Chapter 172 – New Series (6)
It was already the end of May.
University in June is the month of final exams.
“Ugh. I’m so tired of studying. I will read a novel.”
“… This older brother only crams, so I don’t know why he gets good grades.”
“Hehe. Aren’t you smart?”
“Seok-chan hyung, you’re a bit unlucky.”
“You bastard, are you talking to me more and more?”
“It’s because of my mood.”
“Hayeon unnie, teach me to study. Let’s match what you wrote with me.”
“Like what?”
“Ugh, Jeongjjinta, that to a raccoon again… “
“Kyaaak!”
“… I get bullied by Ji-kyung. It’s not fitting, it’s just showing.”
Students were slowly preparing for the exam.
At that time, Seok-chan Lee, who was not interested in the exam, looked around.
“Hey, Juhwan. Aren’t you studying?”
Seo Ju-hwan shrugged his shoulders. What is important to him now is writing, not exams. After meeting Choi Mi-hwa, I had been constantly receiving feedback, changing and supplementing the first part, and had just started serializing.
“I’m only going to cram on test day.”
“He is also my friend.”
When Lee Seok-chan smiled happily, Jeong Ha-yeon shook her head.
“Are Joo-hwan and you the same? He’s working instead of studying.”
“Yeah, shut up. I am also working.”
“Are you working?”
Jeong Ha-yeon widened her eyes. What is Lee Seok-chan doing? Are you saying that part-time job started? Oh, it was the same as the last time I heard that it was a stock or an investment.
As she looked at him with her new eyes, Lee Seok-chan proudly touched her chest and said,
“It’s my job to read novels hard~ That’s what I mean. Uh? Just look at me! Just give feedback! Uh? Isn’t it that writer Seo writes more fun? Isn’t that right, Juhwan?”
“Is mine a military thing?”
“? Therefore?”
“You’re exempt, you bastard.”
“Ouch. Suddenly, the cruciate ligament that I operated on during middle school!”
Lee Seok-chan exaggeratedly clenches his knee and pretends to be sick.
According to Lee Seok-chan, he made a name for himself as an ace striker in the soccer team when he was in middle school. But unfortunately, he suffered a major rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and had to undergo ligament reconstruction surgery…….
At that time, Jang Deok-hoon said with a confused face.
“Seokchan hyung, didn’t you say you played soccer last week too? As a striker too.”
“Hey. Isn’t that where I scored three goals and had a hat trick? Skills are not dead yet.”
“… Isn’t that enough to go to the army?”
“Uh huh. Even if I wanted to go, I got an exemption from the new sword, so what? Seok-chan is weak, so he can’t go on a march.”
“… Foot.”
“Huh? Did you curse at me?”
“It’s because of my mood.”
Deokhun Jang gladed at Seokchan Lee’s knee with a terrifying face and said. He was so healthy that he was destined to receive the first class and enlist in the army. I felt so grateful for my parents who gave birth to me in good health and the last days without any accidents…….
Lee Seok-chan giggled and patted Jang Deok-hun on the shoulder.
“Damn it, hyung shoots you big when you enlist. I’ll even cut his hair myself.”
“Oh, that’s what I want to do too.”
“Is not it? Wouldn’t that be fucking fun?”
“Let’s leave it as a video.Haha.”
“Even brother Joo-hwan…….”
Jang Deok-hun looked at Seo Ju-hwan with a betrayed face. But he, who has already completed his military service, just giggles as if he doesn’t know. Such was the friendship of the unknown men.
Jang Deok-hoon kept her mouth shut and glared at Lee Seok-chan, who was spinning around with a nasty face.
“… Brother, can’t you really just hit one? I will do my best.”
“Uh huh. Deokhun-ah, I’m your brother. Not friends.”
Although Jang Deok-hoon sometimes rebelled against Lee Seok-chan, he was basically a respectful person to his older brothers and sisters her. However, even Deokhun Jang couldn’t help but curse at the thought of the military.
“Hey……”
He couldn’t bear to say that he was a fucking asshole to his older brother his, so he muttered quietly to himself.
*
Seo Joo-hwan connected to ‘Geuljoa’. He wanted to confirm ‘I went back to the day before enlistment’, which started serialization not long ago.
“Eww. Title really…….”
Seo Ju-hwan trembled at the creepy title even though it was written by himself. In his case his, he felt like PTSD was coming because he had a really similar experience.
“It’s fortunate that I returned to my later years.”
What would it have been like if I had reverted to the day before my enlistment, as the title suggests? Of course, since the regression itself was an incomparable opportunity, he must have endured somehow. But just imagining the loss and despair of that moment gave me goosebumps.
‘I wanted to write it under a different title.’
FYI, this terrible title was Choi Mi-hwa’s idea. Since it’s a non-mainstream material, you have to somehow attract aggro even in the title? If you want to change the title, she strongly recommended that you come up with a more aggressive title or change it after the paid version.
“I have to change it to ‘Barrack Life of a Regressor’ later.”
In fact, Seo Joo-hwan’s naming sense may not be very different…….
‘Let’s start with the comments.’
Seo Joo-hwan deliberately checked her comments before checking her indicators. It’s like a fortune-telling of sorts. She was comforted that the future indicators would be good if there were positive comments.
– Mina: I enjoyed this episode as well, author! But what is the army really like? I think I can understand why men say they don’t want to go to the military after reading this novel..ㅠ
-It’s naughty: The reason I enjoyed this author’s previous work was because of his chaebol his, but is there no female character this time? First of all, writing is fun…….
– Rainboots: Give me more years! Right Now!
– Momob: I started watching while receiving PTSD because of the title aggro, but it seems to be the best choice this year. I couldn’t breathe and watched it all at once.
– Bonobonong: It’s really fun ㅠㅠ Please wait a little longer. I’m making fan art!
“Ugh. Fan art?”
Seo Joo-hwan widened her eyes and checked her comment again. In fact, I received quite a bit of fan art even when I serialized her previous work of her. However, fan art was a word that made me feel good just by looking at it, no matter what the quality or quantity.
He smiled and closed his comment window and checked the indicators.
“It’s ambiguous…….”
Seo Joo-hwan smiled with an ambiguous expression just like those words. He surely followed Choi Mi-hwa’s words, and he was getting better grades than he initially thought. However, this was because the standard was set so low in the first place, and it was a very ambiguous score when objectively evaluated.
Currently, the series is 15 episodes, and the number of preferred works is 3,000.
Definitely not a bad number. However, I couldn’t help but sigh when I thought that the previous work, ‘Master of Ice’ achieved 8,000 favorites in episode 15.
Seo Joo-hwan shook his head and brushed off his regret.
“Whoa. It didn’t start for money. Just enjoy writing. It’s only 15 episodes yet.”
I mumble as if casting a spell to calm myself down. But if you don’t care about money, wouldn’t it be a pity? However, I was comforted by the fact that there is still a means of “Publicity notes.”
“Now that I’ve finished episode 15, I need to return the note.”
In fact, it doesn’t matter much if you advertise right from the first episode. However, Seo Joo-hwan thought of the time when he was a reader. As a reader, he didn’t much prefer to promote right from the get-go. At least 10 episodes have to be filled in and publicity must be passed before anything can be judged. In addition, there are so many writers who watch the ebb and flow and return it to the whole year, so I followed from the first episode and suffered internal injuries, so I felt rejected.
‘It’s not that I don’t understand.’
As he is a writer himself, he could understand the year-round response to free serials. He could not know if it was a hobby, but his livelihood his was at stake, and he could n’t hold on to something that didn’t make money. He even thought it was much better than doing it year round without any responsibilities after he switched to paid.
In fact, the situation of these writers was understandable by the readers. On the contrary, there were not a few readers who cheered me on, saying that the next one would work out.
But that’s only once or twice.
‘I lose trust if repeated.’
And if you start to lose trust, you won’t be able to get your hands on it when the number of conversations is small. Worst of all, they don’t read it at all until it’s finished, or they filter out the writer after looking at the pen name. It was a natural stance as a reader. Seo Joo-hwan was also a reader before being a writer, so he knew this very well.
“The money is done, and it will be completed unconditionally.”
Seo Joo-hwan made a firm commitment once again and sent a group note to the readers who read the previous work. The content of the message is brief. It was news of a new series, title, material, and a brief introduction.
‘… But for now, let’s upload one episode at a time. Until then, I’ll just collect the supplies.’
Like the previous work, if you upload three or four episodes a day, it seems that you will not be able to attract enough readers until the paid conversion. In any case, it was the heart of the writer to want as many people as possible to see it.
Then the smartphone rang.
Gying!
Seo Joo-hwan answered the phone as if he had been waiting.
“Oh, brother. Where are you?”
– I’ll be arriving soon. Should I be at Anyang Station?
“Ugh. I’ll be going soon. Did the kids contact you too?”
– They both arrived soon.
“Oh right. You said you two lived together. Anyway, I’ll be leaving soon. I might get there first.”
– OK. I called Anyang, so you shoot?
“OMG. Shouldn’t a person who has become an older brother shoot something like this?”
– Yamma, I just got discharged! I didn’t even meet you because I was busy.
Lee Jeong-hoon grumbled as if he was feeling sad. He was the successor to the army of Seo Joo-hwan, who was discharged about a month ago.
Seo Joo-hwan giggled and said.
“Why is this hyung so gross? And he said his brother his was busy too.”
– Don’t talk. As soon as I was discharged, my friends called me to work together… Awesome. I got it anyway Then my brother shoots today.
“Hey. What if you take a joke seriously? It’s a party to celebrate hyung’s discharge, of course I’ll buy it. I’m going to drink it until I die today, so be prepared.”
Seo Joo-hwan put on his clothes and left the house.
Lee Jung-hoon said with his characteristic cheerful laugh.
– Okay. Let’s get together for the first time in a while and go on a double date.
Today was the day the four of us met at the Hongdae club got together again.
