Love for Love's Sake - Chapter 1
Volume 1: My Worst 19
Chapter 1
“Why is senior so nice to me?”
The boy’s face, which still couldn’t completely hide his fluster, twisted slightly. Nevertheless, it couldnโt hide his attractiveness.
“Why are you doing this?”
The immature voice trembled and cracked. As expected, it was a pleasant voice. It seemed attractive people also had attractive voices.
Cha Yeowoon, visibly frustrated by my silence, vigorously wiped his eyes. I couldn’t bear it and grabbed his wrist.
“Stop it. You’ll hurt yourself.”
The flawless white skin with no blemishes under the eyes was already showing signs of turning red.
Then, as if Cha Yeowoon had been hurt by my words, tears welled up in his eyes.
“Why is senior like this? Doing this will only cause misunderstandings…”
The water filled in Cha Yeowoon’s large puppy-like eyes soon slid down his cheeks.
His golden-brown pupils with moisture in them were gazing at me, while his lips were slightly quivering.
“What the hell am I to you?”
Cha Yeowoon was my favorite.
My secret was too big to confess.
A series of transparent windows overlapped his handsome face.
[ Mission: Make Cha Yeowoon happy. ]
[ Time Remaining: … ]
[ Penalty: Death ]
A number indicating how much time I had left to live was steadily decreasing.
Tae Myeongha, originally 29 years old. Now, 19. According to the saying, age was fake and the heart was real, but somehow I found myself neither real nor fake.
With no advantage to regressing, I had approximately one year left to live.
I was destined to die if I couldn’t make my favorite happy.
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“Myeongha, do you play games often?”
The beginning of an event was always trivial. In retrospect, that seemed to be the case.
“Not often, just occasionally. Why?”
“I’m thinking of turning the novel I’ve been working on into a game.”
Senior said casually. I nodded as I emptied the cup he had filled for me. Well, novels were often turned into movies and games. Plus, senior’s novel was interesting.
“So, I’m curious, Myeongha. What’s the difference between games and novels?”
The question was sudden, but senior had always been a strange person. He would throw out random thoughts and contemplate them for a while.
I thought to myself that maybe all writers were like that. Artists were strange by nature. Senior had been anything but ordinary from the moment we first met.
“Well.”
As usual, I earnestly pondered the question.
“If the goal of games is to clear them, novels focus more on the flow leading up to the ending. Unlike games where players can make changes, novels have a predetermined narrative and there’s not much room for a readerโs intervention. It might be different if it’s a serialized novel.”
“Like my novel?”
“Senior never changes the plot even when I give you my feedback.”
I grumbled, but senior just smiled as if he had found it amusing.
“But is that why you’re asking me? Making < Love Supremacy Zone > into a game?”
< Love Supremacy Zone >
That was the title of the novel senior had been working on. He would always let me be the first to read it whenever he completed a chapter.
Nevertheless, he didn’t care what I thought at all. I guess all writers were like that.
“Yes. Iโve finally finished it. Do you want to read it?”
“You should have told me that before I started drinking soju. I want to read it.”
I had been reading seniorโs gradually accumulating novel the past year. At first, I had wondered why he had asked me. Nevertheless, reading it was fun, and most importantly, I had grown attached to the characters.
As the title suggested, < Love Supremacy Zone > was a romance novel. In summary, it was a story about a handsome man and a beautiful woman overcoming their wounds with the help of each other and living happily ever after.
Of course, the happy ending belonged to the main characters, while the supporting characters had slightly different endings.
“Is this the end? No, isn’t it too pitiful?”
I sympathized more with the supporting characters than with the guaranteed happiness of the main characters.
“Why did Cha Yeowoon even appear in the first place? From beginning to end, he only suffers, gets hurt by everyone around him. It’s complete emotional torture.”
I vented my anger, not even wanting to finish the novel. The soju glass I had placed on the table shook, creating ripples in the clear liquid.
This was why people say sub-lead syndrome was scary.
Inducing jealousy, emotional torture, and all kinds of exploitation only to be discarded after serving their purpose. I felt a deep sense of injustice.
“That’s life.”
Senior, as usual, chuckled mysteriously before taking my cup and drinking from it.
“Wow, senior is really cold.”
“Why? You wouldn’t do the same if it was you?”
In hindsight, I should have given a better answer.
“Oh! If it was me I would never.”
I wondered if I had touched the pride of an author.
“Do you feel sorry for him that much?”
“I just wish Yeowoon could have been happy too.”
Maybe that answer was too vague?
I felt awkward trying to be too serious that I had stumbled over my words toward the end. It was just a novel. Cha Yeowoon wasn’t even a real person.
But senior kept looking at me as if he knew I had more to say.
“How can someone’s life be so lonely?”
Finally adding another word, senior looked at me with a mysterious, penetrating gaze and smiled.
“Then, could you change it?”
I remembered saying something to that.
It was a day when soju went down particularly smoothly.
Considering my habit of having a loose tongue when I was drunk, it was safe to say that I must have said something really stupid.
That would explain what happened afterwards.
The next day when I had woken up, I had found myself in the novel < Love Supremacy Zone >.
In Cha Yeowoon’s world.
Wow! I didn’t know that this manhwa has a novel!! Thank you so much for translation this Translator!! And please keep going to the end TT. I’ll following with you!
I appreciate it. I’m still translating the novel and have Chapters 1-62 done. Just understand that the manhwa is different to the novel in some parts due to censorship of the manhwa.
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Can I know what’s the title of the manhwa? Or does it have the same title for the manhwa? And where can I read it?๐ฅน Thank you!!
Itโs called Love Interest Zone. If you google it youโll find it. Pretty sure itโs on tapas. Itโs still ongoing
This is so well done, oh my goodness, I am so enjoying reading this already.
Thank you so much for your hard work! Iโm caught up with the webtoon and finished the tv series. Now Iโm so excited to start reading the novel.
Whats the webtoon called?
Love Interest Zone
I came here after watching the series. I already love it! Thank you so much for translating this! ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Thanks for translating this!!