Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 67



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EP 3 – Demon Sword! Please control me!

After filming is over.

The PD, who had captured a good scene, laughed happily and dismissed the staff. The MCs also smiled and said hello before parting ways.

However, three of the four guests were staring into space with mesmerized faces.

Rapid Boys’ main rapper Min Hyo-chan ended up wasting his opportunity to appear on entertainment shows with zero presence, and Kim Byeol was also exhausted from trying to deal with a major crisis.

Needless to say, Gu Yubin was beaten throughout the filming.

However, Moon In-seop, the culprit of the problem, sighed in relief and calmly stood up.

‘You lost control.’

I don’t remember much since the moment I saw Gu Yu-bin, something black started to move me.

It was difficult to even remember what was said throughout the filming. It is truly a feast to say the least.

‘I thought I’d forgotten everything…’

It seems like he has less mental discipline. As they approached Gu Yu-bin and Kim Byeol, who had unintentionally caused trouble, they were both shocked! He is surprised and averts his gaze.

While I was confused as to why this was happening, the PD suddenly approached me and placed a hand on my shoulder. He was someone I had seen once before. He is the person who came to the orphanage with the staff.

The PD grabbed my shoulder and dragged me to a quiet corner of the filming site and continued chatting.

“Hey! It was really fun today too! Writer Moon!”

“Ah yes. thank you.”

“Ugh…! Maybe it’s because they’re older, but there’s a lot of chemistry between young friends! This is truly a unique character! “She didn’t have anything to edit today either!”

“If you say so, I would be grateful.”

“haha! Look at what I’m saying now. But what is the content of Gu Yu-bin’s novel that the response is so intense?”

“I think that would probably be difficult to broadcast.”

PD muttered quietly.

“Is this a chapter from a poem?”

“yes?”

“Yes? no! Nothing! By the way, do you have any plans to appear on other entertainment shows? It’s good to promote books too. “I’m planning something with my senior…”

I was held captive by the PD for a while and was barely released.

The person who welcomed me after being released was Baek Sul, and before I knew it, it was Lim Yang-wook who came to the filming set.

I waved my hand and said hello.

“Manager Lim… When did you come?”

However, instead of walking up to me as usual and tapping me on the shoulder and jokingly asking me to go out to eat, Lim Yang-wook simply gave me a quick look.

what?

I looked closely and saw that there was someone in front of Lim Yang-wook and Baek Seol. He is a man wearing an expensive-looking suit. The eyes were so small that they looked closed even when they were open.

An unknown middle-aged man glanced at me. And she came smiling brightly.

“iced coffee! “You were here, a writer!”

“Excuse me, who are you?”

“That’s the person who takes pictures of your books.”

Before the question of who that was could continue, the introduction came first.

He handed me a business card and smiled kindly.

“This is Kim Sang-guk, the head of Baekhak Bookstore’s Publishing Business Division. “He’s the guy who’s currently making your book, which is being sold all over the country.”

“Ah, yes… hello.”

“It’s really nice to meet a writer who is a mainstay of our company.”

Anyone could tell that Director Kim Sang-guk was trying to win my favor. When Lim Yang-wook saw that, he reacted sensitively as if he had been stabbed by something.

“Aren’t you being too patronizing?”

“Hehe, isn’t it too rude to say that I now work for a different company? “You’re being rude.”

Kim Sang-guk responded like this.

“This situation right now is abnormal. The head of Baekhak Bookstore’s publishing business division met a writer from Baekhak Bookstore. “You had to hide it so well that I would have come to the broadcasting station.”

“Why is author Moon from Baekhak Library?”

“Strictly speaking, the writer as an entertainer is in charge of the publishing management department of Baekhak Entertainment, and the writer as a writer is in charge of the management of Baekhak Bookstore. As someone in charge of books by literary authors, I came here because there was something I wanted to point out. Don’t ask me if it came too suddenly. “Because you were the one who didn’t meet me even though I asked you to.”

“That’s right…!”

Leaving aside the angry Lim Yang-wook, Director Kim Sang-guk spoke to me.

“Writer Moon. “Do you know that your book is currently being sold at a ridiculously low price?”

“yes?”

Im Yang-wook, who was about to step in and separate Kim Sang-guk from me, stopped.

Kim Sang-guk looked at Lim Yang-wook like that and laughed coldly and continued talking.

“Team Leader Lim, no, Manager Lim, signed a contract with a nationwide bookstore to hand over your books at wholesale prices rather than consignment sales. And they set the price ridiculously low. So what this means is that the money that our writer Moon should receive is being distributed to bookstores across the country.”

“uh···”

It was something I knew well.

I heard that a man named Seong-Jun Yang, manager of Baekhak Bookstore, had a personal grudge with Yang-Wook Lim, and because he prevented him from publishing the book, he lowered the price and distributed it nationwide.

Then didn’t that happen because of Baekhak Bookstore?

As soon as that question arose, Director Kim Sang-guk continued.

“Of course, I admit that Manager Seong-Jun Yang of the headquarters harbored resentful feelings toward Manager Lim and played a strange prank on him. But why is the contract maintained even now that Manager Yang Seong-jun has taken off his desk? “Why aren’t books by literary authors passed on to Baekhak Bookstore’s distribution line?”

Lim Yang-wook gritted his teeth.

“That’s up to our publication management department to take care of!”

“okay. It’s not a publishing site, it’s a ‘management’ site. However, as someone who works at a proper publishing company, there are so many strange things in my opinion. If I were to immediately hand over the business rights to the literary author’s books to Baekhak Bookstore, I would be able to make an amount of money that is incomparable to what I am making now. “Aren’t we not only a publisher but also the largest bookstore?”

Kim Sang-guk looked at Lim Yang-wook and said.

But those words were actually being said to me.

“Ah, perhaps… instead of handing over the money from selling books by literary authors to Baekhak Entertainment instead of Baekhak Bookstore, you took the position of manager?”

“···!”

“Literature writer. Think about it. A company that makes celebrities and a company that makes books. “Which of the two do you think will sell better books?”

The conclusion was obvious. Kim Sang-guk did not even bother to mention that conclusion.

“And yet you are trying to sell books through Baekhak Entertainment instead of Baekhak Bookstore. The people who say they manage the writer best are making choices for themselves, not for the writer, tsk tsk…”

Kim Sang-guk, who looked coldly at Yang-wook Lim and laughed at him, finally looked at me and smiled.

“What do you think, Writer Moon? How about leaving your books at a proper bookstore? If you are a book lover, you probably don’t know how many Baekhak Library there are, right? We are a publisher, but we are also a bookseller. “Books by literary authors will be displayed at the front entrance of all Baekhak Bookstores across the country!”

“······”

“Well… it should be normal, but because of Director Lim’s insistence, aren’t the books being handed over to local bookstores at a low price? If things continue like this, even if I wanted to, I can’t. “People on our side are protesting why we are giving benefits to books by authors who are not affiliated with Baekhak Bookstore.”

“······”

“How is it?”

Lim Yang-wook tricked me?

I wanted to know the credibility of Director Kim Sang-guk’s words. The method was simple. Just look at Lim Yang-wook’s expression.

I saw him. And Lim Yang-wook…

His complexion turned white, like a person who had been caught for a crime he had committed.

* * *

There were plenty of reasonable excuses.

How can you believe that the person who hit you is now taking care of the person who hit you? How can we trust Baekhak Bookstore to entrust us with books when they have committed such a crime? etc.

However, if you go to Baekhak Bookstore, much higher sales volume will be guaranteed. As Kim Sang-guk said, Baekhak Bookstore was Korea’s largest publisher and bookstore.

Those who create the flow, not those who are swept away by it. These are the people who truly dominate this industry.

If Baekhak Library decided to start selling books, it could bring royalties to writers at an order of magnitude higher than it is now.

But Lim Yang-wook didn’t do that.

Even though immediate income may be missed, it was thought that it would be more reasonable to receive help from Baekhak Entertainment rather than Baekhak Bookstore in order to truly develop the stardom of a writer.

The same is true now that the conflict with Yang Yang-jun has been resolved. A writer can shine even more when he is a star than when he is a writer. why? Because people are more excited about the existence of young geniuses than about old-fashioned literature!

But when I stood in front of Kim Sang-guk, I couldn’t say those words.

Entertainment, commercials, etc.

It was because I thought of the writer who rejected everything that Yang-Wook Lim had prepared.

‘Was I… being greedy?’

Now, even my own mind is confused.

Why did I hold on to a literary writer until the end? Was it really because you thought Baekhak Entertainment was better than Baekhak Bookstore? Or is it because of a grudge against Baekhak Bookstore and Director Kim Sang-guk?

Or was it because he wanted to keep the genius by his side until the end and suck out his blood like a parasite?

Lim Yang-wook fell into a mental state.

My mind became clouded like pale mud. I couldn’t figure out what was going through his mind. Since his mind was the driving force of humans, the human named Lim Yang-wook is now completely incapacitated.

It was right then.

“That’s it.”

The literary man said. The boy had unwavering faith in his eyes.

“I don’t know much about business, but I do know that if you start thinking about such complicated issues, it becomes endless.”

The boy had no ‘wisdom’. Even though you live twice, you still don’t know what life is. The world was too complex and bizarre for one person to understand.

The boy had no ‘virtue’. Novelists are not inherently good personalities. Needless to say, a novelist who grew up in an underprivileged environment. The world has never been kind to him.

The boy had no ‘body’. I didn’t exercise.

However, the charlatan doctors at the orphanage where he grew up together taught the boy.

Only righteousness and morality.

There had to be trust between people.

“I still believe in our Manager Lim Yang-wook.”

“···!!!”

“Isn’t it possible for a slightly ambiguous situation to arise during business? Still, I have a sense of loyalty that we have been together for so long, so I cannot just leave Baekhak Bookstore like this. sorry.”

Lim Yang-wook’s eyes widened, and Kim Sang-guk also sighed and took a step back.

Kim Sang-guk asked the boy.

“…I guess you’re close with Director Lim Yang-wook?”

The boy remembered.

The bald editor who came into the moldy room with shaky steps and gave me the target.

His avid reader, who published his book with his eyes closed tightly even while he was losing money.

“That’s right… he’s the first editor who came to see me.”

Okay. Director Kim Sang-guk looked perplexed, as if something had gone beyond his expectations.

However, he soon ended the conversation with a friendly smile.

“Yeah… that’s the age. “Give special meaning to time or order, not numbers…”

“……”

“Maybe I was a step late this time… Okay. “I’ll see you next time in a more comfortable place.”

Director Kim Sang-guk looked at Lim Yang-wook and Moon In-seop with an unpleasant look, then left with a friendly smile on his face.

Yangwook Lim, Inseop Moon, and Baekseol looked for a long time into the darkness of the hallway where he disappeared.

* * *

The movie ‘Sign’ was released.

[As a short film, it failed miserably at the box office, but its quality was recognized.]

That was the consensus of the critics.

However, there were many more life stories hidden in the single line of critics.

The fact that the box office performance was disastrous is just a story from an ordinary perspective, and thanks to the extremely low production costs and the presence of fans of the original, the movie was well past the break-even point.

Baekhak Entertainment’s film division was in a festive mood thanks to its great results.

In addition, ‘Sign’ left a huge mark on the film director, who was not recognized for his work throughout his life.

The form of the trace was a film-shaped statue plated in gold.

“……”

An award given by a famous domestic film festival was held in the director’s hand.

It was my first time receiving an award like this.

The director, who placed the award on the bar table, looked at it with mixed feelings.

Someone came up behind the director, who had been sitting at the bar for a while.

“hey.”

A man as big as a bear laughed heartily and patted the director on the back.

“They say that happiness comes at the end of hard work, and your day to enjoy the sunshine has come!”

He sat next to the director with a smiling face.

However, the director shows no signs of smiling.

“what? what’s the matter? “On a good day.”

The director’s face was a little strange. Now I see that he was already drunk. Is something bad happening?

“Seniors···”

The director confessed under the influence of alcohol.

“Actually… I contributed nothing to this work.”

“what? “Isn’t that too much of humility?”

“It’s not a joke.”