Chapter 3 – Just a Business Relationship?
A few days have passed since the outsourcing transaction ended, but I am still disoriented.
The more I self-reflected, the more I felt like an idiot, but even so, I kept looking at my phone, writing a few lines, deleting them, and repeatedly taking out my phone.
As I was repeatedly going back and forth to Satomi’s request site page, I suddenly noticed.
“No, but what are you doing for someone you don’t even know what he looks like?”
Anyone who sees it will think I went out on a blind date.
If I were to explain myself in a very simple way.
I’ve been gulping down bowls of kimchi soup just because the person I’ve been talking to for several weeks is a woman, and she’s very kind.
If you think about it, saying she’s a woman might be a lie. However, because he had never had a single relationship with a woman in his life and had lived in isolation from a woman in the military for a year and a half, he was very hungry for women’s attention.
Because he is the ‘Mossoladajintta’ of legend, this kind of careful consideration seems very fatal.
“… “I guess it’s because it’s my first time.”
Other Illeres will probably do something like this. This would be a kindness shown to everyone in this industry. So let’s not attach much meaning to it.
‘And in fact, it might not be a woman but a Netcam girl.’
Rather, it was more likely to see it as a netcam. He knows women well enough to be suspicious, and is overly kind to me, a man. When I thought that the person hiding behind the name Satomi and grinning after receiving my gifticon was a man, my heart sank.
Okay. Let’s not turn a blind eye.
It’s so miserable to be a person whose heart is pounding because you’ve fallen in love with Netkama.
To clear my confused mind and focus on writing again, I turned on the document writing program. The black page on the screen with dark mode activated calmed the person’s mood, making me feel strangely at ease.
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Another week or so passed.
Perhaps thanks to the cover, the number of views of my once miserable novel has already exceeded 100,000.
I felt good, but I felt a little uncomfortable when I thought that the artist who drew this ugly cover was Netka.
Of course, I’m not sure if it’s a net camera, but considering how excited I was by the attention of someone whose face I didn’t even know, I was holding onto her cell phone…
[Writer, hello! This is Satomi. It’s been a while since I contacted you ^^]
“W-what?!”
She was so startled that she almost dropped her cell phone, as if she had just been caught doing something wrong.
But what? I have never submitted any additional requests. What’s wrong? Or is there something that needs additional correction?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t help but wonder why the contact came at this timing, as there was no way to contact them.
Because I had so little to guess, I even made a ridiculous assumption, like, ‘Have they caught what I thought was a netcam?’
The content of the message was surprisingly nothing special.
No… It’s so rude to say there’s nothing special.
[I happened to look at the page of the work you are serializing today, and the number of views has exceeded 100,000 hahas. So I am sending you a quick congratulatory message.]
It was an illustration.
With the handwritten message ‘Congratulations on reaching 100,000 views!’, The female character who had entrusted the request to her last time was imitating animal ears with both hands on her head with a fresh expression.
This is the quality that comes out in a day or two? I felt it last time too, but it’s amazing.
… The first thing to do is to say thank you.
[Wow, thank you so much for the unexpected gift! The author drew such pretty illustrations that I think I’m getting good results thanks to that. I will write hard!]
I thought I would receive a formal response to the usual greeting, but I received a long thank you again.
[Isn’t the work popular because it’s fun? ^^ I drew it in a hurry, so the quality is a bit low, but I am even more thankful that you like it~
Maybe it’s because it’s my first outsourced project in my life, but I’m strangely moved by it haha. I feel good seeing the project doing well.
Then take care of your health, ah! If you want, you can also use this picture as a cover haha]
… Fuck.
Fuck, are all Illeres really this kind? Is it common sense in this industry that if you get 100,000 views, a congratulatory note is sent as standard?!
I desperately wanted to use the Netcam identification method I found on the Internet right away, but I couldn’t commit the rudeness of asking the trapping question ‘How many times a day do you have your period?!’ I had a hard time pressing it.
I thought I had learned quite a few basic skills in the military, but communication in today’s life was a different field.
First, I ended the conversation with a thank you, and then with mixed feelings, I called my friend.
“Hey. Do you have some time later this evening? Let’s have a drink.”
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“Isn’t it a flower snake?”
That evening, at a bar with soju and pork belly, my best friend Wonwoo, a classmate from elementary, middle and high school, listened to my story and suggested an unexpected possibility.
“What is the basis?”
“First of all, I think the woman is right.”
“Why?”
“Lets think. Basically, netcams are based on the mentality of ‘trying to take advantage by revealing that one is a woman first,’ so they usually appeal to women first. But I heard you asked first?”
“Yes.”
I gained a lot of trust when a person who had been in every community since high school said this.
By the way, the only person I can discuss this issue with is a shady communication addict with a similar experience as me in toilet paper tying. What happened to my relationship?
When he shows signs of becoming extremely depressed, Wonwoo, fearing that he is not his best friend, instead of comforting him, mercilessly throws the ultimate deal in.
“And Se-kwang. Lets think. What woman would expect such kindness from an idiot like you out of pure kindness? “Everyone has something to wish for.”
“Wonwoo. “I think you’re being a bit harsh.”
“In the first place, medicine that is good for the body is bitter in the mouth. And it’s true, right?”
“I think I’m going to waste it because I’ve spent so much money. And you know that I’m a fool, but what can you believe and guarantee about me being ‘a bitch’?”
“If you look at me, I can see…”
“Fuck you.”
After all, male friendship comes from diss and drips.
Wonwoo flipped the pork belly over, took tongs and scissors, cut the pork belly into bite-size pieces, and handed me a bottle of soju. We clinked our glasses again as if nothing had happened.
Wonwoo, who emptied his soju glass, picked up the cooked meat and wrapped it in wraps, continuing his advice.
“You make some money these days by writing dirty talk. The episode posted yesterday was a bit lame. “I took a step back from that.”
“It’s a compliment, but it feels dirty. Were you originally reading it?”
“Don’t you know that I will always be your number one reader? “Fuck, I bought Novelpia Plus to watch that.”
There aren’t many people around, and if I were to narrow down the list of people who would open up about writing pornographic stories, he was the only one left, so I just threw in the link, but I didn’t expect that he would pay and read it.
“I was going to kill you when I saw the text, but you have a conscience.”
“No, I looked for a text book, but it wasn’t popular enough to have a text book.”
“A real fucking bastard.”
Wouldn’t it be better to just look at the text and use a time lag attack? Wonwoo saw me trying to grab the soju bottle and quickly stopped me.
“Hey, calm down. “That’s not what I’m trying to say.”
“Then what is it?”
“Because you like earning views, to put it in a bad way, you are a flower snake, but to put it in a good way, you are managing customers. “Regardless of whether they have malicious intent or not, it’s good to receive requests for work, right?”
“You’re drawing and sending a congratulatory message for reaching 100,000 views in order to win a job request?”
“Things like that happen, too! That’s investment, man.”
Wonwoo tipped his drink again and emphasized to me.
“Do not forget. “You are doing business, not a blind date.”
“Business… “
“This is a relationship that leads to money. To be honest, if there are no works and no requests, will that relationship continue?”
It’s the perfect answer.
Those words that pierced the essence made me speechless, and I closed my mouth with blank eyes.
Looking for a relationship in business, what kind of naive and foolish thing is this? A guy who served in the military and clearly knows the basic common sense of social life called ‘give and take’.
“Phew.”
I held out the glass to Wonwoo, exhaling hot breath mixed with soju.
Although it was a bit of bitter, I felt like it was a good thing I met Wonwoo.
We must accept reality calmly.
Even though he hasn’t had any contact with a woman in the past, he’s like an idiot trying to find a relationship through a contract based on money…
[Author, sorry for being late… I know it’s rude, but I’m really sorry…]
[This is the gifticon I gave you last time. I’m grateful, but I don’t have anyone to go eat with… Could you please spare a day? If you are displeased, you can refund the gifticon… ! Because it’s a bit of an awkward situation for me to write about…]
She first.
She has crossed the line in business.
“… But did this woman send you this message because she knew where you lived?”
“You don’t know.”
Maybe they think that’s not important.
“What are you going to do?”
In response to Wonwoo’s question, I frowned once.
“There’s no need to remove it.”
I accepted her offer.
[Great. Where can I see it?]
