Living in a Room Becomes Easier When You’re Handsome - Chapter 67

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You mess with me and you’re dead

 

【Love Code】 Episode 9.

 

In the living room with soft lighting turned on, the cast members sit in a circle looking at each other.

 

Snacks were laid out in the center, and everyone held alcohol in their hands.

 

Of course, not everyone was drinking.

 

“Is Mungi holding a zero carbonated drink right now?”

 

“His first drink was alcohol, but now he’s holding something else.”

 

“His body management is insane, looking at his schedule he’s practically an athlete.”

 

“Seeing him do both health training and martial arts… there’s a reason his physical skills are ridiculous.”

 

The panelists laugh briefly while watching Mungi.

 

As the screen changes, the scene quickly shifts to the serious atmosphere of the truth game.

 

“Since I answered a question, it’s my turn, right? Then I’ll… ask Hyun-jun hyung. You like someone here, don’t you.”

 

After answering, Mungi directly asks Yoo Hyeon-jun a question.

 

“What, suddenly coming at me like this? Wow… Mungi, really… you.”

 

“Please answer honestly, or just boldly drink the strong liquor…”

 

“…Yes.”

 

Yoo Hyeon-jun looks at Seo Ji-an and gives his answer.

 

Since they were already practically a confirmed couple, they looked at each other and giggled softly.

 

A warm and innocent atmosphere.

 

And in that atmosphere.

 

“Then I’ll ask Mungi a question again.”

 

“Ah, this is supposed to go around to be fun…”

 

“In the current situation, is there someone you want to get to know better?”

 

“No.”

 

Questions slowly begin to focus on Mungi.

 

In fact, it couldn’t be helped.

 

Five women, four men.

 

Among them, three women had their arrows pointing to one man.

 

The person whose truth everyone wanted to know most was already decided.

 

“Everyone’s speaking casually to each other now?”

 

“Looking at the timing, it’s been about a week? Two weeks? They should start speaking casually by now.”

 

“Right, everyone has been on at least one date with each other.”

 

“Haven’t everyone’s ages and jobs been revealed by now?”

 

“Ji-woo said she… owns a cafe, right?”

 

The panelists each made their comments watching this.

 

The screen quickly returns to the living room where the truth game unfolds.

 

“I’ll… um, ask Seong-ho hyung a question.”

 

“Me?”

 

“Hyung, as a fashion model, how do I look?”

 

“Pfft… suddenly? Actually, I have been seriously thinking about it.”

 

The truth game continued repeating the same pattern as before.

 

When it was Mungi’s turn to receive a question and answer, he would redirect the arrow of questioning to the men rather than the women.

 

That redirected arrow would eventually circle back around in some way.

 

“Mungi oppa, this is your fourth date now.”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Who was the best?”

 

It flew back to Mungi again.

 

Shin So-rim’s sharp question, and at that question Kim A-young and Yoo Na-kyung’s heads naturally fixed on Mungi.

 

And at the same time, Ki Seong-ho looked at Kim A-young.

 

A blatantly tangled relationship that even the most oblivious person could see.

 

At the center of it all was undoubtedly Mungi.

 

“…For me, Na-kyung. The Christmas date was really fun.”

 

Mungi calmly spoke the truth.

 

At those words, Yoo Na-kyung smiled, while the other two women downed their alcohol with bitter expressions.

 

That’s what truth games are originally like.

 

You want to know the truth, but you can’t only hear sweet truths,

 

Sometimes cold reality can cut through your skin,

 

It’s quite a mysterious game to play while just smiling.

 

With that, the truth game roughly came to an end with Mungi’s final answer.

 

The next morning.

 

“A-young, where are you going?”

 

“Huh? Oh, I’m just going to meet a friend for a bit…”

 

“Then I’ll give you a ride.”

 

Starting with Ki Seong-ho’s aggressive approach, the cast members’ full-scale appeals began.

 

Ki Seong-ho asking Kim A-young on a date, and Yoo Hyeon-jun x Seo Ji-an having a cozy chat together in the living room.

 

This combination was shown throughout episode 9.

 

This format continued beyond episode 9, into episode 10 as well.

 

In episode 10, they blatantly reduced Mungi’s screen time and featured scenes that highlighted other cast members’ combinations more.

 

Actually, this was unavoidable.

 

Starting from episode 3 when Mungi appeared, up to episode 9.

 

Nearly every episode had been centered around Mungi.

 

Of course, it was true that Mungi was in a protagonist-like position in 【Love Code】.

 

But that didn’t mean they could turn all the other cast members into background props.

 

There was a need to invest an entire episode to highlight them.

 

It was the production company’s situation of having to distribute everyone’s screen time somewhat evenly.

 

And perhaps because of that.

 

ㄴ Isn’t there any boogers?

 

I think Munggi and Nakyung are a couple

 

Damn it

 

What, it’s Ayoung

 

It seems like fluffy Shaolin

 

ㄴ Saying you tell 100% truth in a truth game is just bullshit

 

ㄴ Don’t you only have like one or two dates left now?

 

ㄴ It seems like other places are already confirmed, so it’s just a matter of whether it’s the current one or not lol

 

ㄴ For real lol Hyunjun x Jian is kinda predictable though

 

The content of 【Love Code】 Episode 10 was filled with comments openly looking for Mungi.

 

Of course.

 

“What… why are you all looking for Mungi so much, anyway the Mungi you’re all looking for, I’m going to meet him next week? Or the week after…”

 

There was also someone who wasn’t looking for Mungi.

 

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

 

That was Ttaranta, who was massacring bear dolls again today.

 

“Ahhh! I got caught! I got caught! Mungi found out… that I’m Ttaranta!”

 

She had maintained a thorough poker face until the day she got caught.

 

But as one day passed, then two days, and time kept flowing.

 

The expression she had been keeping solid slowly began to crack.

 

-“But if you have any more difficult situations like this in the future, please come and talk to me comfortably, I’m really good at listening.”

 

Ttaranta played Mungi’s clip that she had saved years ago on her phone.

 

She recalled the countless moments when she had sought advice from him.

 

At dawn, as soon as she realized she was the only viewer left.

 

She suddenly remembered the days when she would pour out advice-seeking chats of at least 5000 characters.

 

And each time, Mungi’s appearance as he calmly said he understood and moved on.

 

‘But… but now he found out about that, that I’m Ttaranta…’

 

Ahhhhh!

 

If there were blankets, she would want to kick them off right now, and if it weren’t for the upcoming meeting, she would have pulled her hair out from the overwhelming embarrassment.

 

‘Then from approaching him pretending to be a fan at G-Star, to appearing at the Street Fighter 6 beginner tournament… he’ll know it was all me, right?’

 

Crash!

 

Five bear dolls that were placed on the bed flew into the air and scattered in all directions.

 

This was undoubtedly the strongest shame she had ever experienced in her life.

 

Starting with her toes and fingertips curling up.

 

KakaoTalk messages that she used to send to Mungi casually before now made her extremely nervous.

 

But the other party in question.

 

> Ranta

 

> The contract is really wow your company is so cool

 

> lol

 

> But I keep getting advertising inquiries

 

> At this rate I think I could really move to a new place?

 

> I think I’m finally escaping my studio apartment haha lol

 

> I’ll properly make my Seoul debut

 

She was really acting like a thoughtless little kid.

 

‘When was she acting like a complete fool, she figured out my identity… but this kind of thing comes naturally to her.’

 

Could she be a player? Is it all lies that she’s never dated before?

 

I haven’t either! I was feeling relieved because I’m also a lifelong single too.

 

Thump thump thump thump.

 

As all sorts of thoughts came to mind, Ttaranta flopped onto the bed and started kicking her feet.

 

But then suddenly.

 

‘Huh? Moving?’

 

An extremely brilliant, really incredibly good idea came to mind.

 

< Then should I help you look for a place?

 

> Oh, that would be great

 

> But I can’t afford anywhere too expensive

 

< I know

 

Using the excuse of helping him find a place to hang out together again, and then if I plant him somewhere near where I live…?

 

“This is it!”

 

I need to start looking for a place right now!

 

Ttaranta smiled brightly and got up.

 

No matter what other women try to do with Mungi.

 

Can they beat ‘me’ who’s physically close to him?

 

“Heh… hehehe, absolutely impossible.”

 

Love Code? What’s that supposed to be?

 

You mess around and you’re dead.

 

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The day before 【Love Code】 episodes 11 and 12.

 

For the first time in my life.

 

“Is this why everyone wants to appear on dating shows?”

 

I witnessed the moment when my business email inbox was so full it seemed like it would burst.

 

Not the emails full of ulterior motives from the Malicious Broth Brothers, but emails that were genuinely business-related.

 

Among them were brands I’d really never heard of before.

 

“Wait, Seong-ho hyung… he actually sent a business email?”

 

There were also relationships formed through connections made on 【Love Code】.

 

Not only Seong-ho hyung’s fashion brand.

 

“From Hyun-jun hyung to Si-woo hyung… they’re all telling me to come visit their restaurants and cafes.”

 

Emails from all the male cast members I met on 【Love Code】 had arrived.

 

Content saying to come visit whether for promotional purposes or just for fun.

 

“Cosmetics… I already did that for Ttaranta so I can’t do others, and if I do fashion with Seong-ho hyung… there are also magazine modeling gigs, and tons of interview requests too.”

 

Among them, if there was something that caught my eye.

 

“TopBelpia.”

 

The GOAT of the 19+ webtoon world, the Immortal Daughter Demon King webtoon site.

 

The One Piece of the adult webtoon world, I never expected them to suggest meeting directly here.

 

‘But if this happens, does that mean I’ll be promoting and explaining 19+ webtoons too?’

 

To be honest, I wanted to try it.

 

Various opinions came to mind, starting with image management and whether I shouldn’t go mainstream.

 

But I also thought, can’t an adult say they enjoyed adult content?

 

‘For now… let’s go with TopBelpia.’

 

Just imagining it sounds really fun.

 

While I was thinking about that.

 

> Hello Mr. Mungi, I’m contacting you regarding Love Code.

 

> We’re planning to hold a small after-party gathering after Love Code ends

 

> Would you be interested in participating?

 

> Our production team really hopes that Munggi will come join us ㅠㅠ

 

> The panelists will be there too!

 

I received a message from Byeon Ji-seon, the writer of 【Love Code】.

 

So they want to film everything after the dating show and broadcast that story too?

 

‘Broadcasting station people are really scary, they’re trying to milk this to the bone.’

 

But I thought it would be good to show my face frequently at the broadcasting station through this opportunity.

 

So I immediately said I’d participate in this too.

 

Normally I would have asked Ttaranta about it.

 

But lately she’s been so busy with whatever that there’s been little contact.

 

‘Wait, is she really busy because of my house? Looking for one for me?’

 

Actually, thinking this way was ridiculous.

 

Why would the CEO of a globally famous cosmetics brand find a house for some male broadcaster?

 

‘Finding it personally doesn’t make sense, she has so many people under her.’

 

Enough with the detective games.

 

I immediately started my broadcast.

 

“How has everyone been?”

 

– Mungha

 

– Hmm

 

– What are you doing today

 

– Love Code ends tomorrow right?

 

– Finally we’ll see who you ended up with

 

– If someone suddenly comes out from under the desk after all this ends tomorrow, I’ll never forgive you

 

– Hahahahahahahahaha

 

– For real

 

– Absolutely won’t forgive a twist ending

 

– Planning to kill ㅇㅇ

 

“What kill, I told you there’s no twist ending? And how many times do I have to say that if I date someone, I’ll definitely make it public.”

 

As always, having a proper WWE back-and-forth with the viewers.

 

I immediately launched Lumia Island.

 

“Lumia Island isn’t difficult. It’s basically like playing Apex in a canyon format.”

 

– Wow you know Apex

 

– Truly a god game

 

– Do you play Apex too?

 

– No I don’t

 

– ㅠㅠ

 

Lumia Island is a game where you form teams of 3, and 8 teams compete to be the last team standing.

 

Since there’s a reason it’s 3 people per team, each person chooses an appropriate position to complete the team composition.

 

Then you complete items, obtain rare materials through objectives, and steadily work your way toward first place through combat with enemies.

 

It could be seen as a typical battle survival game.

 

[ Current Viewer Count: 3,459 ]

 

‘Now I get over 3,000 viewers no matter what game I play.’

 

When I glanced at the viewer count while gaming.

 

I realized I could no longer be called Hakko anymore.

 

3,000 viewers right when I start broadcasting.

 

At this rate, I could easily reach 5,000 viewers after some time passed.

 

‘It makes me realize how amazing Lera is with her average of 20,000 viewers.’

 

That’s at least 7 times my power level.

 

Truly the Garden’s number one.

 

Muttering to myself like that.

 

The day before 【Love Code】 episodes 11 and 12 were set to air.

 

“I played Renri, so next Ashtban, then Jumin… then Teodor, move on to Jan… and finish with Juichi.”

 

– What’s that supposed to mean you otaku

 

– Don’t talk about stuff only you know

 

– Champ but why do you only play male characters?

 

– Champ? Champ? Champ?

 

– Yes I’m the champ^^

 

– Female characters are boring lol

 

– For real lol

 

– But Biyanki is pretty though

 

– Whatever, Mung Kiss time

 

– Mung Kiss *3*

 

– Deep Mung Kiss =3=

 

– Ugh I live for receiving these

 

I spent the day really leisurely doing a game broadcast.

 

The next afternoon.

 

I immediately switched the broadcast to subscriber-only mode.

 

I immediately put 【Love Code】 Episode 11 on the screen.

 

Honestly, Episode 11 was quite an embarrassing episode, to the point where even I couldn’t watch it completely nonchalantly.

 

Because right from the intro.

 

“…Seong-ho hyung, do you know how to play Street Fighter 6?”

 

“I do, do you play a bit too?”

 

“I’m really good at it, I’ll make you cry, hyung?”

 

“What’s there to cry about.”

 

“Then want to play?”

 

“Sure, let’s do it, a bet? Should we do something like buying food? Getting yellowtail sashimi?”

 

“Sounds good.”

 

Me.

 

“Yeah, you dodged? Worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, Perfect Parry, how dare a fashion brand CEO challenge someone who makes a living from game broadcasting? You realized too late that you messed up? Yeah, no good? You dodged, worthless, worthless, worthless, staff, staff, staff.”

 

Because it showed me completely dominating Seong-ho hyung, a fellow cast member, in Street Fighter 6.

 

– Crazy bastard

 

– Wait, he was like that even during filming?

 

– He really can’t hide that he’s ‘Mungi’

 

– Did he catch some disease where he’d die if he didn’t act like this for even a day?

 

– Did he not take medicine he should have taken, or take medicine he shouldn’t have?

 

– Ki Seong-ho receives verbal harassment for the first time in his life

 

– He really looks fucking pissed

 

– Living as a fashion brand representative, where would he have found someone who could give him Street Fighter 6 staff verbal harassment?

 

– Hahahahaha this is such a fucking fresh character

 

The chat room reaction itself was good.

 

But I was embarrassed as hell.

 

But I had no regrets.

 

‘The crime of daring to challenge me to a Street Fighter 6 match… I couldn’t just let it slide.’

 

Because I absolutely couldn’t tolerate losing at games.

 

+++++++

 

【Love Code】 Episode 11.

 

Now, facing the final choice.

 

All cast members are given date selection rights.

 

But they weren’t just given freely.

 

“Wow, really harsh. They prepared it this way?”

 

“Wait, isn’t the production team being too cruel?”

 

“Can’t they just let us do whatever we want for the final date?”

 

The production team, who revived the personal items selection from before in a new way.

 

Made the five female cast members each prepare one personal item.

 

Then had them put those personal items into boxes with the male cast members’ names written on them.

 

But if there was a difference from before.

 

“Duplicates are allowed? So one person could go on three dates?”

 

“Wow, but the fact that only the women get to choose… it’s not mutual.”

 

“This would really make you think a lot, right? Whether to go on a date with the guy I like… or with someone who likes me…”

 

The fact that duplicate selections were allowed.

 

In other words, multiple women could give their personal items to one man.

 

Men who weren’t chosen might not get to go on any dates.

 

In the midst of such a potentially sad situation.

 

With tense BGM playing, the female cast members finally placed their personal items into boxes labeled with the male cast members’ names.

 

After a scene showing a day passing, the next morning came.

 

“…Wow.”

 

“This is crazy.”

 

“This doesn’t make sense.”

 

Starting with Mungi looking awkwardly at himself in the mirror.

 

With three obviously feminine hair ties wrapped around his wrist.

 

“If this is how it is.”

 

“Does that mean Mungi will go on three dates?”

 

“He’s really a bad guy, a bad guy.”

 

“I guess people can’t help it in the end. When it comes down to it, you can only like the person you like.”

 

【Love Code】 Episode 11 hinted that Mungi would go on as many as three dates.

 

And began playing dramatic BGM in earnest.

 

At least it was fortunate that he wouldn’t be dating all three at the same time.

 

Nevertheless.

 

– Crazy bastard

 

– Hey, does this even make sense?

 

– How can someone be this ridiculously lucky?

 

Mungi’s broadcast chat room was in chaos.

 

“…This won’t do. Mungi’s story began with me in a way… but I’ve been too passive.”

 

Watching all of this unfold.

 

The Garden’s number one with nearly 20,000 average viewers.

 

Lera.

 

“I need to properly prepare for a collaboration.”

 

She began preparing to make her move in earnest.

 

It was time to shatter the prejudice that VTubers couldn’t make proper moves.

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