Chapter 75
Chapter 75
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 75
Chapter Title: Even If It's Embarrassing, You Have to Do What You Have to Do
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Even if it's embarrassing, you have to do what you have to do.
Even if it's embarrassing, you have to do what you have to do.
After Jeon Jeonseol collected email addresses from the winners and sent them chocolate gift icons, a small commotion stirred online.
💬 Jeonseol Gallery 📰 [Author: Anonymous] [Title: I'm a Jeonseol chocolate winner, what the hell is this?] I was expecting a minimum 1,000-won to max 5,000-won gift icon
> What is this 100,000-won handmade chocolate set???
─[Not fake]
> ─[Seeing all sorts of weird concepts]
> ─[Should've just said 20,000-won moderately—who'd believe a 100k one lol]
> ─[Is that chocolate sprinkled with gold dust or what for 100k?] At first, it seemed like bait aggro when it was posted.
But with a whopping twenty winners and proofs flooding in, people had no choice but to believe.
Jeon Jeonseol's extraordinary actions prompted comments from all over.
📰 [Author: Anonymous] [Title: 100k each to 20 people—that's 2 million?] No lololol No wonder people always tell her not to splash cash like that
> How much money does she even have lololol
─[She has so much money she can't handle it] ↳ Reply If you're giving to anyone, give to me too! ↳ Reply What do you mean anyone? It's for 'viewers,' isn't it? ↳ Reply Who are we? "Jeonseol's friends"! ↳ Reply Friendship fees are kinda pricey though. ↳ Reply Why's the streamer paying the friendship fees lolol ↳ Reply 'Cause... she's friendless-true lol... ↳ Reply I watched the stream too!!! Gimme some too!!!! ↳ Reply You gotta beat 1,000:1 odds for that. ─[If we marry, it'd be our joint assets, kinda wasteful splashing on other guys] ↳ Reply But I'll forgive it—I'm a big-hearted guy. ↳ Reply Crazy bastard. ↳ Reply Step aside, scrub! I'm Jeon Jeonseol's husband! ↳ Reply Did you get her consent? ↳ Reply As if. ↳ Reply OK, arrest them all. 📰 [Author: Anonymous] [Title: What money splurge is that? X Turns out Jeonseol really is loaded O] So jealous damn lol ─[Great voice, killer gamer, big boobs, and loaded—what ya want me to do about it?] ↳ Reply Jeonseol... gotta suck it up...? ↳ Reply Jeon Jeonseol! Jeon Jeonseol! Jeon Jeonseol! ─[Forbes' #1 Female Streamer Women Want to Marry] ↳ Reply Wanna be a live-in son-in-law fr. Of course, as is the nature of community sites, plenty of suspicious types showed up to stir the pot.
True rich people don't waste like that, bad upbringing, weird spending habits, typical nouveau riche, blah blah blah.
How many rich folks have they even met to be so sure "real" rich people don't act like that?
Jeon Jeonseol had just picked something decent her viewers probably never tried, no calculations involved.
Drama over sending expensive chocolate. Truly, everything's controversial.
There were other pointless debates like whether 100k is really that much, but details omitted.
However, one person was troubled for an entirely different reason.
Jeon Jeonseol's YouTube editor, Kim Young-sang.
Staring at all the winners' proofs, he thought:
...
...Do I get nothing?
...
Really nothing at all?
And he still hadn't met the real Jeon Jeonseol even once!
Even as her dogged editor working for her!
Communication only online!
Kim Young-sang: Boss, today's video Kim Young-sang: Upload the dagger bread part too? After yesterday's stream ended, Kim Young-sang had swallowed his awkwardness to ask his streamer.
Too good a clip to scrap.
In a world full of folks doing anything for clout.
Video of taking down Victory with a moan attack?
Aggro and views guaranteed.
But the streamer's shame would inevitably follow.
And some hate comments too.
So her intent mattered most.
Editing without permission was overstepping.
Legender: Of course you cut it Legender: Obviously Legender: Cut stuff like that on your own from now on too Kim Young-sang: Got it A female streamer's slightly lewd action and Victory, the superstar.
Two view-count cheat keys, and she's passing on them?
It hurt bad, but no choice.
The shame was hers to bear.
Kim Young-sang couldn't feel it for her.
Boss says cut, you cut.
The boss being Jeong Min-hee and all.
'What a unique workplace.'
What streamer agency runs like this?
How badly does she want to hide her identity to prop up a figurehead president?
How badly to where Kim Young-sang still hasn't seen his streamer's face even once!
The pay was solid, no worries about late salaries from her spending.
Great contract terms.
Yet why this hollow emptiness in his chest?
Sensation of not being trusted.
Well, duh—you can't trust someone you've never met.
But without a first meeting, he'll never be trusted, forever.
So no chocolate for him either.
'Work. Just keep working.'
Can't nag to meet for no reason.
Maybe fake hurt feelings and ask to meet?
That'd make him the crazy one.
Today too, Kim Young-sang soldiered on editing alone and lonely in the office where even President Jeong Min-hee hadn't shown up.
He was soldiering on.
"Young-sang, you're already in. Was gonna call if you weren't. Perfect timing."
Jeong Min-hee suddenly showed up.
She dropped shocking news on Kim Young-sang.
"Jeonseol's coming by soon."
"Pardon?"
"To drop off some brownies."
"What!?"
Soon after, the office doorbell rang.
She could've just entered, but rang out of courtesy for those inside.
Jeong Min-hee dashed over and opened the door.
"Come on in!"
"Hi."
Kim Young-sang finally laid eyes on her.
The enigmatic streamer Jeon Jeonseol, whom he'd dreamed of.
Days of fanboy applying, becoming editor, still only online chats flashed by.
No matter how plain—or ugly even—he vowed not to show disappointment.
With that resolve, facing his employer, Kim Young-sang...
"Gasp!"
Froze with a sharp yelp.
A beauty beyond imagination stood at the door.
Jeong Min-hee hadn't even mentioned Jeonseol was pretty.
One comment from online resurfaced.
Great voice, killer gamer, big boobs, loaded—what ya want me to do?
Yeah, and drop-dead gorgeous too.
'An idol didn't get lost and wander in, right?'
Kim Young-sang, who'd binged girl group fancams honing his YouTube editing style.
Not pervy, pure practice, anyway.
Even "legends" among idols couldn't match that face.
No real-world comps—anime character territory.
Right, she said she liked that Venus character.
Goddess of beauty incarnate.
"Nice to meet you. I'm the streamer Jeon Jeonseol."
"Kim Young-sang! My liege!"
"Liege?"
"N-No, employer!"
Sudden chill in the air.
If genders were swapped, laughs all around—but the world is harsh on guys facing beauties.
Jeon Jeonseol flinched while pulling a brownie from her shoulder bag.
Should she give this to a guy like that?
Won't he stalk-evolve into a dark form?
"Just a slip of the tongue! I don't usually think like that!"
"Nah, fantasies are good. Imagination's essential for creators."
Backing away as she said it.
"No! I didn't mean it like that!"
"Like what exactly? Young-sang."
Jeong Min-hee jumped in to tease him.
"Misunderstanding."
And Jeon Jeonseol was dead serious.
"If you're gonna keep working with me, you absolutely can't fall for me."
She'd dealt with a confession or two before.
Any other woman saying that, he'd think psycho, axe-murderer, weirdo.
But seeing her face, it felt utterly natural.
She had to maintain that iron wall, or everyone around would fall under her spell.
It was just that natural a look and voice.
"I'll keep it in mind."
Kim Young-sang's reply passed muster.
Beware the "As if I would."
That's a death flag.
"I'll work on it" or "I'll remember" is better.
"In Japan and Korea, Valentine's is girls giving boys chocolate. But in America, it's for anyone you're grateful to. This is the American style."
No need for that long explanation—nobody'd misunderstand anyway.
First impression: disaster.
Kim Young-sang thought.
But happy too.
Knowing Jeon Jeonseol's a stunning beauty and scoring handmade brownie.
Good call taking this job.
"Oh, and me being super pretty? Top secret. Don't tell a soul."
Yeah. Humility from that face is deception, mockery of the world.
She knows she's pretty. Rightfully so.
Kim Young-sang nodded.
Even if it's embarrassing, you have to do what you have to do.
Despite the moaning disaster from yesterday's stream.
Jeon Jeonseol succeeded in bonding with her editor by gifting homemade brownie as a "please take care of me" gesture.
Thus, she took another step into society.