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So how well is The Heart selling?

Over 800,000 copies.

Mr. Seo made a tidy sum from the royalties.

We printed 30,000 copies more last week,

So it's 830,000 copies to be exact.

Usually popularity and seriousness

don't mix.

But fortunately I think Mr. Seo

has managed both.

You know about his latest short story?

A short story?

It's one of his best writings.

The literary circle is buzzing about it.

It's that good?

What's the title?

You should read it.

The title is Eungyo.

Eungyo?

It's the name of a high school girl.

Sir, I'll get going now.

Sir, good to see you.

Where are the literary magazines?

It's over there

at the New Arrivals sections.

They're really popular for some reason.

Yes, right there.

Sir, I'm here.

Would you like a cup of tea?

I'm afraid that

you might have poisoned it.

Do you have anything to say?

I did it because...

It was too beautiful.

What?

You did it because?

The moment I saw your manuscript, I couldn't

let such beauty waste in the chest.

I had to let the world know...

You call that an excuse?

How dare you, a thief, mention beauty!

You are the one

who made me who I am.

What?

You were the one who offered

to ghostwrite The Heart.

You wanted to do it.

You wrote it for fun!

I considered it your salary.

You have no talent

but you kept me company

So I wrote it for you as gift.

Are you regretting it now

that it's become a bestseller?

You want to tell everyone

that you wrote it?

The tension is driving me crazy.

I don't know who I am any more.

Am I Seo Jiwoo or Lee Jeokyo's mask?

What did I ever get, living as your mask?

Money?

You want it back? The royalties?

Shut your mouth!

Why should this one

be any different from The Heart?

- Stop it!

- People won't understand

The relationship between a 70-year-old man

and a high school girl isn't love. Never!

It's a scandal, sir...

A dirty scandal!

You know you won't be able to

publish it under your name.

You know it!

A story about a national poet

having sex with a minor?

Dirty scandal?

- Sir, you are an old man.

- You say it's dirty?

Why won't you admit it?

Son of a b*tch.

Never show your face here again.

Your eyes are frightening.

I feel sick listening to your voice.

You are a thief.

You never had any potential.

I never liked that look

in your eyes, like a wolf.

What are you staring at?

I'll gorge your eyes out.

You dare to call it dirty?

You say this is a dirty scandal?

You bastard!

I know you're in there.

I don't know

why you won't let me in.

I can't concentrate on my studying,

and I'm going to mess up my exams...

Why does it hurt so much?

I don't know

why it hurts so much...

I could easily wrap my fingers

around Eungyo's ankle.

Her heel slipped between my fingers

And she giggled.

Her fragrant head rested below my chin

And my lips were already buried

in her hair.

She sighed like a pair of bellows.

I held you close in my arms

I caressed your hair,

your shoulders, your waist

And I put my ear to your chest

listening to your heart beating.

You were so heartbreakingly beautiful.

Did you read it?

Eungyo reads Eungyo.

Do all writers do this?

Stealing other people's stories,

using names without permission.

I'm sorry.

Did you really write this?

How did you find out his henna?

He told me about that.

He told you?

He told you about it?

You two don't keep secrets

from each other?

What is he to you?

My beloved and respected teacher.

A father figure.

Then you tell him

everything as well?

Yes.

I am so pretty in the story.

Thank you.

Why are you doing this?

You are doing this

because you like me?

I'm lonely, that's why.

Will you tell him about this?

It's about time they called...

They will never pick a genre novelist

or a best-selling author.

Finally!

Winner of annual Literary Award

Eungyo by Seo Jiwoo!

Really?

Really. Eungyo is the winner.

I won the annual Literary Award?

I told you would win.

The judges have gone to dinner.

Wow...

Has Mr. Lee Jeokyo read Eungyo?

Yes.

What did he say?

He told me this.

"It's like you went through my mind...

"It's scary. "

I thought he couldn't make it?

What's going on?

He's here.

Look.

The 35th Literary Award winner is

Eungyo written by Mr. Seo Jiwoo!

lam honored to introduce

a special guest today

He is here to give

a congratulatory speech.

I believe this is

his first public appearance.

Mr. Seo Jiwoo has called him

a father-figure

He is known for aesthetic combination of

lyric poetry with realism.

The true poet of his generation!

Mr. Lee Jeokyo.

I, Lee Jeokyo, am an old man.

Roethke referred to getting old...

as wearing the leaden weight of

what I did not do.

Just as your youth is

not a prize for your efforts

My agedness is not

a penalty for my faults

Eungyo is like sweet rain upon a dry land.

It will be hard to

write a story more beautiful,

more truthful, or more replete.

Happy birthday, Grumpa!

I got you a cake and a present.

Grumpa, your windows are so dirty.

Would you like me to clean it

as a birthday present?

Eungyo's here.

You don't seem happy to see me.

Of course

I'm glad to see you.

Grumpa.

Here's salt.

Looks really good.

Look at this, Grumpa!

Looks good.

I've also brought candles.

Let's just light one.

What?

Light just one candle

Okay.

Our famous writer is here.

Sir...

Happy birthday.

I'll get going now.

He's diabetic.

He can't eat cake.

Mr. Seo!

Come here.

Have a drink before you go.

Try it.

Let's see..

How's my salad, my soup?

It's very good.

It is, isn't it?

Grumpa, do you know

when they started drinking wine?

A 4,000-year-old wine bottle

was found in Georgia.

It's almost as old as human race.

Why do you keep asking him

questions instead of me?

Don't bother him.

You never have good answers.

It's easier when he explains things.

You are too... loose.

A typical engineer!

I don't know

how he became a writer, do you?

What's wrong with majoring in engineering?

Did you write poetry like him?

Like Grumpa?

I wanted to write poetry.

I desperately wanted to.

You started writing novels

because you couldn't write poems?

Then poetry is the highest level?

Poetry is higher.

Did you know that

Me, Seo Jiwoo the genre novelist,

People scorned me

But now they worship me.

Just because I won a prize.

The mighty critics

who never once called me

Now can't get enough of me.

So you are noble, so what?

So you are a national poet, sir,

So what?

The key is to succeed.

No matter what!

I'm no longer a mask.

I'm Seo Jiwoo and...

I'm really going to succeed, sir.

I have a quiz for you.

I want you to be

my student in next life.

Why do you think I do?

That's the quiz?

To make him

do my laundry and cooking.

I'm drunk.

I'll go to bed now.

Eungyo should go home now.

Didn't you say you have

breakfast meeting tomorrow?

Go to bed.

It's not a breakfast meeting...

It's a lecture...

Yes, sir, good night.

I can do without some sleep.

I'm still young.

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