Chapter 181 – Graduation, New Life

I and my girlfriends found out a little late, but they say they were more famous on the Internet than we thought.

Since the fall, my three girlfriends have become a bit of a viral sensation on the Internet, and titles like ‘Goddess of Jinsu-gyo’ have been floating around the Internet.

As for photos and videos, the only ones were those taken by the kids at our academy during the festival and the images of me and Yumin posted on social media, but rumors about pretty girls tend to spread very quickly.

In particular, since photos of my girlfriends were frequently posted on my SNS, there were more people spying on my SNS than I thought.

Of course, the photos I took while working as a fitting model were also exposed to many people who were spying on social media.

And a set of women’s winter clothes that Fit Luxurious gave us for their hard work.

A photo of Yuri wearing those clothes also quickly went viral.

Next, there are photos of Suyeon, Eunji, and Yumin wearing the clothes they each bought, saying, “This is the place that made my boyfriend a fitting model. Should I repay the favor by buying some clothes?”.

We unintentionally made Fit Luxurious go viral, and our photos were spread and girls started seeing my photos on the shopping mall site.

The frequency of my name being called in group chats with boys has increased significantly.

From questions like whether you’ve seen other female models and whether those girls are pretty, to how much the fitting model’s hourly wage was, and whether it was hard at all.

[Me]: I don’t know who looked at the female model, but I went alone and took the photo. It was so awkward to pose, so I don’t even know what I did.

After answering countless questions like that, I closed the chat and went to the shopping mall website where my photo appeared.

‘Still, I think it came out not too bad…’

I thought the facial expression would be quite awkward, but after proper correction, the result was enough to be mistaken for a fitting model with some experience.

While I was looking at the website, Suyeon came up next to me and put her arms around me.

And she showed me her cell phone.

“Senior, senior! Check this out. People are asking where my clothes are on my Instagram? Seniors in my class keep sending me messages and asking. Hehe, I think I’ve become a celebrity.”

Even though I didn’t look at it for a while, there were several comments on social media, and in the girls’ chat room where Suyeon was present, questions about what Yuri, Eunji, and Suyeon were wearing continued to pop up.

“Really? Our Sooyeon has become a Luxurious Viral Marketing employee?”

“Who is that senior? Since the fitting model photo was posted, the senior has been going viral.”

As she said, I was just being talked about by people.

The news that a rehabilitated former Iljin who appeared in People Theater appeared as a fitting model for a certain shopping mall was published in an article by a well-known Internet newspaper, and the rumor quickly spread among people who follow my SNS.

I thought it would be newsworthy to know what ordinary people, not celebrities, do, but if you think about the cases of ordinary people who appeared on entertainment shows or other audition programs from time to time, it’s not like it never happened…

In any case, there was quite a bit of controversy on the Internet due to the fact that the regeneration group from the People Theater was the fitting model.

The opinion that the defenders are still holding on to this is that they kneel down and say they were wrong and have reflected on themselves to the point where they are ready to be beaten until the victim is relieved, and they haven’t even apologized after something was revealed.

Those who don’t like it is of the opinion that they didn’t visit all the victims one by one and make them pay for their crimes, that gangsters like that don’t change their nature, and that appearing on People’s Theater in the first place was a ploy to clean up their lives.

Whether it’s good or bad, the viral effect was clear, and there were a lot more opinions than expected on Fit Luxurious’ customer voice bulletin board.

I’ve already received the money, and since I’m a daily fitting model anyway, I won’t have anything to do with it anymore, so I just need to worry about it, but I was feeling uneasy inside because I thought the company was harming me for no reason.

“Sir, I got a call.”

I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom before leaving for my lunch job when Suyeon called me from outside the door.

“Uh, can you please give me your cell phone?”

“Here!”

The door opened and Suyeon stuck out her hand and gave me the cell phone. I only rinsed my mouth and answered the phone right away.

“Hello?”

– Oh, hello Mr. Seongjin Han. This is Assistant Manager Kim Jin-cheol with whom I spoke last time. How have you been?

It was an employee at Fit Luxurious who suggested me to be a daily fitting model.

I answered in a slightly nervous voice.

“Oh, yes, hello. How have you been? How have you been, Assistant Manager?”

– Yes, thanks. Can I talk to you for a moment?

“Yes, you can. What’s going on?”

– Oh, it’s no different. What we filmed last week was posted on the site, right?

“That’s right… There was a lot of talk about this and that on the Customer Voices bulletin board. Are you okay?”

– I already contacted you because of that. Well, there are many opinions from customers, but when we found out, there were more positive reviews than criticism. There is nothing special about this for men’s clothing, but strangely, sales of women’s clothing have increased significantly since then.

I didn’t quite understand for a moment.

“For women? I don’t think that has anything to do with me…”

– After analyzing the items whose sales volume has increased significantly over the past few days, I found out that this is Han Seong-jin’s girlfriend… No, ‘people’… Who are always with him on SNS?

“Ah… Yes, girlfriend’s’… Yes…”

It was a bit more embarrassing than I thought to shamelessly admit to a complete stranger, not even my classmates, that I had several girlfriends.

I could sense that the employee over there was especially hesitant in speaking, perhaps because he was embarrassed to say something directly.

– Huh, yes, the girlfriends’… The clothes they were wearing were also our products. And the sales of all of them jumped dramatically.

“Oh, I heard about it. The kids in my class keep asking where I bought my clothes…”

– Yes, this has been talked about here and there, and the clothes they are wearing are selling quite well, so we are looking at it very positively. It’s hard to say that men’s sales are very significant in terms of sales, but after Han Seong-jin became the model, the inflow to the site definitely increased.

“Is that okay? Even though I’m not a professional…”

– It’s viral, viral. Anyway, thanks to this, our indicators are very positive. If it’s okay with Seongjin Han, I’m calling you because I’d like to ask for another photo shoot in the near future. Would you mind?

For me, of course, I was thankful.

I was prepared to work on site or in a factory, but working as a fitting model couldn’t be more physically demanding than that.

The hourly wages were very high, and from my perspective, the number of people visiting SNS, whether in a good or bad sense, increased considerably.

“Yes, if you give me a chance, I will be grateful.”

– Haha, yes, I understand. Then, we’ll have to have a meeting internally as well, so we’ll let you know when something is decided.

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“Really? They said clothing sales at shopping malls increased because of us?”

After finishing her part-time lunch job at a café, Eunji asked with bright eyes when her female friends gathered together for the first time in a while and told them about the phone call.

“Well, I don’t know if that’s the reason because I’m not an employee, but… Can’t you just look at our class and get a rough estimate? They keep asking where you bought your clothes and what the product name is.”

“That’s true, but I thought it was because we were just kids in my class. It’s amazing. We’re not celebrities, we’re just ordinary people, so what are they looking at?”

“Hmm… Isn’t it because of me?”

“Oh? What is it, Senpai? Are you suddenly showing self-consciousness here?”

I continued her story while tickling Sooyeon’s side while she was playing.

“Ahahaha! It tickles!!”

“Actually, I’m the only person in the country who openly admits that I have four girlfriends.”

“Yes, shamelessly.”

Yuri laughed and joked.

“There isn’t another guy like me in the whole country. So, even if you’re curious about what you’re doing, if you look at them on the internet, they come to you at least once, and when they come, they say you guys are gorgeous, so maybe that’s why word of mouth keeps spreading? In the meantime, there was also a human theater and things like that. “

“But the company even manages to say that they want to use their own again? I’ve been to the consumer bulletin board, and the atmosphere there is… How can I say it…”

When I saw Yumin having a hard time saying anything, I said what I wanted to say on his behalf.

“Do I swear too much?”

“Well, that’s right… I guess those people don’t know how much they’ve actually changed, and they only know it piecemeal. There are probably people who just curse because they want to.”

“I guess the company just decided to leave it alone because it went viral and got good publicity. Regardless of whether you criticize it or not, I heard that sales actually increased, so I have to say that.”

“But it’s really amazing. Then, if you do well in this way, won’t your SNS grow to the level of an influencer? If we cooperate properly, what do you think will work out?”

“Why? Let me be a fitting model with you?”

When I asked, Yuri’s face turned slightly red.

“Well, I don’t like that because it’s embarrassing. I never thought about that as a career, and I’m not talented in that kind of thing. But wouldn’t it be okay for us to just formulate ourselves and take pictures like the pictures I posted last time? I can do that too.”〈 Br〉

“You know! I’m an athlete, so wouldn’t it be a bit different if I took a picture wearing something like sportswear? Oh! Maybe I could get some money out of it? Buying all kinds of functional sportswear costs a lot of money. I wish I could do it!”

All of my girlfriends were reluctant to be models for daily fittings because they thought they wouldn’t be suitable, but instead they decided to help me take photos to post on my social media.

I had a strong feeling that I was becoming a Fit Luxurious Viral employee, but now I had to seize all of these opportunities.

While my three girlfriends were focusing on going to college or practicing sports, Yoomin and I were researching ways to grow our social media presence, and following Instagram, we started to dabble in Vlogs and YouTube in the spirit of everyday life.

Fit Luxurious seemed to have evaluated me quite well, so after that, they asked me to take photos of fitting models surprisingly often, and Eunji even started giving me the ‘rice cakes’ that she had been looking forward to.

It felt a bit like an advertisement, sending me some of the company’s clothing that my girlfriends would wear and asking me to post it on social media.

Each time, I took pictures of my girlfriends wearing the clothes, letting them know that they were sponsored clothes.

When on a date, at an aquarium, preparing an essay or eating together at a café, etc.

As the process was repeated during the winter vacation, I became almost in the same boat as the clothing shopping mall, and now my SNS has grown much faster and much bigger than I expected, with men coming to see their girlfriends’ faces and women coming to see the actual fit of the clothes.