Living in a Room Becomes Easier When You’re Handsome - Chapter 81

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Interesting things are happening a lot

 

Due to the transfer offer information leaked after Virtual Marriage episode 1 ended.

 

Now that 【Garden】 and 【Spark】 are preparing to make their moves.

 

“What? No, what are you talking about? I have no intention of leaving Garden.”

 

-“Really?”

 

“Of course, what… What would I gain by lying to you?”

 

-“Hmph, hmm. Well yeah… I guess that’s true.”

 

I was on a call with Ttaranta, discussing what to do going forward.

 

For now, it was confirmed that we’d both test the waters and raise our value.

 

The important thing was maintaining boundaries.

 

‘Testing the waters is naturally something you can do when you’ve received offers, since it’s about raising your value.’

 

This part would be somewhat understandable to both platforms, but.

 

The key point was.

 

‘It would be troublesome if this looked like we’re just messing around.’

 

We couldn’t walk that line for too long.

 

If we did, we might end up making enemies of both broadcasting platforms.

 

Right now, when we needed to hit and run skillfully, we had to read this timing precisely.

 

But naturally, I couldn’t do it alone.

 

Since there was a company CEO nearby, I was discussing it with that CEO.

 

‘Garden… I’ve endured here for years, all my viewers are here too… I made up my mind to become the king of Garden.’

 

I didn’t really feel any possibility of switching platforms.

 

But still, if there was something to squeeze out, shouldn’t I squeeze out as much as possible?

 

There were two things to gain through this tug-of-war process.

 

Leaving a favorable image with 【Spark】.

 

And raising my value as much as possible at 【Garden】 to receive good treatment.

 

“So what you’re saying, Ranta, is that we need to have meetings with both sides for now?”

 

-“That’s right, and the key is to meet with Spark first, even if Garden wants to meet first… Spark was the one who made the proposal first, right?”

 

“You want me to postpone the Garden meeting?”

 

-“Right, they originally just asked how about this time, Garden didn’t nail down the schedule, right? So you should be able to adjust that.”

 

“The reason?”

 

-“You need to meet with the competitor first to stimulate their imagination… That’s how it usually works.”

 

Memorizing Ttaranta’s words one by one in my head.

 

I immediately sent a reply email to Garden to handle things right away.

 

A quite lengthy and detailed response email.

 

To summarize cleanly, it was roughly [You want to meet? But I’m not available then, let’s postpone it a bit].

 

And naturally, this schedule adjustment had to succeed.

 

I was the one with the upper hand right now.

 

Garden’s reply that arrived in 30 minutes contained content saying they understood.

 

> Hello Munggi! Haha, have a good evening

 

> Did you have a delicious meal?

 

> I’m contacting you about the Virtual Marriage season 2 filming

 

> How about doing it at least 3-4 times a week to finish it short and intense within 2 weeks?

 

< Yes, understood.

 

Almost simultaneously, I received contact from the Virtual Marriage Team Leader.

 

‘Their appeal is better than I thought too.’

 

Then should I go to the Spark meeting first?

 

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Woo Seok-jin, Team Leader of Spark Talent Recruitment Team.

 

After checking his outfit one last time in front of the full-length mirror.

 

“Did he say he’s nearby?”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

“Then call someone to guide him to the waiting room, I’ll enter about 2 minutes late.”

 

“Yes sir.”

 

He began acting according to the prepared procedure.

 

‘First, send someone to greet him to make him feel welcomed, and use that to make him relax his tension and guard.’

 

And then create a brief waiting time in the waiting room.

 

Let him adapt to the environment and plant the feeling that someone is waiting for him.

 

Superiors always enter later.

 

In the current situation, Mungi was the one with power, but this was a move to not lose the initiative.

 

While it was right to treat him as the powerful party, Spark also had considerable experience as a powerful party.

 

They knew many ways to dampen the opponent’s momentum.

 

Things that others might think ‘Does that even work?’

 

But Team Leader Woo Seok-jin could assert.

 

‘These unconscious elements accumulate to gain negotiation advantage.’

 

There’s nothing bad about trying, and it definitely has effects.

 

So exactly about 2 minutes past the appointment time.

 

Woo Seok-jin entered the conference room where Mungi was waiting.

 

“Hello. Sorry. I’m a bit late.”

 

“No, it’s fine.”

 

There he witnessed for the first time the new rising star of internet broadcasting, Mungi.

 

‘Huh.’

 

And as soon as he saw him, he was dumbfounded.

 

With looks like that, he should have turned on the camera and broadcasted long ago.

 

He broadcasted without camera for 3 years with that face and physical appearance?

 

‘Why on earth?’

 

Was that it? Really wanted to compete with pure broadcasting skills? Without looks?

 

Did that for about 3 years and when it didn’t work, finally showed his face?

 

Honestly, I thought I wouldn’t be too impressed seeing him in person since I’d watched his broadcasts.

 

This was truly at an absurd level.

 

Why is his body so good? Is he a martial arts fighter?

 

A physique that any man would inevitably feel threatened by faced Woo Seok-jin.

 

Especially Woo Seok-jin’s gaze was fixed on the fist that came up on the desk.

 

He imagined that fist, which looked like a hammer head just torn off, hitting his jaw for no reason.

 

‘Hmm, I’d die.’

 

His jaw would turn right away, and all the corn in his mouth would fall out.

 

Having such thoughts, Woo Seok-jin naturally became intimidated.

 

For the first time in Woo Seok-jin’s life, who had become a team leader at a young age, was on a promotion track, and thought he had nothing to fear.

 

A situation occurred where he was intimidated just by seeing a person’s presence.

 

‘I missed the timing to continue speaking.’

 

How long had it been since he purely admired the human body.

 

The moment Woo Seok-jin, who realized he was spaced out, tried to open his mouth again.

 

“I never dreamed that Spark would make such a proposal, I’m really happy. Should I say it feels like being recognized?”

 

Mungi’s words naturally continued and the initiative was taken away in the blink of an eye.

 

In a situation where the superior shouldn’t remain superior, Mungi naturally continued speaking.

 

“But since I’ve been broadcasting on Garden for a long time, and I feel Garden’s growth trend is pretty good these days, to be honest, I really want to stay with Garden.”

 

The important thing in negotiation was setting your stance.

 

Playing both sides while gaining benefits might also be a negotiation technique.

 

But Mungi neither had the skill to test the waters like that, nor did he want to.

 

So he just wanted to set a clear direction and proceed with the meeting.

 

My fanbase is gradually growing on Garden right now.

 

In this situation, if Spark wants to recruit me, what and how much can you offer.

 

At those straightforward words, Woo Seok-jin’s expression hardened.

 

Originally, this kind of meeting, that is, it’s not just a simple transaction scene.

 

While reading each other’s psychology and checking expressions.

 

Market value should be adjusted in real-time.

 

But he stated his situation 100% and suddenly it became ‘make the first offer’.

 

‘Troublesome, troublesome.’

 

This side had no choice but to respond in kind.

 

Even if not calling the maximum, they had no choice but to lay down at least 80% of their cards.

 

Such a situation was forcibly opened.

 

‘No… wasn’t he supposed to not be an intelligence character.’

 

Woo Seok-jin was flustered.

 

He really acted pure on broadcasts, but actually meeting and dealing with him, this was what.

 

‘Is being stupid also a concept?’

 

He realized this was absolutely not someone to take lightly.

 

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The day of Virtual Marriage episode 2 filming.

 

Perhaps because of the aftermath of episode 1, more viewers gathered than during episode 1.

 

As the broadcast officially began.

 

[ Current Viewer Count: 30,233 ]

 

It immediately hit 30,000 viewers, showing just how popular Virtual Marriage currently was as a program on Garden.

 

So despite the filming set needing to be in an extremely excited state.

 

Glancing around.

 

Strangely, everyone was watching Mungi’s reactions.

 

To be precise, it wasn’t the cast members but the filming crew who were watching Mungi’s mood.

 

‘He went to a Spark interview? Mungi?’

 

‘That’s what they said, so Team Leader was incredibly stressed today.’

 

‘Now I understand why the Director and General Manager came to the filming set.’

 

At this point when they needed to plan major content centered around Mungi.

 

The main character himself had gone to a competitor’s interview.

 

Naturally, the higher-ups couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.

 

‘How much did they offer him there…’

 

‘Considering market rates, at minimum… I can predict it, but then how much do we need to offer?’

 

They could just go strong and actually offer less instead.

 

And they could throw in some benefits and tell him to choose between the two.

 

But if that was the plan, someone at General Manager level wouldn’t have bothered coming here.

 

From Director to General Manager, their purpose for coming here was one thing.

 

‘Secure Mungi at all costs.’

 

Mungi’s weight class was ridiculous now to just call him a broadcaster.

 

Wasn’t he someone who appeared on Netflix?

 

The undisputed main character of Love Code, the 7th ranked program worldwide including English-speaking regions.

 

Just his presence alone brought continuous traffic.

 

‘That traffic would naturally investigate Mungi’s profile through places like Wiki.’

 

Which platform he broadcasts on – that one line was extremely important.

 

So perhaps that’s why.

 

No matter how much Mungi said nonsense during the broadcast.

 

“But I’ve been thinking seriously, if I have three wives… how would meeting the parents work? Should we throw a party?”

 

Whether he was talking nonsense.

 

“After serious consideration… since I’ve done Virtual Marriage with three people, I think it’d be good to film divorce content during the broadcast to create ex-wives, so I’d have current wives but also ex-wives, American style…”

 

Or saying ridiculous things with a serious face.

 

The expressions of Team Leader, Director, and General Manager couldn’t relax.

 

The fortunate thing was that they didn’t appear on broadcast at all.

 

But with these higher-ups standing behind the PD and Team Leader with arms crossed.

 

‘What’s the situation?’

 

‘I wonder.’

 

The broadcasters couldn’t help but sense something strange.

 

Of course, before they could question it.

 

“Mumiming… you seem like you’d want to do divorce content.”

 

“Huh, what?”

 

“You’re the type who’d be more endearing when meeting as an ex-wife rather than a current wife.”

 

“What kind of crazy talk is that, among Virtual Marriage content…”

 

“You could do Virtual Marriage with an ex-wife, couldn’t you?”

 

Mungi’s madness completely crushed all the streamers’ thoughts.

 

Originally, words without feet travel a thousand miles, and rumors tend to spread quickly just from their scent alone.

 

The fact that the manager and department head appeared at the Virtual Marriage Life filming set.

 

And the fact that the manager and department head moved straight toward Mungi as soon as the Virtual Marriage Life filming ended.

 

These two things really allowed the streamers to imagine many possibilities.

 

Before long, the truth behind those rumors was revealed and began spreading among the streamers.

 

“Mungi… made contact with Spark? Because of a job change? So he got scouted?”

 

Starting with Dal-geun.

 

“…Hah, this is troublesome. Very troublesome if that’s the case…”

 

Beginning with people like Chasakgang, who usually maintained close relationships with Garden’s management team.

 

Finally.

 

“Ha, interesting.”

 

It reached Lera’s ears.

 

Mungi’s strategy to raise his market value began rolling a bigger snowball than expected.

 

Meanwhile, Mungi, the actual person involved in the incident.

 

“…No, seriously, why are there so many stalkers in this world.”

 

While doing a collaborative stream at Jjining’s House as personal content.

 

He learned some truly new information.

 

When you take photos with a phone, location information gets embedded.

 

And if you upload those original photos as-is to places like Fan Cafes or Discord.

 

Some fans identify the location information from the photos to deduce where streamers live.

 

‘Besides just getting caught mentioning local restaurants during streams… why are there so many things to be careful about.’

 

Things that made him wonder if they should even be included in the category of mistakes kept piling up.

 

Under the law that all female streamers, big or small, are being stalked.

 

Mungi had discovered yet another one.

 

‘It’s not like I’m a stalker detection dog or something.’

 

Jjining’s stalker, that is.

 

‘I’m already busy with platform meetings… chaotic with Virtual Marriage Life content, and now a stalker too?’

 

It really felt like a lot of interesting things were happening lately.

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