Chapter 70: The Original Comic’s Plot

The original comic…

No, perhaps it could no longer be called the original comic. This was a fusion work that completely blurred the lines between the original and fan fiction.

Before the Big Bang on Earth, when the Main Brain was hastily archiving data, some works were jumbled and mixed by the AI, completely losing their true original plots. That’s why the System had a bug when Qi Huai entered this world.

The Main Brain had thought that Qi Huai would quit the game within the 30-minute grace period to change his mind. It never expected that by some strange twist of fate, he had stayed and had even given the incomplete and chaotic story a new ending.

In the Main Brain’s space.

System 3501, which had exhausted its energy due to the three wishes, finally ended its hibernation. It looked at the Main Brain in a daze. “Ah… then, what was the mixed plot like?”

Main Brain: 「The plot’s confusion level is too high. Please view with caution.」

Qi Huai reached out his hand. A data storage sphere emitting a faint green light landed in his palm and began to slowly narrate the chaotic comic story.

「Let’s start with the protagonist shou’s encounter with the other gongs.」 the sphere said.

In this fusion work, Yoon Nam-hyuk did not have a relationship with Baek Soo-kyung in the hotel. He noticed the other’s strange demeanor and tried to induce him to reveal the mastermind behind it.

Baek Soo-kyung was shocked that Yoon Nam-hyuk could resist the drug’s effects. He also knew very well that if he told the truth, he would probably offend both Yoon Nam-hyuk and Choi Min-jun. So he insisted that he was just looking for a room to do his laundry, and knelt down crying, begging Yoon Nam-hyuk to let him go.

Yoon Nam-hyuk’s heart softened.

After sending Baek Soo-kyung away, he forced himself to endure his physical discomfort and emotional irritability and called Assistant Yoo. Fortunately, his body was often not satisfied, so this small amount of drugs was nothing to him.

Yoon Nam-hyuk did not punish Baek Soo-kyung, only asking Assistant Yoo to investigate him after that day. But that day, he had been alone with Baek Soo-kyung for too long and nothing had happened, so Choi Min-jun, who had orchestrated the hotel incident, inevitably became suspicious.

At this time, Baek Soo-kyung had no acting skills to speak of in front of Choi Min-jun. He had been flustered after coming out of the hotel room, stuttering when he spoke. There was no trace of any sexual encounter on him, and he hadn’t gotten the video. Choi Min-jun became more and more worried that he would switch sides and leak the secret.

Someone who could barely keep a secret today might not be able to tomorrow. To further control Baek Soo-kyung, Choi Min-jun found people to r*pe him that night and filmed the entire process as a threat, making Baek Soo-kyung completely his tool.

A few days later, Assistant Yoo found out that Baek Soo-kyung was an artist signed with Woosan. He had just come of age and was already in debt for hundreds of millions of won. His father was dead and his mother was missing. His life was pitiful.

Yoon Nam-hyuk was silent for a long time, then asked Assistant Yoo to contact Baek Soo-kyung to change his contract. First, the company would pay off his debts for him. But there was no such thing as a free lunch. If he wanted the money, he had to sign a 20-year contract with the company. Second, the company would deduct an extra portion from all his future film payments to repay the money the company had paid for him, with interest calculated at the bank’s rate.

When Choi Min-jun saw this contract, he felt lucky. It’s a good thing I got a second piece of leverage on him first, he thought. Otherwise, after paying off his debts, he might really have switched sides to Yoon Nam-hyuk.

With Choi Min-jun’s tacit approval, Baek Soo-kyung agreed to the new contract. He even felt a glimmer of hope, thinking that since Yoon Nam-hyuk was helping him so much, he might like him a little.

Choi Min-jun thought so too. To verify if Yoon Nam-hyuk was really interested in Baek Soo-kyung, he arranged for them to meet by chance several times.

The results were very disappointing. Yoon Nam-hyuk had no interest in Baek Soo-kyung at all. He didn’t even seem to see him.

“Soo-kyung, it seems that for President Yoon, you are nothing. After all, the debt you’re struggling to pay off, Park Seok-jin can earn back with one endorsement. The artwork on President Yoon’s wall is more expensive than you,” Choi Min-jun said.

Inferiority, resentment, hatred…

Baek Soo-kyung’s feelings began to become complicated. At the same time, he had a new pursuit: he wanted to become a real big star and make Yoon Nam-hyuk look up to him.

The ambition to climb up was born. While following Choi Min-jun’s instructions to seduce Park Seok-jin, he would intentionally or unintentionally mention that President Yoon had helped him pay off his debts, leading people to misunderstand, thus satisfying his vanity.

These rumors gradually aroused Yoon Tae-min’s dissatisfaction, and also made Eun Chul-woo, who had been paying attention to Yoon Nam-hyuk, start to notice Baek Soo-kyung.

After all, the fact that Yoon Nam-hyuk had helped Baek Soo-kyung pay off his debts was true. As for whether he really liked him or not, a little test would reveal the truth.

One day at Heaven, Eun Chul-woo, who was with Kim Min-kyung fooling around, suddenly noticed Baek Soo-kyung around the dance floor.

At this time, Baek Soo-kyung was in high spirits.

He had Choi Min-jun as his manager, a close relationship with Park Seok-jin, and rumors of an ambiguous relationship with President Yoon. Many people in the company envied and flattered him, and had specially invited him to the nightclub to have fun, to get closer to him.

However, Kim Min-kyung was displeased that Eun Chul-woo was paying too much attention to Baek Soo-kyung. So he deliberately said in front of him that he had taken a liking to Baek Soo-kyung, and had the nightclub’s marketing staff drug him, to observe Eun Chul-woo’s reaction.

Of course, Eun Chul-woo had no reaction.

In his eyes, even if Kim Min-kyung played Baek Soo-kyung until he went crazy or became a fool, as long as Yoon Nam-hyuk liked him, he had value. If Yoon Nam-hyuk didn’t like him, then even if he was as beautiful as a fairy and as wise as a sage, he was still a piece of dog shit in Eun Chul-woo’s eyes.

He just wanted to compete with Yoon Nam-hyuk.

Baek Soo-kyung was having a great time at the nightclub. He drank whenever the marketing staff toasted him. After a few glasses of drugged wine, he was completely unconscious.

The people who had brought him out were all fair-weather friends. No one cared about his safety. So when the marketing staff said they would take him to rest, everyone believed them.

And so, Baek Soo-kyung became Kim Min-kyung’s plaything.

Kim Min-kyung was extremely jealous. To verify if Eun Chul-woo was really interested in Baek Soo-kyung, he deliberately suggested that the director cooperate with Woosan and bring Baek Soo-kyung to the film set. He never expected that this would be exactly what Eun Chul-woo wanted.

Eun Chul-woo began to appear frequently on the set, seducing Baek Soo-kyung in a subtle way.

At this time, Baek Soo-kyung was being half-genuinely praised by Park Seok-jin and Kim Min-kyung, and was quite confident in his own charm. So when faced with Eun Chul-woo’s seduction, he was quickly hooked.

Baek Soo-kyung thought he had stepped on a ladder to heaven, but in reality, this was just the beginning of him becoming someone else’s plaything.

“Then what about Nam-hyuk’s ending?” Qi Huai was worried.

[And what about the original Gong Number 6!] The System was curious.

「Original Gong Number 6…」 the sphere searched its data. 「His name was not Qi Huai but Ian. Because he was not deeply involved with the protagonist group in the original comic, after the host transmigrated, he was automatically altered by the Main Brain’s energy.」

Gong Number 6, Ian, a scammer who traveled through various countries with his outstanding appearance. His original target was Yoon Nam-hyuk, but after a few encounters with him at Woosan, he felt that this target was too difficult, so he turned his attention to Park Seok-jin.

He first developed an ambiguous relationship with Baek Soo-kyung. After confirming all of Park Seok-jin’s preferences through him, while Baek Soo-kyung was on the film set and entangled with Kim Min-kyung and Eun Chul-woo, he took down Park Seok-jin in one fell swoop, scamming the big star out of everything, and then left without a care.

Park Seok-jin was furious. He had intended to call the police and investigate, but he never expected that the Go Eun-bin matter would be exposed right after, implicating both him and Manager Tae Sang-won.

And so, Gong Number 6, Ian, completely got away with it.

As for Yoon Nam-hyuk…

The sphere whizzed and hid behind the System, using the big sphere to block itself, the small sphere, avoiding Qi Huai’s gaze. 「In the original comic… Eun Chul-woo’s revenge succeeded.」

Of course, just using the words “revenge succeeded” was not enough to describe everything Yoon Nam-hyuk had gone through in the original comic.

At first, it was the old news of Go Eun-bin’s suicide being exposed. Then Yoon Nam-hyuk was assassinated by Go Eun-hee. He was injured and hospitalized, and his power was seized by Yoon Tae-min.

After the effects of the drug wore off, Yoon Nam-hyuk immediately called Assistant Yoo. Because he felt there was something fishy about the Go Eun-hee matter, he instructed him to investigate for him.

At this time, without Qi Huai on the film set to attract attention, Eun Chul-woo, to prevent Go Eun-hee from leaking the secret, immediately sent people to kill her and fake it as a suicide, and used this to frame Assistant Yoo, saying that he had guided her to commit suicide, throwing dirty water on Yoon Nam-hyuk.

Then Yoon Tae-min died. The murder weapon with Yoon Nam-hyuk’s fingerprints was found near the Yoon family’s residence. The police arrested and convicted him.

At the same time, Choi Min-jun’s body was found, along with his phone, which contained a large number of explicit videos. The phone not only had videos of Park Seok-jin and Choi Min-jun bringing artists to entertain the upper class, but also a video of Baek Soo-kyung being r*ped by a group of people.

At this time, Baek Soo-kyung was already a little famous in the entertainment industry. Having already switched his allegiance to Eun Chul-woo, he immediately posted a message accusing Yoon Nam-hyuk: 「It was President Yoon who instructed Manager Choi to do this! I suffered the same oppression as Go Eun-bin sunbae. To pay off my debts, I had no choice but to receive clients. But if I didn’t follow Woosan’s arrangements, they would do this to me!」

And so, the death of Go Eun-bin, the death of Choi Min-jun, the death of Go Eun-hee… one after another, dirty water was thrown on Yoon Nam-hyuk, a multitude of crimes.

At the same time, Yoon Nam-woo’s true identity was exposed. To live well, he and his wife took the one billion won given by Eun Chul-woo and fled.

At this point, not only Woosan, but even the entire Yoon family, had become the possessions of Eun Chul-woo and the Kim family.

To clear his name, at least to clear Assistant Yoo’s suspicion, Yoon Nam-hyuk asked Dr. Choi for help. But whether it was Assistant Yoo or Dr. Choi, everyone who tried to help him did not have a good end.

In prison, Yoon Nam-hyuk received one death notice after another. He was in so much pain, he almost had a mental breakdown. There wasn’t a day he didn’t live in guilt.

Even so, Eun Chul-woo still seemed to have divine help.

When everything calmed down, after Eun Chul-woo had inherited the Yoon family’s wealth with the help of the Kim family, he was very “lucky.” He actually found Yoon Nam-hyuk’s mother’s password box in Yoon Tae-min’s overseas property.

A birthday present, heh.

Eun Chul-woo read the letter and sneered.

He tore it up, burned it to ashes, took a video, and sent it to Yoon Nam-hyuk, with the message: 「Ms. Hyun’s house is nice. I’m going to entertain some guests soon. It’s perfect for a trip to America. Min-kyung loves to play in houses like this. We’ll take good care of it, don’t worry.」

With Kim Min-kyung’s usual way of playing, there was no need to say how he would “take care” of it. Yoon Nam-hyuk was so angry he fell seriously ill.

A month later, his body had not yet recovered when he received a stack of photos from Eun Chul-woo.

There were ten photos, each with a different theme of a debauched party. Countless men and women, naked, were laughing, having s*x, and taking drugs in Ms. Hyun’s house…

Their actions made Yoon Nam-hyuk wish he could kill them.

Day after day.

Yoon Nam-hyuk lived in prison like a walking corpse. Every so often, he would receive photos from Eun Chul-woo. When the location in the photos even became the Cheongdam-dong apartment where he and his mother had once lived, he had the thought of dying.

He couldn’t help but think, If I die, will Eun Chul-woo stop doing these things? Will he let go of my mother’s belongings?

But he didn’t dare to die. He was afraid that if he died, there would be no hope at all.

Just as Eun Chul-woo was starting to get bored, feeling that nothing could stimulate Yoon Nam-hyuk anymore, and that his very existence was an eyesore.

Prosecutor General Kim Joo-hwan suddenly brought up a matter.

“Chul-woo,” he said. “It seems a bit boring to just play at Heaven. Whether it’s stars from RC or Woosan, everyone thinks they’re all the same. It might get a bit boring if this continues…”

Eun Chul-woo: “Then what do you mean?”

Kim Joo-hwan smiled. “I heard you have a welfare center?”

Eun Chul-woo chuckled. “Oh, yes. Speaking of which… Ms. Hyun even donated to that welfare center.”

Qi Huai crushed the storage sphere with a bang. The System and the Main Brain were both startled.

“Sorry,” Qi Huai said faintly. “Couldn’t help it.”

The storage sphere was just a carrier, like a hard drive. If one broke, there was another. The AI on it could jump to other spheres at any time, so it was no big deal if it was crushed.

The Main Brain coughed and said nothing.

The System was as quiet as a chicken.

They could guess the rest of the story without listening. Yoon Nam-hyuk’s ending was definitely not good. He either went crazy or died. Perhaps going crazy before dying was a good thing.

The Main Brain thought to itself.

If humans do evil, that threshold will continue to rise. Just like people who often torture and kill small animals, they always want to see if torturing and killing humans is more stimulating.

A murderer who trembled when killing the first person would be expressionless and very skilled when killing the third and fifth.

Fortunately, there was Qi Huai, this variable.

He not only redeemed the destined-to-be-tragic Yoon Nam-hyuk in the original comic, but also indirectly saved Baek Soo-kyung, who would have been r*ped, and Choi Min-jun and Go Eun-hee, who would have been killed, as well as Assistant Yoo and Dr. Choi, who would have had miserable ends. And perhaps many more who hadn’t had the chance to walk into Heaven and the welfare center…

Looking at it this way, letting the mission completers come to the Korean comic world more often was also a very meaningful thing. The Main Brain couldn’t help but think, Or how about creating a new mission completer who is well-versed in Korean comics?

“I’ve made up my mind,” Qi Huai suddenly said.

「Hmm?」 The Main Brain came back to its senses. 「Oh, you’ve decided to stay in this world?」

Qi Huai nodded. “Mmm, thank you.”

「The happiness of the human-gene carrier comes first.」 the Main Brain floated in the air, its voice gentle. 「I wish you happiness, Mission Completer Qi Huai.」

The System sniffed. 「I wish you happiness, Host Oppa~ I will miss you, and President Yoon~ You must be happy~」

Qi Huai smiled. “I will.”

The next instant, he opened his eyes.

Around him were police officers running around the Han River Bridge, directing traffic and talking. In his ears was the constant sound of Baek Soo-kyung’s self-justification. The sound of ambulance sirens grew closer. In his arms was Yoon Nam-hyuk. He didn’t move, leaving hot, wet marks in the crook of Qi Huai’s neck.

Yoon Nam-hyuk suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with what could be described as terror. “Qi Huai, I, I saw…”

Qi Huai kneaded the back of his neck and gently comforted him. “Don’t be afraid. Whatever you saw is fake. The me in front of you is real. Don’t overthink it. You’re just too tired, and you were scared.”

“Is that so?” Yoon Nam-hyuk was in a daze.

But everything he had seen felt real, as if he had experienced it himself. The heart-wrenching pain, the illness, the brawls, the nightmares he had suffered in prison, the grief he had felt when he learned of the deaths of Assistant Yoo and Dr. Choi, and even that desire to die…

“Trust me,” Qi Huai kissed him, his heart aching. “You can always trust me. Don’t be afraid. I’m by your side.”

[Beep! The original comic plot has been completely cleared.]

As the person being saved, Yoon Nam-hyuk was the only one in the protagonist group who would follow Qi Huai to see the original comic plot. That’s why he had crushed the storage sphere at the last moment.

It was better not to see it. No matter what the ending was, as long as he didn’t see it, he could treat it as a nightmare he had suddenly woken up from. Even if he was in a cold sweat and terrified, as long as he woke up, there would only be relief in his heart.

“Mmm,” Yoon Nam-hyuk hugged him back, his heart at peace. “Besides you, everything is fake.”

(End of main story. The follow-up of the other characters + happy daily life will be in the extras.)