Chapter 263: Tactical Nuke Drop (2)
The content of “Bangja Chronicles” (by Night Blossom Latte) revolved around an assertive woman named Seong Chunhyang meeting both Bangja and Governor Byeon.
From Lee Mong-ryong’s perspective, it’s a thoroughly NTR (netorare) work.
NTR was a crime.
To quickly clear up any misunderstandings, in this world, NTRwas is defined as a crime.
NTR.
Netorare.
The act of stealing someone else’s lover.
It’s something that also happened in reality, and it’s a genre that often sparked debate about why we needed to see this kind of thing even in creative works.
In this novel’s world, this genre was classified as a crime.
Why was NTR a crime? It seemed unnecessary to explain, but it’s because it could significantly negatively impact the mental state of ability users.
-Be happy, brother.
-Hyuuung!!
The protagonist’s respected older brother dies.
The protagonist’s crush was NTR’d by the enemy.
If asked which caused more mental damage, nine out of ten would say the latter.
-Isn’t the death of a family member more impactful?
-People dying... I’m used to it.
-Oh.
The death of a family member was familiar to some, and as many people were born into the world, many also died, so death was not a crime.
If dying itself were a crime, then all deceased would be considered criminals.
While the death of a person could mentally impact an ability user, death was something that was equally given to everyone, so it couldn’t be helped.
But NTR was different.
It’s something that shouldn’t happen, didn’t need to happen, but when it did, it felt incredibly filthy, unpleasant, and infuriating, making you want to kill the one responsible.
When I was previously in Ulleungdo, a bride who had just had her wedding at the port was NTR’d by her sister.
And she became a demon.
She became a demon out of rage to kill the man.
Regarding this, some people said:
-That’s a real-life case, but creative works are different. Isn’t it problematic to censor the realm of art?
-What if someone forces such art on ability users? And what if an ability user becomes a demon because of an NTR storyline?
-It would be... horrific.
To protect the mental state of ability users, many different types of cultural content had been censored in this world.
There were many things I didn’t want to name, and many things that shouldn’t be mentioned.
The most representative of these was NTR.
And among NTR, the most taboo was inserting NTR into pure love stories.
-Stop pushing unhappy porn on people who live happily! Why are you so desperate to break up happy couples? Why do these gold sun-like things always ruin sweet couples’ relationships?
That’s the general perception.
-Even in content, I want to see couples being affectionate, not being broken up and cheated on! I don’t want spicy stories!!
And to those who thought that way, I inserted Bangja and Hyangdan, and Governor Byeon into the love story of Seong Chunhyang and Lee Mong-ryong, creating all sorts of chaotic situations.
Why had the story of Seong Chunhyang and Lee Mong-ryong been talked about until today?
Of course, it’s because it’s a pure love story.
Seong Chunhyang didn’t succumb to power and kept her fidelity and integrity towards her beloved man, and Lee Mong-ryong, despite his success in the past exams, kept his promise to marry Seong Chunhyang.
Even under the threat of Governor Byeon, they didn’t waver,
Even when seeing Lee Mong-ryong disguised as a failed scholar, she didn’t switch,
Even if Seong Chunhyang had already been harmed by Governor Byeon, he didn’t abandon her,
They overcame all adversities and had a happy ending based on their love and trust in each other, a perfect pure love story!
Inserting NTR into such a pure love story?
That person deserved to be executed immediately.
If someone in this world wrote a strange story with the Chief, I had the intention to rush over and break their skull.
“That’s the male perspective. The female perspective is different. Oppa. When is this going to be a drama?”
“A drama?”
“Yes. If it becomes a K-drama, it would be great, right? Seong Chunhyang and Lee Mong-ryong were childhood friends, then a supporting character like Bangja appears, and the chaebol chairman Governor Byeon insists that Seong Chunhyang should be his woman. If it were made into a web drama, it would be a hit.”
“What kind of absurd drama... wait a minute.”
Come to think of it.
Wasn’t there no such thing as an absurd drama in this world?
“.......”
In this world, all cultural content was censored.
And because of that, absurd dramas that incited social division and glorified crime have disappeared from TV.
-Author, this person needs to die for the drama’s plot to progress, how should we kill them?
-Can’t we just say they died of natural causes?
-But their age is set at 50.
-Then just say they died from laughing too hard while watching a comedy show.
-Is that okay?
-Ah, then what, are you going to say they died in a car accident? That kind of thing could only be filmed before the Great Cataclysm. If you film something like that now, the broadcasting standards committee will come to censor it immediately!
Stories about people dying could not be used carelessly. When people died on screen, it was almost like re-enactments of safety accidents aimed at children. This was the reality of visual media in this era.
For those aged 15 and above, there could be some blood, but this world didn’t allow the build-up of strong oppressing the weak to progress the story freely.
Lee Mong-ryong being NTR’d from Seong Chunhyang was something that could never be presented as an all-ages work.
However.
If it was not a desecration of Tale of Chunhyang but a completely new adaptation that took Tale of Chunhyang as a motif?
In comparison to the classic novel and modern novel, it was NTR, but if it succeeded in attracting the attention of a woman named Hyangdan by publishing this novel through the Secret Society?
Be it a comic.
Be it a drawing.
Be it a drama.
Ultimately, it only mattered if we can draw out Hyangdan.
“Hyera.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s not do anything more or less, just focus on this.”
Laplace’s demon.
“We’ll make Hyangdan a K-villain. Hmm... for example.”
She would hold 5,700 characters and approach the writer.
“Even though she is Seong Chunhyang’s close friend, she seduces Lee Mong-ryong, who passed the state exam, with her body...?”
“Then what about Seong Chunhyang?”
“She still loves Lee Mong-ryong, but Hyangdan gaslighted him. She claims that Seong Chunhyang cheated, slept with Bang Ja, hooked up with chaebol third generation Governor Byeon, and went to Ulleungdo. She defames Seong Chunhyang, then goes on a trip to Jeju Island with Lee Mong-ryong and sends photos to Seong Chunhyang as if by mistake.”
“...Shouldn’t you be telling this to Chaos instead of me?”
A moment later.
[...Call.]
Another novel derived from Bangja Chronicles.
The short story “The Villainess Hyangdan” began production.
“The protagonist, Hyangdan... no, let’s call her Han Dan-yeo.”
“Why Han Dan-yeo?”
“Her father’s last name is Han, and her mother’s last name is Dan.”
“???”
Following the pure love NTR bombshell.
“The ending is she marries Lee Mong-ryong and makes herself the beneficiary of his life insurance, then poisons his coffee.”
Another bombshell of a K-drama-style kimchi-flavored villainess.
“The name of the poison is Pong*—”