## Chapter 20 – 03. Shrimp
03. Shrimp
The next day.
I stayed home, indulging in a life of debauchery.
An investment of 75 billion won was underway,
I’d dealt with the male lead,
I’d posted the producer recruitment ad,
And I’d started preparing for the prison business.
I’d roughly finished the big picture, so I couldn’t think of anything to do right away.
In times like these, I should act like a scoundrel and play around.
This was also a kind of image management(?).
It would be strange if a person changed too suddenly.
Why else would Emilia have ordered a background check on me?
She must have sensed something strange and ordered it.
So, I had to keep up the scoundrel act. There was also Seo Eunmi, the NIS spy.
I’d make the trainees dance and have sex with Sua in front of them,
Or provoke Seo Eunmi, who was always smiling brightly, until her expression twisted.
I even texted Emilia to send me nude photos. I spent my time ensuring there was never a dull moment.
Around 3 PM,
Sua, who was busy with the prison project, brought me some information.
“Master, here are the materials you requested.”
It was personal information with a photo of a woman I’d never seen before.
“Ah, is this the one?”
“Yes. It’s Yoon Hayoung, a reporter from Shinmirae Daily.”
This was the information I’d requested in the morning. She was the one who published Kim Donggi’s exposé yesterday.
I couldn’t just let it slide, could I? I had to give her a warning.
Whether it was a mistake or not, if someone targeted me, I would retaliate.
“The full article is attached behind.”
“Hmm.”
It seemed to have been published as breaking news, so the body wasn’t very long.
“All the key points are there.”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t Shinmirae Daily a pretty big media company? I don’t think a reporter could publish something like this on their own.”
“That’s usually the case. But considering it was taken down in 10 minutes, it’s possible it was done independently.”
“Hmm….”
Well, yeah.
If they were normal, they wouldn’t have jumped on such a blatantly dangerous exposé.
It was about celebrity sex scandals, no less. How many high-ranking officials would be displeased if they touched this? Media companies lived off advertising.
As I flipped through the documents, another woman’s photo was attached.
“Oh?”
A very pretty woman who looked to be in her mid-30s.
I could sense something intellectual and sensual about her.
A MILF.
“This is Seo Hyunju, the head of Social Affairs Team 1, where Yoon Hayoung is assigned.”
“This is her boss?”
“Yes.”
Sua handed me a few more documents.
As if she’d read my mind, she’d printed out a large profile of the team leader.
Photos of her receiving a journalism award, giving an interview, and screenshots of videos she’d uploaded to Mytube.
I could see her from various angles, and her beauty didn’t falter.
That meant she was a real beauty, not just someone who looked good in photos!
‘…To debut LUMINA and get them on track, I need to have close relationships with a few journalists anyway.’
That was the excuse, but my desire was already pointing north.
“She’s pretty, but she can’t manage her subordinates. Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
I tapped her printed face and handed it to Sua.
“Call her.”
+++
“Team Leader, I still can’t agree with you.”
“….”
“I want you to apologize for taking down the article I posted yesterday. And I want you to put it back up.”
“….”
The team leader sighed.
At first, she thought Yoon Hayoung was a bold and principled new recruit, but after yesterday’s incident, she finally realized.
This girl just didn’t know the world.
Because she knew so little, she could be brave,
And because she was brave, she had a clumsy sense of justice and charged in like a bulldozer.
When she witnessed the undeniable truth, would she still be able to remain a true journalist?
“Hayoung, have you forgotten that you need to get my approval before posting an article?”
“You always reject my articles when I do that!”
“Because they deserve it.”
“Not at all! There was nothing wrong with my article. It was a great article that pointed out issues that others didn’t dare to touch. Morally, grammatically, and ethically, my article was perfect! Isn’t it our duty as journalists to protect the public’s right to know and expose the dirty secrets of the powerful?!”
“….”
The team leader quietly looked up at her.
Her tightly closed lips and determined eyes didn’t seem like she would back down.
She didn’t know where she got her confidence, but she was running around with the conviction that she was ‘doing the right thing,’ and it looked so dangerous.
In this world, there were things you shouldn’t touch, regardless of right and wrong.
“You don’t think you could be wrong at all?”
“No? I can be wrong too. But not about what happened last time and yesterday. No matter how I think about it, I’m right. You saw that broadcast too, Team Leader!”
“….”
Yesterday, rookie reporter Yoon Hayoung was browsing Mytube when she came across a live broadcast.
It was being done by the general manager of an agency called Rainbow Miracle, and she was shocked by what she saw.
Good heavens.
Sex scandals.
They were offering female trainees to high-ranking members of society, and even celebrities were frequently involved.
Some agencies even had dedicated hospitality teams for sex bribery.
She was furious.
Such injustice shouldn’t exist in the world.
So, she wrote an article about it.
She thought about getting approval from her team leader as required, but remembering what had happened before, she just uploaded it without permission.
The result?
It was taken down in less than 10 minutes.
“I sent you the live broadcast video I downloaded, Team Leader. You saw it, didn’t you?”
“Yes. And shortly after, my computer crashed. The same thing happened to your phone, Hayoung.”
“That’s,”
“That’s what you’re doing. You’re not just hurting yourself.”
Clench.
Hayoung clenched her fist tightly.
She couldn’t accept that kind of logic.
“How many… how many people have been forced to remain silent for that reason? How many dirty truths have been buried by dirty journalists who suck up to power?”
“Watch your mouth, Hayoung.”
“I will never give in! This dirty, filthy world-,”
Just then, the team leader’s phone rang.
She held up her hand to silence Hayoung.
“Ugh…!”
“Yes. This is Seo Hyunju, head of Social Affairs Team 1.”
A furious voice erupted from the receiver.
Seo Hyunju briefly took the phone away from her ear and then put it back.
And….
“…Ye…yes?”
The face of the intellectual woman was filled with shock, and the hand that always firmly held her pen began to tremble.
“Wh, who… is this…?”
It was an expression Yoon Hayoung had never seen before.
“….”
After the call ended, Seo Hyunju put down her phone with a blank expression.
Even Yoon Hayoung, who was consumed by anger and passion, was worried.
“Wh, what’s wrong?”
“…N, nothing….”
“?”
Then, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and barely managed to calm down.
She swallowed hard and returned to her original expression.
“It’s nothing. Go back to your desk. Let’s not talk about this anymore.”
“Team Leader…. Sigh…. Okay. I’ll stop for today.”
She wanted to ask more, but the expression she had just seen was too unsettling.
Yoon Hayoung retreated.
+++
“You’re talking about Nyotaimori (naked sushi)?”
“Yeah.”
The chef (female) who had started living in my house since yesterday replied with a dry expression.
“There’s no problem, but because of body temperature, it won’t be good if it takes too long.”
“That doesn’t matter.”
“Understood. Who will be the model?”
“Hmm….”
After thinking for a moment, I called Sung Yeji, the first trainee I ever slept with.
“Y, you called….”
She approached with a dejected expression, unable to lift her head.
“I’m going to use her.”
“…Nyotaimori must remain still at all times. Will this person be able to do that?”
“H, huh? Wh, what are you going to make me do…?”
“Well, we don’t have to follow the rules strictly. It’s just for show.”
“If that’s the case…. Model, please wash your body thoroughly.”
“???”
“Did you hear that? Go wash up.”
Yeji headed to the bathroom, not knowing what was going on.
.
.
It was 6 PM.
“Master, Team Leader Seo Hyunju has arrived.”
“Heh…. Really? Tell her to come here.”
“Yes.”
I was waiting in the first-floor dining room with a long, horizontal table, waiting for Seo Hyunju, the first guest to this house.
Except for Sung Yeji, who would serve as the plate for the Nyotaimori, I had arranged two trainees on each side to perform sensual dances like stripteases, and the music was prepared accordingly.
Seo Eunmi stood silently behind my diagonal.
And in the corner of the dining room, a team of all-female chefs was preparing to slice sashimi in real-time.
Nyotaimori was the main course, but they were there in case it wasn’t enough.
But I didn’t think it would be lacking.
“Since she’s the first guest, I have to give her a grand welcome.”
As I was pouring alcohol into the empty glass on the table, the sliding door opened, and Sua and Team Leader Seo Hyunju entered.
“Master, I’ve brought her.”
“…!!”
Seo Hyunju, who entered with a tense expression, was startled by the trainees dancing sensually on both sides of the room.
It was understandable, since they were practically naked.
“Ms. Seo Hyunju? Come and sit here.”
I gestured to the frozen woman to sit across from me.
She nodded slightly and sat down.
She looked very uncomfortable.
The hand holding her suit jacket was trembling, making her look pitiful.
She was said to have been a very upright and principled reporter in the early days of her career, but now she looked like a common reporter who had compromised with reality. But she was very pretty.
“You haven’t eaten, have you?”
“Y, yes…. I, I don’t know if I should thank you for inviting me…. Or apologize…. Ah, no, first of all, I-,”
She tried to get up.
“Sit.”
“…!”
“Eat.”
“Ah….”
She awkwardly sat back down.
I handed her the full glass of alcohol.
As she carefully lifted the glass with both hands, my (?) masterpiece (?), Sung Yeji Nyotaimori, appeared on a serving cart.
“Excuse me.”
Four people were needed to move it onto the table.
A decadent meal with various sashimi and sushi placed on the naked body of Sung Yeji, who possessed an outstanding figure.
I was impressed by the real thing, and Seo Hyunju was so surprised that she dropped her glass.
