Big Life

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 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?” .