Peninsula: My cheat code is unscientific

Chapter 8 Please Call Me Screenwriter Jiang
"Huh?" Jiang Che's heart skipped a beat.

"You..." Yoona tilted her head slightly, her expression puzzled. "Are you a boy or a girl?"

Boom!

Alarm bells rang in Jiang Che's mind! He instantly felt cold sweat pour down his back.

If Yoona knew that a real man was living in her body... he had no doubt that he would become the side dish for that plate of sweet and sour pork on the table in the next second! His mind was racing.

"Girl...girl! Of course it's a girl!" Jiang Che practically shouted. "The real deal! No kidding!"

Yoona seemed startled by the voice. "A girl is a girl, why are you shouting like that?" Then she continued, "A girl? But your name... Kang Cheol?"
That sounds very masculine. Also, what you just said about diamond-encrusted clubs…”

Oh no! The name reference! The club reference! Double kill!
His mind was teetering on the edge between "confessing and getting lenient treatment but ending up in jail" and "resisting and facing severe consequences, going home for the New Year," but in the end, his "will to survive" prevailed!
"Ah! This...this is a long story!" He took a deep breath, his eyes filled with three parts sorrow and seven parts helplessness, while also trying to squeeze out a glimmer of reminiscence. His acting reached its peak at this moment.
"Yoona-ssi, you don't know... I was born in... well, a very, very poor little mountain village. My father was dirt poor when he was young, and when he married my mother, he couldn't even afford the bride price..."

Yoona held the bowl, blinking her eyes, clearly captivated by the unexpected story.

"Later, when my mother was pregnant with me, the blind fortune teller in the village... uh, master, said it would definitely be a boy! My father was so happy, he even thought of a name for me, 'Che'."
"Che" means clear, and he hoped his son would be as pure and promising as a mountain spring! "Jiang Che's tone was full of ups and downs. "But... when he was born, it was a girl!" He spread his hands, making an expression of the unpredictability of life.

"My father was so disappointed... but the name had already been spread, everyone in the village knew about it. Changing it again? That would be so embarrassing! Besides, we're poor, and it would cost money to have a fortune teller change the name!"
So…” Jiang Che sighed heavily, with a sense of the vicissitudes of fate, “I have lived with this boy’s name until now.”

"Sigh, I've been laughed at by my friends since I was little. They said I have a male name and I'll never get married..." He said, and then lowered his head at the right moment, as if to hide his sadness.

Yoona's mouth agape slightly, her eyes even welling up with tears. Looking at her own face before her, and then at Jiang Che's sorrowful expression, she immediately imagined a boy with a boy's name...

The image of a pitiful girl who grew up in a sexist environment instantly dispelled most of my doubts with sympathy, and I even choked up a little:
"Ah...I see...I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked..." She quickly lowered her head and took a sip of soup to hide her emotions.

"Phew...safe base? Holy crap, she's done already? Is Yoona that easy to fool?"

"Jiang Che, you're a real genius! How can you not become the Azure Dragon Film Emperor?!" Jiang Che had just breathed a sigh of relief and was about to give himself a thumbs up.

however!
“But…” Yoona swallowed her soup, looked up, and although there was still sympathy in her doe-like eyes, a look of doubt flashed again. “You’re a girl… why do you always go to clubs? And… and go to tastings?”
puff!
Jiang Che felt like he was doomed! Good heavens! Was this whole thing still not over?! Damn it! How am I supposed to make this up?!

"Ah! This! This is purely...work-related! Uh, no! It's...it's...sisterly affection!" Jiang Che quickly came up with a quick idea, speaking rapidly, "I have a good sister! A really close one!"

"She's from a super rich family! She loves going to those kinds of places...to broaden her horizons! She insisted on dragging me along, saying she couldn't let me become a country bumpkin! If I didn't go, she'd break off all ties with me!" He had a "I was forced into it" look on his face.

"And then?" Yoona raised an eyebrow, clearly expressing her doubt.

"And then...and then I went!" Jiang Che continued to make up a story, forcing himself to stay. "But when I got there, I found out...oh my god, those places...tsk tsk!" He shook his head, trying to put on a pained and pitying expression. "They look glamorous, but actually...so many young men, so young, have such a hard time making a living!"
Some of them look even younger than me! I just... I just..." He hesitated, needing to come up with a more sophisticated reason!
"What will you do?" Yoona pressed.

"I just... wanted to help them out as much as I could!" Jiang Che finally blurted out, straightening his back as if he had done a great deed. "Order a fruit platter! Open a bottle of wine! And give them a generous tip!"
Let them leave work early! Helping one person is helping one more! This... wouldn't this count as doing good deeds?" He blinked his doe eyes, trying his best to look innocent and kind.

After hearing this, Yoona's lips twitched uncontrollably twice as she looked at the person in front of her with her face on their back, spouting nonsense.

The guy who described visiting clubs and supporting male models as a charitable act left her momentarily speechless, unsure whether to be angry or amused. She remained silent for a full five seconds before finally squeezing out a sentence through gritted teeth:
“Jiang Chexi…”

"Ok?"

"You really... know how to have fun." Yoona's tone was complicated.

call--! ! !
Jiang Che felt like he had fought a world war in those few minutes, and his back was soaked with sweat.

Seeing that Yoona finally buried her head in her food and stopped asking questions, he finally felt relieved and breathed a long sigh of relief. He also quickly lowered his head to pick at the rice in his own bowl—it ​​takes a lot of effort to fool people, and he was starving!
Just as he was enjoying his meal, Yoona looked up again. Jiang Che, seeing this, exclaimed, "What the heck? Again? Miss, don't want it anymore? Stop asking!"

But how could Yoona possibly know what he was thinking? She promptly asked the question again, "So, Kang Cheol-ssi, are you a rich second-generation?"

Hearing this question, Jiang Che felt relieved. He originally wanted to tell the truth, but then he suddenly thought of his own small goal.

“Sigh…” He put down his spoon, sighed, and looked out the window. “I’m just a nobody, working as a consultant at… well, an information consulting company.”

"Information consultation?" Yoona blinked.

"That's right!" Jiang Che began to fabricate a story with a straight face, "Our main business is helping clients analyze market trends, mitigate risks, and find... um,

"Undervalued areas! For example, where real estate is about to appreciate, which stocks have potential, which cryptocurrencies... oh, like Bitcoin, have investment value!" He said, while secretly observing Yoona's reaction.

"Bitcoin?" Yoona was immediately intrigued. "What's that?"

"It's a kind of... digital gold!" Jiang Che perked up and started to exaggerate, "It's incredibly popular in our world! The price fluctuations are absolutely thrilling!"

I have a client who took my advice, bought in at a low price, and it later increased several hundred times! He became financially independent and went to buy a small island in the Pacific to retire on! His tone was full of longing, and he wasn't faking it; he genuinely wanted to buy an island.

Yoona listened, stunned, her doe-like eyes practically overflowing with curiosity: "Several hundred times? Then... do you still remember which ones can increase in value? But what time period is it where you are?" Money is indeed tempting!
　Ugh, my new book is going to die from being over-nurtured.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)