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transmigrated into a romance fantasy webnovel, still have to get engaged by hypophrenia, pendwelling
Fandoms: 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo
17 Mar 2026
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In another story, Kim Soleum would’ve been happily engaged in a peaceful world, with his only worry being to win over his hot-and-cold Duke of the North fiancé. Alas, who told him to transmigrate into a horror-rofan novel instead, one where transmigrators had a time limit before fading away?
Even in the Duke’s haunted mansion, even when uncovering the mysteries of the original series, he’s got something he has to do. But whatever their fate may be, Kim Soleum knows this—he won’t let anything happen to his friends, no matter what it takes. They’ve got to go home.
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HOLY PEAKK
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1. Anyway, to make a long story short, he didn’t think too much about either his new maid or the footman until he absentmindedly exited the carriage on one occasion, bowed to Baek Saheon without thinking much, received a bow back, and turned to see Go Yeongeun squinting at them.
Weeks later—after they discovered one another to be Korean, commiserated over the lack of Korean food, and cursed each other out a few times in that order—Baek Saheon would bemoan this moment. “Fuck,” he said, “to think I bowed to someone like him!”
But even for all Baek Saheon’s complaints about Kim Soleum and Go Yeongeun, it was undeniable that the three of them had formed a bond only possible between three people who knew they were the only ones of their kind. The female lead was nowhere to be found. Baek Saheon suggested that maybe there was no need for her to transmigrate if they were here, and Go Yeongeun wondered why. Kim Soleum suggested an alternate universe they found themselves in, but then that made their head hurt; an alternate world of an alternate world? They decided to believe in each other as the only ones who could understand what it meant to be this far away from home.
They were, in the end, the only ones who knew about Korea and about the world outside of this story. It was only a matter of time before they began to break down the way transmigrated individuals in this world did, and the north was beckoning its greedy, thieving hand the way it always did in these kinds of stories.
2. They visited the library first, each splitting off to scale ladders and dig through piles of books. It wasn’t necessarily a game of searching the spines and reading deeply, but rather a game of imagining where a plot relevant book might be hidden.
Naturally, it was Kim Soleum who won this game by pinpointing the forbidden books section, finding the oldest and most worn-in novel, flipping it open, and having a great big dust cloud emerge as he coughed and the others came over to see what he had found.
“Wow,” Go Yeongeun was the first to comment. “It looks very old.”
“Shut up and start reading,” Baek Saheon helpfully suggested. So Kim Soleum put his eyes to the page and began to take in the details obscured from him through the webnovel.
A long, long time ago, there was a girl who…
“Nevermind,” Baek Saheon said, “skip to the end.”
They flipped to the last page, where it ended on a much more confusing note. Thus, the evil was sealed away forever, not to be awakened until the next visitor.
“You skipped too much,” Go Yeongeun complained. So they compromised and flipped to the middle, then read all the way through to the end.
What they got was essentially this: the girl had been a visitor—transmigrator, really—and in order to return home, made her way to the devil terrorizing the land. She contained him in an ancient artifact, sealed him within a room, and that room was an area passed down from generation to generation up north.
The room itself was more supernatural than it seemed. Described as a location of pure darkness and isolation, one could not leave until they made a deal. Only the owner was privy to entering and exiting, but could never make a wish for himself.
“This thing sounds useless,” Baek Saheon commented. “Okay, so we go in one by one and wish to go back.”
3. The thing with Wish Tickets was that they were omnipotent for one person only. A world where Kim Soleum could be human—that is, not a visitor—wouldn’t that be nice? Wouldn’t it be great if that existed?
And if such a world existed, where Kim Soleum could take on the role of ‘someone who had always been there’, wouldn’t his unravelling be solved?
Another world that would be inaccessible to everyone he knew from that pharmaceutical company or that government agency, but perhaps that restriction didn’t include those who were not from that world in the first place.
Whether the people he met or would meet came from his memories or were alternate world versions of those from his memories, he did not know. He did not know if it mattered, either.
So, couldn’t his life be summarized in this way? Didn’t it make sense to put it this way?
A long, long time ago, Kim Soleum had to throw away all notions of going home. Thus, the problem was sealed away forever.
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Loved!!
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Maravilhoso