Big Life-Chapter 35

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Chapter 35


Chapter 35 – What is Important


“Yes? Car?”


Jonggu’s voice was slightly broken .


Jaegun sat in front of the computer and searched up cars .


“With the money you are giving up front, I want to buy a car that’s below 30 thousand dollars . I never bought a car before so I wanted your help . ”


“Haha, that’s what you meant . Haha”


“Is that not possible?”


“No . Of course it is . What car do you want, writer?”


“Hm, I don’t know about the car brand . Just something compact car . A fuel efficient car and something that doesn’t cost too much to maintain . ”


Jaegun said while looking through the pictures of cars .


He thought of maybe getting a small car but he chose the compact car because of giving family and friends a ride .


He didn’t need a car that was uselessly big and expensive . It just needed to have the minimum capacities of a car .


“A compact, I think a Hyundai is pretty good . There’s a 14 thousand to 24 thousand car in the new models . What do you think?”


“Pick one and give me one . You can make the options as you wish . ”


“Yes, writer . Hm Hyundai…”


Jonggu muttered as he was memoing .


“I’ll do the options, what about the color?”


“I’ll do black . ”


“Black… I get it . ”


“It’s not important so I can wait . I’ll write really well if you help me with this car . ”


“Hahaha, yes, writer . I get it . I’ll call you when I’m done . ”


Jaegun sighed with relief after the call and looked at Rika .


Rika wasn’t moving from the top of the cat tower . She wanted to be away from Jaegun’s touch .


“I got a car . Now let’s go out sometime . Go to a park and meet my friends and stuff . ”


There was no meow that came usually .


He opened the drawer on the desk . It had Se Gunwoo’s mug in it . After he knew it was an important item, he was hiding it in his desk than the sink .


“Phew, this is magic . ”


After a cup of coffee with that mug, all the stress went magically away .


Jaegun waved to Rika and left home happily .


“Hold him?”


StarBooks representative office .


Tewon was dumbfounded .


Representative Park Jeguk was nodding on the other side .


“Yeah, hold him . Make him an exclusive writer . With today’s sequel talks, just get him to sign . ”


“…!”


Tewon couldn’t answer and lowered his glance . His glasses were slipping and were hanging dangerously on his nose .


He came into report his sequel talk schedule .


But Jeguk was now just ordering him to get an exclusive contract with him .


“I don’t like holding either mostly . It’s hard to control writers sometimes . But we need Ha Jaegun . One of Jaegun’s projects is doing the work of 3 other projects, no 5 other projects . We need the money so that the company can grow?”


Tewon couldn’t respond to that .


First, he couldn’t feel that Jaegun would take that contract


It was a problem even if Jaegun took the contract because of his friendship with Tewon .


If he became a StarBooks exclusive writer, then he couldn’t contract with other companies . It wasn’t a project contract but a writer contract .


Tewon knew Jaegun was a truly writing loving writer .


He wasn’t a writer that would be only fulfilled in the genre novel section . With his award in the Digital Literary Contest, his power with emotions were already confirmed .


He was a writer with potential that could grow .


It was a hard thing to do for Tewon to ask Jaegun to be an exclusive writer . It was a person to person problem more than a company profit problem .


It wasn’t one day that he knew Jaegun; it was a long time . He didn’t want to interfere with Jaegun’s writing life .


“Why do you have no answer?”


Jeguk asked .


Tewon came out of his thoughts and looked at Jeguk .


“I have some thoughts . ”


“What thoughts?”


“Writer Ha is not going to take that contract . ”


Jeguk clucked his tongue .


“Isn’t it your job to take a contract anyway that you can? Your style of work has been weird lately . Why have you changed so much?”


Isn’t it representative that changed instead of me, almost came out of his mouth but he pushed it down .


It was getting clearer . Now, the aging representative’s brain had the thought of writer=money . A few years before, it wasn’t like this .


“Say it right, ah?”


Jeguk patted Tewon’s shoulder and said softly .


“If I don’t have you, who can I trust to run this big company? I’ve worked with you for how many years? It’s almost 10 years, 10 years . Go clean this up and have a vacation with your family for about a week . I’ll give you the vacation money . ”


Jeguk’s offer didn’t cling with Tewon at all .


Well there was nothing else to do in this spot other than nodding his head .


“I’ll try . ”


“Yes, just call no matter what time . ”


Tewon went back to his office after he left .


He could see Somii’s back . She was focused on her work, typing hard in her computer .


A bitter smile came over Tewon .


In Tewon’s eyes, Somii was really enjoying her work as a editor . It felt like she was overlapping his past self when he came in .


‘It’s been a long time . ’


Tewon muttered to himself and stopped his steps .


If there is a high, there is a low, looking at Somii, he could feel the path that he had to go .


“Somii . ”


“Ah, yes, editor .


Somii was startled and looked up from her screen . Tewon asked as he looked on her screen .


“Do you have a lot of work today?”


“No, I finished everything done today . This is something that I wanted to finish early . ”


“Then, get ready to leave . Let’s go out together . ”


“Ah go out? Ah, with Writer Ha?”


Tewon smiled instead of answering .


Somii immediately saved and turned off her keyboard . She was smiling as she was taking her stuff .


‘I haven’t seen him since the writer’s meeting?’


She couldn’t help but get excited at meeting Jaegun . He was a person that just gave strength, with a comfortable smile and polite speech . His ferocious eyes when he was working came up .


“I’m ready, editor . ”


“Yes, then let’s go . ”


The two people went down to the parking lot .


Somii asked as he was getting in .


“Is it Guro today as well?’


“Yes, Writer Ha likes that place and it’s comfortable . ”


The car went out of the parking lot .


Tewon had no words while he was driving for a while .


Somii was looking outside, not asking first .


As the car stopped at a light, Tewon said first, lowering the volume of the radio .


“I’ll say it before we get there . ”


“Yes, editor . Say it . ”


“The representative wants to get an exclusive contract with Writer Ha . ”


“An exclusive contract?”


Somii widened her eyes .


“If then, Writer Ha can’t write anything else?”


“Yeah, he doesn’t want to miss any of Writer’s Ha’s writing . ”


Somii could see his bitter smile . She couldn’t think of anything that a new editor could say .


“I’m going to resign soon . ”


“Re…sign? The company?”


That was completely surprising .


With Somii who was flabbergasted, Tewon said stolidly .


“I was there a long time . With the atmosphere and that, it’s time to find a different path . It’s better than getting pushed out . ”


“But editor…! I know this may be rude to say this, but you’re really good at working . You have the representative’s trust…”


“It’s because I can’t respond to that trust of his . ”


Tewon cute Somii’s words . As the light turned green, he pressed the acceleration and continued .


“Just you know it . I thought I should tell it to you so I said it . ”


“Yes…”


Somii said weakly with his head down .


Tewon raised the radio volume again . A K-pop song whose lyrics couldn’t be understood was turning up loudly .



“It’s a series, so I would like the contract to be like before . With 10%, from 3000 books up 1 %, and the 6 for the electronic books . ”


“Thank you, Writer Ha, here take a drink . ”


Jaegun got Tewon’s offering .


There was a lot of sashimi and seafood on the table .


“Here, a toast . ”


“Toast . ”


Teon and Somii, and Jaegun put their cups together .


After he drank, Jaegun picked up a piece of sashimi happily


“It’s been awhile since I ate one of these . It looks good . ”


“Go eat a lot . You like sashimi . ”


“Ah, there’s only the editor for me . Somii, you have some too . ”


“Ah, yes, Writer . ”


Starled, Somii who was blankly staring picked up her chopsticks


Jaegun thought to himself .


‘What happened . ’


Jaegun’s observation skills as a writer came up to him right now .


There was a heavy air between Tewon and Somii . It was different from their previous meetings . Jaegun felt before .


But Jaegun didn’t ask at first .


If it was important, Tewon would have said it before .


He was an amazing editor that did everything for his writer . So Jaegun felt it, but he wasn’t nervous .


“I guess I can’t expect anything too good? Because it has the previous two characters . ”


With Jaegun’s word, Tewon said carefully .


“I think so . It won’t be too bad, but I don’t think it would be too amazing either . ”


Tewon wasn’t a person who said something that was false . Jaegun liked Tewon for that reason .


Jaegun let out a question as he was pouring a drink to Tewon .


“I was thinking of a title but nothing is coming out . Maybe I should it name it the Realm Rankings because they fight in the other realms? Or maybe the Double Rankings? It feel weird with Rankings and double . It’s all weird? Do you have anything that you have in mind?”


“…Writer Ha . ”


“Yes?”


Jaegun stopped and looked at Tewon . Tewon had a different look than before .


“Yes editor . ”


Tewon was conflicted .


He was still a StarBooks editor . He needed to do everything he needed to do and think of the other things . Thinking that to himself Tewon asked


“Would you sign a contract to be an exclusive writer for StarBooks?” .