Peninsula: I run a bed and breakfast on Jeju Island

"Your abilities are actually quite good," Lee Ji-eun said.

Ok?

Li Ran looked at her and blinked.

"I feel like you could be a pet hypnotist or a pet soothsayer. Or you could be a human hypnotist."

"There are too many people under pressure in society these days. It seems like it's quite lucrative." She gently stroked her chin and then said.

Eh?

His eyes lit up; this was indeed an angle he hadn't expected.

After a while, he shook his head slightly again. "I don't have many customers, mainly. Besides, I don't have any certificates or work experience. Why would anyone trust me?"

"From one point to one hundred points, a resume presentation should at least have one point."

"I have zero questions!"

Ok?

Something feels off.

He shook his head and slowly moved the sleeping Brin from his hands to the cat bed next to the sofa.

Brin stirred in the cat bed, changed position, and then fell fast asleep again.

"If you're a zero," Lee Ji-eun thought for a moment, "then what is this guesthouse of yours?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ran turned to look at her.

"Jinri told me before that she was quite relaxed at the guesthouse. You didn't hypnotize Jinri back then, did you?" Lee Ji-eun stared at him.

"How could that be!" Li Ran shook her head.

"Don't overestimate my abilities. If I could hypnotize people so easily, why would I be running a bed and breakfast?"

Lee Ji-eun nodded, thinking it made sense.

She continued, "Your guesthouse helps people relax. In a way, it's similar to what a hypnotist does."

Li Ran was stunned for a moment.

He had never thought of it from that perspective before.

"That's not the same," he shook his head. "A guesthouse is a guesthouse, and a hypnotist is a hypnotist. The difference is a certificate and a reasonable theoretical system."

"Without these things, it always feels like a substandard product. Nobody trusts it."

"You can learn the theoretical system," Lee Ji-eun said, leaning back on the sofa. "As for the certificate..."

She paused for a moment, then said, "It seems there are relevant certifications available here on the peninsula; you can look them up."

"It should be taught in Korean, right? With my current level, taking the exam feels like I'm just paying someone to teach me a foreign language."

"Then let's practice our Korean first."

Li Ran smacked her lips.

Lee Ji-eun picked up her phone, searched for some information, and turned the screen to show him. "Look, this organization offers courses taught in Chinese, and they also have a branch in Jeju Island."

"However, these certificates seem to be issued by academic societies. It appears that these types of certificates cannot obtain nationally recognized qualifications," she said after looking at the relevant information she found online.

Li Ran leaned over and glanced at the phone, then took it and scrolled down to look at the course details and fees. After a moment of silence, she said, "...It's quite expensive."

"It's expensive," she said, putting her phone away, "but if you really have that ability, the fees you charge later won't be low either."

"You make it sound like if I opened a hypnosis studio, clients would just fall from the sky."

"Your guesthouse's customers also come from word of mouth, right?" Lee Ji-eun shrugged. "It's the same principle."

"Whether or not you choose to take the certification exam is up to you."

"However, I feel that customers are more important in this type of industry," she said after thinking for a moment.

Li Ran nodded gently.

"By the way, what kind of novels do you write?" Lee Ji-eun looked at him curiously and changed the subject.

"Fantasy? Or Western fantasy? Anyway, I ended up casting to the fantasy channel," he said.

"I see." She nodded. "How were your grades?"

Li Ran thought for a moment, "It's alright. We just signed the contract, and the readership is steadily increasing."

"Where was it posted? I suddenly want to see it too." She became interested.

Li Ran shook her head and smiled, "It's written in Chinese. Even if you read it now, you'd have to use machine translation, and the wording doesn't seem very accurate."

"Once it becomes popular and goes viral, there will naturally be human translations available."

"So confident?" Lee Ji-eun blinked.

"Of course!" He tilted his head slightly.

If he really wrote it himself, he probably wouldn't have much confidence in it.

But Lord of Mysteries had real achievements in its previous life.

Lee Ji-eun pulled out a piece of paper and wiped her hands. "So, how many words do you usually write?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ran smiled awkwardly, "I squeeze out four thousand words every day, like I'm constipated."

Lee Ji-eun raised an eyebrow. "Don't your readers urge you?"

"My abilities are really limited!" he said with a bitter face.

Although he has read the complete Lord of Mysteries, it will take some time for it to move from his mind to the software!

If even plagiarism can be this slow, Li Ran can't imagine how slow it would be if she really had to write it herself.

Readers who can still keep reading under these circumstances must be exceptionally kind and perfect people, right?

"I'm actually quite curious about what you wrote." She blinked.

"Do you have a website? Send it to me."

"I don't think we can use it here on the peninsula, right?" Li Ran said uncertainly.

"I might as well just send you the manuscript directly."

"Uh, I'll send it to you via email?" Li Ran then realized that, unlike Cui Zhenli, he didn't have Li Zhi'en's contact information.

"Let's add each other on KaoTalk then. I want to be the first to read the novel." She winked, then smiled and handed over her phone.

what?

Li Ran was slightly taken aback.

"Okay." He nodded and then entered his number.

Lee Ji-eun's profile picture is a small yellow bird wearing a pink knitted hat.

Li Ran vaguely remembered it; it seemed to be a character from a rather old cartoon.

"By the way, does this nickname mean anything?" he asked, looking at the other person's nickname, "dlwlrma".

"Aren't you learning Korean? You guessed it by switching the keyboard to Korean." She tilted her head slightly and looked at him with a smile.

Li Ran tried adjusting it, and then looked at those letters again.

dlwlrma

Lee, Ji - Eun

It turned out to be the case.

He nodded knowingly.

dlwlrma is the English letter that corresponds to "이지은 (Lee Ji-eun)" when typing on a Korean keyboard.

There are quite a few clever little touches.

Li Ran felt that her nickname was a bit ordinary.

His nickname is simple: "The still-charming doorman".

Upon seeing his online name, Lee Ji-eun blinked and looked at him with a strange expression.

"Ahem, these are just usernames I randomly picked online." He looked away, saying somewhat guiltily.

This username seems a little abstract.

After a while, he packaged the published chapters into a Word document and sent it to her.

Li Ran did not have any drafts saved; what she had already published was all she had.

The main problem is that he used a writer's assistant software to type the text, and converting it into a Word document would require copying it chapter by chapter, which is quite troublesome.

Lee Ji-eun opened the file and glanced at it.

Sure enough, it was all in Chinese, and she couldn't understand it at all.