Peninsula: I run a bed and breakfast on Jeju Island

2019 3 Month 26 Day.

Choi Jin-ri left the guesthouse and flew to Seoul.

Li Ran didn't know exactly what time she left.

He slept in for a while today, which was rare for him.

While he was half asleep, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't fed Brin and Blackie yet, so he quickly got up.

After feeding Brin and Blackie, Li Ran looked at the empty room and felt a little strange.

It's like something's missing.

He poured himself a glass of warm water and sat down on the sofa.

"Glug glug glug~"

Li Ran drank the water in the cup in one gulp, then casually placed the cup on the coffee table.

Brin walked over from the other end of the hallway, circled around his feet, then jumped onto the sofa and sat down next to him.

He glanced down at it.

It glanced at him as well.

"Your master is gone!" He gently shook its head.

"Meow~"

Brin stuck out his tongue and rolled his eyes.

After swaying for a while, Li Ran let go, leaned against the sofa, and put her legs up on the coffee table.

He took out his phone and casually scrolled through it a couple of times.

After scrolling for a while and not finding anything interesting, he put his phone face down on his stomach again.

Just then, Xiao Hei ran in from the yard and sniffed around his feet.

Li Ran gently moved its head away with her right foot.

Xiao Hei calmed down for a while.

After a while, it wagged its tail and ran towards the door of the room where Choi Jin-ri had lived.

Li Ran turned her head and saw it sit down in front of the door, its tail sweeping twice on the floor.

He pulled his legs back, sat up straight again, and poured himself another glass of warm water.

In the afternoon, he went to the vegetable garden to water the plants and picked two crooked cucumbers from the greenhouse, intending to cut them up and make a salad for dinner.

The greenhouse doesn't only have tomatoes; there are also some other vegetables.

There were just fewer tomatoes.

While watering the plants, Li Ran glanced at Cui Zhenli's "fellow townsman".

Those few Busan 88 cherry tomatoes.

If they accidentally kill the baby, wouldn't Choi Jin-ri roll her eyes to the heavens?

Li Ran himself didn't realize that he had been having a lot of thoughts about Choi Jin-ri today.

After finishing dinner, Li Ran sat on a recliner in the yard.

"Thump~"

The wind made the courtyard gate move slightly.

He thought someone had arrived, and was just about to get up when he realized it was just the wind.

He rolled his eyes, but still got up and went to bolt the door.

After he finished planting, he stood in the yard and looked up at the sky.

There were a lot of clouds, but the stars weren't very visible.

He put his hands in his pockets, stood there for a while, and then went back inside.

Otherwise, what are you doing standing there like an idiot?

Feeding mosquitoes?

He has no interest in listening to the buzzing of electric mosquitoes right now.

Lying in bed, he stared at the ceiling, his thoughts beginning to wander.

Since the guesthouse opened, we've only had one guest.

He mentally calculated the costs and benefits.

The little savings left by her great-aunt, plus Cui Zhenli's rent for the past month, minus daily expenses, Brin's cat food and litter, materials bought for the tomato greenhouse, and all the miscellaneous items purchased online...

The remaining money should last for a year or two, but that's about it.

Furthermore, visa renewals on the peninsula require proof of business revenue.

The flow of water isn't enough to look at, that's just a hassle.

This world seems to have some subtle differences from the world Li Ran lived in before.

For example, the visa process is equally troublesome and complicated, but there are still some differences.

Over the past six months, Li Ran obtained a D-8 visa through a series of actions by her lawyer.

Otherwise, he would have been completely confused by all the visas on his own long ago.

However, this D-8 visa is only valid for one or two years at present. It needs to be renewed later.

He can later obtain an F-2 visa through additional investment or a points-based system. Finally, he can obtain an F-5 permanent resident visa.

It would be a real problem if the guesthouse didn't have enough revenue.

The visa issue is a mess and very troublesome; Li Ran gets annoyed just thinking about it.

He rolled over, picked up his phone, opened the notes app, and created a new note.

The title simply reads: Side Hustle.

Then the cursor just stayed there, not moving at all.

He thought for a moment, then typed a few words: Live stream?

Delete it.

With a face like his, going out and showing his face in public isn't really suitable for his current low-key lifestyle.

Besides, his Korean still has an accent, and he'd probably be laughed at if he did a live stream.

He thought for a moment and then typed a few more words: "Purchase agent?"

Delete it too.

2019 was not the best time to do personal shopping business. Besides, he didn't even know much about Jeju Island, so what was he doing as a personal shopper?

He held his phone up to the ceiling and thought for a while.

He came from 2026, carrying a seven-year information gap in his mind.

This thing is theoretically a gold mine.

However, this is only in theory.

Once he actually put it into practice, he found that this "information gap" wasn't so easy to monetize.

If you look closely, you'll find that there are subtle differences between the two worlds.

In the past, he often read online novels where the male protagonists who transmigrated to the past were full of vigor and ambition, and always had big projects in hand.

When it was his turn to travel back in time, he found that he was still just as useless as ever.

An insect is still an insect; it won't transform into a dragon just because it travels through time.

At most, it can transform from an insect into a butterfly.

He thought for a long time about how to start a side business.

stock?

He hadn't paid attention to these things before. Even if he remembered some general trends, he didn't remember the daily ups and downs, so the risk of trading was not much less than guessing, and he didn't have much capital to begin with.

Start a business?

He was all alone on Jeju Island, his Korean was only so-so, and he didn't have any decent connections.

……

After much deliberation, Li Ran finally left a line in her memo: Write online novels.

He stared at those three words for a long time.

He had thought about this before.

He read so many online novels in his previous life, so theoretically he should have some basic knowledge.

but……

He placed the phone on his chest and tapped the screen lightly with his fingers.

He has used the phrase "in theory" more than once today.

He picked up his phone again and added a question mark after that line in the memo.

Writing online novels?

This remains uncertain.

He glanced at the time, placed his phone face down on the bedside table, closed his eyes, and prepared to sleep.

Even with his eyes closed, his mind was still racing.

Sometimes, a good idea is all it takes to attract a lot of readers to an online article.

Once you've honed your writing skills and built up a fanbase, you'll be quite popular.

Besides, quite a few books have actually been published since 2019.

If he draws some inspiration from the book "The Future" when the time comes, his grades shouldn't be too bad.

The main problem now is his writing ability.

Writing ability is not just about writing style, but also includes things like rhythm control and character development.

Li Ran suddenly felt a little insecure again.

Forget it.

Let's go to sleep first, we'll talk about tomorrow tomorrow.

He pulled the blanket up a little.

The sound of the waves outside the window came in waves, seemingly unchanged from before Choi Jin-ri left.

The moon isn't very full today. I wonder what the moon looks like in Seoul.

His thoughts started to wander again.

"Ding-dong~"

My phone vibrated.

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