Chapter 35 : A sinister and perverted plan to steal my first experience

Health Boy was hatching a very sinister and perverted plan.

It was to take Ruffian’s first experience and leave an indelible mark on her.

“Last time, we filmed our joint broadcast, and I got permission to use Ruffian’s stream for ThatTube, right? But my editor was editing it, and he said it would be really interesting to edit it from Ruffian’s perspective. He said there’s a lot of good material. He wants to make two versions, one from my side and one from Ruffian’s, if possible.”

Hearing this, Eugene Ah tilted her head.

‘Is the editor trying to make a profit?’

It’s common sense, a law of nature, to pay for work done.

If they already put in the effort to watch and edit both Ruffian’s and Health Boy’s streams to make Health Boy’s video, it would obviously take much less effort to make a second video from Ruffian’s perspective.

So, is the editor trying to make more money with less work through this golden opportunity? She thought so.

“So, we’ll edit Ruffian’s perspective of this joint broadcast for you, so why don’t you take this opportunity to start ThatTube?”

“What about the editing fee?”

“My editor said he’ll do it for free out of fan loyalty. Of course, it’s not completely free, because if my video’s views go up, he gets a bigger bonus. So you can think of it as an investment in the future. If Ruffian’s ThatTube grows well, it will benefit me too, right?”

“For free?”

The editing fee is free, free… It’s a very attractive offer.

But on the other hand, she was suspicious, wondering why it was free.

The reason he gave wasn’t unconvincing, but she also couldn’t help but think that the indirect benefit would be minimal.

Since he’s the editor of Health Boy’s successful ThatTube channel, he must not be paid little.

Maybe he can afford to do it for free because he’s not short on money?

‘Okay, quickly accept the offer!’

Meanwhile, Health Boy hoped that Ruffian would quickly take his bait.

His sinister and perverted plan. It was to make the first video on Ruffian’s ThatTube channel a joint broadcast with him.

Taking her first ThatTube experience and leaving an indelible record on the internet forever?

How is this not a sinister and perverted plan!

“Hmm.”

Eugene Ah’s  didn’t last long.

It’s common sense in the industry for a somewhat established Switch streamer to make a ThatTube channel for broadcast promotion.

There are overwhelmingly more people who do it than those who don’t.

Unless you have some strange hipster disease, you should obviously do it, right?

‘I don’t know what his intentions are, but it doesn’t seem like it will harm me.’

It’s a good business proposal.

They’ve already done a joint broadcast, so there’s no need to be reserved.

Whatever Health Boy and his editor are thinking, if there’s no reason for it to harm her, it’s better to accept it.

That was the conclusion Eugene Ah reached.

“I’d appreciate it if you could do that for me. I was thinking it would be nice to start ThatTube. If you give me this opportunity.”

“Haha, it’s fortunate that my editor is a fan of Ruffian, right?”

It’s a lie. Editing for free out of fan loyalty is all a lie.

Health Boy paid the editor double to edit Ruffian’s video as well, all for this sinister and perverted plan to stain Ruffian’s first ThatTube video with his own color and leave an indelible mark forever.

“Then I’ll send you the video by email as soon as I receive it from the editor.”

“Thank you.”

“Wait a minute.”

Just as the work talk was about to end amicably, So-eun Shin intervened between the two.

“Do you have something to say?”

“Could you give me that editor’s contact information?”

“What’s the reason?”

“I’m Jin-ah unnie’s exclusive illustrator, so of course I should draw the ThatTube thumbnails, right? I’ll be drawing the thumbnails for all future videos, too. It would be better to have consistency from the first video, right?”

Health Boy faced two problems.

One was that if the editor and So-eun Shin contacted each other, the fact that he paid double to have Ruffian’s video edited would be exposed.

The other was that So-eun Shin was treating him with a very hostile gaze and attitude for some reason.

‘What did I do wrong? She used to watch my streams before.’

He already knew that ‘JejuBreadDept’ was the famous illustrator ‘Kasil’ and also Ruffian’s housemate ‘So-eun’.

That ‘JejuBreadDept’ was once a regular viewer of Health Boy’s stream, occasionally donating.

So when he approached Eugene Ah earlier, he had a slight expectation that So-eun Shin might act like a fan.

He was thinking of taking a picture with her if that happened, but he never expected her to be so hostile, and he couldn’t figure out why.

‘If her close housemate dislikes me, it will be a problem for me to get closer to Jin-ah.’

‘Look at that sinister gaze. Isn’t all this talk about work and joint broadcasts just to make a move on unnie?’

The reason was that So-eun Shin had instantly seen through Health Boy’s intentions.

‘Unnie seems clueless, so I need to handle this well.’

Eugene Ah was a very strange woman.

She seemed to be well aware that men could view her as an object of sexual desire, but she didn’t seem to understand that they could view her as an object of love or romance, having a subtle gap in her perception.

‘Is she really a virgin?’

With that beautiful appearance and heavenly voice that melts your ears, is that even possible? Considering those two things, it’s unbelievable that she’s already over twenty-five, at the age of twenty-eight.

Was the vow of celibacy she mentioned a few days ago not a concept for the broadcast but the truth? I’ll interrogate her about that slowly later.

‘I need to keep strange men away. Unnie really seems to have no resistance to that kind of thing.’

A pervert who doesn’t know manners and scans her chest with his gaze, a man who can’t confidently reveal his true intentions and approaches her in a sinister way, hiding his intentions behind work talk.

So-eun Shin didn’t like Health Boy and decided to keep him from approaching Eugene Ah more than necessary.

Her past as a regular viewer was just that.

Now, Eugene Ah was much more precious to her.

Trying to get the editor’s contact information under the pretext of thumbnails was a way to protect Eugene Ah.

Currently, the connection for the video is editor – Health Boy – Eugene Ah, so Health Boy acts as an intermediary and will continue to contact Eugene Ah.

But if she, as the thumbnail artist, gets involved, it would become Health Boy – editor – herself – Eugene Ah, and Health Boy and Eugene Ah would have almost no reason to contact each other.

The justification is very solid. Collaboration between people working on video and art is a very common occurrence. It would be more surprising if it didn’t happen.

“Wouldn’t it be very rude to interfere with someone who’s editing for free?”

“No. I’m confident that I can make the video better with my art. Or do you not trust my skills?”

“No! No! Absolutely not! So-eun’s art is so pretty. I like it too.”

So-eun Shin’s words were logically flawless.

It would obviously be a great benefit to have a successful professional illustrator participate in the video.

But Health Boy needed time to shut the editor’s mouth.

So he tried to buy time.

“Haha. It’s nice to see you so passionate. But I can’t give out his contact information without his permission, so I’ll let you know after I get his permission.”

“Please contact him right now and ask. Or if you call him, I can explain it clearly.”

But as if to say that clumsy tricks wouldn’t work, So-eun Shin demanded ‘immediately’, so Health Boy decided to take a step back for now.

“Ahaha. Then I’ll go make a call now.”

Health Boy was going to go to the emergency stairs, but thinking that someone might overhear, he changed his destination to the men’s locker room.

This way, neither Eugene Ah nor her housemate would be able to overhear the conversation by chance.

And he quickly explained the situation to the editor on the phone.

“Hey, don’t mention that I paid you. Tell them you’re doing it for free because you’re a fan of Ruffian. Got it?”

<You were so adamant about business, business, but it was a hidden agenda after all. You’re pathetic, hyung. Did you really think you could fool them?>

“Shut up! You!”

<Our bachelor is trying to date, I have to help, yeah. But I saw on my friend’s Instagram that the sushi omakase looked really delicious. What was the name of the restaurant?>

“I’ll buy it for you! I’ll buy it, but twenty-six isn’t a bachelor!”

<Ruffian’s voice sounded really young, isn’t she a high school student? Isn’t it a crime for a twenty-six-year-old to go after her?>

“She’s definitely not a student. You know her lifestyle, right?”

<What? You don’t even know her age? You’re really pathetic, hyung. You don’t even know her age, and you’re trying to approach her in such a pathetic way.>

“We don’t know each other, so we need a topic to talk about. Stop teasing me, and I trust you’ll explain it well to Kasil and Jin-ah!”

<Hmm, can this be covered with omakase? Now that I think about it, it seems like you’re asking for a very difficult performance.>

“I’ll give you a bonus too! Please!”

<Okay. Roger that.>

The urgent hole has been plugged. There was a slight problem with the plan, but it seems to be progressing somehow.

But Health Boy had a feeling that he would never be able to get along with Kasil.