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"This is insane. 1 million won. Thank you so much. What do I do?"
Bom Yeoreum froze up after receiving 10,000 coins.
She looked like she couldn't wrap her head around such a massive donation.
She was happy, but since it was such a huge, unexpected amount, she didn't know what to do.
She kept muttering about how crazy it was, unable to do anything.
It was a reaction from a regular person, not a BJ at all.
Even Bbangit, who was a small-time streamer, didn't act like this.
It's not just that she hasn't been streaming for long; is today her first time?
The webcam showing potato-quality video, the completely unprepared broadcast screen, etc.
It gives me a strong, logical hunch.
-Noona, do a reaction first.
-Hurry up and react.
"Ah! Right! I have to react! Just a moment. I prepared something for a time like this."
Bom Yeoreum grabbed the mouse and clicked a few times.
Then, music started playing.
Sakuranbo, a cute reaction that was super popular a few years ago.
It seems Bom Yeoreum doesn't even know the current trends on Corea TV.
Or maybe it's just because the difficulty of the Sakuranbo reaction is low.
Her beauty, piercing through the potato-quality video, turns a pathetic reaction into a high-class one.
Lee Hyunwoo watched Bom Yeoreum's Sakuranbo as if he were looking at an ancient 'Haduri' ulzzang meme floating around the internet.
And as soon as the reaction ended, he asked a question.
[Baeksuking gifted 100 coins!]
-Are you a real high schooler?
"Thank you for the 100 coins! I really am a high schooler! I'll do another reaction for the 100 coins!"
Bom Yeoreum, having quickly answered Lee Hyunwoo's question, grabbed the mouse again.
"Haha...."
Lee Hyunwoo let out a dry laugh at the sight.
A 'Big hand' started a conversation, but she's putting the conversation on the back burner to focus on reactions?
She really knows nothing about the female streamer market.
This time it was the Zero Two dance.
It's newer than Sakuranbo, but it's still a reaction that's past its expiration date.
Still, it's not a bad feeling.
Seeing a woman who acts like a regular person after only dealing with professional female streamers felt fresh and youthful.
And it wasn't like there was no one to talk to.
-She's an active high school student. Noona repeated a year because she went to study abroad.
While Bom Yeoreum was dancing and shaking her hips, the manager answered.
Seeing that he calls her 'noona' and knows her personal history so well...
Is it her biological brother?
-Is it your biological brother?
-OMG, you're super quick-witted.
-Yes, it's my biological brother.
-I see. First, tell the manager to give me some space.
-And tell her that while I'm grateful for the constant reactions, she doesn't need to react every single time I donate.
-Ah! Yes!
-Understood!
Now I know why the manager went out of his way to create a sub-account and stay in the broadcast.
The siblings teamed up to pump up the viewer count.
-BlueSky has entered the broadcast.
-DeltaEcho has entered the broadcast.
Since Bom Yeoreum, who has decent looks, is dancing the Zero Two, viewers are trickling in.
But because the video quality is so, so bad, the viewers who came in left quickly.
9, 10, 11, 10, 11, 12.
The viewer count, which was hovering around 10, returned to 9 as soon as the Zero Two dance ended.
[Baeksuking gifted 100 coins!]
-You should probably buy a webcam first.
"Ah! Yes! I was just testing out the broadcast today, so I was very unprepared. I'm sorry!"
Bom Yeoreum bows her head and apologizes at Lee Hyunwoo's remark.
Still, her energy is good.
She doesn't try to act prideful for no reason either.
She does seem to have the aptitude for broadcasting.
[Baeksuking gifted 100 coins!]
-Did you skip school to stream?
Since she's inexperienced, Lee Hyunwoo keeps talking to her.
If other female streamers saw this, they might have called it the ultimate special treatment.
Because the ones desperate to build rapport with a 'Big hand' and squeeze coins out of them are the female streamers.
"Ah... It's not necessarily that. I couldn't go to school... so I was bored and turned on the stream. Uh... but Baeksuking-nim? You suddenly donated 1 million won. Honestly, I was quite surprised."
[Baeksuking gifted 100 coins!]
-Are you planning to make a living by streaming from now on?
"I'm not sure. If Baeksuking-nim keeps coming to my stream, I could do that. Ehehe."
Oh ho, she's flirting?
Is it saying that even if it's her first broadcast, a female streamer is still a female streamer?
Lee Hyunwoo smiled with his eyes at Bom Yeoreum's tantalizing baiting.
[Baeksuking gifted 100 coins!]
-There are no viewers anyway, so shall we just talk over a call?
Lee Hyunwoo suggested a voice call.
To be honest, donating coins also needs to be fun.
But this room has no viewers.
And while the BJ's reaction is fresh and cute, that's all it was.
So shouldn't I enjoy it in a different way?
"Yes? A, a call?"
Bom Yeoreum kept glancing somewhere at Lee Hyunwoo's bold suggestion.
Judging by the position of her eyes, it was the area where the 1:1 manager chat was.
It seems her brother is coaching her.
It doesn't matter either way.
Lee Hyunwoo pushed forward.
If it works, great; if not, I'll just find another BJ.
[Baeksuking gifted 100 coins!]
-You can give me your number, do it via Discord, or Voice Talk is fine too.
"Ah! Then shall we do it via Discord?"
It seems she got permission from her brother.
Lee Hyunwoo launched Discord.
'Disco' is an abbreviation for Direct Comment (the 'DI' from DIRECT and 'CO' from COMMENT), and it's a voice chat support program.
It is usually used a lot for socializing in games or subcultures.
"Hello?"
"Hello! Baeksu-nim!"
"Hi. Ah, can I speak informally?"
"Yes, yes! Of course."
The call started, and a moment of awkwardness hung in the air.
But Lee Hyunwoo had a weapon to blow away the awkwardness at once.
It was none other than financial therapy.
"First, I'll send you the call fee."
"Call fee?"
[Baeksuking gifted 10,000 coins!]
"Aaaah! Another, another 10,000! Thank you! I'll do the reaction right away!"
"No, wait. Wait. Reactions are good. They're good, but can you do them after the call ends?"
"Ah! Yes! I'll do that! What reaction should I do?"
Good grief.
It's not like a ghost that died from not being able to react is possessing her.
Maybe it's because she's not used to broadcasting yet, but when something needs to be done, she seems to think only about that blindly.
"Think about that later. Where did you study abroad?"
"The US. I was originally scheduled to graduate high school there... but because of family circumstances, I couldn't stay in the US, so I came back to Korea. My high school credits weren't recognized, so I'm attending the third year of high school again."
"The US, huh. You must have been popular in the US. Seeing how your beauty pierces through the screen even without any filters or webcam tricks."
"Ehehe. It's not that there's none at all, maybe a little? But I've never even dated. Ah! I'm not saying this as a formality, I really haven't! My family was strict, so I only went back and forth between school and home. My mom even drove me to and from school every day."
-It's true, hyung-nim.
-I lived the same life, so...
-So both Noona and I are single since birth ㅠㅠㅠ
In a room with no viewers coming in, Lee Hyunwoo had a long conversation with Bom Yeoreum.
I thought she might be a delinquent since she said a 20-year-old returning student wasn't even going to school.
After talking to her, I could tell she wasn't that kind of kid.
She's closer to a nerd who only knows how to study.
"I was originally assigned to a private high school, but private high schools have expensive tuition. So I'm trying to transfer. They say it takes some time to transfer from a private to a public school. That's why I turned on the broadcast today."
The Bom Yeoreum siblings gave up their studies in the US and returned to Korea due to family circumstances.
And judging by the guess, the family circumstances seemed to be related to their parents.
It seems they are living apart from their parents for some reason, or they are in a situation where they can no longer receive support from their parents.
Good.
I've decided.
Raising my own Najakbi (My Own Small BJ)!
Najakbi originally has a negative meaning.
It refers to an over-immersed viewer engaging in cliquey socializing with a small-time streamer who responds well.
The reason this behavior is negative is that the over-immersed viewer has absolutely no interest in the broadcast growing or the BJ making money.
Rather, a viewer who wants a Najakbi hopes the BJ's broadcast doesn't grow and wants them to socialize with them 24 hours a day.
That's why it's a bad term.
But Lee Hyunwoo's Najakbi was different.
The picture he's painting is like how the 'God-sur' hyung-nim acquired the Man City club because he wanted to play a football management game in real life.
Lee Hyunwoo was also trying to do a BJ raising simulation in real life.
Naturally, this involves a level of care that is on a different dimension from a normal Najakbi.
But there was something that needed to be done before that.
A cashback contract.
"Cashback? Is that okay?"
"If you think it's weird, you don't have to do it. I'm only saying this because there's no one else here, but all the BJs I sponsor do cashback."
"Ah! Really! Then I'll do it! If I received 10,000 coins, that means I just have to give you back 150,000 won, right?"
"That's right."
As expected.
The cashback contract was too easy.
It's a natural thing.
If someone said they'd give you 100 million won and asked you to give back 15 million won, what would you do?
There's no idiot in the world who would refuse that.
"Then how many will you donate per week...?"
"That depends on how you do."
Lee Hyunwoo had no intention of treating Bom Yeoreum the same as other BJs.
He wasn't giving special treatment; he intended to discriminate.
Other BJs were guaranteed to receive 1 million coins per month.
But Bom Yeoreum is different.
"Depending on how I do?"
"Yeah. It's your first quest. Find a Newtube editor, 10,000. Reach 10 fan sign-ups, 10,000. Get 10 recommendations a day, 10,000. Reach 10 favorites, 10,000. What are you doing? Not writing it down?"
"Yes? Ah, yes! I'll write it down! Please tell me one more time."
Lee Hyunwoo gave Bom Yeoreum a quest.
It's already fun.
What will Bom Yeoreum do to clear Lee Hyunwoo's quest?
Seeing Bom Yeoreum write down the quest in her notebook, Lee Hyunwoo created another quest.
This time it's a side quest.
"And what I'm calling out now are side quests. Buy a DSLR, 5,000. Buy a streaming PC, 5,000. Get lighting, 5,000. Soundproofing... this is a bit pricey, so later. And clean your room, 1,000. Buy broadcast outfits, 1,000. ......... Announce broadcast times, 100."
Lee Hyunwoo made up quests as they came to mind.
The difficulty is all over the place, and the reward balance is broken, but...
What does it matter?
It's the person paying the money's choice.
And if Bom Yeoreum has any sense, she'll handle the quests that pay well and are urgent first.
"When you find a Newtube editor, cut out the cashback part and edit from the start of the quest. If possible, deliver the video to the editor with the cashback part cut out."
"Yes! Understood! Thank you!"
After Lee Hyunwoo finished speaking, Bom Yeoreum stood up and bowed 90 degrees.
She was still dumbfounded about what was going on.
But she knew that this was a huge opportunity that doesn't come easily in life.