107 – Dongmin Lee (42)
Dongmin Lee (42)
“Hmm? Color?”
Ban PD lifted up his glasses and said.
You must be about the same age as my older sister, but PD-nim had a strong sense of youth, such as his straight bangs.
Of course, the face, not the body.
She tilted her head and put her lips on the teacup.
Her lips were covered with a soft pink gloss.
You seem to have put a lot of effort into your makeup today.
Her eyelids were covered with black mascara, so the curves were seen in her profile.
I was puzzled that he was wearing black-rimmed glasses while dressing up so beautifully.
“The ones on the market are close to yellow. I don’t know either…”
PD said.
“… Oh, is that so.”
“But why? The color of the car for deficiencies?”
“…The color is different from what I drink every day before bed. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s just a different kind.”
“Yes, probably.”
PD Ban nodded her head moderately.
She took out her laptop and put it on the table.
She and she looked at the phone.
“I read the novel you sent me.”
“Yes.”
Because he was looking at his phone and laptop, PD Ban’s eyelashes went down, and he didn’t make eye contact with me.
I was nervous for some reason and swallowed.
She is a person who has been a great source of strength for me while I have been serializing for a long time, but she was like an old fan who likes the old taste of 『Journal』.
In other words, if I disappoint the readers by drifting Harin’s personality and various settings in the latest episode, PD-nim would show it the best.
On the contrary, if the ending was okay with her, it would be a novel that would satisfy everyone to some extent.
“Isn’t that great?”
Ban PD said with a broad smile.
I felt like I was in front of a teacher today, perhaps because her image has changed a lot, such as using eye makeup with a curler compared to the last time I saw her.
To the extent that I thought for a moment that decorative work is essential for office workers living in society.
I was relieved because of that.
If an old fan and expert PD says it’s okay, it’s fortunate if it’s not just lip service.
“I don’t know what you were worried about.”
PD said with a smile.
“I have felt this for a long time, but I think the writer is too strict with himself. From my point of view, he is a person who does not bow down to any other writers. He is maintaining his form well over 1,000 episodes.”
“Go, thank you.”
Recently, it’s been year round, serialization has resumed, and it’s been eventful.
Still, maybe I’m a writer, but when I received a compliment from the PD, tears flowed.
“So, shall we listen to the ending?”
PD-nim leaned in a little and said.
As she had been talking about the skylight all along, the light was pouring in through a window wide enough to give a clear view of the grassy garden in front of her.
There is also a guide to the place on purpose.
She sits on a long sofa that can seat three or four people, and I sit on a single sofa.
The distance is about 2m.
Through that window, I thought to myself that I had been talking to a categorical detective just a few weeks ago.
At that time, Haerin was with Detective Seonggang Park, arms crossed in front of the bookshelf in the living room behind us.
I woke up from the flashback and said.
“Yes, this is the ending.”
Kang Hae-rin from 『Journal』 Will be happy in the end.
She will work hard to protect Lee Dong-min, no, Lee Dong-hyun, and of course, there will be no direct blood on her hands in the process.
In fact, the shadowy figure behind 『Journal』 Was Kang Hae-rin’s grandfather, Kang Hwan-jae, and he was testing her talented granddaughter in many ways.
The conglomerate run by Kang Hwan-jae was transcendent enough to even influence public authorities, and all of that was possible because it led a shadowy organization.
They were testing drugs that could brainwash them, as well as physically altering them.
It was the identity of the black man with the motif of a vicious company that usually appears in sci-fi movies.
“………”
Honestly, I thought it was a bit absurd, but it was hard to explain the things around Hae Rin and Lee Dong Hyun without such an absolute villain.
It’s a fantasy anyway, so it’s not impossible.
Still, my conscience pricked me, so I continued to look at the class PD-nim and briefly explain the contents.
“Um…”
PD-nim rested one arm on his knee wearing coffee-colored stockings and covered his mouth crookedly with his hand.
She was lost in thought in that state.
“Isn’t that too bad?”
I spoke first out of nervousness.
“I wanted to finish it realistically, so I brought that kind of content, but it might be irrational…”
“No, I don’t think that’s the problem.”
Ban PD relaxed and said.
“I think that is also very fun. But do we really need to go back to being so realistic?”
“Then…”
“I think it’s better to stick with the default settings. In terms of realistic probability, Kang Hwan-jae’s corporate setting is not realistic. First of all, the background is the Republic of Korea, but the setting of an underground organization that controls the police and moves secretly…”
“……”
I nodded quietly.
It’s a little sullen, but it’s true that it’s just like that, according to the expert’s advice, the way Kang Hae-rin isolates and eliminates the murderer without murder is unrealistic.
In the first place, this novel is unrealistic.
“I will.”
“Although this is just advice. Probably all readers will like the happy ending. So I think it’s good to somehow bring the ending there. Please take note.”
“Yes, yes.”
While talking about the development of the work, I drank the Gyeolmyeongja Tea brought by the PD.
The reddish liquid was different from the drink I drink from Haerin every night.
Unlike Haerin’s drink, which has a subtle floral scent and a salty and soft taste, this tea has a more ‘tea-like taste’.
But I didn’t think deeply about it.
There are many brands of green tea and black tea, so I thought that the taste might be different depending on the variety.
It was definitely a distinct taste for something like that, but-
“Oh, and I’ve been preparing myself…”
When there is a brief lull in the conversation, both of them are sipping tea in silence.
PD started looking through his laptop.
“I’ve been making some comments.”
“Oh, really? Thank you.”
“No. Rather, I am sorry that I have neglected it so far. Until now, the originality of the writer was very good and the writing skills were good, so there are things like that…”
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PD Ban opened the PDF file and carefully reviewed it visually before showing it to me.
But her expression hardened for an instant.
“Um…”
A small moan escaped her mouth.
PD Ban leaned her upper body slightly toward her laptop, as if she were choosing what to say to me, and covered her pink lips with her hand, thinking about her.
“Why?”
“… The writing is a bit strange.”
“Yes?”
“… I’m sorry, writer, I must have misunderstood something. I wrote this two days ago or three days ago, maybe because I wrote it while dreaming…”
The confidence in her words disappeared.
“…But I’m not one to make stupid mistakes like this, the content is messed up. He’s making completely different comments than what was published in the series.”
PD Ban looked at me, squinted her eyes and smiled in embarrassment.
“What can I do? Sorry. I don’t think I can show you this. I reviewed it again…”
But the moment I heard that, I thought PD-nim was experiencing the same symptoms as me.
The contents of the preceding novel are confusing.
It might have been some kind of memory manipulation.
My eyes flashed open as if I had been doused with cold water.
“It’s okay, can I watch it?”
“… Yes?”
PD-nim, who had already covered the laptop, opened her eyes wide and shook her head as if she was embarrassed.
“… No, this is a real mess. It’s not just the details that are wrong, the ending of the episode itself is different. It’s a completely different novel. I must have confused it with another piece. I don’t know what.”
“I still miss you. What is it?”
“Ah…”
PD Ban, as if he couldn’t understand my persistence, pulled his body back and continued to be defensive, but in the end, he gave up and explained the mistaken comment.
I read her comments.
[… In the episode of Ep.3, Jeong Seong-wook, to show the villain’s cruel side, several women who become his victims appear. However, I didn’t understand the scene where Kang Hae-rin just watched while Jung Sung-wook went through various incidents, including women who noticed his past.]
“… I don’t know why I made this mistake. If it was a completely different novel, it would be because the file was imported by mistake, but the content itself is different.”
Embarrassed, the PD kept helping.
But I already knew what that comment meant to me, and I didn’t hear anything.
[… Also, there was no additional explanation about the identities of the women who noticed Jung Sung-wook’s past, and it was very disappointing that it ended smoothly. This may have been put in as a setting to expand the mystery of the existing case and increase the risk, but it seems that it has its own power to convince the reader that there is a big picture…]
“… Me, author?”
When I looked up, the class PD-nim was making a silly and cute expression that made me smile as he looked far away from the heavy makeup.
“I think you are taking the wrong comment too seriously. If you don’t mind…”
“No.”
I said.
At that time, my heart was beating little by little.
The contents of PD-sama’s comments were assuming a novel different from that of 『Journal』, Which is currently being serialized.
In other words, it is the 『Journal』 Before transformation.
Jeong Seong-min, whose name in 『Journal』 Is ‘Jeong Seong-wook’, dies in a car explosion.
This is actually what I experienced.
However, Jung Seong-min in PD’s comment did not die at that time, but lived and did cruel things to ‘women’.
Needless to say, it was Jiyoung Hwang and Yuna Kim.
Now the question was this.
Why did this transformation happen?