Chapter 78 – #78. Self-Sufficient
“…Can I move on?”
Hannah is stupid.
Stupid idiot.
I should have thought of the setting a little more delicately, but as a reader who usually only reads the text, I couldn’t answer my brother’s sudden question.
“Ah… So will we work together?”
My brother stood up from his seat with an air of disapproval.
“No. Listen to the end first. There are still two other characters left.”
Based on my brother’s reaction, it seemed that my presentation was ruined, but I tried to have him sit down again, hoping that he would at least look at the picture.
Midwinter writer who came right next to me.
I steadfastly moved on to the next slide.
“The next character I thought of was the housekeeper… Ik!”
My brother’s big hand gripped my butt tightly.
“Continue.”
“…Can’t we do all of this and then?”
I mean, I threw away the design to prepare for this.
Even today’s professor asked me if there was any sickness in the family.
That’s why the professor must be saying that my workload was ridiculous to the point where it was absurd.
But I couldn’t help it.
Midwinter writer asked me to plan a character together, but how can I do this roughly?
If even one of her favorite characters came out and that was actually reflected in [I Imprisoned Her]…
Sanctity.
Admirer of success.
Really, maybe that day will be a self-congratulatory party at home alone.
“Next… The housekeeper’s heeung…”
Ah. I had to present it properly, but my brother kept rubbing my butt and making strange noises.
“The concept.”
“How can she touch a kid who was commuting in a little casual clothes and change it to wear only a maid outfit like this pervert…”
In fact, in the rough I drew, she was wearing a vulgar maid uniform that barely covered her genitals.
Even while drawing it, I thought it was really dog-like.
Even if the content concept is a little poor, I thought it would be okay to use this picture as it is for the cover of my brother’s novel.
However…
Match!
My brother took his hand away from me and he punched him hard in the ass.
“Such a stupid employee!”
“…Heeep.”
I was a bit nervous at the thought of giving a presentation in front of a writer in mid-winter, but I was surprised and hiccups popped out as I was spanked out of nowhere.
“Why. Why do you hit Heeep.”
“You haven’t read my novel.”
Brother’s cold expression.
Should I tell the truth?
Should I not speak?
Her brother already knew I was her dog pervert bitch, but he didn’t know that I was a die-hard fan of her [Incarcerated Her].
But I didn’t want to reveal it yet.
If I found out that I was a fan of my brother’s novels, it was clear that all initiative in this relationship would fall on him.
If you threaten me with a novel, I…
[Ah… Naeun-ah… Because of you, today’s serialization was also bad.]
[If you keep doing this, I will take a break today. Write a real notice.]
[Today, I should write love love sex like a pure love story~]
And. Just thinking about it makes my blood dry.
This had to be kept a secret.
“…That’s true. Heeep.”
Match.
This time, my brother mercilessly slapped my left cheek on the other side.
“Can a good character come out only after studying data like this?”
“Where is the problem?”
“Ruler. Let me explain briefly.”
Minho oppa sat down on the chair again and crossed his legs.
“Lee Jin-seong, the main character, only eats ‘elite’.”
“So?”
“Do you think women who work as housekeepers are elite?”
“…No.”
My older brother sighs heavily and shows a displeased look.
“Hey. Isn’t a novel sold just because the picture is pretty? If you create a character by looking at just one scene that sucks like that, writing a novel will ruin it. Ruin.”
Really I was so pathetic.
It occurred to me that I was just thinking about drawing an ugly picture, and that I wasn’t really thinking about my brother’s novel.
Tears form in your eyes.
I really like this novel…
I was upset.
I feel like it didn’t help at all.
In the end, I couldn’t stop crying and a single tear flowed down my cheek.
“Hey… Hey. What’s the matter. Why are you crying all of a sudden?”
When I cried, my brother hurriedly approached me, as if he was embarrassed by Chinten.
“…I don’t know. Heeep.”
“Is it because I talked too much? No. Weren’t we just playing around with our boss and employee concept?”
My brother, not knowing what to do, soon hugged me in a hesitant manner.
“Naeun. You know this was all a concept, right? Don’t cry. Huh?”
A mixture of crying and hiccups made it difficult for words to come out.
“No. Hig. Go brother Heeep.”
“No no. Good job. The picture was also drawn with me in mind. Right.”
My older brother taught me by wiping the stains of my tears with his finger.
I hugged him silently and nodded my head.
“I… Really… I’ll do my best next time.”
I said it clearly with the intention of working hard, but for some reason my brother burst out laughing.
“No. I’ll just work hard on making the characters and deliver the contents of the illustration to you.”
My brother seemed to have brought up that word in order to manage my mental health, but it had the opposite effect.
Her tear glands, which had finally calmed down, began to work hard again at her brother’s words.
Ah. I’m sorry
Why are you so sad
Hannah. 24 years old. She is ugly and crying in the arms of her boyfriend.
The reason is that I wanted to make a badass character, but it perished like a dog.
“Huh.”
When I started crying again, my brother started to stomp even more at my actions.
I did not let go of him until his T-shirt became damp in my brother’s arms for a while.
* * *
“So. Mr. Hannah.”
My girlfriend chewing on tteokbokki with swollen eyes.
“Are you okay now?”
I’m usually good at joking around, so I thought it would be just a cute event today, but I felt like I was hit on the head with a hammer.
As soon as she stopped crying in my arms, she ran into her room.
And maybe 15 minutes passed.
Naeun changed into comfortable clothes and said to me in a low voice, “Let’s eat.”
“…I don’t know.”
She thought about moving the table that had been moved to the living room back to the kitchen, but Naeun said it was okay and just laid out the food.
I wondered if it would be better to change the subject, and I opened my mouth while thinking about what would be good.
“What should I do for my birthday?”
She, who had only eaten tteokbokki with her sullen face, raised her head and looked at my face.
“Brother, what do you want to do?”
“Me? I am…”
It’s my first birthday with my girlfriend.
Until a few years ago, I thought that I really wanted to go to an amusement park, but these days, something doesn’t go that far.
“Shall we go to a nice restaurant and have a meal?”
To be honest, I had no memory of going out with Naeun and eating such luxurious food.
Since I ate a lot in college, I wonder if I should pay a lot of money and eat high-quality food at least once.
“It’s fine though.”
Naeun shook her head up and down her twice.
“Meat? Episode? Or what else is expensive food. Ah. How about a hotel buffet?”
“Since it’s my brother’s birthday, I’m going to eat something I want to eat. I don’t have a lot to cover up like that.”
I mean…
“Okay. Then, when it closes, I’ll go and choose what I want to eat.”
“…A gift?”
Naeun asked while prodding the tempura with a fork.
“Gift?”
“Do you have any presents you would like to receive?”
Hmmm. It’s your first gift.
I think it would be better to have something full of sincerity rather than something expensive…
Like handmade gloves or scarves…
But she knew very well that it would be very difficult to expect such things from someone who had no interest in them.
In this case, just
“Give me what you want to give. You have to trust your girlfriend’s sense. What.”
I smiled and answered her.
“Huh.”
He grabbed her chin and put a smile on her lips as if she was having fun.
It’s a bit harsh, but it was nice that that expression was more like the usual Naeun rather than the sullen look a while ago.
“No. Really. Give me what you want to give Aren’t gifts supposed to taste like that again? It feels like a surprise, and it feels like an opportunity to legally give what I want to give.”
“All right.”
Naeun nodded her head slowly with her puzzled face and began to tidy up her bowl.
After wiping the table and sorting out the garbage, the sky was getting darker before I knew it.
“Shall we go soon?”
I started packing up.
“…Today is Friday, are you leaving already?”
Naeun hurriedly came to my side.
“I have to write a manuscript. Me too.”
Now is the time to come up with a real new character.
Naeun, who had been silently looking at me, suddenly started pulling up her T-shirt.
“Hey. What are you doing again Hannah.”
“How about Illere? Brother.”
As she threw off her loose top, only her black bra covered her watery breasts.
“What do you mean? And put some clothes on again. What are you doing.”
“How about an elite, well-earned, beautiful illustrator as a new character? Brother.”
…Essay writers are kind of like that.
