Chapter 1 – 001. The Truman Show or the App Is Real

Seonha Lee.

It’s already been 21 years since I was born with my parents’ wishes to become a good and righteous person.

Last year, I started living alone in a neighborhood about two stops away from the university I attend.

And this year, my second year.

Spring a few days after the start of the semester.

“Yes, Director. I’m sorry, but I can’t go help you this month because of my assignment…”

─I don’t have enough hands… It can’t be helped if you’re busy studying. If you have time, please ask.

“Sure. I’ll contact you then.”

As I was leaving home early because I had a morning lecture, I refused the daycare director’s request for help and hung up the phone. I’ve been going less and less recently, but I’ve been getting frequent calls.

I didn’t get a call like this because I was from an orphanage. Since I was young, I did a lot of volunteer work with my mom, and that relationship has continued.

I really went there a lot. This year, when I turned 21, my accumulated volunteer hours have surpassed 1,000 hours.

You may wonder how that is possible, but I started volunteering when I was in elementary school. For well over 10 years, I went there all weekend, and when I was young, I often went there on weekdays as well.

Even last year, when my parents moved down to the province where my older brother was working and I started living on my own, I did it quite a bit.

So, was it because I was naturally good and full of service? If you do that, it’s absolutely not true.

‘I did it because they gave me pocket money if I quietly helped out with volunteer work.’

Basically, pocket money was the bait. If you followed your mother and helped her, she gave you pocket money as if you were being paid an hourly wage.

Even people other than my mother gave me pocket money, gave me all kinds of compliments, and made accommodations for me because I was good, so there was no reason not to do it.

Moreover, when I entered college, thanks to this, I received a fairly good score in the rolling interview. Actually, I don’t know for sure, but I think it was probably like that. The interviewer was very surprised when he saw that my volunteer hours had already exceeded 1,000.

Anyway.

The reason I did a lot of volunteer work was because it benefited me in some way.

It’s in the same context that I’ve been refusing calls like this recently and not going to volunteer services often. Originally, I skipped the days that were really bothersome, but in the end, the biggest thing was that the benefit to me was reduced.

After exceeding 1,000 hours, even if I did more, it didn’t really have much of an impact. My mom still thought I worked hard and gave me a lot of pocket money.

However, that did not mean that I did not participate in volunteer work at all. Even though I was bored, I went there once in a while.

I don’t have any hobbies that I’m particularly absorbed in, and although I enjoy playing games, I don’t play them all day. Although I like meeting people.

There.

-Dalkak

“Have a nice trip~”

“I’ll be there soon. It probably won’t take a week.”

“Yes, yes. Take care of yourself.”

Like those two people just coming out of the house across from me, I didn’t have a wife or girlfriend to show off my passionate affection for.

If I don’t have any special plans with my friends that day, there are times when I go volunteer work.

The gains were small, but there was no harm in continuing anyway. I was considering going there later if it was difficult to get a job.

“Side!”

Of course, if I had a girlfriend who clings to me like that and acts cutely, I would have gone out on dates with her while she was in a volunteer school.

‘But isn’t it hard to live together in a place like this? Since this is 1.5 rooms, the rooms are divided into separate rooms… ‘

He seemed to be around 30, if not both, and from what I occasionally overheard, he seemed to be married, but I had doubts every time I saw him.

Out of curiosity, I looked sideways at the back of a woman who looked a little fierce and was clinging to a man.

Her breasts and buttocks were big, but her waist was so thin that her body was truly ridiculous. Her face looked a little blank, but she was pretty anyway. I liked the long straight hair she tied to the side as it gave an elegant feel.

Above all else, the fact that she was a pretty married woman in her early 30s made me feel something sexy.

She glanced at it for a moment, then got into the elevator that arrived and stopped looking.

What.

The guy was looking good and we got along well. When it comes to housing, if you don’t have enough money, you can start with a studio apartment.

It’s not my fate anyway.

***

“Haam… “

She yawned and headed towards the university in a daze. Although I went to school mechanically, every day was extremely boring. Even if I play with her friends, it’s only fun at the time. After that, I don’t have any other hobbies.

If I had a good-looking face, I would have worked hard at dating, but unfortunately, I was far from that.

I wouldn’t say she was ugly, and she wasn’t particularly fat, but that was it.

Because she was optimistic by nature, she often smiled and made a good impression, so some people looked at her positively, but she was literally just a ‘good person’.

It’s not an award that a woman would like.

“Isn’t there anything worth doing…” ” “

She slowly walked to the humanities building where the first lecture of the day was held, and picked up her smartphone in her hand, hoping to find a casual phone game to share the class with her.

And right after unlocking the lock pattern, I was about to enter the game store app.

“… ? What is this?”

An app that I would never have installed was sitting on the main screen.

[Precedent gacha app]

The moment I saw the name of the app, I burst into laughter. It was a name that had no sense or sense as to who came up with it, and it was even difficult to understand the content.

Since I couldn’t have installed something like this, I thought maybe I installed a backdoor app while searching for something.

I felt like something would happen if I ran it for no reason, so I pressed the app hard to delete it. However, the install/delete button that should have appeared did not appear at the top.

“They don’t even let me delete things? The performance of Chinese apps is crazy these days.”

I sighed and removed my fingers. At the same time, the screen became brighter and the app was launched.

“Ah, write.”

The moment I was embarrassed and was about to press end, my hand stopped.

Driven by the boredom that had been encroaching on me a while ago, I began to wonder what kind of app it was.

There was nothing to steal from my phone and there was no problem with it being stolen.

I was a little concerned about the banking app, but I didn’t have much balance right now and there were strict withdrawal and transfer restrictions, so I thought it would be okay.

After a while, a one-line message was displayed on the screen.

[ System: Seonha Lee, what do you need most in your life? ]

[ ]

The moment she saw it, her fur stood on end. When I first ran the app I saw for the first time, my name appeared.

However, wouldn’t it be possible if it were a backdoor app that only has a name but steals information? I had a thought. Or maybe they already hacked it and stole your personal information and then printed it out.

I was momentarily shocked and felt my heart pounding violently, so I quickly headed to the classroom. Then, I sat down in the corner and checked the smartphone screen once again.

[ System: Seonha Lee, what do you need most in your life? ]

[ ]

As if I hadn’t seen it wrong, the message was still proudly displayed on the pure white screen.

In fact, I knew that it would be wisest to turn it off right away and somehow delete the app, but for some reason I didn’t feel like doing that.

I naturally filled in the space below.

[Sex]

I laughed a little and deleted it again as soon as I wrote it. I didn’t write it because I was thinking about something, but I moved my fingers without realizing it while I was thinking.

I think it’s a backdoor app anyway, and I know there’s no need to be serious about it.

I slowly rewrite each letter, one letter at a time.

[ Joy ]

And then I pressed OK.

Then the light blinked again, and soon a new message began to appear on the screen.

[ System : [ Sex ] [ Pleasure ] Confirmed. Compensation is established based on this. ]

“Wow, does it recognize what I wrote and deleted?”

I let out an exclamation of exclamation without realizing it. I thought this was a bit amazing considering it was just a Chinese app.

Meanwhile, letters appeared one after another on the screen.

[ System: Welcome, Seonha Lee. ]

[ System: We will explain how to use the advanced gacha app. ]

[ System: In this app, ‘precedence points’ are accumulated according to the user’s good deeds, and with those points, you can use the gacha to get various rewards. ]

[ System: The point consumed for one gacha is 10p. It is guaranteed that at least one card of SR grade or higher will be included in the 10th consecutive gacha. ]

[ System: The obtained rewards can be used on the ‘designated target’, but information about the target is required first. ]

[ System: 10 points are required to obtain information about the target, and once information has been obtained, no more points are consumed. ]

[ System: As an installation reward, gacha and information inquiry are provided free of charge once each. ]

[ System: The user’s current app level is 1, and as the level increases, more rewards and functions can be used. ]

[ System: This application is not visible to anyone else than the user. ]

[ System: You can check this tutorial again later, and if you have any questions, please click the ‘question mark’ on the top left. ]

[ System: We look forward to your continued use. ]

[ System: Thank you. ]

After the tutorial, a simple UI was displayed.

[User Information (Lv.1)]

[Target information]

[Random Gacha]

[Cards held]

[ Store (Locked) ]

It was a clean screen with nothing complicated, just what was explained in the tutorial.

The liberal arts lecture had already started, but I sat in an inconspicuous corner seat on the side and focused on this app as if I was mesmerized.

First, start with [User Information].

Name: Lee Seon-ha

Age: 21

No sexual experience: None

Preceding points: 0p

Cumulative advance points required to reach the next level: 150p

Applicable cards:

“…”

It was trivial information. However, I found myself somehow falling in love with the app. You could see it as just an elaborate prank app, but I had a hunch that it wasn’t that simple.

With my hands starting to tremble slightly, I came out of the user information and checked the target information in the next column. As soon as I entered, I saw [Information Search] In the middle.

‘I’m sure you said the first session is free, right?’

Fear of unknown apps? Curiosity? Anticipation? One word could not accurately define how I feel right now. When I pressed it with my finger, a message window appeared.

[ System: Think of the target and click search. ]

As soon as I saw the message, I raised my head and looked around. A professor leisurely giving a lecture in front and several students taking the class.

It would have been a joke or a backdoor anyway, so it wouldn’t have mattered if anyone had been chosen, but I felt it was a waste to waste it like that. I believed this stupid app and stupid content at least 10%.

I don’t know why.

It may be curiosity about a type of backdoor application that I have never seen before, or it may be a mild interest as a modern person who wishes for a supernatural deviation in a corner of my heart.

It can’t be like that.

I hope so.

As I looked around with a little excitement, a woman with long blonde hair sitting at the very front of the classroom caught my eye. She knows someone… Rather than saying she was a person, she was a famous person.

‘Lee Eunchae. Gwasu Seok’s Carry Machine.’

I often hear people say I’m not cheap, but my motivation was famous for my dyed blonde hair, a sharp yet pretty face that matched that color, and my tall, model-like height and slender body.

I also never tried to get close to that hedgehog-like personality, but personally, he was someone I liked.

Why?

When doing group work, if I only do one person’s work, I do everything from organizing to presenting!

He takes care of leading the team, decides on tasks for the group members to do, and doesn’t say anything once they are done well. There was no reason for me to dislike it.

Besides, it’s true that he’s the type that’s hard to talk to, but I thought the rumors about him being rude were started by men who were scolded by him or women who got jealous after seeing that. In the first place, I almost never saw them interacting with other people.

Anyway, after deciding on the target, I thought of Lee Eun-chae in my head and pressed the search button.

At the same time, information was displayed on the screen immediately, without a one-second delay.

Name: Eunchae Lee

Age: 21

No sexual experience: None

Likeability: 55

Sexual desire: 20

Applicable cards:

And the moment I saw the text spread out in front of me, I thought.

This is either a public Truman Show targeting me.

Or else.

This app is real.