Big Life

Chapter 17

Chapter 17 – Is This Canned Food .

Jaegun took the call with a nervous voice .

“Hello?”

“Is this Jaegun?”

The voice was familiar in his brain and it created a picture in his mind . He could see the woman with a beautiful smile right in front of him .

“It’s Suhee, Lee Suhee, I’m sorry I called you so unexpectedly . Are you doing well?”

The car engine sound stopped .

Jaegun walked towards the window . Across the street, there was a cloud like white car in front of him . It was a few meters long, but he could tell who the driver was .

“Hello? Jaegun?”

“I’m listening . Sorry . I’ve been fine . And you?”

“Yeah . I’m good . Fine . ”

After the times that they were apart, it felt like elementary school speaking class .

“I asked Jongjin for the number . ”

“Yes, I see . ”

“I’m sorry I couldn’t come to the meeting with the all the graduates . I hear you’re still writing books . Good work . ”

“Nah . It’s just I have nothing else I can do . ”

“Are you busy? If you’re not, can I see you for a second?”

Jaegun was about to say yes but Suhee spit out a few more words .

“I’ll be real . I contacted you because of work . I’m in a hurry so I came near your house . ”

Jaegun smiled at this .

She didn’t change at all . She was always the straightforward style who didn’t soften words .

“Sorry . Did you feel bad?”

“No . You see the end of the road and the 4th floor on the orange building . ”

“4th floor, yes, I see it, are you there . ”

“Yes, 2nd floor… wait . ”

Jaegun was terrified when he looked at the mirror . Because of the air conditioner, he didn’t have time to clean up .

His hair was spiked like a porcupine and he hadn’t shaved so his beard was growing .

“Suhee, I’m sorry but could you wait in front of my house for 5 minutes . I’ll be there . ”

“Take your time . ”

Jaegun ran into the bathroom .

As soon as he shaved, he rubbed his hair with his left hand and brushed his teeth with the right . When he was drying himself, it was perfectly 5 minutes .

“You cleaned?”

Suhee smiled at the front of the parking lot .

Jaegun, on the top of the stairs, dusted off his hair .

“You haven’t changed . How many years have it been?”

“I don’t remember . Come in . ”

“Thanks . ”

Suhee went with Jaegun in to the one room .

Jaegun asked . Suhee who was standing in the middle of the room .

“If it’s hot, should I close the windows and turn on the air conditioner?”

“No, I’m fine . Wow, you raise a cat?”

Suhee found Rika who was under the cat tower and went with a surprised face .

Rika looked at Suhee’s face, closed both her eyes and yawned .

“So cute… what’s her name?”

“Rika . ”

Suhee carefully touched Rika’s neck . Rika didn’t reject her and accepted her touch . Still looking at her surroundings, she said .

“I can tell your personality just by looking at your room . ”

“Personality?”

“You only need the things you need to live . It’s like looking at your bag during college . ”

Suhee matched Jaegun’s glance and laughed . Jaegun also laughed . His heart pounded . The room felt more lively just with Suhee’s presence .

“Yes… what’s the work?”

“Ah, I forgot . ”

Suhee moved her hand that was rubbing Rika and took out some papers from her bag .

“This is the game that our company is developing . It’s a racing game with some dating . I need a writer that could write a scenario with these girl characters . ”

“Hmmm . ”

Jaegun carefully read the papers that Suhee gave him .

Suhee was so nervous that her throat was dry . She was nervous that he would laugh at her like Myunghoon did .

“Ha . ”

At a point, Jaegun laughed .

Suhee went pale and asked .

“Why… . laugh?”

“It’s funny . ”

“What is ?”

Jaegun, with his eyes on the paper, answered while laughing .

“It is . It’s funny that a girl working at a gas station meets a racer and falls in love . It’s an idea that could easily happen . It’s good because it’s possible . It’s relatable to the public . ”

“I see…”

From Suhee came a sigh of relief . Jaegun’s laugh was a positive one .

“This next character Cha Selin is also pretty good . Of course, a girl working at a construction site isn’t likely in real life . But this is a game . If you can just save the details of the construction site, you can be persuasive enough . Hey, this is pretty good . Did you make this?”

Asking that, Jaegun was still looking at the paper .

Suhee fell in deep thought as she looked at Jaegun . There was no difference from the past Jaegun and this Jaegun . The two were overlapping .

The past was like this too .

He had no other thoughts when he was reading .

He poured hot water into ramen and started reading a book, and most likely he would eat the ramen after the water had cooled .

“I’ve finished reading it . ”

Jaegun turned his head .

Suhee swallowed once and asked .

“How is it? Can you do it?”

Jaegun wanted to ask “Why me” but he stopped .

The important thing was that Suhee acknowledged that he was a writer and a human . So he made a decision and nodded his head .

“I’ll try . I’ve done work at gas stations and construction sites . I’ll be able to write something funny

Suhee’s face brightened up at that sound .

“Thanks . The contract isn’t bad . After it’s released and gets 150%, there’s incentive and …”

“It’s fine . ”

Jaegun laughed and stopped her .

“I know you’ll take care of me . ”

“Ok…”

“When do I need to do it by?”

“That’s the problem, Could you do it in 3 days? I didn’t show it to you yet, but you need to understand the story about the game, and it is a bit time limited . ”

“3 days, I’ll do it . ”

Jaegun answered confidently .

He had the power to write 10,000 letters in an hour . In two days, the only work he needed to do was to send the Modern Ranking’s 6th book to StarBooks . He wasn’t too busy .

“I’ll hurry . ”

“Thanks . I should go then . I have a lot of work to do . ”

Suhee took her bag and stood up . There was so many things that they needed to discuss, but it would have to wait . She rubbed Rika once more and went to the front door and wore her shoes .

“I’m fine whenever, so give me a call . And let’s eat dinner sometime . ”

“Ok, Be safe . ”

Jaegun sent her away and sat in front of the notebook . Rika jumped up on his legs and took his place .

“Suhee is pretty, right?”

“Meow…!”

“That was sharp . OK . You’re the prettiest and Suhee is next in line . Fine?”

Rika acted all cute rubbing his head .

3 hours later…

Suhee pulled out her phone . She was resting in the living room with some coffee when a message came .

“I’ve sent Oh Sumin and Cha Selin’s character scenarios . Check it and message me . ”

Suhee opened her eyes wide and looked at the clock . It’s only been 3 hours but the scenario drafts were already in? It was not possible .

“That’s weird . Did I explain something weird to him? Did he write something weird?”

She had no hope or expectation of receiving it in one day . She was thinking at least one day if he was fast . Suhee quickly walked to her computer .

“I can’t believe…!”

Suhee was shocked when she opened the document . She sat with her mouth open .

It was a 32,000 letter scenario draft . There was almost no typing errors and Jaegun’s writing was short and concise showing the two character’s stories well .

Suhee calmed herself and read through the draft from beginning to end . Then she printed it for all the employees .

“This is the Oh Sumin and Cha Selin’s character scenario . Read it and give me some comments . ”

The employees all looked flabbergasted .

They had been used to Myunghoon’s extreme personality and his working style . A person like that who had just left the company in a fury today calmed himself down and finished a scenario?

“Wow, This is fun . ”

The first employee that spoke up was Hemii, who was a fast reader .

“The character is really in depth . The back story is good too . ”

Later another employee said

“The scenario, I think, took in mind the quest coins as well . The cases are all really unique, and they fit right in . ”

“Did Writer Oh get something weird? I didn’t know he could write so well . He could have done this earlier and not have made so many employees miserable .

Suhee didn’t answer and only smiled . It was confirmed . It was not her biased opinion on his writing .

At that moment, Myunghoon called . She thought ‘he’ll never be a gentleman’ as she picked up the call .

“Hello . ”

“I think I was a bit furious . I changed the scenario for Oh Sumin . Changed her job to a family restaurant, I sent it to your mail so check it over . It was hard for me work to such low standards . If you can’t say yes to this, I have no other words . Find another writer .

Was it the moment?

Myunghoon’s voice sounded a lot more arrogant than usual today for Suhee .

It didn’t take long to make a decision . Suhee hardened her mind and asked .

“Could you tell me your bank account number?”

“Bank account number? Haha, what’s that? I don’t need any contract money . I don’t live that life . Just read the draft . ”

“No, I wanted to give you your final payment . ”

“Final… payment?”

Myung Hoon’s voice lost its laughing tone .

Suhee searched up the next character that she was going to send to Jaegun and continued .

“Nexon is going to revoke its contract with Writer Oh Myunghoon . I have to give you your money because of the contract . Even if it’s for coming to this company even though you’re not a proper employee and causing toils on everyone . ”

“Su, Suhee? What are you talking…”

“I’m busy, let’s cut off . Send me the number by text . ”

Beep!

Suhee put down her phone . She turned her phone over when the call came again . The employees that had found their energy in a long time moved quickly to find their respective work to do .