Chapter 1: One Kiss Is All It Takes
"Tap. Tap. Tap."
"If I can’t pass this level, a hundred push-ups for me," a soft voice echoed through the dimly lit room of a one-bedroom apartment.
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The air was crisp and the sun shone brightly behind the curtains of the small bedroom.
Today, Park Beom-seok was in a good mood.
Yes, unlike other days when he would promise and swear to do push-ups—or some other punishment—if he failed a level, then still find an excuse not to do it, as if someone had forced him. Today he was ready to fulfill it.
The Magic Academy’s Genius Scholars, the most famous RPG that people from all over the world played, and he, Park Beom-seok, "was not the best player".
No, he absolutely sucked at it. And he sucked at gaming too.
But hell, if his friends could do it, so could he.
Beom-seok, who was staring intently at the screen, turned his focus to the piece of paper that listed all the moves his character could perform and the keys that activated them.
Getting straight A’s for his late grandma was already taking up most of the space in his head, and adding stupid key commands to the mix would only make it worse.
But this wasn’t why Beom-seok was happy. Today, after 16 years of living on Earth, he was going to get his first kiss.
After years of his friends telling him what lips felt like, after years of practicing with his pillow, after months of learning how to be the perfect boyfriend and a playboy from social media, he had finally gotten a girlfriend.