035. Fall, harvest season (2).

“Eighth place! Eighth!”

“Great! Oni! 8th place! Isn’t this really going to be number 1?”

The chart, which entered at number 17 the previous day, rose to number 8 the next morning. Successful chart climbing and entry both subjectively and objectively.

Crack Enter was literally engulfed in a festive atmosphere. Literally right before disbanding, it was because they slowly started to make their name known as a popular girl group.

In addition, the reaction to the song was very positive. The evaluations of fans and the evaluations of Shim Ji-eon critics.

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And as if they had waited, the PR team and Cha Young-ho’s phones started ringing non-stop.

“yes? hello? Yeah? yes! Is it entertainment? Absolutely! Absolutely! thank you! Enter!”

Cha Young-ho bent his head into the phone, pressed the end call button, and clenched his fists.

It was ecstasy. I turned the CD, turned the coffee, turned my greetings, and struggled to get into the radio somehow, but the results were all failures.

“Entertainment? Oppa entertainment?!”

When he looked up and saw the faces of the Seraphim members staring at him with bright eyes, Cha Young-ho tried his best not to reveal his emotions.

“okay! It’s an entertainment show! oh my god! All members!”

But, how could he hide his face in such a joyous event?

—

– What is this? Suddenly in a music video?

– Title WOW. Written, composed and arranged by Song Jae-ik.

– When did this person make an idol song again? Besides, all the lyrics, composition and arrangement?

– That’s crazy. it’s crazy. These days, only videos of playing musical instruments are uploaded on You Tube, and it was said that it was a bit infrequent. you were doing something like this

– No, but in the meantime, the song is really good.

– It’s dereliction of duty! How can a YouTuber let fans hear the news through another source instead of telling them right away!

– Well. Could it be work? But isn’t it a question whether YouTuber knows about our fan cafe?

– Hey, this is enough to play hide and seek, right?

– You Tuber doesn’t seem to have any intention to say anything. So maybe we should go find it?

– Full recognition. This youtuber knows how to stimulate the fighting spirit. What do you see the internet investigation team as?

– I agree. From now on, let’s start exploring.

When Seraphim’s music video was released and at the same time that sentence appeared at the end of the music video, Song Jae-ik’s fancafe was buzzing.

There was no live broadcast and the release of the animation was far away, so I didn’t know what they were doing, but it was only natural that such a phrase appeared in the idol music video.

Besides, it’s not just composing, it’s literally at the level of pulling out a complete song, from writing lyrics to arranging it.

[Look CE: Oh! There is one thing I suspect. I’m reading a web novel right now, and the pen name for the first place work there is CE.]

– Where are you? walk from the link

It’s not just a series, is this a contest?

– what? But is this really fun?

“hey. I heard that the fans of your fancafe will find out what you do?”

“What are you talking about? why me?”

“Suddenly, your name was revealed in the Seraphim music video. Since youtuber doesn’t inform the news, they will find it. Five. You seem to have found that you even wrote a web novel? Someone posted a link, looked at the picture on the cover of the pseudonym CE, and commented that this was missing. oh! The video distribution is also uploaded to the link to your novel. go up! It’s so much fun.”

“Are you?”

With those words, the number of views of Jaeik’s novel started to rise in real time.

“No crazy. Show attack power. The number of views of the prologue exceeded 100,000.”

About 97,000 views exceeded 100,000 at some point.

The gap with the second place was widening even more rapidly.

“Wow. see firepower. They put a link in the cafe notice.”

“I know. How did you find it?”

“hey. His pen name is CE, which is questionable. Besides the cover. this is a rip off If this is enough, you’ll be able to win first place without a doubt, right?”

“I know. what about this Honestly, now it’s complete rather than the subject of the contest. And that’s OSMU’s problem. is not it?”

“It’s not like that. Honestly, I think it would be fun if this was made into a webtoon.”

“I don’t think it would be fun, but it would be fun? You saw some.”

Eom Kang-seok thought of the webtoon, the first episode of the novel, which Song Jae-ik had drawn for practice, and then shuddered and shouted.

“Damn it! Why are you bringing that up again! Draw a picture right now. I barely forgot.”

It was a different genre from web novels, but the drug-like skill was still there. Also, after reading the first episode of the webtoon, I was curious about the second episode. In addition, the picture style was gradually developing as to what the hell he had done.

“Everything has its time. wait.”

Of course, as Um Kang-seok said, there was enough time and skills to do this and that at the same time. But I was not going to do that.

Do I have to say that I am too busy trying to digest animation, web novel, and composition at the same time?

“Anyway, sticking to sh*t.”

If Song Jae-ik had made up his mind like that, he had no choice but to change his mind. But again, there was no reason to do so.

—

It wasn’t long after the Song Jae-ik fan cafe began searching for Song Jae-ik.

“manager! Is the number of views unusually high?”

“how much?”

“In two hours, the number of views suddenly increased by nearly 5,000. only one work. There are also a lot of external views without logging in.”

“Isn’t it view count manipulation? What kind of work is it?”

The Nettopia platform operation team was sweating to figure out the situation with the abnormally increased number of views of a work.

“uh? Isn’t this piece the hottest piece these days? It doesn’t make sense for a work like this to manipulate views like this. Besides, the reviews are good. I’ve read this too. Besides, it’s number one.”

“So. uh, what is it? But no matter how much I search, I don’t see anything strange, right? All IPs are different. It’s a really normal approach.”

“But what? There’s no way the number of views will suddenly rise like that, not dozens or hundreds, but close to 5,000.”

“ah.”

The platform team employee, who was looking for the reason for the team leader’s madness, sighed only after checking the comments on the novel.

“manager! I found the reason.”

“What?!”

“Uh… so the CE writer who posted this novel. Is your name Song Jae-ik?”

Gil Han-joo pointed to the fans’ writings filled with comments.

“Song Jae-ik? Who is it? what celebrity are you? Haven’t you heard of it?”

“You don’t know, chief? So you’re bunde. Yoo Jae-hyung’s Music Love Letter came out and I came out with Evie and sang. make an animation Recently, I also composed the Seraphim WOW song.”

“uh? seraph? WOW. I think you’ve heard of it. How do you know that, Mr. Hanju?”

“These days, if you just search the Internet, everything comes up.”

“So that person is famous, so it turns out that fans are coming to see it, right?”

“Well, something like that.”

The team leader wiped away the cold sweat and let out a big sigh. It was the company’s biggest event, the competition.

In addition, this contest was also a contest to announce a new Nettopia with a prize money of the highest level ever.

However, this is not a problem, but isn’t it a situation where the contest will flourish?

It was a small episode caused by Song Jae-ik’s Nutube.

—

When Seraphim eventually rose to the top of the charts and emerged as a blue chip in various entertainment shows.

The first time I won 1st place on a music room, received a trophy, and thanked Song Jae-ik infinitely and cried while singing an encore song.

[Announcing the winners of the 7th Korea Nettopia Web Novel Contest!]

[I would like to express my infinite gratitude to the 8,197 artists who participated in the 7th Nettopia Contest.]

[Target – So I decided to become a villain / CE]

[So, at first glance, I decided to become a villain. It may be a material that has already appeared countless times. However, this work has been well-received as a work with little likes or dislikes throughout all previous Nettopia novels, and the author’s unique and immersive writing skills clearly show his strengths while keeping the trend of web novels well.]

A fancy cover was literally hanging on the top.

“Hehe… one hundred and fifty thousand.”

“Calm down, dude. This is not a house, it is a Nettopia company.”

“Hey, one hundred and fifty thousand.”

“Wake. Excluding taxes, it’s around 100 million.”

Song Jae-ik came to the Nettopia office building with Um Kang-seok, who had hazy eyes.

The name Nettopia was engraved on the outer wall of the building, and the entire building over 20 floors was for a content company called Nettopia. Literally huge.

The reason I came to the building was not only to attend the awards ceremony, but also to sign a contract that had been negotiated only verbally.

‘Although the contest itself means that it will be serialized on Nettopia anyway.’

Rather, the part that needed coordination was the part about webtoonization and OSMU. The target was basically because Song Jae-ik wanted to participate in this part in a situation where OSMU was installed.

“Are you a CE writer?”

“ah? PD Kim Ji-in?”

“hello. Author! You have worked hard to come this far!”

“What about suffering?”

Song Jae-ik felt awkward at the first meeting with the person in charge, who had only talked on the phone, but Kim Ji-in guided Song Jae-ik with a bright smile.

“I am so used to it. I’m watching the author’s You Tube diligently. Congratulations to Seraphim for winning first place recently. I also looked at the music and I really liked the song.”

“You were one of our subscribers.”

“sure. I’ve been a fan since the third episode of the author’s novel was uploaded. I would have been the first to know that you are a YouTuber?”

“Oh, wait. no way?”

Eom Kang-seok, who had been quietly listening to the conversation with Kim Ji-in, tilted his head.

“Look for CE? Could it be that PD was the one who posted that he was uploading a web novel and that he was visiting the Nettopia company today on the fancafe?”

“oh···? Did you know…?”

Kim Ji-in put on an embarrassed expression and tried to cover up the situation with a smile.

“If you are here, you should come in. What are you doing outside? The author is… Hello! I am Hae-jun Yoo, the team leader.”

Ji-in Kim thought it was fortunate to meet Hae-jun Yoo and quickly opened the door to the meeting room.

“I’m going to sign the contract first before the awards ceremony, is that okay?”

“sure.”

Since it was a contract that had already been discussed several times in the contract process, Song Jae-ik quickly signed the contract prepared by Nettopia.

“Now, you have officially become our writer. I wish you good work in the future. This, not only the web novel, but also the webtoon, I have to ask for your support.”

“I wish you well.”

“At least there is no problem with webtoons, so we will do our best in other areas as well.”

“ah. This is a sample up to episode 2 of the webtoon. Would you like to check it out?”

“Already? It’s still a long way from launching a webtoon.”

“I just drew it slowly during my break time.”

Usually, the first gateway to OSMU for web novels was webtoonization, but since that has been solved by Hankyu.

It was time for the company to think of OSMU in a different direction. In addition, the works of their own competition. In addition, it was right to give the maximum amount of courtesy as the previous level of conversion is expected in the pay-per-view tomorrow.

“Shall we go to the awards ceremony? The awards ceremony will be held in the main auditorium in the basement.”

At the word awards ceremony, Um Kang-seok’s expression changed strangely.

Song Jae-ik sighed and lightly hit Um Kang-seok on the back of the head to mean to come to his senses. Aren’t Haejun Yoo looking at him with strange eyes right now?

Contrary to the expectation that the underground auditorium will be small, it literally feels like a reception hall where the entire floor is used for events.

“Is that the CE? You are really young.”

“Honestly, at that level, should I call myself a writer, a YouTuber, or a celebrity?”

“It’s really cool. I’m really envious.”

As I entered the spacious award ceremony hall, I heard the whispers of the artists who had already arrived.

envy and jealousy. All sorts of words came pouring out and they came into my ears, but what did they matter?

The fact that you are the subject of this contest will never change.

That’s also the grand prize winner.

“Let’s start the 7th Korea Nettopia Web Novel Contest Awards Ceremony.”

The awards ceremony started with the emcee’s comment.

More than 20 works of prize, newcomer award, excellence award, and grand prize are called.

Behind the podium, the cover of Song Jae-ik’s novel opened wide with a fluttering sound.

“Target. So I decided to become a villain writer. CE.”

With that name being called, Song Jae-ik went up to the podium.

“Thank you for the great work. As a fan myself, I really enjoy reading it.”

Song Jae-ik smiled brightly after accepting the board with the prize money of 150 million won written on it along with greetings from the president of the Nettopia web novel division.

The second harvest he sowed was also successful.