Chapter 26 (1/2)

Chapter 26: Cheer Louder

“Did you come to get a bottle of soju? I could have…”

“You’re an editor.”

“…Yes?”

Jaegun, extending his hand, took away the bottle that Somii was holding. He was completely taken back inside, but he was saving his words because Somii might get embarra.s.sed.

‘What year is this…’

Even though Somii was the junior, she was still an editor.

It wasn’t the 90s, he couldn’t understand that Somii was serving and he didn’t want to see it either.

Jaegun continued to take bottles away from Somii and put them close to his chest. Seeing that from far away, a.s.sistant Manager Go was embarra.s.sed and disconcerted and quickly ran over

“Oh, sir, sir. You can say this to one of the workers here. Don’t come and get it yourself.”

a.s.sistant Manager Go had no choice but to be this way in front of Jaegun.

It was a good idea not to anger or irritate a writer with good sales. It was one of the basic obligations and responsibilities.

Jaegun was just stolid. Looking calmly at the waist bent and talking Go’s face, he spoke.

“I can take Somii away, right? She’s my editor so I have things to discuss about writing.”

“Yes, su, sure. Somii, go talk to Writer Ha.”

a.s.sistant Go nodded his head a couple of times and immediately backed up.

Hugging the bottles near his chest, he tapped Somii’s shoulder with his shoulder.

“Let’s go in.”

“Yes, yes, sir.”

Somii, still looking at the situation, reluctantly followed Jaegun. Looking at her taking off her shoes and climbing up, a.s.sistant Go wrinkled his forehead as if frustrated.

“a.s.sistant Go.”

“Ah, editor.”

a.s.sistant Go turned back with a surprised face. Tewon, who came in late because of his work, was right in front of his eyes.

“You’re here now? The traffic was bad, right?”

“I spoke about this last time, right?”

Tewon ignored Go’s question and replied.

a.s.sistant Go blinked his two eyes as if he didn’t understand. Tewon, following his gaze to where Jaegun and Somii was sitting, continued his words.

“If you order even one more to Somii about something that isn’t work related, you should be prepared.”

Go shuddered.

This face of the editor was unknown to a 2-year veteran like him. The person that always took care of all employees smoothly was looking down at him with cold eyes.

“Did you understand my words?”

Tewon fixed his gla.s.ses and asked for confirmation.

a.s.sistant Go unknowingly swallowed once. He put down his burning face and answered.

“I, I understood. I’ll stop it in the future.”

“Go do your work.”

a.s.sistant Go, feeling timid, turned around and went away.

Tewon still stood in that place. He was stuck in thought with both his eyes on Jaegun.

‘Should I stop today.’

Secretly, he was planning to use this spot to talk about a sequel with Jaegun. It was because of the representative’s orders to contract with Jaegun no matter what.

But he stopped today. He wanted to respect Jaegun’s decision to partic.i.p.ate in the Digital . He had already gotten over expectation results with the Ranking series.

‘I already mentioned a sequel so, well, I can talk about it after the contest.’

Tewon turned his body, brooding over his personal trust about the writer Ha Jaegun. And to meet the other writers not present yet, he moved his steps to the parking lot in front of the restaurant.

“Have another drink. You can drink, right?”

“Your real name is Ha Jaegun, right? Since I’m looking at you loosely, you’re really handsome. Do you hear that you’re handsome a lot?”

Two female writers sitting next to Jaegun were tossing questions at Jaegun. Everyone’s face was red because of the drinks.

It was already 2 hours since the writer’s meeting had started.

There was no your spot or my spot.

Writers who had drunk over their limits were carrying their bottles and greeting each other. It was chaos.

And in that time, there were two conspicuous groups that were growing.

It was the group of the Ha Jaegun and the fantasy writers on the left and the Oh Myunghoon and the romance writers on the right.

‘So loud…!’

Glimpsing at the loud Jaegun’s groups, Myunghoon was grinding his teeth. From a while ago, he was discomforted.

Myunghoon came here first to lower Jaegun’s confidence.

But he failed. Jaegun was getting attention like he was getting. He could not accept that Jaegun dared to create a group as big as him.

“Writer Oh, are you going to write a romance as your sequel as well?”