On the screen of the small smartwatch.
On the bizarre home shopping channel playing there, the show host had just spoken.
With the face of his batchmate, Kim Soleum.
—This is home shopping, but there isn’t a single thing for sale!
At that moment, when all of it together made you think, Is this seriously real?
Everyone, why do you watch home shopping?
Kim Soleum spoke seriously.
With a pleasant voice.
Because something you really need just happens to be on? Because you think the phrase “the best deal ever” is actually true? Because you’re convinced that buying that item being sold right now will benefit you?
……
Well, I’m not one of those people.
Kim Soleum, dressed in a suit, made a somewhat embarrassed face, then cleared his throat.
I end up watching because I’m lonely and empty.
That’s right. I’m exactly the kind of pathetic loser with no lover who comes home from work, collapses on the couch, and stuffs himself with ice cream. Anyway…
Pfft. A tiny snort of laughter slipped out of Go Youngeun’s mouth before she realized it, then subsided.
Speaking playfully, Kim Soleum clasped both hands together, then perched himself on the table where the products for home shopping were supposed to be stylishly displayed, planting his butt right on the edge.
A home shopping channel is different from a drama.
It talks to me.
And it presents a solution.
‘If you just buy this one thing, you can be happy!’
‘If you buy this, you’re truly a wise person!’
Those are the magic words home shopping offers. It just doesn’t guarantee the results.
We all know it. Every one of us has something like a blender we bought from home shopping, used…