Chapter 20 (1/2)

Chapter 20 – Is This Canned Food

“Canned Food?”

Soun

The randoun made no sense

“Do you not know the term The writer’s canned food…”

Jaegun slurred his words and asked with his eyes

After staring blankly and lances, Somii could think of the term “canned food” from a dinner spot

“Are you talking about… that canned food?”

Even a newcomer employee like Somii knehat canned food meant

Canned food was a ter him to write

It was basically squeezing words out of writers ere struggling to write and their deadline was up ahead

Either they were lazy and liked playing around, they were having too hts about their project, or theirfroure out

Jaegun, before his debut, laughed when he heard that term He didn’t feel that since it was a work that all people do, they wouldn’t completely force someone to write like that

But it was real

It was during his 2nd series

Jaegun was struggling because of the lack of sales so he was holding on to the 3rd book in the series for 2 ot a call from the still head editor at that time, Tewon

“Writer Ha, the writing isn’t going well, right? The weather is good so you should have lunch withcomfortable

Tewon said in his usual tender tone of voice

It eird that he asked for coun brushed it off and went to the ot dragged to the publisher’s office and ate lunch with fried rice

“Have a smoke on the roof”

They were Tewon’s words to Jaegun who finished eating He wasn’t telling hi him to smoke and come back

Feeling weird, Jaegun’s eyes slowly saw the office corner’s scenery

It was a rectangular shaped roo dimension

In the room was a colass so the outside could see the inside

Called the canned food jail

It was the moment that he saw the reality

Jaegun lived there for a week since that day

The 3 meals of each day was solved by the editors that delivered food After the employee’s left, he went to the public restroom, locked it, connected a hose, and took a shower there

When he wasn’t eating or sleeping, he invested everything into writing Since the onlyhis work, he put all his effort into it

Then Jaegun realized

Words could be written if they were squeezed hard enough

He couldn’t stand the e When he couldn’t think of anything, he recited the national antheun could finish it in just a week and went home dejected

“I have to write soht now There’s no writer ould ask canned food, so this may be weird, but when you’re around, it feels like I can think and write better”

Jaegun blocked Somii and laid out his words

The only excuse he could think of was this

He was sharing her eh Rika If she leaves, then he can’t finish Oh Suue perfectly

“Do you understand?”

“Ye-? Yes, writer… I understand”

Somii confusedly bit her lips

Jaegun continued as his heart was burning with urgency

“I won’t ask you to stay long Just please stay until your re time I feel like I need a editor next to me so I can write fast”

“But with your Ranking series, that seeh”

“That was actually written before”

Jaegun cut her off

Somii hesitant looked at her feet Then she checked her phone and looked up

“About 2 hours to 3 hours…”

“Really?”