a very long time.

Managing Director Kim Myeong-woon, like a typical Korean elite, was a mass-produced talent with unusual qualifications such as a business administration degree from Seoul National University, an MBA from Harvard, and a history in the Wall Street M&A industry… … .

If he had one unusual talent, it was medicine.

Kim Myeong-woon is a specialist in surgery.

In particular, the company did a good job.

Super Doctor Kim Myeong-woon performed a major surgery at Baekhak Library.

Everyone shuddered and trembled at his amazing cutting technique, which included cutting off the boss cleanly.

Baek Sul, ‘The Booker International nominee’, sat in the empty president’s office.

But everyone knew that she was President Baek Do-hyun’s political puppet. And in reality, Baek Seol did not have the ability to carry out the duties of president.

So, Super Doctor Kim Myeong-woon came up with a sharp prescription: he promoted the head of the book distribution division to vice president.

The head of the book distribution division, who formed the ‘Kim Sang-guk’s Shit People’ group with Lim Yang-wook, smiled and wrote a thank you letter and pledged loyalty to Baek Do-hyeon and Baek Seol.

As a result, it is good for Baekseol to have a trustworthy working-level person, the head of the book distribution division is good for being promoted, and Baekhak Book Center goes about its usual duties (shugging the public library support budget, copying sales of Polyfessor papers, managing funds from politicians’ publications, manipulating trend analysis reports, and selecting a publisher for broadcasting textbooks). Since we were able to continue the lobby safely, it can be said that it is good for my sister and good for my brother-in-law.

However, as always in a fight over food, someone is bound to see blood.

Baekhak Bookstore’s two-wheeled horse, the ‘Publishing Business Division’, suffered a serious blow.

First of all, it was a fatal blow for President Kim Sang-guk and the head of the publishing business division to be tied up as wholesalers and fly away, but the news that the head of the book distribution division was promoted to vice president was like a nail in the coffin.

This is because it means that the bureaucratic cartel that runs from has collapsed.

Until now, the head of the publishing business division implicitly served as the vice president, but now the situation has changed. The dominance of the publishing division within Baekhak Bookstore has completely collapsed.

Just like that, the inner circle of Baekhak Bookstore collapsed, Woo Ki-tae, the head of the publishing planning department, went to visit Lim Yang-wook in trembling, and all the employees were anxious and focused on the last person.

Who will sit in the vacant ‘Publishing Business Headquarters’ position?

The last survivor of Kim Sang-guk’s line, Publication Planning Manager Woo Ki-tae?

The strongest returner of all time, Publishing Management Manager Lim Yang-wook?

-Your senior will do it.

-Thank you, Yangwook… … .

Fortunately, thanks to Lim Yang-wook’s amicable concessions, the Publication Planning Department was able to avoid the knife of purge, or rather, the scalpel of surgery.

However, Baekhak Mungo before the surgery and Baekhak Mungo after surgery had a completely different constitution, which may be thanks to the practice of Dr. Kim Myeong-un, a divine doctor who is comparable to Hwata.

Kim Myeong-un did not just cut people out of Baekhak Library.

We put talented people in the right places.

You just have to make it. DT Promotion Team, Content Division, Innovation Management Office, OSMU Management Team, etc.

President Baek Do-hyun’s talented people, who were stationed in various parts of the Baekhak Group, jumped on parachutes and landed like airborne troops. And then we started ‘terraforming’.

In the blink of an eye, an affiliate was incorporated into President Baek Do-hyun’s sphere of influence.

The crown prince of Baekhak Financial Holdings was foaming at the mouth and indignant, but he has three younger brothers.

Just like their father, they are older brothers, or vicious younger brothers who want to bring down their older brothers.

As long as his younger brothers, supported by Baek Do-hyeon and many other ambitious people, are holding him back, the crown prince can never move as he pleases.

In this way, Baekhak Bookstore’s internal troubles came to a quiet end.

In the midst of this fierce conflict, Lim Yang-wook moved quietly and sometimes even became deeply involved, but in the end, he remained in his position as manager.

However, power was invisible, and although Lim Yang-wook’s position remained as head of the publishing management department, his authority had increased to an incomparable level.

Whatever it is, isn’t he a kingmaker who made his lord the president?

The monster, whose eight vital organs were sealed and locked in an underground parking lot, finally gained enormous power beyond his prime.

And the first thing that Yangwook Lim, the strongest returner in history, with overflowing power in his hands, did… … .

-You must enter the general agency business.

It was a business expansion that I had only dreamed of.

-It’s not enough to just put writers on TV like celebrities. We must have a system that can expand our literary content business in a variety of ways, from publishing, translation, media appearance, and media mix. There are limits to just waiting for an offer to come in from somewhere. We must create an environment where we can actively reproduce content.

Yangwook Lim, a 26-year-old new employee, decided that he would become a hero who would change the industry.

Lim Yang-wook, a 36-year-old demoted employee, thought the industry was all messed up.

But now, Yangwook Lim is taking the first step to change the industry.

It’s a late start, but at the same time, it’s a big leap forward.

-We can’t do it on our own. But with the power of the White Crane, it is possible. A leap forward that can end the long dark era of the publishing industry and improve the status of Korean literature before the world… … .

“When you give a presentation like that, the board of directors applauds loudly. So, I gathered momentum and did just that! I said it. We can’t do this on our own. We must join forces. To do that, we need to do business together as partners instead of whining for help!”

“Is that Baekhak Entertainment?”

“yes. When Baekhak Bookstore and Baekhak Entertainment join forces… … . You can sweep the world! The energy of the universe surrounds us, child! When I say this, everyone applauds and says… … .”

Thus, BH Agency, a subsidiary jointly invested by Baekhak Bookstore and Baekhak Entertainment, was born.

Of course, the company only exists on paper, and the publishing management headquarters moved into the Baekhak Entertainment building and actively cooperated.

The writer who heard Lim Yang-wook’s entire explanation spoke.

“Is that why you’re moving back to the Baekhak Entertainment building?”

“right.”

“Then why are you hesitating to explain when you just need to tell me that way…” … .”

Blood spurted out on Lim Yang-wook’s smooth scalp.

“hey! I explained this at best… … !”

“In the end, it turns around and it’s Baekhak Entertainment. So in the end, it’s the same thing as publishing management TF… … .?”

“no it’s not!? “Is it different?”

“Oh, well, I guess so.”

Moonin left the furious Lim Yang-wook behind, packed his luggage into a box, and got out of the van.

The Baekhak Entertainment building, which I met again after a long time, was still moving vigorously across the blue sky.

It happened on a moving day.

* * *

“Uh oh… … .”

The massage chair that hit my back really helped relax my tight muscles. A strange sound naturally came out of my mouth as I was receiving a gentle massage from a machine worth tens of millions of won.

“Good… … .”

At one point, thanks to visiting all of Baekhak Entertainment’s amenities under Kim Byeol’s guidance, I came to memorize all sorts of places, including the in-house cafe and aroma therapy.

But the best thing is of course the massage chair. As soon as I returned to Baekhak Entertainment, I started looking for a chair.

It’s a massage chair worth tens of millions of won, but it’s a valuable chair that employees don’t use because they’re worried and celebrities don’t use it because they want better aromatherapy.

As expected, Baekhak Entertainment’s facilities are much better than Baekhak Bookstore.

I didn’t come back because I wanted to, but I think it was a good thing I came back.

I heard that Lim Yang-wook’s department became a bridge between Baekhak Bookstore and Baekhak Entertainment.

Since Baekhak Bookstore cannot always visit Baekhak Entertainment like Doraemon, they decided to do business together with Baekhak Entertainment.

From what I remember, it is similar to the early days of Publication Management TF, but its scale and capital are said to be incomparable to those of the past.

Of course, it doesn’t really feel like anything to me.

What I felt the most was that I could come to Baekhak Entertainment and use the massage chairs just like in the old days.

After finishing the full 35-minute massage session, I went out to the lobby.

It is still a noisy and dazzling lobby.

I was thinking about people-watching for a while and buying a strawberry yogurt smoothie at a cafe.

“hey!”

Someone grabs my shoulder.

“Are you by any chance a literary writer?”

“Oh, yes.”

A man suddenly greeted me at a 75 degree angle.

I too was embarrassed and lowered my head.

“hello! “This is Kim Seong-geun, team leader of Management Office 2, who is in charge of actor Kim Byeol.”

“hello… … .”

“Can we talk for a moment?”

I nodded with a doubtful look.

And after a while, my eyes widened.