Big Life

Chapter 50

Chapter 50

Chapter 50 – Follow Me If You Can

“Ah, I guess it’s not the editor . I must be mistaken . I’m sorry . I apologize . So should I just leave now?”

Tewon slowly turned around .

It was Jaegun

He was smiling with his phone on his ear .

“Writer Ha…? How… did you get here?”

Tewon was completely surprised at his sudden appearance .

Jaegun put his phone away and answered .

“You said you bought a house here . I remembered the apartment building . I thought you weren’t about to answer, so the timing was great right? If I was unlucky, I may have left without meeting you . ”

“Ah, writer don’t take it the wrong way . I was going to answer . I was just thinking . My head is really…”

Jaegun waved it off .

“What are you saying? I’m fine . But before that, you should check your email . ”

“Mail?”

“Yes, your personal email . ”

Jaegun’s finger was pointing towards Tewon’s phone .

Tewon with a dazed look pulled up his email . In his email, three books of a novel called Dragon Rider was there .

“Writer Ha, this…?”

Tewon had to ask even if he knew .

It was hard to continue with his overflowing emotions .

Recently, he had looked hard for a writer, struggling to even find one .

He pleaded with them to just trust him once so many times .

But no one answered .

A good selling writer, a bad selling writer, everyone rejected him with different reasons . No one trusted Tewon enough to follow him yet .

But…

Now a writer came here without him even asking .

A writer who wasn’t the bottom anymore, a writer who had lifted himself up to the highest ceiling . A person like that came to his house with his own works .

“It’s my new novel, read it and give me feedback . ”

“Writer Ha…”

Tewon sighed .

Tewon knew Jaegun’s personality, so he had shut his mouth about resigning . He didn’t want Jaegun to lose money because of him .

“I came here, so I can’t leave just now . ”

Jaegun said as he tied his shoes .

“I’ll go back with your feedback . If you want to sleep early, you’re going to have to be compliant . ”

Tewon’s two eyes went back to his phone .

He answered quietly .

“If you say that, I must read it quickly . And you did write it really quickly . ”

“I think I’m great this year . ”

Jaegun pointed towards the opposite side of the street .

“Editor, I didn’t eat yet . If you didn’t either, then let’s go over there . There’s HOF on the 1st floor . ”

“Yes, writer . Let’s go . ”

He put his phone away . He needed a place to concentrate anyway .

“What do you want? You pick . ”

“How’s chicken . It’s good . ”

“I’m fine . ”

“Here, one fried . Hm . . ”

Tewon looked around and asked .

“How about a drink?”

“Yes . ”

“Give us two drinks . ”

The two beers came out before the chicken .

Jaegun sipped his drink while Tewon started reading – his two eyes showing off his long-stayed editing skills .

“Here it is . ”

The chicken came as Jaegun drank about a half of his beer .

Tewon didn’t lift his head once . His beer was losing steam quickly .

“Give us another drink . ”

Jaegun got another drink .

And then Tewon started on Book 2 .

30 minutes, then an hour .

There were no words between the two .

About 2 hours .

“I finished . ”

Tewon smiled as he looked up .

Jaegun immediately asked, half-expectant half-worried .

“How is it? Is it good?”

“First, It’s entertaining . ”

Tewon’s first sentence made Jaegun nervous . He knew this was the only compliment .

Tewon never made any useless compliments .

‘First? Then the negatives will come out now . ’

In martial arts and fantasy, Jaegun trusted Tewon the most .

Tewon lifted up 3 fingers .

“There are 3 problems . ”

“Ha, that’s a lot . ”

“I’ll start with the light one . First, the title of Dragon Rider isn’t very good . There are a lot of books with that name . ”

Jaegun laughed with Tewon .

That wasn’t a serious problem . He could change it .

Jaegun asked for the other problems .

“Second… . Writer, do you know that my management is pay by chapter service?”

“Yes, of course . ”

“It releases about 5500 characters repeatedly . And so it’s completely different from paper books . You need an outline for every chapter and you need to make the end very interesting so readers would want to know more like a drama . “

“Hm yes . I know . ”

Jaegun answered .

He could change that . He read a lot of drama, so he had the confidence to change it .

“What’s the last one?”

Tewon couldn’t answer immediately .

It was a really serious one .

Tewon first drank about half his drink before he answered .

“I got a warning to not take away any writers . ”

Tewon said truthfully .

It wasn’t something to hide .

It was Jaegun who trusted him to come here .

He needed to be truthful about this . So Tewon continued .

“StarBooks doesn’t want to lose you . If you sign with me, it might cause you harm . ”

“What harm?”

“They might harm your marketing . ”

Tewon cut him off .

“Like Munpia or Zoayo, they don’t need marketing . The system is fair . If it’s fun, readers will read it . ”

“Hm, yes…”

“But in other places, it’s a lot different . There are places where profits won’t come without marketing . The real money’s in those places…”

Tewon spoke really quickly without even stopping to breathe and finished his entire drink .

Jaegun ordered another .

“There’s no place to put banners… Or the other manager’s project promotion schedule is strict so they have no time… All the excuses they might make . In this place, it’s a job with people and connections have a lot of power . Last week, I faced other companies and I just lost hard . ”

At this, Tewon bitterly smiled .

They stopped talking and drank quickly .

“Haa, I’m sorry . I’ve only put a burden on you . ”

“No, it’s not . ”

Jaegun answered as he put his cup down

Now Tewon was done and it was Jaegun’s turn .

“What about you?”

“Me?”

“As you said, it’s not my problem only . It’s your problem as well . Your management will be taking a hit but can you still sign with me?”

“Yes . ”

There was no hesitation .

“I want to have you even if the management fails . Although I don’t think it will happen . Because…”

Tewon continued after a pause .

“Your writing is entertaining . Entertaining works always work . That’s for sure . ”

Tewon smiled and cheered .

Jaegun smiled as well .

“I guess the pay per chapter I wanted to do with the 3rd Ranking series will be done here . Thank you . ”

“No, thank you . I’ll do really well . ”

“I’ll help you, editor, no representative now . It’s kind of weird . ”

“Just call me anything . ”

“By the way,what’s the management name?”

“Laugh Books . So only good things work . It’s better than Smile, right?”

“No, Editor, You shouldn’t be the one saying my titles are bad . How about KalKal Books” (KalKal is another way of saying laugh . ”

“Why? It’s a good name . My wife made it . ”

“Hm, then it’s really good . ”

“Wow, that reaction . Well, there’s a reason why pay per chapter is the new thing . If it works, the profits will be amazing . ”

“Yes, I’ll do well . So where should I start?”

“Navin Store or Munpia probably”

“I get it, representative, Cheers . ”

“Yes, Writer . ”

The cold food and drinks weren’t the issue . The night was getting darker and darker and the two people didn’t care, as their conversation didn’t know when to stop .