Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 180

Chapter 180 – Winter Vacation (6)

After a 3-day, 2-night ski resort vacation that included Christmas, we returned to our daily lives.

Eunji said she felt stiff after playing for the past few days and focused on track and field practice again. Yuri and Suyeon’s grades were so good that they could aim for a top university, so she started preparing essays for college entrance exams.

Yumin is the one who enjoys the vacation to the fullest and has plenty of time.

I still worked part-time at a café during lunch and at a convenience store from afternoon to night, somehow growing my social media presence.

The photos of me and my girlfriends taken at the ski resort received a pretty good response, but it’s still a bit ambiguous to make any future plans with these.

But the rope came down from an unexpected place.

As usual, the moment I turned on social media on my way home from my part-time job at a café, I saw a DM that I had never seen before.

Fit Luxurious. Official: Hello, this is Fit Luxurious, a professional clothing shopping mall. Are you Seongjin Han, who appeared in People Theater? If it’s okay, can I talk to you for a moment?

‘Fit Luxurious?’

It wasn’t a very high-end brand worthy of the name, but it was an online shopping mall name that had some decent recognition.

I checked the account to see if it was an impersonation, but judging from the number of followers and all the previously uploaded photos, it was clearly official.

After confirming that it was official, I spoke with the person in charge who sent the message, exchanged contact information, and soon he called me.

– Oh, hello Mr. Seongjin Han. This is Kim Jin-cheol, assistant manager of the Fit Luxurious Online Promotion Team.

“Yes, hello.”

-Thank you for your time. The reason we contacted you was no different…

This is what the PR team member said afterward.

These days, in the clothing industry, there is a serious discrepancy between the photos worn by professional fitting models and the public, so they are trying to promote ‘clothes that regular people can wear’ with the motto.

So, I’m trying to use an ordinary person as a model, not a professional fitting model, but I can’t just use any ordinary person, so I said that while I was thinking about the target, I looked at my SNS.

In the past few months, I have been very well-known as an ordinary person through appearances at our academy’s maid café, Jinsooje performance, a video of myself being silently beaten for claiming to reflect on my past mistakes, and appearances at the People’s Theater.

Although I was only a household name that would soon disappear, Fit Luxurious said they wanted to use me when I was on people’s lips.

Of course, that was just a justification, and in reality, it was only a little later that they found out that it was because all of their exclusive models were transferred to competitors after their contracts ended, causing a severe disruption in the supply of fitting models.

– When I looked at the photo, Han Seong-jin’s fit was perfect. Since you are big, you are especially good at washing clothes. If you don’t mind, may I ask about your height?

“Height? Yes, I’m 186 cm.”

– Oh, it’s good. It’s so good. Seongjin Han, would you ever consider working as a daily fitting model for us? You can do it for just one day, or if you see the results after filming and get a good response from us, you can do more.

“Oh, I’m already working two part-time jobs…”

– When will there never be a rainy day?

“I have free time on the weekends. But… Can I know what the hourly wage is?”

– Oh, hourly wage. The hourly wage is 30,000 won per hour when filming.

“Yes?”

For a moment, I couldn’t believe my ears.

An hourly wage of 30,000 won? It was more than three times the hourly wage of my current part-time job.

It was too much money to refuse.

I answered right away, even though I had no experience fitting models and didn’t even know how to do it.

“Yes, I will film.”

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– Really? Wow~ So, is this my boyfriend’s model?

When I was told over the phone that I had been offered a fitting model, Yuri was so happy that I could feel my emotions through the phone.

– When is the filming? Should I go see it too?

“It’s an indoor studio shoot, so only the people involved can go in. You won’t be able to watch.”

– Hey… I missed you. Then Seongjin! Do you have to go and take a lot of selfies and show them to us?

“Yeah. I didn’t tell you not to take selfies.”

Su-yeon, Eun-ji, and Yu-min also heard the news and congratulated me on the phone, and as soon as the weekend came, I headed to the scheduled filming studio.

As soon as I arrived, I was led by the makeup staff to have my makeup done.

The staff even touched my hair and styled it perfectly, and when I looked in the mirror, I saw that my image had changed to the point where I wondered if this was me.

“You can wear this in the fitting room over there. Please do it quickly.”

After receiving the company’s clothing given to me by the makeup staff, I went straight to the fitting room and changed clothes.

As soon as I came out, the photographer called me, and I stood in front of the large chroma key and continued taking pictures, taking various poses as requested by the photographer.

‘It’s difficult.’

Professional models would pretend to do something even if the photographer made a rough request, but since I am an ordinary person, the photographer had to make a more specific order.

After taking dozens to hundreds of photos in various poses wearing one type of clothing, it’s time to change into the next outfit.

After quickly changing clothes, I came out and did the same thing over and over again, and the filming continued with no end in sight, with over 10 different types of clothes.

After several hours of filming, the photographer put the camera down for a moment.

“Yes, thank you for your hard work. For now, the indoor shooting will end here. Lastly, there will be the outdoor shooting. Please prepare costumes!”

When the photographer called other employees, those waiting in advance brought me another set of clothes.

It was a rather thin-looking outfit to wear in the middle of winter.

“It’s going to be a little cold because it’s spring clothes. Let’s finish it as soon as possible.”

“Mr. Han Seong-jin, please come this way.”

As soon as I changed into spring clothes, the makeup staff called me again, and this time, I applied much thicker makeup than before.

As soon as I went outside, the biting cold hit my whole body.

“Ugh, it’s cold…”

“Come on, let’s finish this quickly. If you stay too long, your face and tip of your nose will start to turn red again.”

‘Is that why you put on so much makeup?’

I suppressed the trembling of my whole body and took another photo while posing outside.

The photographer, who had been taking pictures for a while, gave his thumbs up with a satisfied expression.

“The photo came out amazingly well. Thank you for your hard work, Seongjin Han.”

“Ugh… Okay, thank you…”

“It’s cold. Let’s go in quickly. You filmed for 5 hours, so 5 hours worth will be deposited within today.”

There was one more condition that Fit Luxurious put forward as a ‘recommendation’.

I will send you some of the photos I took during today’s shoot, and I ask you to use them to announce the shooting and promote it on social media.

I wondered what would be the point of doing something like this to someone like me who is not a famous influencer and whose social media is still at a mediocre level…

I shared the selfies I took while changing clothes in the fitting room in a group chat with my girlfriends.

As soon as we announced that filming was over, Yuri immediately made a video call.

“Uh, Yuri. Why a video call all of a sudden?”

– My boyfriend has such great makeup, I want to see his face! Wow… Is that really you? The image is completely different.

“Hmm… Why do I feel like I like myself more now than before?”

– Oh, no! I like you the same way now as before?! It’s just… It looks a little neater now?

“Just tell me honestly.”

– Mr… Yes, yes! You look so handsome now that I’m wet! Are you done?!

“Of course, this is how my girlfriend tastes. Are you wet? Do you want to do it?”

– Ah… I can’t go out right now because I have a midterm essay review today… If I go home like this, Su-yeon and Gi-gi-bae will have fun again, right? It’s annoying.

“Do you want to come to my house later? I won’t take off my makeup until then.”

– Is that so…?

Yuri, who became extremely honest about her desires, blushed openly and made an appointment with her, saying he would come home after dinner.

And later, when Yumin and Eunji heard about it, they jumped up and said they would come to our house.

As ‘recommended’ by Fit Luxurious, I took some of the photos I took today and posted them on my Instagram to announce that I had taken a fitting model photo.

Even if you are an ordinary person, fitting a model is not something everyone can do, so there was a bit more reaction than usual.

And that was the beginning of a full-fledged upward trend.

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A few days later.

“Let me see, the clothes… Huh?”

A girl in Jinsugyo’s third-grade class was browsing through an online shopping mall to buy clothes for her winter vacation, and when she saw her familiar face among those who passed by on her main screen, she went back through the advertising slides. 〉

I couldn’t tell her for a moment because of the heavy makeup and completely different hairstyle than usual, but her face itself was a very familiar one.

“Huh? Isn’t this Han Seongjin?”

At the same time, she took a screenshot and posted it on her class chat.

As the number quickly decreased, students in the same class checked the screenshot, and a few went to Han Seong-jin’s Instagram to check it and reported that Han Seong-jin had taken a photo of a fitting model.

And several more photos were posted one after another on SNS.

There was a photo of Han Seong-jin’s girlfriends and classmates wearing the same model of clothes sold at Fit Luxurious.

“Wow… Why are the clothes so pretty? What is this?”

The girls were fascinated by the clothes that Yu-ri Lee, Eun-ji Jeong, and Su-yeon Choi were wearing and started looking for similar clothes at the shopping mall. I can’t choose the same clothes because I feel pride for some reason.

The money was given to Han Sung-jin, but thanks to Lee Yu-min, Lee Yu-ri, Jeong Eun-ji, and Choi Soo-yeon who became free promotional models, it was the moment when Fit Luxurious achieved the virality it was aiming for, and at the same time, it was an opportunity for Han Sung-jin’s SNS to grow rapidly.