Chapter 68:
The place Seo Juhwan guided her to was a cocktail bar set up in private room format.
"A place like this exists?"
"Is it good?"
"Yes. It's definitely nice and quiet for talking."
With the room completely enclosed and soft jazz-style music playing, the atmosphere was nice. While he hadn't scouted out a restaurant, Seo Juhwan had certainly prepared a place to make his move.
Seo Juhwan ordered some fruit appetizers and two cocktails. Once the server left, Choi Mi-hwa spoke as if she'd been waiting.
"So what was it you wanted to discuss? You said 19-plus content?"
"Ah, yes. Actually, I prepared it before the work I'm writing now, but the adult market looked unstable, so I scrapped it."
It wasn't empty talk. In fact, before his regression, he had prepared a 19-plus work around this time. And since he also enjoyed adult content, he still had some lingering regret about it.
However, the real difference from the truth was that he had scrapped it due to trauma he was experiencing at the time, not for market reasons.
"Ah..."
Choi Mi-hwa let out a regretful sigh. As someone who enjoyed 19-plus content, she was very disappointed that a potential work would never see the light of day and be shelved.
But she couldn't immediately ask him to write it, because the adult web novel market was indeed dying with each passing day, just as he said.
She let out a deep sigh.
"Sigh. I don't have a good answer for that problem either. It's true that the adult market is shrinking. Why does the government kill anything adults watch by calling it obscene...?"
Choi Mi-hwa frowned as if angry.
She continued speaking.
"Do you know what one of my goals is?"
"Huh? Oh, I'm not sure."
At the sudden question, Seo Juhwan was bewildered. Whether it was because the alcohol was hitting her or not, her words seemed disjointed.
Choi Mi-hwa appeared tired as she set her glasses on the table and continued.
Without her round silver-rimmed glasses, her impression became much sharper.
"It's to revitalize the adult web novel market."
"R-really?"
"Yes. The webtoon side quieted down for a while but is growing again. In fact, there are even platforms specializing in that area. It's about exploiting market gaps."
"I see."
"I think web novels can work too. Actually, government regulations are a problem, but I think the bigger issue is the lack of platforms or agencies specializing in that genre. That's why writers naturally avoid adult content."
At Choi Mi-hwa's words, something came to mind for Seo Juhwan.
Choi Mi-hwa, who would later establish her own agency.
Her agency had made quite a few contracts with adult web novels that seemed dead. He had no idea that business reflected her personal tastes so actively.
A short while later, the ordered cocktails arrived.
The two ordered a few more cocktails and continued talking about adult novels. Perhaps because it was a field she enjoyed, Choi Mi-hwa talked more than she had at the gopchang restaurant.
After that, both he and Choi Mi-hwa emptied cocktails as if drinking water. He couldn't even remember how many bottles they'd had at the gopchang place. Combined with what they drank at the cocktail bar, even Seo Juhwan, who had good alcohol tolerance, was pushing his limits. Choi Mi-hwa's face was already flushed and her words were slurring.
"Ahaha. You're really drunk now."
"Hehehehe. Hiccup. Look who's talking."
They'd drunk like crazy, so it was quite dizzying. Naturally, Choi Mi-hwa's screws were also nearly loose. Before long, they were speaking informally and conversing like decade-long best friends.
"Mi-hwa, I need to go to the bathroom for a sec."
"Ah, me too."
Inside the bathroom, Seo Juhwan took out the item[Charm Boost Lip Balm]and applied it to his lips.
[Charm Boost Lip Balm]
▶ Effect 1: Increases the charm of your lips. Perhaps they become lips a woman would want to kiss?
▶ Effect 2: Prevents chapped lips and regenerates already chapped lips. Consistent care is needed for regeneration.
* Effects last for two hours once applied.
The lip balm's lasting effect was two hours. The effect he'd applied before meeting Choi Mi-hwa had long since faded. He'd forgotten to reapply in the middle of everything because he was too busy.
'The atmosphere is good.'
Perhaps because they'd been talking about adult content. Occasionally, crude jokes and suggestive stories were exchanged. Choi Mi-hwa, who had seemed restrained, spoke vulgar jokes without hesitation once drunk.
As she sat back down, Choi Mi-hwa looked at the menu and spoke.
"Pfft. Look at this. This cocktail is called 'Slippery Nipple.'"
"Pffft. This one's even more risqué?"
"Huh? What is it?"
"Blow Job."
"Ugh, what. That's dirty. Seo Juhwan, you're a pervert!"
Even as she said that and pushed Seo Juhwan's shoulder, her face was laughing happily.
"What. You can totally tell you like it? I figured it out when you said you wanted to revitalize the adult market. You really love adult content, don't you?"
"Pfft. Was it that obvious?"
"Anyone with eyes could tell."
Choi Mi-hwa's fetish, Narratophilia, was a paraphilia where she experienced arousal through vulgar language, swearing, and suggestive talk.
When he first learned about it, he wasn't sure how to handle the vulgar speech and cursing, but Seo Juhwan found the answer in her other fetish, Pictophilia—pornography addiction. She liked crude and suggestive talk.
This was why he'd intentionally brought her to a cocktail bar. There was even a saying that the racier the cocktail names, the better they taste, so they had plenty of that type of name.
"Pfft. Juhwan, should we order one of each?"
"You want to? Which ones?"
"I'll get Sex on the Beach. That's the most representative when it comes to risqué cocktails, right?"
"Wow. Say that again. Listen to how it sounds."
"Sex on the Beach. Why? Is it okay?"
Okay, my foot. Her English pronunciation was perfect, as if she'd studied abroad. Her pronunciation was very suggestive.
"Then I'll go with G-Spot."
"Ah, the name is really—!"
"Why? It's fun."
Seo Juhwan ordered Sex on the Beach and G-Spot on the tablet at the table. If it hadn't been a tablet, he might not have been able to order out of embarrassment. Ah, so that's why they set it up?
The ordered cocktails soon arrived.
Seo Juhwan watched Choi Mi-hwa bring the cocktail to her mouth and spoke.
"Hiccup. Mi-hwa, want to hear something fun?"
"Huh? What is it?"
Her drawling words and hazy drunk eyes.
Seo Juhwan felt his own head spinning as he continued.
"If a guy orders Sex on the Beach and a woman drinks it..."
"Drinks it?"
"...there's a legend that the two of them have to kiss."
"......"
Choi Mi-hwa fell silent.
Her previously hazy gaze became sharply fixed on Seo Juhwan's lips.
Through his blurring vision, Seo Juhwan smiled and spoke.
"What'll you do?"
"......"
Still no answer came.
Only the sound of her swallowing her drink was heard.
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