Chapter 99
Chapter 99
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 99
Chapter Title: Enforcing Discipline
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Humans are creatures driven by curiosity.
How could anyone keep living without wondering what tomorrow might bring?
People crave hidden secrets far more than anything out in the open.
A prime example: the hordes dying to see the faces of masked streamers—especially the women.
'I'm the one satisfying those cravings.'
Choi Yi-hyun, a guy in his late twenties, ran a site called "Red Pill Repository."
It started innocently enough: scraping faces of anonymous streamers from shady corners of the web to drum up interest.
But the attention exploded. Traffic poured in, and suddenly, it was raking in cash.
Illegal gambling ads dangled everywhere like fruit ready to pick.
More dirt, more "red pills," more visitors—and money piling up so fast that slaving away at a desk job felt utterly moronic.
Why grind for pennies when riches fell into your lap like this?
Minimum-wage drones looked like total suckers as cash flowed effortlessly.
That's why he laughed off the raids on rival red pill sites. No big loss.
Haters could whine all they wanted—idiots who couldn't monetize a goldmine. He'd just mock them and move on.
Competitors getting nuked? Even better. Traffic spiked, revenue soared.
He figured the gravy train would never end.
"Choi Yi-hyun."
"Who the hell are you?"
"You're under arrest for violating the Personal Information Protection Act and laws punishing stalking crimes."
Cops slapped cuffs on him without warning.
"No way! This is bullshit! Got a warrant!?"
"Right here—arrest warrant. Save it for the station."
He might've dodged the net if he'd gone dark like the others when sites started blowing up.
But the siren song of ad revenue had him deluded into thinking he was some noble truth-teller. The bill came due hard.
Choi Yi-hyun, 28, illegal site operator. Busted leaving home for the corner store.
Servers overseas, straw bosses in South America—he'd been sure he was untouchable.
The path that snared him? An internet community.
Bragging about his cash, shitting on someone who harbored a grudge. They scraped his digital trail from every corner and fed it straight to the cops.
Vanity was his Achilles' heel.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ 💬 Teamfight Arena Gallery — ㅇㅇ Mom, when are you coming back... I'm suffering... Jeon Jeonseol off-air day 11... My time froze that day.... — Reply A cold lasting 11 days? You got ditched lol — Reply ↳ Reply She could actually be sick, why talk like that? ↳ Reply Delusional af lol ↳ Reply Your ** **** ** ↳ Reply Scrape? — ㅇㅇ The bastards spreading galju's face will get their karma. Forcing out what she desperately wanted to hide, driving her off stream. I'll make them pay. — Reply Naive af lol, it's all a ploy to hype the stream. ↳ Reply If it's a ploy, why still off-air on day 11 ffs ↳ Reply Pls be a ploy, turn on the stream ↳ Reply ㅅㅄㅄㅄㅄㅄㅄㅄㅄㅂ — Reply Why talk like she's quit when she hasn't? — Reply Galju come baaaack!!!! — ㅇㅇ Time to revisit Jeon Jeonseol's frail beauty. Hand size: 13cm - Underdeveloped Rushed to ER mid-Challenger solo queue attempt Pushed stream too hard, bedridden 11 days Could be seriously ill, definitely not healthy Jeon Jeonseol is the pitiful, pure, fragile beauty... — Reply How's underdeveloped got such thicc mid lanes? ↳ Reply Mysteries of the human body — Reply Great at games, loaded, beautiful—and her weakness? Shitty health. ↳ Reply Pls don't be sick ㅠㅠ Stream again ㅠㅠ — ㅇㅇ Meanwhile, what's with Jeon Jeonseol running ranked games????? Can't stream cuz sick, but queues solo behind the scenes???????? — Reply Gotta block dormancy demotion ↳ Reply Challenger maintenance is serious business — Reply She's def ghosting cuz pissed at empty lobby ↳ Reply What if she actually quits ffs Seol-a's cold cleared up in just three days.
Thanks to Seol-yun's devoted nursing.
Seol-a worried seeing her sister skip even school,
but Seol-yun brushed it off: "Pre-med grades don't count toward internship or residency anyway."
Was that really reassuring?
Seol-a wasn't some nag forcing constant diligence. If Seol-yun had a solid plan, it was fine... maybe.
Besides, she wasn't exactly a model of responsibility herself.
Anyway, day four off-air: fully recovered and raring to go.
But browsing Tryit boards and Teamfight Arena gallery left her with a weird vibe.
Ex-doxxers repenting their sins.
Fans wailing about the void without streams.
Anxious types fretting she'd vanish for good.
Mobs torching for doxxer blood...
She knew cyber witch hunts weren't healthy, but watching enemies burn always thrilled the primal human.
Watching them dig into the red pill admin's past, she suddenly thought:
This flaming board is fun.
Burn brighter.
Did I stream too hard?
Need to slack more to build value, right?
Tainted by such wicked notions, Seol-a stayed dark through day eleven.
— Lee Jun Still too rough to stream? — Jeonseol-a Nope — Jeonseol-a Told you I'm good ages ago — Jeonseol-a Might as well chill a bit since it's come to this — Jeonseol-a Gotta give the editor breathing room too — Lee Jun Post a notice at least — Lee Jun People are worried — Jeonseol-a But those face-leakers piss me off — Jeonseol-a They're self-immolating so nicely, wanna watch? — Lee Jun Don't overdose on forums — Lee Jun Bad for your head — Lee Jun What'd the good viewers do wrong? — Lee Jun Trolls are the minority Lee Jun, the Korean pro gamer roasted more than anyone.
If even he said that, Seol-a was fresh out of comebacks.
— Jeonseol-a I did think about that — Jeonseol-a But those "good viewers" are the ones trolling now? — Jeonseol-a Staying off gives the trolls more ammo, no? — Jeonseol-a This is holy war... — Jeonseol-a Aka crusade! — Lee Jun You're kinda scary — Lee Jun But lose viewers and you'll suffer more? Not me.
Viewers too high, too much pressure.
Why do haters even watch?
Wish it'd shrink.
She swallowed those words.
No need to snap back at someone who cared.
Or was she just soft on "that era's connection"?
A brief, blurry proof that her past self existed.
And on day twelve off-air.
— Jeon Jeonseol Stream today. Wasn't that sick, no need to worry too much. See you at regular time, 4 PM. Thanks to everyone who waited. The notice finally dropped.
Comments exploded past 30 in seconds, welcoming her back.
And when the stream reignited,
💬 Stream Chat <Welcome back Jeon Tae-sik!> <Knew you'd make it, damnit!> <Open the door open the door open the door> <Missed you Legend-chan!> <Blew up 3 red pill sites while you were gone Jeonseol-a> -Deleted message <Your Highness x5> <Finally!> <>Bitch back for White Day collections lol> The chat erupted in fervent support.
"Streaming on March 14 is pure coincidence. No ulterior motives."
<Of course, we believe you> <Fr lol> <Totally not timed for the occasion> <March 14 is Math Day> <Pi Day apparently> Normally, they'd swarm with money-grub jabs.
But after twelve days, joy reigned—discipline tight.
Two things felt off, though.
Viewers climbing weirdly slow.
And zero donations incoming.
Why's it stuck at 500?
It did grow. Just glacially.
At this rate, when would it hit 10k, 20k?
No dons—scared off by eat-and-run fears?
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