Chapter 27 - Hooked in Five Minutes

But now in college, with the freedom to read whatever he wanted, he couldn't find anything that caught his interest.

Feeling extremely bored, Ryang Geumhee clicked on BingeBox.

The reason he had BingeBox on his phone was because he signed up for a shopping website membership that came with a free yearly subscription to BingeBox.

None of his friends watched BingeBox; they would always go to CineHaven TV or ReelRise to catch up on shows.

He mostly used BingeBox to watch anime.

Since BingeBox couldn't afford to buy domestic TV drama rights, they had instead bought the rights to several foreign anime series.

He only clicked on <> by accident.

The homepage ad on BingeBox was as sticky as glue, and when he accidentally touched it, he found himself on the <> page.

Ryang Geumhee was about to close the page, but the description of <> caught his attention.

[ The Return of the Warlord, only to find his daughter living in a doghouse... ]

This summary made Ryang Geumhee pause for a moment.

By the time he realized it, he had already been watching for a full five minutes.

The storyline of <> was extremely straightforward: A young girl is locked up in a doghouse, not getting enough to eat, constantly being beaten and scolded. Her mean aunt bullies the little girl as usual. Suddenly, the door is kicked open, and a figure appears — it's the boyfriend of her sister who died five years ago.

The aunt insults the sister's boyfriend as much as she can, only to be kicked ten meters away by him.

In just five minutes, Ryang Geumhee felt like he had read the equivalent of fifty chapters of an online novel.

Moreover, he had never seen a story with this kind of plot before.

Watching the main character deliver that kick on screen felt extremely satisfying.

"You dare hit me?" the aunt screamed, charging at the sister's boyfriend.

At that moment, the aunt's boss suddenly appeared.

He was the richest man in town and the reason the aunt lived such a comfortable life.

A mocking smile appeared on the aunt's face.

She rushed toward the boss to complain, only to be kicked away by him, "You dared to bully his daughter? Do you even know who he is?"

Ryang Geumhee was hooked by the storyline and was eagerly waiting for the hero's identity to be revealed, but the video had already reached the end.

He expected there to be another episode, but instead, only a line of clear text appeared on the screen.

[ Return of the Warlord, see you next Wednesday. ]

Ryang Geumhee: "?"

He was right in the middle of the exciting part; how could it just end?

Ryang Geumhee looked through the online novels he had read.

While there were many enjoyable stories, he had never seen one like <> that packed dozens of exciting moments into just ten minutes.